{"id": "proc-465", "type": "proclamation", "number": "465", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1901-09-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Announcing the Death of William McKinley", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 465, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-465"}, "statutes": {"volume": 32, "page": 1987, "last_page": 1987, "cite": "32 Stat. 1987", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-32/pdf/STATUTE-32-Pg1987.pdf", "statutes_date": "1901-09-14", "table_title": "Appointing the day of burial of the late President McKinley a day of mourning and prayer."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America", "A PROCLAMATION.", "To the people of the United States:", "A terrible bereavement has befallen our people. The President of the United States has been struck down; a crime not only against the Chief Magistrate, but against every law-abiding and liberty-loving citizen.", "President McKinley crowned a life of largest love for his fellow men, of earnest endeavor for their welfare, by a death of Christian fortitude; and both the way in which he lived his life and the way in which, in the supreme hour of trial, he met his death will remain forever a precious heritage of our people.", "It is meet that we as a nation express our abiding love and reverence for his life, our deep sorrow for his untimely death.", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do appoint Thursday next, September 19, the day in which the body of the dead President will be laid in its last earthly resting place, as a day of mourning and prayer throughout the United States. I earnestly recommend all the people to assemble on that day in their respective places of divine worship, there to bow down in submission to the will of Almighty God, and to pay out of full hearts the homage of love and reverence to the memory of the great and good President, whose death has so sorely smitten the nation.", "In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.", "[SEAL.] Done at the City of Washington this fourteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and one, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth.", "Theodore Roosevelt", "By the President:\nJohn Hay\nSecretary of State."], "source": "32 Stat. 1987 (GovInfo page image), 2026-08-22", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Statutes heading: \"[No. 11.] Appointing the day of burial of the late President McKinley a day of mourning and prayer. September 14, 1901.\" Seal notation restored and full dating formula restored (APP modernizes to \"A. D. 1901\" and departs in seven places). The Statutes editor's two marginal sidenotes are omitted as not part of the proclamation.", "story": 32}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Announced the death of President William McKinley and named Thursday, September 19, 1901, the day appointed for his burial, a national day of mourning and prayer.", "categories": ["ceremonial"], "action": "announce", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["William McKinley"], "significance": 5, "stories": [32], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1901-09-14", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Associated Press carried the full text from Buffalo the night it was issued, and papers printed it the next morning.", "source": "San Francisco Call, September 15, 1901, p. 13 (Associated Press); New-York Tribune, September 15, 1901", "date": "1901-09-15", "story": 32}, {"text": "At half past three on the day of mourning, New York's trolleys, elevated trains, power-house dynamos and harbor boats stopped for five minutes while crowds stood bareheaded.", "source": "New-York Tribune, September 20, 1901", "date": "1901-09-19", "story": 32}, {"text": "Telegraph operators across the country paused for the same five minutes.", "source": "New-York Tribune, September 20, 1901", "date": "1901-09-19", "story": 32}, {"text": "In Washington, services were held in nearly every church, and stores and businesses closed.", "source": "Evening Star (Washington), September 19, 1901", "date": "1901-09-19", "story": 32}, {"text": "Westminster Abbey held a service by command of King Edward, and most business houses in Manila closed.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1901-09-19", "story": 32}, {"text": "No organized objection to the proclamation's call to worship has been found in the period press, but the leading church-and-state weekly was out of print and the anarchist press had been shut down, so the silence is weak evidence.", "source": "research entry", "story": 32}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "political", "text": "Before the oath, Roosevelt pledged to continue McKinley's policy \"absolutely unbroken,\" and the mourning proclamation served as the ceremonial side of that same reassurance.", "source": "Buffalo Courier, September 15, 1901", "date": "1901-09-14", "story": 32}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "After the oath, Roosevelt asked McKinley's Cabinet to stay in office, keeping John Hay as Secretary of State until Hay's death in 1905.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1901-09-14", "story": 32}, {"kind": "political", "text": "The appointed day ended a five-day national funeral, with ceremonies under the Capitol dome on September 17 and the Canton service on September 19.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1901-09-19", "story": 32}, {"kind": "local", "text": "At Canton, McKinley's body was placed in the Werts Receiving Vault at West Lawn Cemetery under Army guard rather than buried.", "source": "Saint Paul Globe, September 20, 1901", "date": "1901-09-19", "story": 32}, {"kind": "political", "text": "Abraham Isaak, editor of the anarchist paper Free Society in Chicago, was arrested with his family within two days of the shooting, and police destroyed his presses.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1901-09", "story": 32}], "legacy": [{"text": "McKinley was entombed in the McKinley National Memorial in Canton in 1907, and Roosevelt gave the oration at its dedication.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1907-09", "story": 32}, {"text": "The 1903 immigration act barred anarchists and opponents of all organized government from entering the country and from naturalization.", "source": "Act of March 3, 1903, ch. 1012, 32 Stat. 1213, secs. 2, 38, 39", "date": "1903-03-03", "story": 32}, {"text": "Congress first funded Secret Service protection of the President in 1906 and first authorized it by statute in 1913; permanent authorization came in 1951.", "source": "34 Stat. 708; 38 Stat. 23; Congressional Research Service", "story": 32}, {"text": "When Roosevelt died in 1919, the proclamation announcing his death used the narrower form for former Presidents: flags at half staff and military honors, with no day of mourning or prayer.", "source": "Proclamation 1506-B, 40 Stat. 1921–1922", "date": "1919-01-07", "story": 32}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1903-03-03", "text": "Congress added anarchists to the classes barred from entering the United States.", "source": "32 Stat. 1213", "story": 32}, {"date": "1906-06-30", "text": "Congress first appropriated money for protecting the person of the President.", "source": "34 Stat. 708", "story": 32}, {"date": "1913-06-23", "text": "Congress first authorized Secret Service protection of the President by statute.", "source": "38 Stat. 23", "story": 32}, {"date": "1919-01-07", "text": "President Wilson proclaimed the death of ex-President Roosevelt, ordering flags at half staff for thirty days.", "source": "Proclamation 1506-B, 40 Stat. 1921–1922", "story": 32}, {"date": "1919-02-09", "text": "Congress met in joint session to hear Henry Cabot Lodge eulogize Roosevelt.", "source": "research entry", "story": 32}], "uncertain": ["The hour Roosevelt signed the proclamation is not known.", "How Hay's countersignature and the Great Seal were applied while Roosevelt was in Buffalo is not known; a seal warrant described by an auction house has not been located or examined.", "Whose handwriting is on the Library of Congress draft, and whether it is the draft Ansley Wilcox rescued from the wastebasket, are not known."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-466", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 20, "inferred": true, "date": "1901-11-02", "title": "Thanksgiving Day, 1901", "type": "proclamation", "number": "466"}, {"id": "proc-578", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 57, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-07-03", "title": "Announcing the Death of John Hay", "type": "proclamation", "number": "578"}, {"id": "proc-813", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 75, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-06-24", "title": "Announcing the Death of Ex-President Grover Cleveland", "type": "proclamation", "number": "813"}]}
{"id": "uo-001", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 1, "date": "1901-09-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Fort Sill Military Reservation, Comanche County, Oklahoma Territory, enlarged by 893.07 acres, for the purpose of locating thereon certain Apache prisoners of war.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 1, "page": "186", "citations": "(1907 MR 270; 1910 MR 301; 1916 MR 309; I CFR 81, 270; III CFR 673)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Fort Sill Military Reservation, Comanche County, Oklahoma Territory, enlarged by 893.07 acres, for the purpose of locating thereon certain Apache prisoners of war.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "Distinct. No numbered EO exists before EO 141 (Oct. 31, 1901), and the only 1901 proclamations are 465 and 466.", "summary": "Enlarged the Fort Sill Military Reservation in Comanche County, Oklahoma Territory, by 893.07 acres so certain Apache prisoners of war could be located there.", "categories": ["military-naval", "indian-lands"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Fort Sill Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Oklahoma"}], "states": ["Oklahoma"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1901-09-20", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-002", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 2, "date": "1901-09-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Battlement Mesa Forest Reserve, Colo., diminished, and described lands restored to the public domain.", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 2, "page": "186", "citations": "X Richardson 518"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Black Mesa Forest Reserve, Colo., diminished, and described lands restored to the public domain. *(Lord prints \"Black Mesa\"; the order concerns the **Battlement Mesa** Forest Reserve, Colorado — T. 7 S., R. 93 W., 6th P.M. lies in Colorado, and Black Mesa was in Arizona Territory. Resolved 2026-10-12; see research entry #111.)*", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "Distinct. No numbered EO exists before EO 141 (Oct. 31, 1901), and the only 1901 proclamations are 465 and 466.", "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Black Mesa Forest Reserve, Colo., diminished, and described lands restored to the public domain”. Lord prints \"Black Mesa\" (an Arizona reserve); the township described (T. 7 S., R. 93 W., 6th P.M.) lies in Colorado's Battlement Mesa reserve."], "summary": "Shrank a Colorado forest reserve (printed as Black Mesa, but the lands lie in the Battlement Mesa Forest Reserve) and returned the described lands to the public domain.", "categories": ["forests", "public-lands"], "action": "reduce", "places": [{"name": "Battlement Mesa Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1901-09-23", "impact": {"uncertain": ["The order names the \"Black Mesa\" Forest Reserve where the land lies in the Battlement Mesa reserve; whether the slip was in the signed original or entered in Richardson's transcription is not known.", "The Forest Service chronologies also list the same order under October 7, 1901, as a duplicate with a different date; Lord gives only September 23."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-003", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 3, "date": "1901-10-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "T. S. Sharretts appointed special appraiser of duties on imports into China.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 3, "page": "186", "citations": "X Richardson 518"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "T. S. Sharretts appointed special appraiser of duties on imports into China.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "Distinct. No numbered EO exists before EO 141 (Oct. 31, 1901), and the only 1901 proclamations are 465 and 466.", "summary": "Named T. S. Sharretts special appraiser of duties on imports into China.", "categories": ["civil-service", "foreign-affairs", "trade-reciprocity"], "action": "appoint", "places": [{"name": "China", "kind": "country"}], "states": [], "people": ["T. S. Sharretts"], "significance": 1, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1901-10-01", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "diplomatic", "text": "Sharretts's commission carried out the tariff article of the Boxer Protocol, converting ad valorem duties on imports into China to specific duties to fund the indemnity.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1901-10-01", "story": 111}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-004", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 4, "date": "1901-10-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Ratings and pay of petty officers and other enlisted men of the Commissary Branch of the U.S. Navy established.