PROCLAMATIONS, 1932. or any carrier, to investigate and report their findings to me within 30 days from this date. 2505 The members of this board shall be compensated for and on account Compensation. etc. of such duties in the sum of one hundred dollars ($100) for every day actually employed with or upon &Ild on account of travel and duties incident to such board. The members will be reimbursed for and they are hereby authorized to make expenditures for necessary ex- penses of themselves and of the board, including traveling expenses and expenses actually incurred for subsistence, in conformity with said act. All e~1>enditures of the board shall be allowed and paid for out of Pa)'Inent of expend. the appropri.ation "emergency Boards, Railway Labor Act, May 20, It~~: 46. p. 135i. 1926, 1932" on the presentation of itemized vouchers properly ap- proved by the chairman of the board hereby created. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set ~y hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at tile City of Washington this 10th day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-two, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States ('If America the one hundred and fifty-sixth. By the President: HENRY L STIMSON Secretary oj Stale. HERBERT HOOVER [No. 1992] ~IERCHANDISE IN BONDED W AUEHOUSE !JY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLilfATION March Iii. 1932. WHEREAS Congress has enacted and the President has on the Merchandise in , '.. bonded warehouse. seventeenth day of June 1930, approved a law whICh con tams the Preamble. following provisions: "Whenever the President shall by proclamation declare an emer- Statutoryauthorba· . b f f h'h tiOD. gency to eXlSt y reason 0 a state 0 war, or ot eI'W1Se, e may Vol. 46, P . 0116. authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to extend during the contin- uance of such emergency the time herein prescribed for the perform- ance of any act, and may authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to permit, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, the importation free of duty of food, clothing and medical, surgical and other supplies for use in emergency relief work. The Secretary of the Treasury shall report to the Congre.ss any action taken under the provisions of this section." AND, WHEREAS, It is essential, in order to carry into effect the provisions of the said act., the applicable provisions of which are quoted herein, that the powers conferred upon the President therein be at this time exercised to the extent hereinafter set forth. NOW, THEREFORE, I, Herbert Hoover, President of the United WI~:~~\: f1::!n~ ~tates of America, ac~ing under and by virtue of the authority v~ted ~erc~=~;ln:D~~ m me by the aforesaId act of Congress, hereby find and determme, to 1930. and by this proclamation do proclaim an emergency to exist, for sufficient reasons me thereunto moving. . And I do further prodaim and make known, that, in my judgment, it is proper and necessary because of the emergency existing that all imported merchandise entered for warehousing on or before Decem-
