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 PROCLAMATIONS-APR. 22, 1948 [62 STAT. 1500 36 U. S. C. 1145. Proclamation of May 22, 1948, as Na- tional Maritime Day. WHEREAS by joint resolution approved May 20, 1933 (48 Stat. 73), the Congress designated May 22 as National Maritime Day and authorized and requested the President to issue annually a procla- mation calling upon the people of the United States to observe that day: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim Saturday, May 22, 1948, as National Maritime Day; and I urge the people of the United States to observe that day by displaying the flag of the United States at their homes or other suitable places, and I direct the officials of the Government to display the flag on that day on all Government buildings. I also request that all ships sailing under the American flag dress ship on National Maritime Day. 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 22 nd day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-eight, and of the [SEAL] Independence of America the one hundred and seventy- second. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: ROBERT A LOVETT Acting Secretary of State. SUPPLEMENTING PROCLAMATIONS OF DECEMBER 16,1947 AND JANUARY 1, 1948, CARRYING OUT GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE AND EXCLUSIVE TRADE AGREEMENT WITH CUBA, RESPEC- TIVELY April 22, 1948 [No. 27821 61 Stat., Pt. p. All. 61 Stat., Pt. p. A2051. 5, 6, 61 Stat., Pt.5. p. A5. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS (1), pursuant to the authority conferred by section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by section 1 of the Act of June 12, 1934, by the Joint Resolution approved June 7, 1943, and by sections 2 and 3 of the Act of July 5,1945 (48 Stat. 943 and 944, ch. 474, 57 Stat. 125, ch. 118, 59 Stat. 410 and 411, ch. 269; 19 U. S . C . (1946) 1351), the period within which said authority may be exercised having been extended by section 1 of said Act of July 5, 1945 until the expiration of three years from June 12, 1945 (48 Stat. 944, ch. 474, 59 Stat. 410, ch. 269; 19 U. S . C. (1946) 1352(c)), on October 30, 1947 the President entered into a trade agreement with the Governments of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Kingdom of Belgium, the United States of Brazil, Burma, Canada, Ceylon, the Republic of Chile, the Republic of China, the Republic of Cuba, the Czechoslovak Republic, the French Republic, India, Lebanon, the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Kingdom of Norway, Pakistan, Southern Rhodesia, Syria, the Union of South Africa, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which trade agree- ment consists of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the related Protocol of Provisional Application thereof, together with the Final Act Adopted at the Conclusion of the Second Session of the Preparatory Committee of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment which authenticated the texts of said general agreement and said protocol;

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