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 4, "page": "186", "citations": "X Richardson 518"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Ratings and pay of petty officers and other enlisted men of the Commissary Branch of the U.S. Navy established.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "Distinct. No numbered EO exists before EO 141 (Oct. 31, 1901), and the only 1901 proclamations are 465 and 466.", "summary": "Set the ratings and pay of petty officers and other enlisted men in the Navy's Commissary Branch.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1901-10-15", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-005", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 5, "date": "1901-10-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Harbor Island and three islets southeast thereof in Sitka Harbor, Alaska, reserved for the use of the Revenue Cutter Service.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 5, "page": "186", "citations": "X Richardson 519"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Harbor Island and three islets southeast thereof in Sitka Harbor, Alaska, reserved for the use of the Revenue Cutter Service.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "Distinct. No numbered EO exists before EO 141 (Oct. 31, 1901), and the only 1901 proclamations are 465 and 466.", "summary": "Reserved Harbor Island and three islets southeast of it in Sitka Harbor, Alaska, for the Revenue Cutter Service.", "categories": ["insular-territories", "government-administration"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Harbor Island", "kind": "island", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1901-10-30", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-141", "type": "executive_order", "number": "141", "tr_sequence": 1, "lord_number": null, "date": "1901-10-31", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Clerk in Pension Agency in Philadelphia Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_141", "revid": 12441332, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Special Rule.", "An appointment to the vacancy now existing in the position of the clerk designated to sign checks for the pension agent at the pension agency at Philadelphia, Pa., may be made without examination under the civil-service rules.", "Theodore Roosevelt.", "White House, October 31, 1901."], "source": "U.S. Civil Service Commission, Nineteenth Report (FY 1902), p. 77 (Internet Archive page images), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Rule text matches the Commission's printing word for word. The signature line ('Theodore Roosevelt. / White House, October 31, 1901.') is Wikisource's only; the Nineteenth Report prints no signature block. Unverified against the signed original (NARA RG 11). Date line italic in source.", "story": 77}, "summary": "Let the vacancy for the clerk who signs checks for the pension agent at the Philadelphia pension agency be filled without a civil-service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["Pennsylvania"], "people": [], "significance": 1, "stories": [77], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1901-10-31", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The exception let the Philadelphia pension agent's check-signing clerk be appointed without examination, after the Commissioner of Pensions asked on October 21 for \"a special exception in this instance.\"", "source": "Nineteenth Report of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, p. 77", "date": "1901-10-31", "story": 77}], "uncertain": ["The order's signature line (\"Theodore Roosevelt. / White House, October 31, 1901.\") is known only from Wikisource; the Commission's printings confirm the date but not the signature block."]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-209", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "EO 209 replaced the Civil Service Rules of 1896, and the amendments made to them, with a consolidated set effective April 15, 1903.", "story": 77, "date": "1903-03-20", "title": "Prescribing Civil Service Rules in Lieu of Rules of May 6, 1896", "type": "executive_order", "number": "209"}]}
{"id": "eo-142", "type": "executive_order", "number": "142", "tr_sequence": 2, "lord_number": null, "date": "1901-11-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Steward in White House Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_142", "revid": 12441333, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["An appointment to the vacancy now existing in the position of steward of the White House may be made without examination under the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, November 1, 1901.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed the vacant post of White House steward to be filled without a civil-service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [{"name": "White House", "kind": "other", "state": "District of Columbia"}], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": [], "significance": 1, "stories": [77], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1901-11-01", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The special rule let the post of steward of the White House be filled without examination.", "source": "Wikisource, Executive Order 142", "date": "1901-11-01", "story": 77}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-209", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "EO 209 replaced the Civil Service Rules of 1896, and the amendments made to them, with a consolidated set effective April 15, 1903.", "story": 77, "date": "1903-03-20", "title": "Prescribing Civil Service Rules in Lieu of Rules of May 6, 1896", "type": "executive_order", "number": "209"}]}
{"id": "proc-466", "type": "proclamation", "number": "466", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1901-11-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Thanksgiving Day, 1901", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 466, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-466"}, "statutes": {"volume": 32, "page": 1987, "last_page": 1988, "cite": "32 Stat. 1987–1988", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-32/pdf/STATUTE-32-Pg1987.pdf", "statutes_date": "1901-11-02", "table_title": "Designating Thursday, November 28, 1901, as a day of general thanksgiving."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America", "A Proclamation", "The season is nigh when, according to the time-hallowed custom of our people, the President appoints a day as the especial occasion for praise and thanksgiving to God.", "This Thanksgiving finds the people still bowed with sorrow for the death of a great and good President. We mourn President McKinley because we so loved and honored him; and the manner of his death should awaken in the breasts of our people a keen anxiety for the country, and at the same time a resolute purpose not to be driven by any calamity from the path of strong, orderly, popular liberty which as a nation we have thus far safely trod.", "Yet in spite of this great disaster, it is nevertheless true that no people on earth have such abundant cause for thanksgiving as we have. The past year in particular has been one of peace and plenty. We have prospered in things material and have been able to work for our own uplifting in things intellectual and spiritual. Let us remember that, as much as has been given us, much will be expected from us; and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips and shows itself in deeds. We can best prove our thankfulness to the Almighty by the way in which on this earth and at this time each of us does his duty to his fellow men.", "Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, do hereby designate as a day of general thanksgiving Thursday, the 28th of this present November, and do recommend that throughout the land the people cease from their wonted occupations, and at their several homes and places of worship reverently thank the Giver of all good for the countless blessings of our national life.", "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 November, A. D. 1901, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:\nJOHN HAY, Secretary of State."], "source": "32 Stat. 1987–1988 ([No. 12.]; GovInfo page image STATUTE-32-Pg1988), collated 2026-08-21, corrected 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "American Presidency Project transcription, corrected at one point against the Statutes at Large: 'as much as has been given us' (APP drops the second 'as'). 'especial' is the word as issued. The Statutes printing differs only in styling: 'Now, therefore' and 'In witness whereof' in lower case without the comma; date line reads 'in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and one' with '[SEAL.]'; 'JOHN HAY' without comma. Italics from the entry dropped.", "story": 20}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart Thursday, November 28, 1901, as a day of national thanksgiving, while noting the country still mourned President McKinley.", "categories": ["ceremonial"], "action": "announce", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [20], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1901-11-02", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Associated Press moved the proclamation the day it was signed, and the Marshalltown, Iowa Evening Times-Republican printed the full text on its front page that afternoon.", "source": "Evening Times-Republican (Marshalltown, Iowa), November 2, 1901, p. 1", "date": "1901-11-02", "story": 20}, {"text": "Over the next few days papers from California to South Dakota, Ohio, Indiana, New Mexico and Iowa carried it, often on page one and often in full; its closing line appears on 106 digitized pages in Chronicling America alone.", "source": "Chronicling America and California Digital Newspaper Collection sweep", "date": "1901-11", "story": 20}, {"text": "Headline writers singled out the passage mourning McKinley, with heads such as \"Refers to Nation's Sad Loss.\"", "source": "San Francisco Call, November 3, 1901; Morning Press (Santa Barbara), November 3, 1901", "date": "1901-11-03", "story": 20}, {"text": "The San Jose Mercury-News praised it as \"characteristic of the man,\" saying he \"says something\" rather than stringing together platitudes.", "source": "San Jose Mercury-News, November 3, 1901", "date": "1901-11-03", "story": 20}, {"text": "The text was cabled to Manila and drew a second round of coverage there in mid-November.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1901-11", "story": 20}, {"text": "The San Francisco Call's editorial page returned to the \"duty to his fellow men\" line, and the Healdsburg Tribune built a full essay on the history of Thanksgiving proclamations around Roosevelt's.", "source": "San Francisco Call, November 13, 1901; Healdsburg Tribune, November 28, 1901", "date": "1901-11", "story": 20}, {"text": "The only jokes found aimed elsewhere, at the coming election and at the cost of cabling the proclamation to the Philippines; no contemporary objection to the proclamation has been found.", "source": "Los Angeles Herald, November 6, 1901; Marysville Daily Appeal, November 17, 1901", "date": "1901-11", "story": 20}], "legacy": [{"text": "The yearly presidential Thanksgiving proclamation, unbroken since Lincoln's of 1863, has continued to the present; Roosevelt signed one every year of his presidency.", "source": "American Presidency Project proclamation index", "story": 20}, {"text": "The date rested on custom until Franklin Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving a week early in 1939, 1940 and 1941, splitting the states over which Thursday to keep.", "source": "Proclamations 2373 (1939), 2441 (1940), 2522 (1941)", "date": "1939", "story": 20}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1939-10-31", "text": "Franklin Roosevelt's Proclamation 2373 set Thanksgiving a week before the last Thursday of November, on November 23.", "source": "Proclamation 2373", "story": 20}, {"date": "1941-12-26", "text": "A joint resolution fixed Thanksgiving by law as the fourth Thursday of November, beginning after 1941.", "source": "ch. 631, 55 Stat. 862", "story": 20}], "uncertain": ["Whether the large Eastern dailies, thinly represented in the digitized collections searched, carried any criticism of the proclamation."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-465", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Roosevelt's first proclamation, mourning McKinley; printed directly before this one as [No. 11.].", "story": 20, "date": "1901-09-14", "title": "Announcing the Death of William McKinley", "type": "proclamation", "number": "465"}, {"id": "proc-494", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Roosevelt's next Thanksgiving proclamation, 1902.", "story": 20, "date": "1902-10-29", "title": "Thanksgiving Day, 1902", "type": "proclamation", "number": "494"}, {"id": "proc-508", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 47, "inferred": true, "date": "1903-10-31", "title": "Thanksgiving Day, 1903", "type": "proclamation", "number": "508"}, {"id": "proc-533", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 54, "inferred": true, "date": "1904-11-01", "title": "Thanksgiving Day, 1904", "type": "proclamation", "number": "533"}, {"id": "proc-605", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 62, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-11-02", "title": "Thanksgiving Day, 1905", "type": "proclamation", "number": "605"}]}
