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[CITE: 36USC124]

 
     TITLE 36--PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND 
                              ORGANIZATIONS
 
      Subtitle I--Patriotic and National Observances and Ceremonies
 
                   Part A--Observances and Ceremonies
 
              CHAPTER 1--PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES
 
Sec. 124. National Freedom Day

    The President may issue each year a proclamation designating 
February 1 as National Freedom Day to commemorate the signing by Abraham 
Lincoln on February 1, 1865, of the joint resolution adopted by the 
Senate and the House of Representatives that proposed the 13th amendment 
to the Constitution.
(Pub. L. 105-225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1259.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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124...................................  36:156.                          June 3
0, 1948, ch. 755, 62 Stat. 1150.
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