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 55 STAT.] PROCLAMATIONS-JULY 25, 1941 EMERGENCY DUE TO DROUGHT-FREE IMPORTATION OF FORAGE FOR LIVESTOCK BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS an unusual lack of rain in the States of New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, and to a less extent in other States, has caused an acute shortage of forage for livestock; and WHEREAS section 318 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (46 Stat. 590, 696) provides, in part, as follows: "Whenever the President shall by proclamation declare an emergency to exist by reason of a state of war, or otherwise, he may authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to extend during the continuance of such emergency the time herein prescribed for the performance of any act, and may authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to permit, under such regulations as the Secre- tary of the Treasury may prescribe, the importation free of duty of food, clothing, and medical, surgical, and other supplies for use in emergency relief work.": 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 the above-quoted statutory provisions, do hereby declare an emergency to exist, and do hereby authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to permit until June 30, 1942 (unless before that date it has been determined by the President and declared by his Proclamation that the emergency has terminated), under such regulations and subject to such conditions as he may deem necessary, the importation of such forage for livestock as the Secretary of the Treasury may designate, upon recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture, free of duty when imported by or directly for the account of any owner of livestock in any drought-affected area designated by the Secretary of Agriculture, or by or directly for the account of any relief organization, not operated for profit, for distribution among distressed owners of livestock in any such drought-affected area, or by or directly for the account of any dealer in forage for sale or distribl- tion among distressed owners of livestock in any such drought-affected area. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 25' 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 hundred and sixty-sixth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: SUMNER WELLES Acting Secretary of State. 1659 July 25, 1941 [No. 2498] 19 U.S. C. §1318. Emergency de- clared. Importation of for- age for livestock au- thorized; restrictions.

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