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PROCLAMATIONS—JUNE 29, 1951
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I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. D O N E at the City of Washington this 28th day of June, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-one, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-fifth. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: D E A N ACHESON
Secretary of State
SUPPLEMENTAL QUOTA ON IMPORTS OF LONG-STAPLE COTTON BY THE P R E S I D E N T OF THE UNITED STATES O F AMERICA
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June 29, 1951 [No. 2934]
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS pursuant to section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 as amended by section 31 of the act of August 24, 1935, 49 Stat. 750,773, as amended by section 5 of the act of February 29, 1936, 49 Stat. 1148, 1152, and as reenacted by section 1 of the act of June 3, 1937, 50 Stat. 246 (7 U.S.C. 624), the President issued a proclamation on September 5, 1939 (No. 2351, 54 Stat. 2640), limiting the quantities of certain cotton and cotton waste which might be entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption, which proclamation was suspended in part or modified by the President's proclamations of December 19, 1940 (No. 2450, 54 Stat. 2769), March 31, 1942 (No. 2544, 56 Stat. 1944), June 29, 1942 (No. 2560, 56 Stat. 1963), February 1, 1947 (No. 2715, 61 Stat. 1049), June 9, 1947 (No. 2734, 61 Stat. 1071), July 20, 1948 (No. 2800, 62 Stat. 1534), September 3, 1949 (No. 2856, 63 Stat. 1294), October 4, 1950 (No. 2905, 15 64 Stat., P F. R. 6801), and October 12, 1950 (No. 2907, 15 F. R. 6953); and pp.JlAm^ t. 2, WHEREAS the said proclamation of September 5, 1939, as suspended in part and modified, provides that the total quantity of cotton having a staple of 1% inches or more but less than lVie inches in length which may be entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption in any year commencing February 1 shall not exceed 45,656,420 pounds; and WHEREAS the limitation on the entry of cotton having a staple of 1% inches or more in length was imposed by the said proclamation of September 5, 1939 after a finding by the President, on the basis of p.U4o^**^' ^*' ^' an investigation and report of the United States Tariff Commission made under the provisions of the said section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, as amended, that such cotton was being fu*s!a^§624. imported into the United States under such conditions and in sufficient quantities as to tend to render ineffective or materially interfere with the program undertaken with respect to cotton under the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended; and i6u.*s.c**§590q. WHEREAS the imposition of annual quotas on cotton having a staple of \y^ inches or more in length was recommended by the United States Tariff Commission in its report (Report No. 137, 2d Series) in connection with which it was stated, in finding No. 5, that the quotas recommended "will prevent imports from interfering with the cotton program and at the same time will permit American industry to secure needed supplies of specialized types of cotton"; and WHEREAS the total quantity of cotton having a staple of 1% inches or more but less than l i ^ e inches in length which may be
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