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This presidential proclamation, signed by President John F. Kennedy on August 14, 1962, modified the boundaries of the monument. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Whereas the Natural Bridges National Monument, Utah, established by Proclamation No. 804 of April 16, 1903, and modified by Proclamation No. 881 of September 25, 1909, and Proclamation No. 1323 of February 11, 1916, was reserved and set apart for the preservation and protection of three extraordinary natural bridges and certain surrounding prehistoric ruins and cave springs; and Whereas it appears that it would be in the public interest to add to such monument approximately five thousand two hundred and thirty-six acres of land near the present boundaries which contain additional cliff-type prehistoric Indian ruins and suitable space for construction of a visitor center, administrative offices, employee residences, utility and maintenance facilities, and a new entrance road; and Whereas it also appears that it would be in the public interest to exclude from the monument approximately three hundred and twenty acres of land, known as Snow Flat Spring Cave and Cigarette Spring Cave, which no longer contain features of archeological value and are not needed for the proper care, management, protection, interpretation, and preservation of the monument: Now, Therefore, I, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 2 of the Act of June 8, 1906, 34 Stat. 225 (16 U.S.C. 431), do proclaim as follows: Subject to any valid interest or rights, the lands now owned by the United States within the exterior boundaries of the following described tracts of land, which include the additional lands needed for the purposes stated above, shall constitute the Natural Bridges National Monument; and lands owned by the State of Utah within such boundaries shall become a part of that monument upon acquisition of title thereto by the United States: SALT LAKE MERIDIAN, UTAH T. 36 S., R.17 E. The following described lands in the State of Utah are hereby excluded from the Natural Bridges National Monument: SALT LAKE MERIDIAN, UTAH Cigarette Spring Cave Snow Flat Spring Cave T. 39 S., R. 19 E. The public lands hereby excluded from the monument shall not be subject to application, location, settlement, entry, or other forms of appropriation under the public land laws until further order of an authorized officer of the Department of the Interior. The Natural Bridges National Monument shall be administered pursuant to the Act of August 25, 1916, 39 Stat. 535 (16 U.S.C. 1-3), and acts supplementary thereto and amendatory thereof. Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure, destroy, or remove any of the features or objects of this monument and not to locate or settle upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation. 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 fourteenth day of August in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-seventh. JOHN F. KENNEDY By the President: |
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