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 88 STAT. ] CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS-MAY 16, 1974

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and consolidate certain functions of the Federal Government in a new Federal Energy Administration in order to promote more efficient management of such functions. If and when said bill is returned by the President, the action of the Presiding Officers of the two Houses in signing the bill shall be deemed rescinded; and the Clerk of the House is authorized and directed, in the re-enrollment of said bill, to make the following correction: In section 29 of the enrolled bill, strike out "$2,000,000'' and insert in lieu thereof "$200,000,000". Passed May 7, 1974.

TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST CONTINENTAL May le. 1974 CONGRESS-DAY OF NATIONAL OBSERVANCE [s. Con. Res. 85]_ Whereas the meeting at Carpenters' Hall in the City of Philadelphia in the Colony of Pennsylvania from September 5 to October 26, 1774, which has become known as the First Continental Congress, will have observed during 1974 its two hundredth anniversary; and Whereas the actions of that Congress in uniting, for the first time, the thirteen disparate American Colonies to seek redress of their many grievances against the Parliament and King of England, set in motion a series of events leading to the meeting of the Second Continental Congress which produced the Declaration of Independence and guided the new Nation through the American War for Independence; and Whereas the precedents set by the meeting of the first Congress in 1774 form the foundation upon which rests the principles and practices of the existing Congress of the United States of America; and Whereas October 14, 1774, was the date on which the delegates to the first Congress adopted the Declaration and Resolves, expressing to the King of England their rights as Englishmen and their determination to achieve those rights, and is therefore, in itself, an historic date; and Whereas on October 14, 1974, special ceremonies, sponsored by the City of Philadelphia, the National Park Service of the Department of the Interior and the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration, will be held at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to properly and appropriately observe for the Nation the two hundredth anniversary of the First Continental Congress; and Whereas the two hundredth anniversary of the First Continental Congress marks one of the first historic commemorative events of the American Revolution Bicentennial celebration: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate {the House of Representatives concurring)^ That it is the sense of Congress that October 14, 1974, be proclaimed a Day of National Observance for the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the First Continental Congress and that the people of our Nation be called upon to fittingly observe and honor this important date in our country's history. SEC. 2. That the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House be authorized to select, upon the recommendation of the respective majority and minority leaders, four Members of each House to represent the Congress of the United States of America at ceremonies in Carpenters' Hall, Philadelphia, on October 14, 1974, and to present at said ceremonies to a representative of the City of Philadelphia a copy of this resolution.

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