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PROCLAMATIONS-MIAR . 2, 1940 ENLARGING THE WASATCH NATIONAL FOREST UTAH BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS it appears that all lands of the United States within the hereinafter-described area, adjacent to the Wasatch National Forest in the State of Utah, are suitable for national-forest purposes, and that it would be in the public interest to add such lands of the United States to the said Wasatch National Forest; and WHEREAS it further appears that the extension of the boundaries of the Wasatch National Forest to include the said hereinafter- described area would be in the public interest: 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, 26 Stat. 1095, 1103, as amended (U. S . C ., title 16, sec. 471), and the act of June 4, 1897, 30 Stat. 11, 36 (U. S . C., title 16, sec. 473), and upon recom- mendation of the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior, do proclaim (1) that the boundaries of the Wasatch National Forest in the State of Utah are hereby extended to include therein the following- described area, and (2) that all lands of the United States within such area are hereby added to and reserved as part of the Wasatch National Forest, and shall hereafter be subject to the laws, rules, and regulations applicable to national forests. Salt Lake Meridian T.4S., R.2E., sec. 7, NEY, ENWY, NWNW 4, sec. 8, SWY, sec. 17, W%, sec. 20, W4, sec. 29, W%, sec. 32, E%; T.5S., R.2E., sec. 5, E%, sec. 8, NE%, sec. 9, all, sec. 15, SWY, sec. 16, E%, NWY4; AGGREGATING 3,506.37 acres. The reservation made by this proclamation shall, as to any of the above-described lands which are at this date legally appropriated under any of the public-land laws or reserved for any public purpose, 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 21 day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty, and of the Inde- [SEAL] pendence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fourth. FRANKLN D ROOSEVELT By the President: COBDELL HULL Secretary of State. Preamble. Wasatch National Forest, Utah, lands added. Administration. Description. Existing rights not affected. March 2,1940 [No. 2387] 2687 54 STAT.]