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 3404 PROCLAMATIO~S~ 1934. deposits in the United States or any place subject to the jurisdiction Prol'iso.. . thereof; IJrovided, hou'ever, that the Director of the :Mint shall, at the Silver certlficates In· I d f h'l d1"1 'fi '}' lieu- optIOn of t 1e ten erer 0 suc SI ver, e Ivcr 81 ver certI cates In leu of the standard silver dollars to which the tenderer of such silver for coinage would be entitled and in an amount in dolla.rs equal to the coined standard silver dollars that the tenderer of such silver for coinage would receive in standard silver dollars. Regulations to be The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to prescribe regulations prescriLed. to carry out the purposes of this proclamation. Rights reserved. Notice is hereby given that I reserve the right by virtue of the authority vested in me to revoke or modify this Proclamation as the interest of the United States may seem to require. ElIective date, etc. This Proclamation shall bear the date of, and becomes effective on, August 10, 1934. the day on which the Secretary or Acting Secretary of State counter- signs the same, affixes thereto the Seal of the United States, and deposits this Proclamation so countersigned and sealed in the Office of the Secretary of State as a part of the archives of the Nation. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President; and countersigned and sealed with the Seal of the United States, by direction of the President, this 9 tb day of August, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred [SEAL] and thirty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-nine. CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. [No. 2092] EMERGENCY DUE TO DROUGHT-FREE IMPORTATION OF FEED FOR LIVESTOCK BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Drought emergency. WHE~EAS an unusual lack of rain in the States of North Dakota South Dakota, Nebraska, Texas, :Missouri, Utah, and Nevada, and to a lesser extent in other States, has caused an acute shortage of feed for livestock, particularly in the affected area and elsewhere in the United States; and Vol. 46, p.690. WHEREAS section 318 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (ch. 497, 46 Stat. 590,696) provides in part as follows: "Whenever the President shall by proclamation declare an emer- gency to exist by reason of a state of war, 01' otherwise, he mny authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to extend during the continu- ance of such emergency the time herein prescribed for the performance of any act, and may authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to permit, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, the importation free of duty of food, cloth:ng, and medical, surgical, and other supplies for use in emergency reHef work. I~u~it;tat~;:tTarmstroBot (talk) P N9 d W't T f H}ERUE¥OdRSE, I, .fFARA~KLbIN . D. R f 0lOSEVIE~T, tilJune30,1935,author. reSI en 0 tIe mte tates 0 menca, y vIrtue 0 t Ie aut lorlty Ized. vested in me by the said section of the Tariff Act of 1930, and by virtue of all other authority vested in mo, do hereby proclaim an emergen~y to exist and do hereby authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to permit, until June 30, 1935 (unless before that date it has been determined by the President and declared by his Proclama- tloTarmstroBot (talk)ditions; regula- tion that the emergency has terminated), within such limits and subject to such conditions as he may deem necessary to meet the