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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1937 NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do direct that the flag shall be dis- played upon all Government buildings on October 11, 1937, as a mark of respect to the memory of General Casimir Pulaski, and do hereby invite the people of the United States to observe that day as General Pulaski Memorial Day and to participate with appropriate ceremonies in schools and churches or other suitable places in the solemn com- memoration of General Pulaski's death on October 11, one hundred and fifty-eight years ago. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 18" day of September, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-second. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. SUSPENSION OF CERTAIN JURISDICTION OF AMERICAN EXTRATERRI- TORIAL COURTS IN EGYPT BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS by a Presidential proclamation issued on March 27, 1876, pursuant to the authority of the act of Congress approved March 23, 1874, the judicial functions theretofore exercised in Egypt by the minister, consuls, or other functionaries of the United States pursuant to the act of Congress approved June 22, 1860, were sus- pended, during the pleasure of the President, so far as the jurisdic- tion of certain Egyptian tribunals embraced matters cognizable by the minister, consuls, or other functionaries of the United States in Egypt, except as to cases actually commenced before the date of the said proclamation; WHEREAS at the time of the issuance of the said proclamation the jurisdiction of the said Egyptian tribunals did not extend to cer- tain categories of cases within the jurisdiction of the minister, consuls, or other functionaries of the United States which were accordingly retained within the jurisdiction of, and have continued to the present time to be exercised by, those functionaries; WHEREAS the Government of the United States and other governments concluded a convention with the Government of Egypt on May 8, 1937, providing for the termination of the capitulatory rights now enjoyed by the United States and other powers in Egypt and providing that, during the period October 15, 1937-October 14, 1949, the judicial functions now exercised by consular courts would be exercised by the Mixed Tribunals of Egypt, except as to personal status matters-as defined in article 28 of the Reglement d'Organisation Judiciaire annexed to and forming a part of the said convention of May 8, 1937-with respect to which the said convention provides that the signatory governments may retain existing consular courts for the purpose of jurisdiction in cases involving the personal status of their respective nationals during the period October 15, 1937- October 14, 1949; Observance of anni- versary of death in- vited. October 9, 1937 [No. 2255] American extrater- ritorial courts in Egypt. Preamble. 19 Stat. 662 . 18 Stat. 23 . 12 Stat. 72. Convention with Egypt providing for termination of certain capitulatory rights of United States, etc. Mixed Tribunals of Egypt, ad interim functions. Personalstatus mat- ters excepted. 397

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