PROCLAMATIONS-DEC. 12, 26, 1939 Conditions declared NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority in me vested by section 7(a) of the said act of August 7, 1939, do hereby find and proclaim that the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines has enacted, subsequent to the adoption of the above-mentioned amendments to the Constitution of the Philippines, a law relating to export taxes as provided in the said act of August 7, 1939, and has retained those Philippine laws relating to sinking-fund and currency matters which were in effect on May 20, 1938. DONE at the City of Washington this Twelfth day of December in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fourth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. December 26, 1939 [No. 2378] Preamble. 60 Stat. 916. 7U.S.C., Supp.V, 1179. Ante, p. 2654 . 60 Stat. 904. 7U.S.C., Supp.V, §111-1122 . Suspension re- moved, for calendar year 1940. REMOVINa SUSPENSION OF TITLE II OF THE SUGAR ACT OF 1937 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS section 509 of the Sugar Act of 1937 provides, in part: "Whenever the President finds and proclaims that a national economic or other emergency exists with respect to sugar or liquid sugar, he shall by proclamation suspend the operation of title II or III above, which he determines, on the basis of such findings, should be suspended, and, thereafter, the operation of any such title shall continue in suspense until the President finds and proclaims that the facts which occasioned such suspen- sion no longer exist. * * "; and WHEREAS by proclamation issued September 11, 1939, I found and proclaimed that a national economic emergency existed with respect to sugar and suspended the operation of title II of that Act: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- dent of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the foregoing provision of the Sugar Act of 1937, do hereby find and proclaim that the facts which occa- sioned such suspension no longer exist and do by this proclamation remove the suspension of the operation of title II of that Act with respect to the calendar year 1940. 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 26th day of December in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fourth. yteP FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of Sate. 2676 [54 STAT.
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