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FEDERAL
VOLUME 13

g 1934

A N TED

NUMBER 176

Washington, Thursday, September 9, 1948

TITLE 3 THE PRESIDENT
PROCLAMATION 2807
D etermining the D rug K eto -B emidone T o B e an O piate BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS section 3228 f of the Internal Revenue Code provides in part as follows:
f OPIATE.The word opiate as used in this part and subchapter A of chapter 23
shall mean any drug as defined in the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act found by the Secretary of the Treasury, after due notice and opportunity for public hearing, to have an addiction-forming or addictionsustaining liability similar to morphine or cocaine, and proclaimed by the President to have been so found by the Secretary.;

AND WHEREAS the Secretary of the Treasury, after due notice and oppor tunity for public hearing, has found the drug Keto-bemidone 4- 3-hydroxyphenyl -l-methyl-4-piperidyl ethyl ke tone hydrochloride to have an addic tion-forming and addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine, and that in the public interest this finding should be effective immediately:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S.
TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim that the Secretary of the Treasury has found the drug Keto-bemidone 4-3-hydroxyphenyl-l-methyl-4-piperidyl ethyl ke tone hydrochloride to have an addic tion-forming and addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine, and that in the public interest this finding should be effective immediately.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have here unto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.
DONE at the City of Washington this fourth day of September in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and seal forty-eight, and of the Inde pendence of the United States
of America the one hundred and seventythird.
H arry S. T ruman
By the President:
G. C. M arshall,
Secretary of State.
F. R. Doc. 48-8140; Filed, Sept. 7, 1948;
4:39 p. m.

CONTENTS
THE PRESIDENT
Proclamations

Pas
Keto-bemidone; determination-of drug to be an opiate_________ 5229
Panama Canal toll rates, post ponement of effective date of Proc. 2775
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EXECUTIVE AGENCIES

PROCLAMATION 2808
P ostponing the E ffective D ate of P roclamation N o. 2775 of M arch 26, 1948, P rescribing Changes in P anama C anal T oll R ates BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS section 411 of title 2 of the Canal Zone Code, approved June 1 9 , 1934, authorizes the President to prescribe and from time to tjme change the tolls that shall be levied by the Government of the United States for the use of the Panama Canal, and provides that no tolls when so prescribed shall be changed unless six months notice thereof is given by the President by proclamation; and WHEREAS increased tolls were pre scribed by Proclamation No. 2775 of March 26, 1948, the said proclamation to become effective on October 1, 1948;
and WHEREAS it now appears that the Congress may becalled upon to give consideration to the entire question of the cost of operation of the Panama Canal and the tolls to be levied for the use thereof; and v WHEREAS it appears consistent with the public interest to postpone the effec tive date of the said Proclamation No.
2775 until April 1, 1949, so as to permit continuance of the present tolls until the Congress shall have had opportunity for such consideration:
Continued on p. 5231

Agriculture Department

Proposed rule making:
Milk handling in New York metropolitan area_________

5242

Alien Property, Office of
Notices:
Vesting orders, etc.:
Bundt, Sophie____________ 5248
5248
Fieldler, Arkady________
Hamada, Tokuichi, et al___ _ 5248
Hollweg, Louis-------------- 1 5247
Lierk, Katie______________ 5247
Army Department
Notices:
Monetary reform in Germany, legislation________________

5246

Civil Service Commission
Rules and regulations:
Education requirements, for mal, for appointment to cer tain scientific, technical, and professional positions______
Retirement__ ___________ __

5231
5231

Customs Bureau
Rules and regulations:
Articles conditionally free, sub ject to reduced rate, etc.;
liquidated damages and pen5234
alties._____________
Drawback on aircraft------------- 5235
Enforcement of customs and l navigation laws; liquidated damages and penalties___
5234
Foreign territory, contiguous, customs relations; examinanation of baggage________-V 5234
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