Proclamation 2732—Revocation of Proclamation No. 2412, Relating to the Control of Vessels in Territorial Waters of the United States

Whereas by Proclamation No. 2412, issued June 27, 1940, the President consented to the exercise, with respect to foreign and domestic vessels, by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Governor of the Panama Canal of all the powers conferred by section 1 of Title II of the act of Congress approved June 15, 1917, 40 Stat. 220 (50 U.S.C. 191), upon the President, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Governor of the Panama Canal; and

Whereas the conditions which necessitated the issuance of the proclamation no longer exist;

Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority conferred upon me by the said act of June 15, 1917, do hereby revoke the said Proclamation No. 2412 of June 27, 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 31st day of May in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-first.

HARRY S. TRUMAN

By the President:

G.C. MARSHALL,

Secretary of State.