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PROCLAMATIONS-JUNE 3, 9 , 1947 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 3 rd day of June in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-seven, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-first. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: G C MARSHALL Secretary of State. SUPPLEMENTAL QUOTA ON IMPORTS OF EXTRA LONG-STAPLE COTTON BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS pursuant to section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 as amended by section 31 of the act of August 24, 1935, 49 Stat. 750, 773, as amended by section 5 of the act of February 29, 1936, 49 Stat. 1148, 1152, and as reenacted by section 1 of the act of June 3, 1937, 50 Stat. 246 (7 U. S . C. 624), the President issued a proclamation on September 5, 1939 (No. 2351, 54 Stat. 2640), limiting the quantities of certain cotton and cotton waste which might be entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption, which proclamation was suspended in part or modified by the President's proclamations of December 19, 1940 (No. 2450, 54 Stat. 2769), March 31, 1942 (No. 2544, 56 Stat. 1944), June 29, 1942 (No. 2560, 56 Stat. 1963), and February 1, 1947 (No. 2715); and WHEREAS the said proclamation of September 5, 1939, provides that the total quantity of cotton having a staple of 1-8 inches or more in length which may be entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption in any year commencing September 20 shall not exceed 45,656,420 pounds; and WHEREAS the aforesaid limitation on the entry of cotton having a staple of 1-% inches or more in length was imposed after a finding by the President, on the basis of the investigation and report of the United States Tariff Commission made under the provisions of the said section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, as amended, that such cotton was being imported into the United States under such conditions and in sufficient quantities as to tend to render ineffective or materially interfere with the program undertaken with respect to cotton under the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended; and WHEREAS the imposition of the aforesaid annual quotas on cotton having a staple of 1-% inches or more in length was recommended by the United States Tariff Commission in its report (Report No. 137, 2d Series) in connection with which it was stated, in finding No. 5, that the quotas recommended "will prevent imports from interfering with the cotton program and at the same time will permit American industry to secure needed supplies of specialized types of cotton"; and WHEREAS the total quantity of cotton having a staple of 1-% inches or more but less than 1-'%6 inches in length which may be entered for consumption or withdrawn from warehouse for consump- tion under the said proclamation of September 5, 1939, as modified, during the quota year ending September 19, 1947, has already been entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption; and June 9, 1947 [No. 2734] 3CFR, Cum. Supp., p. 113. Ante, p. 1049. 3CFR,Cum. Supp. , pp. 205, 294, 308. Ante, p. 1049. 49 Stat. 773. 7U.S. C. 624. 49 Stat. 1148 . 16 U. S. C. 5§S90a- 590q. 54 Stat. 2640. 3CFR, Cum. Supp. p. 113. Ante, p. 1049 . 61 STAT.] 1071