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 Dec 31, 1946 PROCLAMATIONS e 1, 194 Feb. 1, 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 31Bt day of December in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-six, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-first. By the President: JAMES F BYRNES The Secretary qf State. HARRY S TRUMAN IMPOSING QUOTA ON IMPORTS OF SHORT HARSH OR ROUGH COTTON BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, pursuant to section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 as amended by section 31 of the act of August 24, 1935, 49 Stat. 750, 773, as amended by section 5 of the act of February 29, 1936, 49 Stat. 1148, 1152, and as reenacted by section 1 of the act of June 3, 1937, 50 Stat. 246 (7 U. S . C. 624), the President issued a proclamation on September 5, 1939 (No. 2351, 54 Stat. 2640), limiting the quantities of certain cotton and cotton waste which might be entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption, which proclamation was suspended in part by the President's proclamations of December 19, 1940 (No. 2450, 54 Stat. 2769), March 31, 1942 (No. 2544, 56 Stat. 1944), and June 29, 1942 (No. 2560, 56 Stat. 1963); and WHEREAS, the said proclamation of September 5, 1939, excepted from the quota limitations specified therein harsh or rough cotton having a staple of less than three-fourths of one inch in length and chiefly used in the manufacture of blankets and blanketing; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the said section 22, as further amended by the act of January 25, 1940 (54 Stat. 17), the United States Tariff Commission has made a supplemental investigation to determine whether changed circumstances require the modification of the Presi- dent's proclamation of September 5, 1939, with respect to harsh or rough cotton having a staple of less than three-fourths of one inch in length, in order to carry out the purposes of the said section 22, and to determine whether such cotton is being or is practically certain to be imported into the United States under such conditions and in suffi- cient quantities as to render or tend to render ineffective or materially interfere with any program or operation undertaken, or to reduce substantially the amount of any product processed in the United States from cotton subject to and with respect to which any program is in operation under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, as amended, the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended (16 U. S . C. 590a-590q), or section 32 of the act of August 24, 1935, 49 Stat. 774, as amended (7 U. S . C . 612c); and WHEREAS, in the course of the investigation, after due notice, a public hearing was held on October 14 and 15, 1946, at which parties interested were given opportunity to be present, to produce evidence and to be heard, and, in addition to the hearing, the Commission made such investigation as it deemed necessary for a full disclosure and presentation of the facts; and 3 CFR, Cum. Supp., p. 113. Post, p. 1071. 3CF, Cum. upp., pp. 205, 294, 308. Supplemental inves- tigation byU. S. Tariff (onllmission. 7U.S.C.§624. 54 Stat. 2640. 3C FR, Cum. Supp., p. 113. Post, p. 1071. 48 Stat. 31 . 7U.S.C.§601t seq. 49 Stat. 1148 . Public hearing. 61 STAT.] 1049 February 1, 1947 [No. 2716]

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