PROCLAMATIONS-SEPT. 7 , 1948 POSTPONING THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF PROCLAMATION NO. 2775 OF MARCH 26, 1948, PRESCRIBING CHANGES IN PANAMA CANAL TOLL RATES BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS section 411 of title 2 of the Canal Zone Code, approved June 19, 1934, authorizes the President to prescribe and from time to time change the tolls that shall be levied by the Government of the United States for the use of the Panama Canal, and provides that no tolls when so prescribed shall be changed unless six months' notice thereof is given by the President by proclamation; and WHEREAS increased tolls were prescribed by Proclamation No. 2775 of March 26, 1948, the said proclamation to become effective on October 1, 1948; and WHEREAS it now appears that the Congress may be called upon to give consideration to the entire question of the cost of operation of the Panama Canal and the tolls to be levied for the use thereof; and WHEREAS it appears consistent with the public interest to post- pone the effective date of the said Proclamation No. 2775 until April 1, 1949, so as to permit continuance of the present tolls until the Congress shall have had opportunity for such consideration: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the author- ity vested in me by the aforesaid section 411 of title 2 of the Canal Zone Code, do hereby proclaim that the effective date of the said Proclamation No. 2775 of March 26, 1948, is postponed to, and shall be, April 1, 1949. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this seventh day of September in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-eight, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-third. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: G C MARSHALL Secretary of State. SUPPLEMENTING PROCLAMATION No. 2790 OF JUNE 11, 1948, PRO- CLAIMING THE PROTOCOL OF RECTIFICATIONS TO THE GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS Proclamation No. 2790 of June 11, 1948, proclaimed that the provisions of part I of schedule XX of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade should be applied as if the rectifications in the Protocol of Rectifications to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, referred to in the 7th recital of the said proclamation, had appeared in the said general agreement on October 30, 1947; and September 7, 1948 [No. 2808] Ante, p. 1494. Postponement of effective date of Proc- lamation No. 2775. September 7,1948 [No. 2809] Ante, p. 1515. 61 Stat., Pt. 5, p. A1157. Post, p. 1962; ante, p. 1517. 62 STAT.] 1553
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