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 PROCLAMATIONS-FEB. 1, 12, 1947 WHEREAS, the Commission has made findings of fact and has transmitted to me a report of such findings and its recommendations based thereon, together with a transcript of the evidence submitted at the hearing, and has also transmitted a copy of such report to the Secretary of Agriculture: Modificationof pt- NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the lamation of Sept. 5, 139, with repect to United States of America, do hereby find and declare, on the basis of harsh orrough cotton. the investigation and report of the Tariff Commission, that changed circumstances require the modification of the President's proclama- 54 Stat. 2640 . tion of September 5, 1939, with respect to harsh or rough cotton 3CFR,Cum.Supp., p. 113. having a staple of less than three-fourths of one inch in length, to Pot, p. 1071. carry out the purposes of section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment 49 Stat. 773. Act of 1933, as amended, and that such cotton is being imported into US the United States under such conditions and in sufficient quantities as to tend to render ineffective the domestic cotton programs under- 7U.S.. a 612c. taken under section 32 of the act of August 24, 1935, 49 Stat. 774, as amended. Accordingly, pursuant to the said section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, as amended, I hereby modify the President's proclamation of September 5, 1939 (No. 2351) by deleting therefrom the words "and chiefly used in the manufacture of Declaration of an- blankets and blanketing" wherever they appear therein; and I do nual quantity for con- sumption. hereby proclaim that the total quantity of harsh or rough cotton having a staple of less than three-fourths of one inch in length which may be entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption, in the year commencing September 20, 1946, and in any subsequent year commencing September 20, shall not exceed 70 million pounds, which quantity I hereby find and declare shown by the investigation to be necessary to prescribe in order that the entry of such cotton will not tend to render ineffective the programs undertaken with respect to 7U. s. C. i2a cotton under section 32 of the act of August 24, 1935, 49 Stat. 774, as amended. I further find and declare that the total quantity of harsh or rough cotton having a staple of less than three-fourths of one inch in length which is pernutted entry hereunder, is not less than the minimum permissible quantity computed under the proviso to section 7 USt8. c 4 (b). 22 (b) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, as amended. u.s. 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 first day of February in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-seven, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-first. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: HA YST MAN G C MARSHALL Secretary of State. RED CROSS MONTH, 1947 Febuary 11947 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (No. 2716 A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the American National Red Cross, traditional friend and counselor of the serviceman and the veteran, furnishes comfort and renewed hope to our sick and wounded in hospitals and provides morale-building welfare and recreational facilities for our occupation forces abroad as well as a wide range of services to those returning to civilian life in this country; and 1050 [61 STAT.

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