Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 48 Part 2.djvu/427

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PROCLAMATIONS, 1933. handles, with blades 6 inches or more in length, from 8 cents each and 45 per centu~ ad valorem to 4 cents each and 22-~ per centum ad valorem. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this third day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-three! and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of Amenca the one hundred and fifty-seventh.. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary oj State. [No. 2044] MOTHER'S DAY BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION 1695 May 2.1933. WHEREAS by House Joint Resolution 263, approved and signed by wr:~,~~aY.l933. President Wilson on May 8, 19141 the second Sunday in May of each Vol. 38 . p. 770. year has been designated as Motner's Day for the expression of our love and reverence for the mothers of our country; and WHEREAS Senate Resolution 16, adopted May 1, 1933, states that "there are throughout our land today an unprecedentedly large number of mothers and dependent children who, because of unem- ployment or loss of their bread earners, are lacking many of the neces- sities of life", and the President of the United States is therein authorized and requested to issue a proclamation calling these matters to the attention of our citizens on Mother's Day this year; N ow, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the da~b':l:;D{: r~8U: United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me, do Moiher's Day. ' hereby issue my proclamation calling upon our citizens to express on Mother's Day, Sunday, May 14, 1933, our love and reverence for motherhood: (a) By the customary display of the United States flag on all Government buildings, homes, and other suitable places; (b) By the usual tokens and messages of affection to our mothers i and (c) By doing all that we can through our churches, fraternal and welfare agencies, for the relief and welfare of mothers and children who may be in need of the necessities of life. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 24 dayof May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-three, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-seventh. By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary oj State. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT [No. 2045]