secs. 13 to 36, inclusive; T. 11 N., R. 2 E., sec. 32, all; T. 5 N., R. 3 E., The reservation made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands to which secs. 2 to 11, 14 to 22 and 28 to 30, in- legal rights have been acquired under clusive; T. 9 N., R. 4 E., sec. 2, all, sec. 19, S2, secs. 23, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34, 35 and 36; T. 10 N., R. 4 E., secs. 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11, 16, 18 and 36; T. 11 N., R. 4 E., secs. 2, 3, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 22 and 23, secs. 26 to 32, inclusive; T. 12 N., R. 4 E., sec. 36, all; T. 6 N., R. 5 E., secs. 1, 2, 3 and 4. secs. 6 to 11, inclusive, secs. 13, 15, 16 and 17, secs. 19 to 23, inclusive, secs. 25, 27, 28 and 29, secs. 31 to 36, inclusive; T. 7 N., R. 5 E., any of the public land laws or which are reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat such legal rights or prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such rights are legally maintained or such reservation remains in force. 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 28'' day of April, in the year of our Lord ninteen hundred and thirty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixtythird. [SEAL] FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. PROCLAMATION 2334 NATIONAL MARITIME DAY-1939 WHEREAS on May 22, 1819, the steamship The Savannah sailed from Savannah, Georgia, on the first successful transoceanic voyage under steam propulsion, thus making a material contribution to the advancement of ocean transportation; and WHEREAS the Congress by joint resolution approved May 20, 1933 (48 Stat. 73), designated May 22 of each year as National Maritime Day and requested the President to issue annually a proclamation calling upon the people of the secs. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, United States to observe such National 19, 20, 21, 23, 25, 26, 27 and 29, secs. 31 to 36, inclusive; T. 10 N., R. 5 E., secs. 16 and 32; T. 11 N., R. 5 E., sec. 16; T. 6 N., R. 6 E., Maritime Day; and WHEREAS it is fitting that the enterprise and achievements of the American merchant marine and the courage and patriotism of the officers and seamen of secs. 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 19, 21 and 22, that merchant marine throughout our secs. 25 to 36, inclusive; T. 7 N., R. 6 E., secs. 7, 17, 18, 19, 21, 27, 29, 31, 32, 33 and 34; history be thus recognized; NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT States of America, do hereby call upon | America the one hundred and sixtythe people of the United States to ob- third. serve May 22, 1939, as National Maritime Day by displaying the flag at their homes or other suitable places and do direct Government officials to display the flag on all Government buildings on that day. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. By the President: Secretary of State. PROCLAMATION 2336 CORRECTING THE PROCLAMATIONS OF NoVEMBER 25, 1938, AND JANUARY 11, 1939, RELATING TO THE MARQUETTE NATIONAL FOREST-MICHIGAN DONE at the City of Washington this 4" day of May in the year [SEAL] of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and of the WHEREAS the date of the Executive Independence of the United States of order of October 26, 1874, withdrawing America the one hundred and sixty- public lands in Michigan for lighthouse third. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: Secretary of State. PROCLAMATION 2335 NATIONAL FLOOD PREVENTION WEEK WHEREAS Public Resolution No. 129, 75th Congress, approved June 29, 1938 (52 Stat. 1248), provides: "That the Honorable Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, be, and he is hereby requested to proclaim the week of May 31, 1939, National Flood Prevention Week in the United States of America, and to ask the cooperation, interest, and aid of all the people in the work of flood prevention"; NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week beginning May 31, 1939, as National Flood Prevention Week, and do call upon the people of the United States to cooperate and aid in the work of flood prevention and to give serious consideration to such measures as may prevent disastrous floods and aid in the conservation of our national resources. 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 4" day of May, in the year [SEAL] of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of purposes, is incorrectly stated as October 20, 1874, in Proclamation No. 2313 of November 25, 1938,1 enlarging the Marquette National Forest, in the State of Michigan, and in Proclamation No. 2319 of January 11, 1939, correcting the aforesaid proclamation: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do proclaim that the aforesaid proclamations are hereby corrected by substituting the date "October 26, 1874," for the date "October 20, 1874," wherever the latter date may appear in such proclamations. 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 11" day of May in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-third. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT [ SEAL] By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. PROCLAMATION 2337 SANTA ROSA ISLAND NATIONAL MONUMENT-FLORIDA WHEREAS certain Governmentowned lands in the State of Florida have 13 F.R. 2799; 3 CFR, 1938 Supp., page 39. 