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 21st day of December, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-three, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-eighth. By the President: WILLIAM PHILLIPS Acting Secretary of State. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT [No. 2067] (GRANTING PARDON TO PERSONS CONVICTED OF CERTAIN WAR-TIME OFFENSES] BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION December 23, 1933. Persons convicted of certain war-time of fenses. Whereas, in and by the Constitution of the United States of America, it is provided that the President "shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except Provisions of the in cases of impeachment", and Whereas, various persons have been from time to time convicted in the courts of the United States of violations of certain statutes enacted during the war between the United States and the Imperial German Government and Imperial Austro-Hungarian Government, to wit: Constitution. Seditious acts, etc. p. 1691. Section 3 of Title I of the Act approved June 15, 1917, entitled "An Act To punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, the neutrality, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish Espionage, etc. espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes" (40 Stat. 217); and said section as amended by the Act approved May 16, 1918 (40 Stat. 553); or of a conspiracy to violate the same; Conspiracy to violate Section 5 of the Act approved on June 15, 1917, entitled "An Act To authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States" (40 Stat. 76); and said Section as amended by the Act approved August 31, 1918 (40) Stat. 955); and Whereas, the emergency contemplated by the aforesaid statutes has long expired; Selective draft. Full pardon granted, Now, Therefore, Be it Known, that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, if sentence imposed has President of the United States of America, in consideration of the been complied with. premises, divers other good and sufficient reasons me thereunto moving, do hereby declare and grant a full pardon to all persons who have heretofore been convicted of a violation of any of the foregoing statutory provisions or of a conspiracy to violate the same, and who have complied with the sentences imposed on them; provided, however, that such pardon shall not be construed to pardon such persons for any offenses other than those designated herein, whether committed prior or subsequently to the offenses herein designated. Proviso. 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 23rd day of December, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-three, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-eighth. By the President. WILLIAM PHILLIPS FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT Acting Secretary of State [No. 2068] Emergency declared. Time extended for withdrawing merchan Vol. 46, p. 744. MERCHANDISE IN BONDED WAREHOUSE, BONDED CARPET WOOL BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS section 318 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (ch. 497, 46 Stat. 590, 696) provides, in part: Whenever the President shall by proclamation declare an emergency to exist by reason of a state of war, or otherwise, he may authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to extend during the continuance of such emergency the time herein prescribed for the performance of any act * * * 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 provisions, do hereby proclaim an emergency to exist. And I do further proclaim that it is necessary and proper, because dise, imported during of the emergency, that all merchandise (except grain) imported 1931, for warehousing. during the calendar year 1931 and entered for warehousing under section 557 of the Tariff Act of 1930 be permitted to remain in warehouse for a further period; and I therefore hereby authorize the Secretary of the Treasury, until further notice, to extend the warehousing period for such merchandise for not more than one year from and after the expiration of the three-year period prescribed in sections 557 and 559 of the Tariff Act of 1930: Provided, however, that in each Conditions imposed. and every case the Secretary of the Treasury shall require that the principal on the warehouse-entry bond, in order to obtain the benefits under the extension granted, shall either furnish to the Collector of Customs for the district in which the merchandise is warehoused the agreement of the sureties on such bond to remain bound under the terms and provisions of the bond to the same extent as if no extension were granted, or furnish an additional bond with acceptable sureties to cover the period of extension. Proviso. Bonded wool, conditionally free, for designated manufacture. Time extended for proof of use. Vol. 46, p. 646. And I do further proclaim that it is necessary and proper, because of the emergency, that as to all wool or hair of the camel imported or withdrawn from bonded warehouse during the calendar year 1931 conditionally free of duty, under bond, under paragraph 1101 of the Tariff Act of 1930 for use in the manufacture of press cloth, camel'shair belting, rugs, carpets, or other floor coverings, or in the manu Proviso. Terms. facture of knit or felt boots or heavy fulled lumbermen's socks, there shall be permitted a further period during which proof that such wool or hair has been so used may be furnished; and I therefore hereby authorize the Secretary of the Treasury, until further notice, to extend the period during which proof of such use may be furnished for not more than one year from and after the expiration of the three-year period prescribed in said paragraph 1101: Provided, however, that in each and every case the Secretary of the Treasury shall require that the principal on the bond, in order to obtain the benefits under the extension granted, shall either furnish to the Collector of Customs for the district in which the bond was given, the agreement of the sureties on such bond to remain bound under the terms and provisions of the bond to the same extent as if no extension were granted, or furnish an additional bond with acceptable sureties to cover the period of extension. And I do further proclaim that it is necessary and proper, because of the emergency, that as to articles manufactured or produced in the United States with the use of imported or substituted merchandise for drawback purposes a further period for exportation (or shipment to the Philippine Islands) of the completed articles be permitted in those cases in which the merchandise involved was imported during the calendar year 1931; and I therefore hereby authorize the Secretary Time extended of the Treasury to extend the period for exportation (or shipment to ment to Philippine the Philippine Islands) of the completed articles in such cases for Islands. not more than one year from and after the expiration of the three-year period prescribed in section 313 (h) of the Tariff Act of 1930. 