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 2238 PROCLAMATIONS, 1921. which has been duly accepted, effective upon the qualiiication of his successor: C m{§'°g NOW, THEREFORE, I, WARREN G. HARDING, President of sedans msi:5 out or the United States, under and by virtue of the power and authority F°$§{?i1°i°f,’,ml vested in me by said Act, and of all other powers me hereto enabling, do hereby designate and a point, effective at noon on the 28th day of March, 1921, James C. Davis, Director General of Railroads, and his successor in office, as the Agent provided for in Section 206 of said Act, a roved Febru 28, 1920. IN NEITNESS WHIEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE b the President in the District of Columbia this 26th day of hlarch, in the year of our Lord Nineteen Hundred and [Aman] Twenty-one and of the Independence of the United States the One Hundred and Forty-fifth. · Wammn G Hnmme By the President: Cnanrms E. Hnoums Secretary of State. Br run Pnnsmnivr or nm Uxrrmn Sryms or- Aimiuca A PROCLAMATION. wg"°{*m_1"’°“*‘“” WHEREAS, the destruction by forest fires in the United States mamum. involves an annual loss of approximately $20,000,000 and the devastation of approximately 12,500,000 acres of timberland and other natural resources, and WHEREAS, the present delplorably large area of non-Elrpductive land is being greatly increase by 33,000 or more forest s which occur each year, and WHEREAS, the menace of a future timber shortage threatens to become a Eresent economic fact seriously affecting our social and industrial we are, and WHEREAS, a large percentage of the forest fires causing the annual waste of natural reso1u·ces may be prevented by increasing care and vigilance on the riprt of citizens: M§;*’g_*gf8,;g,°f‘ Q; THERE ORE, I, WA REN G. HARDING, President of the {Vogt Protection United States, do urge upon the Govemors of the various States to ‘ des1gnate and set apart the week of May 22-28, 1921, as Forest Protection Week, and to request all citizens of their States to lan for that week such educational and instructive exercises as shrill bring before the people the serious and unhappy effects of the present unnecessary waste by forest fires, and the need of their individual and collective efforts m conserving the natural resources of America. * IN WITNESS WHEREO, I have hereunto set m hand and caused the seal of the _United States of America to be aihxed. DONE in the District of Columbia, this 7th day of April, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and [emu,.] wenty-one and of the Independence of the United States of America the One Hundred and Forty-fifth. Wannnx G Hanncm By the President: G Cnuznns E. Huorms ‘ Secretary of State.