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PROCLAMATIONS, 1936.
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ch. 186, 36 Stat. 961, as amended (U. S. C., Title 16, Secs. 515 and 516); and

WHEREAS it appears that it would be in the public interest to designate said lands as the Apalachicola National Forest:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- na18:13, 19 November 2014 (UTC)starea for dent of the United States of America by virtue of the power vested in me by Section 24 of the Act of March 3, 1891, eh. 561, 26 Stat. ~o~ ~ Pp~l~~ 666 1095, 1103, as amended (U. S. C., Title 16, Sec. 471), and by Section 11 of the said Act of March 1, 1911 (U. S. C., Title 16, Sec. 521), do proclaim that there are hereby reserved and set apart as the Apalachicola National Forest all lands of the United States within the area shown on the diagram hereto attached and made a part hereof, and that all lands therein which may hereafter be acquired by the United States under authority of said Act of March 1, 1911, as amended, shall, upon their acquisition, be reserved and administered as part of said National Forest.

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 13" day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-six and of [SEAL] the independence of the United States of America, the one hundred and sixtieth.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President: ~ CORDEJ,L IIeLL Secretary of State.

[No. 2160]


NATIONAL ~lAH.l'rIME DAY BY TH}~ PRESIDENT OJ" THE L'NITJ';D STATJ';S OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATIO~ MRY 18, 1936. WHEREAS on :May 22, 1819, the steamship Tile Sa1'Onnah sailed J)X~tiODaI MRrltime from Savannah, Georgia, on the first successful transocennic voyage J~reamble. under steam propulsion, thus making a material contribution to the advancement of ocean transportation; and 'VHEREAS Public Resolution 7, Seventy-third Congress, approved Vol. 41;, II . 73 . May 20, 1933, provides, in part: "That :May 22 of each year shall hereafter he designated and known as National Maritime Day, and the President is authorized and requested annually to issue a proclamation ('aIling upon the people of the Umted States to observe such National Maritime Day by displaying the flag at their homes or other suitable places and Government officials to display the flag on all Government buildings on May 22 of eachyear." ; NOW THEREFORE I FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT Presi- Inviting ob!ervance '. ". • 'orMay 22, 1\136, lIS. dent of the Umted States of Ameflca, do hereby call upon the people of the United States to observe ~lay 22, 1936, as National Maritime Day by displaying the flag at their homes or other suitable places, . and do direct Governmen t officials to display the flag on all Govern- ment buildings on that day.