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[75 Stat. 1037]
PUBLIC LAW 87-000—MMMM. DD, 1961
[75 Stat. 1037]

75 STAT.]

PROCLAMATION 3398—MAR. 8, 1961

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I also invite the Governors of the States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and other areas subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to join in this observance in an effort to make this year the safest in the history of recreational boating. 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 fourth day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and [SEAL] sixty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eightyfifth. JOHN P. KENNEDY

By the President: DEAN RUSK,

Secretary of State. CENTENNIAL OF THE UNIFICATION OF ITALY By the President of the United States ' of America A Proclamation

March 8 i96i [No. 3398]

WHEREAS the centennial of the unification of Italy, which occurs in 1961, commemorates a great event in the history of nations; and WHEREAS, in observance of the centennial, there will be many celebrations in Italy, in the United States, and in many other countries as events of a century ago are relived; and WHEREAS we in America are confident that the people of Italy, in the celebrations reenacting the events and experiences associated with their struggle for unification a century ago, will find renewed strength to further their vital contributions to the cause of freedom; and WHEREAS it is the sense of the Congress, expressed by House Concurrent Resolution 225, agreed to July 2, 1960, ^ Stat. B9. 4 that the President extend official greet-