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[68 Stat. 44]
PRIVATE LAW 000—MMMM. DD, 1954
[68 Stat. 44]

C44 United Nations Day, 1954.

PROCLAMATIONS—JUNE 30, 1954

[68 STAT.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby urge the citizens of this Nation to observe Sunday, October 24, 1954, as United Nations D a y with community programs that will demonstrate their faith and support of the United Nations and create a better public understanding of its aims, achievements, and problems. I call also upon the officials of the Federal, State, and local Governments, the United States Committee for United Nations Day, representatives of civic, educational, and religious organizations, agencies of the press, radio, television, and motion pictures, as well as all citizens to cooperate in appropriate observance of the day throughout our country. 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 24th day of June in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-eighth. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: JOHN FOSTER D U L L E S

Secretary of State

MODIFICATION OF TRADE AGREEMENT CONCESSION AND ADJUSTMENT OF D U T Y ON ALSIKE CLOVER S E E D June 30, 1954 [No. 3059]

BY r p g ^

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED

STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

48 Stat, m

61 Stat. A1242.

1. WHEREAS, pursuant to the authority vested in the President by the Constitution and the statutes, including section 350(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, on October 30, 1947 he entered into a trade agreement with certain foreign countries, which trade agreement consists of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the related Protocol of Provisional Application thereof, together with the Final Act Adopted a t the Conclusion of the Second Session of the Preparatory Committee of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment (61 Stat. (Parts 5 and 6) A 7, A 1 1, and A 2 0 5 0); 2. WHEREAS item 763 in Part I of Geneva-Schedule X X annexed to the said General Agreement reads in part as follows: Tariff Act of 1930, paragraph

763

Description of Products

Rate of duty

Grass seeds and other forage crop seeds:

Alsike clover

2^ per lb.

3. WHEREAS, in accordance with Article II of the said General Agreement and by virtue of Proclamation No. 2761A of December 16, 1947 (61 Stat. 1103), the United States customs treatment of alsike clover seed described in the said item 763 is the application of duty at the rate of 2 cents per pound, which treatment reflects the concession granted in the said General Agreement with respect to such product; 4. WHEREAS the United States Tariff Commission has submitted to me its report of an investigation, including a hearing, under section