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PROCLAMATION 3442-DEC. 9, 1961

[76 STAT.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOHN F. KENNEDY, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby proclaim and make known that the annual quotas of the quota areas hereinafter designated have been determined in accordance with the law to be, and shall be, as follows: Quota Area

Quota 151 100 149 100

Cameroon Kuwait Nigeria Syria

73 Stat. C59. 24 F.R. 4679. 3 CFR, 19S9 Supp.

The establishment of an immigration quota for any quota area is solely for the purpose of compliance with the pertinent provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act and is not to be considered as having any significance extraneous to such purpose. Proclamation No. 3298 of June 3, 1959, as amended, entitled "Immigration Quotas," is further amended by the abolishment of the immigration quotas established for British Cameroons, Cameroun and Nigeria and by the addition of the immigration quotas established by this proclamation. I N 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 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. JOHN F. KENNEDY

By the President: DEAN RUSK,

Secretary of /State.

Proclamation 3442 HUMAN RIGHTS WEEK, 1961 December 9. 1961

By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

WHEREAS December 15, 1961, marks the one hundred and seventieth anniversary of the adoption of the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States, which are known as the Bill of Rights; and WHEREAS December 10, 1961, marks the thirteenth anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a common standard of achievement for all nations and all peoples; and WHEREAS the Universal Declaration of Human Rights gives fresh voice to the equal dignity and worth of every human being proclaimed in our own Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution of the United States; and WHEREAS the strongest guarantee of liberty is the cooperation of independent nations in defense of peace and justice, each in support of its own freedom and the rights of its own citizens; NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOHN F. KENNEDY, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the period of December 10 to December 17, 1961, as Human Rights Week, and I call upon the citizens of the United States to honor our heritage by study of

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