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PROCLAMATIONS, 1928. national life. It will give agriculture the advantage of a new and valuable crop. It will afford permanent employment to millions of meu in the forest industries. It will provide raw materials for mauy industries. It will furnish traffic for our railroads. It will maintaiE foreign and domestic commerce. It will restore our forests as' con- servers of soil and water, and as givers of health and pleasure to our people. 2941 We already have made a beginning in forest renewal; but the task is stupendous, and we should permit no satisfaction over what has been done to blind us to the magnitude of what remains .to be done. Tksi~nr,ting week of NOW, THEREFORE, I, CALVIN COOLIDGE, PreSIdent of t.he Apr:l"~-2~. J92~. f ,r United States of America, do hereby designate and set aside as ~:~~\lDg. and Arbor American Forest Week the week beginning April 22 and ending April 28, in this year of 1928. I recommend to the Governors of the various States that they also designate this week for special observ- ance by all our people; and that where practicable and not in conflict with law or custom, Arbor Day be observed during the course of the same week. I urge that during that week all citizens and appropriate organizations-including public officials, legislators, business organ- izations, educators, editors, clergymen, landowners, and others-give thought to the preservation and wise use of our forests, to the end that energetic forest policies will be adopted in all communities. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereu'llto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 24th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty- [SEAL] eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-second. By the President: FRANK B KELLOGG Secretary of State. CALVIN COOLIDGE By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS section 91 of the act of Congress approved April 30, 1900, entitled" An act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii'" (31 Stat. 141-159), as amended by section 7 of the act approved May 27, 1910 (36 Stat. 443--447), authorizes the transfer to the Territory of Hawaii of the title to all such public property February 27. 1928. Hawaii. Preamble. Vol. 31 , p. 159. Vol. 36, p. «7. ceded and transferred to the United States by the RepUblic of Hawaii under the joint resolution of annexation, approved July 7, 1898 Vol. 30 . p. 750 . (30 Stat. 750), and in the possession and use of said Territory for public purposes or required for any such purposes; and WHEREAS certain lands of the United States within the and. hereinafter described are required for certain public purposes; T'1fd'td NOW, THEREFORE, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United lanJ~~r~sferi:dgfoat~e States of America, by virtue of the power vested in me by section 7 T~I~oJl.'p. «7. of the act of Congress, approved May 27, 1910 (36 Stat. 443, 447), do hereby transfer to the Territory of Hawaii the title to all lands owned by the United States in the Territory of Hawaii lying within the area described as follows: That certain area of land situate in the District of Puna, Island of Description. Kauai, Territory of Hawaii, thus boullded and described: Beginning at the West corner of proposed fill at a point on seashore at low water mark where the wall begins, the coordinates of said