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FEDERAL
VOLUME 5

REGISTER
1934
A fJ T E O

NUMBER 58

Washington, Saturday, March 23, 1940
The President I nventors and P atent D ay BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS the preamble to Public Resolution 58, Seventy-sixth Congress, approved March 15, 1940, recites:
Whereas there will occur on April 10, 1940, the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of President George Wash ingtons approval of the first of Act of Congress authorizing and regulating the grant of patents as contemplated in ar ticle I, section 8, of the Constitution;
and Whereas the encouragement and the protection thus afforded to discoverers and inventors have both inspired and rewarded their genius to the benefit of this Nation and the whole world; and Whereas the American patent sys tem inaugurated by this Act of Congress has promoted countless appli cations of the arts and sciences to the needs and well-being of our people and thereby contributed notably to a higher standard of living in our country; and Whereas it is fitting that the an niversary of the institution of a system so beneficial to the people of the United States should be worthily observed;
AND WHEREAS the said Public Reso lution 58 creates a commission consist ing of the Chairman of the Senate Com mittee on Patents, the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Patents, the Secretary of Commerce, the Commissioner of Patents, and five other members to be selected by them to make arrangements for an appropriate observ ance of the sesquicentennial of the first United States patent law, and provides that the Senate and House of Repre sentatives shall conduct suitable exer cises whereby Congress may mark the anniversary; and WHEREAS the said public resolution requests the President of the United States to set aside April 10, 1940, as Inventors and Patent Day to invite a
general public commemoration of an event which has proved so important and salutary to this Nation;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D.
ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, pursuant to the re quest contained in the aforesaid public resolution, do hereby designate April 10
of the present year as Inventors and Patent Day and do hereby invite the peo ple of the United States to commemorate on that day the sesquicentennial anni versary of the first of the United States patent laws, which, by affording protec tion and encouragement to inventors as envisaged and authorized by the Con stitution, contributed so greatly to the encouragement of inventive genius in the United States.
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 21 day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and seal forty, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fourth.
F ranklin D R oosevelt By the President:

CONTENTS
THE PRESIDENT
Proclamation:
Page Inventors and Patent Day____ 1137
RULES, REGULATIONS, ORDERS
T itle 7Agriculture :

Division of Marketing and Mar keting Agreements:
Watermelons grown in Flor ida, Georgia, North Caro lina, South C a r o l i n a , h a n d l i n g regulations amended____ __________
T itle 9Animals P roducts:

and
Agricultural Marketing Service:
Bozeman Livestock Commis sion Co., notice under Packers and Stockyards A c t___________________
T itle 21F ood and D rugs:
Food and Drug Administration:
Coal-tar color regulations___
T itle 33N avigation and N avi gable
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W aters:

Coast Guard, Department of the Treasury:
Whaling regulations________

NOTICES
Department of Agriculture:
Sugar Division:
Hawaii, 1940 sugarcane crop, P. R. Doc. 40-1198; Piled, March 22, 1940;
hearing on wage rates and 11:25 a. m.
prices_________________
Department of the Interior:
Bituminous Coal Division:
Rules, Regulations, Orders Freeport Brick Co., exemption renewal granted________
TITLE 7AGRICULTURE
Railroad Retirement Board:
Time lost claims, postponement CHAPTER LXDIVISION OF MAR
of hearing_______________
KETING AND MARKETING AGREE
MENTS

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Secretary of State.
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O rder of the S ecretary of A griculture S uspending the P rovisions of A rticle m of the O rder R egulating the H andling of W atermelons G rown in F lorida, G eorgia, N orth Carolina, and S outh C arolina
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as amended and as reenacted and amended by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, as amended hereinafter referred to as the act, and the provisions of the order regulating the handling of watermelons grown in Pursuant to the provisions of Public Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Act No. 10, 73d Congress May 12, 1933, South Carolina, issued by the Secretary 1137