August 9, 1916.
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By the President of the United States of America.
A PROCLAMATION
Capulin Mountain National Monument, N. Mex.
Preamble.
WHEREAS, Capulin Mountain, located in Townships twenty-nine
and thirty North, Range twenty-eight East of the New Mexico
Principal Meridian, New Mexico, is a striking example of recent
extinct volcanoes and is of great scientific and especially geologic
interest,
National Monument, New Mexico.
Vol. 34, p. 225.
Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United
States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by Section 2
of the Act of Congress entitled, "An Act for the Preservation of
American Antiquities", approved June 8, 1906 (34 Stat., 225), do
proclaim that, subject to prior, valid, adverse claims, there are
hereby reserved from all forms of appropriation under the public land
laws, and set apart as the Capulin Mountain National Monument, all
the tracts of land shown upon the diagram hereto attached and made
a part hereof, and more particularly described as follows,Description to wit: Lots
two, three and four, the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter,
the south half of the northwest quarter, the north half of the southwest quarter of section four; lots one and two, the south half of the
northeast quarter and the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter
of Section five, township twenty-nine north, range twenty-eight; the
southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section thirty-two; the
southwest quarter of the southeast quarter, and the south half of the
southwest quarter of section thirty-three, township thirty north,
range twenty-eight, all east of the New Mexico Principal Meridian,
New Mexico.
Reserved from settlement, etc. Warning is hereby given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure, remove or destroy any features of this Monument, or to locate or settle upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation.
IN WITNESS 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 ninth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL.] sixteen, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty first.
By the President:
- Robert Lansing
- Secretary of State.
August 19, 1916.
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By the President of the United States of America.
A PROCLAMATION
P"§,§$§,§,{°“ °‘ "*’**'°‘ WHEREAS, an Act of Congress approved March fourth, nineteen mgresmble. hundred and thirteen, entitled "An Act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen" (37 Stat., 847), contains provisions _ _ as follows:
u§,°,;‘§‘f,‘§§i3*° **°‘ °’ All wild geese, wild swans, brant, wild ducks, snipe, plover, woodver. 27, p. sw. cock, ra1l,wild pigeons, and all other migratory game and insectivorous birds which in their northern an sout ern migrations pass through or do not remain permanently the entire year within the borders of any State or Territory, shag hereafter be deemed to be within the custody and protection of the Government of the United States, and shall not be destroyed or taken contrary to regulations
hereinafter provided therefor.