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 1708 PROCLAMATIONS, 1917. ` railroad, Maryland Division, at a point on the railroad lying between Bengies and Chase about three—fourths of a mile northeast o Ben(gies; thence alon line of said railroad crossing Gunpowder River and unpowder Necgk to the point where the railroad crosses Bush River; thence across Bush River to the mouth of Sod Creek; thence northeasterly across Halls Crossroads in a broken line to Chesapeake Bay at Plum Point at the mouth of Swann Creek; thence by the shore line around Epesutie Island to Mulberry Point; thence to initial point on "° ··»¤P°i)ii°i alidi d 1 d d' I"“"°"’“0, {$1 o urt er or er as to any an ,ap u.rtenances an im rovements
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immediately thereafter possession and title, including all easements, guts of wayglriiparian and other rights appurtenant thereto may be en on be of the United States by the Secretary of Wlar or his duly accredited representative or representatives for use for the purposes specified in said act of Congress, subject to the provisions of said °¤¤¤P¤¢¤¤¤¤¤· act as to compensation to be paid therefor. All owners of land and improvements possession of which will be taken under authority _ of said act of Congress and by virtue of this tgroclamation, ma appear before a commission to be appointed by e Secretary of War and present their claims for compensation for consideration by said commission and ultimate determination by the President, in accordance with the rovisions of said act of Congress. IN  WHEREOF I have hereimto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed. Done in the District of Columbia this 16th da of October, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand, hine Himdred and [ann.] Seventeen, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-second. Woomzow WIISON. By the President: i Ronmrr Limsme · Secretary of State. 0¢¢¤¤·¤1¤. 1917- Br run Pnnsromrr or run Unrrnn Srarns or Aimmoa A PROCLAMATION _ Ph{g;gb*f;¤Y°*· WHEREAS the Congress of the United States, by a concurrent Ame, p. iw. resolution adopted on the fourth day of the present month of October, in view of the entrance of our nation into the vast and awful war which now aiflicts the greater part of the world, has requested me to set apiart by official proclamation a day upon which our peo le should be ca ed upon to offer concerted prayer to Almighty God flir His divine aid in the success of our arms; AND WHEREAS it behooves a great free peo le, nurtured as we have been in the eternal principles of justice and of right, a nation which has sought from the earliest days of its existence to be obedient to the divine teachings which have inspired it in the exercise of its liberties, to turn always to the siiplreme Master and cast themselves in faith at His feet, praying for `s aid and succor in every hour of trial, to the end that the great aims to which our fathers dedicated our power as a people may not erish among men, but be always asserted and defended with fresh ardbr and devotion and, through the Divine blessing, set at last upon enduring foundations for the benefit of all the free peoples of the earth: pogggyag §§i$§»Sg; Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United plicatiou me prayer. States, gladly responding to the wish expressed by the Congress, do appoint October twenty-eighth, being the last Sunday of the present