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 1738 PROCLAMATIONS, 1934:. w!tsTarmstroBot (talk)ed.mUSical And providedJurther, That the provisions of section l(e) of the act of March 4, 1909 z insofar as they secure copyright controlling parts of instruments servmg to reproduce mechamcally musical works, shall apply only to compositions published after July 1, 1909, and registered for copyright in the United States which have not been reproduced within the United States prior to April 7, 1934 on any contrivance by means of which the work may be mechanically performed. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. April 23, 1934. Tariff on laminated products. Preamble. Vol. 46. p. 701. DONE at the City of Washington this 7" day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-four, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-eighth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary oj State. [No. 2079] DECREASING RATES OF DUTY o:-.r LAMINATED PRODUCTS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS under and by virtue of section 336 of title III, part II, of the act of Congress approved June 17, 1930 (46 Stat. 590, 701), entitled "~N ACT To provide revenue, to regulate commerce with foreign countries, to encourage the industries of the United States, to protect American labor, and for other purposes", the United States Tariff Commission has investigated the differences in costs of produc- tion of, and all other facts and conditions enumerated in said section with respect to, laminated products of which any synthetic resin or resin-like substance is the chief binding a~ent, in sheets or plates, being wholly or in part the ~owth or prOduct of the United States and of and with respect to like or similar articles whollv or in part the growth or product of the principal competing country; WHEREAS in the course of said investigation a hearing was held, of which reasonable public notice was given and at which parties interested were given reasonable opportunity to he present, to produce evidence, and to be heard; WHEREAS the Commission has reported to the President the results of said investigation and its findings with respect to such differences in costs of production; WHEREAS the Commission has found it shown by said investiga- tion that the principal competing country is Germany, and that the duties expressly fixed by statute do not equalize the difference in the costs of production of the domestic articles and the like or similar foreign articles when produced in said principal competing country, and has specified in Its report the decreases in the rates of dutv expressly fixed by statute found by the Commission to be shown bjr saId investigation to be necessary to equalize such difference; and WHEREAS in the judgment of the President such rates of duty are shown by such investigation of the Tariff Commission to be neces- sary to equalize such difference in costs of production;