Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 36 Part 2.djvu/1061

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2504 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. We have lived in uietness, undisturbed by wars or the rumors of wars. Peace and the plenty of bounteous crops and of great industrial production animate a cheerful and reso ute people to all the renewed energies of beneficent industry and material and moral rogress. It is altogether fitting that we should humbly and grate- Full acknowledge the divine source of these blessings. l9g`9¤¤;S¤¤$;ht1l§>v§s%é 'léherefore I hereby appoint Thursday, the twenty-fifth day of day`0fé,ep1i’eralthanks· November, as a day of general thanksgiving, and I call upon the g"""g· people on that day, laying aside their usual vocations, to repair to their churches and unite in appropriate services of praise and thanks , to Almi hty God. · IN V§ITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this fifteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL.] nine and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-fourth. Wm H Turr By the President: P C KNox Secretary of State. Dcwm¤¤r10,1909- BY rim PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF Ammuca, ` A PROCLAMATION. Rgg;Sgvagg_¤·3gmB¤¤¤ _ WHEREAS, by Executive Order of June 22, 1892, certain lands Preamble., in Sections nine and sixteen, Townshi five South, Range eight V°‘·25· **961* East, Gila and Salt River Base and Mieridian in the Territory of Arizona, were withdrawn under the Act of Congress approved March 2, 1889, entitled, "An Act to make appro riations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal) year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and ninety, and for other purposes ’, and it appears that the land located in said Section nine does not contain any of said Ruin, and that the additional land in said Section sixteen contains a {part of said Ruin and should be reserved for the protection thereo ; Location conmed. Now, therefore, I, WILLIAM H. TAFT, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by said Act of March 2, 1889, do restore to the public domain the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter and th)e south half of the southwest quarter of said Section nine, and do hereby reserve from appropriation and use of all kinds under the public land laws, subject to any valid adverse claims, the north half, the north half of southwest quarter and the north half of the southeast quarter of said Section sixteen, as shown upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this proclamation. tlgnesxvzzlc from ser-‘ Vifarning is hereby_expressly given to all unauthorized persons not 9 ’ to excavate, appropriate, injure or destroy any of the ob'ects hereby reserved, nor to settle upon any of the lands contained within the boundaries of this reservation. IN WITNESS WVHIQREOF, I have hereunto set mv hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. M Done at the city of Vi/Yashington this 10th day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine, [snAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-fourth. Wm H T By the President: AFT P C Knox Secretary of State.