{"id": "eo-143", "type": "executive_order", "number": "143", "tr_sequence": 3, "lord_number": null, "date": "1901-11-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Coachman in Navy Department Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_143", "revid": 12441335, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["An appointment to the vacancy now existing in the position of laborer, with the duties of coachman, in the office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy may be made without examination under the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, November 6, 1901.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed the Navy Department to fill a vacant laborer job, with the duties of coachman in the Assistant Secretary of the Navy's office, without a civil-service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service", "military-naval"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 1, "stories": [77], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1901-11-06", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The special rule let a laborer with the duties of coachman in the office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy be appointed without examination.", "source": "Wikisource, Executive Order 143", "date": "1901-11-06", "story": 77}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-209", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "EO 209 replaced the Civil Service Rules of 1896, and the amendments made to them, with a consolidated set effective April 15, 1903.", "story": 77, "date": "1903-03-20", "title": "Prescribing Civil Service Rules in Lieu of Rules of May 6, 1896", "type": "executive_order", "number": "209"}]}
{"id": "uo-006", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 6, "date": "1901-11-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Certain lands in Zambales and Bataan, Island of Luzon, P. I., reserved for naval purposes.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 6, "page": "186", "citations": "X Richardson 519"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Certain lands in Zambales and Bataan, Island of Luzon, P. I., reserved for naval purposes.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "Distinct. No numbered EO exists before EO 141 (Oct. 31, 1901), and the only 1901 proclamations are 465 and 466.", "summary": "Reserved certain lands in Zambales and Bataan, on the island of Luzon in the Philippines, for naval purposes.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Zambales", "kind": "other", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Bataan", "kind": "other", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Luzon", "kind": "island", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1901-11-09", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Zambales and Bataan land became the ground for the Olongapo Naval Station on Subic Bay, established a year later.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1902-11-26", "story": 111}]}, "related": [{"id": "uo-051", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The Olongapo Naval Station was established on this reserved land in November 1902.", "story": 111, "date": "1902-11-26", "title": "Olongapo Naval Station, Zambales Province, Island of Luzon, P. I., established.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "uo-007", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 7, "date": "1901-11-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Certain described lands near Point Dume, Calif., reserved for lighthouse purposes, subject to any legal existing rights.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 7, "page": "187", "citations": "X Richardson 519"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Certain described lands near Point Dume, Calif., reserved for lighthouse purposes, subject to any legal existing rights.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Set aside described lands near Point Dume, California, for a lighthouse, subject to any legal existing rights.", "categories": ["lighthouses"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Point Dume", "kind": "lighthouse", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1901-11-11", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "uo-028", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Point Dume was reserved for lighthouse purposes again, in nearly identical words, on April 30, 1902.", "story": 111, "date": "1902-04-30", "title": "Certain described lands near Point Dume, Calif., reserved for lighthouse purposes, subject to any legal existing rights.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "uo-008", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 8, "date": "1901-11-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Certain described lands in Arizona Territory adjoining the Moqui and Navajo Reservations withdrawn from sale pending homestead settlement by Indians residing thereon.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 8, "page": "187", "citations": "I Kappler 877; 1904 CIA 530; I IR 18; X Richardson 520; (EO 3759; 1925 GLO 13)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Certain described lands in Arizona Territory adjoining the Moqui and Navajo Reservations withdrawn from sale pending homestead settlement by Indians residing thereon.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Withdrew described lands in Arizona Territory next to the Moqui and Navajo reservations from sale, holding them until the Indians living there could settle them as homesteads.", "categories": ["indian-lands", "public-lands"], "action": "other", "places": [{"name": "Moqui Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "Arizona"}, {"name": "Navajo Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1901-11-14", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-009", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 9, "date": "1901-11-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "San Nicolas Island, Calif., reserved for lighthouse purposes.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 9, "page": "187", "citations": "X Richardson 520"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "San Nicolas Island, Calif., reserved for lighthouse purposes. *(Lord: \"San Nichols\")*", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Reserved San Nicolas Island, off California, for lighthouse purposes.", "categories": ["lighthouses"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "San Nicolas Island", "kind": "island", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1901-11-15", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-144", "type": "executive_order", "number": "144", "tr_sequence": 4, "lord_number": null, "date": "1901-11-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Make Certain United States Army Positions Subject to Classification", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_144", "revid": 1826647, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Section 8 of Civil-Service Rule III is hereby amended by striking out all of clauses (g), (h), (i), and (j) thereof and re-lettering the succeeding clauses accordingly.", "Approved."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, November 18, 1901.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "title_notes": ["The positions were civilian jobs in the Army's field departments; the order brought them back under the civil-service rules."], "summary": "Amended Civil Service Rule III by striking four clauses, (g) through (j), from its list of exceptions, bringing certain U.S. Army positions under classification.", "categories": ["civil-service", "military-naval"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [77], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1901-11-18", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The order put civilian field employees of the Army's Quartermaster, Medical, Ordnance and Engineer Departments back under the civil-service rules, reversing part of McKinley's order of May 29, 1899.", "source": "Wikisource, Executive Orders 119 and 144", "date": "1901-11-18", "story": 77}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-209", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "EO 209 replaced the Civil Service Rules of 1896, and the amendments made to them, with a consolidated set effective April 15, 1903.", "story": 77, "date": "1903-03-20", "title": "Prescribing Civil Service Rules in Lieu of Rules of May 6, 1896", "type": "executive_order", "number": "209"}]}
{"id": "eo-145", "type": "executive_order", "number": "145", "tr_sequence": 5, "lord_number": null, "date": "1901-11-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Permitting Superintendents of Indian Training Schools to be Classified", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_145", "revid": 1826660, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Amend Rule III by adding thereto the following section, to be numbered 9:", "Whenever the duties of an Indian agency shall be devolved upon the superintendent of the Indian training school located at such agency, and the separate office of Indian agent shall thereby be discontinued, the person holding such Indian agency at the date of such discontinuance may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be made a classified employee in the Indian Service at such agency, either as superintendent of such Indian training school or otherwise, upon such test of fitness as may be satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior and the Civil Service Commission.", "Approved."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, November 26, 1901.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "title_notes": ["The order covers Indian agents whose agencies passed to school superintendents, not superintendents of training schools as such."], "summary": "Changed the civil-service rules so that when an Indian training school superintendent took over an agency's duties, the displaced Indian agent could be made a classified employee after a fitness test.", "categories": ["civil-service", "indian-lands"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [77], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1901-11-26", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "An Indian agent whose post was abolished, when a school superintendent took over the agency, could become a classified employee on a test of fitness rather than a competitive examination.", "source": "Wikisource, Executive Order 145", "date": "1901-11-26", "story": 77}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-209", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "EO 209 replaced the Civil Service Rules of 1896, and the amendments made to them, with a consolidated set effective April 15, 1903.", "story": 77, "date": "1903-03-20", "title": "Prescribing Civil Service Rules in Lieu of Rules of May 6, 1896", "type": "executive_order", "number": "209"}]}
{"id": "eo-146", "type": "executive_order", "number": "146", "tr_sequence": 6, "lord_number": null, "date": "1901-11-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Waiver of Apportionment Provisions for Transfers", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_146", "revid": 12352753, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Amend Civil-Service Rule X, clause 2, by striking out the word \"shall\" and inserting the word \"may\" in lieu thereof in the following sentence: \"but the provisions in relation to apportionment shall be waived upon the certificate of the appointing officer that the transfer is required in the interests of good administration,\" and by adding to said sentence the following words: \"setting forth in detail the reasons therefor, which certificate shall be subject to the approval of the Commission.\" The whole section, as amended, will read as follows:", "A person who has received absolute appointment may be transferred without examination from any department, office, or branch of the service, upon requisition and consent of the proper officers, and the certificate of the Commission: Provided, That no transfer shall be made of a person to a position within the same department or office and the same branch of the service, or to a position in another department, office, or branch of the service, if for original entrance to such position said person is barred by the age limitations prescribed therefor, or by the provisions regulating apportionment, but the provisions in relation to apportionment may be waived upon the certificate of the appointing officer that the transfer is required in the interests of good administration, setting forth in detail the reasons therefor, which certificate shall be subject to the approval of the Commission: And provided further, That transfers shall not be made without examination, provided by the Commission, to a position for original entrance to which, in the judgment of the Commission, there is required by these rules an examination involving essential tests different from or higher than those involved in the examination required for original entrance to the position from which transfer is proposed; but a person employed in any grade shall not because of such employment be barred from the open competitive examination provided for original entrance to any other grade.", "Approved."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, November 26, 1901.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Wavier of Apportionment Provisions for Transfers”. Spelling (\"Wavier\")."], "summary": "Amended the civil-service transfer rule so apportionment limits \"may\" (rather than \"shall\") be waived, and only with a detailed certificate approved by the Civil Service Commission.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [77], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1901-11-26", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The order narrowed a loophole: the apportionment rules \"may\" rather than \"shall\" be waived for transfers, and only with detailed reasons and the Commission's approval.", "source": "Wikisource, Executive Order 146", "date": "1901-11-26", "story": 77}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-150", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Two weeks later EO 150 amended the same section of Rule X to bar transfers before six months' service.", "story": 77, "date": "1901-12-11", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Prohibit Transfer of Persons Who Have not Served Six Months in Classified Position", "type": "executive_order", "number": "150"}, {"id": "eo-209", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "EO 209 replaced the Civil Service Rules of 1896, and the amendments made to them, with a consolidated set effective April 15, 1903.", "story": 77, "date": "1903-03-20", "title": "Prescribing Civil Service Rules in Lieu of Rules of May 6, 1896", "type": "executive_order", "number": "209"}]}
