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 PROCLAMATIONS-OCT. 28, 31, 1939 Warningagainst un. authorized acts. Supervision, etc. 16 U. S. C., Supp. V, §§ 1,2. T. 50 N., R. 7 W., sec. 19, SWNEY; sec. 31, SE%; T.50N., R.8W., sec.8,All; sec. 9, W% sec. 14, SSW%; sec. 15, SESW%, WSW%; SSE%; sec. 16, NWY, ESEY, NWySE 4; sec. 17, EYNE4, NWyNE%; sec. 22, N2NE%; sec. 23, NW%; sec. 35, NWYNE 4, N2NW%; containing 2760 acres more or less. 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 this monument as provided in the act of Congress entitled "An Act To establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes," approved August 25, 1916 (ch. 408, 39 Stat. 535; U. S. C ., title 16, sees. 1 and 2), and acts supplementary thereto or amendatory thereof. 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 28" day of October, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-nine and of [sAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fourth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President CORDELL HULL The Secretary of State. THANKSGIVING DAY-1939 October 81, 193 [No. 23731 Thanksgiving Day. Designation of Thursday, Novem- ber 23, 139, as. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Thursday, the twenty-third of November 1939, as a day of general thanksgiving. More than three centuries ago, at the season of the gathering in of the harvest, the Pilgrims humbly paused in their work and gave thanks to God for the preservation of their community and for the abundant yield of the soil. A century and a half later, after the new Nation had been formed, and the charter of government, the Constitution of the Republic, had received the assent of the States, President Washington and his successors invited the people of the Nation to lay down their tasks one day in the year and give thanks for the blessings that had been granted them by Divine Providence. It is fitting that we should continue this hallowed custom and select a day in 1939 to be dedicated to reverent thoughts of thanksgiving. Our Nation has gone steadily forward in the application of demo- cratic processes to economic and social problems. We have faced the specters of business depression, of unemployment .and of widespread agricultural distress, and our positive efforts to alleviate these condi- 2670 [54 STAT.

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