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 PROCLAMATIONS-SEPT. 6, 1969 T.11N., R.2W., sec.1,W%,SE4; sees. 2 to 4 and sees. 9 to 16, inclusive; sec. 21, N%, SE 4; sees. 22 to 27, inclusive; sec. 28, EES; sec. 33, EEY; sees. 34, 35, and 36; T. 12 N., R. 2 W., secs. 26 to 28 and sees. 33 to 35, inclusive; sec. 36, SW 4; aggregating 43,331.83 acres. The reservation made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands to which legal rights have been acquired under any of the public-land laws or which are reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat such legal rights or prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such rights are 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 sixth day of September, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and [SEAL] of 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. SHAWNEE NATIONAL FOREST-ILLINOIS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS certain lands within the State of Illinois have been acquired or are in process of acquisition by the United States of America under the authority of the act of March 1, 1911, 36 Stt. 961, 962 (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), the act of March 31 1933, c. 348, 48 Stat. 22 (B. S . C., title 16, sec. 585) the National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933 (48 Stat. 195, 202, U. S . C., title 40, sec. 403), the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, approved April 8, 1935, 49 Stat 115 and itle III of the Bankhead;fones Farm Tenant Act, approved July 22, 1937 (50 Stat. 522 U. S. C., title 7, sec. 1010); and WHEREAS it appears that it would be in the public interest to give such lands, together with any intermingled public lands, a na- tional-forest status: 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), the act of June 4, 1897, 30 Stat. 34,36 (U. S . C ., title 16, see. 473) and the acts above mentioned, do roclaim (1) that there are hereby reserved and set apart as the SawneeNatoal Forest all lands of the United States within the areas hereinafter described and shown on the diagram attached hereto Prior rights not affected. September 6, 198 [No. 2357] Preamble. ilo. 8. C., BSopp V. I f85 (note). W0Stat. 5s. 7 U. S. C., Bnpp. V, i 1010 -1013. Shawnee Ntional Forest, 1L, establish- ment. 54 STAT.] 2649

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