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 394 Description. Warning against unauthorized acts. Supervision. 39 Stat. 535. 16U.S.C.§11,2. September 10, 1937 INo. 2251] Gold Star Mother's Day. Preamble. 49 Stat. 1895. 36 U. S. C., Supp. III, §§ 147, 148. PROCLAMATIONS, 1937 described lands in New York are hereby added to and made a part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument: All lands on Bedloe's Island, New York, not now a part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument, including all uplands and marginal submerged lands and such wharves, warehouses, and other lands as comprised Fort Wood prior to evacuation thereof as a military reservation. Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure, destroy, or remove any feature of this monument and not to locate or settle upon any of the lands thereof. The Director of the National Park Service, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, shall have the supervision, management, and control of this monument as enlarged hereby as provided in the act of Congress entitled "An Act To establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes," approved August 25, 1916 (ch. 408, 39 Stat. 535, U. S . C ., title 16, sees. 1 and 2), and acts supplementary thereto or amendatory thereof: 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 7 th day of September in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-seven and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-second. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL The Secretary of State. GOLD STAR MOTHER'S DAY BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the preamble to Public Resolution 123, 74th Congress, approved June 23, 1936, recites: "WHEREAS the service rendered the United States by the American mother is the greatest source of the country's strength and inspiration; and "WHEREAS we honor ourselves and the mothers of America when we revere and give emphasis to the home as the fountain- head of the state; and "WHEREAS the American mother is doing so much for the home and for the moral and spiritual uplift of the people of the United States and hence so much for good government and humanity; and "WHEREAS the American Gold Star Mothers suffered the supreme sacrifice of motherhood in the loss of their sons and daughters in the World War;" AND WHEREAS the said Public Resolution 123 provides: "That the President of the United States is hereby authorized and requested to issue a proclamation calling upon the Govern- ment officials to display the United States flag on all Government buildings, and the people of the United States to display the flag and to hold appropriate meetings at their homes, churches, or other suitable places, on the last Sunday in September, as a public expression of the love, sorrow, and reverence of the people of the United States for the American Gold Star Mothers.

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