Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section 2380 and 2381 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, do hereby declare and make known that said lands are hereby reserved as townsites, to be disposed of by the United States under the terms of the statutes applicable thereto.

Context

Proclamation 587—Reservation of Certain Lands in the Uinta Indian Reservation, Utah for Townsites

07/30/1905

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