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PROCLAMATIONS—MAR. 31, 1955

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EXCLUDING CERTAIN LANDS FROM THE GLACIER B A Y NATIONAL MONUMENT AND ADDING A PORTION THEREOF TO THE TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST—ALASKA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

March 31, 1955 [No. 3089]

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS certain lands comprising a portion of the hereinafterdescribed Gustavus Area of the Glacier Bay National Monument in Alaska, established by Proclamation No. 1733 of February 26, 1925 (43 Stat. 1988), and enlarged by Proclamation No. 2330 of April 18, 1939 (53 Stat. 2534), are now being used as an airfield for nationaldefense purposes and are no longer suitable for national-monument purposes; and WHEREAS the other lands within the Gustavus Area, including several homesteads which were patented prior to the enlargement of the monument by the proclamation of April 18, 1939, are suitable for a limited type of agricultural use and are no longer necessary for the proper care and management of the objects of scientific interest on the lands within the monument; and WHEREAS the lands comprising the hereinafter-described Excursion Inlet Area of the monument were erroneously excluded from the Tongass National Forest and included in the monument by the proclamation of April 18, 1939, and such lands are suitable for nationalforest purposes; and WHEREAS it appears that it would be in the public interest to exclude the said lands comprising the Gustavus Area and the Excursion Inlet Area from the Glacier Bay National Monument, and to restore the lands within the Excursion Inlet Area to the Tongass National Forest: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, Presi- tionii Momfm/nt''" dent of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the Exclusion o lands. f authority vested in me by section 2 of the act of June 8, 1906, c. 3060, 34 Stat. 225 (16 U.S.C. 431), section 24 of the act of March 3, 1891, 26 Stat. 1103 (16 U.S.C. 471), and section 1 of the act of June 4, 1897, 30 Stat. 34, 36 (16 U.S.C. 473), do proclaim (1) that all of the following-described lands in the Territory of Alaska are hereby excluded from the Glacier Bay National Monument and (2) that, subject to all valid existing rights, those lands designated and described as the Excursion Inlet Area are hereby added to and made a part of the Tongass National Forest and shall be subject to all laws, rules, and regulations applicable to that forest: GUSTAVUS AREA COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN

T. 40 S., R. 58 E., secs. 1 to 3 and 9 to 12, inclusive; fractional secs. 13 and 14; secs. 15 and 16; fractional secs. 21 to 23, inclusive. T. 40 S., R. 59 E., fractional sec. 3; secs. 4 to 8, inclusive; fractional secs. 9, 10, and 16 to 18, inclusive. Also, a parcel of unsurveyed land described as follows: Beginning at the northwest corner of sec. 1, T. 40 S., R. 58 E., O. R. M.; thence North 7,920 feet; East 2,640 feet; South 45°00' East to the northeast corner of sec. 6, T. 40 S., R. 59 E., C. R. M.;

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