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PROCLAMATIONS—MAR. 28, 1958

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lamation No. 821 of September 15, 1908, from which the northwest corner of the said monument bears west 125 feet; thence, east, 70 feet, along the said boundary line; north, 92 feet; west, 70 feet; and south, 92 feet, to the point of beginning; containing 0.15 acres, more or less.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure, destroy, or remove any feature of this monument, and not to locate or settle upon any of the lands thereof. 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 28th day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, and of [SEAL] 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,

The Secretary oj State.

DETERMINING ALPHA AND B E T A 3-ETHYL-1-METHYL-4-PHENYL4-PROPIONOXYPIPERIDINE TO B E OPIATES BY THE P R E S I D E N T OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

March 28, 1958 [No. 3229]

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

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

" O P I A T E. — 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 addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability simalar to morphine or cocaine, and proclaimed by the President to have been so found by the Secretary or his dele

WHEREAS the Secretary of the Treasury, after due notice and opportunity for public hearing, has found that each of the followingnamed drugs has an addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine, and that in the public interest this finding should be effective immediately: a-3-Ethyl-l-methyl-4-phenyl-4-propionoxypiperidine j8-3-Ethyl-l-methyl-4-phenyl-4-propionoxypiperidine; AND WHEREAS a previous findiilg with respect to the beta isomeric form of the drug, described in Proclamation No. 2851 of 63 Stat. 1290. August 26, 1949, and discovered to have been prematurely made, has been withdrawn by the Secretary of the Treasury as of August 26, 1949, and replaced by the above-described finding: Determination NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President certain drugs as of _ _ of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim that the Secretary opiates of the Treasury has found that each of the following-named drugs has an addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine, and that in the public interest this finding' should be effective immediately: a-3-Ethyl-l-methyl-4-phenyl-4-propionoxypiperidine j8-3-Ethyl-l-methyl-4-phenyl-4-propionoxypiperidine And I do further proclaim that a previous finding with respect to the beta isomeric form of the drug, described in Proclamation No. 2851 of August 26, 1949, and discovered to have been prema- 63 Stat. 1290. turely made, has been withdrawn by the Secretary of the Treasury

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