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 PRAJune 25, 1941 PROCLAMATIONS--July 1, 1941 prescribed by Proclamation No. 2309 of October 31, 1938, for the period commencing November 1, 1938, and ending June 30, 1939, and renewed by Proclamation No. 2340 of June 30, 1939, for the period commencing July 1, 1939, and ending June 30, 1941; NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- dent of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 2 of the act of June 16, 1933, 48 Stat. 254, and the following amendments thereto: Section 515 of title III of the act of May 10, 1934, 48 Stat. 760; Public Resolution 36, approved June 28, 1935, 49 Stat. 431; Public Resolution 48, approved June 29, 1937, 50 Stat. 358; section 1 of title I of the Rev- enue Act of 1939, approved June 29, 1939 (Public No. 155, 76th Congress, 1st Session), and Public Law 84, approved May 28, 1941, do proclaim that the postage rate on books consisting wholly of read- ing matter and containing no advertising matter other than incidental announcements of books, when mailed under such regulations as the Postmaster General shall prescribe, shall, for the period commencing July 1, 1941, and ending September 30, 1941, continue to be one and one-half cents a pound or fraction thereof, irrespective of the zone of destination. 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 25t h day of June in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-one and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fifth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: SUMNER WELLES Acting Secretary of State. BURMA-SUSPENSION OF TONNAGE DUTIES BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS section 4228 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the act of July 24, 1897, c. 13, 30 Stat. 214 (U. S . C., title 46, sec. 141), provides, in part, as follows: "Upon satisfactory proof being given to the President, by the government of any foreign nation, that no discriminating duties of tonnage or imposts are imposed or levied in the ports of such nation upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States, or upon the produce, manufactures, or merchandise im- ported in the same from the United States or from any foreign country, the President may issue his proclamation, declaring that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and impost 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. ." AND WHEREAS satisfactory proof was received by me from the Government of Burma on June 10, 1941, that no discriminating duties 53 Stat. 2497. 53 Stat. 2545. Postage rate on books of designated class continued in effect. 53 Stat. 862. Ante, p. 210. Period of continu- ance. July 1, 1941 [No. 2495] 55 STAT.] 1655

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