Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 57 Part 2.djvu/462

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1098 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [57 STAT. WHEREAS such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions and such continuance of existing customs and excise treat- ment as are set forth and provided for in the said agreement and the schedules thereunto annexed are required and appropriate to carry out the said agreement; Ante, p. 109 . AND WHEREAS it is provided in Article XVII of the said agreement that it shall be proclaimed by the President of the United States of America and shall be ratified by the Regent of Iceland, and that it shall enter into force on the thirtieth day following the exchange of the proclamation and the instrument of ratification; Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority 48stat. 943. conferred by the said section 350(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as AnIte, p. 125. amended, do hereby proclaim the said trade agreement, including the said schedules, to the end that the same and every part thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States of America, the citizens of the United States of America and all other persons sub- ject to the jurisdiction thereof on and after the thirtieth day following the exchange of this my proclamation and the instrument of ratifica- tion of Iceland as provided for in Article XVII. Following the said exchange of this proclamation and the instru- ment of ratification of the Regent of Iceland, I shall proclaim the date on and after which the said agreement, including the said sched- ules, shall enter into force. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE in Washington this thirtieth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred forty-three, and of the Inde- ] pendence of the United States of America the one hundred [SEAL] sixty-eighth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: ADOLF A. BERLE Jr Acting Secretary of State SUPPLEMENTARY PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITES STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, pursuant to the authority conferred upon me by sec- tion 350(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930 of the Congress of the United States of America, as amended by the act of June 12, 1934 (48 Stat. 943; U.S.C ., 1940 ed., title 19, sec. 1351(a)), the period within which such authority may be exercised having been extended by joint