by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that the aforesaid Black Mesa Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are now as shown…

The right is reserved to reject any and all bids.

Bids for said lands shall be in accordance with such form, and at such minimum price as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior.

It is imperatively necessary in the interest of health and of decency that they should be radically changed.

Under existing law the National Government has no power to enforce inspection of the many forms of prepared meat food products.

Let me repeat that under the present law there is practically no method of stopping these abuses if they should be discovered to exist.

The report shows that the stock yards and packing houses are not kept even reasonably clean.

In my judgment the expense of the inspection should be paid by a fee levied on each animal slaughtered.

The conditions shown by even this short inspection to exist in the Chicago stock yards are revolting.

A law is needed which will enable the inspectors of the general Government to inspect and supervise from the hoof to the can the preparation of the meat food product.

Under the existing law it is wholly impossible to secure satisfactory results.

If inspection of meat food products at all stages of preparation is not secured by the passage of the legislation recommended I shall feel compelled to order that inspection labels and certificates on canned products shall not be used…

I urge the immediate enactment into law of provisions which will enable the Department of Agriculture adequately to inspect the meat and meat-food products entering into interstate commerce.

I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the said Act and Resolution of Congress, do hereby declare and make known that all the unallotted lands in the ceded portion of said…

By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Whereas,

Done at the City of Washington this 2nd day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth.

Moreover, it is a peculiar pleasure to speak today under the auspices of the Army and Navy Union.

No other men deserve so well of this country as those to whom we owe it that we now have a country.