WHEREAS, it appears that the public good will be promoted by reserving and setting apart such lands wit other lands in the State of Alabama as a National Forest;
National Forest, Alabama.
Vol.36, p 963.(36 Stat. 963)
Vol.26, p.1103. (26 Stat. 1103)
Now, therefore, I, WOODROW WILSON, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested. by section eleven of said act and by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An Act To repeal timber—culture laws, and for other purposes”, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved and set apart as a public forest reservation all lands in the State of Alabama included within the area shown upon the diagram forming a part hereof as the Alabama National Forest, and that all lands therein which have been or may be acquired by the United States under authority of the said Act of March first, nineteen hundred and eleven, shall be reserved and administered as part of the National Forest.
Prior legal rights not affected. The withdrawal made by this Proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains force.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my-hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done in the District of Columbia this fifteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand and [SEAL.] eighteen and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-second.
Woodrow Wilson
- By the President:
- Robert Lansing
- Secretary of State.
- Robert Lansing
January 26, 1918.
_________________
By the President of the United States of America
A PROCLAMATION
Alaska coal lands.
Preamble.
Vol. 38, p. 742.
WHEREAS, the act of Congress approved October twentieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled “An Act To provide for the
leasing of coal lands in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes”
(38 Stat., 741), provides that the President of the United States
shall designate and reserve from use, location, sale, lease or disposition not exceeding 5,120 acres of coal–bearing lands in the Bering
River field and not exceeding 7,680 acres of coal–bearing lands in the
Matanuska field, and not to exceed one–half of the other coal lands
in Alaska, prior to the offering of the unreserved lands for coal leasing
in said fields;
Addition land reserved from leases, etc.
Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United
States of America, under and by virtue of said statute, do hereby
designate and reserve from use, location, sale, lease or disposition
the following described land in the Nenana coal field in the Teritory
of Alaska, to wit:
Fairbanks Base and Meridian
- T. 11 S., R. 7 W., Sec. 29, SE¼ of SE¼;
- Sec. 32, all.
- T. 12 S., R. 7 W., Sec. 4, S½ of NW¼, SW¼;
- Sec. 5, all.
1560 acres in all.
