tract 87m and with the Preston-Tucker county line to the beginning.

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 28th day of April, in the year of our

Lord nineteen hundred and [SEAL] thirty-six and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixtieth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:

CORDELL HULL,

Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 2167

GEORGE WASHINGTON NATIONAL FORESTVIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA WHEREAS it is desired to transfer from the Monongahela National Forest to the George Washington National Forest certain of the lands contained within the boundaries hereinafter described, and to include in and reserve as a part of the George Washington National Forest certain lands acquired by the United States for forestry purposes within the States of Virginia and West Virginia under sections 6 and 7 of the act of March 1, 1911, 36 Stat. 961, 962, as amended (U.S.C., Title 16, secs. 515, 516), and contained within the said boundaries; and

WHEREAS it appears that it would be in the public interest to redefine the boundaries of the George Washington National Forest:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the power vested in me by section 24 of the act of March 3, 1891, 26 Stat. 1095, 1103, as amended (U.S.C., Title 16, sec. 471), the act of June 4, 1897, ch. 2, 30 Stat. 36 (U.S.C., Title 16, sec. 473), and by section 11 of the said act of March 1, 1911 (U.S.C., Title 16, sec. 521), do proclaim that all lands of the United States within the following-described boundaries shall be, and are hereby, included in, reserved as, and made a part of the George Washington National Forest in the States of Virginia and West Virginia, and that all lands within the said boundaries which may hereafter be acquired by the United States under the said act of March 1, 1911, as amended, shall, upon their acquisition, be permanently re

served and administered as part of the George Washington National Forest:

SHENANDOAH UNIT

(NOTE: The term "present boundary" in the following descriptions refers to boundaries of National Forests as they existed just prior to the issuance of this Proclamation.)

Beginning at a point on the Allegheny Mountains at the intersection of U.S. Highway #60 with the Virginia-West Virginia State line; thence with the Virginia-West Virginia State line in a northeasterly direction approximately 85 miles to the intersection of said State line with Straight Fork at approximately 4 of a mile north of the village of Hardscrabble, Highland County, Virginia, a point on the present Monongahela National Forest Boundary; thence southwesterly with said Boundary approximately 11 miles to a point common to the present Monongahela National Forest Boundary, the Monongahela Purchase Unit Boundary, State Route #5 and Back Creek; thence southwesterly with Back Creek approximately 16 miles to the intersection of said creek with the Highland-Bath County line; thence with said county line in a southeasterly direction to the Cowpasture River, a point on the present boundary; thence with the present boundary in a general northeasterly direction approximately 120 miles to a point where the present boundary leaves Lost River; thence easterly with Lost River approximately 1 mile to the mouth of Trout Run and the head of Cacapon River; thence with Cacapon River to the corporate limits of Wardensville; thence with south and easterly corporate limits of Wardensville to Route #55; thence with Route #55 in a northeasterly direction approximately 1.8 miles to the intersection of Route #55 with the present boundary; thence with the present boundary in a general northeasterly, southeasterly, and southwesterly direction for approximately 30 miles to corner 4 of the St. Lukes Hospital tract #75 b-2; thence leaving present boundary S. 6°00′ W. % mile to corner 2 of tract 752, a point on the present boundary; thence with present boundary in a general southwesterly direction approximately 26 miles to Liberty Furnace; thence with Route #717 at Liberty Furnace in a southwesterly direction via Jerome, approximately 42 miles to a point where Route #717 intersects present boundary; thence with present boundary in a southwesterly direction approximately 17 miles to the mouth of Sours Run on Runions Creek; thence leaving the present boundary and down Runions Creek to the mouth of Runions Creek on the North Fork Shenandoah River, a point in the present boundary; thence with the present boundary in an easterly and a southwesterly direction approximately 55 miles to the intersection of present boundary with the Augusta-Rockbridge County line; thence leaving the present boundary and with Augusta-Rockbridge County line in a southeasterly direction approximately 5 miles to a

point where said county line crosses Route #602 near Walkers Creek; thence southwesterly with Route #602 approximately 9 miles to the junction of Route #602 with Route #501 (Warm Springs-Lexington Highway) at Rockbridge Baths in Rockbridge County; thence with said Route #501 northwesterly approximately .9 mile to the junction with Route #623; thence with Route #623 in a southwesterly direction along the base of Hog Back and Dale Mountain, approximately 10 miles to the junction of U.S. Highway #60; thence with said U.S. Highway #60 in a westerly direction via Clifton Forge and Covington, Virginia, approximately 57 miles to the point of beginning.

