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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1927. 2921 adequate shipping service ... ith the aforesaid Virgin Islands be further extended from September 30, 1927 to September 30, 1928; . AND INASMUCH as the extension of the coastwise laws of the felJ"::p~':nber United States to the Virgin Islands, as provided in Section 21 of the 19~'1 44 p 2621 "Merchant Marine Act, 1920" is dependent upon the establishment U.,. • of an adequate shipping service to such island possession, I do hereby furtheI' proclaim and declare that the extension of the coastwise laws of the United States to the Virgin Islands is deferred from September 30, 1927 to September 30, 1928. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this ninth day of August, in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred and [SEAL] Twenty-Seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the One Hundred and Fifty-Second. By the President: FRANK B KELLOGG Secretary oj State. CALVIN COOLIDGE By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION August 19, 1927. Whereas, the act of Congress approved July 3, 1926 (44 Stat., F!%"alif. National 818), transferred a portion of the Sequoia National Forest to the Preamble. Sequoia National Park and part of said park to such forest; Vol. «, p.818. And Whereas, it appears that the public good will be promoted by excluding from the said Sequoia National Forest certain areas, and releasing tbe lands in sucb areas affected thereby from certain with- drawals :made in 1918 and 1921 in aid of legislatipn to change the boundaries of the Sequoia National Park, and by restoring the public lands subject to disposition in the excluded areas to entry in the manner prescribed by existinK law; N ow, Therefore, I, CALVIN COOLIDGE, President of the United AreadlmlniBhed. S fAm b f db Vol. 30, p. 36. tates 0 erica, tly virtue 0 the power in me veste y the act of Congress approved June 4 1897 (30 Stat., 11, at 34-36), do proclalm that the boundaries of the &quoia National Forest are hereby changed to exclude the areas indicated as eliminations on the diagram hereto annexed and forming a part hereof. And I do also proclaim that Executive Orders Nos. 2906 and 3395 Executive orders re- of July 8, 1918, and January 28, 1921, respectively, withdrawing Yoked. certain lands under the act of June 25, 1910 (36 Stat., 847), as Vol. 36, p. 847; Vol. amended August 24, 1912 (37 Stat., 497), are hereby revoked in SO 37,p.497. far as they affect any lands within the areas excluded from the forest under this proclamation. And I do further proclaim and make known that purSuant to Excluded lands . . 'opened to entrr tor 91 Pubhc Resolution No. 29 of February 14, 1920 (41 Stat., 434), as days to ex-semce men amended January 21, and December 28, 1922 (42 Stat., 358, 1067), of.J;;~rl114a4; Vol. the public lands in the excluded areas, subject to valid rights and the 42, pp. 351l, lOG7. provisions of existing withdrawals, shall be opened only to entry under the homestead and desert land laws by qualified ex-service men of the war with Germany, under the terms and conditions of such resolution and the regulations issued thereunder, .for a period of 91 days beginning with the 63rd day from and after the date hereof and thereafter any of said lands remaining unentered will be Unentered )and s . ' . . . . opened to settlement subject to appropnatlOn under any pubhc land law apphcable thereto thereafter. by the general public.

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