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Proclamation—Extra Session of Congress, 1922

November 09, 1922

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 twentieth day of November, 1922, 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 City of Washington on the twentieth day of November, 1922, at twelve o'clock, noon, of which all persons who shall at that time he entitled to act as members thereof are hereby required to take notice.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington this ninth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-seventh.


WARREN G. HARDING

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

Warren G. Harding, Proclamation—Extra Session of Congress, 1922 Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/329242

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