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 PROCLAMATIONS-APR. 7, 8, 1947 tive order of March 10, 1933, all banking institutions which were not members of the Federal Reserve System; and WHEREAS by December 30, 1933, the Secretary of the Treasury had acted upon all requests for licensing of member banks of the Federal Reserve System; and WHEREAS on December 31, 1945, the Secretary of the Treasury issued a General License to transact normal banking business to all banks thereafter authorized to begin business by the Comptroller of the Currency and to all State banks thereafter admitted to member- ship in the Federal Reserve System, and thereby dispensed with the requirement of an individual license for each new member bank of the Federal Reserve System; and WHEREAS it is no longer necessary, or in the interest of govern- ment internal management, for the Secretary of the Treasury to license the transaction of normal banking business: 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 section 5(b) of the Trading with the Enemy Act of October 6, 1917, 40 Stat. 415, as amended, and section 4 of the act of March 9, 1933, 48 Stat. 2, and by virtue of all other authority vested in me, do hereby, in the interest of the internal management of the Government, proclaim, order, direct, and declare that the said procla- mations of March 6 and March 9, 1933, and Executive order of March 10, 1933, as amended, are further amended to exclude from their scope banking institutions which are members of the Federal Reserve System: Provided, however, that no banking institution shall pay out any gold coin, gold bullion, or gold certificates, except as authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury, or allow the withdrawal of any currency for hoarding. This proclamation shall become effective as of March 15, 1947. 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 7t h day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-seven, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-first. By the President: DEAN ACHESON Acting Secretary of State. HARRY S TRUMAN Issuance of General License. Amendment of des- ignated proclamations and Executive order. 12 U. S.C. .95a. 12 U.S. .C. 95. 48 Stat. 1689,1691. Restriction on pay- ment of gold coin, etc. Effective date. CHILD HEALTH DAY, 1947 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution of May 18, 1928 (45 Stat. 617), authorized and requested the President "to issue annually a proclamation setting apart May 1 of each year as Child Health Day and inviting all agencies and organizations interested in child welfare to unite upon that day in the observance of such exercises as will awaken the people of the Nation to the fundamental necessity of a year-round program for the protection and development of the health of the Nation's children"; and WHEREAS every citizen of our country has an inescapable obliga- tion to aid in insuring the American child's birthright of health and of freedom from handicaps; and 61 STAT.] 1063 April 8. 1947 [No. 2726] 36U.S.C. 143.

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