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PROCLAMATIONS, 193L WHEREAS in the course of said investigation a he~ was held, of which reasonable public notice was given and at which parties inter- ested were given reasonable opportunity to be present, 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 prOOuction; . WHEREAS the commission has found it shown by said investigation that the principal competing country is China, and that the chitieS expressly fixed by statute do not equalize the differences in the costs of :production of the domestic articles and the like or similar foreign articles when produced in said principal competing country, and has specified in its report the increase in the rate of duty expie8sly fixed by statute found by the commission to 1>3 shown by sald investiga- tion to be necessary to equalize such di1ferences; and 2461 'VHEREAS in the judgment of the President such rate of duty is shown 01 such investigation of the Tariff Commission to be necessary to equalize such differences in costs of production; Now, THEREFORE: I, HERBERT HOOVER, President of the United ~ dotJ ~ States of America, do hereby approve and proclaim an increase in the :::uu~ NI rate of duty expressly fixed in paragraph 713 of Title I of said act on Vol. P. " dried. whole eggs, dried egg yolk, and dried egg albumen, whether or not sugar or other material is added, from 18 cents per pound to Tl cents per poundr the rate found to be shown by said investigation to be necessary (Wlthin the limit of total increase provided for in said act) to equalize such differences in costs of production. 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 24" day_of June, in thelear of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-one, and 0 the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hun- dred and fifty-fifth. By the President: HENRY L STIMSON Secretary oj State. HERBERT HOOVER [No. 1956) DECREASING RATES OF DuTY ON PIPE ORGANS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLilfATION 1Ul1e 24, ltl3l. WHEREAS under and by virtue of section 336 of Title III, Part II ~:'plpeCll'llUll!. of the act of Congress approved June 17, 1930 (46 Stat. 701); entitl;i 8:&«7...oiarisa. "An act to provide revenue, to regulate commerce with foreign ~OL4I p iOl. countries, to encourage the industries of the United States, to protect •. American labor, and for other purposes," the United States Tariff Commission has investigated the differences in costs oflroduetion of, and all other facts and conditions enumerated in sai section with respect to, pipe organs and_parts thereof, being wholly or in part the growth ~r _product of the United States and of and with respect to like or similar articles wholly or in part the growth or product of t1~e principal competing country; WHEREAS in the course of said investigation a hearing was held, of which reasonable public notice was given and at which parties inter-