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 PROCLAMATIONS No. 4 ,1939 Dec. 12, 1939 AND I do hereby delegate to the Secretary of State the power to exercise any power or authority conferred on me by the said joint resolution as made effective by this my proclamation issued there- under, which is not specifically delegated by Executive order to some other officer or agency of this Government, and the power to promul- gate such rules and regulations not inconsistent with law as may be necessary and proper to carry out any of its provisions. 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 fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fourth, at 3 p. m. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. Secretary of State empowered to pro- mulgate rules, etc. RELATING TO CERTAIN LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS section 7(a) of the act of August 7, 1939, 53 Stat. 1226, 1233, provides, in part: Sections 1 to 5, inclusive, of this amendatory Act shall become effective on January 1, 1940, if before that date- (1) Subsection 5 of section 1 of the Ordinance Appended to the Constitution of the Philippines shall have been amended in the manner now provided by law, by changing the final period of said subsection to a comma, and by adding thereto the words: "as amended by the Act of Congress of the United States ap- proved (followed by the date of the approval of this amendatory Act)", and section 3 of the said ordinance shall have been amend- ed by inserting immediately after the words "approved March 24, 1934" the same amendatory language mentioned above. (2) The President of the United States shall have found and proclaimed that the Philippine Government has enacted, sub- sequent to the adoption of the amendments to the Constitution of the Philippines (as provided in subdivision (1) of this subsec- tion) a law relating to export taxes (as provided in section 1), and has retained those Philippine laws relating to sinking-fund and currency matters which were in effect on May 20, 1938. WHEREAS amendments to the Constitution of the Philippines have been adopted as provided in the said act of August 7, 1939, which amendments were approved by me on November 10, 1939; WHEREAS the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philip- pines on November 14, 1939, enacted a law relating to export taxes, as provided in the said act of August 7, 1939, which law I have ap- proved this date; and WHEREAS the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philip- pines has retained those laws relating to sinking-fund and currency matters which were in effect on May 20, 1938: December 12,1939 [No. 2377] Preamble. 48 U. S. C., Supp. V, § 1236 (note). Amendments to Constitution of Phil- ippines Law relating to ex- port taxes. 54 STAT.] 2675

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