IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington this 25 day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-fourth.
By the President:
- Alvey A. Adee
- Acting Secretary of State.
November 1, 1909.
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By the President of the United States of America.
A PROCLAMATION
Gran Quivira National Monument, N. Mex.
Preamble.
WHEREAS, one of the largest and most important of the early
Spanish church ruins, commonly known as the Gran Quivira, together
with numerous Indian pueblo ruins in its vicinity, situated in Socorro
County, New Mexico, are of great historical interest, and it appears
that the public interest would be promoted by reserving these ruins
with as much public land as may he necessary for the proper protection thereof,
National Monument, New Mexico. Now, therefore, I, William H. Taft, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by Section Two of the Act of Congress approved June 8, 1906 Vol. 34, p. 225. entitled, "An Act for the Preservation of American Antiquities" do hereby set aside as the Gran Quivira National Monument the Spanish church ruin and the Indian pueblo ruins situated Description in unsurveyed Township One South, Range Eight East of the New Mexico Principal Meridian, New Mexico, and located within and embracing all of the North half of the North half of Section Three of said township, containing one hundred and sixty acres of land, more or less, as shown upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this proclamation.
Reserved from settlement, etc. Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, excavate, injure or destroy any of the ruins or relics hereby declared to be a National Monument or to locate or settle upon any of the lands reserved and made a part of said monument by this proclamation.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington this lst day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-fourth.
By the President:
- P C Knox
- Secretary of State.
November 15, 1909.
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By the President of the United States of America.
A PROCLAMATION
Thanksgiving Day, 1909.
Preamble.
The season of the year has returned when, in accordance with the
reverent custom established by our forefathers, the people of the
United States are wont to meet in their usual places of worship on a
day of thanksgiving appointed by the Civil Magistrate to return
thanks to God for the great mercies and benefits which they have
enjoyed.
During this past year we have been highly blest. No great calamities of flood or tempest or epidemic sickness have befallen us.
