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 PROCLAMATIONS-MAY 12, 15, 1941 The reservation made by this proclamation shall not affect present legal rights acquired under any valid claim or the use for such public purpose of lands which are at this date reserved for any public purpose other than classification, so long as such claim 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 1 2th day of May in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-one, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fifth. By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT Prior rights not affected. EMERGENCY BOARD, ATLANTA, BIRMINGHAM AND COAST RAILROAD COMPANY-EMPLOYEES BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 01 AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, the President, having been duly notified by the Na- tional Mediation Board that a dispute between the Atlanta, Birming- ham and Coast Railroad Company, a carrier, and certain of its employees represented by the following labor organizations: Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen which dispute has not heretofore been adjusted under the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, amended, now threatens substantially to interrupt interstate commerce within the States of Alabama and Georgia to a degree such as to deprive that section of the country of essential transportation service; NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- dent of the United States of America, by virtue of the power vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, and by virtue of and under the authority in me vested by Section 10 of the Railway Labor Act, amended, do hereby create a board to be composed of three persons not pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any organiza- tion of railway employees or any carrier, to investigate the afore- mentioned dispute and report its findings to me within thirty days from this date. The members of this board shall be compensated for and on account of such duties in the sum of seventy-five dollars ($75.00) for every day actually employed with or upon account of travels and duties incident to such board. The members will be reimbursed for and they are hereby authorized to make expenditures for expenses for themselves and of the board, including traveling expenses and in con- formity with Public No. 212, 72nd Congress, Approved June 30, 1932, 11:30 a. m., not to exceed five dollars ($5.00) per diem for expenses incurred for subsistence. All expenditures of the Board shall be allowed and paid for out of the appropriation "Emergency Boards, Railway Labor Act, May 20, 1926, 1941" on the presentation of itemized vouchers properly ap- proved by the chairman of the board hereby created. May 15, 1941 [No. 2485] Creation of emer- gency board to inves- tigate dispute. 44 Stat. 586. 45U.S.C. 160. Compensation. Expenditures. 47 Stat. 382, 405 5U. . C.. 823. Fund available. 54 Stat. 596. 55 STAT.] 1643

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