PROCLAMATIONS-DEC. 12, 1944
duties of tonnage or imposts are imposed or levied in the ports of
Ecuador upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States,
or upon the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported in such
vessels, from the United States, or from any foreign country:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi-
dent of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority
vested in me by the above-quoted statutory provisions, do hereby
declare and proclaim that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage
and imposts within the United States are suspended and discontinued
so far as respects the vessels of Ecuador and the produce, manufactures,
or merchandise imported in said vessels into the United States from
Ecuador or from any other foreign country; the suspension to take
effect from November 1, 1944, and to continue so long as the recip-
rocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States
and their cargoes shall be continued, and no longer.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and
caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.
DONE at the city of Washington this 12
th day of December in the
year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-four, and of
[SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one
hundred and sixty-ninth.
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT
By the President:
E. R . STETTINIUS, Jr.
Secretary of State.
EMERGENCY BOARD, STEELTON & HIGHSPIRE RAILROAD COMPANY-
EMPLOYEES
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, the President, having been duly notified by the Na-
tional Mediation Board that a dispute between the Steelton & High-
spire Railroad Company, a carrier, and certain of its employees
represented by the following labor organizations:
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
which dispute has not heretofore been adjusted under the provisions
of the Railway Labor Act, amended, now threatens substantially to
interrupt interstate commerce within the State of Pennsylvania to
a degree such as to deprive that section of the country of essential
transportation service;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi-
dent of the United States of America, by virtue of the power vested
in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, and by
virtue of and under the authority in me vested by Section 10 of the
Railway Labor Act, amended, do hereby create a board to be composed
of three persons not pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any or-
ganization of railway employees or any carrier, to investigate the
aforementioned dispute and report its findings to me within thirty
days from this date.
The members of this board shall be compensated for and on account
of such duties in the sum of seventy-five dollars ($75.00) for every
day actually employed with or upon account of travels and duties
incident to such board. The members will be reimbursed for and
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Discontinuance of
discriminating duties.
Effective date; du-
ration.
December 12,1944
[No. 2633]
44 Stat. 677.
45U.8.C.I151-
188; Supp. I11, ch. 8 .
Creation of board to
investigate dispute.
44 Stat. 586 .
45U. S.C. 160.
Compensation of
members.
58 STAT.]
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