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PROCLAMATION 4383—AUG. 26, 1975 (a) By deleting from the superior heading immediately preceding item 945.01 the following: (i) "the cattle, the swine," (ii) ", or the pork" (iii) "cattle, swine," (iv) "or pork, respectively," (b) By deleting items 945.01, 945.02, and 945.04. 3) This Proclamation is effective with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption after 12:01 a.m., EDT, August?, 1975. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this fifth day of August, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and seventyfive, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two-hundredth. GERALD R. FORD

Proclamation 4383

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August 26, 1975

Women's Equality Day, 1975

By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation In October 1971 and March 1972, the House of Representatives and the Senate of the United States adopted a proposed amendment to our Constitution providing equal rights for men and women. By August 26, 1972, twenty States had ratified the proposed constitutional amendment, only eighteen more were needed for the proposed amendment to become part of our Constitution.

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August 26 is a significant date because it was on that day in 1920 that ^^^ Nineteenth Amendment, prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex with regard to voting, was certified as part of our Constitution after ratification by the necessary three-fourths of the States. Recognizing that the proposed Equal Rights Amendment is the logical and rightful extension of the Nineteenth Amendment to rights other than voting, the President has, since 1972, annually set aside the 26th of August in recognition

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