24 F.R. 229; 3 CFR, 1939 Supp., page 19. situated thereon various objects of geological and scientific interest; and DONE at the City of Washington this 17'' day of May in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirtynine, and of the Independence of the United States of America [SEAL] WHEREAS it appears that it would be in the public interest to reserve such lands as a national monument to be known as the Santa Rosa Island Na- the one hundred and sixty-third. tional Monument: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the act of June 8, 1906, c. 3060, 34 Stat. 225 (U.S.C., title 16, sec. 431), do proclaim that, subject to all valid existing rights, the following-described lands in Florida are hereby reserved from all forms of appropriation under the public-land laws and set apart as the Santa Rosa Island National Monument: inclusive; T. 2 S., R. 27 W., fractional secs. 33 to 36, inclusive; T. 3 S., R. 27 W., fractional secs. 3 to 6, inclusive; T. 3 S., R. 28 W., fractional secs. 1 to 12, inclusive, and sec. 18; T. 3 S., R. 29 W., fractional secs. 12, 13, 14. 15, 22, and those parts of secs. 16 and 21 east of east boundary of the Fort Pickens Military Reservation (longitude 87°09′52'' W.), excluding small island in sec. 16 occupied by Bureau of Fisheries, containing 9500 acres. Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure, destroy, or remove any feature of this monument, and not to locate or settle upon any of the lands thereof. The Director of the National Park Service, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, shall have the supervision, management, and control of this monument as provided in the act of Congress entitled "An act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes," approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535; U.S.C., title 16, secs. 1 and 2), and act supplementary thereto or amendatory thereof. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. PROCLAMATION 2338 AUSTRALIA-SUSPENSION OF TONNAGE DUTIES Statutes of the United States, as amended by the act of July 24, 1897, c. 13, 30 Stat. 214 (U.S.C., title 46, sec. 141), provides, in part, as follows: WHEREAS section 4228 of the Revised President, by the government of any foreign "Upon satisfactory proof being given to the nation, that no discriminating duties of tonnage or imposts are imposed or levied in the longing to citizens of the United States, or ports of such nation upon vessels wholly beupon the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported in the same from the United States or from any foreign country, the President may issue his proclamation, declaring that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and impost within the United States are suspended and discontinued, so far as respects the vessels of such foreign nation, and the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported into the United States from such foreign nation, or from any other foreign country; the suspension to take effect from the time of such notification being given to the President and tion of vessels, belonging to citizens of the to continue so long as the reciprocal exempUnited States, and their cargoes, shall be continued, and no longer."; AND WHEREAS satisfactory proof was received by me from the Government of Australia in a note from the Minister for External Affairs dated February 27, 1939, to the American Consul General at Sydney, that no discriminating duties of tonnage or imposts are imposed or levied in the ports of Australia upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States, or upon the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported in such vessels, from the United States, or from any foreign country: NOW, THEREFORE, I, Franklin D Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the above quoted statutory provisions, do hereby WHEREAS it appears that certain pubdeclare and proclaim that the foreign lic lands within the Beaverhead National discriminating duties of tonnage and im- Forest, adjacent to the Big Hole Battleposts within the United States are sus- field Monument, are historic landmarks, pended and discontinued so far as re- forming a part of the battle grounds spects the vessels of Australia and the where Chief Joseph and a band of Nez produce, manufactures, or merchandise Perce Indians were defeated by a deimported in such vessels into the United | tachment of United States Soldiers; States from Australia or from any other foreign country; the suspension to take effect from February 27, 1939, and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States and their cargoes shall be continued, and no longer. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have here unto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 22d day of May in the year of [SEAL] our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-third. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL PROCLAMATION 2339 EXCLUDING CERTAIN LANDS FROM THE WHEREAS the unsurveyed E1⁄2NESE4NW4 sec. 24, T. 2 S., R. 17 W., P. M., Montana, was reserved by Executive Order No. 1216 of June 23, 1910, as the Big Hole Battlefield Monument; WHEREAS upon survey it has been found that the area intended to be reserved by that Executive order is the five-acre tract designated as the "Big Hole Battlefield Monument" on General Land Office supplemental plat of the survey of sec. 24, approved July 19, 1917, and described by metes and bounds as follows: Beginning at a point S. 0°1' W., 5.00 chs. and N. 89°42' E., 3.00 chs. from the northwest sixteenth-section corner of Sec. 24, T. 2 S., R. 17 W., M. P. M.; thence S. 0°2′ W., 10.00 chs.; S. 89°42′ W., 5.00 chs; N. 10 chs.; N. 89°42' E., 5.00 chs; to point of beginning; WHEREAS