PROCLAMATIONS-APR. 28, 1938 IMMIGRATION QUOTAS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Immigration aliens. Preamble. of 43 Stat. 159. 8 U.S.C . §§211,212 . Quotas effective for remainder of fiscal year 1938. and for each fiscal year thereafter. WHEREAS the Acting Secretary of State, the Secretary of Com- merce, and the Secretary of Labor have reported to the President that pursuant to the duty imposed and the authority conferred upon them in and by sections 11 and 12 of the Immigration Act approved May 26, 1924 (43 Stat. 161), they jointly have made the revision provided for in section 12 of the said act and have fixed the quota of each respective nationality in accordance therewith to be as hereinafter set forth: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid act of Congress, do hereby pro- claim and make known that the annual quota of each nationality effective for the remainder of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, and for each fiscal year thereafter, has been determined in accordance with the law to be, and shall be, as follows: NATIONAL ORIGIN IMMIGRATION QUOTAS Country or Area Afghanistan -------____ . ________ ________ ________ _. Albania _________________________________--__ Andorra-________________________________________ Arabian peninsula (except Muscat, Aden Settlement and Protectorate, and Saudi Arabia)_ -------__---_ .. __ Australia (including Tasmania, Papua, and all islands appertaining to Australia)_ -------- __--___.._-__.__ Belgium--.--------------------------_________ Bhutan ------------- ...------------__________ Bulgaria -------------. ___-_..---------------_ ____ Cameroons (British mandate)----------__._ _._- -- -- Cameroun (French mandate) -------___-___----_--- China
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_- - __- _..__ _. - Czechoslovakia -------------- .. -- - - -- - ____.__ Danzig, Free City of -___.. .__ __ __ _. .__ ... .... .. Denmark_ _ ............. ______...... Egypt --------...........-.................- Estonia -------------__---__-__.__- ___- - .__- - Ethiopia (Abyssinia) -- ...... ... . Finland---------------------- ..-- .......-------- France -------------- _- . -_ __ -. -_ _ ---- -_ __ -- - ______ Germany --------- _----------__...__________..____ Great Britain and Northern Ireland ----------__-____ Greece-------------__ _-____________.______.-- Hungary_.__...____.._________._____...______- Iceland ------------ _______ ._..__.. ..----------- India ------------- .- ..-................ _____ _____ Iran
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.......---------------- Iraq ----------------. .-- .. .-- ..------------------ Ireland (Eire)_______ -- - - - - - - - - - - Italy --------------- . .- .- ..-. ... .- .-. -.- --- ---- --- Japan-------------------_______________________. _ Quota 100 100 100 100 100 1,304 100 100 100 100 100 2,874 100 1, 181 100 116 100 569 3, 086 27, 370 65, 721 307 869 100 100 100 100 17, 853 5, 802 100 1544 April 28, 1938 [No. 2283] [52 STAT.
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