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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1937 CORRECTING CERTAIN LANGUAGE IN PROCLAMATION NO. 2247 OF AUGUST 25, 1937, PRESCRIBING PANAMA CANAL TOLL RATES BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the phrase "when carrying passengers and cargo" contained in paragraph numbered 1 in Proclamation No. 2247 of August 25, 1937, prescribing Panama Canal toll rates was intended to read "when carrying passengers or cargo"; and WHEREAS it is desired to correct the said phrase so that it shall read as intended: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 411 of title 2 of the Canal Zone Code, approved June 19, 1934, do hereby amend the aforesaid paragraph numbered 1 of Proclamation No. 2247 of August 25, 1937, to read as follows: "1. On merchant vessels, yachts, army and navy transports, colliers, hospital ships, and supply ships, when carrying passengers or cargo, ninety (90) cents per net-vessel ton of 100 cubic feet each of actual earning capacity-that is, the net tonnage deter- mined in accordance with the Rules for the Measurement of Vessels for the Panama Canal." 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 31" day of August in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-second. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President, CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. ENLARGING TIE STATUE OF LIBERTY NATIONAL MONUMENT-- NEW YORK BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS certain government-owned lands known as Fort Wood and situated on Bedloe's Island in the harbor of New York, New York, are contiguous to the Statue of Liberty National Monu- ment, established by Proclamation of October 15, 1924 (43 Stat. 1968), and are necessary for the proper care, management, and protection of the colossal statue of "Liberty Enlightening the World"; and WHEREAS it appears that it would be in the public interest to add such lands to the Statue of Liberty National Monument: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 2 of the Act of June 8, 1906, ch. 3060, 34 Stat. 225 (U. S . C., title 16, sec. 431), do proclaim that the following- August 31, 1937 [No. 2249] Panama Canal toll rates. Preamble. Ante, p. 373. Correcting certain language in former proclamation. 48 Stat. 1122 . Text as amended. September 7, 1137 [No. 2250l Statue of Liberty National Monument, N.Y. Preamble. 43 Stat. i968. Area enlarge.i. 34 Stat. 225. 16 U.S. C. 5431. 393

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