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PROCLAMATION 3441-DEC. 1, 1961

This proclamation shall become effective immediately upon publication in the Federal Register. I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set mj hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. D O N E at the City of Washington this first day of December in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-one and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-sixth.

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26 F.R. 11714.

JOHN F. KENNEDY

By the President: DEAN RUSK,

Secretary of State.

Proclamation 3441 IMMIGRATION QUOTAS By the President of the United States of America

December 1, 1961

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, 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 State of Kuwait, the former Sheikhdom of Kuwait, has been extended de jure recognition by the United States; and WHEREAS on June 1, 1961, the northern part of the former British Cameroons, a United Nations Trust Territory, united with the Federation of Nigeria; and WHEREAS on October 1, 1961, the southern part of the former British Cameroons, a United Nations Trust Territory, united with the former Republic of Cameroun to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon; and WHEREAS the Syrian Arab Republic was extended de jure recognition by the United States on October 10, 1961; and WHEREAS, under the provisions of section 202(e) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended, the annual quota of any newly established quota area shall be not less than the sum total of quotas in effect immediately preceding the change in boundaries, change of administrative arrangements, or other political change requiring a change in the list of quota areas; and WHEREAS the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Attorney Genieral have jointly determined and reported to me the four immigration quotas hereinafter set forth:

66 Stat. 176. ^ ^^^ ^^^2.

8 USC iisi.

7S Stat. 654.

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