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Theodore Roosevelt Centennial Year, 19571958. 71 Stat. 617.

PROCLAMATIONS—OCT. 23, 1957

[72 STAT.

citizenship. He was a man on fire for his country, who kincUes fires in our hearts. He was a prophet, calhtig upon us to fulfill our responsibilities not only for the sake of our own Nation and people but for the sake of those, throughout the world, who look to us for hope, inspiration, and leadership. NOW, THEREFORE, 1, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of.America, iti consonance with a request made by the Congress in its joint resolution approved by me on September 4, 1957 (Public Law 85-297), do hereby call upon the American people to observe the one hundredth anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt's birth throughout the centennial year beginning October 27, 1957, by appropriate activities and ceremonies, by the study of his life and teachings, and above all, by individual, personal rededication to those responsibilities of.American citizenship which he so zestfully fulfilled. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 22nd day of October in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-seven, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of.America the one hundred and eighty-second. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: JOHN FOSTER D U L L E S,

Secretary of State.

IMPOSING A F E E ON IMPORTS OF ALMONDS October 23, 1957 INo. 3209]

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

A PROCLAMATION 62 Stat. 1248.

7 USC 624. 7 USC 624.

WHEREAS, pursuant to section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended (7 U.S.C. 624), the Secretary of Agriculture advised me there was reason to believe that shelled almonds and blanched, roasted, or otherwise prepared or preserved almonds are practically certain to be imported into the United States under such conditions and in such quantities as to render or tend to render ineffective, or materially interfere with, the marketing-order program of the Department of Agriculture, under Federal Marketing Order No. 9, with respect to almonds, or to reduce substantially the amount of products processed in the United States from domestically produced almonds with respect to which such program of the Department of Agriculture is being undertaken; and WHEREAS, on June 27, 1957, under the authority of the said section 22, I caused the United States Tariff Commission to make an investigation with respect to this matter; and WHEREAS, in accordance with the said section 22, as implemented by Executive Order No. 7233 of November 23, 1935, the said Commission has made such investigation and has reported to me its findings and recommendations made in connection therewith; and WHEREAS, on the basis of the said investigation and report of the Tariff Commission, I find that shelled almonds and blanched, roasted, or otherwise prepared or preserved almonds (not including almond paste) are practically certain to be imported into the United States during the period from October 1, 1957, to September 30, 1958, both dates inclusive, under such conditions and in such quantities as

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