{"id": "uo-010", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 10, "date": "1901-11-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlisted Navy men allowed additional monthly pay for good conduct.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 10, "page": "187", "citations": "X Richardson 520"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Enlisted Navy men allowed additional monthly pay for good conduct.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Granted enlisted men of the Navy extra monthly pay for good conduct.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1901-11-26", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-147", "type": "executive_order", "number": "147", "tr_sequence": 7, "lord_number": null, "date": "1901-11-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Classification of Post Office Personnel", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_147", "revid": 1826677, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Section 4 of Rule III is hereby amended by striking out all of the first sentence and inserting in lieu thereof the following:", "The Post-Office Service shall include all officers and employees in free-delivery post-offices and in the rural free-delivery service, except persons employed merely as laborers or workmen and persons whose appointments are subject to confirmation by the Senate: Provided, That until regulations for appointments of carriers in the rural free-delivery service shall become operative said carriers shall not be treated as classified hereunder: And provided further, That transfer shall not be made from the position of carrier in the rural free-delivery service to any other position in the classified service.", "As amended the section will read:", "The Post-Office Service shall include all officers and employees in free-delivery post-offices and in the rural free-delivery service, except persons employed merely as laborers or workmen and persons whose appointments are subject to confirmation by the Senate: Provided, That until regulations for appointments of carriers in the rural free-delivery service shall become operative said carriers shall not be treated as classified hereunder: And provided further, That transfer shall not be made from the position of carrier in the rural free-delivery service to any other position in the classified service. And whenever the free-delivery system shall be established in any post-office the Postmaster-General shall at once notify the Commission of such establishment, and the officers and employees of said office shall be included within the classified service from the date of such establishment; and whenever, by order of the Postmaster-General, any post-office shall be consolidated with and made a part of a free-delivery post-office, the Postmaster-General shall at once notify the Commission of such consolidation, and from the date of said order the employees of the office thus made a part of the free-delivery office whose names appear on the roster of the Post-Office Department shall be employees of said free-delivery office; and the person holding on the date of said order the position of postmaster at the office thus made a part of said free-delivery office may be made an employee in said free-delivery office, and may, at the time of classification, be assigned to any position therein and given any appropriate designation which the Postmaster-General may direct.", "Approved."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, November 27, 1901.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Redefined the classified Post-Office Service to cover employees of free-delivery post offices and rural free delivery, with rural carriers held outside classification until their appointment regulations took effect.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [77], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1901-11-27", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "An Associated Press item reported the order bringing the rural free-delivery service into the classified service, effective at once for about 250 clerks, agents and inspectors but not yet for the carriers.", "source": "San Francisco Call, November 28, 1901, \"Changes in Rural Delivery\"; Los Angeles Herald and San Diego Union, same date", "date": "1901-11-28", "story": 77}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Commission counted 342 rural free-delivery clerks, route inspectors, special agents and messengers classified on November 27, 1901.", "source": "Nineteenth Report of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, p. 107", "date": "1901-11-27", "story": 77}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The examination system for rural carriers went fully into effect on February 1, 1902, when 6,009 carriers were classified; by June 30, 1902 the service counted 8,590 classified carriers.", "source": "Nineteenth Report of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, pp. 11, 107", "date": "1902-02-01", "story": 77}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-152", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Set the rural letter carriers' own age range.", "story": 77, "date": "1901-12-23", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Age Limitations in Post Office Service", "type": "executive_order", "number": "152"}, {"id": "eo-153", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Waived the age limits for veteran applicants for rural carrier.", "story": 77, "date": "1901-12-27", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Age Limitations in Post Office Service for War Veterans", "type": "executive_order", "number": "153"}, {"id": "eo-209", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "EO 209 replaced the Civil Service Rules of 1896, and the amendments made to them, with a consolidated set effective April 15, 1903.", "story": 77, "date": "1903-03-20", "title": "Prescribing Civil Service Rules in Lieu of Rules of May 6, 1896", "type": "executive_order", "number": "209"}]}
{"id": "uo-011", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 11, "date": "1901-12-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlisted Navy men holding petty officers' training certificates allowed additional pay.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 11, "page": "187", "citations": "X Richardson 520"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Enlisted Navy men holding petty officers' training certificates allowed additional pay.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Gave Navy enlisted men who held petty officers' training certificates additional pay.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1901-12-03", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-012", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 12, "date": "1901-12-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Classification and monthly pay of Navy mess attendants authorized.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 12, "page": "187", "citations": "X Richardson 520"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Classification and monthly pay of Navy mess attendants authorized.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Authorized a classification and monthly pay scale for Navy mess attendants.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1901-12-09", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-148", "type": "executive_order", "number": "148", "tr_sequence": 8, "lord_number": null, "date": "1901-12-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Prescribing Procedure for Dismissal of Persons in Violation of Civil Service Act or Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_148", "revid": 1877594, "printed_source": "1901 CSR 299"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Rule VIII is hereby amended by adding thereto the following clause, to be numbered 16:", "For the purpose of securing the proper enforcement of sections 2 and 7 of the civil-service act, and of the rules adopted in pursuance thereof, the Commission, whenever it shall find that any person is holding a position in the civil service in violation of the provisions of the civil-service act or of these rules, shall, after notice to the person affected and an opportunity for explanation or other statement, certify information of the fact of such violation to the head of the department or office in or under which such position is held, and then, if such person be not dismissed within thirty days, to the disbursing and auditing officers through whom the payment of the salary or wages of such position is by law required to be made, and thereafter such disbursing or auditing officers shall not pay or permit to be paid to such person any salary or wages which accrue after such certificate has been received by them: Provided, however, That if a question of law respecting the power to appoint or employ is raised in any such case the President or the head of a department may obtain the opinion of the Attorney-General thereon.", "Approved.", "Theodore Roosevelt.", "White House, December 11, 1901."], "source": "U.S. Civil Service Commission, Eighteenth Report (FY 1901), pp. 299-300 (Internet Archive page images), 2026-10-12; also Nineteenth Report, p. 80", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Follows the Eighteenth Report, which prints the order with its signature block; the Nineteenth Report lacks the commas after 'civil-service act' and 'and then' and adds one after 'in any such case'. 'Provided, however' and the date are italic in the source.", "story": 77}, "summary": "Set a procedure for removing people holding jobs in violation of the civil-service law: after notice, the Commission certifies the violation, and pay stops if the person isn't dismissed within thirty days.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [77], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1901-12-11", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "No report of the December 11 enforcement orders was found in California papers for the rest of December 1901; eastern papers have not been checked.", "source": "California Digital Newspaper Collection, December 11–31, 1901", "date": "1901-12", "story": 77}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Commission could now force out anyone holding a job in violation of the rules by certifying the violation to the department head and, after thirty days, to the officers who paid the salary, who then had to stop paying.", "source": "Eighteenth Report of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, pp. 299–300", "date": "1901-12-11", "story": 77}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-149", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Signed the same day, requiring officers and employees to give the Commission information and testimony.", "story": 77, "date": "1901-12-11", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Providing that Public Officers Cooperate with Civil Service Commission Investigations", "type": "executive_order", "number": "149"}, {"id": "eo-209", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "EO 209 replaced the Civil Service Rules of 1896, and the amendments made to them, with a consolidated set effective April 15, 1903.", "story": 77, "date": "1903-03-20", "title": "Prescribing Civil Service Rules in Lieu of Rules of May 6, 1896", "type": "executive_order", "number": "209"}]}
{"id": "eo-149", "type": "executive_order", "number": "149", "tr_sequence": 9, "lord_number": null, "date": "1901-12-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Providing that Public Officers Cooperate with Civil Service Commission Investigations", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_149", "revid": 1843491, "printed_source": "1901 CSR 299"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Rule II is hereby amended by adding thereto the following clause, to be numbered 9:", "For the purpose of enabling the Commission to make the investigations authorized by section 2 of the civil-service act it shall be the duty of every officer and employee in the public service to give to said Commission, or its authorized representatives, all proper and competent information and testimony in regard to all matters inquired of and to subscribe such testimony and make oath or affirmation to the same before some officer authorized by law to administer oaths.", "Approved."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1901 CSR 299)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, December 11, 1901.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Required every federal officer and employee to give the Civil Service Commission information and sworn testimony in its investigations.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [77], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1901-12-11", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "No report of the December 11 enforcement orders was found in California papers for the rest of December 1901; eastern papers have not been checked.", "source": "California Digital Newspaper Collection, December 11–31, 1901", "date": "1901-12", "story": 77}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Every officer and employee in the public service was now required to give the Commission information and sworn testimony in its investigations.", "source": "Wikisource, Executive Order 149", "date": "1901-12-11", "story": 77}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-148", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Signed the same day, giving the Commission a way to stop pay to people hired in violation of the rules.", "story": 77, "date": "1901-12-11", "title": "Prescribing Procedure for Dismissal of Persons in Violation of Civil Service Act or Rules", "type": "executive_order", "number": "148"}, {"id": "eo-209", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "EO 209 replaced the Civil Service Rules of 1896, and the amendments made to them, with a consolidated set effective April 15, 1903.", "story": 77, "date": "1903-03-20", "title": "Prescribing Civil Service Rules in Lieu of Rules of May 6, 1896", "type": "executive_order", "number": "209"}]}
