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PROCLAMATIONS—OCT. 4, 1961

WHEREAS Audubon was a forerunner of the movement for the conservation of wildlife in America, and his work continues to stimulate appreciation of the wealth and beauty of America's natural resources, serving as a constant inspiration in the continuing endeavor to preserve our birds and other wildlife from extinction; and WHEREAS Audubon died on January 27, 1851, in the sixty-sixth year of his life; and WHEREAS the Congress of the United States, by an act approved August 28, 1951, authorized the President to issue a proclamation designating 1951 as Audubon Centennial Year: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, by this proclamation, designate the year 1951 as Audubon Centennial Year, in observance of the one-hundredth anniversary of the death of John James Audubon; and I urge all Americans to do their part in furthering the efforts of our Government and of many of our citizens to protect and conserve the wildlife of

Ante, p. 198. Designation of 1951 as Audubon Centennial Year.

I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. D O N E at the City of Washington this 18th day of September in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-one, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-sixth. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: JAMES E. W E B B

Acting Secretary of State TERMINATING THE PERUVIAN TRADE AGREEMENT PROCLAMATION AND SUPPLEMENTING PROCLAMATION NO. 2764 OF JANUARY 1, 1948 BY THE P R E S I D E N T OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

October 4, 1951 [No. 2946]

A PROCLAMATION 1. WHEREAS, pursuant to the authority vested in him by the Constitution and the statutes, including section 350(a) of the Tarijff Act of 1930, as amended, the President of the United States entered into a trade agreement with the President of the Republic of Peru on May 7, 1942 (56 Stat. 1510), and by Proclamation of June 29, 1942 (56 Stat. 1509) proclaimed the said trade agreement effective on and after July 29, 1942; 2. WHEREAS the Government of the United States and the Government of the Republic of Peru recorded in an exchange of notes dated September 12, 1951 and September 28, 1951, the understanding that the above-mentioned trade agreement will expire on October 7, 1951; 3. WHEREAS, as set forth in Proclamation No. 2764 of January 1, 1948 (3 C F R 1948 Supp., p. 11), on October 30, 1947, the President entered into an exclusive trade agreement with the Government of the Republic of Cuba (Treaties and Other International Acts Series 1703), paragraph 2 (c) (ii) of which provides that certain products of the Republic of Cuba which would have been subject to ordinary customs duty if imported into the United States on April 10, 1947, and which are of a kind which the United States Government shall determine to have been imported into its territory as products of Cuba in any quantity during any of the calendar years 1937, 1939, 1944, and 1945, shall be entitled upon importation into the United States to a margin of preference in the applicable rate of duty equal to the abso-

48 Stat. 943. 19 U.S.C.§1361.

52 Stat., F t. 2, p. 1465. 61 S t a t, p. 3702.

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