Nantahala National Forest—North Carolina
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
[1]A PROCLAMATION
[2]WHEREAS certain forest lands within the State of North Carolina have been or may hereafter be acquired by the United States of America under the authority of sections 6 and 7 of the act of March 1, 1911, ch. 186, 36 Stat. 961, as amended (U. S . C., title 16, sees. 515, 516); and
WHEREAS it appears that the reservation as the Nantahala National Forest of the said lands together with certain other lands heretofore forming parts of the Cherokee National Forest and the Nantahala National Forest would be in the public interest:
[3]NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- 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, ch. 561, 26 Stat. 1095, 1103, as amended (U. S. C., title 16, sec. 471), the act of June 4, 1897, ch. 2, 30 Stat. 34, 36 (U. S . C., title 16, sec. 473), 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 Nantahala National Forest all lands of the United States within the following-described boundaries, and that all lands therein which may hereafter be ac- quired by the United States under authority of the said act of March 1, 1911, as amended, shall upon their acquisition be reserved and administered as a part of the Nantahala National Forest:
[4]Beginning at "Ellicotte's Rock," the point where the 35th parallel of latitude intersects the Chattooga River, the common corner of the states of North Carolina, South Carolina and Geor- ia; thence westerly with the North Carolina-Georgia State tine to the point where the public road leading up Bell Creek, a tributary of Hiwassee River, crosses said state line; thence northerly with the meanders of public road crossing divide and going down Need More Branch to the junction of said road with U.S . Highway No. 64, on the north side of Shooting Creek; thence westerly with U. S. Highway No. 64 approximately Y mile to its junction with road leading to Licklog Gap; thence northerly with the meanders of said road approximately % mile to the road leading from Union Chapel to Drowning Creek; thence westerly with said road to its junction with road leading up Drowning Creek; thence northeasterly with said road approxi- mately % mile to the road leading north across Drowning Creek; thence northerly, westerly, and northwesterly with the road leading around the south foot of the mountain dividing the waters of Drowning Creek and Tusquittee Creek to its junction with the main road leading from Hayesville up Tusquittee Creek; thence northeasterly with said road approximately 2% miles crossing Tusquittee Creek to a road junction about % mile north of the creek; thence westerly with the public road down the north side of Tusquittee Creek and Hiwassee River passing a big bend in the river to a point opposite the second such bend; thence due south to the middle of Hiwassee River; thence westerly with the meanders of Hiwassee River to the Andrews hydro- electric dam; thence northerly with the meanders of the Tennes- see and North Carolina Railroad to its intersection with the public road leading up Peachtree Creek; thence northeasterly with said road to a road leading west; thence westerly with said road to
