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Executive Order 11028—Transferring Lands Between the Clark and Mark Twain National Forests (Missouri) and Adding Certain Lands to the Hiawatha National Forest (Michigan)

June 09, 1962

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 24 of the Act of March 3, 1891 (26 Stat. 1103; 16 U.S.C. 471), the Act of June 4, 1897 (30 Stat. 34, 36; 16 U.S.C. 473), and as President of the United States, and upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture, it is ordered as follows:

1. That part of the Clark National Forest lying in townships 23 north to 27 north, inclusive, and ranges 1 and 2 east and 1 to 5 west, inclusive, Fifth Principal Meridian, Missouri, as proclaimed by Proclamation No. 2363 of September 11, 1939 (54 (54 Stat. 2657), as modified by Executive Order No. 10932 of April 7, 1961 (26 F.R. 3051) is hereby transferred of an made a part of the Mark Twain National Forest.

2. That part of the Mark Twain National Forest lying in townships 31 north to 37 north, inclusive, and ranges 9 west to 13 west, inclusive, Fifth Principal Meridian, Missouri, as proclaimed by Proclamation No. 2362 of September 11, 1939 (54 Stat. 2655), as modified by Executive Order NO. 10932 of April 7, 1961 (26 F.R. 3051), is hereby transferred to and made a part of the Clark National Forest.

3. Lot 1, section 25, township 40 north, range 3 west, Michigan Meridian (Round Island) is hereby added to and made a part of the Hiawatha National Forest (Michigan) as proclaimed by Proclamation of January 16, 1939 (53 Stat. 3043), as modified by Proclamation No. 2318 (553 Stat. 2518), Executive Order No. 10932 of April 7, 1961 (26 F.R. 3051), and Executive Order No. 10993 of February 9, 1962 (27 F.R. 1312).

This order shall become effective on July 1, 1962.

JOHN F. KENNEDY

THE WHITE HOUSE,

June 9, 1962

John F. Kennedy, Executive Order 11028—Transferring Lands Between the Clark and Mark Twain National Forests (Missouri) and Adding Certain Lands to the Hiawatha National Forest (Michigan) Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/235952

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