Proclamation 3372—Immigration Quotas

Whereas under the provisions of section 202(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, each independent country, self-governing dominion, mandated territory, and territory under the international trusteeship system of the United Nations, other than independent countries of North, Central, and South America, is entitled to be treated as a separate quota area when approved by the Secretary of State; and

Whereas under the provisions of section 201(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Secretary of State. the Secretary of Commerce, and the Attorney General, jointly, are required to determine the annual quota of any quota area established pursuant to the provisions of section 201(a) of the said Act, and to report to the President the quota of each quota area so determined; and

Whereas under the provisions of section 202(e) of the said Act, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Attorney General, jointly, are required to revise the quotas, whenever necessary, to provide for any political changes requiring a change in the list of quota areas; and

Whereas the Republic of Cameroun came into existence on January 1, 1960, with the termination of the United Nations Trusteeship; and

Whereas the Republic of Togo was established on April 27, 1960, upon the termination of the United Nations Trusteeship; and

Whereas the Malagasy Republic, a former Autonomous Republic of the French Community, became independent on June 26. 1960; and

Whereas the Republic of the Congo, the former Belgian Congo, was granted independence by Belgium on June 30, 1960; and

Whereas the Somali Republic came into existence on July 1, 1960, by the union of the former Italian Trust Territory of Somaliland and the former British Somaliland; and

Whereas the Central African Republic, the Republic of Chad, the Republic of Congo (former Middle Congo), the Republic of Dahomey, the Gabon Republic, the Republic of Ivory Coast, the Republic of Niger, and the Republic of Upper Volta, previously Autonomous Republics within the French Community, were granted independence by France between August 1 and August 17, 1960; and

Whereas the Republic of Cyprus, the former British Crown Colony of Cyprus, was granted independence by the Government of the United Kingdom on August 16, 1960; and

Whereas the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Attorney General have jointly determined and reported to me the immigration quotas hereinafter set forth:

Now, Therefore, I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby proclaim and make known that the annual quotas of the quota areas hereinafter designated have been determined in accordance with the law to be, and shall be, as follows:

Quota area-----------------------------Quota

Cameroun----------------------------------100

Central African Republic------------------100

Chad--------------------------------------100

Congo-------------------------------------100

Congo, Republic of the--------------------100

Cyprus------------------------------------100

Dahomey-----------------------------------100

Gabon-------------------------------------100

Ivory Coast-------------------------------100

Malagasy Republic-------------------------100

Niger-------------------------------------100

Somali Republic---------------------------100

Togo--------------------------------------100

Upper Volta-------------------------------100

The establishment of an immigration quota for any quota area is solely for the purpose of compliance with the pertinent provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act and is not to be considered as having any significance extraneous to such purpose.

Proclamation No. 3298 of June 3, 1959, entitled "Immigration Quotas," is amended by the abolishment of the immigration quotas established for Cameroun (trust territory, France), Somaliland (trust territory, Italy), Togo (trust territory, France), and by the addition of the immigration quotas established by this proclamation.

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-third day of September in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-fifth.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

By the President:

DOUGLAS DILLON,

Acting Secretary of State.