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CHAPTER I-PROCLAMATIONS

PROCLAMATION 2453

ADMINISTRATION OF SECTION 6 OF THE ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO EXPEDITE THE STRENGTHENING OF THE NATIONAL DEFENSE" APPROVED JULY 2, 1940

WHEREAS section 6 of the act of Congress entitled "AN ACT To expedite the strengthening of the national defense," approved July 2, 1940, provides follows:

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"SEC. 6. Whenever the President determines that it is necessary in the interest of national defense to prohibit or curtail the exportation of any military equipment or munitions, or component parts thereof, or machinery, tools, or material, or supplies necessary for the manufacture, servicing, or operation thereof, he may by proclamation prohibit or curtail such exportation, except under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe. Any such proclamation shall describe the articles or materials included in the prohibition or curtailment contained therein. In case of the violation of any provision of any proclamation, or of any rule or regulation, issued hereunder, such violator or violators, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000.00 or by imprisonment for not more than two years, or by both such fine and imprisonment. The authority granted in this section shall terminate June 30, 1942, unless the Congress shall otherwise provide."

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aforesaid act of Congress, do hereby proclaim that upon the recommendation of the Administrator of Export Control I have determined that it is necessary in the interest of the national defense that on or after February 3, 1941, the following-described articles and materials shall not be exported from the United States except when authorized in each case by a license as provided for in Proclamation No. 2413 of July 2, 1940,' entitled "Administration of section 6 of the act entitled 'AN Act to expedite the strengthening of the national defense' approved July 2, 1940.":

13 CFR, 1940 Supp., p. 46.

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PROCLAMATION 2454

EXCLUDING LANDS FROM THE WUPATKI NATIONAL MONUMENT AND RESERVING THEM FOR IRRIGATION PURPOSES-ARIZONA WHEREAS it appears that certain lands which are now a part of the Wupatki National Monument in the State of Arizona, established by Proclamation of December 9, 1924, 43 Stat. 1977, and enlarged by Proclamation of July 9, 1937,1 50 Stat. 1841, are not necessary for the proper care and management of the objects of historic and scientific interest situated on the lands within the said monument; and

WHEREAS it appears that it would be in the public interest to exclude such lands from the Wupatki National Monument; and

WHEREAS such lands are needed in the construction and operation of a diversion dam in Little Colorado River to facilitate the irrigation of lands on the Navajo Indian Reservation:

12 F.R. 1182.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 2 of the act of June 8, 1906, c. 3060, 34 Stat. 225 (U.S.C., title 16, sec. 431), and by the act of June 25, 1910, c. 421, 36 Stat. 847 (U.S.C., title 43, sec. 141), as amended by the act of August 24, 1912, c. 369, 37 Stat. 497 (U.S.C., title 43, sec. 142), do proclaim that the lands comprising Lots 1 and 2, Section 12, Township 25 North, Range 10 East, Gila and Salt River Meridian, Arizona, comprising 52.27 acres, are hereby excluded from the Wupatki National Monument, and temporarily withdrawn from settlement, location, sale, or entry and reserved for use in connection with the construction and operation of a diversion dam in Little Colorado River for irrigating Navajo Indian lands. The provisions of the Proclamations of December 9, 1924, and July 9, 1937, shall remain in full force and effect as to all other lands thereby reserved as a national monument.

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 22d day of January in the year of our

Lord nineteen hundred and [SEAL] forty-one, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and sixty-fifth.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:

CORDELL HULL

The Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 2455

NEW ZEALAND SUSPENSION OF TONNAGE DUTIES

WHEREAS section 4228 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the act of July 24, 1897, c. 13, 30 Stat. 214 (U.S.C., title 46, sec. 141), provides, in part, as follows:

"Upon satisfactory proof being given to the President, by the government of any foreign nation, that no discriminating duties of tonnage or imposts are imposed or levied in the ports of such nation upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States, or upon the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported in the same from the United States or from any foreign country,

the President may issue his proclamation, declaring that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and impost within the United States are suspended and discontinued, so far as respects the vessels of such foreign nation, and the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported into the United States from such foreign nation, or from any other foreign country; the suspension to take effect from the time of such notification being given to the President, and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels, belonging to citizens of the United States, and their cargoes, shall be continued, and no longer *";

