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36 USC 161.
PROCLAMATION 3454-MAR. 19, 1962
[76 STAT.
WHEREAS, in recognition of the value of maintaining high safety standards on our waterways, the Congress, by a joint resolution approved June 4, 1958 (72 Stat. 179), has requested the President to proclaim annually the week that includes the Fourth of July as National Safe Boating Week: NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOHN F. KENNEDY, P R E S I D E N T O F THE UNITED STATES O F AMERICA, do hereby designate the week beginning July 1, 1962, as National Safe Boating Week. In pursuance of the objectives of this Proclamation, I ur^e all persons, organizations, and Governmental agencies interested in recreational boating and safety afloat to publicize and observe National Safe Boating Week. I also invite the Governors of the States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and other areas subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to join in this observance. 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 5th day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the In[SEAL] dependence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-sixth. JOHN F. KENNEDY
By the President: DEAN RTJSK,
Secretary of State.
Proclamation 3454 MODIFICATION OF TRADE AGREEMENT CONCESSION AND ADJUSTMENT OF DUTY ON CERTAIN MACHINE-WOVEN PILE FLOOR COVERINGS March 19, 1962
By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation
1. WHEREAS, pursuant to the authority vested in him by the Constitution and the statutes, including section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1351), on October 30, 1947 the President entered into a trade agreement with certain foreign countries, which trade agreement consists of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, including a schedule of United States concessions, and the Protocol of Provisional Application of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, together with a Final Act Adopted at the Conclusion of the Second Session of the Preparatory Committee of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment (61 Stat. (Pts. 5 and 6) A7, A l l, and A2051), and by Proclamation No. 2761A of December 16, 1947 (61 Stat. (Pt. 2) 1103) be proclaimed such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions of the United States and such continuance of existing customs or excise treatment of articles imported into the United States as were then found to be required or appropriate to carry out that agreement on and after January 1, 1948, which proclamation has been supplemented by several subsequent proclamations; 2. WHEREAS the said General Agreement has been supplemented by several subsequent agreements, including the Sixth Protocol of Supplementary Concessions to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade of May 23, 1966 (7 U S T ( P t. 2) 1086), and the President, by
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