Proclamation 3065—First International Instrument Congress and Exposition

Whereas the First International Instrument Congress and Exposition is to be held at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from September 13 to 25, 1954, inclusive, for the purpose of exhibiting various kinds of scientific instruments and devices and the promotion of foreign and domestic trade and commerce in such products; and

Whereas the Congress, by a joint resolution approved August 28, 1954, authorized the President of the United States of America, by proclamation or in such other manner as he may deem proper, to invite the States of the Union and foreign countries to participate in such International Congress and Exposition; and

Whereas the participation by the States of the Union and foreign countries in the First International Instrument Congress and Exposition will advance the arts and sciences connected with the theory, design, manufacture, and use of instruments in the various sciences and technologies, and further foreign and domestic commerce in these articles:

Now, Therefore, I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, do hereby invite the States of the Union and all countries of the free world to participate in the First International Instrument Congress to be held at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from September 13 to September 25, 1954, inclusive.

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

DONE at the City of Washington this twenty-eighth day of August in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-ninth.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

By the President:

WALTER B. SMITH,

Acting Secretary of State