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PROCLAMATIONS—SEPT. 14, 1959

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WHEREAS certain provisions of each of the aforesaid proclamations refer to or applied to or within the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii; and WHEREAS the State of Alaska was admitted into the Union on January 3, 1959, and the State of Hawaii was likewise admitted on August 21, 1959: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes, including the Universal Military Training and Service Act, as amended, do proclaim that all of the provisions of the aforesaid proclamations which refer to or applied to or within the Territory of Alaska or the Territory of Hawaii shall, on and after January 3, 1959, the date Alaska was admitted to the Union as a State, and on and after August 21, 1959, the date Hawaii was likewise admitted, refer to or apply to or within the State of Alaska and the State of Hawaii, respectively. 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 fourteenth day of September in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-nine, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-fourth. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: CHRISTIAN A.

HERTER,

Secretary of State.

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