1986 rRooLAMAr1oNs, 1925. 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 2** day of February in the year of our Lord glue thousand nine hundred and twenty- [emu.] Eve, and of the ndependence of the United States of America the one hundred and forty-ninth. _ CALVIN Coomnon. By the President: CHARLES E. Hoonms, Secretary of State,
BY Tun PRESIDENT or THE Umrnn S·rA·rr:s or Ammuoa
A PROCLAMATION N:f,*;’g;°°*i*¥0uu{_·;;:{S WHEREAS, J. Clint Moore and his wife, Ethel Moore, of the
- r¤¤¤. ’ County of Maury in the State of Tennessee, did on the twenty-
P*°¤m'>l°· sevent day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty- four, and R. W. Grimes, Judge of the County C*urt of Lewis County, Tennessee, did on the fifth ay of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, pursuant to the Act of Congress entitled, V°1‘3*’ °‘ 2% "A.n Act for the Preservation of American Antiquities," approved June eighth, nineteen hundred and six, by their certain dleed of relinquisghrnent and conveyance, properly executed in writing and acknowledged, relinquish, remise, convey and forever quit claim to the United States of America the following mentioned lands at that time held in private ownership and situate in the Third Civil District mm°l°“ °' md of Lewis County, in the State of Tennessee, and particularl described as follows, to wit: Beginning at a stake in the middle of tie Hohenwald and Summertown Highway, with oak bush north and nine and one-half dggpees at twenty feet, thence north fifty-nine degrees west with said `ghway one thousand feet to a stake; thence north thirty degrees east two thousand one hundred and seventy-eight feet to a stake; thence south fifty-nine degrees east one thousand feet to a stake; thence south thirty degrees west two thousand one hundred and seventy-eight feet to the beginninlg, containing by survey fifty acres as ascertained by survey o W5 . M. McKissick, October twenty-three, nineteen hundred and twenty-two. WHEREAS, said relinquishments and conveyances have been accepted by the Secretary of the Interior in the manner and for the p oses rescribed in said Act of Con§·ess, and . UIGHERSIAS, the ave of Captain eriwether Lewis, marked by a monument erectegr by the State of Tennessee, is located on this tract of land, and ,_ — WHEREAS, the faithful and effective services of Captain Meriwether Lewis as an officer of the United States Army; as the leader of the Lewis and Clark Ex edition; and as Governor of the Louisiana Territo , are of transcendent importance to the Nation. ,,,_N¤°*°¤¤' ¤-¤°¤¤¤¤°¤‘· NOVHTHEREFORE, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United ' States of America, by virtue of the power vested in me by section two of said Act of Congress, do proclaim that said lands hereinbefore described are hereby reserved from appropriation and use of all kinds under the public land laws and set aside as the Meriwether Lewis National Mionument. _ _ mgm? tmfuk Warmng is hereby given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, cut, injure, destroy, deface, or take away any trees or any other property on said lands, or to occupy, settle, or locate upon any lands reserved by this proclamation.
