Proclamation 2702—Enlarging the Deschutes National Forest, Oregon

Whereas all lands in public ownership within the area hereinafter described are within six miles of the exterior boundaries of the Deschutes National Forest and have been found by the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to be chiefly valuable for national-forest purposes; and

Whereas it appears that the addition of such public lands to the said forest would be in the public interest; and

Whereas the addition of such lands to the said forest makes it desirable for administrative purposes to extend the exterior boundaries of the forest to include within such boundaries the private lands, as well as the public lands, within the said hereinafter-described area:

Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the power vested in me by the act of February 2, 1922, c. 46, 42 Stat. 362, as amended by the act of May 24, 1935, c. 140, 49 Stat. 288, do proclaim (1) that the exterior boundaries of the Deschutes National Forest, in Oregon, are hereby extended to include all lands within the following-described area, and (2) that all lands in public ownership within such area are hereby added to and reserved as a part of the said forest, subject to any valid existing claims in such lands:

WILLAMETTE MERIDIAN

T. 11 S., R. 9 E., sec. 35 (unsurveyed).

T. 18 S., R. 12 E., sec. 35, NW ¼ and SE ¼.

T. 19 S., R. 12 E., sec. 1, SW ¼ NW 1/4 and NW ¼ SW 1/4.

T. 21 S., R. 14 E., sec. 3, SW ¼; sec. 10, NE ¼.

T. 21 S., R. 15 E., sec. 34, NW ¼ NE ¼.

T. 21 S., R. 16 E., sec. 31, SW ¼.

T. 22 S. R. 15 E., sec. 2, SW ¼ SW ¼; sec. 10, N ½ NE ¼, N ½ SW ¼, SW ¼ SW ¼; sec. 21, NE ¼; sec. 22, all; sec. 23, N ½ NE ¼, NW ¼, W ½ SW ¼, SE ¼ SW ¼, S ½ SE ¼; sec. 25, NW ¼, NW ¼ SW ¼; sec. 26, N ½, NE ¼ SE ¼; sec. 27, N ½, NW ¼ SW ¼, N ½ SE ¼.

T. 22 S., R. 16 E., sec. 17, NE ¼ NE ¼, SW ¼ NE ¼.

T. 23 S., R. 15 E., sec. 1, NW ¼ NE ¼, W ½; sec. 2, E ½ NE ¼, SW ¼ NE ¼, SE ¼; sec. 10, W ½ NE ¼, SE ¼ NE ¼; sec. 11, N ½ NE ¼, SE ¼ NE ¼, SW ¼ SW ¼; sec. 12, W ½ NW ¼, NE ¼ SW ¼; sec. 14, W ½, W ½ SE ¼; sec. 16, all; sec. 21, E ½; sec. 22, all; sec. 23, W ½, SE ¼; sec. 24, SE ¼ NE ¼, S ½; sec. 25, N ½, SE ¼; sec. 24, SE ¼ NE ¼, S ½; sec. 25, N ½, SW ¼; sec. 26, N ½; sec. 27, N ½; sec. 36, all.

T. 23 X., R. 16 E., sec. 6, SE ¼, SE ¼ SW ¼; sec. 7, N ½ NE ¼, SE ¼ NE ¼, NE ¼ NW ¼, NW ¼ SW ¼, NE ¼ SE ¼.

The reservation herein made shall not affect any claim, filing, or entry hitherto made and hereafter legally maintained, or any withdrawal of lands for public purposes, other than for classification or use as a stock driveway, so long as such withdrawal is needed for such public purposes.

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 9th day of September 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 seventy-first.

HARRY S. TRUMAN

By the President:

W. L. CLAYTON,

Acting Secretary of State.