Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 45 Part 2.djvu/1318

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2972 PROCLAMATIONS, 1928. Texas & Pacific Railway Texas Pacific-Missouri Pacific Terminal Railroad of New Orleans Trinity & Brazos Valle,Y Railway Company, The Union Pacific System, !Deluding Union Pacific Railroad Company Oregon f,hort Line Railroad Company Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company St. Joseph & Grand Island Railway Company, The Union Railway Company (Memphis, Tenn.) Wabash Railway Company Western Pacific Railroad Company, The and certain of their employees, officers and members of the Order of Railway Conductors and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, which has not been heretofore adjusted under the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, now threatens substantially to interrupt inter- state commerce within that section of the country wherein the afore- said carriers operate to a degree such as to deprive the whole or some part of said section of essential transportation service. Emergency board NOW, THEREFORE, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United ~t:TarmstroBot (talk) t~e~:~~ate States, by virtue of the power vested in me by the Constitution and Vol. 44, p. 686 . laws of the United States, and by virtue of and under the authority in me vested by Section 10 of the Railway Labor Act, do hereby create a board to be composed of five persons not pecuniarily or other- wise interested in any organization of railway employees or any carrier, to investigate such dis:pute and report their findings to me within thirty (30) dals from this date. Compensation, etc., The members of this board shall be compensated for and on account of board. of such duties in the sum of $100 for each member for every day actually employed with or upon and on account of travel and duties incident to such board. The members will be reimbursed for and they are hereby authorized to make expenditures for necessary expenses of themselves and of the board mcluding traveling expenses and Expenses. Vo•. 44, p. 1072. Antt, p. 575 . October 17,1928. expenses actuaJlyincurred for subsistence, in conformity with said Act. All expenditures of the board shall be allowed and paid out of the appropriation "Emergency Boards," Act approved February 11, 1927, Vol. 44 Stat. L . 1072 on the presentation of itemized vouchers properly approved by the Chairman of the board hereby created. Done this 29" day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty eight, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred fifty-third. By the President FRANK B KELLOGG Secretary oj State. CALVIN COOLIDGE By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMEnICA A PROCLAMATION TeritIonlluornper. Whereas in and by section 315 (a) of Title III of the act of Con- TarmstroBot (talk) 02:03, 7 January 2012 (UTC):941. . gress appr~ved September 21, 1~22, en~itled "A~ act to provide Statutory authOrize- revenue to regulate commerce WIth foreIgn countnes to encourage tlon. the ind~stries of the United States, and for other p~rposes," it is, among other things, provided that whenever the President, upon investigation of the differences in costs of production of articles wholly or in part the growth or product of the United States and of