Bill Taft: “By virtue of the power vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby proclaim and declare that an extraordinary occasion…”

There is no difference between the reasons which call for the application of the leasing system to the coal lands still retained by the Government in the United States proper and those which exist in Alaska.

It is hereby ordered that on and after March 1, 1912, the boundaries of the Sitgreaves National Forest, Ariz., proclaimed March 2, 1909, be further modified by excluding therefrom all that part of the White Mountain Apache Indian…

I think it to be greatly in the interest of fair dealing, which ought always to be encouraged by law.

I earnestly recommend the establishment of a Bureau of National Parks.