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PROCLAMATION 4077-AUG. 30, 1971 Rates of duty 1

949.00

949. 02

Knives and forks: With handles not containing nickel and not containing over 10 percent by weight of manganese (items 650.08 and 650.38). With handles containing nickel or containing over 10 percent by weight of manganese (items 650.10 and 650.40).

949. 08

Ijf each + 12.5% ad val.

No change.

1^ e a c h + 17.5% ad val.

No change.

17% ad val. No change.

949. 04 949. 06

2

Effective period

Other: Knives and forks (item 650.08, 650.10, 650.38 and 650.40).

No change. 2i each + 4 5 % ad val. 4 0 % ad val. No change.

PROCLAMATION 4077

Citizenship Day and Constitution Week, 1971 By the President of the United States of America

August 30, 1971

A Proclamation The Constitution of the United States, as Woodrow Wilson observed early in this century, "is not a mere lawyers' document: it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age." To each new generation of American citizens, this lesson comes afresh. To the young of today, it has come dramatically this year with the passage of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, granting full voting rights to those between 18 and 21 years of age.

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As citizens of all ages join in welcoming these young people into the electorate, we can also unite with them in recognizing that our Constitution does have a special relevance for every age. Enduring and timeless, yet it is vital and Hfe-giving, affirming as no other written document can that the ideals upon which men acted in the early days of our Republic are as essential now as they were then. In commemoration of the signing of the Constitution on Septem- ^^^^^^^ ^''^^' ber 17, 1787, and in recognition of all who had attained citizenship

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