Franklin D. Roosevelt

Proclamation 2316—Deschutes National Forest, Oregon

December 05, 1938

By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation

Whereas the hereinafter-described lands in the State of Oregon have been found by the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior to be chiefly valuable for national-forest purposes; and

Whereas such lands are within the limitations contained in the act of February 2, 1922, entitled "An act authorizing the adjustment of the boundaries of the Deschutes National Forest, in the State of Oregon, and for other purposes", c. 46, 42 Stat. 362, as amended by the act of May 24, 1935, c. 140, 49 Stat. 288; and

Whereas it appears that the addition of such lands to the Deschutes National Forest would be in the public interest:

Now, Therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the power vested In me by the aforesaid act of February 2, 1922, as amended, do proclaim that the following-described lands in the State of Oregon are hereby added to, and reserved as a part of, the Deschutes National Forest:

WILLAMETTE MERIDIAN

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The reservation made by this proclamation shall as to any land which is at this date embraced in any valid claim or reserved for any public purpose other than for classification or as a stockdriveway, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat, legal rights under such claim, or prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such claim is legally maintained or such reservation remains in force.

Executive Order No. 5082 of March 22, 1929, withdrawing the public lands within certain areas in Oregon for classification, is hereby revoked as to the following-described lands, which have been classified as not of a national forest character:

WILLAMETTE MERIDIAN

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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 5" day of December 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.

Signature of Franklin D. Roosevelt
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:
SUMNER WELLES
Acting Secretary of State.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Proclamation 2316—Deschutes National Forest, Oregon Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/357681

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