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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SEPTEMBER 28, 1945
IMMIGRATION QUOTAS FOR AUSTRIA
AND GERMANY
2666
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Commerce,
and the Attorney General have reported to the President that pur-
suant to the duty imposed and the authority conferred upon them in
and by sections 11 and 12 of the Immigration Act approved May 26,
1924 (43 Stat. 159-161), and Reorganization Plan No. V (3 CFR Cum.
Supp., Ch. IV), they jointly have made the revision provided for
in section 12 of the said act and have fixed the quotas for Austria
and Germany in accordance therewith to be as hereinafter set forth:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the
United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the power
in me vested by the aforesaid act of Congress, do hereby proclaim
and make known that the annual quotas for Austria and Germany ef-
fective for the remainder of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1946,
and for each fiscal year thereafter, have been determined in accord-
ance with the law to be, and shall be, as follows:
Austria
1,413
KRUMAN
Germany
25,957
May
The immigration quotas assigned to Austria and Germany
are designed solely for purposes of compliance with the pertinent
provisions of the Immigration Act of 1924 and are not to be regarded
as having any significance extraneous to this object.
This proclamation shall take effect immediately, and shall
have the effect of amending Proclamation 2283 of April 28, 1938.
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 twenty-eighth day of
September, in the year of our Lord
nineteen hundred and forty-five,
(SEAL)
and of the Independence of the
United States of America the one
hundred and seventieth.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
By the President:
DEAN ACHESON
Acting Secretary of State