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REGISTER

FEDERALI
VOLUME 6

VU. 19-14
i/A/ITEO

NUMBER 156

,
Washington, Tuesday August 12, 1941
The President S uspending the I nternational L oad L ines C onvention in P orts and W aters of the U nited S tates and in so far as the U nited S tates of America is C on
cerned
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS a convention establishing uniform principles and rules with regard to the limits to which ships on interna tional voyages may be loaded, entitled "International Load Lines Convention, was signed by the respective plenipoten tiaries of the United States of America and certain other countries at London on July 5, 1930; and WHEREAS, following ratification by the United States of America and certain other countries, the Convention, in ac cordance with Article 24 thereof, came into force with respect to the United States of America and certain other countries on January 1, 1933; and WHEREAS the provisions of the Con vention were carefully formulated "to promote safety of life and property at sea in time of peace by regulating the competitive loading of merchant ships employed in the customary channels of international trade; and WHEREAS the conditions envisaged by the Convention have been, for the time being, almost wholly destroyed, and the partial and imperfect enforcement of the Convention can operate only to prej udice the victims of aggression, whom it is the avowed purpose of the United States of America to aid; and WHEREAS it is an implicit condition to the binding effect of the Convention that those conditions envisaged by it should continue without such material change as has in fact occurred; and WHEREAS under approved principles of international law it has become, by reason of such changed conditions, the right of the United States of America to declare the Convention suspended and inoperative:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D, ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, exercising in behalf of the United States of America an un questioned right and privilege under ap proved principles of international law, do proclaim and declare the aforesaid International Load Lines Convention suspended and inoperative in the ports and waters of the United States of America, and in so far as the United States of America is concerned, for the duration of the present emergency.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have here unto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.
DONE at the City of Washington this 9th day of August, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and seal forty-one, and of the Independ ence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-sixth.
F ranklin D R oosevelt
By the President:
C ordell H ull ,
Secretary of State.
No. 25001
F. R. Doc. 41-5857; Filed, August 9, 1941;
12:29 p. m.

Rules, Regulations, Orders TITLE 7AGRICULTURE
CHAPTER VHAGRICULTURAL AD
JUSTMENT ADMINISTRATION
41-Tob-66-Supplement 1
P art 727F lue - cured T obacco SUBPART D 1 9 4 1

Supplement 1 to Marketing Quota Reg ulationsFlue-cured Tobacco 194142 Marketing Y e a r1
Marketing Quota Regulations, Fluecured Tobacco 1941-42 Marketing Year,"
are hereby amended as follows:
Issued under authority of 52 Stat. 81,
7 U.S.C. 301 e t seq., as amended.
6 F.R. 3661.

CONTENTS
THE PRESIDENT
Proclamation:
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Suspending the International Load Lines Convention in ports and waters of the United States, etc_________ 3999
RULES, REGULATIONS, ORDERS
T itle 7A griculture :

Agricultural Adjustment Admin istration:
Marketing quota regulations for flue-cured tobacco, 3999
supplement____________
T I tle 10 Ar m y : W ar D epartment :
Procurement and Disposal of Equipment and Supplies:
Advertising for bids, special clause for purchase of supplies_______________ 4001
T itle 16 C ommercial P ractices:

Federal Trade Commission:
Cease and desist orders:
Inter-State Cigarette Mer chandisers Association, et al________________
National Distillers Product Corp________________
T itle 30 M ineral R esources :
Bituminous Coal Division:
Minimum price schedules:
District No. 11___________
District No. 12___________
T itle 31M oney and F inance :

4002
4001

4003
4004

T reasury :

Monetary Offices:
Foreign exchange transac tions, Public Circular No. 3___
4004
T itle 32N ational D efense :
Export Control:
Schedule No. 16, amend ments__________________ 4004
Federal Works Agency:
Regulations relating to de fense public works, etc__ 4008
Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply:
Price Schedule No. 15, copper 4008
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