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PROCLAMATION 3372—SEPT. 23, 1960

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8 USC 1151.

Ante, p. 654.

By the President of the United States of America 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 201(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, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Commerce,

and the Attorney General, jointly, are required to revise the quotas, whenever necessary, to provide for any political changes requiring a change in the list of quota areas; and WHEREAS the Republic of Cameroun came into existence on January 1, 1960, with the termination of the United Nations Trusteeship; and WHEREAS the Republic of Togo was established on April 27, 1960, upon the termination of the United Nations Trusteeship; and WHEREAS the Malagasy Republic, a former Autonomous Republic of the French Community, became independent on June 26, 1960; and WHEREAS the Republic of the Congo, the former Belgian Congo, was granted independence by Belgium on June 30, 1960; and

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