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 2980 Vol. 42, P. 868. PROCLAMATIONS, 1928. President in ascertaining the differences in costs of production of and of all other facts and conditions enumerated in said section with respect to the article described in paragraph 80 of Title I of said tariff act of 1922, namely, potassium permanganate, being wholly or in part the growth or J!foduct of the United States, and of and with respect to a like or similar article wholly or in part the growth or product of competing foreign countries; Whereas in the course of said investigation a hearing was held, of which reasonable public notice was given and at which parties inter- ested were given reasonable opportunity to be present, to produce evidence, and fu be heard; And whereas the President upon said investigation of said differ- ences in costs of production of the said article wholly or in part the growth or product of the United States and of the like or similar article wholly or in part the growth or product of competing foreign countries, has thereby found that the principal competing country is Gennany and that the duty fixed in said title and act does not equalize the differences in costs of production in the United States and in said principal competing country, namely, Gennany, MId has ascertained and detennined the increased rate of duty necessary to equalize the same. Itncreasing duty on Now, therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States po asslwn permanga- f'. dhbd . d I'hh' - nate to equalize differ- 0 Amenca, 0 ere y etennme an proc aIm t at t e mcrease In dO costs of pro- the rate of duty provided in said act shown by said ascertained differ- ences in said costs of production necessary to equalize the same is as follows: Rate. An increase in said duty on potassium pennanganate (within the limit of total increase prOVIded for in said act), from 4 cents per pound to 6 cents per pound. December 15, 1928. Copyrights. Preamble. Vol. 35, p. 1075. Vol.35. p.1077. 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 sixteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL] twenty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-third. By the President: FRANK B KELLOGG Secretary of State. CALVIN COOLIDGE By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS it is provided by the Act of Congress approved March 4, 1909, entitled" An Act to Amend and Consolidate the Acts Re- specting Copyright", that the copyright secured by the Act, except the benefits under Section 1 (e) thereof as to which special conditions are imposed, shall extend to the work of an author or proprietor who is a citizen or subject of a foreign state or nation, only upon certain conditions set forth in Section 8 of the said Act, to wit: (a) When an alien author or proprietor shall be dOIniciled within the United States at the time of the first publication of his work; or (b) When the foreign state or nation of which such author or proprietor is a citizen or subject grants, either by treaty, convention, agreement, or law, to citizens of the United States the benefit of copyright on substantially the E;ame basis as to its own citizens, or copyright protection substantially equal to the protection secured to

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