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PRooLAM;A·r1oNs, 1921. 2235 eleven, and by section twenty-four of the Act of March third, V°l·“”·P·“°°· eighteen hundred and ninety-one (Twenty-sixth Statutes at Large, plage eleven hundred and three), entitled "An act to repeal timbere ture laws, and for other pm*poses", do proclaim that the boundaries of the Pisgah National Forest, as last designated by the Secretary of Agriculture, shall be as described and shown in the metes and boimds descriptions and on the diagrams desi nated as Parts 1, 2 and 3, attached hereto and made a part hereof? and that said Olmstead lands and all lands within said boundaries which have been or may hereafter be acquired by the United States under authority of said Act of March first, mneteen hundred and eleven, shall be permanently reserved and administered as the Pisgah National orest. 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 25th day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty- [ssrn.] one, and of the Inde endence of the United States the one hundred and forty-fii)th. Wnnnnn G Hnnnmc By the President: Cuannns E. Homme · Secretary of State. DESCRIPTION ron rm: Pnoommmon or- Prsann Nyrronar. FOREST. “§'?g}'¤**°¤**F¤‘· Part 1. BEGINNING at Sandi Bottom on the French Broad River in D¤¤¢l¤;i£§:<;¤ ¤f Dia- Buncombe Count , Nort Carolina, thence with the gublic road mm' ' across Avery Creek through a low gap between Double ead Mountam and Chestnut Mountain and continuing with said road to Mills River, crossing McDowell Creek and Foster Creek, continuing with the public road after crossing Mills River up said river to itton; thence following the road crossing For e Mountain to the Boylston i‘0ad· thence with the Boylston road to%3revard (this is known as the ‘01<i Haywood road"); thence with the road to Rosman, N. C.; thence with the Rosman-Galloway road to the tug of the Blue Ridge; thence following the Blue Ridge around the hea of Toxaway River and Horsegasture River to Laurel Mountain; thence alon the ridge to Double Iountain; thence along the rid e to the top of Ridge; thence from the top of Bi¤· Rid e down 1§aven Fork to its jimction with Trout Creek; thence ldowngfrout Creek to its junction with the west fork of Tuckaseegee River; thence down the West Fork of Tucka— seegee River to its junction with the main prong of Tuckaseegee River: thence down Tuckaseegee River to the mouth of Locust Creek; thence up Locust Creek to Soa stone Gap; thence with the road down Soaplstone Creek to Willets, C.; thence with the Murphy Branch of the Southern Railway to Balsam Gap; thence in a direct line to Pinnacle Knob ; thence in a direct line to Beatty Mountain; thence in a direct line to Sugar Top, bein a point in the Buncombe-Haywood county lme; thence down the ridge etween Warren Creek and South Hommy Creek to South Hominy Creek road; thence followin the road_around the southern side of Dunsmore Mountain to §outh Hommy Creek: thence with the road across the ridgp to Beaverdam Creek: thence with the road down Beaverdam Cree to its junction with the old Ha ood road; thence with the old Haywood road to Sandy Bottom, gd, point of BEGINNING.