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 1764 PROCLAMATIONS, 1916. BY THE Pnnsmmivr or THE Umrnp STATES or Aimmca _ A PROCLAMATION §,°“°°“°‘ N““°”°* WHEREAS, certain historic aborigm' al ruins situated upon “»»‘3»“?·€i?fs.N‘“°‘ public mas of the Unilte-gl states, within the sam Fe National orest, in the State of New Mexico, are of unusual ethnologic, scientific and educational interest, and it appears that the public interests would be promoted by reserving these relics of a vanished people, with as much land as may be necessary for the proper protection thereof, as a National Monument; _,§t;g¤;,;°M¤¤¤m¤¢· Now, therefore, I, WOODROW WILSON, President of the United of the Act of Cow approved June 8, 1906, entitled “An Act for the Preservation of erican Antiq_uities" do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from appropriation and, use of all kinds under all of the public land laws, subject to all dprior valid adverse claims, and set apart as a National Monument, the tracts of land, in the State of New Mexico, shown as the Bandelier National Monument on the dialgigam forming a part hereof. _ Fx? F• N¤¤¤¤¤¥ e reservation made by this proclamation is not intended to use {tamu. prevent the use of the lands for forest purposes under the proclamation establishing) the Santa Fe National crest. The two reservations shall both e effective on the land withdrawn, but the National Monument hereby} established shall be the dommant reservation, and any use of the land which interferes with its preservation or pregaection as a;1NaIt)ional Monuraxipnt is ltigreby (forbidden. uB¤¤·"•d Mm S°*· arnmgis ere y iven to unau orize persons not to a rot’°w` priate, injure, remove? or destroy any feature of this National lfihu- 1r;1ent,_or to locate or settle on any of the lands reserved by this procmation. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aiiixed. Done at the City of Washington this eleventh day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [snare] sixteen, and of the inde endenee of the United States the one hundred and fortietg. Woomzow Winsor By the President: Romszirr Larzsmc S rcretafy of Stafw. Bt THE Pmzsmmw or THE UNrrm> Srrarns or Aimmca, A PROCLAMATION u¤l`i§`fii°$ii¤If3gi?i·£?ifi: WHEREAS the Natural Bridges National Monument, embracing "*°°¤“"°- three extraordinary natural bri ges together with forty acres o Vol. ss, p.21s:s. land around each bridge, was created by proclamation of the President, dated April 16, 1908, and. WHEREAS at the time this monument was created nothing was known of the location and character of the ppehistoric ruins in the vicinity of the bridges, nor of the location of the bridges and the pre- ‘ histone cave springs, also hereby reserved, with reference to the ubl1c surve, the same being man miles from surveyed land, and) WHEZEEAS, the three several, tracts embraced within this monument reservation have been resurveyed and relocated with reference to the recently established corner of the public land surveys, to the end that their location has been definitely fixed.
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