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IMMEDIATE RELEAS.
SEP BER 22, 1947
PALESTINE--SUSPENSION OF TONNAGE DUTIES
2746.
TRUNTH
ARMY
NATIONAL
ARCHIVES AND
RECORD@
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
SERVICE"
A PROCLAMATION
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 con-
tinued, and no longer
;
AND WHEREAS satisfactory proof was received by me from
the Government of Palestine on August 6, 1947, that no discriminating
duties of tonnage or imposts are imposed or levied in the ports of
Palestine 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, Harry S. Truman, President of the United
States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the
above-quoted 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 Palestine and the produce, manufactures, or merchan-
dise imported in said vessels into the United States from Palestine
or from any other foreign country; the suspension to take effect
from August 6, 1947, 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 twentieth day of
September in the year of our
Lord nineteen hundred and forty-
(SEAL)
seven and of the Independence of
the United States of America the
one hundred and seventy-second.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
By the President:
ROBERT A. LOVETT
Acting Secretary of State.