MASSANUTTEN UNIT

Beginning at a concrete tank on top of hill over Massanutten Caverns, approximately 6 miles southeast of Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, Virginia, a point on the present boundary; thence with the present boundary northeasterly approximately 35 miles to the North Fork of Shenandoah River, a point approximately 1.5 miles southeast of Edinburg, Virginia; thence leaving the present boundary and with the North Fork of Shenandoah River northeasterly and easterly approximately 3 miles to corner 2 of Town of Woodstock Tract #410 (acquired) a point on the North Fork of Shenandoah River and the present boundary; thence with the present boundary northeasterly, easterly, and southwesterly approximately 30 miles to a small creek flowing into the South Fork of Shenandoah River a point on the present boundary approximately 3.2 miles north of Bentonville, Warren County, Virginia, and about 3.4 miles southeast of Elizabeth Furnace; thence with said creek in an easterly direction approximately .02 mile to the south Fork of Shenandoah River; thence leaving the present boundary and up the South Fork of Shenandoah River in a southwesterly direction approximately 6 miles to where the said river meets the present boundary, a point approximately 2 miles northwest of Bentonville; thence with the South Fork of Shenandoah River and the present boundary southwesterly approximately 7 miles to a point approximately 1.8 miles west of Campton, Page County, Virginia; thence leaving the present boundary and up the South Fork of Shenandoah River for approximately 3 miles to a point where the said river meets the present boundary; thence with the present boundary southwesterly approximately 12 miles to where the present boundary leaves Route #615, a point approximately 4 miles northwesterly of Luray, Virginia, thence leaving the present boundary and with Route #615 in a southwesterly direction approximately 3 miles to the intersection of Route #615 with U.S. Highway #211; thence with U.S. Highway #211 southwesterly, approximately 1.5 miles to where U.S. Highway #211 meets the present boundary; thence leaving U.S. Highway #211 and with the present boundary southwesterly and northwesterly to the place of beginning.

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NATURAL BRIDGE

Beginning at the junction of North River with James River, approximately 1 mile southeast of the Village of Glasgow, Rockbridge County, Virginia, a point on the present boundary; thence with the present boundary in a northeasterly, easterly, and southwesterly direction to corner 2 of C. H. Foster Tract 16; thence leaving the present boundary S. 8°00′ E. approximately 3 miles to the junction of Route #647 with Route #649, approximately 1.7 miles west of Pedlar Mills; thence southeasterly with Route #649 approximately 4 miles to the end of said route on James River; thence in a northwesterly direction with James River to the place of beginning.

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 28th day of April, in the year of our

Lord nineteen hundred and [SEAL] thirty-six and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixtieth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:

CORDELL HULL,
Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 2168

OZARK NATIONAL FOREST-ARKANSAS

WHEREAS certain lands within areas adjoining the Ozark National Forest, in Arkansas, have been acquired by the United States under authority of Sections 6 and 7 of the Act of March 1, 1911, ch. 186, 36 Stat. 961, as amended (U.S.C., Title 16, Secs. 515, 516); and

WHEREAS it appears that it would be in the public interest to add such lands and certain adjoining public lands within the areas hereinafter designated to the said National Forest:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 24 of the Act of March 3, 1891, ch. 561, 26 Stat. 1095, 1103, as amended (U.S.C., Title 16, Sec. 471), the Act of June 4, 1897, 30 Stat. 1136, and Section 11 of the said Act of March 1, 1911, do proclaim that all lands of the United States within the areas shown as additions on the diagram1 hereto annexed and made a

1 Filed with the original document in the National Archives. Diagram is printed at 49 Stat. (pt. 2) 3516.

part hereof are included in and reserved as a part of the Ozark National Forest, and that all lands within such areas which may hereafter be acquired by the United States under the said Act of March 1, 1911, as amended, shall upon acquisition of title thereto be permanently reserved and administered as a part of the said Forest.

