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PROCLAMATIONS—JUNE 16, 1953

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Roosevelt Week by paying tribute to the achievements and meniory of that great American, and I urge interested individuals and organizations to take part in appropriate ceremonies commemorative of the inspiring role of Theodore Roosevelt in our national heritage. 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 a t the City of Washington this 14th day of June, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-three, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-seventh. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: JOHN FOSTER D U L L E S

Secretary of State

DETERMINING ALPHA-ACETYLMETHADOL AND F O U R TO B E O P I A T E S

OTHER

DRUGS

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES O F AMERICA

June 16, 1953 [No. 3022]

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS section 3228(f) of the Internal Revenue Code provides in part as follows: "OPIATE.—The word 'opiate' as used in this part and subchapter A of chapter 23 shall mean any drug (as defined in the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act) found by the Secretary of the Treasury, after due notice and opportunity for public hearing, to have an addiction-forming or addictionsustaining liability similar to morphine or cocaine, and proclaimed by the President to have been so found by the Secretary. * * *";

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AND WHEREAS the Secretary of the Treasury, after due notice and opportunity for public hearing, has found that each of the following named drugs has addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine, and that in the public interest this finding should be effective immediately: d-6-dimethylamino-4, 4-diphenyl-3-acetoxyheptane (alpha-acetylmethadol) a-6-dimethylamino-4, 4-diphenyl-3-heptanol (alpha-methadol) /3-6-dimethylamino-4, 4-diphenyl-3-acetoxyheptane (beta-acetylmethadol) 3-Dimethylamino-l, l-di-(2-thienyl)-l-butene. 3-Ethylmethylamino-l, l-di-(2-thienyl)-l-butene. NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President ing^s'lonSngaipha: of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim that the Secretary acetyimethadoi, etc. of the Treasury has found that each of the aforementioned drugs has an addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine, and that in the public interest this finding should be effective immediately. 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.

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