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 62 STAT.] PROCLAMATIONS-MAR. 20, 24, 1948 buildings during that week; and I invite the people of the several States, Territories, and possessions of the United States and the ap- propriate officials thereof, as well as the churches, schools, clubs, and other organizations of our country, to participate in the observance of Pan American Week with suitable commemorative displays, exhibits, and ceremonies. 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 2 0 th day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-eight, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-second. By the President: WILLARD L. THORP Acting Secretary of State 1491 HARRY S TRUMAN ENLARGING THE FORT MATANZAS NATIONAL MONUMENT, FLORIDA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS certain lands on Rattlesnake Island, located at the mouth of the Matanzas River in the State of Florida, have been donated to the United States for the extension of the Fort Matanzas National Monument; and WHEREAS it appears that the public interest would be promoted by adding such lands and the remaining public lands comprising Rattlesnake Island to the Fort Matanzas National Monument in order to insure permanent protection to the Fort and its historic setting: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested inmebysection2oftheactofJune8,1906,34Stat.225(16U.S.C. 431), do proclaim that, subject to valid existing rights, the following- described lands in Florida are hereby added to and reserved as a part of the Fort Matanzas National Monument: Tallahassee Meridian, Florida Lots 2, 3, and 4, Sec. 24, T. 9 S., R. 30 E., containing 89.42 acres, which are unappropriated and unreserved public lands. Also all of the tidelands adjacent to Rattlesnake Island in Secs. 13, 14, 23, and 24, T. 9 S., R. 30 E., containing 120.0 acres, the same having been donated to the United States by the Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund of the State of Florida by deed dated April 28, 1944, and recorded on March 19, 1945, in Deed Book 149, page 426, Public Records of St. Johns County, Florida, and by a deed of release dated August 26, 1947, and recorded on January 27, 1948, in Deed Book 171, page 478, Public Records of St. Johns County, Florida, which relinquished to the United States the mineral rights reserved in the aforementioned deed. Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate injure, destroy, deface, or remove any feature of this monument and not to locate or settle upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation. March 24, 1948 [No. 27731 Addition of land to Fort Matanzas Na- tional Monument. Warning to unau thorized persons.

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