The reservation made by this proclamation shall as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose other than for classification under Executive Order No. 6964 of February 5, 1935, be subject to, and shall not not interfere with or defeat, legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained or such reservation remains in force.

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 13th day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-six and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixtieth.

[SEAL]

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:

CORDELL HULL,

Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 2169

APALACHICOLA NATIONAL FOREST

FLORIDA

WHEREAS certain forest lands within the State of Florida have been or may hereafter be acquired by the United States of America under the authority of Sections 6 and 7 of the Act of March 1, 1911, ch. 186, 36 Stat, 961, as amended (U.S.C., Title 16, Secs. 515 and 516); and WHEREAS it appears that it would be in the public interest to designate said lands as the Apalachicola National Forest:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America by virtue of the power vested in me by Section 24 of the Act of March 3, 1891, ch. 561, 26 Stat. 1095, 1103, as amended (U.S.C., Title 16, Sec. 471), and by Section 11 of the said Act

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of March 1, 1911 (U.S.C., Title 16, Sec. 521), do proclaim that there are hereby reserved and set apart as the Apalachicola National Forest all lands of the United States within the area shown on the diagram 1 hereto attached and made a part hereof, and that all lands therein which may hereafter be acquired by the United States under authority of said Act of March 1, 1911, as amended, shall, upon their acquisition, be reserved and administered as part of said National Forest.

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 13th day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty[SEAL] six and of the independence of the United States of America, the one hundred and sixtieth.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:

CORDELL HULL,

Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 2170

NATIONAL MARITIME DAY

WHEREAS on May 22, 1819, the steamship The Savannah sailed from Savannah, Georgia, on the first successful transoceanic voyage under steam propulsion, thus making a material contribution to the advancement of ocean transportation; and

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WHEREAS Public Resolution Seventy-third Congress, approved May 20, 1933, provides, in part:

That May 22 of each year shall hereafter be designated and known as National Maritime Day, and the President is authorized and requested annually to issue a proclamation calling upon the people of the United States to observe such National Maritime Day by displaying the flag at their homes or other suitable places and Government officials to display the flag on all Government buildings on May 22 of each year;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the people of the United States to ob

1 Filed with the original document in the National Archives. Diagram is printed at 49 Stat. (pt. 2) 3516.

serve May 22, 1936, as National Maritime Day by displaying the flag at their homes or other suitable places, and do direct Government officials to display the flag on all Government buildings on that day.

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 18th day of May, in the year of our

Lord nineteen hundred and [SEAL] thirty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixtieth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:

CORDELL HULL,

Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 2171

INCREASING RATES OF DUTY ON COTTON CLOTH

WHEREAS pursuant to section 336 of Title III, Part II, of the Tariff Act of 1930 (46 Stat. 590, 701), the United States Tariff Commission has investigated the differences in costs of production of, and all other facts and conditions enumerated in said section with respect to, cotton cloth, being wholly or in part the growth or product of the United States and of and with respect to a like or similar article wholly or in part the growth or product of the principal competing country;

WHEREAS in the course of said investigation a hearing was held, of which reasonable public notice was given and at which parties interested were given reasonable opportunity to be present, to produce evidence, and to be heard;

WHEREAS the Commission has reported to the President the results of said investigation and its findings with respect to such differences in costs of production;

WHEREAS the Commission has found it shown by said investigation that the principal competing country is Japan, and that the duties expressly fixed by statute do not equalize the differences in the costs of production of the domestic article and the like or similar foreign article when produced in said principal competing country, and has specified in its report the increases in the rates of

duty expressly fixed by statute found by the Commission to be shown by said investigation to be necessary to equalize such differences; and

