Franklin D. Roosevelt

Proclamation 2201—Ouachita National Forest, Arkansas and Oklahoma

October 12, 1936

By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation

Whereas certain lands within areas adjoining the Ouachita National Forest, in Arkansas and Oklahoma, have been acquired by the United States under authority of sections 6 and 7 of the act of March 1, 1911, ch. 186, 36 Stat. 961, as amended (U.S.C., title 16, secs. 515, 516); and

Whereas it appears that it would be in the public interest to add such lands and certain adjoining public lands within the areas hereinafter designated to the said National Forest:

Now, Therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the power vested in me by section 24 of the act of March 3, 1891, ch. 561, 26 Stat. 1095, 1103, as amended (U.S.C., title 16, sec. 471), the act of June 4, 1897, ch. 2, 30 Stat. 11, 34, 36 (U.S.C., title 16, sec. 473), and section 11 of the said act of March 1, 1911, do proclaim that all lands of the United States within the following-described areas are included in and reserved as a part of the Ouachita National Forest, and that all lands within such areas which may hereafter be acquired by the United States under the said act of March 1, 1911, as amended, shall upon acquisition of title thereto be reserved and administered as a part of the said National Forest:

FIFTH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN—ARKANSAS

T. 1 S., R. 17 W., secs. 2 to 11, inclusive, and secs. 14 to 28, inclusive.

T. 1 N., R. 17 W., secs. 2 to 11, inclusive; secs. 14 to 23, inclusive, and secs. 26 to 35, inclusive.

T. 2 N., R. 17 W., secs. 26 to 29, inclusive, and secs. 32 to 35, inclusive.

T. 1 S., R. 18 W., secs. 1 to 24, inclusive; secs 27 to 32, inclusive, and N½ sec. 33.

T. 1 N., R. 18 W., Entire.

T. 2 S., R. 19 W., secs. 1 to 12, inclusive; secs. 16 to 18, inclusive, and W½ sec. 19.

T. 1S., R. 19 W., Entire. 

T. 1 N., R. 19 W.. All except parts hitherto placed under national forest administration.

T. 2 S., R. 20 W., secs. 1, 2, 5, 6; secs. 10 to 16, Inclusive, and secs. 23 and 24.

T. 1 S., R. 20 W., Entire

T. 1 N., R. 20 W., All except parts hitherto placed under national forest administration.

T. 4 S., R. 23 W., SW¼ sec. 7, and N½ and of SW¼ sec. 18.

T. 3 S., R. 23 W., All except parts hitherto placed under national forest administration.

T. 2 S., R. 23 W., All except parts hitherto placed under national forest administration.

T. 1 S., R. 28 W., All except parts hitherto placed under national forest administration.

T. 1 N., R. 23 W., All except parts hitherto placed under national forest administration.

T. 4 S., R. 24 W., secs. 1 to 18, inclusive; N½ secs. 19 to 23, inclusive; sec. 24, and E½, N½NW¼, SE¼NW¼, NE¼SW¼ sec. 25.

T. 3 S., R. 24 W., All except parts hitherto placed under national forest administration.

T. 2 S., R. 24 W., All except parts hitherto placed under national forest administration.

T. 1 S., R. 24 W., All except parts hitherto placed under national forest administration.

T. 1 N., R. 24 W., All except parts hitherto placed under national forest administration.

T. 4 S., R. 25 W., secs. 1 to 6, inclusive; secs. 8 to 17, inclusive; secs. 20 to 24, inclusive; secs. 26 to 30, inclusive.

T. 4 S., R. 25 W., N½ and SE¼ sec. 7, and W½SW¼ sec. 19.

T. 3 S., R., 25 W., secs. 31 to 36, inclusive.

T. 2 S., R. 25 W., Entire township except parts hitherto placed under national forest administration.

T. 1 S., R. 25 W., All except parts hitherto placed under national forest administration.

T. 4 S., R. 26 W., All except parts hitherto placed under national forest administration.

T. 2 S., R. 26 W., All except parts hitherto placed under national forest administration.

T. 1 S., R. 26 W., All except parts hitherto placed under national forest administration.

T. 2 S., R. 27 W., All except parts hitherto placed under national forest administration.

T. 1 S., R. 27 W., All except parts hitherto placed under national forest administration.

T. 4 S., R. 29 W., S½ secs. 19 and 20, and secs. 27 to 30, inclusive.

T. 4 S., R. 30 W., S½ secs. 23, 24, 27 and 28, and secs. 25 and 26.

T. 2 N., R. 30 W., secs. 5 to 10, inclusive, and secs. 15 to 18, inclusive.

T. 3 N., R. 30 W., N½ secs. 1 to 6, inclusive; S½ secs. 16, 17 and 18, and secs. 19, 20, 21, 29, 30, 31 and 32.

T. 4 N., R. 30 W., secs. 18 to 28, inclusive; secs.33 to 36, inclusive, and SE¼ sec. 32.

T. 4 S., R. 31 W., secs. 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16; SE¼ and sec. 2, and N½ secs. 21, 22 and 23, and NW¼ sec. 24.

T. 3 S., R. 31 W., secs. 3, 4, 9, 10, 16, 21, 27, 28, 33 and 34; W½ sec. 15; W½ and SE¼ sec. 22; W½ secs. 26 and 35.

T. 2 S., R. 31 W., S½ secs. 33 and 34, and SW¼ sec. 35.

T. 1 N., R. 31 W., sec. 6, and N½ sec. 7.

T. 2 N., R. 31 W., secs. 1, 2, 3; secs. 8 to 19, inclusive and secs. 30 and 31.

T. 3 N., R. 81 W., All except parts hitherto placed under national forest administration.

T. 4 N., R. 31 W., secs. 13, 14; secs. 19 to 24, inclusive; secs. 29 to 30, and S½ sec. 15.

T. 1 N., R. 32 W., secs. 1 to 12, inclusive.

T. 2 N., R. 32 W., All except parts hitherto placed under national forest administration.

T. 3 N., R. 32 W., All except parts hitherto placed under national forest administration.

T. 4 N., R. 32 W., secs. 25, 26, 27, 28, 81, 32 and 33; N½ and SW¼ sec. 34, and NW¼ sec. 35.

T. 1 N., R. 33 W., fractional secs. 1 and 12.

T. 2 N., R. 33 W., fractional secs. 1 and 36.

T. 3 N., R. 33 W., fractional sec. 1; N½ fractional sec. 12; S½ fractional sec. 13; fractional secs. 24, 25, and 36.

T. 4 N., R. 33 W., fractional sec. 36.

The reservation made by this proclamation shall as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public-land laws or reserved for any public purpose other than for classification under Executive Order No. 6964 of February 5, 1935, as amended, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat, legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained or such reservation remains in force.

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 12th day of October, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-six and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-first.

Signature of Franklin D. Roosevelt
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:
CORDELL HULL
Secretary of State.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Proclamation 2201—Ouachita National Forest, Arkansas and Oklahoma Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/357438

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