Appendix B
MONTEZUMA CASTLE NATIONAL MONUMENT
1906 ESTABLISHMENT PROCLAMATION
1906 ESTABLISHMENT PROCLAMATION
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
[No. 696 December 8, 1906 34 Stat. 3265]
WHEREAS, it is provided by section two of the Act of
Congress, approved June 8, 1906, entitled, "An act for the preservation
of American antiquities," "That the President of the United States is
hereby authorized, in his discretion, to declare by public proclamation
historic land marks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other
objects of historic or scientific interest that are situated upon the
lands owned or controlled by the Government of the United States to be
national monuments, and may reserve as a part thereof parcels of land,
the limits of which in all cases shall be confined to the smallest area
compatible with the proper care and management of the objects to be
protected";
AND, WHEREAS, the prehistoric structure known as
Montezuma's Castle in the Territory of Arizona, situated upon public
lands owned by the United States, is of the greatest ethnological value
and scientific interest and it appears that the public good would be
promoted by reserving this ruin as a national monument with as much land
as may be necessary for the proper protection thereof;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of
the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by
section two of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby set aside as the
Montezuma Castle National Monument the prehistoric structure aforesaid
and for the proper protection thereof do hereby reserve from settlement,
entry or other disposal, all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of
land lying and being in the Territory of Arizona, and within, what will
be when surveyed, the tracts particularly described as follows, to
wit:
The northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of
section sixteen, the north half of the northeast quarter and northeast
quarter of northwest quarter of section seventeen, township fourteen
north, range five east, Gila and Salt River Meridian, as shown upon the
map hereto attached and made a part of this proclamation.
Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not
to appropriate, excavate, injure or destroy said monument or to settle
upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and
cause the seal of the United States to be affixed.
DONE at the city of Washington this 8th day of
December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and
of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty
first.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
By the President:
ELIHU ROOT,
Secretary of State.
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