Executive Order 3297

Under the provisions of the act approved June 25, 1910 (36 Stat., 847), authorizing the President of the United States to make withdrawals of public lands in certain cases, it is hereby ordered that the public lands specifically described as the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter, the southeast quarter, the east half and the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter, section thirty-five, township seven south, range three east of the Black Hills Meridian, South Dakota, be and the same are hereby temporarily withdrawn from settlement, location, sale, or entry. The purpose of this withdrawal is to permit such examination of the lands as may be necessary to determine their availability for a permanent reservation under the provisions of the national monument act, approved June 8, 1906 (34 Stat., 225), to protect, in the public interest, the rich mesozoic deposits of cycads and other characteristic examples of paleobotany numerously found there.

Woodrow Wilson.

The White House, 30 June, 1920.