Volume 39 · 862
Public Law 64–8
Authorizing the Postmaster General to provide the postmaster of Springfield, Illinois, with a special canceling die for the one hundredth anniversary of the admission of the State of Illinois into the Federal Union.
Approved December 27, 1916
Statutory text
Joint Resolution
Authorizing the Postmaster General to provide the postmaster of Springfield, Illinois, with a special canceling die for the one hundredth anniversary of the admission of the State of Illinois into the Federal Union.
Whereas the city of Springfield, Illinois, is making extensive preparations to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the admission
Illinois Centennial.
Preamble.
of the State of Illinois into the Union, the celebration to begin on April eighteenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and to continue until December third, nineteen hundred and eighteen; and
Whereas the projected celebration in said city will include industrial and other exhibitions, pageants, athletic games, tournaments, parades, conventions, and many other interesting features that will attract visitors from all parts of the United States; and
Whereas the citizens’ committee, cooperating with the Illinois Centennial Commission, created by the Illinois General Assembly, are widely advertising the approaching events, with the result that a great increase of incoming and outgoing mail matter is anticipated at the Springfield post office; and
Whereas the size and importance of the city of Springfield, Illinois, and the extensive preparations being made by its citizens, cooperating with State organizations created for the purpose of celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the admission of Illinois into the Federal Union give to said celebration a national character and significance: Therefore be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Postmaster General of the United States be, and he hereby is, authorized to prepare and deliver to the postmaster of Springfield, Illinois, a special canceling die to be used in the cancellation of mail matter in the post office of that city from December first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to December third, nineteen hundred and eighteen, said die to be of such design as may be agreed upon by the Postmaster General and the Illinois Centennial Commission.
Approved, December 27, 1916.