(T. D. 43457)

Revision of reimbursement vouchers

Standard Forms Nos. 1012, 1012a, 1012b, and 1012c, public voucher for reimbursement of travel and other expenses, including per diem, revised

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS,

Washington, D. C., June 25, 1929.

To Collectors of Customs and Others Concerned: Standard Forms Nos. 1012, 1012a, 1012b, and 1012c, public voucher for reimbursement of travel and other expenses, including per diem, have been revised by the Comptroller General of the United States so as to embrace in concrete form the additional evidence required by law and the standardized Government travel regulations and also to produce certain facts in each case regarded as necessary to a proper audit of travel accounts. The approval of these revised forms is not to be construed as modifying the existing rule for the submission to the General Accounting Office, in support of the travel vouchers, of authorities. for official travel, in the form in which granted.

The revised voucher forms (Nos. 1012 and 1012a) must be used for reimbursement of travel expense incurred during August, 1929. The use of the old forms of these vouchers must, therefore, be discontinued for vouchering expenses incurred after July 31, 1929, but the extension sheets (Nos. 1012b and 1012c) may be used until the supplies on hand have become exhausted.

Requisitions for the revised forms should be submitted promptly to the Division of Supply, Treasury Department.

(93120/1012, a, b, and c.)

FRANK DOW,

Acting Commissioner of Customs.

(T. D. 43458)

Foreign currencies-Rates of exchange

Rates of exchange certified to the Secretary of the Treasury by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York under the provisions of section 522 (c), tariff act of 1922

TREASURY Department,

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS,
Washington, D. C., June 29, 1929.

To Collectors of Customs and Others Concerned:

The appended table of the values of certain foreign currencies as certified to the Secretary of the Treasury by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York under the provisions of section 522 (c) of the tariff act of 1922, during the period from June 20 to 26, 1929, inclusive, is

published for the information of collectors of customs and others concerned.

(103512.)

FRANK DOW,

Acting Commissioner of Customs.

Values of foreign currencies as certified to the Secretary of the Treasury by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York under the provisions of section 522 (c), tariff act of 1922

Appeal from the decision of the United States Customs Court (T. D. 43342) involving the classification of so-called strawboard

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS,

ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL, New York.

Washington, D. C.

SIR: Receipt is acknowledged of your letter of June 20, 1929, regarding a decision of the United States Customs Court (T. D.

43342) in which certain strawboard classified as dutiable at 30 per cent ad valorem under paragraph 1309 of the tariff act of 1922 was held to be dutiable at 10 per cent ad valorem under paragraph 1302 of the said act.

The department approves your action in filing, in the name of the Secretary of the Treasury, an application with the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals for a review of the said decision. FRANK DOW,

Respectfully,

(112802.)

Approved June 29, 1929:

A. W. MELLON,

Acting Commissioner of Customs.

Secretary of the Treasury.

(T. D. 43460)

Dressed poultry from foreign countries

Feet of dressed poultry to be removed when same is imported from a country where foot-and-mouth disease or rinderpest exists. Regulations of the Departof Agriculture, B. A. I. Order 318, effective August 1, 1929

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS,

Washington, D. C., June 29, 1929.

To Collectors of Customs and Others Concerned:

The appended copy of B. A. I. Order 318, issued by the Secretary of Agriculture May 9, 1929, is published for the information and guidance of customs officers and others concerned.

This order requires the removal of the feet from all dressed poultry imported from any country where foot-and-mouth disease or rinderpest exists.

Customs officers will cooperate with agents of the Bureau of Animal Industry of the Department of Agriculture in the enforcement of these regulations.

Order regulating the importation of dressed poultry from regions in which rinderpest or foot-and-mouth disease exists

(Effective August 1, 1929)

It having been determined by the Secretary of Agriculture that rinderpest and foot-and-mouth disease, contagious and infectious diseases of animals, exist

in many of the countries throughout the world, and to prevent the introduction of the contagion of such diseases into the United States, it is ordered, under authority conferred upon the Secretary of Agriculture by section 2 of the act of Congress approved February 2, 1903 (32 Stat. 791), that on and after August 1, 1929, dressed poultry offered for entry into the United States from any region in which foot-and-mouth disease or rinderpest exists shall be unpacked or removed from storage at the port of entry and may thereupon be allowed entry

(a) If the feet of such poultry have already been removed at a point above the spur or spur core; or

(b) Upon such removal of the feet and their destruction or disinfection as directed by the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, such removal and destruction or disinfection to be accomplished by the importer or his agent at his own expense.

