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 PROCLAMATIONS-MAR. 21, 29, 1940 Commission to AND WHEREAS the said Public Resolution 58 creates a commis- g sion consisting of the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Patents, the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Patents, the Secretary of Commerce, the Commissioner of Patents, and five other members to be selected by them to make arrangements for an appropriate observance of the sesquicentennial of the first United States patent law, and provides that the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives shall conduct suitable exercises whereby Congress may mark the anniversary; and WHEREAS the said public resolution requests the President of the United States "to set aside April 10, 1940, as Inventors' and Patent Day to invite a general public commemoration of an event which has proved so important and salutary to this Nation"; April 110, deslg- NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- nated as Inventors' and Patent Day. dent of the United States of America, pursuant to the request con- tained in the aforesaid public resolution, do hereby designate April 10 of the present year as Inventors' and Patent Day and do hereby invite the people of the United States to commemorate on that day the sesquicentennial anniversary of the first of the United States patent laws, which, by afbfrding protection and encouragement to inventors as envisaged and authorized by the Constitution, contrib- uted so greatly to the encouragement of inventive genius in the United States. 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 21" day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fourth. By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT ENLARGING SCOTTS BLUFF NATIONAL MONUMENT-NEBRASKA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS by Proclamation No. 1547 of December 12, 1919 (41 Stat. 1779), lots 6 and 7, sec. 27, and lot 4, sec. 28, T. 22 N., R. 55 W., of the 6th P. M., bordering on the North Platte River, were reserved as part of the Scotts Bluff National Monument; and WHEREAS certain islands in the said river and south of the main channel thereof in front of these lands which formed subsequent to the original survey are considered as being appurtenant to the shore lands referred to and as forming a part of the said monument; and WHEREAS a certain public-land island adjacent to the said monu- ment is necessary for the proper care and administration thereof; and WHEREAS it appears that it would be in the public interest to reserve this island as an addition to the said Scotts Bluff National Monument: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 2 of the act of June 8, 1906, c. 3060, 34 Stat. 225 (U. S. C., title 16, sec. 431), do proclaim as follows: March 29,1940 [No. 2391] Preamble. 2690 [54 STAT.

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