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 PROCLAMATIONS-DEC. 10, 19, 1940 "Administration of section 6 of the act entitled 'AN Act to expedite the strengthening of the national defense' approved July 2, 1940.": IRON and STEEL 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 tenth day of December, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty, and [SEAL] of 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. SUSPENDING QUOTAS ON IMPORTS OF CERTAIN COTTON BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS pursuant to section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 as amended by section 31 of the act of August 24, 1935 (49 Stat. 750, 773), as amended by section 5 of the act of February 29, 1936 (49 Stat. 1148, 1152), and as reenacted by section 1 of the act of June 3, 1937 (50 Stat. 246), I issued a proclamation on September 5, 1939, limiting the quantities of certain cotton and cotton waste which might be entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consump- tion; and WHEREAS the United States Tariff Commission has made a sup- plemental investigation pursuant to the said section 22 with respect to cotton and has made findings of fact with respect to certain cotton the entries of which were limited by such proclamation; and WHEREAS the Tariff Commission has transmitted to me a report of such findings and its recommendations based thereon, and has also transmitted a copy of such report to the Secretary of Agriculture: NOW, THEREFORE, I FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Presi- dent of the United States of America, do hereby find and declare, on the basis of such investigation and report, that the circumstances requiring the provisions of the aforesaid proclamation with respect to cotton having a staple of one and eleven-sixteenths inches or more in length no longer exist. Accordingly, pursuant to the afore- said section 22, as further amended by the act of January 25, 1940, Public, No. 406, 76th Congress, I hereby proclaim that such pro- visions of such proclamation as limit the quantities of cotton having a staple of one and eleven-sixteenths inches or more in length which may be entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption are suspended, effective immediately. 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 19" day of December 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. December 19, 1940 [No. 2460] Preamble. 7U.S.C., Supp.V, 1624. Ante, p. 2640 . Findings as to cer- tain cotton; proclama- tion. Ante, p. 17. Effective date. 2769 54 STAT.]

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