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Teddy Roosevelt: “I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid act of…”

On the recordJune 11, 1905
I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do hereby make known and proclaim that the boundary lines of the aforesaid Washington Forest Reserve are hereby further modified so as to read as follows
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Proclamation 571—Modifying the Boundaries of the Washington Forest Reserve, Washington

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