AND WHEREAS satisfactory proof was received by me from the Government of New Zealand on January 17, 1941, that no discriminating duties of tonnage or imposts are imposed or levied in the ports of New Zealand upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States, or upon the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported in such vessels, from the United States, or from any foreign country:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the abovequoted statutory provisions, do hereby declare and proclaim that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and imposts within the United States are suspended and discontinued so far as respects the vessels of New Zealand and the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported in said vessels into the United States from New Zealand or from any other foreign country; the suspension to take effect from January 17, 1941, and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States and their cargoes shall be continued, and no longer.

IN TESTIMONY 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 31" day of January, in the year of our

Lord nineteen hundred and [SEAL] forty-one, and of the Inde

pendence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fifth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:

CORDELL HULL

Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 2456 CONTROL OF THE EXPORT OF CERTAIN ARTICLES AND MATERIALS

WHEREAS section 6 of the act of Congress entitled "AN ACT To expedite the strengthening of the national defense," approved July 2, 1940, provides as follows:

"SEC. 6. Whenever the President determines that it is necessary in the interest of national defense to prohibit or curtail the exportation of any military equipment or munitions, or component parts thereof, or machinery, tools, or materials, or supplies necessary for the manufacture, servicing, or operation thereof, he may by proclamation prohibit or curtail such exportation, except under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe. Any such proclamation shall describe the articles or materials included in the prohibition or curtailment contained therein. In case of the violation of any provision of any proclamation, or of any rule or regulation, issued hereunder, such violator or violators, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000.00 or by imprisonment for not more than two years, or by both such fine and imprisonment. The authority granted in this section shall terminate June 30, 1942, unless the Congress shall otherwise provide."

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aforesaid act of Congress, do hereby proclaim that upon the recommendation of the Administrator of Export Control I have determined that it is necessary in the interest of the national defense that on and after February 10, 1941, the following described articles and materials shall not be exported from the United States except when authorized in each case by a license as provided for in Proclamation No. 2413' of July 2, 1940, entitled "Administration of section 6 of the Act entitled 'AN ACT To expedite the strengthening of the national defense' approved July 2, 1940.":

(1.) Well and refining machinery (2.) Radium

(3.) Uranium

(4.) Calf and kip skins.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set by hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.

13 CFR, 1940 Supp., p. 46.

DONE at the city of Washington this 4th day of February, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and [SEAL] forty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixtyfifth.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:

CORDELL HULL

Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 2457

INDIA-SUSPENSION OF TONNAGE DUTIES

WHEREAS section 4228 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the act of July 24, 1897, c. 13, 30 Stat. 214 (U.S.C., title 46, sec. 141), provides, in part, as follows:

"Upon satisfactory proof being given to the President, by the government of any foreign nation, that no discriminating duties of tonnage or imposts are imposed or levied in the ports of such nation upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States, or upon the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported in the same from the United States or from any foreign country, the President may issue his proclamation, declaring that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and impost within the United States are suspended and discontinued, so far as respects the vessels of such foreign nation, and the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported into the United States from such foreign nation, or from any other foreign country; the suspension to take effect from the time of such notification being given to the President, and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels, belonging to citizens of the United States, and their cargoes, shall be continued, and no longer.

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AND WHEREAS satisfactory proof was received by me from the Government of India on January 17, 1941, that no discriminating duties of tonnage or imposts are imposed or levied in the ports of India upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States, or upon the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported in such vessels, from the United States, or from any foreign country:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States cf America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the abovequoted statutory provisions, do hereby

declare and proclaim that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and imposts within the United States are suspended and discontinued so far as respects the vessels of India and the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported in said vessels into the United States from India or from any other foreign country; the suspension to take effect from January 17, 1941, and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States and their cargoes shall be continued, and no longer.

