I thank you for coming here and for giving me the privilege of joining with you today in these solemn ceremonies of commemoration.
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Address at the Ceremonies Incident to the Breaking of Sod for the Erection of a Monument in Memory of the Late President...
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The co-operative plan is the best plan of organization wherever men have the right spirit to carry it out.
It is unlawful for any person to hunt, trap, capture, willfully disturb, or kill any bird of any kind whatever, or take the eggs of such birds within the limits of this reservation.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, 'An Act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,' do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from settlement or entry and set apart as a public reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of lands, in the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, shown as the Zuni National Forest on the two parts of the said diagram.





