Appendix C
MONTEZUMA CASTLE NATIONAL MONUMENT
1937 PROCLAMATION EXPANDING MONUMENT BOUNDARIES
1937 PROCLAMATION EXPANDING MONUMENT BOUNDARIES
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A
PROCLAMATION
[No. 2226 February 23, 1937 50 Stat. 1817]
WHEREAS the area in the State of Arizona established
as the Montezuma Castle National Monument by Proclamation of December 8,
1906, has situated thereon prehistoric ruins and ancient cliff dwellings
which are of great interest to the public; and
WHEREAS it appears that there are certain
government-owned lands reserved by Proclamation of September 29, 1919,
as a part of Coconino National Forest, adjacent to the boundaries of the
said monument, which are required for the proper care, management, and
protection of the said prehistoric ruins and ancient cliff
dwellings:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority
vested in me by section 1 of the act of June 4, 1897, ch. 2, 30 Stat.
11, 36 (U. S. C., title 16, sec. 473), and section 2 of the act of June
8, 1906, ch. 3060, 34 Stat. 225 (U. S. C., title 16, sec. 431), do
proclaim that, subject to all valid existing rights, the
following-described lands in Arizona are hereby excluded from the
Coconino National Forest and reserved from all forms of appropriation
under the public-land laws and added to and made a part of the Montezuma
Castle National Monument:
GILA AND SALT RIVER MERIDIAN
T. 14 N., R. 5 E., | sec. 8,
S1/2SE1/4, S1/2NW1/4 SE1/4, SE1/4SW1/4, S1/2NE1/4SW1/4;
sec. 16, E1/2NW1/4, SE1/4SW1/4NW1/4, N1/2SW1/4NW1/4;
sec. 17, N1/2SE1/4NE1/4, N1/2SW1/4NE1/4, SW1/4SW1/4NE1/4, SE1/4NW1/4, containing 360 acres.
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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 (ch. 408, 39 Stat. 535, U. S.
C., title 16, secs. 1 and 2), and acts supplementary thereto or
amendatory thereof: Provided, that the administration of the
monument shall be subject to the withdrawal for the Salt River
Irrigation project, Arizona.
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 23d day of
February in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-seven and
of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and
sixty-first.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.
By the President:
CORDELL HULL,
The Secretary of State.
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