Proclamation 2271—Chequamegon National Forest, Wisconsin

By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation

Whereas certain lands within the exterior boundaries of the Chequamegon National Forest, in the State of Wisconsin, have been acquired by the United States through the Farm Security Administration or its predecessors under authority of the National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933 (48 Stat. 195), and the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, approved April 8, 1935 (49 Stat. 115); and

Whereas it appears that all such lands are suitable for national-forest purposes and that it would be in the public interest to reserve such lands as part of the said Chequamegon 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, 26 Stat. 1095, 1103, as amended (U.S.C., title 16, sec. 471), the act of June 4, 1897, 30 Stat. 34, 36 (U.S.C., title 16, sec. 473), the said National Industrial Recovery Act, and the said Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, do proclaim that all lands which have been acquired by the United States through the Farm Security Administration or its predecessors within the external boundaries of the said Chequamegon National Forest under authority of the said National Industrial Recovery Act and the said Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 are hereby included in and reserved as part of the Chequamegon National Forest.

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

Done at the City of Washington, this 17th day of January in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-second.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:
CORDELL HULL
Secretary of State.