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Public Law 84–259
To authorize the issuance of commemorative medals to certain societies of which Benjamin Franklin was a member, founder, or sponsor in observance of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his birth.
Approved August 9, 1955
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the issuance of commemorative medals to certain societies of which Benjamin Franklin was a member, founder, or sponsor in observance of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his birth.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That, in commemoration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin occurring on January 17, 1956, and in connection with the observance and celebration of that event, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to have struck seventy-one bronze medals of an appropriate design and inscription and to provide for the presentation of twenty-one such medals to the following-named scientific, educational and welfare societies of which Benjamin Franklin was a member: The American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia), Philadelphia Society of the Sons of St, George, Accademia di Scienze, Lettre et Arti in Padors (formerly Reale Accademia), (Italy), L’Academie des Sciences, L’Institute de France (formerly Academie Royale), the Royal Society (England), Königliche Gesellschaft der Wissenschafter, Gottingen (Germany), the Royal Society of Arts (England), Bataafsch Genootschap der Proefondervindelijke Wijsbegeerte (Netherlands), The Academie de Medicine (France), The Medical Society of London, The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Boston), the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Real Academia de la Historia (Spain), Academie Nationale des Sciences, BelleLettres et Arts de Lyon (France), Real Accademia delle Science di Torino (Italy), the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society (England), the Societa Patrioca diretta all’avanzamento dell’Agricultura delle Arti e delle Manifatture, Milano (Italy), the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, the Society of Antiquaries of London, the Societe d’Agriculture, Sciences, Belle Lettres et Arts, Orleans (formerly Societie Royale) France, and The Library Company of Philadelphia, and for the presentation of fifty medals in cooperation with the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary committee of the Franklin Institute to other enterprises, institutions and societies founded or helped in their early development by Benjamin Franklin.
Sec. 2.
Such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes
Appropriation.
of this Act are hereby authorized to be appropriated.
Approved August 9, 1955.