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 PROCLAMATIONS-JULY 3, 4, 1946 July 4,1946 [No. 26o 30 Stat. 1754. 31 Stat. 1942. 47 Stat. 2198. 48 Stat. 46 . 48U.S.C., §1232 t eq.; Supp. V, 1232 etsceq. Block No. 355 of Cadastral survey of the City of Manila, plan PCN- 141, bounded on the southeast by Lots No. 2 and 6 of Block 355, on the northeast by L. Guerrero Street, formerly Calle, on the northwest by Padre Faura Street, on the southwest by Dewey Boulevard; the area containing 3367 square meters and 80 square decimeters, more or less. And I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of State, on behalf of the United States, to enter into and conduct suitable negotiations for the acquisition of title to any of the above described properties the title to which is not vested in the United States. 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 3r d day of July, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-six, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventieth. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: DEAN ACHESON Acting Secretary of State. INDEPENDENCE OF THE PHILIPPINES BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the United States of America by the Treaty of Peace with Spain of December 10, 1898, commonly known as the Treaty of Paris, and by the Treaty with Spain of November 7, 1900, did acquire sovereignty over the Philippines, and by the Convention of January 2, 1930, with Great Britain did delimit the boundary between the Philippine Archipelago and the State of North Borneo; and WHEREAS the United States of America has consistently and faithfully during the past forty-eight years exercised jurisdiction and control over the Philippines and its people; and WHEREAS it has been the repeated declaration of the legislative and executive branches of the Government of the United States of America that full independence would be granted the Philippines as soon as the people of the Philippines were prepared to assume this obligation; and WHEREAS the people of the Philippines have clearly demonstrated their capacity for self-government; and WHEREAS the Act of Congress approved March 24, 1934, known as the Philippine Independence Act, directed that, on the 4th day of July immediately following a ten-year transitional period leading to the independence of the Philippines, the President of the United States of America should by proclamation withdraw and surrender all rights of possession, supervision, jurisdiction, control, or sovereignty of the United States of America in and over the territory and people of the Philippines, except certain reservations therein or thereafter authorized to be made, and, on behalf of the United States of America, should recognize the independence of the Philippines: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, 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 proclaim that, in accord with and subject to the reservations provided for in the applicable statutes of the United States, 1352 [60 STAT.

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