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Proclamation 1915—Convening the Senate in Special Session

July 03, 1930


By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

Whereas, public interests require that the Senate of the United States be convened at twelve o'clock on the seventh day of July next to receive such communications as may be made by the Executive and in particular to consider and determine whether the advice and consent of the Senate shall be given to the ratification of a treaty for the limitation and reduction of naval armament, signed at London on April 22, 1930, by the plenipotentiaries of the President of the United States of America, the President of the French Republic, His Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions Beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, His Majesty the King of Italy, and His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, transmitted to the Senate on May 1, 1930;

Now, Therefore, I, Herbert Hoover, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and declare that an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene at the Capitol, in the City of Washington, on the seventh day of July next, at twelve o'clock noon, of which all persons who shall at that time be entitled to act as members of that body are hereby required to take notice.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the great seal of the United States.

Done at the City of Washington, this 3d day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fifty-fourth.

Signature of Herbert Hoover

HERBERT HOOVER

By the President:

Wilbur J. Carr

Acting Secretary of State

Herbert Hoover, Proclamation 1915—Convening the Senate in Special Session Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/210977

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