Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 55 Part 2.djvu/737

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P1ROCLAMATIONS-FEB. 14 , 19, 1941 IN TESTIMONY 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 14th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-one, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fifth. By the President FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT CORDELL HULL Secretary of State ENLARGING THE SHASTA NATIONAL FOREST-CALIFORNIA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the hereinafter-described public lands have been found by the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to be chiefly valuable for national forest purposes; and WHEREAS such lands are within the limits of the areas described in the acts of February 20, 1925, c. 272, 43 Stat. 952, and June 22, 1938, c. 564, 52 Stat. 835 (U. S . C ., title 16, sec. 486r), authorizing the addition of certain lands to the Shasta National Forest; and WHEREAS it appears that the addition of such lands to the Shasta National Forest would be in the public interest: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid acts of Congress, do proclaim that the following- described public lands in the State of California are hereby added to, and reserved as a part of, the Shasta National Forest: Mt. Diablo Meridian T.37N., R.3E., sec.1,SN 2; T.40N., R. 1W., sec. 34,NWYSE 4; aggregating 200 acres. The reservation made by this proclamation shall, as to any lands which are at this date embraced in any valid claim or withdrawn for any public purpose other than classification, be subject to and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such claim, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of land so withdrawn, so long as such claim is legally maintained or such withdrawal remains in force. Executive Orders No. 4203 of April 14, 1925, and No. 6910 of November 26, 1934, as amended, withdrawing public lands for classi- fication, are hereby revoked so far as they affect any of the above- described lands. 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 nineteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-one, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fifth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. February 19, 1941 [No. 2459] Lands added. Prior rights not affected. Partial revocation of designated Executive orders. . ,5 STAT.] 1613