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PROCLAMATIONS—JULY 14, 1956
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sidered as having any significance extraneous to such purpose. Proclamation No. 2980 of June 30, 1952 is amended accordingly. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the 'City of Washington this ninth day of July in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-six, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-first. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President:
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JOHN FOSTER DULLES,
Secretary of State. ESTABLISHING THE EDISON
LABORATORY N E W JERSEY
NATIONAL
MONUMENT—
BY THE P R E S I D E N T OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
July 14, 1956 [No. 3148]
A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Advisory Board on National Parks, Historic Sites, Buildings, and Monuments, recognizing the primary significance in our civilization and industry of the Edison Home (Glenmont) and Laboratory, West Orange, New Jersey, recommended that they be considered eligible for recognition as being the most suitable sites at which to commemorate the outstanding achievements of the great American inventor, Thomas Alva Edison; and WHEREAS the Edison Home (Glenmont) was designated as a national historic site by order of the Secretary of the Interior of December 6, 1955 (20 F. R. 9347), in furtherance of its preservation for the benefit and inspiration of the American people; and WHEREAS the Edison Laboratory, used by the great inventor for the last 44 years of his life and the scene of many of his celebrated inventions, has been generously donated to the American people for preservation as a national monument: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President Edi^^f ul^^'^nl of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority Establishment. vested in me by section 2 of the act of June 8, 1906, 34 Stat. 225 (16 U.S.C. 431), do proclaim and declare that the following-described land, with the improvements thereon, situated in the Town of West Orange, County of Essex, State of New Jersey, are hereby established as the Edison Laboratory National Monument, and shall be administered pursuant to the act of August 25, 1916, 39 Stat, 535 (16 U.S.C. 1-3), and acts supplementary thereto and amendatory thereof: B E G I N N I N G in the southeasterly line of Main Street, formerly known as Valley Road, a t a point formed by intersecting same with the northeasterly line of Lakeside Avenue; running thenc^ (1) along the southeasterly line of Main Street north thirty-seven degrees seventeen minutes thirty seconds (37°17'30") east fifty-four and three h u n d r e d t h s feet (54.03'); thence (2) still along the said line of Lakeside Avenue north forty-one degrees thirty-three minutes t h i r t y seconds (41°33'30") east t w o hundred seven and fifty-two h u n d r e d t h s feet (207.52'); thence (3) south forty-nine degrees thirty-two minutes +"^nty seconds (49°32'20") east one hundred fifty-six and ninety-one h u n d r e d t h s teet (156.91'); thence (4) south forty-one degrees twenty-two minutes (41°22') west sixty-two and seventy-five h u n d r e d t h s feet (62.75'); thence (5) south forty-eight degrees thirty-eight minutes (48°38') east one hundred thirty-six and ei^iity-three
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