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PROCLAMATIONS—NOV. 20, 1952
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grant and transfer to the said City of Eastport, Maine, for public use the said Lot 14, containing 1.03 acres, as shown on the map of the said Fort SulUvan, in Eastport, Maine, surveyed by A. W. Barber, detailed clerk of the General Land Office, in November 1900, a copy of which map is recorded in the Washington County, Maine, Registry of Deeds; excepting and reserving therefrom the following-described tract of land for the use of the United States Weather Bureau, Department of Commerce, in the operation and maintenance of a stormwarning tower, together with the right of access thereto over the existing road and sidewalk: From corner No. 7, Lot 14 on east line of High Street, S. 83>^E. 120 feet to center of City Stand Pipe; thence S. 57>^E. 65 feet to N. E. corner of 30-ft. square Weather Bureau Warning Tower tract; thence from point of beginning, on boundries of said tract, south 30 feet; west 30 feet; north 30 feet; east 30 feet to N. E. corner of Warning Tower tract, containing 900 square feet.
I N WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set m y hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. D O N E a t the City of Washington this 15th day of November in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-two, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-seventh. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: DAVID BRUCE
Acting Secretary of State
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ENLARGING THE H O V E N W E E P NATIONAL MONUMENT COLORADO AND UTAH BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES O F AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
November 20, 1952 [No. 2998]
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WHEREAS Proclamation No. 1654 of March 2, 1923, established the Hovenweep National Monument on certain public lands in southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah for the purpose of preserving four groups of ruins, including structures of the finest prehistoric masonry found in the United States, and Proclamation No. 2924 of April 26, 1951, added to the monument certain other public lands in southwestern Colorado containing other significant ruins; and WHEREAS other public lands, contiguous to a portion of the lands now comprising the said monument, have been found to contain very important archeological sites, including small pueblos and an exceptional and significant great kiva (a large circular semi-subterranean ceremonial room), the inside and overall diameters of which are approximately 60 and 100 feet, respectively, which kiva has never been excavated by archeologists or vandalized by unauthorized digging; and
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