{"id": "eo-150", "type": "executive_order", "number": "150", "tr_sequence": 10, "lord_number": null, "date": "1901-12-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Prohibit Transfer of Persons Who Have not Served Six Months in Classified Position", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_150", "revid": 1843490, "printed_source": "1901 CSR 300"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Rule X, section 2, is hereby amended by inserting therein, after the words \"upon requisition and consent of the proper officers and the certificate of the Commission.\" the following words:", "but no person shall be so transferred who has not actually served for six months in the office in which he became classified and in some position therein which at the time of the request for his transfer is within the competitive classified service.", "So that as amended the said section shall read as follows:", "A person who has received absolute appointment may be transferred, without examination, from any department, office, or branch of the service, upon requisition and consent of the proper officers and the certificate of the Commission, but no person shall be so transferred who has not actually served for six months in the office in which he became classified and in some position therein which at the time of the request for his transfer is within the competitive classified service: Provided, That no transfer shall be made of a person to a position within the same department or office and the same branch of the service, or to a position in another department, office, or branch of the service, if for original entrance to such position said person is barred by the age limitations prescribed therefor, or by the provisions regulating apportionment, but the provisions in relation to apportionment may be waived upon the certificate of the appointing officer that the transfer is required in the interests of good administration, setting forth in detail the reasons therefor, which certificate shall be subject to the approval of the Commission: And provided further, That transfers shall not be made without examination, provided by the Commission, to a position for original entrance to which, in the judgment of the Commission, there is required by these rules an examination involving essential tests different from or higher than those involved in the examination required for original entrance to the position from which transfer is proposed; but a person employed in any grade shall not because of such employment be barred from the open competitive examination provided for original entrance to any other grade.", "Approved."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1901 CSR 300)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, December 11, 1901.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Barred transfers of civil servants who had not served at least six months in the office where they became classified.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [77], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1901-12-11", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-146", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Amended the same section of Rule X two weeks earlier.", "story": 77, "date": "1901-11-26", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Waiver of Apportionment Provisions for Transfers", "type": "executive_order", "number": "146"}, {"id": "eo-209", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "EO 209 replaced the Civil Service Rules of 1896, and the amendments made to them, with a consolidated set effective April 15, 1903.", "story": 77, "date": "1903-03-20", "title": "Prescribing Civil Service Rules in Lieu of Rules of May 6, 1896", "type": "executive_order", "number": "209"}]}
{"id": "eo-151", "type": "executive_order", "number": "151", "tr_sequence": 11, "lord_number": null, "date": "1901-12-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Provide for Appointment from Incomplete Registers", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_151", "revid": 1826889, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Section 13 of Rule VIII is hereby amended (1) by inserting at the end of the first sentence thereof the following:", "&#59; but if there be one eligible or two eligibles upon the appropriate register, the appointing officer may appoint the one eligible or one of the two eligibles in the same manner as if a full certification of three eligibles were available, and if he elect not to make a regular appointment from such incomplete register he must select the one eligible or one of the two eligibles thus available for temporary appointment as authorized above, unless special reasons are given and approved, as provided by section 4 of this rule, why the selection should not be so made.", "and (2) by substituting for the words \"an eligible,\" in the seventh and eighth lines, the words \"three eligibles;\" so that as amended the section will read as follows:", "Whenever there are no names of eligibles upon a register for any grade in which a vacancy exists and the public interest requires that it must be filled before eligibles can be provided by the Commission, such vacancy may, subject to the approval of the Commission, be filled by appointment without examination and certification for such part of three months as will enable the Commission to provide eligibles; but if there be one eligible or two eligibles upon the appropriate register, the appointing officer may appoint the one eligible or one of the two eligibles in the same manner as if a full certification of three eligibles were available, and if he elect not to make a regular appointment from such incomplete register he must select the one eligible or one of the two eligibles thus available for temporary appointment as authorized above, unless specific reasons are given and approved, as provided by section 4 of this rule, why the selection should not be so made. Such temporary appointment shall expire by limitation as soon as three eligibles shall be provided, and no person shall serve longer than three months in any one year under such temporary appointment or appointments, unless by special authority of the Commission previously obtained. Said year limitation shall commence from the date of such first appointment: Provided, That whenever an emergency shall arise requiring that a vacancy shall be filled before a certification can be issued and an appointment made thereto in the manner provided in these rules, such vacancy may be filled, without regard to the provisions of these rules, for such part of thirty days as may be required for the issuance of a certificate and the execution of the necessary details of an appointment thereto in accordance with said provisions. Such appointment shall in no case continue longer than thirty days.", "Approved."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, December 11, 1901.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let appointing officers hire from a register holding only one or two eligible candidates, as if a full list of three had been certified.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [77], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1901-12-11", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-209", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "EO 209 replaced the Civil Service Rules of 1896, and the amendments made to them, with a consolidated set effective April 15, 1903.", "story": 77, "date": "1903-03-20", "title": "Prescribing Civil Service Rules in Lieu of Rules of May 6, 1896", "type": "executive_order", "number": "209"}]}
{"id": "uo-013", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 13, "date": "1901-12-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Certain described lands on Culebra Island, off Puerto Rico, placed under Navy Department jurisdiction, subject to existing private rights.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": ["Lord gives December 17, 1901; the American Presidency Project text and Richardson (vol. X, p. 521) give December 19."], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 13, "page": "187", "citations": "X Richardson 521; (I CFR 139, 270)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Certain described lands on Culebra Island, off Puerto Rico, placed under Navy Department jurisdiction, subject to existing private rights. *(*Given as Dec. 19 in X Richardson 521.)*", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Placed described lands on Culebra Island, off Puerto Rico, under the jurisdiction of the Navy Department, subject to existing private rights.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Culebra Island", "kind": "island", "state": "Puerto Rico"}], "states": ["Puerto Rico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1901-12-17", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "proc-502", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 44, "inferred": true, "date": "1903-06-26", "title": "Reservation of Lands in Puerto Rico for Naval Purposes", "type": "proclamation", "number": "502"}]}
{"id": "eo-152", "type": "executive_order", "number": "152", "tr_sequence": 12, "lord_number": null, "date": "1901-12-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Age Limitations in Post Office Service", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_152", "revid": 13997473, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Section 4 of Civil-Service Rule V is hereby amended by striking out from the tabular statement therein the following under the heading of \"Post-Office Service:\"", "{| width=\"100%\" |- |width=\"90%\"|All positions |align=\"right\"|18||align=\"right\"|45 |}", "And inserting in lies thereof the following:", "{| width=\"100%\" |- |width=\"90%\"|Rural letter carrier |align=\"right\"|17||align=\"right\"|55 |- |All other positions |align=\"right\"|18||align=\"right\"|45 |}", "Approved."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "T. Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, December 23, 1901.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "title_notes": ["The order applies to rural letter carriers only, not the whole Post Office service."], "summary": "Set separate civil-service age limits for rural letter carriers, ages 17 to 55, while keeping 18 to 45 for all other Post-Office positions.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [77], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1901-12-23", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Rural letter carriers got their own age range of 17 to 55, against 18 to 45 for other post-office positions, one of the first steps in bringing them under the merit system.", "source": "Wikisource, Executive Order 152", "date": "1901-12-23", "story": 77}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-147", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Brought the rural free-delivery service into the Post-Office Service.", "story": 77, "date": "1901-11-27", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Classification of Post Office Personnel", "type": "executive_order", "number": "147"}, {"id": "eo-153", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 77, "inferred": true, "date": "1901-12-27", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Age Limitations in Post Office Service for War Veterans", "type": "executive_order", "number": "153"}, {"id": "eo-209", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "EO 209 replaced the Civil Service Rules of 1896, and the amendments made to them, with a consolidated set effective April 15, 1903.", "story": 77, "date": "1903-03-20", "title": "Prescribing Civil Service Rules in Lieu of Rules of May 6, 1896", "type": "executive_order", "number": "209"}]}
{"id": "eo-153", "type": "executive_order", "number": "153", "tr_sequence": 13, "lord_number": null, "date": "1901-12-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Age Limitations in Post Office Service for War Veterans", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_153", "revid": 1837324, "printed_source": "1901 CSR 301"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Section 4 of Civil-Service Rule V is hereby amended by inserting at the end of that part of the tabular statement therein under the heading of \"Post-Office Service\" the following language, as a parenthesis:", "The age limitations shall not apply in the case of an honorably discharged United States soldier or sailor of the civil war or of the Spanish-American war who applies for the position of rural letter carrier.", "Approved."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1901 CSR 301)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "T. Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, December 27, 1901.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "title_notes": ["The order applies to rural letter carriers only, not the whole Post Office service."], "summary": "Waived the age limits for honorably discharged Civil War and Spanish-American War soldiers and sailors applying to be rural letter carriers.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [77], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1901-12-27", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Honorably discharged Civil War and Spanish-American War veterans applying to be rural carriers were exempted from the age limits.", "source": "Wikisource, Executive Order 153", "date": "1901-12-27", "story": 77}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-147", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Brought the rural free-delivery service into the Post-Office Service.", "story": 77, "date": "1901-11-27", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Classification of Post Office Personnel", "type": "executive_order", "number": "147"}, {"id": "eo-152", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Waived, for war veterans, the rural carriers' age limits that EO 152 had just set.", "story": 77, "date": "1901-12-23", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Age Limitations in Post Office Service", "type": "executive_order", "number": "152"}, {"id": "eo-209", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "EO 209 replaced the Civil Service Rules of 1896, and the amendments made to them, with a consolidated set effective April 15, 1903.", "story": 77, "date": "1903-03-20", "title": "Prescribing Civil Service Rules in Lieu of Rules of May 6, 1896", "type": "executive_order", "number": "209"}]}
