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REGISTER

FEDERAL
VOLUME 6

1934

y

NUM BER 233

W ashington, Tuesday, D ecem ber 2, 1941
T h e P r e s id e n t
B il l of R ig h t s D a y BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA

A PROCLAM ATION
WHEREAS a Joint Resolution o f the Congress, approved August 21, 1941, au thorizes and requests the President of the United States to issue a proclamation designating December 15, 1941 as Bill of Rights Day, calling upon officials of the Government to display the flag of the United States on all Government build ings on that day, and inviting the people of the United States to observe the day with appropriate c e r e m o n i e s and prayer :
NOW, THEREFORE, I, F R A N K L IN
D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate December 15,1941 as Bill of Rights Day.
And I call upon the officials o f the Gov ernment, and upon the people of the United States, to observe the day by dis playing the flag of the United States on public buildings and by meeting together for such prayers and such ceremonies as may seem to them appropriate.
The first ten amendments, the great American charter of personal liberty and human dignity, became a part of the Constitution of the United States on the 15th day of December 1791.
It is fitting that the anniversary of its adoption should be remembered by the nation which, for one hundred and fifty years, has enjoyed the immeasurable privileges which that charter guaran teed: the privileges of freedom of re ligion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly and the free right to petition the government for redress of grievances.
It is especially fitting that this anni versary should be remembered and ob served by those institutions of a demo cratic people which owe their very exist ence to the guarantees of the Bill of Rights: the free schools, the free churches, the labor unions, the religious and educational and civic organizations
of all kinds which, without the guaran tee of the Bill of Rights, could never have existed; which sicken and disappear whenever, in any country, these rights are curtailed or withdrawn.
Th e 15th day of December, 1941, is therefore set apart as a day of mobiliza tion for freedom and for human rights, a day of remembrance of the democratic and peaceful action by which these rights were gained, a day of reassessment of their present meaning and their living worth.
Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them. They come in time to take these rights for granted and to assume their protection is assured.
We, however, who have seen these privi leges lost in other continents and other countries can now appreciate their mean ing to those people who enjoyed them once and now no longer can. W e under stand in some measure what their loss can mean. And by that realization we have come to a clearer conception of their worth to us, and to a stronger and more unalterable determination that here in our land they shall not be lost or weakened or curtailed.
It is to give public expression and out ward form to that understanding and that determination that we are about to commemorate the adoption o f the Bill of Rights and rededicate its principles and its practice.
IN W ITN E SS W HEREOF, I have here unto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.
DONE at the City of Washington this twenty-seventh day of November in the year o f our Lord nineteen hun seal dred and forty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-sixth.
F r a n k l in D R o o sevelt By the President:
C o r dell H u l l ,
Secretary of State.
No. 25241
F. R. Doc. 41-8983; Filed, November 29, 1941;
10:58 a. m.

CONTENTS
TH E PR E SID E N T
Proclamation:
B ill of Rights Day, designation of December 15, 1941-------Executive Orders:
Emergency replacement list, ap pointees authorized to ac quire a classified status----Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbor Naval Defensive Sea Area, Calif., establishment-------Nevada, lands withdrawn for use o f W ar Department as m a chine gun ranges-------- -----

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RULES, REG ULATIO NS, ORDERS
T itle 8 A l ie n s
and
N a t io n a l it y :

Immigration and Naturalization Service:
Aliens exempted from obtain ing permits to depart, amendments-----------------

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T itle 16 C ommercial P ractices :

Federal Trade Commission:
Cease and desist orders:
Segal Optical Co-------------Wilson, A. W., Co__________
Winarick, Ar., Inc., et al----T itle 17 C o m m o dity ties E xchanges :

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Securities and Exchange Com mission:
Employees securities com panies, exemption pend ing determination of application__________________
T itle 18 C onservation
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P ower:

Federal Power Commission:
Form of initial cost statement for certain low-cost proj ects ______________________
Natural Gas Companies, form for annual report--------T itle 22 F oreign R e la tio ns :
Department of State:
Aliens exempted from obtaining permits to depart, amendments----------------Continued on next page
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