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Boundaries modi- NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- ed. dent of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the power 26 Stat. 1037 in me vested by section 24 of the act of March 3, 1891, ch. 561, 26 6 U.. Stat. 1095, 1103, as amended (U. S . C ., title 16, sec. 471), the act of 30Stat. 36 . 16 U.S. C. 473 June 4, 1897, ch. 2, 30 Stat. 34, 36 (U. S. C ., title 16, sec. 473), and 16UsU. .521 section 11 of the said act of March 1, 1911, do proclaim (1) that all Lands included, lands of the United States within the area shown as an addition on the diagram attached hereto and made a part hereof are hereby included Administration. in and reserved as a part of the Nicolet National Forest, and (2) that all lands within such area which may hereafter be acquired by the United States under the said acts of March 1, 1911, and June 7, 1924, shall upon acquisition of title thereto be reserved and administered Mondeaux Divi- as a part of said Forest, and (3) that the aforesaid Mondeaux Division sion transferred to Ohequamegon Na- is hereby transferred to the Chequamegon National Forest. tiona, p. 1e. This proclamation and that modifying the boundaries of the Chequamegon National Forest, which I have signed this same day, are made, and are intended to be and shall be considered, as one act and they shall become effective simultaneously. Rights, etc., re- The reservation made by this proclamation shall as to all lands served . which are at this date legally appropriated under the public-land laws or reserved for any public purpose other than classification, be subject to and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, or 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. 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 31 st day of December, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-six, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-first. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: R. WALTON MOORE Acting Secretary of State. OTTAWA NATIONAL FOREST-MICHIGAN January 11, 1937 [No. 22201 Ottawa National Forest, Mich. Preamble. 46 Stat. 3044 . 36 Stat. 961; 43 Stat. 653. 16 U. . C. §C615, 616. 49 Stat. 115. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS by proclamation of January 27, 1931 (46 Stat. 3044), there were set apart and reserved as the Ottawa National Forest in the State of Michigan certain lands which had been, or might there- after be, acquired by the United States of America under authority of the act of Congress approved March 1, 1911, ch. 186, 36 Stat. 961 (U. S . C ., title 16, sec. 516), as amended by the act of June 7, 1924, ch. 348, 43 Stat. 653 (U. S . C ., title 16, sec. 515), together with certain adjoining public lands; and WHEREAS it appears that it would be in the public interest to modify the boundaries of the said national forest by including therein certain other forest lands which have been, or may be, acquired under authority of the said acts of March 1, 1911, and June 7, 1924, and the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, approved April 8, 1935 (49 Stat. 115), and certain adjoining public lands: 1808 PROCLAMATIONS, 1936, 1937