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 PROCLAMATIONS-MIAY 11, 27, 1948 tended with respect to such registrations which expired after December 8, 1941, and before June 30, 1947, until and including June 30, 1948. 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 11t h 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 ENLARGING THE AZTEC RUINS NATIONAL MONUMENT-NEW MEXICO BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS there adjoins the Aztec Ruins National Monument, in the State of New Mexico, a certain 1.255-acre tract of land upon which are located ruin mounds of unusual prehistoric and scientific value of the same period and culture as those now contained in that monument; and WHEREAS the Southwestern Monuments Association, an organi- zation created for the purpose of fostering the development and pres- ervation of the group of areas known as the Southwestern National Monuments, which include the Aztec Ruins National Monument, has donated the said tract of land to the United States for addition to such monument; and WHEREAS it appears that it would be in the public interest to reserve such tract of land as an addition to the said Aztec Ruins National Monument: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 2 of the act of June 8, 1906, c. 3060, 34 Stat. 225 (16 U. S . C . 431), do proclaim that, subject to valid existing rights, the following-described tract of land in New Mexico is hereby added to and reserved as a part of the Aztec Ruins National Monument: Beginning at a point N. 00053' E., 521.4 feet from the south- west corner of the southeast quarter (SEX) of the southwest quarter (SWM) of section 4, T. 30 N., R. 11 W., New Mexico Principal Meridian, the northwest corner of the present Aztec Ruins National Monument; thence N. 00053' E., 278.2 feet, thence east 60.0 feet, thence S. 75°08' E., 85.13 feet, thence S. 68052' E., 236.76 feet, thence S. 70°20' W., 20.33 feet, thence S. 64046 ' W ., 385.00 feet, along the present northerly boundary of Aztec Ruins National Monument to the point of beginning, con- taining 1.255 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 N ational Park Service, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, shall have the supervision, management, May 27, 1948 [No. 2787] Addition of land to Aztec Ruins National Monument. Warning to unau- thorized persons. Supervision, etc. 1513 62 STAT.]

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