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PROCLAMATIONS, 1931. 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 Wash.imrt.on this 34 day of July, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-one, and of the [SEAL1 Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-fifth. HERBERT HOOVER By the President: W. R . CASTLE, Jr Acting Secretary of StaJ,e [No. 1960] OSCEOLA NATIONAL FOREST--FLORIDA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION 2465 1uly 10, 1931. WHEREAS certain forest lands within the State of Florida have been Osoeola National or may hereafter be acquired by the United States of America under F~t:: authority of the ~ct of Congress approved March 1, 1911 (36 Stat. 43V~~.3665a~·l~: Vol. 962; U. S. Code, tItle 16, sec. 516), as amended June 7, 1924 (43 Stat. U .8.C .,p.424. 653; U. S. Code, title 16, sec. 515); and WHEREAS certain public lands in said State are in part covered with timber or undergrowth and it appears that it would be in the public interest to give them a national-forest status; Now, THEREFORE, I, HERBERT HOOVER, President of the United U:ational forest sta- States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section 24 Vol. 26, p. 1100; Vol. of the act of March 3,1891 (26 Stat. H03; U. S.Code, title 16, sec. 471), ~.p. 963; Vol. 43 , p. and by section 11, act of March 1, 1911 (36 Stat. 963; U. S. Code, U.S .C. ,pp .419,425. title 16, sec. 521), do proclaim that there are hereby reserved and set apart as the Osceola National Forest, Fla., all lands of the United States wit.hin the area shown on the diagram attached hereto and made a part hereof, and that all lands therein which may hereafter su'f:::tment of acqtJi. be acquired by the United States under the authority of said acts of . March 1, 1911, and June 7, 1924, shall be reserved and administered as part of said Osceola National Forest. The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands f:~~r rights not at· which are at this date leg8lly appropriated under the public land etcPUbJiC reservation, laws or reserved for any J>ublic purpose other than forest uses, be . subject to, and shall not mterfere WIth or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use. for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained or such reservation remains in force. Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement m!~vedfromsettJe. upon the lands reserved by this proclamation. 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 10" day of July, in the year of our Lord. nineteen hundred and thirty-one, and of the [SEAL1 Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-sixth. HERBERT Ho\' VER By the President: W. R . CASTLE, Jr. Acting Secretary of State. [No. 1961]