MALACAÑANG PALACE
Manila

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

Proclamation No. 515

PUBLISHING THE PROCLAMATION DATED DECEMBER 26, 1939, OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES REMOVING SUSPENSION OF THE OPERATION OF TITLE TWO OF THE SUGAR ACT OF 1937.

Whereas the President of the United States did, on the 26th day of December, 1939, issue the following proclamation:

"REMOVING SUSPENSION OF TITLE II OF THE SUGAR ACT OF 1937

"Whereas section 509 of the Sugar Act of 1937 provides, in part:

"‘Whenever the President finds and proclaims that a national economic or other emergency exists with respect to sugar or liquid sugar, he shall by proclamation suspend the operation of title II or III above, which he determines, on the basis of such findings, should be suspended, and, thereafter, the operation of any such title shall continue in suspense until the President finds and proclaims that the facts which occasioned such suspension no longer exist. * * *’; and

"Whereas, by proclamation issued September 11, 1939, I found and proclaimed that a national economic emergency existed with respect to sugar and suspended the operation of title II of that 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 foregoing provision of the Sugar Act of 1937, do hereby find and proclaim that the facts which occasioned such suspension no longer exist and do by this proclamation remove the suspension of the operation of title II of the Act with respect to the calendar year 1940.

"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 26th day of December in the year of Our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-nine and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fourth.

"FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

"By the President:

CORDELL HULL
Secretary of State"

Now, therefore, I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines do give publicity to said proclamation of the President of the United States for the information and guidance of all concerned.

Proclamation No. 453 issued by the President of the Philippines on September 19, 1939, publishing the proclamation dated September 11, 1939, of the President of the United States regarding the suspension of the operation of Title II of the Sugar Act of 1937, is hereby revoked.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Commonwealth of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done at the City of Manila, this first day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the fifth.

MANUEL L. QUEZON
President of the Philippines

By the President:

JORGE B. VARGAS
Secretary to the President


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