Proclamation, August 4, 1925

Purpose: To adjust the boundaries of the Nebraska National Forest

Date: August 4, 1925

(Original document available here)


WHEREAS, it appears that the public good will be promoted by excluding certain lands not in public ownership from the Nebraska National Forest, in Nebraska;

Now, therefore, I, CALVIN COOLIDGE, 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), entitled “An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes,” do proclaim that the boundaries of the Nebraska National Forest are hereby changed to exclude the areas indicated as eliminations upon the diagram hereto annexed and forming a part hereof.

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 4th day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fiftieth.


Citation: The Statutes at Large of the United States of America from December, 1925 to March, 1927

The Coolidge Foundation gratefully acknowledges the volunteer efforts of David McCann, who prepared this document for digital publication.

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