WHEREAS in the judgment of the President such rates of duty are shown by such investigation of the Tariff Commission to be necessary to equalize such differences in costs of production:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by sec. 336 (c), Title III, Part II of the said Act do hereby approve and proclaim increases in the rates of duty expressly fixed in Paragraph 904(b) of Title I of the said Act on cotton cloth, bleached, containing yarns the average number of which exceeds number 30 but does not exceed number 50, from 13 per centum ad valorem and, in addition thereto, for each number, thirty-five one-hundredths of 1 per centum ad valorem, to 181⁄2 per centum ad valorem and, in addition thereto, for each number, one-half of 1 per centum ad valorem; and increases in the rates of duty expressly fixed in Paragraph 904 (c) of Title I of the said Act on cotton cloth, printed, dyed, or colored, containing yarns the average number of which exceeds number 30 but does not exceed number 50, from 16 per centum ad valorem and, in addition thereto, for each number, thirty-five one-hundredths of 1 per centum ad valorem, to 221⁄2 per centum ad valorem and, in addition thereto, for each number, one-half of 1 per centum ad valorem.

None of the foregoing increases in rates of duty shall be applied to any cotton cloth of a kind described in Paragraph 904(d) of Title I of the said Act.

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

DONE at the City of Washington this 21st day of May in the year of our Lord

nineteen hundred and thirty[SEAL] six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixtieth.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President: CORDELL HULL, Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 2172

EMERGENCY BOARD, WESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, SACRAMENTO NORTHERN RAILWAY, TIDEWATER SOUTHERN RAILWAY-EMPLOYES

WHEREAS the President, having been duly notified by the National Mediation Board that disputes between the Western Pacific Railroad Company, Sacramento Northern Railway and Tidewater Southern Railway, carriers, and certain of their employes represented by

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Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers; Order of Railway Conductors; which disputes have not been heretofore adjusted under the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, amended, threaten substantially to interrupt interstate commerce within the States of California, Nevada and Utah, to a degree such as to deprive that section of the country of essential transportation service;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, and by virtue of and under the authority in me vested by Section 10 of the Railway Labor Act, amended, do hereby create a board to be composed of three persons not pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any organization of railway employes or any carrier, to investigate and report their findings to me within thirty days from this date.

The members of this board shall be compensated for and on account of such duties in the sum of seventy-five dollars for every day actually employed with or upon account of travel and duties incident to such board. The members will be reimbursed for and they are hereby authorized to make expenditures for expenses for themselves and of the board, including traveling expenses and in conformity with Public No. 212, 72d Congress, Approved June 30, 1932, 11:30 a.m., not to exceed five ($5.00) dollars per diem for expenses incurred for subsistence.

All expenditures of the board shall be allowed and paid for out of the appropriation "Emergency Boards, Railway Labor Act, May 20, 1926, 1936" on the presentation of itemized vouchers prop

erly approved by the chairman of the board hereby created.

IN TESTIMONY 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 21st day of May in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty[SEAL] six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixtieth.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:

CORDELL HULL,
Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 2173

KISATCHIE NATIONAL FOREST-LOUISIANA WHEREAS certain forest lands within the State of Louisiana have been or may hereafter be acquired by the United States of America under the authority of sections 6 and 7 of the act of March 1, 1911, ch. 186, 36 Stat. 961, as amended (U.S.C., title 16, secs. 515, 516); and

WHEREAS it appears that it would be in the public interest to designate such lands as the Kisatchie National Forest:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 24 of the act of March 3, 1891, ch. 561, 26 Stat. 1095, 1103, as amended (U.S.C., title 16, sec. 471), and by section 11 of the said act of March 1, 1911 (U.S.C., title 16, sec. 521), do proclaim that there are hereby reserved and set apart as the Kisatchie National Forest (consisting of the Catahoula, Evangeline, Kisatchie, and Vernon divisions) all lands of the United States within the areas shown on the diagrams 1 hereto attached and made a part hereof, and that all lands therein which may hereafter be acquired by the United States under authority of the said act of March 1, 1911, as amended, shall upon their acquisition be reserved and administered as a part of the Kisatchie National Forest.

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

1 Filed with the original document in the National Archives. Diagrams are printed at 49 Stat. (pt. 2) 3520.