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Proclamation—Extra Session of Congress, 1921

March 22, 1921

By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation

Whereas public interests require that the Congress of the United States should be convened in extra session at twelve o'clock, noon, on the eleventh day of April, 1921, to receive such communication as may be made by the Executive;

Now, Therefore, I, Warren G. Harding, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and declare that an extraordinary occasion requires the Congress of the United States to convene in extra session at the Capitol in the District of Columbia on the eleventh day of April, 1921, at twelve o'clock, noon, of which all persons who shall at that time be entitled to act as members thereof are Hereby required to take notice.

Given under my hand and the seal of the United States in the District of Columbia the 22nd day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, and of the Independenco of the United States the one hundred and forty-fifth.


WARREN G. HARDING

By the President:
CHARLES E. HUGHES, Secretary of State.

Warren G. Harding, Proclamation—Extra Session of Congress, 1921 Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/329222

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