{"id": "uo-014", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 14, "date": "1902-01-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Honorably discharged Civil War veterans, if fit and qualified, given preference in appointment and retention in government jobs.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 14, "page": "187", "citations": "X Richardson 521; 1901 CSR 57, 302; 1902 CSR 75"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Honorably discharged Civil War veterans, if fit and qualified, given preference in appointment and retention in government jobs.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Gave honorably discharged Civil War veterans, if fit and qualified, preference in being hired and kept in government jobs.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-01-17", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-154", "type": "executive_order", "number": "154", "tr_sequence": 14, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-01-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Assistant Commissioner of Immigrations in New York Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": ["This date rests on Wikisource alone. The Civil Service Commission's Nineteenth Report suggests this may be a misdated copy of EO 174 (June 2, 1902)."], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_154", "revid": 1829084, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["An appointment to the vacancy now existing in the position of Assistant Commissioner of Immigration, Port of New York, may be made without examination under the civil service laws."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, January 18, 1902.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed the vacant post of Assistant Commissioner of Immigration at the Port of New York to be filled without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["New York"], "people": [], "significance": 1, "stories": [78], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-01-18", "impact": {"uncertain": ["Whether a separate January 18, 1902 order exists is doubtful; the date rests on Wikisource alone, and the signed originals at the National Archives have not been seen."]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-174", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The nearly identical June 2, 1902 rule for the same post, of which EO 154 is probably a misdated copy.", "story": 78, "date": "1902-06-02", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Assistant Commissioner of Immigration in New York Without Examination", "type": "executive_order", "number": "174"}]}
{"id": "eo-155", "type": "executive_order", "number": "155", "tr_sequence": 15, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-01-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Exceptions from Examination for Draftsmen in Navy Department", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_155", "revid": 12440719, "printed_source": null}}, "text": null, "summary": "Amended the civil-service rules on which Navy Department draftsmen are excepted from examination.", "categories": ["civil-service", "military-naval"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [78], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-01-20", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "eo-172", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": null, "story": 80, "inferred": true, "date": "1902-04-30", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Exceptions from Examination for Certain Workers in Navy Department", "type": "executive_order", "number": "172"}]}
{"id": "uo-015", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 15, "date": "1902-01-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Oklahoma City Land District, Oklahoma Territory, diminished by transfer of certain described lands to the El Reno and Mangum Land Districts.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 15, "page": "188", "citations": "(1902 GLO 153)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Oklahoma City Land District, Oklahoma Territory, diminished by transfer of certain described lands to the El Reno and Mangum Land Districts.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "Distinct from the numbered series. This is one of three same-day Oklahoma land entries (nos. 15–17), which per Lord's own caution may be a single order.", "summary": "Shrank the Oklahoma City Land District in Oklahoma Territory, moving described lands into the El Reno and Mangum land districts.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Oklahoma City Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Oklahoma"}, {"name": "El Reno Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Oklahoma"}, {"name": "Mangum Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Oklahoma"}], "states": ["Oklahoma"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-01-20", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "uo-016", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Same-day reorganization of the Oklahoma Territory land districts, possibly a single order.", "story": 111, "date": "1902-01-20", "title": "Perry Land District and Land Office, Oklahoma Territory, abolished, and lands, records and business transferred to the Guthrie Land District and Land Office.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}, {"id": "uo-017", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Same-day reorganization of the Oklahoma Territory land districts, possibly a single order.", "story": 111, "date": "1902-01-20", "title": "Enid Land District and Land Office, Oklahoma Territory, abolished, and lands, records and business transferred to the Kingfisher Land District and Land Office.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}, {"id": "uo-080", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The Oklahoma City district was abolished outright on January 15, 1904.", "story": 111, "date": "1904-01-15", "title": "Oklahoma (City) Land District abolished; lands and Land Office business/archives transferred to the Guthrie district and office.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "uo-016", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 16, "date": "1902-01-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Perry Land District and Land Office, Oklahoma Territory, abolished, and lands, records and business transferred to the Guthrie Land District and Land Office.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 16, "page": "188", "citations": "(1902 GLO 154)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Perry Land District and Land Office, Oklahoma Territory, abolished, and lands, records and business transferred to the Guthrie Land District and Land Office.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "Distinct from the numbered series. Same-day trio with nos. 15 and 17; may be one order.", "summary": "Abolished the Perry Land District and land office in Oklahoma Territory and moved its lands, records and business to the Guthrie office.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "revoke", "places": [{"name": "Perry Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Oklahoma"}, {"name": "Guthrie Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Oklahoma"}], "states": ["Oklahoma"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-01-20", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "uo-015", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Same-day reorganization of the Oklahoma Territory land districts.", "story": 111, "date": "1902-01-20", "title": "Oklahoma City Land District, Oklahoma Territory, diminished by transfer of certain described lands to the El Reno and Mangum Land Districts.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}, {"id": "uo-017", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Enid abolished the same day.", "story": 111, "date": "1902-01-20", "title": "Enid Land District and Land Office, Oklahoma Territory, abolished, and lands, records and business transferred to the Kingfisher Land District and Land Office.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "uo-017", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 17, "date": "1902-01-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enid Land District and Land Office, Oklahoma Territory, abolished, and lands, records and business transferred to the Kingfisher Land District and Land Office.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 17, "page": "188", "citations": "(1902 GLO 154)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Enid Land District and Land Office, Oklahoma Territory, abolished, and lands, records and business transferred to the Kingfisher Land District and Land Office.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "Distinct from the numbered series. Same-day trio with nos. 15–16; may be one order.", "summary": "Closed the Enid Land District and land office in Oklahoma Territory, handing its lands, records and business to the Kingfisher office.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "revoke", "places": [{"name": "Enid Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Oklahoma"}, {"name": "Kingfisher Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Oklahoma"}], "states": ["Oklahoma"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-01-20", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "uo-015", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Same-day reorganization of the Oklahoma Territory land districts.", "story": 111, "date": "1902-01-20", "title": "Oklahoma City Land District, Oklahoma Territory, diminished by transfer of certain described lands to the El Reno and Mangum Land Districts.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}, {"id": "uo-016", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Perry abolished the same day.", "story": 111, "date": "1902-01-20", "title": "Perry Land District and Land Office, Oklahoma Territory, abolished, and lands, records and business transferred to the Guthrie Land District and Land Office.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "eo-156", "type": "executive_order", "number": "156", "tr_sequence": 16, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-01-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Age Limitations in Coast and Geodetic Survey", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_156", "revid": 13997474, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Section 4 of Civil-Service Rule V is hereby amended by inserting the following at the end of that part of the tabular statement therein under the heading \"Departmental Service:\"", "{| width=\"100%\" |- |width=\"90%\"|Watch officer in the Coast and Geodetic Survey |align=\"right\"|21||align=\"right\"|36 |- |Chief engineer in the Coast and Geodetic Survey |align=\"right\"|25||align=\"right\"|45 |}", "Also by inserting the following in the tabular statement therein, after the word \"aid\" in line 11, \"deck officer and junior captain's clerk.\"", "Approved."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, January 21, 1902.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Added civil-service age limits for watch officers (21 to 36) and chief engineers (25 to 45) in the Coast and Geodetic Survey.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [78], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-01-21", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-157", "type": "executive_order", "number": "157", "tr_sequence": 17, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-01-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Except Four Interior Department Special Inspectors from Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_157", "revid": 1826859, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Section 43 of Civil-Service Rule VI is hereby amended by adding thereto the following: \"and four special inspectors.\"", "The section as amended shall read as follows:", "One special land inspector, and four special inspectors.", "Approved."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, January 23, 1902.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Excepted four special inspectors in the Interior Department from civil-service examination, alongside the one special land inspector already excepted.