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PROCLAMATIONS—JUNE 3, 1959

C59

"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 addiction-forming or addictionsustaining 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 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: (1) 2'-Hydroxy-5,9-dimethyl-2-(2-phenylethyl)-6, 7-benzomorphan. (2) Ethyl 4-phenyl-l-[3-(phenylamino)-propyl]4-piperidinecarboxylate. (3) 3-Hydroxy-N-phenethylmorphinan, its racemic and levorotatory forms, except its dextrorotatory form 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-Hydroxy-N-phenethylmorphinan and its salts) 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 to be affixed. D O N E at the City of Washington this first day of June in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-nine, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-third. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: DOUGLAS DILLON,

Acting Secretary of State.

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

Jiinc ^ 1959 [No. 3298]

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS under the provisions of section 202(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, each independent country, self-governing dominion, mandated territory, and territory under the international trusteeship system of the United Nations, other than independent countries of North, Central, and South America, is entitled to be treated as a separate quota area when approved by the Secretary of State; and WHEREAS under the provisions of section 201(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Attorney General, jointly, are required to determine the annual quota of any quota area established pursuant to. the provisions of section 202(a) of the said Act, and to report to the President the quota of each quota area so determined; and WHEREAS under the provisions of section 202(e) of the said Act,

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