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On the recordJanuary 4, 1962
I request the Department of the Interior to plan and participate in appropriate commemorative activities recognizing the centennial of the enactment of the Homestead Act and the sesquicentennial of the establishment of the General Land Office.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Proclamation 3444—Homestead Centennial Year

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