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PROCLAMATIONS, 1936

way 289 southwesterly 1.9 miles to State Highway 284 at the hamlet of Cove Creek; thence with State Highway 284 north- westerly to a point on the divide between Pigeon River and Cataloochie Creek in Camp Gap; thence in a general northwest- erly direction with the boundary of land deeded by the State of North Carolina to the United States for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to intersection with State Highway 284 at or near Mt. Sterling Gap; thence northerly with Highway No. 284 to the North Carolina-Tennessee State Line; thence with said State Line easterly to the place of beginning.

The boundaries of the Pisgah 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 10" day of July, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-six and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-first.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State.


SUMTER NATIONAL FOREST-SOUTH CAROLINA July 13, 193 [No. 21881 Sumter National Forest, S. C . Preamble. Statutory authori- zation. 36 Stat. 962. 1BU.. C. i. 515, 516. Reserving, etc. , des- ignated lands for na- tional forest. 26 Stat. 1103 . 16 U.S. C. 471. 36 Stat. 963. 16U. .C. 6521. Enoree Division.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS certain forest lands within the State of South 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, secs. 515, 516); and

WHEREAS it appears that it would be in the public interest to reserve arid designate such lands together with certain other lands heretofore forming a part of the Nantahala National Forest as the Sumter National Forest:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, under and 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), 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 Sumter National Forest all lands of the United States within the following- described boundaries, and that all lands therein which may hereafter be acquired 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 Sumter National Forest:

ENOREE DIVISION

Beginning at the intersection of S. C . Highways 9 and 91, the most northerly point on said Unit, approximately one-quarter mile East of Lockhart; thence southeasterly with Highway 9, approximately five miles to intersection with Old Columbia road at Wilksburg; thence southerly with Old Columbia road approxi-