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Harry Truman: “Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure, destroy, or remove any feature…”

On the recordJanuary 16, 1952
Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure, destroy, or remove any feature of this addition to the said monument and not to locate or settle on any of the lands thereof.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Proclamation 2961—Addition of Devil's Hole, Nevada, to Death Valley National Monument—California and Nevada

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