PROCLAMATIONS-MAY 19, 1949
President may issue his proclamation, declaring that the foreign
discriminating duties of tonnage and impost within the United
States are suspended and discontinued, so far as respects the vessels
of such foreign nation, and the produce, manufactures, or merchan-
dise imported into the United States from such foreign nation, or
from any other foreign country; the suspension to take effect from
the time of such notification being given to the President, and to
continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels, belonging
to citizens of the United States, and their cargoes, shall be continued,
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AND WHEREAS satisfactory proof was received by me from the
Government of the Union of South Africa on April 19, 1949, that no
discriminating duties of tonnage or imposts are imposed or levied in
the ports of the Union of South Africa 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:
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NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the
Iage duties.
United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by
the above-quoted statutory provisions, do hereby declare and pro-
claim that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and imposts
within the United States are suspended and discontinued so far as
respects the vessels of the Union of South Africa and the produce,
manufactures, or merchandise imported in said vessels into the United
States from the Union of South Africa or from any other foreign
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country; the suspension to take effect from April 19, 1949, and to
continue so long as the reciprocal 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 19th 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.
By the President:
DEAN ACHESON
Secretary of State.
HARRY S TRUMAN
ISRAEL-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 im-
ported in the same from the United States or from any foreign
country, the President may issue his proclamation, declaring that
the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and impost within the
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May 19, 1949
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