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 1>RocLAMAT1oNs, 1923. 1925 BY THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES or Ammucn j311°.a*;b2¥.?§g22L A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, certain lands within the State of Pennsylvania have F,;}&*;€";§>’ N°“°”‘ been or may hereafter be acquired by the United States under author- rmhmnt. ity of the Act of Congress approved March first, nineteen hundred and V°l' 3°' °`°°l‘ eleven (36 Stat., 961), entitled "An Act To enable any State to co— olperate with any other State or States, or with the United States, for t e protection of the watersheds of navigable streams, and to appoint a commission for the acquisition of lands for the purpose of conserving the navi ability of navigable rivers "; and, WHEREAS, it appears that the public good will be promoted by reserving and settin apart said lands as a public forest reservation, and the same have geen designated by the Secretary of Agriculture as the Alle heny National Forest. NOW, THEREFORE, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the PN¤¢il<;¤¤,1 F¤r¤S¤» United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by °$$’QB,°;m9g3_ section eleven of said Act and by section twenty-four of the Act of V<>1·2<t P- 1103- March three, eighteen hundred and ninet -one (26 Stat., 1103), entitled "An Act To repeal timber-cult1u·e laws and for other purposes," do proclaim that there are hereb reserved and set apart as a public forest reservation all of said landb within the area shown as the Allegheny National Forest on the diagram attached hereto and made a part hereof, and that all lands therein which have been or may hereafter be acquired by the United States for National Forest purposes shall be permanently reserved and administered as part of the Allerghen National Forest. IN WI NESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE in the City of Washington this twenty-fourth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine [SEAL.] hundred and twenty-three, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-eighth. CALVIN COOLIZDGE By the President: WILLIAM PHILLIPS Acting Secretary of State. BY THE PRESIDENT or THE U1\'ITED STATES or AMERICA £&•&•J§»J9¥3A A PROCLAMATION FROM its earliest beginnings, America has been devoted to the Wlgglgml Ed“"°“°” cause of education. T `s country was founded on the ideal of Prmmbleministerin to the individual. It was realized that this must be done by tge institutions of religion and government. In order that there might be a properly educated clergy and well trained civil magistrates, one o the first thoughts of the early settlers was to provide for a college of liberal culture, while for the general diffusion of knowledge, primary schools were established. his course was taken as the necessary re uirement of enlightened society. Such a policy, once adopted, has continued to grow in extent. With the adoption of the Federal Constitution and the establishment of free governments in the states of the Union, there was additional reason or broadening the o portunity for education. Our country adopted the principle of selifagovernment by a free people. Those who were worthy of being free, were worthy of being educated.