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Teddy Roosevelt: “By virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress, I do proclaim that the said lands are hereby added to the…”

On the recordMarch 1, 1909
By virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress, I do proclaim that the said lands are hereby added to the Sitgreaves National Forest
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Proclamation 859—Enlarging the Sitgreaves National Forest, Arizona

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