Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 47 Part 2.djvu/858

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2462 PROCLAMATIONS, 1931. ested were gjven reasonable opportunity to be present, to produce evidence, and to be heard; WBUL\8 the commission has reported to the President the results of said investigation and its findings with respect to such differences in COlts of production; WaS.BAS the commission has found it shown by sai<,: investigation that the principal competing country is Canada, and that the (luties expressly fixed by statute do not equalize the difference in the costa of production of the domestic articles and the like or similar foreign articles when produced in said principal competing country, and has specified in ita report the decreases in the rates of Quty expfeeslJ fixed by Btatute found by the commj.won to be shown by said investigation to be neceeaary to equalize such difference· and WBOua in the judgment of the President such rates of duty are shown by such investigation of the Tariff Commission to be neceeeary to equalize such difference in costs of production I eqa~a-=:: Now, TBEREFORE, I, HBRBERT HOOVER. President of the United oa.QClfproducUao. States of America, do hereby approve &I1d proclaim the following rates of duty found to be shown by said investigation to be ne~ to equalize such difference in costs of production: ..... Vol ••p .... A Clecrease in the rate of duty expressly fixed in paragraph 1541 (a) of Title I of said act on pipe organs and parts thereof, from 60 per centum ad mlorem to 35 per centum ad rolorem; And a decrease in the rate of duty expressly fixed in paragraph 1541 (a) of Title I of said act on pipe o!Xans and parts thereof es~ially designed and constructed for installation and use in a particular church, or in a particular public auditorium at which it is not cus- tomary to charge an admission fee, which art' imported for that specific use, and which are 80 installed and used within one year from the date of importation, from 40 per centum ad valorem to 35 per centum ad roloTem. IN WITNE88 WBEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 24" day of June, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-one, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-fifth. By the President: HENRY L STIMSON Secretary oj State. HERBERT HOOVER [No. 1957] DECREASING RATE OF DUTY ON BENT-WOOD FURNITURE BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION ~on bent-wood WBJ:RIlAS under and by virtue of section 336 of Title III, Part III I'rwMDbIe. of the act of Congress approved. June 1?f 1930 (46 Stat. 701), entitlea ~ Ultborif.a. ".An act to provide revenue to regwate commerce with foreign \'01. -. p. 781. countries, to encourage the industries of the United States, to protect American labor, and for other purposes," the United. States Tariff CommjBBion has investigated. the differences in costs of production of, and all other facts ancf conditions enumerated in said section with respect to, bent-wood furniture, wholly or partly finished, and parts