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 30th day of December, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-three, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-eighth. Drawback. on merchandise for ship Vol. 46, p. 694. By the President: FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT WILLIAM PHILLIPS Acting Secretary of State. [No. 2069] (AMENDING PROCLAMATIONS OF MARCH 6 AND MARCH 9, 1933, AND THE EXECUTIVE Order of MARCH 10, 1933 AND ALL ORDERS AND REGULATIONS PURSUANT THERETO) BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION December 30, 1933. Preamble. WHEREAS, on March 6, 1933, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President Banking operations. of the United States of America, by virtue of authority vested in me by the Act of October 6, 1917 (40 Stat. L. 411), as amended, issued a Proclamation declaring that an emergency existed and that a National p. 1. banking holiday be observed; WHEREAS, on March 9, 1933, I issued a Proclamation continuing the terms and conditions of said Proclamation of March 6, 1933, in full force and effect until further proclamation by the President; 86637-34-PT 2-29 Vol. 40, p. 415; Ante, Ante, p. 1691. members of Federal Reserve system. 6073. State banks not WHEREAS, on March 10, 1933, I issued an Executive order authorizing the appropriate authority having immediate supervision Executive Order No. of banking institutions in each State or any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to permit any banking institution not a member of the Federal Reserve System to perform any or all of its usual banking functions except as otherwise provided; Licenses. Admittance to membership of Fund Ante, p. 179. WHEREAS, the Secretary of the Treasury, pursuant to authority granted by other provisions of the said Executive order of March 10, 1933, has acted upon all requests for licensing of banks members of the Federal Reserve System; WHEREAS, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has acted granted to State banks. upon all applications to it for membership in the Temporary Federal Deposit Insurance Fund as provided for in Section 12B (y) of the Federal Reserve Act as amended by Section 8 of the Act of June 16, 1933, Public No. 66, Seventy-third Congress, and has admitted to the said Fund all applicant banks which are duly and properly qualified; and Responsibility of State. Authority of State over State nonmember banks reestablished. mations and Executive Orders amended. WHEREAS, it is now appropriate that the banking authority in each State and any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States should have and exercise the sole responsibility for, and control over, banking institutions not members of the Federal Reserve System; NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES, in order to assure that the banking authority in each State and in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States shall have and exercise the sole responsibility for, and control over, banking institutions which are not members of the Designated Procla- Federal Reserve System, do hereby proclaim, order, direct, and declare that the Proclamations of March 6, 1933 and March 9, 1933, and the Executive order of March 10, 1933, and all orders and regulations pursuant thereto, are amended, effective the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, to exclude from their scope banking institutions which are not members of the Federal Reserve System. PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That no banking institution shall pay out any gold coin, gold bullion, or gold certificates, except as authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury, nor allow the withdrawal of any currency for hoarding, nor engage in any transactions in foreign exchange except such as may be undertaken for legitimate and normal business requirements, for reasonable traveling and other personal requirements, and for the fulfillment of contracts entered into prior to March 6. 1933. Proviso. Gold impounding reservation. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done in the City of Washington this 30th day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty[SEAL] three, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fifty-eighth. By the President: WILLIAM PHILLIPS FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT Acting Secretary of State. [No. 2070] UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS-SUSPENSION OF TONNAGE DUES BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Whereas section 4228 of the Revised Statutes (U.S.C., title 46, sec. 141) in part provides as follows: January 16, 1934. Tonnage dues. tion. Vol. 30, p. 214. "Upon satisfactory proof being given to the President, by the gov-Statutory authoriza ernment of any foreign nation, that no discriminating duties of ton-R.S., sec. 4228, p. 814. nage 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." WHEREAS satisfactory proof was received by me from the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on November 21, 1933, that no discriminating duties of tonnage or imposts are levied or imposed in the waters of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 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, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 4228 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, 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 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported in said vessels into the United States from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or from any other foreign country; the suspension to take effect from November 21, 1933, 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, Í have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 16" day of January, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-four, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-eighth. By the President: WILLIAM PHILLIPS Acting Secretary of State. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT Suspension of dievessels of the Union of criminating duties on Soviet Socialist Repub [No. 2071] |