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 54 STAT.] Sept. 28, 1939 PROCLAMATION S- t. , 1939 Oct. 4, 1939 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 28" day of September, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, [SEAL] 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. GENERAL PULASKI'S MEMORIAL DAY BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS we do honor to ourselves and our nation in honoring those sons of foreign nations who assisted in the establishment of the United States of America; and WHEREAS one of these whose names we hold in high esteem is Count Casimir Pulaski, who met death on October 11, 1779, in con- sequence of his exploits in the assault upon Savannah; and WHEREAS the Seventy-sixth Congress, by Public Resolution 29, approved on July 15, 1939, provided: "That the President of the United States of America is authorized to issue a proclamation calling upon officials of the Government to display the flag of the United States on all governmental build- ings on October 11, 1939, and inviting the people of the United States to observe the day in schools and churches, or other suitable places, with appropriate ceremonies in commemoration of the death of General Casimir Pulaski." NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do direct that the flag be displayed upon all Government buildings on October 11, 1939, as a mark of respect to the memory of General Casimir Pulaski, and do hereby invite the people of the United States to observe that day as General Pulaski's Memorial Day and to participate with appropriate cere- monies in schools and churches or other suitable places m the com- memoration of General Pulaski's death on October 11, one hundred and sixty years ago. 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 4" day of October, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and of [SEAL] 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. October 4, 1939 [No. 2368] Preamble. 53 Stat. 1045 . General Pulaski's Memorial Day. Observance of Octo- ber 11, 1939, as. 2663

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