Proclamation 2681—Redefining the Area of Great Sand Dunes National Monument, Colorado

Whereas the lands included within the Great Sand Dunes National Monument, Colorado, by Proclamation No. 1994 of March 17, 1932 (47 Stat. 2506), were described therein in conformity with plats then on file in the General Land Office and other maps of the locality;

Whereas resurveys by the General Land Office disclose that sections 10, 11, 12, and parts of sections 13, 14, and 15, Township 41 North. Range 12 East, and unsurveyed sections 30 and 31, Township 42 North, Range 13 East, New Mexico Principal Meridian, as described in the said Proclamation, do not exist; and

Whereas it appears necessary and desirable in the public interest to redefine the area included within the Monument in accordance with the latest plats of survey:

Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 2 of the act of June 8, 1906, c. 3060, 34 Stat. 225 (U.S.C. title 16, sec. 431), do revise the land description contained in said Proclamation No. 1994 of March 17, 1932, to read as follows:

SIXTH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN

T. 25 S., R. 73 W.,

secs. 31 and 32.

T. 26 S., R. 73 W.,

secs. 3 to 11, secs. 14 to 23, and secs. 26 to 35, inclusive.

T. 27 S., R. 73 W.,

secs. 3 to 10 and secs. 15 to 22, inclusive.

NEW MEXICO PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN

T. 40 N., R. 12 E.,

secs. 1 and 2;

sec. 11, NE ¼;

secs. 12, 13, 24, and 25.

T. 41 N., R. 12 E.,

secs. 13, 14, 15, those parts south of Luis Maria Baca Grant No. 4;

secs. 22 to 27, inclusive;

secs. 34, 35, and 36.

Tps. 40 and 41 N., R. 13 E., unsurveyed.

Containing approximately 44,810 acres.

All other provisions contained in the said Proclamation of March 17, 1932, shall remain in full force and effect.

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 12th day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventieth.

HARRY S. TRUMAN

By the President:

JAMES F. BYRNES,

Secretary of State.