2286 PROCLAMATIONS, mz.
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A PROCLAMATION _F¤¤*1 GYM N¤- WHEREAS there are located in section thirt -live townshi °6T¤.°l M°°°°`°°t' s‘ seven south, range three east of the Black Hills lderidian, South
- """““‘* Dakota, rich Mesozoic deposits of fossil cycads and other characteristic examples of paleobotany, which are of great sc1ent1£c interest
and value· and WHEREAS it ap ars that the public interest would be promoted by reserving these ggposits as a national monument, together with as much land as ma be needed for the protection thereof ;_ S,§§_,ti"§‘?’.,,§,,“,§‘{“""‘°“'* NOW, THEREFOIRE, I, WARREN G. HARDING, President of W- 3*- l>·225· the United States of America, by authority of the Kwer in me vested by section two of the act of Congress entitled, “Act for the preservation of American antiquities,” approved Jnme eEh!th, nineteen hundred and six (34 Stat., 225) do proclaim that the is hereby reserved and set apart as a national monument to be known as the Fossil Cycad National Monument all that Igece or parcel of land in the County of Fall River, State of South akota, shown upon the _ diagram hereto annexed and made a part hereof, and more particu- D°°"”P“°'*· larly described as follows: southwest quarter of the northeast quarter, southeast quarter, east half of the southwest quarter and southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section thirt -five, township seven south, range three east of the Black Hills Miiridian. `
Waming is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not
to appropriate, injure, estroy or remove any of the fossils of this monument and not to locate or settle upon any of the lands thereof.
‘}“·§§‘{,;,Q,§, '1`he Director of the National Park Service, under the direction of
Pvk S¤¤*r1<=¤· the Secretary of the Interior, shall have the supervision, management, and control of this monument as provided in the act of Conv°*·“°· *’·‘35· gg-zlss entitled, "An Act tcgdeskiblish a Nationalgark Service and for o er purposes, ’ approv st twent t nineteen hundred and sixteen (39 Stat., 535) anldggcts additgiifal ithereto or amandatoiiy thereof, N WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be amxed. DONE the City of Washington this twenty—iirst da of October in the year of our Lord one thousand nine liundred and [snar.] twen ty-two and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and forty-seventh. _ WARREN G Haanmo By the Pres1dent: ' Crnuznns E. Hvorms Secretary of State
