Proclamation 2995—Establishment of the Coronado National Memorial Arizona

Whereas section 1 of the act of August 18, 1941, 55 Stat. 630 (16 U.S.C. 450y), as amended by Public Law 478, 82nd Congress, approved July 9, 1952, provides that for the purpose of permanently commemorating the explorations of Francisco Vasquez de Coronado the President of the United States may declare, by proclamation, any lands within the area therein described to be established as the Coronado National memorial; and

Whereas it appears that the public interest would be promoted by the establishment of the said Memorial on certain of the said lands as hereinafter provided:

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 1 of the said act of August 18, 1941, as amended, do proclaim and declare that, subject to all valid existing rights, the following-described public lands in the State of Arizona are hereby established as the Coronado National Memorial:

GILA AND SALT RIVER MERIDIAN

T. 24 S., R. 20 E.,

Sec. 10, S ½ SW ¼, S ½ SE ¼;

Sec. 11, S ½ SW ¼;

Sec. 13, SW ¼ NW ¼, S ½;

Sec. 14 NW ¼, S ½, NW ¼ NE ¼, S ½ NE ¼;

Sec. 15, all;

Sec. 22, all;

Sec. 23, all;

Sec. 24, all;

T. 24 S., R. 21 E.,

Sec. 17, lots 5 and 6;

Sec 18, lots 3, 4, 8, 9, 10 and SE ¼ SW ¼;

Sec. 19, all;

Sec. 20, lots 3 and 4.

The areas described aggregate approximately 2,745.33 acres.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure, destroy, deface, or remove any feature of this Memorial or to settle upon any of the lands thereof as hereby established.

Subject to the provisions of the said act of August 18, 1941, the Director of the National Park Service, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, shall have the supervision, management, and control of the lands constituting the Coronado National Memorial in accordance with the act entitled "An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes", approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535; 16 U.S.C. 1-3), and acts supplementary thereto or amendatory thereof so far as the provisions of such acts may be applicable.

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 fifth day of November in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-seventh.

HARRY S. TRUMAN

By the President:

DAVID BRUCE,

Acting Secretary of State.