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Harry Truman: “I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 24 of…”

On the recordJune 2, 1947
I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 24 of the act of March 3, 1891, 26 Stat. 1103 (16 U.S.C. 471), and section 1 of the act of June 4, 1897, 30 Stat. 11, 36 (16 U.S.C. 473), do proclaim that all lands within the exterior boundaries of those parts of the Siskiyou, Klamath, and Trinity National Forests lying west of the following described line are hereby eliminated from those forests and are consolidated to form and shall hereafter constitute the Six Rivers National Forest.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri
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Proclamation 2733—Six Rivers National Forest—California

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