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Thanksgiving Day, 1952. 55 Stat. 862. 6 USC 87b.

PROCLAMATIONS—NOV. 15, 1952

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enjoy without fear. This year it is especially fitting that we offer a prayer of gratitude for the spirit of unity which binds together all parts of our country and makes us one Nation indivisible. NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, conforming to our hallowed custom, and in consonance with the joint resolution of Congress approved on December 26, 1941, do hereby call upon all our people to celebrate Thursday, November 27, 1952, as Thanksgiving Day. On that day let us, with a full awareness of our privileges and a deepening sense of the obligations which they entail, each in his own way, but together as a whole people, give due expression to our thanks, and let us humbly endeavor to follow the paths of righteousness in obedience to the will of Almighty God. 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 eighth day of November in ? the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-two, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-seventh. HARRY S TRUMAN . By the President: • DAVID

,;

BRUCE

Acting Secretary of State

GRANTING CERTAIN LAND TO THE C I T Y OF EASTPORT, M A I N E, FOR November 15, 1952 (No. 2997]

PUBLIC U S E BY THE P R E S I D E N T OF THE

Eastport, Maine. Granting of land for public use.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS certain lands in the municipality of Eastport, Maine, were acquired at various times by the War Department for use as a military reservation known as Fort Sullivan; and WHEREAS the said lands, being no longer needed for military purposes, were placed under the control of the Secretary of the Interior, by a proclamation of the President dated July 22, 1884, for disposition in accordance with the provisions of the act of July 5, 1884, 23 Stat. 103 (43 U.S.C. 1071-1074); and WHEREAS a portion of the said lands designated as Lot 14 was reserved from such disposition by the Secretary of the Interior because the municipality of Eastport had erected thereon a water-stand pipe; and WHEREAS the said municipality of Eastport is now the City of Eastport, Maine, a municipal corporation, which has requested that the said Lot 14 be transferred to it for public use; and WHEREAS it appears that such a transfer would be in the public interest: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the act of March 3, 1893, 27 Stat. 572, 593 (43 U.S.C. 1076), do hereby

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