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I also invite the Governors of the States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa, and the Commissioner of the District of Columbia to provide for the observance of this week.

Context

Proclamation 4185—National Safe Boating Week, 1973

01/28/1973

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