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86TH CONGRESS
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
REPORT
1st Session
No. 38
DESIGN OF UNITED STATES FLAG
FEBRUARY 18, 1959.-Referred - to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed
Mr. WILLIS, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the
following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 75]
The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the bill
(H.R. 75) providing for the design of the flag of the United States,
having considered the same, report favorably thereon without amend-
ment and recommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of this bill is to clarify the law and procedure relating
to the design and dimensions of the U.S. flag. This bill is identical to
H.R. 13552 (85th Cong.) and similar to H.R. 13522 (85th Cong.),
sponsored by the then Delegate and now Senator from Alaska, Mr.
Bartlett.
It has three underlying purposes: (1) To eliminate a possible am-
biguity in the present law, which expressly provides that there "shall
be 48 stars" in the union of the flag; (2) give statutory recognition to
the recent action of President Eisenhower in Executive Order 10798,
January 3, 1959, proclaiming the design of the new flag reflecting the
admission of Alaska, and (3) its provisions are so drawn that it will
require no change if and when new States are admitted into the Union.
HISTORY OF LEGISLATION
This legislation passed the House on the Consent Calendar in the
2d session of the 85th Congress. It was referred to the Senate
Judiciary Committee, but it was then late in the session and that
committee took no action in the matter.
36766-59
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