April 23, 2021
Purpose: Designation of a Parcel of Land in Hawaii for a Lighthouse Date: July 24, 1926 (Original document available here) WHEREAS, by joint resolution “to provide for annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the United States,” approved July 7, 1898, cession by the government of the Republic of Hawaii to the United States of America, of all rights […]
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Purpose: To add lands to the Tahoe National Forest Date: July 12, 1926 (Original document available here) Whereas, it appears that certain of the public lands within the States of California and Nevada described in the act of Congress approved February 20, 1925 (43 Stat., 954), found by the Secretary of Agriculture to be chiefly valuable for […]
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Purpose: Addition of lands to the Whitman National Forest Date: March 3, 1926 (Original document available here) Whereas, since the issuance of the proclamation of January 31, 1917, the boundaries of the Whitman National Forest, in Oregon, have been changed through transfer of the Minam National Forest thereto by Executive order of June 20, 1920; and […]
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Purpose: Modifying the Boundaries of the Payette, Idaho, and Salmon National Forests. Date: March 24, 1926 (Original document available here) Whereas, in the interest of economy of administration, it appears that certain lands in the State of Idaho heretofore embraced in the Idaho National Forest as fixed and defined by Executive Order of June 26, 1908 (No. […]
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Purpose: To extend a period of time in which people can pay for land. Date: June 5, 1926 (Original document available here) WHEREAS the Act of Congress directing the disposal of lands within a specified part of the Crow Indian Reservation, in the State of Montana, approved April 27, 1904 (33 Stat., 352, 361), among other […]
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