BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
[No. 1653Mar. 2, 192342 Stat. 2298]
WHEREAS, by section 9 of the Act of Congress approved
August 9, 1921 (42 Stat. 147-150), the Director of the Veterans'
Bureau, subject to the general direction of the President, was
authorized to utilize, inter alia, existing facilities of the
War Department in connection with the care, rehabilitation and return
to civil employment of disabled persons discharged from the military or
naval forces of the United States;
AND WHEREAS, the President, at the request of the
Director of the Veterans Bureau and upon the recommendation of the
Secretary of War, assigned to the Veterans' Bureau, for use in carrying
out the provisions of the said Act of Congress, the United States
Military Reservation known as Camp Sherman, in the State of Ohio;
AND WHEREAS, that part of the said Reservation upon
which is situated the famous prehistoric group of mounds known as the
"Mound City Group" is no longer required for the use of the Veterans'
Bureau;
AND WHEREAS, by section 2 of the Act of Congress
approved June 8, 1906 (34 Stat. 225), the President is authorized "in
his discretion, to declare by public proclamation historic landmarks,
historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or
scientific interest that are situated upon the lands owned or controlled
by the Government of the United States to be national monuments, and may
reserve as a part thereof parcels of land, the limits of which in all
cases shall be confined to the smallest area compatible with the proper
care and management of the objects to be protected";
AND WHEREAS, the said "Mound City Group" of
prehistoric mounds located within the Camp Sherman "Military
Reservation, Ohio, is an object of great historic and scientific
interest and should be permanently preserved and protected from all
depredations and from all changes that will to any extent mar or
jeopardize their historic value;
NOW THEREFORE, I, Warren G. Harding, President of the
United States of America, under authority of the said Act of Congress of
August 9, 1921, do hereby return to the custody and control of the War
Department the lands upon which are located the "Mound City Group" of
prehistoric mounds situated within the Camp Sherman Military Reservation
at Chillicothe, Ohio, and under the authority of the said Act of June
8, 1906, do hereby reserve the lands so returned as a national monument
site and declare and proclaim the said group of prehistoric mounds to
be a national monument, the lands so returned to the War Department
and reserved for said national monument site being more fully described
as follows, viz:
All of Sections N and O, bounded on the north by
East Liverpool Street, on the east by the Scioto River, on the west by
Columbus Avenue, and on the south by Portsmouth Street, containing
fifty-seven (57) acres, more or less.
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 second day of
March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and
twenty-three, and of the Independence of the United States of America
the one hundred and forty-seventh.
WARREN G. HARDING.
By the President:
CHARLES E. HUGHES,
Secretary of State.
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