Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 49 Part 2.djvu/1473

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PROCLAMATIONS, 1935. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the city of Washington this 7" day of December, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-five, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixtieth. By the J>resident: CORDELL HULL Secreta1'1J oj State. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT [Ko. 2149] ESTAHLISHMEXT OF CUSTOMS ENFonCEMENT Anl::.A No.4 BY Till::. PRESID}~XT 01-' TilE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA . \ PROCLA~tATION 3485: WHEREAS s('ction 1 (a) of the Anti-Smuggling Art, approved Customs enforoe· August 5, 1935 (Public No. 238, 74th Congress), provides, among m~!te~1l17. other things, thu,t whenever the President finds and declares that at" any place or within any area. on the high sens adjnc('!nt to but outside customs waters any vessel or vessels hover or are being kept off the coast of the enited States, and that, by virtue of the presence of any sllch vessel or vessels at such place or within such area, the unlawful introduction or removal into or from the United States of any mer- chandise or person is being or may be occasioned, promoted, or threat- ened, the place or area so found and declared shall constitute a cus- toms-enforcement area for the purposes of this Act: NO'V, THEREFORE, I, ~"RANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT, 1I.t;r No, 4 I8f.abo Pr('sident of the United States of America, do hereby find nnd declare: . 1. That vessels hover or are being kept off the coast of the United 1>"1II,tIoD. Stutes on the high seas adjacent to but outside customs waters within the area described as follows: That area of waters of the Gulf of :Mexico bounded by: (a) The arc of 0. circle d('scribed with 0. radiu~ of on~ hundred nautical mil('s from a center at Latitude twenty-eight de~reeK thirty- one minutes North (28°-31' N) IA>ngitude eighty-nme d('gre('~ fifty-three minutes ,rest (89°-53' 'V). (6) That part of an irre~ular curve, included within the arc of the circle described in (a), which is the locus of outennost points twclve nautical miles offshore from low water mark of the coast of the United States. (c) That part of an irregular curve, ineluded within the arc of the circle described in (a), which is the locus of outennost points sixty-two nautical miles offshore from low water mark of the coast of the United States. 2. That the place or immediate ar(>a within the area described in paragraph 1 where such vessels are hovering or are being kept is: That pitH'e or immediate area on the Gulf of :Mexi('~ at Latitude twenty-eight degrees tbirty-one minutes North (28°-31' N) Longitude eighty-nine degrees fifty-three minutes 'Vest (89°-53' 'V). 3. That the area described in para~rarh 1 does not include any waters more than one hundred nauhea miles from the place or immediate area where such vessels are and are hereby declared to be hovering or kept, Itud does not include anv waters more than fifty nautical miles outward from the outer limft of customs waters.