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63 STAT.] PROCLAMATIONS-AUG. 24, 25, 1949 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 24th day of August in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-nine, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-fourth. By the President: 1291 HARRY S TRUMAN DEAN ACHESON Secretary of State. FURTHER POSTPONING THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF PROCLAMATION No. 2775 OF MARCH 26, 1948, PRESCRIBING CHANGES IN PANAMA CANAL TOLL RATES BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS section 411 of title 2 of the Canal Zone Code, approved June 19, 1934, authorizes the President to prescribe and from time to time change the tolls that shall be levied by the Government of the United States for the use of the Panama Canal, and provides that no tolls when so prescribed shall be changed unless six months' notice thereof is given by the President by proclamation; and WHEREAS increased tolls for the use of the Panama Canal were prescribed by Proclamation No. 2775 of March 26, 1948, the said proclamation to become effective on October 1, 1948; and WHEREAS the effective date of the said Proclamation No. 2775 was thereafter postponed until September 1, 1949; and WHEREAS it appears consistent with the public interest further to postpone the effective date of the said Proclamation No. 2775: 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 section 411 of title 2 of the Canal Zone Code, do hereby proclaim that the effective date of the said Proclama- tion No. 2775 of March 26, 1948, is further postponed to, and shall be April 1, 1950. 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 25th day of August in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-nine, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-fourth. By the President: DEAN ACHESON Secretary of State. HARRY S TRUMAN Augst 25, 1949 INo. 28621 62 Stat. 149 . 62 Stat. 1494. 62 Stat. 1494 . Effective date of Proclamation No. 2775. 63 Stat. 144. UNITED NATIONS DAY, 1949 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS throughout the march of civilization mankind has yearned for security, justice, and lasting peace; and Auo st 25, 1M9 [No. 28631