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PROCLAMATIONS—FEB. 24, 1955

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DETERMINING 4,4-DIPHENYL-6-DIMETHYL,AMINO-3-HEXANONE TO B E AN OPIATE BY THE P R E S I D E N T OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

February 23, 1955 [No. 3082]

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS section 4731(g) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 provides in part as follows:

68A Stat.')58. 26 USC 4731 (g).

"OPIATE.—The word 'opiate', as used in this part shall mean any drug (as defined in the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; 52 Stat. 1041, section 201(g); 21 U.S.C. 321) found by the Secretary or his delegate, after due notice and opportunity for public hearing, to have an addictionforming or addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine or cocaine, and proclaimed by the President to have been so found by the Secretary or his delegate. * • * ";

AND WHEREAS, the Secretary of the Treasury, after due notice and opportunity for public hearing, has found that the following named drug has an addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine, and that in the public interest this finding should be effective immediately: 4,4-diphenyl-6-dimethylamino-3-hexanone. 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 the aforementioned drug 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. D O N E at the City of Washington this 23d day of February in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-five, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-ninth. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: HERBERT HOOVER,

Determination of certain drug as opiate.

Jr.,

Acting Secretary of State.

RED CROSS MONTH,

1955

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS for more than seventy years the United States Government has participated, with other governments, in international treaties which fix responsibility for providing comfort and relief to sick and wounded members of the armed forces, and which establish the Red Cross as the protective symbol under which those purposes shall be achieved; and WHEREAS these treaties envisioned the need for establishing in each participating country a volunteer organization to assist the government in carrying out its obligations, and to engage in such other humanitarian activities as the government might prescribe; and WHEREAS, by appropriate Federal statute and in accord with its international commitments, the Government of the United States has established the American National Red Cross as this Nation's official

February 24, 1955 [No. 308.S1

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