PROCLAMATIONS, 1937 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 2 5 t h day of August, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-seven [SEAL] and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-second. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President, CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. RULES FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF VESSELS FOR THE PANAMA CANAL August 25, 1937 - sNo5. 48 1 ]97 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Rules for the mess WHEREAS section 412 of title 2 of the Canal Zone Code approved urement of vessels for the Panama Canal. June 19, 1934, requires the President to determine the tonnage of 48 Stat. 1122 . vessels upon which toll charges for the use of the Panama Canal shall be based; and Basis of measure- WHEREAS the act entitled "An Act to provide for the measurement 50 Stat. 750. of vessels using the Panama Canal, and for other purposes", approved August 24, 1937, which amends the said section 412 and which by its terms becomes effective March 1, 1938, provides, in part, that tolls on merchant vessels, army and navy transports, colliers, hospital ships, supply ships, and yachts shall be based on net-vessel tons of 100 cubic feet each of actual earning capacity determined in accord- ance with the Rules for the Measurement of Vessels for the Panama Canal prescribed by the President and as may be modified by him from time to time by proclamation after public hearings and six months' public notice: Rules prescribed. NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aforesaid section 412 of title 2 of the Canal Zone Code, approved June 19, 1934, do hereby prescribe and proclaim the Rules for the Measurement of Vessels for the Panama Canal which are annexed hereto and made a part of this proclamation. Efective date. The Rules for the Measurement of Vessels for the Panama Canal prescribed by this proclamation shall become effective on March 1, Rlues uterseded. 1938, and shall on that date supersede the Rules prescribed by Proclamation No. 1258 of November 21, 1913. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 25 t h day of August, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-seven and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-second. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President, CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. 372
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