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PROCLAMATIONS—OCT. 18, 1954

69 STAT.]

render or tend to render ineffective, or materially interfere with, the said programs undertaken by the Department of Agriculture: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the said section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, do hereby proclaim that a fee of 10 cents per pound, but not more than 50 per centum ad valorem, shall be imposed upon shelled almonds and blanched, roasted, or otherwise prepared or preserved almonds (not including almond paste) entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption during the period October 1, 1954, to September 30, 1955, both dates inclusive, in excess of an aggregate quantity of 5,000,000 pounds; and that a fee of 10 cents per pound, but not more than 50 per centum ad valorem, shall be imposed upon shelled filberts, whether or not blanched, entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption during the period October 1, 1954, to September 30, 1955, both dates inclusive, in excess of an aggregate quantity of 6,000,000 pounds. The said fees shall be in addition to any other duties imposed on the importation of such almonds and filberts. 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 11th day of October in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-ninth. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President:

Almonds and berts. Import fees.

fil-

7 USC 624.

HERBERT HOOVER, Jr.,

Acting

Secretary

of

State.

DETERMINING THE DRUGS 3-METHOXY-N-METHYLMORPHINAN ( E X C E P I ' ITS DEXTROROTATORY ISOMER) AND KETOBEMIDONE TO BE OPIATES BY THE P R E S I D E N T OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

October 18, 1954 [No. 3074]

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 d r u g (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 addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine or cocaine, and proclaimed by the President to have been so found by the Secretary. * * *";

A N D 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 and addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine, and that in the public interest this finding should be effective immediately: 3-methoxy-N-methylmorphinan, its racemic and levorotatory forms and their salts, but excepting its dextrorotatory form and its salts. 4-(3-hydroxyphenyl)-l-methyl-4-piperidyl ethyl ketone (ketobemidone) and its salts. NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim that the Secretary of the Treasury has found that each of the aforementioned drugs (except the dextrorotatory form of 3-methoxy-N-methylmor-

60 Stat. 38. 68A Stat. 558. 26 USC 4731(g).

52 Stat. 1041. 21 USC 321.

Determination of certain d r u g s as opiates.

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