Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 50 Part 2.djvu/524

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1432 Modifications, etc. Ante, p. 1425. Proclamation. 46 Stat. 708; 48 Stat. 943. 19 U.S. C. §1351. INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES WHEREAS such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions and such continuance of existing customs and excise treatment as are set forth and provided for in the said Agreement and the two Schedules thereunto annexed are required and appro- priate to carry out the said Agreement; WHERE.A it is stipulated in Article XVII of the said Agreement that the Agreement shall come into force on the thirtieth day fol- lowing proclamation thereof by the President of the United States of America and the President of the Republic of Nicaragua, or should the proclamations be issued on different days on the thirtieth day following the date of the later in time of such proclamations; WHEREAS the said Agreement, including the two Schedules, was pro- claimed by the President of the Republic of Nicaragua on August 31, 1936; Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, acting under the au- thority conferred by the said Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by the said Act of June 12, 1934, do hereby proclaim the said Agreement, including the said Schedules, to the end that the same and every part thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States of America and the citizens thereof on and after October 1, 1936, the thirtieth day following September 1, 1936, the date of this my proclamation of the said Agreement. Pursuant to the proviso in Section 350 (a) (2) of the said Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by the said Act of June 12, 1934, I shall from time to time notify the Secretary of the Treasury of the countries with respect to which application of the duties herein proclaimed is to be suspended. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DoNE at the city of Washington this first day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL] thirty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-first. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORiIDELL HILL Secretary of State.