Proclamation 3467—Addition to Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, New Mexico

Whereas the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument in the State of New Mexico, established by Proclamation No. 781 of November 16, 1907, was reserved and set apart for its scientific and educational interest, being the best representation of the Cliff Dweller’s remains of that region; and

Whereas approximately three hundred and seventy-fire acres of land near the present boundaries of the monument, under the jurisdiction of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, contain additional cliff dwellings and pit-house sites which are needed to round out the interpretive story of the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument; and

Whereas it appears that the public interest would be promoted by adding to Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument these lands now within the Gila National Forest; and

Whereas these lands are essential for the proper care, management, protection, interpretation, and preservation of the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument:

Now, Therefore, I, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 2 of the Act of Congress approved June 8, 1906 (34 Stat. 225; 16 U.S.C. 431) do hereby proclaim that, subject to any valid interest or rights, the following described tract of land, which comprises the original site of the monument and the additional lands needed for the purposes stated above, shall constitute the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument:

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Proclamation No. 781 of November 16, 1907 (35 Stat. 2162) establishing the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument is amended accordingly.

The lands which pursuant to this proclamation comprise the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument hereafter shall not be administered as a part of the Gila National Forest and they are hereby transferred to the administrative jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior.

The lands described above shall be subject to all the laws and regulations applicable to the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument: Provided, That any of the lands reserved for such national monument which lie within 150 feet, by horizontal measurement, of the center of the Vest Fork of the Gila River shall be available to the Secretary of Agriculture as a route of ingress to or egress from the Gila National Forest and he may place such trails or roads thereon and permit such use thereof as he may find desirable or necessary for administration and protection of the national forest and utilization of the resources thereof, including use by the general public for passage and transportation of property for use on national forest lands. Public use of the area within 150 horizontal feet of the center of the West Fork of the Gila River is to be in accordance with such conditions of use as the Secretary of Agriculture, after consultation with the Secretary of the Interior, finds necessary or desirable.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure, destroy, or remove any of the features or objects of this monument and not to locate or settle upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United Mates of America to be affixed.

DONE at the City of Washington this seventeenth day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-two and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-sixth.

JOHN F. KENNEDY

By the President:

DEAN RUSK,

Secretary of State