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Proclamation 3144—Enlarging the Rocky Mountain National Park—Colorado

June 27, 1956


By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

Whereas the act of June 21, 1930, 46 Stat. 791 (16 U.S.C. 192b), authorizes the President of the United States, upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, to add to the Rocky Mountain National Park, in the State of Colorado, by Executive proclamation, certain lands described in such act; and

Whereas the Secretary of the Interior has recommended the addition to such park of certain lands described in such act; and

Whereas it appears to be in the public interest that such lands be included in the park for future preservation and administration as a part of the park:

Now, Therefore, I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, do proclaim that the lands hereinafter described are hereby added to the Rocky Mountain National Park, in the State of Colorado, and shall, upon acquisition of title thereto by the United States, become subject to the provisions of the act entitled "An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes," approved August 25, 1916, 39 Stat. 535 (16 U.S.C. 1-3), and all acts supplementary thereto and amendatory thereof, and all other laws and rules and regulations applicable to such park:

SIXTH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN

T. 5 N., R. 73 W.,

Sec. 33. S 1/2 NE 1/4, SE 1/4 SE 1/4, and N 1/2 SE 1/4;

Sec. 34, N1/2 SW1/4 NE1/4, N 1/2, SE 1/4 NW 1/4, SW 1/4 NW 1/4, and NW 1/4 SW 1/4.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed.

DONE at the City of Washington this 27th day of June in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eightieth.

Signature of Dwight D. Eisenhower

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

By the President:

JOHN FOSTER DULLES,

Secretary of State

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Proclamation 3144—Enlarging the Rocky Mountain National Park—Colorado Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/307416

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