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [78], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-01-23", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-158", "type": "executive_order", "number": "158", "tr_sequence": 18, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-01-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Remove Provision Allowing Reinstatement After Dismissal", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_158", "revid": 1826868, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Rule IX of the Civil-Service Rules is hereby amended by omitting therefrom the final proviso, which proviso so omitted is in the words and figures following, to-wit:", "And provided further, That any person dismissed from the service upon charges of delinquency or misconduct may be reinstated, subject to the other conditions of these rules, without regard to the one-year limit of this rule, upon the certificate of the proper appointing officer that he has thoroughly investigated the case and that the charges upon which the dismissal was based were not true.", "Approved."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, January 23, 1902.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Struck the civil-service provision that let people dismissed for misconduct be reinstated beyond the one-year limit if the charges proved untrue.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [78], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-01-23", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-159", "type": "executive_order", "number": "159", "tr_sequence": 19, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-01-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Prohibit Transfers Except to Positions in Same Class", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_159", "revid": 1826884, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Rule X, section 2, is hereby amended by adding a third proviso after the word \"proposed,\" as follows:", "And provided further, That no transfer shall be made of a person to a position if in said position there is not required, in the judgment of the Commission, the performance of the same class of work or the practice of the same mechanical trade performed or practiced in the position from which transfer is proposed.", "As amended the section will read:", "A person who has received absolute appointment may be transferred, without examination, from any department, office, or branch of the service, upon requisition and consent of the proper officers, and the certificate of the Commission, but no person shall be so transferred who has not actually served for six months in the office in which he became classified and in some position therein which at the time of the request for his transfer is within the competitive classified service: Provided, That no transfer shall be made of a person to a position within the same department or office and the same branch of the service, or to a position in another department, office, or branch of the service, if for original entrance to such position said person is barred by the age limitations prescribed therefor, or by the provisions regulating apportionment, but the provisions in relation to apportionment may be waived upon the certificate of the appointing officer that the transfer is required in the interests of good administration, setting forth in detail the reasons therefor, which certificate shall be subject to the approval of the Commission: And provided further, That transfers shall not be made without examination, provided by the Commission, to a position for original entrance to which, in the judgment of the Commission, there is required by these rules an examination involving essential tests different from or higher than those involved in the examination required for original entrance to the position from which transfer is proposed: And provided further, That no transfer shall be made of a person to a position if in said position there is not required, in the judgment of the Commission, the performance of the same class of work or the practice of the same mechanical trade performed or practiced in the position from which transfer is proposed; but a person employed in any grade shall not, because of such employment, be barred from the open competitive examination provided for original entrance to any other grade.", "Approved."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, January 23, 1902.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Limited civil-service transfers to positions requiring the same class of work or the same mechanical trade as the employee's current job.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [78], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-01-23", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-160", "type": "executive_order", "number": "160", "tr_sequence": 20, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-01-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Requiring that Lists of All Positions Deemed Unclassified be Submitted to Civil Service Commission", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_160", "revid": 1826886, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Rule XII of the Civil-Service Rules is hereby amended by adding thereto the following, which will constitute paragraphs 3 and 4:", "Every nominating or appointing officer in the Executive Departments and independent bureaus and offices at Washington, D. C., shall furnish to the Commission a list of all employees and positions in the service under his control and authority in Washington, D. C., which are or have been regarded or treated as below classification, said list to include the names of all persons now in the service who have been appointed or employed without certification by the Commission since the classification of the office or branch of the service in which they are employed. The duties performed by each such person and pertaining to each such position shall be stated in detail sufficient to enable the Commission to determine the status of each position as classified or unclassified. Said nominating or appointing officers shall furnish to the Commission a similar report in the case of each person appointed or employed hereafter in a position regarded as unclassified.", "All essential changes of duties pertaining to positions referred to in paragraph 3 of this rule shall be reported at once to the Commission.", "Approved."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, January 23, 1902.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Ordered appointing officers in Washington's executive departments to give the Civil Service Commission detailed lists of every position treated as unclassified, so the Commission could decide each one's status.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [78], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-01-23", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-161", "type": "executive_order", "number": "161", "tr_sequence": 21, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-01-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Temporary Appointments", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_161", "revid": 1826890, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Section 13 of Civil-Service Rule VIII will be stricken out and instead four sections adopted, to be numbered 13, 14, 15, and 16, to read as follows:", "Whenever an emergency shall arise requiring that a vacancy shall be filled before a certification can be issued and an appointment made therefrom in the manner provided in these rules, such vacancy may be filled, without regard to their provisions, for such part of thirty days as may be required for the issuance of a certificate and the execution of the necessary details of an appointment thereto; and no person so appointed shall be employed under such appointment for a longer period than thirty days in any one year. It shall be the duty of every nominating or appointing officer to report in detail to the Commission all such emergency appointments as soon as made.", "Whenever there are no names of eligibles upon a register for any grade in which a vacancy exists, and the public interest requires that it be filled before eligibles can be provided, such vacancy may, subject to the antecedent approval of the Commission, be filled by appointment without examination for such part of three months as will enable the Commission to provide eligibles. Such temporary appointment, however, shall cease when three eligibles are provided, and no person so temporarily appointed shall serve for a longer period than three months in any one year, unless by authority of the Commission previously obtained.", "Whenever there are fewer than three eligibles upon a register the appointing officer may appoint the one eligible, or one of the two eligibles, in the same manner as if three eligibles had been certified, or, if he shall elect not to make a regular appointment from such incomplete register, he shall select for temporary appointment the one eligible, or one of the two eligibles thus available, unless specific reasons are given, as required by section 4 of Rule VIII, why the selection should not be so made, such reasons to be subject to the approval of the Commission. A temporary appointment made from the register as indicated in this section may continue until a register of three eligibles shall be provided.", "Whenever the work to be done is in the nature of job employment, temporary in character, and after its completion the services of the employee will not be further needed, and a certificate to that effect is made by the nominating or appointing officer, a temporary appointment may be made, if approved by the Commission, without regard to the condition of any register, for a period of three months, which appointment may, upon request, stating the fact that the work is not yet completed, be extended for a further period of three months, with the antecedent approval of the Commission, but shall cease at the end of such second period.", "Section 14 will be stricken out.", "Sections 15 and 16 will be renumbered sections 17 and 18, respectively.", "Approved."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, January 24, 1902.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Rewrote the rules for emergency and temporary appointments, limiting emergency hires to thirty days a year and requiring them to be reported to the Civil Service Commission.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [78], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-01-24", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-162", "type": "executive_order", "number": "162", "tr_sequence": 22, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-01-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Designating Reception Committee for Prince Henry of Prussia", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": ["January 24, 1902 rests on the National Archives inventory (PI 157, entry 183). Richardson's 1903 Supplement (p. 404) and the American Presidency Project give February 5, the date the order was published."], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_162", "revid": 1830078, "printed_source": null}}, "text": null, "summary": "Named a reception committee for the visit of Prince Henry of Prussia.", "categories": ["ceremonial", "foreign-affairs"], "action": "appoint", "places": [{"name": "Prussia", "kind": "country"}], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [78], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-01-24", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "An Associated Press item reported that Hill, Corbin and Evans \"have been officially designated as the President's delegates\" to receive Prince Henry.", "source": "Morning Press (Santa Barbara) and San Francisco Call, February 8, 1902", "date": "1902-02-07", "story": 78}], "uncertain": ["The order carries no dating clause; it is printed under February 5, 1902 in Richardson's 1903 Supplement and dated January 24 elsewhere."]}, "related": [{"id": "uo-018", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The same order, listed by Lord as an unnumbered order on the Prince Henry reception.", "story": 78, "date": "1902-01-24", "title": "Suitable reception and entertainment of Prince Henry of Prussia, while sojourning in the United States, ordered.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "uo-018", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 18, "date": "1902-01-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Suitable reception and entertainment of Prince Henry of Prussia, while sojourning in the United States, ordered.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": ["Corrected from “1902-02-05”. This is EO 162 of January 24, 1902 (National Archives PI 157, entry 183); February 5 is the publication date."], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 18, "page": "188", "citations": "X Richardson 521"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Suitable reception and entertainment of Prince Henry of Prussia, while sojourning in the United States, ordered.", "reconciliation": "numbered_duplicate", "duplicate_of": "eo-162", "reconciliation_note": "**Confirmed 2026-10-12 = EO 162** (Jan. 24, 1902). NARA's *Preliminary Inventory of the General Records of the Department of State* (PI 157, 1963), entry 183, lists the \"Executive order of January 24, 1902, appointing delegates to make arrangements for Prince Henry's reception and entertainment\"; Lord's Feb. 5 date is a second dating of the same document. See research entry #114.", "summary": null, "categories": [], "action": null, "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": null, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-01-24", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "eo-162", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 78, "inferred": true, "date": "1902-01-24", "title": "Designating Reception Committee for Prince Henry of Prussia", "type": "executive_order", "number": "162"}]}
