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 PROCLAMATIONS--JULY 1, 3, 1941 Discriminating du- ties discontinued. Effective date; du- ration. July 3, 194 [No. 2496] 64 Stat. 714; ante, p. 206. 50U.S.C., app. 701. Export of chemicals and vegetable prod- ucts, restriction. of tonnage or imposts are imposed or levied in the ports of Burma 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, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the above-quoted statutory provisions, do hereby declare and proclaim that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and imposts within theUnitedStates are suspended and discontinued so far as respects the vessels of Burma and the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported in said vessels into the United States from Burma or from any other foreign country; the suspension to take effect from June 10, 1941, 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. 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 1st day of July, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-one, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hun- dred and sixty-fifth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: SUMNER WELLES Acting Secretary of State. CONTROL OF THE EXPORT OF CERTAIN ARTICLES AND MATERIALS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS section 6 of the act of Congress entitled "AN ACT To expedite the strengthening of the national defense", approved July 2, 1940, provides as follows: "Sec. 6 . Whenever the President determines that it is necessary in the interest of national defense to prohibit or curtail the exportation of any military equipment or munitions, or component parts thereof, or machinery, tools, or materials, or supplies neces- sary for the manufacture, servicing, or operation thereof, he may by proclamation prohibit or curtail such exportations, except under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe. Any such proclamation shall describe the articles or materials included in the prohibition or curtailment contained therein. In case of the violation of any provision of any proclamation, or of any rule or regulation, issued thereunder, such violator or violators, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000, or by imprisonment for not more than two years, or by both such fine and imprisonment. The authority granted in this section shall terminate June 30, 1942, unless the Congress shall otherwise provide." NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aforesaid act of Congress, do hereby proclaim that upon the recommendation of the Administrator of Export Control I have determined that it is necessary in the interest 1656 [65 STAT.

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