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 1720 PROCLAMATIONS, 1933. IN TESTIMONY 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 25th day of November in the year of our Lord nineteen hun~red and thirty-thr~e, and [SEAl..] of the Independence of the Umted States of AmerIca the one hundred and fifty-eighth. ~-'RANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President. WILLIAM PHILLIPS Acting Secretary of State. [No. 2064] DATE o It' HEPEAL OF THE EIGHTE}~NTH AMENDMENT BY THE PRESIDENT OI<' THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION m:~fh~t~: c!:,~n~: 'VHEREAS the Congress of the United States in second session of tion, repeal. the Seventy-second Congress, begun at Washington on the fifth day r:::::!;·cltatiOn. of December in the year one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two, Vol. 47, p. 1625. adopted a resolution In the words and figures following, to wit: "JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United"'Stn,tes. "Resolved bll the Senate and House of Representatives of the United State.>; 0/ America in Oongress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurnng therein), That the following article is hereby proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shnll be valid to all intents and purposes as part 'of the Constitution whcn ratified by conventions in thrce-fourths of thc several States: ", Article-- '''Section 1. The eighteenth nrtiele of nmendment to the Constitu- tion of the United States is hereby repealed. '" Sec. 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Terri- tory, or :possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicatIng liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited. "'Sec. 3. This article shall he inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitut.ion by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.'" National Industrial WHEREAS section 217 (a) of the act of Congress entitled "AN R:,r~.~: ACT To encourage national industrial recovery, to foster eompetition, and to provide for the construdion of certain useful public works, and for other purposes", approved June 16, 193:3, provides as follows: "Sec. 217. (a) The President shall proclaim the date of- (1) the close of the first fiscal year ending June 30 of any year after the year 1933, during which the total receipts of the United States (excluding public-debt receipts) exceed its total expendi- tures (excluding public-debt expenditures other than those chargeable against such receipts), or (2) the repeal of the eighteenth amendment to the Constitu- tion, whichever is the earlier."