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FDR: “I do proclaim that, subject to all valid existing rights, all lands of the United States within the following-described…”

On the recordJuly 11, 1937
I do proclaim that, subject to all valid existing rights, all lands of the United States within the following-described areas are hereby included in and reserved as a part of the Harney National Forest.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Proclamation 2244—Enlarging Harney National Forest, South Dakota and Wyoming

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