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PROCLAMATION 3326—NOV. 27, 1959

ESTABLISHING THE TUSKEGEE NATIONAL FOREST, ALABAMA, THE OCONEE NATIONAL FOREST, GEORGIA, AND THE TOMBIGBEE NATIONAL FOREST, MISSISSIPPI By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

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November 27, 1959 [No. 3326]

WHEREAS certain lands in the States of Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi have been acquired by the United States under the authority of the National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933 (48 Stat. 202), the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, approved April 8, 1935 (49 Stat. 115), or Title III of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, approved July 22, 1937 (50 Stat. 525), as amended (7 U.S.C. 1010-1012), for use in connection with the Tuskegee, Piedmont, North Central, Northeast Mississippi, and Natchez Trace Land Utilization Projects; and WHEREAS, by reason of the transfer effected by Executive Order No. 7908 of June 9, 1938, as amended by Executive scFRCum. Order No. 8531 of August 31. 1940, such ^"PP > PP 336,707. projects are now being administered pursuant to Title III of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act; and WHEREAS it appears that such lands are suitable for national-forest purposes and that it would be in the public interest to reserve them as national forests; and WHEREAS it appears desirable to include within the exterior boundaries of such national forests certain State and privately-owned lands which are so intermingled with the lands owned by the United States that segregation thereof is impracticable; and WHEREAS some of such lands owned by the United States are under lease to Soil Conservation Districts or to individuals, and it is desirable that such leases remain in force and effect until terminated as provided therein:

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