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 103 STAT. 3070 PROCLAMATION 6004—JULY 31, 1989 which are in the Indonesian public domain on the day immediately prior to the effective date of Uie Copyright Agreement, if such works still enjoy copyright protection in the United States. NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE BUSH, President of the United States of America, by the authority vested in me by section 104 of title 17 of the United States Code, do declare and proclaim that the conditions specified in section 104(b)(5) of title 17 of the United States Code have been satisfied in the Republic of Indonesia with respect to works of which one or more of the authors is, on the date of first publication, a national or domiciliary of the United States of America, or which are first published in the United States, and as of August 1, 1989, works of Indonesian nationals and domiciliaries and works first published in In- donesia are entitled to protection under title 17 of the United States Code. I hereby request the Secretary of State to notify the Government of In- donesia that the date on which works of Indonesian nationals and domiciliaries and works first published in the Republic of Indonesia are entitled to protection under title 17 of the United States Code is August 1, 1989, the date on which the Copyright Agreement enters into force. IN WITNESS WHEREOF. I have hereunto set my hand this thirty-first day of July, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hun- dred and fourteenth. • GEORGE BUSH Proclamation 6004 of July 31, 1989 United States Customs Service 200th Anniversary Year, 1989 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation July 31, 1989, marks the 200th anniversary of the United States Customs Service. On that day, 200 years ago, President George Washington signed legislation establishing the Customs Service as part of the De- partment of the Treasury. The story of the U.S. Customs Service is, in part, the story of America itself. Throughout much of our Nation's history, customs duties ac- counted for the largest portion of the revenues needed to sustain and operate our national government. Customs revenues paid the Revolu- tionary War debt and played an important role in U.S. growth from 13 States along the Atlantic Coast to a Nation spaiming the North Ameri- can continent. The settling of the West, the building of the Transconti- nental Railroad, the purchase of the Louisiana Territories and Alaska, the building of our military academies, and the creation of our national capital in Washington, D.C., were all financed by customs revenues. For nearly 125 years, until passage of the Federal Income Tax Act of 1913, the Customs Service was virtually the only source of revenue for the U.S. Government. Today, despite greatly reduced rates of duty on

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