IN TESTIMONY 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 6" day of February, in the year of our

Lord nineteen hundred and [SEAL] forty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fifth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:
CORDELL HULL

Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 2458

EMERGENCY BOARD, RUTLAND RAILROAD

COMPANY-EMPLOYEES

WHEREAS, the President, having been duly notified by the National Mediation Board that a dispute between the Rutland Railroad Company, a carrier, and certain of its employees represented by the following labor organizations:

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen,

Order of Railway Conductors of America,

Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Order of Railroad Telegraphers, Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employes,

Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes,

International Association of Machin

ists,

International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders and Helpers of America,

International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths, Drop Forgers and Helpers. Sheet Metal Workers' International Association,

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers,

Brotherhood Railway Carmen of America,

International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers, Helpers, Roundhouse and Railway Shop Laborers

American Train Dispatchers' Associa

tion.

which dispute has not heretofore been adjusted under the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, amended, now threatens substantially to interrupt interstate commerce within the States of Vermont and New York to a degree such as to deprive that section of the country of essential transportation service;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, and by virtue of and under the authority in me vested by Section 10 of the Railway Labor Act, amended, do hereby create a board to be composed of three persons not pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any organization of railway employees or any carrier, to investigate the aforementioned dispute and report its findings to me within thirty days from this date.

The members of this board shall be compensated for and on account of such duties in the sum of seventy-five ($75.00) for every day actually employed with or upon account of travel and duties incident to such board. The members will be reimbursed for and they are hereby authorized to make expenditures for expenses for themselves and of the board, including traveling expenses and in conformity with Public No. 212, 72nd Congress, approved June 30, 1932, 11:30 a. m., not to exceed five dollars ($5.00) per diem for expenses incurred for subsistence.

All expenditures of the board shall be allowed and paid for out of the appropriation "Emergency Boards, Railway Labor Act, May 20, 1926, 1941" on the presentation of itemized vouchers properly approved by the chairman of the board hereby created.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the

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seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 14th day of February in the year

of our Lord one thousand nine [SEAL] hundred and forty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fifth.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President: CORDELL HULL

Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 2459

ENLARGING THE SHASTA NATIONAL FOREST

CALIFORNIA

WHEREAS the hereinafter-described public lands have been found by the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to be chiefly valuable for national forest purposes; and

WHEREAS such lands are within the limits of the areas described in the acts of February 20, 1925, c. 272, 43 Stat. 952, and June 22, 1938, c. 564, 52 Stat. 835 (U.S.C., title 16, sec. 486r), authorizing the addition of certain lands to the Shasta National Forest; and

WHEREAS it appears that the addition of such lands to the Shasta National Forest would be in the public interest:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid acts of Congress, do proclaim that the followingdescribed public lands in the State of California are hereby added to, and reserved as a part of, the Shasta National Forest:

MT. DIABLO MERIDIAN

T. 37 N., R. 3 E., sec. 1, S2N2;
T. 40 N., R. 1 W., sec. 34, NW1⁄4SE;
aggregating 200 acres.

The reservation made by this proclamation shall, as to any lands which are at this date embraced in any valid claim or withdrawn for any public purpose other than classification, be subject to and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such claim, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of land so withdrawn, so long as such claim

is legally maintained or such withdrawal remains in force.

Executive Orders No. 4203 of April 14, 1925, and No. 6910 of November 26, 1934, as amended, withdrawing public lands for classification, are hereby revoked so far as they affect any of the abovedescribed lands.

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 nineteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred [SEAL] and forty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixtyfifth.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:

CORDELL HULL
Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 2460

CONTROL OF THE EXPORT OF CERTAIN ARTICLES AND MATERIALS

WHEREAS section 6.of the act of Congress entitled "AN ACT To expedite the strengthening of the national defense," approved July 2, 1940, provides as follows:

"SEC. 6. Whenever the President determines that it is necessary in the interest of national defense to prohibit or curtail the exportation of any military equipment or munitions, or component parts thereof, or machinery, tools, or material, or supplies necessary for the manufacture, servicing, or operation thereof. he may by proclamation prohibit or curtail such exportation, except under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe. Any such proclamation shall describe the articles or materials included in the prohibition or curtailment contained therein. In case of the violation of any provision of any proclamation, or of any rule or regulation, issued hereunder, such violator or violators, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000, or by imprisonment for not more than two years, or by both such fine and imprisonment. The authority granted in this section shall terminate June 30, 1942, unless the Congress shall otherwise provide."

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aforesaid act of Congress, do hereby proclaim that upon the recommendation

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