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1812 PROCLAMATIONS, 1916. W#'“d*“§¤ *¤°““‘ Wamin is hereby iven to all ersons not to hunt, catch, tra , hmm' Nm willfully disturb or kilfany kind ofp game animal, game or non-gani)e bird, or fish, or take the eggs of any such bird, on any lands herein designated, or in or on the waters thereof, except under such eneral rules and rigulations as may be prescribed from time to timeiy the Secret? 0 Agriculture. [N ITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washi.%on this seventeenth da of October, in the year of our rd one thousand nine lsiimdred and [SEAL.] sixteen, and of the Indeglesndence of the United States the one hundred and forty- t. · Woonnow WILSON By the President: _ Ronmrr Limsmo Secretary of State.

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A PROCLAMATION K§_}{*mK:g§*‘f,,§S*{§£”' WHEREAS, certain historic aboriginal ruins of the former Haida Pmmblé. Indian village known as "Old Kasaan", situated upon public lands of the United States on Prince of Wales Island, within the Tongass National Forest, in the Territory of Alaska, are of unusual ethnologic, scientific, and educational interest, as representing a distinctive ty e of abo1@al American civilization, the vestiges o which are rapidly disapipearing, and it appears that the public interests would be promote by reserving these ruins, with as much land as may be necessary for the proper protection thereof, as a National Monument; Ml;;~‘,fQ'“**‘ “°°'*“°°°‘1 N ow, therefore, I, WOODROW WILSON, President of the United vol s1.r~.22$. States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section two of the Act of Confgress approved June 8, 1906, entitled "An Act for the Preservation o American Antiquities", do proclaim that there is hereby reserved from aplpropriation and use of all kinds under all of the public land laws, su ject to all rior valid adverse claims, and set a art as a National Monument, allp that certain tract of land, in the 'llbrritory of Alaska, shown as the Old Kasaan National Monument on the diagram forming a part hereof. “Q`“f_};,§;{Q“ “°“°°*‘* The reservation made by this proclamation is not intended to Use ¤·-~¤¤¤¢+»i¤¤·1. prevent the use of the land for forest purposes under the proclamation establishing the Tongass National Forest. The two reservations shall both be effective on the land withdrawn, but the National Monument hereby established shall be the dominant reservation, and any use of the land which interferes with its (preservation or protection as a National Monument is hereby forbi den.

“°" *°" Warning is hereby given to all unauthorized persons not to appiropriate, injure, remove, or destroy any feature of this National

onument, or to locate or settle on any of the land reserved by this proclamation. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be afiixed. Done at the City of Washinlgtoon this twenty-fifth day of October, in the year of our rd one thousand nine hundred and [sian.,] sixteen, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-first. Woomzow Winsor: By the President: Roamrr Lixsms Secretary of State.