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PROCLAMATION 3337—MAR. 15, 1960

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Lord nineteen hundred and I SEAL 1 sixty, and 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. EIGHTEENTH DECENNIAL CENSUS By the President of the United States

March 15, 1960

of America A Proclamation

WHEREAS, pursuant to section 2 of Article I of the Constitution of the United States and chapter 5 of title 13 of the United States Code, the Eighteenth use prec. Tuie 1. Decennial Census of the United States 13 USC 131-195. will be taken beginning April 1, 1960; and WHEREAS this Census, which will mark the one hundred and seventieth anniversary of the first United States Census, is required by the Constitution to determine the apportionment among the several States of members of the House of Representatives; and WHEREAS during the ten years since the Seventeenth Decennial Census was taken great changes have occurred in the growth, location, and characteristics of our people and in their housing and activities, and these changes have made it more essential than ever before that we have a current inventory of the Nation's people, homes, and other resources to guide us in the future: NOW, THEREFORE, I. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby declare and make known that under the law it is the duty of every person over eighteen years of age to answer. all questions in the census schedules applying to him and the family to which he belongs, and to the home occupied by him or his family, and that any person refusing to do so is subject to penalty as provided by law. The sole purpose of the Census is to Purpose.

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