Proclamation 1659—Enlarging Area of the Inyo National Forest, California

By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation

Whereas, in the interest of economy of administration, it appears that certain lands in the State of California heretofore embraced in he Sequoia National Forest should be transferred to and made parts of the Inyo National Forest;

Now, therefore, I, Warren G. Harding, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven (30 Stat., 11 at 34 and 36), do proclaim that the boundaries of the Inyo National Forest are hereby changed and that they are now as shown on the diagram hereto annexed and forming a part hereof; and that this proclamation and that changing the boundaries of the Sequoia National Forest, which I have also signed this day, are made and are intended to be and shall be considered as one act to become effective simultaneously.

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 seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred twenty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-seventh.

WARREN G HARDING

By the President:
     CHARLES E. HUGHES,
          Secretary of State