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 PROCLAMATIONS-MAY 4, 10, 1948 May 10, 1948 [No. 2785] 61 Stat., Pt. 1, p. 516. Francis Marion Na- tional Forest Wildlife Preserve, establish- ment. Description. 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 fourth day of May, 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. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: G C MARSHALL Secretary of State FRANCIS MARION NATIONAL FOREST WILDLIFE PRESERVE BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS section 1 of Public Law 257, 80th Congress, approved July 30, 1947, provides that "for the purpose of providing breeding places for game animals and birds and for the protection and admin- istration of game animals and birds, and fish, the President of the United States is hereby authorized, upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture, to establish by public proclamation certain specified federally owned areas within the Francis Marion National Forest as game sanctuaries and refuges"; and WHEREAS the Secretary of Agriculture has recommended that the lands owned by the United States within the area hereinafter described be established as a game sanctuary and refuge; and WHEREAS it appears that the establishment of such sanctuary and refuge would be in the public interest: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aforesaid act of July 30, 1947, do proclaim that for the purpose of providing breeding places for game animals and birds and for the protection and administration of game animals and birds, and fish, all of the lands owned by the United States in the following- described area within the Francis Marion National Forest, in the State of South Carolina, are hereby established as a game sanctuary and refuge, to be known as the Francis Marion National Forest Wild- life Preserve: Beginning at the point of confluence of Wambaw Creek and the South Santee River, in the Berkeley and Charleston County Line, latitude 33°12'47" N., longitude 79°26'49" W., thence southwesterly, up and with the meanders of Wambaw Creek, bordering U. S. Tract 113n, and on the Charleston-Berkeley County line, 156.0 chains to Forest Service monument 708; thence four lines with U. S. Tract 70: (1) southeasterly with Echaw Road, 75.0 chains to Forest Service monument 717, (2) southwesterly with Old Stagecoach Road, 69.0 chains to Forest Service monument 706, (3) S. 45045' W., 114.30 chains to a point, (4) S. 73045' W., 3.50 chains to Forest Service monument 684; thence with U. S. Tracts 13aa and 48, southeasterly 73.0 chains to Old Georgetown Road; thence with Old Georgetown Road, southwesterly 81.0 chains to line corners 2-3 of U. S. Tract 48; thence N. 30°00' W., 23.3 chains to Forest Service monument 683; thence southerly, with the east lines of U. S. Tract 113o, 61.3 chains to corner 34 thereof; thence southeasterly, with the 1510 [62 STAT.

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