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PROCLAMATIONS—MAY 16, 1955

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first transoceanic voyage by any steamship, and requested the President to issue a proclamation annually calling for the observance of that day; and WHEREAS since May 22 falls on Sunday this year, it is approriate that National Maritime Day be observed on the following londay: D S ^ K ^""" NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby urge the people of the United States to honor our Merchant Marine on Monday, May 23, 1955, by displaying the flag of the United States at their homes or other suitable places; and I direct the appropriate officials of the Government to arrange for the display of the flag on all Government buildings on that day. I also request that all ships sailing under the American flag dress ship on Monday, May 23, in tribute to our Mer-

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IN 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 10th day of May in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-five, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-ninth. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: HERBERT HOOVER, J r.,

Acting Secretary of State.

FURTHER MODIFICATION or RESTRICTIONS ON IMPORTS OF PEANUTS May 16, 1955 [No. 3095]

BY THE P R E S I D E N T OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION 62 Stat. 1249.

Ante, p. c22. 67 Stat. c46.

7 USC 624.

WHEREAS, pursuant to section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended (7 U.S.C. 624), I issued Proclamation No. 3019 on June 8, 1953 (67 Stat. c46), limiting to 1,709,000 pounds (aggregate quantity) the imports of peanuts, whether shelled, not shelled, blanched, salted, prepared, or preserved (including roasted peanuts, but not including peanut butter) which may be entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption in any 12-month period beginning July 1 in any year, which proclamation was amended by Proclamation No. 3025 of June 30, 1953 (67 Stat. c54); and WHEREAS on February 18, 1955, the United States Tariff Commission submitted to me a report of its findings and recommendation made in connection with a supplemental investigation conducted by the Commission with respect to peanuts, on the basis of which supplemental investigation and report I issued Proclamation No. 3084 ou March 9, 1955 (20 F. R. 1549), modifying the said Proclamation N o. 3019, as amended, so as to permit the entry, o r w i t h d r a w a l from warehouse, for c o n s u m p t i o n, during the r e m a i n d e r of the 12-month period e n d i n g June 30, 1955, of a n a d d i t i o n a l quantity of not more than 51,000,000 pounds ( a g g r e g a t e quantity) of certain p e a n u t s, subject to a fee of 2 cents p e r p o u n d b u t not more than 50 p e r c e n t u m a d valorem, which fee w a s i n a d d i t i o n to any other duties imposed

upon the importation of such peanuts; and WHEREAS, pursuant to section 22(d) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, the United States Tariff Commission has made a second supplemental investigation to determine whether the deficit

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