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FEDERAL
VOLUME 5

REGISTER
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1934

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NUMBER 30

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Washington, Tuesday February 13, 1940
The President S ix t e e n t h D e c e n n ia l C e n s u s BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, pursuant to the act of Congress approved June 18, 1929, 46
Stat. 21, the Sixteenth Decennial Census of the United States will be taken be ginning April first, nineteen hundred and forty; and WHEREAS this Census, which Will mark the one hundred and fiftieth anni versary of the first United States Census, is required by the Constitution of the United States to determine the appor tionment among the several States of seats in the House of Representatives;
and WHEREAS the information obtained from the Census inquiries this year must present a complete and current factual picture of the Nations people, homes, farms, factories, and other resources to measure the effects of the difficult dec ade now closing and to guide us intelli gently in the future:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do hereby declare and make known that, under the aforesaid act of Congress, it is the duty of every person over eighteen years of age to answer all questions on the Census schedules ap plying to him and the family to which he belongs, and to the farm or home occupied by him or his family, and all other Census schedules as required by law, and that any person refusing to do so is subject to penalty.
The sole purpose of the Census is to secure general statistical information regarding the population, business activ ities, and resources of the country, and replies are required from individuals only to enable the compilation of such general statistics. No person can be harmed in any way by furnishing the information required. The Census has nothing to do with taxation, with mili tary or jury service, with the compulsion
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of school attendance, with the regula tion of immigration, or with the enforce THE PRESIDENT
ment of any national, state, or local law, or ordinance. There need be no fear Executive orders:
that any disclosure will be made regard Alaska:
Page ing any individual person or his affairs.
Withdrawal of public lands For the due protection of the rights and for classification_______
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interests of the persons furnishing in Withdrawal of public lands formation, every employee of the Census for military purposes___
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Bureau is prohibited, under heavy pen Oklahoma, public land with alty, from disclosing any information drawal in aid of flood con which may thus come to his knowledge.
trol _____________________
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Life and liberty in a free democracy Proclamation:
entail a variety of cooperative actions Sixteenth Decennial Census___
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for the common good. The prompt, complete, and accurate answering of all RULES, REGULATIONS, official inquiries addressed to each person ORDERS
by Census officials should be regarded T
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by him as one of the requirements of Civil Aeronautics Authority:
good citizenship.
Amendment No. 40 relating to IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have education requirements hereunto set my hand and caused the for students, etc________
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seal of the United States of America T
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to be affixed.
Wage and Hour Division:
DONE at the City of Washington this Sheltered workshops, employ9th day of February in the year of our m e n t of handicapped Lord nineteen hundred and clients_________________
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se a l forty, and of the Independence of the United States of America NOTICES
the one hundred and sixty-fourth.
Department of the Interior:
F r a n k l in D R oo sevelt Bituminous Coal Division:
By the President:
Columbia Fire Brick Co., re C ordell H u l l newal of application for Secretary of State.
exemption required_____
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National Park Service:
No. 2385
Shenandoah National Park, F. R. D oc. 40-631; F iled , F ebruary 12, 1940;
Va., police jurisdiction__
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11:01 a. m .
Department of Labor:
Wage and Hour Division:
Apparel industry, minimum EXECUTIVE ORDER
wage hearing__________
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W it h d r a w a l o f P u b l ic L and i n A id o f Cigar manufacturing indus F lood C on t r o l try, minimum wage de OKLAHOMA
termination review_____
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Issuance of certificates for By virtue of and pursuant to the au employment of learners:
thority vested in me by the act of June Apparel industry 2 no 25, 1910, c. 421, 36 Stat. 847, as amended tices _____________ 658, 659
by the act of August 24, 1912, c. 369, Textile industry__________
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37 Stat. 497, it is ordered as follows:
Railroad carrier industry, des Sec. 1. Executive Order No. 6964 of ignation of vice-chair February 5, 1935, as amended, tempo man ----------------. . . . . __
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rarily withdrawing all public lands in certain states for classification and other C on tin u ed o n n e x t p age 653