This order, for the purpose of identification, is designated as B. A. I. Order 318. Done at Washington this 9th day of May, 1929.

Witness my hand and the seal of the Department of Agriculture. [SEAL.]

ARTHUR M. HYDE,

Secretary of Agriculture.

(T. D. 43461)

Linseed or flaxseed oil

President's proclamation under section 315 (a), tariff act of 1922, increasing the rate of duty on linseed or flaxseed oil

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS,

Washington, D. C., June 29, 1929.

10 Collectors of Customs and Others Concerned:

There is published for your information and guidance the appended proclamation of the President issued under the provisions of section 315 (a) of the tariff act of 1922, increasing the rate of duty on linseed or flaxseed oil, raw, boiled, or oxidized, under paragraph 54 of the said act from 30 cents per pound to 30 cents per pound. This increase will be effective on and after July 25, 1929. (110520.)

FRANK DOW,

Acting Commissioner of Customs.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

Whereas in and by section 315 (a) of Title III of the act of Congress approved September 21, 1922, entitled "An act to provide revenue, to regulate commerce with foreign countries, to encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes," it is, among other things, provided that whenever the President, upon investigation of the differences in costs of production of articles wholly or in part the growth or product of the United States and of like or similar articles wholly or in part the growth or product of competing foreign countries, shall find

it thereby shown that the duties fixed in this act do not equalize the said differences in costs of production in the United States and the principal competing country he shall, by such investigation, ascertain said differences and determine and proclaim the changes in classifications or increases or decreases in rates of duty provided in said act shown by said ascertained differences in such costs of production necessary to equalize the same;

Whereas in and by section 315 (c) of said act it is further provided that in ascertaining the differences in costs of production, under the provisions of subdivisions (a) and (b) of said section, the President, in so far as he finds it practicable, shall take into consideration (1) the differences in conditions in production, including wages, costs of material, and other items in costs of production of such or similar articles in the United States and in competing foreign countries; (2) the differences in the wholesale selling prices of domestic and foreign articles in the principal markets of the United States; (3) advantages granted to a foreign producer by a foreign government, or by a person, partnership, corporation, or association in a foreign country; and (4) any other advantages or disadvantages in competition;

Whereas, under and by virtue of said section of said act, the United States Tariff Commission has made an investigation to assist the President in ascertaining the differences in costs of production of and of all other facts and conditions enumerated in said section with respect to the article described in paragraph 54 of Title I of said tariff act of 1922, namely, linseed or flaxseed oil, raw, boiled, or oxidized, being wholly or in part the growth or product of the United States, and of and with respect to a like or similar article wholly or in part the growth or product of competing foreign countries;

Whereas in the course of said investigation a hearing was held, of which reasonable public notice was given and at which parties interested were given reasonable opportunity to be present, to produce evidence, and to be heard;

And whereas the President, upon said investigation of said differences in costs of production of the said article wholly or in part the growth or product of the United States and of the like or similar article wholly or in part the growth or product of competing foreign countries, has thereby found that the principal competing country is the Netherlands and that the duty fixed in said title and act does not equalize the differences in costs of production in the United States and in said principal competing country, namely, Netherlands, and has ascertained and determined the increased rate of duty necessary to equalize the same:

Now, therefore, I, Herbert Hoover, President of the United States of America, do hereby determine and proclaim that the increase in the rate of duty provided in said act shown by said ascertained differences in said costs of production necessary to equalize the same is as follows:

An increase in said duty on linseed or flaxseed oil, raw, boiled, or oxidized, from 30 cents per pound to 30 cents per pound.

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 25th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-third.

[SEAL.]

By the President:

HERBERT HOOVER.

HENRY L. STIMSON, Secretary of State.