PROCLAMATIONS-OCT. 1 , 1941 NATIONAL DEFENSE PIPE LINE-PORTLAND PIPE LINE BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the act of Congress entitled "An act to facilitate the construction, extension, or completion of interstate petroleum pipe lines related to national defense, and to promote interstate commerce" approved July 30, 1941 (Public Law 197-77th Congress), vests m the President certain powers relating to the construction, extension, completion, operation, and maintenance of interstate pipe lines related to national defense: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- dent of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by sections 2 and 3 of said act of July 30, 1941 do hereby find and proclaim (1) that it is necessary for national defense purposes that there be constructed and completed a pipe line system for the transportation and distribution of petroleum and pe- troleum products moving in interstate and foreign commerce, the route for which is generall indicated on a map which is on file in the Office of the Petroleum Coordinator for National Defense, detailed survey maps of which shall be of record in the said office, commencing at South Portland, Maine, and extending in a northwesterly direction through the States of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont to a point on the International Boundary in the vicinity of North Troy, Vermont, at which point the said pipe line is to connect with a pipe line extend- ing through the Province of Quebec to a terminal near Montreal, Canada, (2) that Portland Pipe Line Company, a private corporation organized under the laws of the State of Maine, has commenced the work necessary for the construction of such a pipe line system, and has partially constructed the same and represents that it is prepared to complete said pipe line system, and (3) that it is necessary for the purposes of construction, completion, operation, and maintenance of said pipe line system that the Portland Pipe Line Company have the right to acquire, by the exercise of the right of eminent domain as provided in the aforesaid act, along the route and between the points hereinbefore identified (a) such parcels of land or any interests therein, not in excess of 100 acres in each separate parcel, for the location of its storage tanks, pumping stations, delivery facilities, and other facilities in connection therewith, and (b) easements and rights-of-way, not in excess of 100 feet in width, for the construction, completion, operation, maintenance and removal of the pipe lines, including right of access thereto over adjoining lands: Provided, That such right of eminent domain be exercised by the Portland Pipe Line Company for the aforesaid purposes prior to June 30, 1943. The pipe line hereinbefore identified shall be constructed, com- pleted, operated, and maintained subject to such terms and conditions as the President may hereafter from time to time prescribe as neces- sary for national defense purposes. 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 1 st day of October in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-one, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-sixth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. October 1, 1941 [No. 2517] Ante, p. 610 . Route for pipe line system. Acquisition of land. Proviso. Time limit. 55 STAT.] 1691
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