Proclamation 2337—Santa Rosa Island National Monument, Florida

By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation

Whereas certain Government-owned lands in the State of Florida have situated thereon various objects of geological and scientific interest; and

Whereas it appears that it would be in the public interest to reserve such lands as a national monument to be known as the Santa Rosa Island National Monument:

Now, Therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the act of June. 8, 1906, c. 3060, 34 Stat. 225 (U.S.C., title 16, sec. 431), do proclaim that, subject to all valid existing rights, the following-described lands in Florida are hereby reserved from all forms of appropriation under the public-land laws and set apart as the Santa Rosa Island National Monument:

TALLAHASSEE MERIDIAN

T. 2 S., R. 23 W., fractional secs. 19 to 29, inclusive;

T. 2 S., R. 24 W., fractional secs. 19 to 24, inclusive;

T. 2 S., R. 25 W., fractional secs. 19 to 24, and 26 to 80, inclusive;

T. 2 S., R. 26 W., fractional secs. 25 to 33, inclusive;

T. 2 S., R. 27 W., fractional secs. 33 to 36, inclusive;

T. 3 S., R. 27 W., fractional secs. 3 to 6, inclusive;

T. 3 S., R. 28 W., fractional secs. 1 to 12, inclusive, and sec. 18;

T. 3 S., R. 29 W., fractional secs. 12, 13, 14, 15, 22, and those parts of secs. 16 and 21 east of east boundary of the Fort Pickens Military Reservation (longitude 87°09'52" W.), excluding small island in sec. 16 occupied by Bureau of Fisheries, containing 9500 acres.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure, destroy, or remove any feature of this monument, and not to locate or settle upon any of the lands thereof.

The Director of the National Park Service, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, shall have the supervision, management, and control of this monument as provided in the act of Congress entitled "An act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes," approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535; U.S.C., title 16, secs. 1 and 2), and act supplementary thereto or amendatory thereof.

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 17" day of May in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and of the Independence pf the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-third.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:
CORDELL HULL
Secretary of State.