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 PROCLMATIONS June 9, 28, 1947 July 2, 1947 1073 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 9 th day of June 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: G C MARSHALL Secretary of State. HARRY S TRUMAN FREE IMPORTATION OF TIMBER, LUMBER, AND LUMBER PRODUCTS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS Proclamation No. 2708 of October 25, 1946, authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to permit, under such regulations and subject to such conditions as the Secretary may deem necessary, the importation free of duty of any articles which the Housing Expediter designates and certifies as timber, lumber, or lumber products suitable for the construction or completion of housing accommodations; and WHEREAS it now appears that it would be in the public interest to terminate the aforesaid proclamation on August 15, 1947: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, and in particular by section 318 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (46 Stat. 590, 696), do hereby declare that Proclamation No. 2708 is hereby amended to provide that it shall terminate on August 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 2 8 th day of June 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: G C MARSHALL Secretary of State. HARRY S TRUMAN June 28, 1947 [No. 2735] Ante, p. 1044. Termination of Proclamation No. 2708. 19 U. S. C. 1318. Ante, p. 1044. JOHN PAUL JONES BICENTENNIAL DAY, 1947 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the sixth of July nineteen hundred and forty-seven is the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of John Paul Jones at Arbigland in the parish of Kirkbean, Kirkcudbright, Scotland; and WHEREAS John Paul Jones drew his sword in the struggle of the American colonies for freedom and the rights of man; and WHEREAS, on February the fourteenth in the year seventeen hundred and seventy-eight, in the United States Frigate Ranger, John Paul Jones received from Admiral La Motte Piquet, commander of the French squadron of Louis XVI, the first salute to the Stars and Stripes from a foreign power; and 95347°--49-PT. II - -8 61 STAT.] July 2, 1947 [No. 2736]

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