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_ BY Tun Pmcsrnmrr or rim Uivrrnn S·rA·rns OF'AMEBICA, Much 6»1°°9- A PROCLAMATION. . VVHEREAS public interests require that the Congress of the P'°*“”"‘°· United States should be convened in extra session at twelve o’clock, noon, on the fifteenth day of March, 1909, to receivejsuch communication as ma be made by the Executive; NOW, TIIEREFORE, I, HOWARD TAFT, President S,£,°§ "§,f‘§ of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and declare 15·1°°9- that an extraordinary occasion requires the Congress of the United States to convene in extra session at the Capitol in the City of Wash-. ington on the fifteenth day of March, 1909, at twelve o’ c ock, noon, of which all persons who shall at that time be entitled to act as members thereof are hereby required to take notice. GIVEN under my hand and the seal of the United States of America the 6th da of March in the year of our Lord one [sun.,] thousand nine hundyred and nine, and of the Inde endence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third WM H TAFT. By the President; P C Kuox Secretary of State. BY rmx: Pnnsmmrr or THE UNITED STATES or Amnmca, Much 20gj¤j;_ v_ A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, a number of prehistoric cliil` dwellings and pueblo Mtlmynzgg AI`1{,*g*°¤¤* _ ruins, situated within the Navajo Indian Reservation, Arizona, and Pmammé. ` which are new to science and wholly unexplored, and because of their isolation and size are of the very greatest ethnological, scientific and educational interest, and it appears that the pu lic interest would be promoted by reserving these extraordinary ruins of an unknown people, with as much and as may be necessary for the pro er protection thereof; bibw, therefore, I, William H. Taft, President of the United States Ar1;¥¤¤i¤¤¤1M¤¤1¤m¤¤¢ of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by Section two of vi§x.s4, p. 225. the Act of Congress approved June 8, 1906, entitled, "An Act for the Preservation of American Antiquities ", do hereby set aside as the Navajo National Monument al prehistoric cliff dwellin , pueblo and other ruins and relics of prehistoric peoples, situatedgsu on the Descriptivu- Navajo Indian Reservation, Arizona, between the parallels of latitude thirt -six degrees thirty minutes North, and thirty-seven de ees Y Nortli, and between longitude one hundred and iten de ees West and one hundred and ten degrees fortyfive minutes %est from Greenwich, more particularly ocated a ong the arroyas, canyons and their tributaries, near the sources of and draining into Laguna 2491