Aug. 28 , 1948 PROCLAMATIONS- Sept. 4, 1948 Sept. 4, 1948 September 4, 1948 [No. 2807] 60 Stat. 38 . 26U. .C. §3228(f). 53 Stat. 269. 26U.S.C.§§2550- 2565. 52 Stat. 1040 . 21U.S.C.99301- 392; Supp. I, i 331 et seq. )rug Keto-bemi- done. the funeral services for Charles Evans Hughes shall have been con- cluded, and I request the people of the United States to render every appropriate reverence to this great American, in their homes, their schools, their churches, and in other suitable places. IN WITNESS 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 twenty-eighth day of August in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and [SEAL] forty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-third. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: G C MARSHALL Secretary of State. DETERMINING THE DRUG KETO-BEMIDONE To BE AN OPIATE BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS section 3228 (f) of the Internal Revenue Code provides in part as follows: "(f) OPIATE.- The word 'opiate' as used in this part and subchapter A of chapter 23 shall mean any drug (as defined in the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act) found by the Secretary of the Treasury, after due notice and opportunity for public hearing, to have an addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine or cocaine, and proclaimed by the President to have been so found by the Secretary."; AND WHEREAS the Secretary of the Treasury, after due notice and opportunity for public hearing, has found the drug Keto-bemidone [4-(3-hydroxyphenyl)-l-methyl-4 -piperidyl ethyl ketone hydrochlo- ride] to have an addiction-forming and addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine, and that in the public interest this finding should be effective immediately: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim that the Secretary of the Treasury has found the drug Keto-bemidone [4 -(3-hydroxyphenyl)-1- methyl-4 -piperidyl ethyl ketone hydrochloride] to have an addiction- forming and addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine, and that in the public interest this finding should be effective immediately. 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 fourth day of September in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-eight, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-third. By the President: G C MARSHALL Secretary of State. HARRY S TRUMAN 1552 [62 STAT.
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