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PROCLAMATION 3539-MAY 27, 1963

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During this period I encourage all Americans to consider and appreciate the value of highway transportation to their own activities and to our national welfare. 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 ninth day of May in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-three, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-seventh. JOHN F. KENNEDY

By the President: DEAN RUSK,

Secretary of State. Proclamation 3539 REVISING THE BOUNDARIES OF THE BANDEUER NATIONAL MONUMENT, NEW MEXICO May 27, 1963

By the President pf the United States of America A Proclamation

WHEREAS, the Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico, was established for the preservation and protection of prehistoric, aboriginal ruins by Proclamation No. 1322 of February 11. 1916 (39 Stat. 1764), and was enlarged by Proclamation No. 1991 oi February 25, 1932 (47 Stat. 2503), and Proclamation No. 3388 of January 9, 1961 (75 Stat. 1014); and WHEREAS, certain lands of the'United States comprising approximately 2882 acres, contiguous to and west of lands of the monument, formerly administered by the Atomic Energy Commission were determined to be in excess of the needs of that agency, and were transferred to the National Park Service of the Department of the Interior on March 5, 1963, with the approval of the General Services Administration; and WHEREAS, it appears that it would be in the public interest to add such transferred lands to the Bandelier National Monument because they possess unusual scenic character together with geologic and topographic features, the preservation of which would implement the purposes of such monument; and WHEREAS, it appears that it would be in the public interest to exclude from the detached Otowi section of the monument approximately 3,925 acres of land containing limited archeological values which have been fully researched and are not needed to complete the interpretive story of the Bandelier National Monument: NOW THEREFORE, I, JOHN F. KENNEDY, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 2 of the Act of June 8, 1906 (34 Stat. 225; 16 U.S.C. 431), and otherwise, do proclaim as follows: Subject to any valid interests or rights, the following described parcel of land is hereby added to and reserved as a part of the Bandelier National Monument; and the boundaries of such monument are extended accordingly:

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