Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 50 Part 2.djvu/548

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INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES Modifications, etc. 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; Ante. p . 1447. WHEREAS it is stipulated in Article XIX of the said Agreement that the Agreement shall come into full force on the thirtieth day following proclamation thereof by the President of the United States of America and approval thereof by the President of the Republic of Finland, or should the proclamation be issued and the approval be given on different days, on the thirtieth day following the date of the later in time of such proclamation or approval; WHEREAS the said Agreement, including the two Schedules, was approved by the President of the Republic of Finland on October 2, 1936; Proclamation. Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority 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 November 2, 1936, the thirtieth day following October 3, 1936, the date of this my proclamation of the said Agreement. 48 Stat. WL3. 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 third day of October 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: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. 1456