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APPENDIX 7:
PROCLAMATIONS ESTABLISHING CANYON DE CHELLY NM

"11. Canyon De Chelly National Monument


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Establishment: Proclamation (No. 1945) of April 1, 1931133
Boundaries revised: Proclamation (No. 2036) of March 3, 1933134

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

[No. 1945—Apr. 1, 1931—47 Stat. 2448]

WHEREAS Congress by act of February 14, 1931 (Public, No. 667—71st Cong.), entitled "An act to authorize the President of the United States to establish the Canyon De Chelly National Monument within the Navajo Indian Reservation, Arizona," authorized the President of the United States, with the consent of the Tribal Council of the Navajo Tribe of Indians, to establish the said Canyon De Chelly National Monument by Executive proclamation;

WHEREAS the Navajo Tribal Council Assembly at Fort Wingate, N. Mex., on July 8, 1930, adopted a resolution approving the establishment of the Canyon de Chelly National Monument; and

WHEREAS it appears that the public interest would be promoted by including the lands hereinafter described within a national monument for the preservation of a great number of cliff dwellings and for their archaeological interest;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Herbert Hoover, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the said act of Congress approved February 14, 1931, do hereby proclaim and establish the Canyon De Chelly National Monument and that the following described lands in Arizona be, and the same are hereby, included within the said national monument:

NAVAJO MERIDIAN

Unsurveyed T. 4 N., R. 7 W., 1/2 sec. 5 and NE. 1/4 sec. 6;

Unsurveyed T. 5 N., R. 7 W., 1/2 sec. 15, sec. 19, 1/2 sec. 20, secs. 21, 22, S. 1/2 sec. 23, N. 1/2 sec. 26, N. 1/2 sec. 28, secs. 29 to 32 inclusive;

Unsurveyed T. 3 N., R. 8 W., sec. 4 and E. 1/2 sec. 5;

Unsurveyed T. 4 N., R. 8 W., secs. 6, 7, SW. 1/4 sec. 17, secs. 18, 19, S. 1/2, NW. 1/4 sec. 20, secs. 29, 30, M. 1/2 secs. 32 and 33;

Unsurveyed T. 5 N., R. 8 W., secs. 7, 13, S. 1/2 sec. 14, S. 1/2 sec. 15, S. 1/2, NW. 1/4 sec. 16, secs. 17 to 24 inclusive, N. 1/2 sec 25, N. 1/2. SE. 1/4 sec. 28, N. 1/2 sec. 29, N. 1/2 sec. 1/2 sec. 26, sec. 27, N. 30, and SW. 1/4 sec. 31;

Unsurveyed T. 6 N., R. 8 W., N. 1/2 sec. 3, secs. 4 to 8 inclusive, W. 1/2 sec. 18, and NW. 1/4 sec. 19;

Unsurveyed T. 7 N., R. 8 W., S. 1/2 sec. 33, sec. 34, and W. 1/2 sec. 35;

Unsurveyed T. 4 N., R. 9 W., sees 1, 2, 3, E. 1/2 sec. 4, N. 1/2 sec. 10, N. 1/2 sec. 11, sees. 12, 13, E. 1/2 sec. 24, and E. 1/2 sec. 25;

Unsurveyed T. 5 N., R. 9 W., sees. 4 to 31 inclusive, E. 1/2 sec. 33, sees. 34, 35, and 36;

Surveyed T. 6 N., R. 9 W., sees 1, 2, 3, sees. 10 to 15 inclusive, sees. 21, 22, 23, N. 1/2 sec. 26, sees. 27, 28, 29, SE. 1/4 sec. 30, and sees. 31 to 34 inclusive;

Surveyed T. 5 N., R. 10 W., secs, 1 to 18 inclusive, N. 1/2 sec. 22, sees. 23, 24, 25, N. 1/2 sec. 26, and N. 1/2 see. 36;

Surveyed T. 6 N., R. 10 W., E. 1/2 sec. 34, sec. 35, and S. 1/2 sec. 36, contained approximately 83,840 acres.

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.

The Director of the National Park Service, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, shall have the supervision, management, and control of this monument as provided in the act of Congress entitled "An act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes," approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535), and acts additional thereto or amendatory thereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand the caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL]

DONE at the City of Washington this 1st day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-fifth.

HERBERT HOOVER.

By the President:
   WILBUR J. CARR,
      Acting Secretary of State."



"BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

[No. 2036—Mar. 3, 1933—47 Stat. 2562]

WHEREAS Congress by act of February 14, 1931 (Public, No. 667—71st Cong.), entitled "An act to authorize the President of the United States to establish the Canyon De Chelly National Monument within the Navajo Indian Reservation, Arizona," authorized the President of the United States, with the consent of the Tribal Council of the Navajo Tribe of Indians, to establish the said Canyon De Chelly National Monument by Executive Proclamation; and

WHEREAS Congress by act of March 1, 1933 (Public, No. 404—72nd Cong. 2nd Session), entitled "An Act To amend the description of land described in section 1 of the act approved February 14, 1931, entitled 'An Act To authorize the President of the United States to establish the Canyon De Chelly National Monument within the Navajo Indian Reservation, Arizona,"' amended the description of the land described in section 1 of the act of February 14, 1931; and

WHEREAS the Navajo Tribal Council Assembly at Fort Wingate, New Mexico, on July 8, 1930, adopted a resolution approving the establishment of the Canyon De Chelly National Monument; and

WHEREAS it appears to be in the public interest that the cliff dwellings and other features of scientific and educational interest desired to be preserved be more accurately described by amending the description of the land for the Canyon De Chelly National Monument as established by Proclamation No. 1945 dated April 1, 1931;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Herbert Hoover, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the said acts of Congress approved February 14, 1931, and March 1, 1933, do proclaim that the Canyon De Chelly National Monument as heretofore established by proclamation shall comprise the following described lands:

"All lands in Del Muerto, De Chelly, and Monument Canyons, and the canyons tributary thereto, and the lands within one-half mile of the rims of the said canyons, situated in unsurveyed townships 4 and 5 north, range 7 west; townships 4, 5, and 6 north, range 8 west; townships 4 and 5 north, range 9 west; and in surveyed townships 4 and 5 north, range 6 west; townships 3, 6, and 7 north, range 7 west; township 6 north, range 9 west; and township 5 north, range 10 west; embracing about eighty-three thousand eight hundred and forty acres, all of the Navajo meridian, in Arizona,"

and the proclamation dated April 1, 1931, heretofore issued for the establishment of the said national monument is hereby accordingly modified.

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.

The Director of the National Park Service, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, shall have the supervision, management, and control of this monument as provided in the act of Congress entitled "An Act To establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes," approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535), and acts additional thereto or amendatory thereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL]

DONE at the City of Washington this 3d day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-three and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-seventh.

HERBERT HOOVER.

By the President:
   HENRY L. STIMSON,
      Secretary of State."

From Thomas Alan Sullivan, comp., Proclamations and Orders Relating to the National Park Service Up to January 1, 1945 (Washington: GPO, 1947), pp. 133-35.



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