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Tps. 21 N., Rs. 10 and 11 E.;

T. 21 N ., R. 12 E ., sections 5 to 8, inclusive, sections 17 to 19, inclusive, N½ and SW¼ section 20, W½ section 29, sections 30 and 31, and W½ section 32;

T. 22 N., R. 9 E., section 13 and sections 23 to 27, inclusive, sections 33 to 36, inclusive, and those parts of sections 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, 29, 31 and 32 lying east of Cahaba River;

T. 22 N., R. 10 E., sections 1 to 5, inclusive, and sections 8 to 36, inclusive;

T. 22 N., R. 11 E.;

T. 22 N., R. 12 E., sections 5 to 8, inclusive, sections 17 to 20, inclusive, and sections 29 to 32, inclusive;

T. 23 N., R. 10 E., sections 1 to 3, inclusive, sections 10 to 15, inclusive, sections 22 to 27, inclusive, and sections 34 to 36, inclusive;

T. 23 N., R. 11 E.;

T. 23 N., R. 12 E., sections 5 to 8, inclusive, sections 17 to 20, inclusive, and sections 29 to 32, inclusive.

The reservation made by this Proclamation shall as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose other than for classification under Executive Order No. 6964 of February 5, 1935, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat, legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained or such reservation remains in force.

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 17" 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. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President:
 * CORDELL HULL
 * Secretary of State.



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS certain forest lands within the State of Mississippi 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, secs. 515, 516); and

WHEREAS it appears that it would be in the public interest to reserve and designate said lands and certain adjoining public lands as the Homochitto National Forest:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority 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), and section 11 of the said act of March 1, 1911 (U. S . C., title 16, sec. 521), do proclaim 