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PROCLAMATIONS, 1931. Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation. TN 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 27" day of January, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-one: t.nd of [SEAL] the In1lependence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty· . f ifth. HERBERT HOOVER By t.he Pr~siden t; H L STIMSON Secretary oj State. 3045 By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA February 5, 1931. A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, under and by virtue of section 336 of Title III, Part II, Tari!Y~n~pleSUgar of the act of Congress approved June 17, 1930, entitled "An Act To an$r:':Eb~e~lrUP. provide revenue, to regulate commerce with foreign countries, to Statutory authoriza- h.d . fhU'dS A_. tlon. encourage t e m ustnes 0 t e mte tates, to protect .l1 .ll!encan Ante, p. 701. labor, and for other purposes", the United States Tariff Commission has investigated the differences in costs of production of, ard all other facts and conditions enumerated in said section with re3pect to, maple sugar and maple sirup, being wholly or in part the growth or product of the United States and of and with respect to like (':'. similar arti.cles wholly or in part the growth or product of the principal competing country; WHEREAS in the course of said investigation &. hearing W!l,S beld, of which reasonable public notice was given rond at which partieg interested were given reasonable opportunity to be pre;;ent, to produce evidence, and to be heard; WHEREAS the commission has reported to the President the results of said investigation and its findings with respect to such differences in costs of production; WHEREAS the commission has found it sho.7O by said investigation that the principal competing country is Canada, aud that the d'lties expressly fixed by statute do n('t equalize the differenees in th;~ costs of production of the domestic articlw B.nd the like or similar fore:~ articles when produced in Eaid principai competing c~untry, and has specified in its report the decreases in the rates of duty expressly fixed by statute found by the commission to be shown by sElid investigation to be necessary to equalize such differences; AND WHEREAS in the judgment of the President such rates of du'~y are" shown by such investi~ation of the Tariff Commission to be necessary to equalize such dIfferences in costs of production. N OW, THEREFORE, I, HERBERT HOOVER, President of the United Decre.'lSlng duty on S fAm · dhb d I' hfII' maple sugar and rna- tates 0 enca, 0 ere y ~ppn:"Je an proc allll teo owmg rates pIe sirup to equalize of duty found to be shown by said investigation to be necessary to differen<;eS In costs or li h d·ff· d. productIOn. equa ze suc 1 erences m costs of pro uctlOn: A decrease in the ratA of duty expressly fixed in paragraph 503 of Rates. . Title I of said act on maple sugar, from 8 cents per pound to 6 celJ.ts Antt, p ,. Il . per pound; And a decrease in the rate of duty expressly fixed in paragraph 503 of Title I of said act on maple sirup, from 5-% cents per pound to 4 cents per pound. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.