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FDR: “Now, Therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the…”

On the recordDecember 22, 1936
Now, Therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the statutory provisions above set out, do proclaim that the aforesaid area as indicated on the diagram attached hereto and forming a part hereof is hereby set aside as a national monument to be known as the Ocmulgee National Monument.
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Democratic · New York

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Proclamation 2212—Ocmulgee National Monument, Georgia

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