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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part I.-Laws relating to Indian Affairs.

Laws of Seventy-sixth Congress, first session. 1939. (53 Stat.)

(No laws relating to Indians passed Seventy-sixth Congress, second session.)
Laws of Seventy-sixth Congress, third session. 1940-41. (54 Stat.)
Laws of Seventy-seventh Congress, first session. 1941-42. (55 Stat.)
Laws of Seventy-seventh Congress, second session. 1942. (56 Stat.)
Laws of Seventy-eighth Congress, first session. 1943. (57 Stat.)
Laws of Seventy-eighth Congress, second session. 1944. (58 Stat.)
Laws of Seventy-ninth Congress, first session. 1945. (59 Stat.)
Laws of Seventy-ninth Congress, second session. 1946. (60 Stat.)
Laws of Eightieth Congress, first session. 1947. (61 Stat.)
Laws of Eightieth Congress, second session. 1948. (62 Stat.)
Laws of Eighty-first Congress, first session. 1949. (63 Stat.)
Concurrent resolution of Eighty-first Congress, first session. 1949.
Laws of Eighty-first Congress, second session. 1950-51. (64 Stat.)
Laws of Eighty-second Congress, first session. 1951. (65 Stat.)
Concurrent resolution of Eighty-second Congress, first session. 1951.
Laws of Eighty-second Congress, second session. 1952. (66 Stat.)
Concurrent resolution of Eighty-second Congress, second session, 1952.
Laws of Eighty-third Congress, first session, 1953. (67 Stat.)
Concurrent, resolution of Eighty-third Congress, first session. 1953.
Laws of Eighty-third Congress, second session, 1954. (68 Stat.)
Laws of Eighty-fourth Congress, first session, 1955. (69 Stat.)
Laws of Eighty-fourth Congress, second session, 1956. (70 Stat.)
Concurrent resolution of Eighty-fourth Congress, second session. 1956.

Laws of Eighty-fifth Congress, first Congress, first session, 1957. (71 Stat.)
Laws of Eighty-fifth Congress, second session. 1958. (72 Stat.)
Laws of Eighty-sixth Congress, first session, 1959. (73 Stat.)
Laws of Eighty-sixth Congress, second session. 1960. (74 Stat.)
Laws of Eighty-seventh Congress, first session, 1961. (75 Stat.)
Laws of Eighty-seventh Congress, second session. 1962. (76 Stat.)
Laws of Eighty-eighth Congress, first session. 1963. (77 Stat.)
Laws of Eighty-eighth Congress, second session. 1964. (78 Stat.)
Laws of Eighty-ninth Congress, first session. 1965. (79 Stat.)
Laws of Eighty-ninth Congress, second session. 1966. (80 Stat.)
Laws of Ninetieth Congress, first session. 1967. (81 Stat.)
Laws of Ninetieth Congress, second session. 1968. (82 Stat.)
Concurrent resolution of Ninetieth Congress, second session. 1968.
Laws of Ninety-first Congress, first session. 1969. (83 Stat.)
Laws of Ninety-first Congress, second session. 1970-71. (84 Stat.)

Part II.-Proclamations.

Part III.-Selected provisions of United States Code, 1970 edition.

Part IV.-Executive and departmental orders.

Part V. Tables of Statutes affected.

Index to Volumes VI and VII

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PART II

PROCLAMATIONS OF THE

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

EXCLUDING CERTAIN LANDS FROM THE BEAVERHEAD NATIONAL
FOREST AND ADDING THEM AND OTHER LANDS TO THE BIG HOLE
BATTLEFIELD NATIONAL MONUMENT-MONTANA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

June 20, 1939 (No. 2339]

53 Stat. 2544

Big Hole Battlefield

WHEREAS the unsurveyed E2NESE4NW4 sec. 24, T. 2 S., R. 17 W., P. M., Montana, was reserved by Executive Order No. 1216 of National Monument, June 23, 1910, as the Big Hole Battlefield Monument;

WHEREAS upon survey it has been found that the area intended to be reserved by that Executive order is the five-acre tract designated as the "Big Hole Battlefield Monument" on General Land Office supplemental plat of the survey of sec. 24, approved July 19, 1917, and described by metes and bounds as follows:

Beginning at a point S. 0° 1' W., 5.00 chs. and N. 89° 42′ E., 3.00 chs. from the northwest sixteenth-section corner of Sec. 24, T. 2 S., R. 17 W., M. P. M.; thence S. 0° 2' W., 10.00 chs.; S. 89° 42′ W., 5.00 chs; N. 10 chs.; N. 89° 42' E., 5.00 chs.; to point of beginning. WHEREAS it appears that certain public lands within the Beaverhead National Forest, adjacent to the Big Hole Battlefield Monument, are historic landmarks, forming a part of the battle grounds where Chief Joseph and a band of Nez Perce Indians were defeated by a detachment of United States Soldiers;

WHEREAS certain other public lands within the aforesaid national forest are contiguous to the said national monument and are necessary for the proper care, management, and protection of the historic landmarks included within the monument; and

WHEREAS it appears that it would be in the public interest to reserve all of the aforesaid public lands as a part of the said 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 4, 1897, 30 Stat. 11, 36 (U.S.C., title 16, sec. 473), and the act of June 8, 1906, c. 3060, 34 Stat. 225 (U. S. C., title 16, sec. 431), do proclaim that the above-mentioned Executive Order of June 23, 1910, is hereby construed in conformity with the supplemental plat of survey approved July 19, 1917, to embrace the tract described above by metes and bounds, as well as the area erroneously reserved thereby; and that the hereinafter-described lands are hereby excluded from the Beaverhead National Forest and, subject to valid existing rights, added to and made a part of the said monument, which is hereby designated as the Big Hole Battlefield National Monument:

Montana Principal Meridian

T. 2 S., R. 17 W., sec. 24, lots 1 and 2, N2NW1/4;

sec. 23, E1⁄2NE1⁄4NE1⁄4, E1⁄41⁄2SE1⁄4NE1⁄4;
comprising 195 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

Mont.

Preamble.

Lands excluded from Beaverhead National and certain

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other lands added to.

30 Stat. 36.

16 U. S. C. § 473. 34 Stat. 225.

16 U. S. C. § 431.

Description.

Warning against unauthorized sets.

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