certain other public lands within the aforesaid national forest are contiguous to the said national monument and are necessary for the proper care, management, and protection of the historic landmarks included within the monument; and WHEREAS it appears that it would be in the public interest to reserve all of the aforesaid public lands as a part of the said national monument: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the act of June 4, 1897, 30 Stat. 11,36 (U.S.C., title 16, sec. 473), and the act of June 8, 1906, c. 3060, 34 Stat. 225 (U.S.C., title 16, sec. 431), do proclaim that the abovementioned Executive Order of June 23, 1910, is hereby construed in conformity with the supplemental plat of survey approved July 19, 1917, to embrace the tract described above by metes and bounds, as well as the area erroneously reserved thereby; and that the hereinafter-described lands are hereby excluded from the Beaverhead National Forest and, subject to valid existing rights, added to and made a part of the said monument, which is hereby designated as the Big Hole Battlefield National Monument: MONTANA PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN T. 2 S., R. 17 W., sec. 24, lots 1 and 2, N1⁄2NW; Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure, destroy, or remove any feature of this monument and not to locate or settle upon any of the lands thereof. 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 monument as provided in the act of Congress entitled "An act to establish a National Park Service, and for other pur poses," approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. the United States of America to be 535, U.S.C., title 16, secs. 1 and 2), and affixed. acts supplementary thereto or amendatory thereof. DONE at the City of Washington this 30'' day of June in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirtynine and of the Independence of the United States of America IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of [SEAL] the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this the one hundred and sixty-third. 29th day of June in the year of [SEAL] our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and of the Inde pendence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-third. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL The Secretary of State. PROCLAMATION 2340 MODIFICATION OF POSTAGE RATES WHEREAS the interests of the public and the promotion of the cultural growth, education, and development of the American people require the continuation of the postage rates on books as prescribed by Proclamation No. 2309 of October 31, 1938: 1 NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 2 of the act of June 16, 1933, 48 Stat. 254, as amended by section 515 of title III of the act of May 10, 1934, 48 Stat. 760, Public Resolution 36, approved June 28, 1935, 49 Stat. 431, Public Resolution 48, approved June 29, 1937, 50 Stat. 358, and section 1 of title I of the Revenue Act of 1939, approved June 29, 1939, (Public No. 155, 76th Congress, 1st Session), do proclaim that the postage rate on books consisting wholly of reading matter and containing no advertising matter other than incidental announcements of books, when mailed under such regulations as the Postmaster General shall prescribe, shall, for the period commencing July 1, 1939, and ending June 30, 1941, continue to be one and one-half cents a pound or fraction thereof, irrespective of the zone of destination. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of 13 F.R. 2588; 3 CFR, 1938 Supp., page 33. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. PROCLAMATION 2341 LIGHTHOUSE WEEK WHEREAS Public Resolution 16, 76th Congress (53 Stat. 746), approved May 15, 1939, provides in part: "That the week commencing August 7, 1939, is hereby designated as Lighthouse Week in aftieth anniversary of the enactment by the commemoration of the one hundred and first Congress of the United States of the ninth Act of said Congress, which was approved by President George Washington on the United States Lighthouse Service by proAugust 7, 1789, and laid the foundation of viding that all expenses in the necessary support, maintenance, and repairs of all lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public piers to render navigation safe and easy should be paid for by the Treasury of the United States. During said week all Government officials are hereby directed to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings, and are requested in appropriate manner to celebrate the enactment and approval of said Act. "Sec. 2. That the President of the United States is hereby requested, by appropriate proclamation, to call attention of all citizens of the United States to said event and to request the cooperation of all citizens, communities, civic organizations, States, municipalities, counties, public agencies, churches, and schools in an appropriate recognition of the devoted, efficient, faithful, and splendid work of the Lighthouse Service for one hundred and fifty years in the safeguarding of life and property upon the sea"; NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do call upon the officials of the Government to observe the provisions of the aforesaid public resolution, invite the attention of all citizens of the United States to the celebration of Lighthouse Week commencing August 7, 1939, and request the cooperation of communities, civic organizations, States, municipalities, counties, public agencies, churches, and schools to recognize in an |