Proclamation 2202—Angelina National Forest, Texas

By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation

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

Whereas it appears that it would be in the public interest to reserve and designate such lands as the Angelina 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, section 471), and by section 11 of the said act of March 1, 1911 (U.S.C., title 16, section 521), do proclaim that there are hereby reserved and set apart as the Angelina National Forest all lands of the United States within the following-described area, 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 Angelina National Forest:

Beginning at a point on the right bank of Ayish Bayou and. opposite the point of confluence with the Angelina River; thence up and with the meanders of the right bank of Ayish Bayou, northerly 3157.00 chains to the fourth corner of the Wm. White Survey, Abstract 308; thence with the north line of the Wm. White Survey, S 89°30' W 82.50 chains to corner 19 of Tract A2k-I, property of the United States; thence with three (3) lines of said tract. North 21.30 chains, West 9.80  chains, North 20.10 chains to Monument- A177; thence S 89°45' W 27.90 chains to a point on the south line of the John H. Kirby Survey No. 2, Abstract No. 667; thence through the said John H. Kirby Survey No. 2, N 0°55' W 58.80 chains to corner 32 of Tract A21-IH, property of the United States; thence with six (6) lines of said tract, N 0°55' W 144.00  chains, S 89°15' W 39.30 chains, N 0°50' W 3630 chains, S 89° 10' W 167.50 chains, S 1°00' E 70.70 chains, N 65° 00' V/ 45.00  chains to corner 26 of said tract; thence with Tracts A21—III and A2i—VI, southwesterly 103.10 chains to corner 21 of Tract A21-IH; thence three (3) lines of the Morgan Berry Survey, Abstract No. 59, passing comers 20 and 3 of Tract A21-IH to corner 2 of said tract; thence with Tract A21-IH, S 53°35' W 202.30  chains to corner 1 of said tract; thence with the northwest line of the John Johnson Survey, Abstract No. 170, southwesterly 228.00  chains to a point on the left bank of the Attoyaco River; thence crossing the river and running northerly up and with the right bank 591.00 chains to a point opposite and easterly of the beginning corner of the Remigio Totin Survey, Abstract No. 66; thence with the south line of the Remigio Totin Survey, westerly 139.00 chains to Mon- ument-A224, identical with corner 1 of Tract A3-III, property of the United States; thence with two (2) lines of said tract, N 2°00' E 53.14 chains, westerly 291.50 chains passing Monumeat-A466 to a point in the west line of said survey identical with Monument- A430; thence S 1°50' W 22.71 chains to corner 23 of said tract, identical with the seventh corner of the Abraham Kuykendall Survey, Abstract No. 37; thence with three (3) lines of said Abraham Kuykendall Survey, S 89° 05' W 93.37 chains, S 27° 10' W 160.08 chains, S 22°10'E 162.18 chains to the beginning corner thereof in Durazno Bayou and identical with Monument-A446; thence down and with said Bayou to the confluence with the Angelina River; thence down and with the left bank of Angelina River 665.00 chains to a point opposite and northeasterly of the beginning corner of the Willafred Stanley Survey, Abstract No. 48; thence crossing the Angelina River and with the southeast line of the Willafred Stanley Survey southwesterly 434.00 chains to the second corner of said survey; thence with the southwest line of said survey and passing corners 19 and 18 of Tract A2-I, property of the United States, northwesterly 105.00 chains to the third corner of said Willafred Stanley survey; thence with the northwest line of said survey and passing corners 2 and 1 of Tract A2e, property of the United States, northeasterly 65.50 chains to a point south of the sixth corner of the Nicholas White Survey, Abstract No. 655; thence within said Nicholas White Survey north 19.50 chains to the sixth corner of said survey; thence two (2) lines of the J.T.P. Irvine Survey, Abstract No. 368, S 89° 10' W 57.56 chains, N 0°50' W 8.42 chains to a point in the west line of said survey; thence with two (2) lines within the Cyrus Ivy Survey, Abstract No. 367, S 89° 10' W 15.80 chains, N 76°10' W 17.50 chains to corner 6 of Tract A2—I, property of the United States; thence with ten (10) lines of said Tract A2-I, S 89°- 15' W 51.02 chains, South 10.37 chains, West 15.32 chains. South 25.97 chains, S 89°45' W 79.00  chains, S 1°20' E 51.75 chains. West 15.64 chains, S 1°25' E 170.60 chains, N 89°10' E 24.29 chains, S 1°00' E 39.95 chains to corner 41 thereof; thence with said Tract A2-I, N 89°25' E about 47.00 chains, crossing the Texas and New Orleans Railroad right-of-way to a point in the northeast line thereof; thence with said right-of-way line, southeasterly 80.00 chains to the west line of the Daniel McGraw Survey, Abstract No. 448; thence southerly 15.00 chains to the third corner of said survey; thence with the south line of said survey easterly 20.00 chains to the fifth corner of the Aminta Shields Survey, Abstract No. 556; thence with the west line of said survey southeasterly 64.00 chains to the fourth corner thereof and on the north line of the Martin L. Baker Survey, Abstract No. 740; thence with the north line of said survey westerly 34.50 chains to the fourth corner thereof; thence with four (4) lines of the Martin L. Baker Survey southerly 34.43 chains, easterly 11.20 chains, southeasterly 56.57 chains, easterly 38.39 chains, to the eighth corner thereof in the north line of the William Johnson Survey, Abstract No. 371; thence with three (3) lines of said William Johnson Survey easterly 9.00 chains, southerly 47.00 chains, westerly 1.68 chains to the third corner of the Stephen J. Stanley Survey, Abstract No. 47; thence with the east line of said Stephen J. Stanley Survey southerly 282.00 chains to the second corner thereof; thence westerly with the south line of said survey to the center of Shawnee Creek; thence southerly down and with Shawnee Creek to the point of confluence with the Neches River; thence easterly down with the left bank of the Neches River 2000.00 chains to the eighth corner of the Wm. B. Green Survey, Abstract No. 155; thence with five (5) lines of said survey easterly 131.15 chains, southerly 62.71 chains, easterly 42.34 chains, northerly 64.06 chains, easterly 111.29 chains to a point on the right bank of the Angelina River; thence up and with the right bank of the Angelina River 1050.00 chains to a point opposite and southerly of the point of beginning; thence northerly crossing the Angelina River 2.00 chains to the point of beginning.

The area described above is graphically shown on the diagram attached hereto and made a part hereof.

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 October, 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 sixty-first.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:
CORDELL HULL
Secretary of State.