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PROCLAMATION 3587-APR. 30, 1964

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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 Immigration and Nationality 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, on December 12, 1963, the former Colony and Protectorate of Kenjya was granted its independence by the Government of the United Kingdom; and WHEREAS the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Attorney General have jointly determined and reported to me the immigration quota hereinafter set forth: NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, 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 immigration quota of the quota area hereinafter designated has been determined in accordance with the law to be, and shall be, as follows: Quota area Quota Kenya

100

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 addition of the quota for Kenya. 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 thirtieth day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-four and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-eighth. LYNDON B. JOHNSON

By the President: GEORGE W. BALL,

Acting Secretary

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