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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1931. 2467 Prom"dd, That if adequate shipping service is not established by =ioua eutbar. February I, 1922, the President shall extend the feriod herein allowed lzed. for the establishment of such service in the case 0 any island Territory or possession for such time as may be necessary for the establishment of adequate shipping facilities therefor." . ANi> WHEREAS an adequate shipping service to accommodate the commerce and the passenger travel of the Virgin Islands has not been established as provided by section 21 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920; and . WHEREAS the President of the United States, in accordance with ~O)s~v:F.· ~' the authority vested in him by section 21 of the Merchant Marine ID28:1ga:l_;~": Act, 1920, has from time to time, to wit, on February 1, 1922, on Voi. :?~p.~ = May 18, 1922, on October 28, 1922, on October 25, 1923, on April 7, vJ'pif,~81B2. 1924, on October 23, 1924, on Apri.l25, 1925, on November 24, 1925, '. on August 14, 1926, on August 9, 1927, on August 2, 1928, on July 26, 1929, and on July 28, 1930, issued proclamations extending the time for the establishment of such service and deferring the applica- tion of the coastwise laws to the Virgin Islands until September 30, 1931. TIme f~ eatabHsh1Dg, shipplDg .- vice to, N ow, THEREFORE, I, HERBERT HOOVER, President of the United ~ber~ to States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority con- P , ferred upon me by section 21 of the above-mentioned act, do hereby declare and proclaim that the period for the establishment of an adequate shipping service with tlie aforesaid Tlirgin Islands be further extended from September 30, 1931, to September 30, 1932; And inasmuch as the extension of the coastwise laws of the United wJ!e:;:'~C08IIt- States to the Virgin Islands, as provided in section 21 of the Merchant . Marine Act, 1920, is dependent upon the establishment of an adequate shipping service to such island possession, I do hereby further pro- claun and declare that the extension of the coastwise laws of the United States to the Virgin Islands is deferred from September 30, 1931, to September 30, 1932. 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 19 day of August, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-one, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-sixth. HERBERT HOOVER By the President: W. R. CASTLE, Jr Acting Secretary oj State. [No. 1963] OUACHITA NATIONAL FOREST--ARKANSAS AND OKLAHOMA. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION August 19, 1181. WHEREAS the United States of America has acquired title under 1I'k.':1~ authority of the act of March I, 1911 (36 Stat. 962; U. S. Code, PleaiDble. title 16, sec. 516), as amended by the act of June 7,1924 (43 Stat. 654; .a;:~ ~Pi21~ Vol U. S. Code, title 16, sec. 515), to certain lands in the States of Arkansas u. s. 0.: J:. 424- and Oklahoma; and