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REGISTER

FEDERAL
VOLUME 5

1934

A/JTED

NUMBER 87

Washington, Friday, May 3, 1940
T h e P re sid e n t N ational M aritim e D ay 1940
BY THE PRESIDENT OF TH E UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS the first successful trans oceanic voyage under steam propulsion was made by the steamship The Savan nah, which set sail from Savannah, Georgia, on May 22, 1819; and WHEREAS, in commemoration of the material contribution thus made to the advancement of ocean transportation, the Congress by a joint resolution of May 20, 1933 48 Stat. 73, designated May 22
of each year as National Maritime Day and requested the President to issue an nually a proclamation calling for the ap propriate observance of the day; and WHEREAS it is proper th at public recognition should be given to the cour age, vision, and achievements of the offi cers and seamen of the American mer chant marine and to the eminence of American inventors and engineers in the science of navigation;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D.
ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the people of the United States to observe May 22, 1940, as National Maritime Day by displaying the flag at their homes or other suitable places and do direct Gov ernment officials to display the flag on all Government buildings on th at day.
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 30" day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty, and seal of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fourth.
F ranklin D R oosevelt By the President:
S umner W elles
Acting Secretary of State.
No. 2401
F. R. Doc. 40-1763; Filed, May 2, 1940;
11:44 a. m.

EXECUTIVE ORDER

CONTENTS

A mending t h e F oreign S ervice R egula tion s of t h e U nited S tates
THE PRESIDENT

Proclamation :
By virtue of and pursuant to the au National Maritime Day, 1940
thority vested in me by section 1752 of the Revised Statutes of the United States Executive Order :
Foreign S e r v i c e regulations 22 UJS.C. 132, and the act of May 22, amended; visas for aliens 1918, 40 Stat. 559 22 U.S.C. 223-226
as extended by the act of March 2, 1921, RULES, REGULATIONS, 41 Stat. 1217 22 U.S.C. 227, it is or ORDERS
dered that the Foreign Service Regula tions of the United States be, and they T itle 6A gricultural C redit :
Farm Credit Administration;
and hereby, amended by prescribing the following as Chapter XXII thereof;
Designation of Acting Gover nor __________________
CHAPTER X X II VISAS FOR ALIENS
T itle 7Agriculture:
x x n -l. Duties of officers of theFor Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine:
eign Service in connection with the en Japanese beetle certification, forcement of immigration laws. Officers list of true bulbs, etc., ex of the Foreign Service shall familiarize empted from___________
themselves with the existing laws on the subject of immigration and visas and T itle 24H ousing C redit :
with the rules and regulations estab Home Owners Loan Corpora lished thereunder by the Secretary of tion:
Labor, the Commissioner of Immigration Treasury; borrowers settle and Naturalization, or other officials act ment agent___________
ing in the name of the President and T itle 25I ndians:
they shall perform the duties prescribed Office of Indian Affairs:
therein for them. They shall submit re Flathead Irrigation District, ports to the Department of State on any Mont., operation a n d actual, attempted, or suspected violation maintenance charges 3
of the immigration rules and laws and amendments__________
in an emergency may suitably inform the T itle 47T elecommunication:
appropriate immigration officials.
Federal Communications Com XXII-2. Duties of officers of the For mission:
eign Service in connection with the ad Standard broadcast stations, mission of Chinese. Officers of the For effective date of commer eign Service, except consular agents, cial program broadcast shall visa for and issue to admissible prohibition____________
Chinese such documents as are pre scribed by Executive order, and the laws, NOTICES
rules, and regulations governing the ad !
Civil Aeronautics Authority:
mission of Chinese persons into the Air Safety Board:
United States or territory under its juris Middletown, Conn., accident diction.
investigation hearing___
XXII-3. Granting of diplomatic visas.
Pennsylvania-Central Airlines Diplomatic visas may be granted abroad Corp., hearing postponed__
under such rules and regulations as the Department of Agriculture:
Secretary of State may prescribe.
Food and Drug Administration:
Cancelation of Regulations Canned asparagus, hearing on definition and standard The following provisions of the For of identity__ ._________
eign Service Regulations of the United Continued on n ext page States are hereby canceled:
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