Proclamation 2294—Chattahoochee National Forest, Georgia

By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation

Whereas certain lands adjacent to the Chattahoochee National Forest, in the State of Georgia, have been acquired or are in process of acquisition 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 said lands are primarily suitable for national forest purposes and that it would be in the public interest to reserve them as part of the said Chattahoochee 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. 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 (1) that all lands within the hereinafter described boundaries which have been acquired by the United States through the Farm Security Administration or its predecessors under the authority of the said National Industrial Recovery Act and the said Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 are hereby added to and made a part of the said Chattahoochee National Forest, and (2) that all lands within the said boundaries which are in process of acquisition by the United States through the Farm Security Administration under the authority of the said National Industrial Recovery Act and the said Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 shall upon the acquisition of title thereto be added to and made a part of said forest:

Beginning at the junction of Chattooga River and Tullulah River with Tugaloo River and identical with a point in the Chattahoochee National Forest boundary at Tugaloo Lake, thence down the west bank of Tugaloo River to the Southern R.R.; thence with said Southern R.R. southwesterly to the city limits of Toccoa, Georgia; thence northerly, westerly and southerly with said city limits to its intersection with U.S. Highway No. 53; thence southwesterly with said U.S. Highway No. 53 to Boydvllle; thence southerly with the road past the old Mize Post Office site to the Stephens-Franklin County line near the Sunshine M.E. Church; thence westerly and southwesterly with said county line to its Junction with Banks County (known as the Hickory Corner) at Tate Creek Church; thence with the Line Bridge Road to Andersons Store; thence westerly with a road to U.S. Highway No. 55 at Hollingsworth; thence northerly with said U.S. Highway No. 55 to the city limits of Baldwin; thence easterly and northerly with said city limits of Baldwin to U.S. Highway No. 53, thence northerly with said highway to the city limits of Cornelia; thence easterly and northerly with the city limits of Cornelia to U.S. Highway No. 53; thence northeasterly with said U.S. Highway No. 53, through the town of Mount Airy to the line between land Lots 11 and 14 in the 12th Land District; thence northwesterly with the west line of land Lots 14 and 15 to the northwest corner of land Lot 15; thence northeasterly with the north line of Lots 15, 34, 46, 65, 80 and 99 to State Highway No. 115; thence northwesterly with State Highway No. 115 to Its intersection with the line between land Lots No. 49 and 50 In the 12th Land District; thence southwesterly with said line between Lots 49 and 50, 30 and 31 to the south corner of Lot 30; thence northwesterly with the line between Lots 19 and 30, 20 and 29, 21 and 28 to the intersection with the Tallulah Falls R.R.; thence northeasterly with said Tallulah Falls R.R. to the southwest line of Lot No. 176 in the 12th Land District; thence northwesterly with said southwest line of Lot No. 176 and continuing with the southwest line of Lots 120, 121, 122 and 123 in the 13th Land District to the boundary of the Chattahoochee National Forest; thence easterly with the Chattahoochee National Forest boundary as now located to the point of beginning.

The boundaries of the Chattahoochee National Forest addition described herein are graphically shown on the diagram attached hereto and made a part hereof.

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 2nd day of August, 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-third.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:
CORDELL HULL
Secretary of State.