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 PROCLAMATIONS-SEPT. 8, 6 , 1939 And I do hereby delegate to the Secretary of State the power to exer- cise any power or authority conferred on me by the said joint resolu- tion, as made effective by this my proclamation issued thereunder, and the power to promulgate such rules and regulations not inconsistent with law as may be necessary and proper to carry out any of its provisions. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the city of Washington this 8 t h day of September, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fourth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. ENLARGING THE CHATTAHOOCHEE NATIONAL FOREST-GEORGIA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS certain lands adjacent to the Chattahoochee National Forest within the State of Georgia have been acquired or may here- after be acquired by the United States under authority of the act of March 1, 1911, c. 186, 36 Stat. 961 (U. S . C., title 16, sec. 516), as amended by the act of June 7, 1924, 43 Stat. 653 (U. S. C ., title 16, sec. 515); and WHEREAS it appears that the said lands are suitable for national- forest purposes and that it would be in the public interest to reserve them as a part of the Chattahoochee National Forest: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- dent of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the power vested in me by section 24 of the act of March 3, 1891, 26 Stat. 1095, 1103 (U. S . C., title 16 sec. 471), and the act of June 4, 1897, 30 Stat. 34, 36 (U. S . C ., title 16, sec. 473), and the above-mentioned act of March 1, 1911, as amended, do proclaim (1) that all lands of the United States within the area hereinafter described, and shown on the diagram attached hereto and made a part hereof, are hereby added to and reserved as part of the Chattahoochee National Forest in the State of Georgia, and that all lands within such area which may here- after be acquired by the United States under authority of the aforesaid act of March 1, 1911, as amended, shall upon acquisition of title thereto become, and be administered as, part of the said Chattahoochee National Forest: Lying and being on the watersheds of Armuchee and Mill Creeks, the Chattooga and Oostanaula Rivers, tributaries of the Coosa River and Chickamauga Creek, a tributary of the Tennes- see River, in Catoosa, Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon, Walker, and Whitfield Counties, Georgia; Beginning at the intersection of Georgia Highways #2 and #95, at the western foot of Taylor Ridge, approximately six miles east of LaFayette, Georgia; Thence, northeastwardly, along Georgia Highway F95, approxi- mately one and three-quarter miles to its intersection with the county road to Ringgold; Secretary of State empowered to pro- mulgate rules, etc. September 6, 1939 [No. 2356] Preamble. Chattahoochee National Forest, Ga.. lands adlded. Administration of lands acquired. Description. 54 STAT.] 2645

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