to Hassler's Mill on Holly Creek; thence northwesterly with public road near foot of mountain to its junction with U. S . Highway No. 411 at or near Crandall; thence northerly with U. S. Highway No. 411 to the Georgia-Tennessee State Line; thence easterly with the State Line to Georgia State Highway No. 5 near Copper Hill, Tennessee; thence southerly with Highway No. 5 to U. S . Highway No. 76, at Blue Ridge; thence east- erly with U. S . Highway No 76 to the bridge across Coosa Creek, about 1½ miles southwest of Blairsville; thence southerly with the meanders of Coosa Creek approximately 2 miles to where a secondary road crosses the creek; thence easterly with said secondary road to U. S . Highway No. 19 just east of Nottely River; thence southeasterly with U. S . Highway No. 19, about 4 miles to the junction with a secondary road which crosses Nottely River about ¼ mile above the mouth of Stink Creek; thence northeasterly, then northerly, then northwesterly with the meanders of said secondary road, going up Stink Creek, crossing the divide onto a tributary of Town Creek, crossing Town Creek and the divide between Town Creek and Arkaqua Creek, passing Fain and Hood to U. S . Highway No. 19 approximately 1 mile southeast of Blairsville; thence northerly with U. S. Highway No. 19 to the Georgia-North Carolina State Line; thence easterly with the State Line to where it crosses Brasstown Creek; thence southerly with the meanders of Brasstown Creek to U. S. Highway No. 76; thence northerly, easterly and southeasterly with U. S . Highway No. 76, to the point where it crosses Hiawassee River, about ¾ mile northwest of Hiawassee; thence southerly with the meanders of Hiawassee River approximately 1 mile to a sharp bend in the river with a secondary road on west bank; thence southeasterly with the meanders of said secondary road to its junction with State Highway No. 75; thence southerly with Highway No. 75 to where it crosses Hiawassee River; thence northeasterly with the meanders of Hiawassee River to its junction with Hightower Creek; thence due north to U. S. Highway No. 76; thence northwesterly with U. S. Highway No. 76 to Hiawassee; thence northeasterly with the meanders of the public road leading up Bell Creek to the Georgia-North Carolina State Line; thence in an easterly direction with the State Line to point of beginning. Excluding from the above- described area all land included within the corporate limits of the towns of Clayton, Hiawassee, Blairsville, Blue Ridge, z Ellijay and McCaysville; a second tract lying in White County, Georgia, and consisting of all of Lot 136, District 3; those portions of Lots 137 and 153, District 3, which the United States acquired from John E. Mitchell; and those portions of Lots 168 and 169, District 3, which the United States acquired from the Smothport Extract Company, all of which form one contiguous tract.
The boundaries of the Chattahoochee National Forest are graphically shown on the diagram attached hereto and made a part hereof.
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 9th day of July, 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 sixty-first.
By the President:
Cordell Hull
Secretary of State.
