Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 54 Part 2.djvu/1519

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PROCLAMATIONS-AUG. 26 , 27, 1940 the duty provided in the aforesaid act approved July 1, 1940, shall be imposed upon such imported red cedar shingles as are subject to duty under that act. 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 26" day of August in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fifth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. ENLARGING THE OZARK NATIONAL FOREST-ARKANSAS August 27, 1940 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA [No. 2422] A PROCLAMATION Preamble. WHEREAS certain lands in the State of Arkansas have been acquired or are in process of acquisition by the United States under authority of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, approved April 8, 1935 (49 Stat. 115), and Title III of the Bankhead- 7U. S.C. Supp. V , Jones Farm Tenant Act, approved July 22, 1937 (50 Stat. 522, 525), for use in connection with the Boston Mountain Land Utilization Project (LU-AK-6); and WHEREAS by Executive Order No. 7670 of July 19, 1937, the vacant, unappropriated, and unreserved public lands within the project boundaries were temporarily withdrawn from settlement, location, sale, or entry, and reserved for use and development by the Department of Agriculture in connection with the said project; and WHEREAS by reason of the transfer effected by Executive Order No. 7908 of June 9, 1938, the said project is now being administered pursuant to Title III of the above-mentioned Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act; and WHEREAS it appears that the said project lands are suitable for national-forest purposes and that it would be in the public interest to include them in and reserve them as a part of the Ozark National Forest, in Arkansas: Lands adder. NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the power vested in me by section 24 of the act of March 3, 1891, 26 Stat. 1095, 1103, as amended (U.S . C., title 16, sec. 471), the act of June 4, 1897, 30 Stat. 34, 36 (U. S. C ., title 16, sec. 473), and Title III of the said BankheadJones Farm Tenant Act, and upon recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture, do proclaim that the boundaries of the said Ozark National Forest are hereby extended to include the non-con- tiguous area shown on the diagram attached hereto and made a part hereof; that (1) all lands within the said boundaries which have been acquired by the United States under the provisions of the said Emer- gency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 and Title III of the said Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, and all unappropriated public lands within the said area, are hereby reserved as a part of the Ozark Admistraton o National Forest; and (2) that all lands within the said boundaries . which are in process of acquisition by the United States under author- ity of the said Emergency Relief Appropriation Act and Title III of 2736 [54 STAT.