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PROCLAMATION 3384—DEC. 21, 1960
IMMIGRATION QUOTA D c m e 21 1960 gy fhc President of the United States ee br [JNO. o o o ' t j
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Ante, p. 654.
WHEREAS under the provisions of section 202(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, each independent country, self-governing dominion, mandated territory, and territory under the international trusteeship system of the United Nations, other than independent countries of North, Central, and South America, is entitled to be treated as a separate quota area when approved by the Secretary of State; and WHEREAS under the provisions of section 201(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Attorney General, jointly, are required to determine the annual quota of any quota area established pursuant to the provisions of section 201(a) of the said Act, and to report to the President the quota of each quota area so determined; and WHEREAS under the provisions of section 202(e) of the said Act, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Attorney General, jointly, are required to revise the quotas, whenever necessary, to provide for any politi-
cal changes requiring a change in the list of quota areas; and WHEREAS the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, a former Autonomous Republic within the French Community, became independent on November 28, 1960; and WHEREAS the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Attorney General have jointly determined and reported to me the immigration quota hereinafter set forth: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D.
EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby proclaim and make known that the an-
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