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Designation of Oif-
ford Pinchot National
Forest.
June 15, 1949
PROCLAMATIONS July 27,1949
July 27, 1949
[63 STAT.
WHEREAS it is especially appropriate to pay tribute to Gifford
Pinchot by naming one of our great national forests in his honor:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the
United States, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by
the act of June 4, 1897, 30 Stat. 11, 36 (16 U. S. C. 473), do hereby
proclaim that the Columbia National Forest in the State of Washing-
ton, as defined by Executive Order No. 820 of June 18, 1908, and as
subsequently modified by Executive orders and acts of Congress, is
hereby designated and hereafter shall be known as the Gifford Pinchot
National Forest.
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 15th day of June 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:
JAMES E. WEBB
Acting Secretary of State.
HARRY S TRUMAN
IMMIGRATION QUOTAS
July 27, 1949
[No. 2846]
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Commerce,
and the Attorney General have reported to the President that pursuant
to the duty imposed and the authority conferred upon them by sec-
tions 11 and 12 of the Immigration Act of 1924, approved May 26,
8U.s .c. P211,212 . 1924 (43 Stat. 159-161), and Reorganization Plan No. V (54 Stat.
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1238), they jointly have made the revision provided for in section 12
of the said act and have fixed, in accordance therewith, immigration
quotas as hereinafter set forth:
Immigraton quo.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the
United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority
vested in me by the aforesaid act of Congress, do hereby proclaim and
make known that the annual quotas of the nationalities indicated for
the remainder of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1950, and for each
fiscal year thereafter have been determined in accordance with the
law to be, and shall be, as follows:
Countr
Quota
Greece
.
.... ... .... ... ..
310
Greece ------------------------------------------- ....- - - - ..
.
310
Italy _-----_-
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5799
Rumania---------------------------
291
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics --------
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2798
Israel---
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100 Jordan (formerly Transjordan)______ _ -_ -- ___ _ ...... _ __ ~.TarmstroBot (talk)_... 100 Syria ----------------------- .- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 100 Lebanon---------------- ..
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100 Abolitionof quota The combined immigration quota of 123 established for Syria and 62 stat. 54 . the Lebanon by Proclamation No. 2283 of April 28, 1938, is hereby 8 U.S . C. 1 211 note. abolshed. abolished. Purpose. The immigration quotas proclaimed above are designed solely for 43stat 1 the purpose of compliance with the pertinent provisions of the said 8U.S .C . 21,21,2. Immigration Act of 1924 and are not to be regarded as having any Amendment significance extraneous to such purpose. a2stat. lat Proclamation No. 2283 of April 28, 1938, is amended accordingly.
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