Proclamation 2335—National Flood Prevention Week

By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation

Whereas Public Resolution No. 129, 75th Congress, approved June 29, 1938 (52 Stat. 1248), provides:

"That the Honorable Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, be, and he is hereby requested to proclaim the week of May 31, 1939, National Flood Prevention Week in the United States of America, and to ask the cooperation interest, and aid of all the people in the work of flood prevention";

Now, Therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week beginning May 31, 1939, as National Flood Prevention Week, and do call upon the people of the United States to cooperate and aid in the work of flood prevention and to give serious consideration to such measures as may prevent disastrous floods and aid in the Conservation of our national resources.

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 4" day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-third.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:
CORDELL HULL
Secretary of State.