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PROCLAMATIONS,1931. 2455 36), entitled" An act making r..ppropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thfrtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight1 ~d for other PUl'J)Qses," do proclaim that the follo~ descriDe<1 lands in South Dakota are hereby added to and made a part of the Harney National Forest: LlIDdudded. BLACK HILLS MERIDIAN T.4S., R.1E., NE.~sec.26; T.6S., R.5E., SW.XNW.Xsec. 17. The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands tf~rl8hta, etc., DOt which are at this date legall,. appropriated under the public land a • laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal nghts under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of la,Uds so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained or such reservation remains in force. 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 1 day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-one, and of the [SEAL] Independence of tLe United States of America the one hundred and fifty-fifth. HERBERT HOOVER By the President: HENRY L STIMSON Secretary oj State. [No. 1951) BRYCE CANYON NATIONAL PARK-UTAH BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERIC:.. A PROCLAMATION M., . ~, 1931. WHEREAS Congress by act of February 17, 1931 (Public, No. i~c; ~BDM:h Na· 675-71st Cong.), entitled"An act to adjust the boundaries and for t ~eam~le: . the addition of certain lands to the Bryce Canyon National Park, ~:!tuTarmstroBot (talk)isiOD Utah, and for other purposes," authorized the President of the . United. States, upon the joint recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, to add to said park by Executive proclamation the lands described in said act; WlIEREAS said Secretaries have jointly recommended the addition to the park of the lands hereinafter described; and WHEREAS it appears that the J?ublic interest would be ,Promoted by including such lands within saId park for the preservatIon of the scenic features therein and for road-protection purposes; Now, THEREFORE, I, HERBERT HOOVER, President of the United AreaenIarsed. States of America, do proclaim that the lands hereinafter described be, and are hereby, added to and included within the Bryce Canyon National Park and as part of said park shall be, and are hereby, made subject to the provisions of the act of August 25, 1916 (39 Vol. 39..rp.635. Sts.t . 535), entitled "An act to establish a National Park Service, u. s . v ., p. 389. and for other purposes," and all acts supplementary thereto and amendatory thereof and all other laws and rules and regulations applicable to and extending over the said park: