Mukuntuweap, National Monument included, and named changed.
Vol 36, p. 2498.
include the lands embraced in the Mukuntuweap National Monument
as reserved by the proclamation of July 31, 1909, and that the
boundaries of said Zion National Monument are as shown on the
di am hereto attached and made a part hereof.
Reserved from settlement, etc. Warning is hereby given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate or injure any natural feature of this monument or to occupy, exploit, settle, or locate upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation.
Supervision, etc., by Director of National Park Service.
Vol. 39, p. 525.
The Director of the National Park Service, under the direction
of the Secretary of the Interior, shall have the supervision, management,
and control of this monument, as provided in the Act of Congress
entitled "An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for
other purposes," approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat., 535).
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 eighteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL.] eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States, of America the one hundred and forty-second.
By the President:
- Robert Lansing,
- Secretary of State.
Br run Pnmsmaivr or rim Unrrim Srrxrzs or Anmnma, ¥¤¤¤¤¤.1¤1¤· A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS, the law and practice of nations accords to a belliger- ent power the right in time of military exigency and for purposes essential to the rosecution of war, to take over and utilize neutral vessels lyin within its jurisdiction:
AND WHEREAS the Act of Congress of June 15, 1917, entitled, ,,{{§§*f'°""° °““’°"' "An Act making appgicipriations to su ply 1u·gent deficiencies in 4¤¤»l>.18¤- . appropriations for the `tary and N aval) stablishments on account o war expenses for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes/’ confers ulpon the President power to take over the possession of any vesse within the jurisdiction of the United States for use or operation by the United States:
NOW THEREFORE I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United ,N}’d•:j•l¤ °' mnm States of America, in accordance with international law and rac- 1m¤s¤:5hwi¤r;um1¤ tice, and bghlvirtue of the Act of Congress aforesaid, and as gem- """"’°"" mander-in 'ef of the Army and Navy of the United States, do hereby find and proclaim that the imperative military needs of the United States require the immediate utilization of vessels of Netherlands registry, now lying within the territorial waters of the United States; and do therefore authorize and empower the Secretary of the Navy to take over on behalf of the United States the possession of and to employ all such vessels of Netherlands registry as may be necessary for essential purposes connected with the prosecution of the war against the Imperial German Government. The vessels 01>•¤¤¤¤.¤¤¤· shall be manned, equi pied and operated by the Navy Department and the United States Shiping Board, as may be deemed expedient; and the United States Shipping Board shall make to the owners
