Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 46 Part 2.djvu/1373

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page needs to be proofread.

PROCLAMATIONS. By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Ma.rch 7, 1929. A PROCLA11ATION. WdEREAS public interests require that the C('ngress of the United Preamble. States should be convened in extra session at twelve o'clock, noon, on the fifteenth day of April, 1929, to receive such communication as may be made by the Executive; AND WHEREAS legislation to effect further agricultural relief and legislation for limited changes of the tariff can not in justice to our farmers, our labor and our manufacturers be postponed; Now, Therefore, I, Herbert Hoover, President of the UDited States siO~o~n~~t~:u of America, do hereby proclaim and declare that an extraordinary 15,1929. ' occasion requires the Congress of the United States to convene in extra session at the Capitol in the City of Washington on the fifteenth day of April, 1929, at twelve o'clock, noon, of which all persons who shall at that time be entitled to act as members thereof are hereby required to take notice. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affi~ed the great seal of the United States. Done at the City of Washington this seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and [SEAL] Twenty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States the One Hundred and Fifty-third. By the President: FRANK B KELLOGG Secretary of State. HERBERT HOOVER By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION March 8, 1929. WHEREAS, Section 91 of the Act of Congress approved April 30, Hawaii. 1900, entitled" An act to provide a government for the Territory of Preamble. Hawaii" (31 Stat. 141 -159), as amended by Section 7 of the Act Vol. 31 , p.I59. approved May ?-7, 1910, (36 Stat. 443-447), authorizes the transfer Vol. 36 ,p.447. to the Territory of Hawaii by direction of the President of the United States of the title to such public property ceded and transferred to the United States by the Republic of Hawaii under the joint resolu- tion of annexation approved July 7, 1898, (30 Stat. 750), and in the Vol. so, p. 750. possession and use of said 'Ilerritory, for public purposes or required for any such purposes; and, WHEREAS certain lands of the United States described as follows are required for certain pnblic purposes by the Territory of Hawaii; NOW, THEREFORE, I, HERBERT HOOVER, President of the Title of designated United States of America, by virtue of the power vested in me by 18nd~ transferred to the Section 7 of the Act of Congress approved May 27, 1910 (36 Stat. T~~f.O~:p. 447. 2981