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PROCLAMATION 3391~JAN. 18, 1961

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Lord nineteen hundred and [SEAL] sixty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eightyfifth. DwiGHT D.

EISENHOWER

By the President: CHRISTIAN A. HERTER,

Secretary of State. ESTABLISHING THE CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL NATIONAL MONUMENT, MARYLAND By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

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WHEREAS by deed of September 23, 1938, the United States acquired from the Receivers of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company certain lands, together with all appurtenances thereunto belonging, known as the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal; and WHEREAS since September 23, 1938, such lands have been administered and protected by the Department of the Interior through the National Park Service; and WHEREAS, by section 2 of the act of Congress approved June 8, 1906 (34 Stat. 225), the President of the United States 16 USC 431. is authorized "in his discretion, to declare by public proclamation historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest that are situated upon the lands owned or controlled by the Government of the United States to be national monuments, and may reserve as a part thereof parcels of land, the limits of which in all cases shall be confined to the smallest area compatible with the proper care and management of the objects to be protected"; and WHEREAS the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal is of historic and scientific interest, and historic structures and objects

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