Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the act of Congress, do hereby declare and make known that the lands above described are hereby reserved as townsites.

Context

Proclamation 590—Withdrawl of Lands from Uinta Indian Reservations, Utah, for Additional Townsites

08/13/1905

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