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PROCLAMATIONS—APR. 25, 1959

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I urge all boatmen, boating organizations, the boating industry, State and Federal agencies, and all other groups interested in boating to join in this observance of National Safe Boating Week; and I call upon them to exert greater effort during that week and throughout the boating season to keep boating safe and pleasant. I also invite the Governors of the States, the Territory of Hawaii, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the possessions of the United States to provide for the observance of this Week to encourage nationwide interest in safe boating practices. I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. D O N E at the City of Washington this 24th day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-nine, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-third. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: CHRISTIAN A. H E R T E R,

Secretary oj State.

CITIZENSHIP D A Y AND CONSTITUTION W E E K,

1959

BY THE P R E S I D E N T OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

April 25, 1959 INO. 3288] [No.?"-'

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS our freedom as individuals and our growth as a Nation have their beginnings in the Constitution of the United States, signed at Philadelphia on September 17, 1787, the principles of which have been sustained and defended, in peace and in war, by generations of dedicated citizens; and WHEREAS it is fitting that all citizens, both native-born and naturalized, observe the birthday of the Constitution and reaffirm their determination to keep faith with the Founding Fathers by giving life and meaning to the ideals of the Constitution; and WHEREAS by a joint resolution approved February 29, 1952 (66 Stat. 9), the Congress designated the seventeenth day of September ^ ^^^ ^^• of each year as Citizenship Day in commemoration of the signing of the Constitution and in recognition of those citizens who have come of age and those who have been naturalized during the year; and WHEREAS by a joint resolution approved August 2, 1956 (70 Stat. 932), the Congress requested the President to designate the 36 USC 159. week beginning September 17 of each year as Constitution Week, a time for study and observance of the acts which resulted in the formation of the Constitution; and WHEREAS the aforesaid resolutions of the Congress authorize the President to issue annually a proclamation calling for the observance of Citizenship D a y and Constitution Week: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, call upon the appropriate officials of the Government to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on Citizenship Day, September 17, 1959; and I urge Federal, State, and local officials, as well as all religious, civic, educational, and other organizations, to plan appropriate ceremonies on Citizenship D a y to develop a better understanding of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.

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