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 Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure, destroy, or remove any feature of this Monu- ment and not to locate or settle upon any of the lands thereof.

The Director of the National Park Service, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, shall have the supervision, management, and control of the Monument as provided in the said Act of June 2, 1936.

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 6" day of July, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-six and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-first.

By the President: FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

Secretary of State.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS certain forest lands in the State of Tennessee have been or may hereafter be acquired by the United States of America under the authority of sections 6 and 7 of the act of March 1, 1911, ch. 186, 36 Stat. 961, as amended (U. S. C ., title 16, sees. 515, 516); and WHEREAS it appears that the reservation as the Cherokee National Forest of the said lands together with certain other lands heretofore forming parts of the Pisgah National Forest and the Unaka National Forest would be in the public interest: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- dent of the United States of America, by virtue of the power vested in me by section 24 of the act of March 3, 1891, ch. 561, 26 Stat. 1095, 1103, as amended (U. S. C., title 16, sec. 471), the act of June 4, 1897, ch. 2, 30 Stat. 34, 36 (U. S. C ., title 16, sec. 473), and by section 11 of the said act of March 1, 1911 (U. S. C., title 16, sec. 521), do proclaim that there are hereby reserved and set apart as the Cherokee National Forest, all lands of the United States within the following- described boundaries and that all lands therein which may hereafter be acquired by the United States under authority of the said act of March 1, 1911, as amended, shall upon their acquisition be reserved and administered as a part of the Cherokee National Forest:

Beginning at the point where the Louisville and Nashville Railroad crosses the Georgia-Tennessee State Line at or near Tennga, Georgia; thence northerly with the Louisville and Nash- ville Railroad approximately 4 miles to the point where said railroad is crossed by the public road running north and south along the west foot of the mountain; thence northerly with said public road to its junction with U. S. Highway No. 64; thence easterly with the meanders of U. S. Highway No. 64 to a point on the left bank of the Ocoee River; thence southeasterly with Cherokee National Forest, Tenn. Preamble. Statutory authori- zation. 36 Stat. 962. 16 U.S. C. §§ 515, 616. Reserving etc., des- ignated lands for na- tional forest. 26 Stat. 1103. 16 U. ('. . 471. 30 Stat. 36. 16U. .C. 473. 36 Stat. 963. 16 U. . C. i521. Cherokee Division.

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