PROCLAMATIONS-AUG. 7, 28 , 1942 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this 7 th day of August in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-two and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-seventh. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. NATIONAL DEFENSE PIPE LINE-PROJECT FIVE PIPE LINE CORPORATION BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, the Act of Congress entitled "An Act to facilitate the construction, extension, or completion of interstate petroleum pipe lines related to national defense, and to promote interstate commerce", approved July 30, 1941 (Public Law 197, 77th Congress), vests in the President certain powers relating to the construction, extension, com- pletion, operation and maintenance of interstate pipe lines related to national defense: NOW, THEREFORE, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by said Act do hereby find and proclaim: That (1) For national defense purposes it is necessary that there be con- structed and completed a pipe-line system for the transportation and distribution of petroleum products moving in interstate commerce originating in the vicinity of El Dorado, Arkansas, and extending in a northeasterly direction to a point near Helena, Arkansas, the route for which is generally indicated on a map which is on file in the Office of Petroleum Coordinator for War, detailed survey maps of which shall be on record in said Office, with terminal facilities for loading at barge loading docks on the Mississippi River, and with carloading racks on one or both sides of the Mississippi River; (2) That Project Five Pipe Line Corporation, a private corporation organized under the laws of the State of Delaware, has commenced the work necessary for the construction of said pipe line and facilities, and represents that it is prepared to complete said pipe line and facilities; and (3) For the purposes of construction, completion, operation and maintenance of said pipeline system it is necessary that said Project Five Pipe Line Corporation have the right, as provided in the afore- said Act, by the exercise of the right of eminent domain, to acquire along the route, and at, and between the points above identified, and such portions thereof as may be along or across or under any railroad, public highway, road, street, or alley, and any public stream (a) ease- ments and rights of way not in excess of one hundred feet in width, for the construction, completion, operation, maintenance and removal of the pipe lines, including right of access thereto over adjoining lands, and (b) parcels of land or any interest therein not in excess of one hundred acres in each separate parcel, for location of its storage tanks, pumping stations, delivery and receiving facilities, and other facilities August 28, 1942 [No. 25671 65 Stat. 610 . 15 U. S. C., Supp. I, ch. 16A. Route for pipe-line system. Acquisition of ease- ments and land. 1975 56 STAT.]
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