PROCLAMATIONS-MAY 7,19, 1949
NATIONAL MARITIME DAY, 1949
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS the economic welfare and the national security of the
United States are strengthened by our Merchant Marine; and
WHEREAS deficiencies in the Merchant Marine are now being
overcome by the construction of the first passenger vessels to be built
in this country since the end of hostilities in World War II; and
WHEREAS the present role of marine transportation invests with
momentous significance the feat of the steamship Savannah, which
sailed from Savannah, Georgia, on May 22, 1819, on the first successful
transoceanic voyage under steam propulsion; and
WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution approved May 20,
1933 (48 Stat. 73), designated May 22 as National Maritime Day in
commemoration of that historic achievement and requested the
President to issue a proclamation calling for the observance of the
day; and
WHEREAS in the present year May 22 falls on Sunday, it is fitting
and proper that the celebration of National Maritime Day take place
on Monday, May 23:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the
United States of America, do hereby urge the people of the United
States to honor our Merchant Marine on Monday, May 23, 1949, by
flying the flag of the United States at their homes or other suitable
places.
I also direct the appropriate officials of the Government to arrange
for the display of the flag on all Government buildings, and I request
that all ships sailing under the American flag dress ship, on Monday,
May 23, 1949, in honor of National Maritime Day.
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 7th day of May in the year
of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-nine, and of the
[SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one
hundred and seventy-third.
HARRY S TRUMAN
HARRY S TRUMAN
By the President:
DEAN ACHESON
Secretary of State
UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA-SUSPENSION OF TONNAGE DUTIEs
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS section 4228 of the Revised Statutes of the United
States, as amended by the act of July 24, 1897, c. 13, 30 Stat. 214
(U. S . C ., title 46, sec. 141), provides in part, as follows:
"Upon satisfactory proof being given to the President, by the
government of any foreign nation, that no discriminating duties of
tonnage or imposts are imposed or levied in the ports of such nation
upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States, or
upon the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported in the
same from the United States or from any foreign country, the
May 7 1949
[No. 28a3
36 U. S. . 1.145.
Designation of Na-
tional Maritime Day.
May 19,1949
[No. 2838]
63 STAT.]
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