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 PROCLAMATIONS-;Sept. 0, 1940 Oct. 1 , 1940 within the United States are suspended and discontinued, so far as respects the vessels of such foreign nation, and the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported into the United States from such foreign nation, or from any other foreign country; the suspension to take effect from the time of such notification being given to the President, and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels, belonging to citizens of the United States, and their cargoes, shall be continued, and no longer. . ." WHEREAS satisfactory proof was received by me from the Government of Iceland on September 13, 1940, that no discriminating duties of tonnage or imposts are imposed or levied in the ports of Iceland upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States, or upon the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported in such vessels, from the United States, or from any foreign country; NOW, THEREFORE, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the above-quoted statutory provisions, do hereby declare and pro- claim that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and imposts within the United States are suspended and discontinued so far as respects the vessels of Iceland and the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported in said vessels into the United States from Iceland or from any other foreign country; the suspension to take effect from September 13, 1940, and to continue so long as the recip- rocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States and their cargoes shall be continued, and no longer. IN TESTIMONY 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 30" day of September in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fifth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. REGISTRATION DAY-HAWAII BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES A PROCLAMATION Iceland. Suspension of for- eign discriminating duties of tonnage and imposts. Effective date; du- ration. WHEREAS the Congress has enacted, and I have on the sixteenth Preamblk. day of September, 1940, approved the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, which declares that it is imperative to increase and train the personnel of the armed forces of the United States and that in a free society the obligations and privileges of military training and service should be shared generally in accordance with a fair and just system of selective compulsory military training and service; WHEREAS the said Act contains, in part, the following provisions: "SEC. 2 . Except as otherwise provided in this Act, it shall be the duty of every male citizen of the United States, and of every male alien residing in the United States, who, on the day or days fixed for the first or any subsequent registration, is between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-six, to present himself for and submit to registration at such time or times and place or places, 54 STAT.] 2745 October 1, 1940 [No. 2430]

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