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 [54 STAT. PROCLAMATIONS-JUNE 11, 21, 1940 Delegation of pow- ers to Secretary of State. June 21, 1940 [No. 2411] AND I do hereby delegate to the Secretary of State the power to exercise any power or authority conferred on me by the said joint resolution as made effective by this my proclamation issued thereunder, which is not specifically delegated by Executive order to some other officer or agency of this Government, and the power to promulgate such rules and regulations not inconsistent with law as may be neces- sary 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 eleventh day of June, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fourth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT June 11, 1940, 5.20 p. m. E. S. T. By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. ENLARGING KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARK-CALIFORNIA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Preamble. WHEREAS the act of March 4, 1940, Public, No. 424, 76th Con- At.. gress, establishes the Kings Canyon National Park, in the State of California, and authorizes the extension of the General Grant grove section thereof by proclamation to include the hereinafter-described lands; and WHEREAS it appears that it would be in the public interest to add these lands to the said park: Areaenlarged. NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- dent of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 2 of the aforesaid act of March 4, 1940, do proclaim that, subject to valid existing rights, the following- described lands in California are hereby added to and made a part of the General Grant grove section of the Kings Canyon National Park: Mount Diablo Meridian-California T.14S., R.28E., sec. 9,S%; sec. 10, SWY4, and that part of ES south of Generals Highway; sec. 11, that part south of Generals High- way; sec. 13, that part south of Generals High- way; sec. 14, that part south of Generals High- way; sec. 15, ES, NWY, SEY4 SW 4; sec. 21, SEY4 NEY4, E%SEY4 ; sec. 22, E%, E4 NW4, SWY4 NWY4, SWY4 ; sec. 23, all; sec. 24, that part south of Generals High- way; sees. 25 and 26, all; sec. 27, E%, NW%, and that part of SWY4 north and east of the crest of Red- wood Mountain. Description. 2710

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