PROCLAMATIONS, 1933. All expenditures of the board shall be allowed and paid for out of the appropriation "emergency Boards, Railway Labor Act, May 20, 1926, 1933 and 1934" on the presentation of itemized vouchers properly approved by the chairman of the board hereby created. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this 26th day of July in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-three, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-eighth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President. WILLIAM PHILLIPS Acting Secretary oj State. [No. 2051] EXEMPTION OF VmGIN ISLANDS FROM COASTWISE LAWS BY THE PHESIDEXT OF THE ljNITED STATES OF AMEHICA A PROCLAMATION 1703 Funds available. Ante, p 286. 'VIIEREAS en act of Congress entitled "Merehant Marine Act, j,~~:~r!~nds. 1920."1 npprovcd June 5, 1920 (41 Stat. 988), contuined the following prOVISHms: II Sec. 21. That from and after February I, 1922, the coastwise Statutory provision. laws of the United States shall extend to the island Territories and Vol. 41 , p. W7. possessions of the United States not now covered therehy, and the board is direeted prior to the expiration of such year to have estab- lished adequate steamship service at reasonable rates to accommodate the commerce and the passenger travel of said islands and to mnin- tain und operate such service until it can be taken o\·er and operated and maintained upon satisfactory terms by private capital and enter- prise: Provided, That if adequat.e shippinf senice is not established Extending period. by February I, 1922, the President shal ext(~lHl the period herein allowed for the establishment of such service in the case of any island Territory or possession for such time as may be necessary for the establishment of adequate shipping facilities therefor." AND \VHEREAS an adequate shipping sen·ice to accommodate the eommerce and the passenger travel of the Virgin Islands had not been e"tablished as provided by section 21 of the :r..1erchunt Marine Ad, ID20; and \nlEHEAS the President of the United States, in ac('ordance with 2'2TarmstroBot (talk)122ll~~'Vr,r.-43,Z::~,: the nuthority vested in him by section 21 of the lvf('rdltlnt. Marine 41!1':lX, H2'~37" 12~ ~:;'JL \. 1f . t' .t }'l ,JlfJ· "iJ, .},,~, 6' . 1. et, 1920, HiS rom tune 0 hme, to WI ,on '(> >runry I, 1922, on \'01 . 4~, .. p. 2920, 2Ilf.o;
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1924, on October 23,1924, on April 25, 1925, on November 24,1925, on August 14, ] 02(), on August 9, 1927, on August 2, 1928, on July 2G, 1929, on July 28, 1930, on August 19, 1931, and on August 18, 1g:~2, issued prorlnmntions extending the time for the establishment of SUdl service rnd deferring the application of the coast,vise laws to the Virgin Islandr- until September 30, 1933; KO\V, THEREFOHE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- sh~:g::::':!1~:~hr~~r~ dent of the United States of America acting under and by virtue of ther extended to 'SejJ- 1 1· fIb't' 21f1I . d tember 30, 1934. tie nut lOnty con erre< upon me y sec Ion 0 tiC a )ove-mentlOne act, do hereby declare and proclaim that the period for the establish- 86G37'-:H-I'T 2-:.!7
