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c8 Observance of May 13, 1951, as Mother's Day.

PROCLAMATIONS—APR. 26, 1951

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and their contributions to the moral and religious uplift of humanity: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby direct the appropriate officials of the Government to arrange for the display of the flag of the United States on all public buildings on Mother's Day, May 13, 1951, and I call upon the people to display the flag on that day at their homes or other suitable places as a public expression of honor for our mothers. I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. D O N E at the City of Washington this 26th day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-one, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-fifth. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: DEAN ACHESON

Secretary of State ENLARGING HOVENWEEP NATIONAL MONUMENT COLORADO AND U T A H April 26, 1951 [No. 2924]

BY THE P R E S I D E N T OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION 42 Stat., F t. 2, p. 2299.

Addition of designated lands as parts of Hovenweep National Monument.

WHEREAS Proclamation No. 1654 of March 2, 1923, established the Hovenweep National Monument on certain public lands in southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah for the purpose of protecting and preserving four groups of ruins including structures of the finest prehistoric masonry to be found in the United States; and WHEREAS it has been determined that the public lands described and set apart as the said Hovenweep National Monument do not include the lands containing one of the said groups of ruins known as the Hackberry Ruin; and WHEREAS another ruin, known as the Goodman Point Ruin, situated in the vicinity of the Hovenweep National Monument, has been found to be of significance comparable to, and suitable for preservation with, the ruins comprising the said Monument; and WHEREAS it is deemed desirable in the public interest that the lands embracing the Hackberry Ruin and the Goodman Point Ruin be added to and reserved as parts of the Hovenweep National Monument: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 2 of the act of June 8, 1906 (ch. 3060, 34 Stat. 225, 16 U.S.C. 431), do proclaim that, subject to valid existing rights and the provisions of existing withdrawals, the following-described tracts of land in Colorado are hereby added to and reserved as parts of the Hovenweep National Monument: N E W MEXICO PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN

T. 36 N., R. 20 W., Sec. 2, lot 3, and S E ^ N W i ^ T. 36 N., R. 17 W., Sec. 4, lot 2, and S W i ^ N E i ^ Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure, destroy, or remove any feature of this monument and not to locate or settle upon any of the lands thereof.