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For the purposes of accounting and for all other purposes, this proclamation shall become effective on the first day of March 1920, at 12:01 o'clock A. M.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done by the President, through Newton D. Baker, Secretary of
War, in the District of Columbia, this 24th day of December
[SEAL.] the year of our Lord 1919 and of the Independence of the
United States the One Hundred and Forty Fourth.
WOODROW WILSON

By the President:
ROBERT LANSING,
Secretary of State.

NEWTON D. BAKER
Secretary of War.

Effective date for

accounts, etc.

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Preamble.

WHEREAS, in the exercise of authority committed to me by law, Vol. 40, pp. 451, 1733. I have heretofore, through the Secretary of War, taken possession of and have, through the Director General of Railroads, exercised control over that system of transportation called the American Railway Express Company and all of its appurtenances and property of every kind or nature, directly or indirectly, owned, leased, chartered, controlled, or used in the conduct of, or in connection with, its express business; and

WHEREAS, Í now deem it needful and desirable that the American Railway Express Company, together with all of its property and appurtenances, be relinquished from Federal control;

relinquished on March

1,190.

Vol. 40, p. 456.

NOW, THEREFORE, under authority of Section 14 of the Federal Federal control of, Control Act approved March 21, 1918, and of all other powers and provisions of law thereto me enabling, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, do hereby relinquish from Federal control, effective the first day of March 1920, at 12:01 o'clock A. M., the American Railway Express Company and all of its appurtenances and property of every kind or nature, directly or indirectly, owned, leased, chartered, controlled, or used in the conduct of, or in connection with, its express business, and restore the same to the possession and control of its owners.

Railroads authorized

Walker D. Hines, Director General of Railroads, or his successor in Director General of office, is hereby authorized and directed, through such agents and to carry proclamation agencies as he may determine, in any manner not inconsistent with into effect. the provisions of said Act of March 21, 1918, to adjust, settle and close all matters, and all questions and disputes of whatsoever nature arising out of or incident to Federal control of the American Railway Express Company, until otherwise provided by proclamation of the President or by Act of Congress; and generally to do and perform, as fully in all respects as the President is authorized to do, all and singular the acts and things necessary or proper in order to carry into effect this proclamation and the relinquishment of said American Railway Express Company.

For the purposes of accounting and for all other purposes, this Effective date for proclamation shall become effective on the first day of March, 1920,

at 12:01 o'clock A. M.

accounts, etc.

44282°-VOL 41-PT 2-24

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done by the President, through Newton D. Baker, Secretary of
War, in the District of Columbia, this 24th day of December
[SEAL.] the year of our Lord 1919 and of the Independence of the
United States the One Hundred and Forty Fourth.
WOODROW WILSON

By the President:

ROBERT LANSING,

Secretary of State.
NEWTON D. BAKER
Secretary of War.

December 27, 1919.

Idaho and Payette
National Forests,
Idaho.

Preamble.
Ante, p. 324.

Area extended.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, An Act of Congress, dated October 29, 1919, Public No. 69, set apart and reserved certain lands in central Idaho as national forest lands, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior and to all valid existing claims, and included said lands within specified National Forests; and

WHEREAS, on December 23, 1919, the Secretary of the Interior approved such reservation of said lands; and

WHEREAS, It is desirable in the public interest to publish the consummation of said Act in order that due judicial notice thereof may be taken by all courts of law, and for other purposes;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, WOODROW WILSON, President of the United States of America, do proclaim that the inclusion of the said lands in National Forests pursuant to said Act became effective as of December 23, 1919, and that the said lands are those indicated as additions to the Idaho and Payette National Forests, respectively, on the diagram hereto attached and forming a part hereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done in the District of Columbia this 27th day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine[SEAL.] teen, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-fourth.

By the President:

ROBERT LANSING,
Secretary of State.

WOODROW WILSON

January 16, 1920.

Boone National Forest, N. C. Preamble.

Vol. 36, p. 961.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, certain lands within the State of North Carolina have been or may hereafter be acquired by the United States under authority of the Act of Congress approved March first, nineteen hundred and eleven (36 Stat., 961), entitled "An Act To enable any State to cooperate with any other State or States, or with the United States, for the protection of the watersheds of navigable streams, and to appoint a commission for the acquisition of lands for the purpose of conserving the navigability of navigable rivers" and

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