Volume 73 · 363
Public Law 86–162
Authorizing and requesting the President of the United States to issue a proclamation calling for the flag of the United States to be flown at half-staff on the occasion of the death of the last surviving veteran of the War Between the States.
Approved August 18, 1959
Statutory text
JOINT RESOLUTION
Authorizing and requesting the President of the United States to issue a proclamation calling for the flag of the United States to be flown at half-staff on the occasion of the death of the last surviving veteran of the War Between the States.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the President of the United States is authorized and requested to issue, on the occasion of the death of the last surviving veteran of the War Between the States, a proclamation calling for the flag of the United States to be flown at half-staff, for such period of time as the President deems appropriate, in commemoration of the death of all veterans of the War Between the States.
Approved August 18, 1959.