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 PROCLAMATION S, 1917. 1677 ascertaining the just compensation to which said owners are entitled in order that payment therefor may be made in accordance with the provisions of the act aforesaid. All persons residini within said tract of land or owning movable Wfafédggf ¤°°“‘°d*° pro erty therein are ereby notified to vacate the said tract of land ` andp to remove therefrom all movable property prior to the first day of An st, nineteen hundred and seventeen. IN %/'ITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aflixed. DONE at the City of Washington this twenty-eighth day of June in the year of our Lord one ·thousand nine hundred and [sam,.] seventeen and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-first. Woomzow WILSON. By the President: Ronmrr LANSING Secretary of State. BY THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES or Amnmca ’°¤° 2°»“”"· A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, ahi h and im osing butte, locall known asCrowhi h v°""""° }"°“°““' Mountain, located ign Townslllixlgp 192 North, Raiige 93 West, of the K?}?¤¤°:i·i·N mi Fifth Principal Meridian, No Dakota, was discovered and utilized between 1738 and 1742 by Verendrye, an ex lorer of New France and the first white man known to have entered upon the territoiy now embraced within the present State of North Dakota, as an observation station from which to spy out the farther and unknown west, and WHEREAS, this lofty, natural summit, both because of its usefulness as stated and because it marks the spot where the Verendrye piarty first crossed the Missouri River in their journey to the Rocky ountains, thus giving thpedplace great historic interest, and it appears that the public interests be promotedllay reserving the lands upon which Crowh$ Moimtain is located as a ational Monument; NOW, TH EFORE, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United N§r{f%,}{;’¤“”°¤*· States of America, by virtue of the power and authority in me vested V¤1·3•.r·2i5· by Section two of the act of Congress entitled, "Au Act for the Preservation of American Antiquities/’ approved June 8, 1906 (34 Stat., 225), do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws, and set apart as the Veren ye ational Monument, all the tracts of land in the State of North Dakota shown upon the dia m hereto attached and made a part hereof, and more particularly diigciibed as follows, to wit: the D°°°*’¥’“°¤- southeast quarter, the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter, and lots four and five, in section fourteen, township one hundred and fifty- two north, range ninety-three west, of the Fifth Principal Meridian. I Warning is hereby given to all unauthorized persons not to appro- ¤,,I§°§°§`§d [mm °°°° °' priate or injure any natural feature of this Monument, or to occupy, exploit, settle or locate upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be adixed. Done at the City of Washington, this 29th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-first. Woonxow WILSON By the Presidenf: Romznr LANSING, Secretary of State.