Volume 49 · 1518
Public Law 74–557
Authorizing the President to invite foreign countries to participate in the San Francisco Bay Exposition in 1939 at San Francisco, California.
Approved June 15, 1936
Statutory text
JOINT RESOLUTION
Authorizing the President to invite foreign countries to participate in the San Francisco Bay Exposition in 1939 at San Francisco, California.
San Francisco Bay Exposition, 1939.
Preamble.
Whereas there is to be held at San Francisco, California, during the year 1939 an international exposition which has for its purpose the celebration of the completion of the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge, and which is designed to depict and exhibit the progress and accomplishments of the Pacific area of the United States in science, industry, business, transportation, and culture, and which, because of its world character, will contribute to cordial relations among the nations of the world; and
Whereas, because of its location and purpose, its scope and aims, said exposition is deserving of the support and encouragement of the Government of the United States of America: Therefore be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Revresentaiives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and respectfully requested by proclamation, or in such manner as he may deem proper, to invite foreign countries and nations to such proposed exposition with a request that they participate therein.
Approved, June 15, 1936.