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PROCLAMATIONS-AUG. 29, 1956

time to give solemn and grateful thought to that eventful week in September 1787 when our Constitution was signed, delivered to the Continental Congress, and made known to the people of the country, thus laying the foundation for the birth of a new Nation. 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 29th day of August in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-six, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-first. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: JOHN FOSTER

DULLES,

Secretary of State.

MODIFICATION

OF RESTRICTIONS ON IMPORTS OF CERTAIN VIRGINIA-TYPE PEANUTS

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES O F AMERICA

August;», 1956 [No.:1152]

A PROCLAMATION 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salted, prepared, or preserved (including roasted peanuts, but not including peanut butter) which may be entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption in any 12-month period beginning July 1 in any year, which proclamation was amended by Proclamation No. 3025 of June 30, 1953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 by Proclamation No. 3095 of May 16, 1955 (69 Stat. c32); WHEREAS the said Proclamation No. 3095 amended the said Proclamation No. 3019 so as to establish thereafter as the quota year for peanuts the 12-month period beginning August 1 in any year; WHEREAS the total quantity of such peanuts which may be entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption under the said Proclamation No. 3019, as amended, during the 12-month period beginning August 1, 1956 has already been entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption; WHEREAS, pursuant to section 22(d) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, the United States Tariff Commission has made a supplemental investigation to determine whether there is a deficit in the domestic supply of Virginia-type peanuts, shelled (not including peanuts blanched, salted, prepared, or preserved), of sizes averaging in representative samples not more than 40 kernels per ounce, such as to require an increase in the quantity of such peanuts which may be permitted to be entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption during the early part of the quota year beginning August 1, 1956, to meet essential requirements of domestic users of such peanuts, and, if so, what additional quantity or quantities of such peanuts may be permitted to be so entered or withdrawn without materially interfering with or rendering ineffective the program of the Department of Agriculture with respect to peanuts; WHEREAS the United States Tariff Commission has submitted to me a report of its findings and recommendation in connection with the said supplemental investigation; and WHEREAS, on the basis of said supplemental investigation and report of the Tariff Commission, I find that the domestic supply of

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