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3446 PROCLAMATIONS~ 1935. of the United States silver mined subsequent to December 21, 1933, from natural deposits in the United States or any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof; and \YHEREAS, such Proclamation as so modified is subject to revo- cation or further modification as the interest of the United States may seem to require. NO\Y, THEREFORE, finding that the interests of the United States require further modification of said Proclamation of the twenty- first day of December, 1933; by virtue of the power in me vested by the act of Congress cited in said Proclamation1 and other legislation designated for national recovery, and by virtue of nll other authority in me vested; . Deduction for sei!m· I FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT PRESIDENT of the UNITED lorage, etc., further T'" },,'C \ I.' Id' h .h modified. SATES of AM ... RI 1, do proc amI an< Irect t at, WIt respect to Right reserved. _May 14, 1935. _ all silver received by a United States coinage mint under the provi- sions of the Proclamation of the twenty-first day of December, 1933, which such mint, subject to regulations prescribed hereunder by the Secretary of the Treasury, is satisfied has been mined on or after April 24, 1935, from natural deposits in the United States or any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof, the deduction for seigniorage and services performed by the Government shnll be 40 per cent and there shall be returnr:d therefor in standard silver dollars, silver certifi- cates, or any other coin or currency of the United States, the monetary value of the silver so received (that is, $1.29~9+ a fine ounce), less such deduction of 40 per cent. Notice is hereby given that I reserve the right by virtue of the authority vested in me to revoke or modify this proclamat~on as the interest of the United States may seem to require. 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 21th day of Apru, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-five, and of the [SEALl Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-ninth.

FRAN KLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President: CORDELl, IIULL Secretary oj State. [No. 21251 N ATIONAL ~1AUITI:\lE DAY BY THE PRESIDE~T 01<' THE U~ITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION National Maritime · WHEREAS on May 22, 1819, the steamship The Savannah sailed DWreamble. from Savannah, Georgia, on the first successful transoceanic voyage under steam propulsion, thus making a material contribution to the advancement of ocean transportation; and Vol. 48, p. 73. WHEREAS Public Resolution 7, Seventy-third Congress, approved May 20, 1933, provides, in part: "That May 22 of each year shall hereafter be designated and known as National Maritime Day, and tho President is authorized and re- quested annually to issue a proclamation calling upon the people of