{"id": "eo-163", "type": "executive_order", "number": "163", "tr_sequence": 23, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-01-31", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Soliciting Increase in Pay or Influencing Legislation by Employees of the United States", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_163", "revid": 1742782, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Attempts of Employees to Influence Legislation.", "All officers and employees of the United States of every description, serving in or under any of the Executive Departments, and whether so serving in or out of Washington, are hereby forbidden, either directly or indirectly, individually or through associations, to solicit an increase of pay or to influence or attempt to influence in their own interest any other legislation whatever, either before Congress or its committees, or in any way save through the heads of the Departments in or under which they serve, on penalty of dismissal from the Government service.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT.", "WHITE HOUSE, January 31, 1902."], "source": "U.S. Civil Service Commission, Nineteenth Report (FY 1902), p. 75, and Twentieth Report (1903), p. 65, 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Heading is the Commission's. Reads 'any other legislation whatever' and 'either directly or indirectly', against Wikisource and the 1903 Richardson Supplement ('any legislation whatever', 'either direct or indirect'); the 1906 amendment (EO 402) confirms the Commission's text. Date italic in source.", "story": 78}, "summary": "Forbade federal executive employees, alone or through associations, from seeking pay raises or lobbying Congress in their own interest except through their department heads, on penalty of dismissal.", "categories": ["civil-service", "government-administration"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [78], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-01-31", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "Joseph G. Cannon, chairman of House Appropriations, called the order \"a great necessity.\"", "source": "San Francisco Call, February 1, 1902, \"Employes Must Stop Lobbying\"", "date": "1902-01-31", "story": 78}, {"text": "The press reported that the order followed complaints from Post Office officials and members of Congress about postal employees pressing for legislation, sometimes with threats at the polls; these were press attributions, not Roosevelt's words.", "source": "San Francisco Call and Morning Press (Santa Barbara), February 1, 1902", "date": "1902-02-01", "story": 78}, {"text": "The Chicago Post Office clerks' union sent its appeal for an eight-hour day and a raise to Roosevelt and the Postmaster General instead of Congress, \"because the clerks desired to comply with the recent order.\"", "source": "San Francisco Call, Los Angeles Herald and San Diego Union, March 10, 1902", "date": "1902-03-09", "story": 78}, {"text": "Organized postal workers came to call it the \"gag\" order; in 1905 the American Federation of Labor demanded that public employees \"retain all the rights of citizenship,\" and Samuel Gompers's 1906 Bill of Grievances listed the order among labor's complaints.", "source": "Knight First Amendment Institute, citing AFL Proceedings (1905) and the American Federationist (August 1906)", "date": "1906", "story": 78}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Attorney General ruled that the order barred the Navy-Yard and Arsenal Employees' Protective Association of Washington from lobbying Congress for a bill giving its members fifteen more days of annual leave.", "source": "23 Op. Att'y Gen. 637; Nineteenth Report, p. 144", "date": "1902-02-21", "story": 78}, {"kind": "political", "text": "After Representative Eugene F. Loud lost his San Francisco seat in 1902, letter carriers were charged with conspiring to beat him; the Commission's investigator found nearly the whole postal force had campaigned on both sides.", "source": "Twentieth Report of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, pp. 183–185", "date": "1903-02", "story": 78}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Commission recommended a warning rather than mass removals, and Postmaster General Henry C. Payne had one posted in the San Francisco post office.", "source": "Twentieth Report of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, pp. 183–185", "date": "1903-07", "story": 78}], "legacy": [{"text": "The order, with Taft's successors, is remembered as the provocation the Lloyd–La Follette Act of 1912 was written to undo, and it appears in histories of federal employees' speech rights and whistleblower protection.", "source": "Knight First Amendment Institute", "story": 78}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1909-11-26", "text": "President Taft's Executive Order 1142 forbade bureau chiefs and their staffs, and military officers in Washington, to seek legislation or answer requests for information from Congress except through their department heads.", "source": "Executive Order 1142", "story": 78}, {"date": "1912-04-08", "text": "Taft's Executive Order 1514 superseded the orders of 1902, 1906 and 1909 but still routed employees' petitions to Congress through department heads.", "source": "Executive Order 1514", "story": 78}, {"date": "1912-08-24", "text": "The Lloyd–La Follette Act declared that civil servants' right to petition Congress or furnish it information \"shall not be denied or interfered with.\"", "source": "37 Stat. 539, 555, § 6", "story": 78}, {"date": "1916-10-12", "text": "The Civil Service Commission minuted that the Act's proviso \"had the effect of nullifying the Executive order of April 8, 1912.\"", "source": "Thirty-Fifth Report of the U.S. Civil Service Commission (1918), p. 73", "story": 78}], "uncertain": ["Roosevelt's own reasons for the order are not known; no statement of his on its purpose has been found.", "How the letter carriers' and postal clerks' own journals reacted in February 1902 has not been checked."]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-402", "relation": "amended_by", "note": "Extended to independent Government establishments in January 1906.", "story": 87, "date": "1906-01-25", "title": "Amendment to Executive Order No. 163 of January 31, 1902 to Include Independent Government Agencies", "type": "executive_order", "number": "402"}]}
{"id": "eo-164", "type": "executive_order", "number": "164", "tr_sequence": 24, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-02-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Allowing Transfers of Certain Personnel in Treasury Department", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_164", "revid": 14134789, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Rule X will be amended by adding a new section, to be numbered 10, as follows:", "Operatives and other employees in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing whose duties are similar to those of operatives, may be transferred without examination and certificate of the Commission to the positions of expert money counter and paper counter in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, money-order assorter and skilled laborer acting as money-order assorter in the office of the Auditor for the Post Office Department, and expert counter, feeder, and separator in the office of the Treasurer of the United States. Employees so transferred shall not be charged to the apportionment, and such transfer shall not give them rights of promotion or transfer within the Treasury Department to the apportioned service, or for transfer to other departments, commissions, or offices greater than the rights belonging to the position from which they were transferred, and they shall not be assigned to other duties than those of the nonapportioned places herein provide for: Provided, That appointments made to the positions described in this section other than by transfer from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing shall be subject to the apportionment.", "Approved."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "T. Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, February 4, 1902.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let certain Bureau of Engraving and Printing workers transfer without examination to money-counting and sorting jobs elsewhere in the Treasury, with limited later rights.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [78], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-02-04", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-165", "type": "executive_order", "number": "165", "tr_sequence": 25, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-02-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "John P. Green, Classified as Postage Stamp Agent Without Examination or Certification in Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_165", "revid": 1829079, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["John P. Green, of Ohio, appointed August 27, 1897, to position of postage-stamp agent at $2,500 per annum in the Post-Office Department under an exception from examination, may be treated as occupying a competitive position without examination or certification by the United States Civil Service Commission."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, February 7, 1902.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed John P. Green of Ohio, postage-stamp agent in the Post-Office Department since 1897, to be treated as holding a competitive position without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["Ohio"], "people": ["John P. Green"], "significance": 1, "stories": [78], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-02-07", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-166", "type": "executive_order", "number": "166", "tr_sequence": 26, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-02-08", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Except from Classification Certain Marine Hospital Service Personnel", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_166", "revid": 1829059, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Rule III, section 8, clause (f) is hereby amended (1) by striking out the word \"Tortugas\" in the second line, and inserting in lieu thereof the words \"Mullet Key;\" (2) by inserting, after the words \"Reedy Island\" in the same line, the words \"Cape Charles, Columbia River;\" (3) by striking out the words \"Angel Island\" in the third line, and inserting in lieu thereof the words \"San Francisco;\" and (4) by inserting, after the word \"attendant\" in the fourth line, the words \"or acting assistant surgeon, or sanitary inspector;\" so that as amended the clause will read as follows:", "(f) Any person employed in the Marine-Hospital Service as quarantine attendant at the Gulf, South Atlantic, Mullet Key, Reedy Island, Cape Charles, Columbia River, and San Francisco quarantine; and any person temporarily employed as quarantine attendant, or acting assistant surgeon, or sanitary inspector, on quarantine vessels, or in camps or stations established for quarantine purposes during epidemics of contagious diseases in the United States or beyond the seas.", "Approved."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "T. Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, February 8, 1902.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Updated the list of quarantine stations whose Marine-Hospital Service attendants are excepted from classification, and added temporary acting assistant surgeons and sanitary inspectors during epidemics.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [78], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-02-08", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-019", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 19, "date": "1902-02-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Office of the Surveyor-General, Arizona Territory, transferred from Tucson to Phoenix.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 19, "page": "188", "citations": "X Richardson 522"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Office of the Surveyor-General, Arizona Territory, transferred from Tucson to Phoenix.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Moved the Office of the Surveyor-General of Arizona Territory from Tucson to Phoenix.", "categories": ["public-lands", "government-administration"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Tucson", "kind": "town", "state": "Arizona"}, {"name": "Phoenix", "kind": "town", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-02-15", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-020", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 20, "date": "1902-03-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Albert H. Clark, injured in line of duty, made eligible for appointment as an assistant messenger in the War Department office.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 20, "page": "188", "citations": "(1901 CSR 312; 1902 CSR 92)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Albert H. Clark, injured in line of duty, made eligible for appointment as an assistant messenger in the War Department office.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Made Albert H. Clark, injured in the line of duty, eligible for appointment as an assistant messenger in the War Department.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Albert H. Clark"], "significance": 1, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-03-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-167", "type": "executive_order", "number": "167", "tr_sequence": 27, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-03-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Consular Regulations of 1896, Paragraph 692, Regarding Currency Certificates", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_167", "revid": 1816403, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Paragraph 692 of the consular regulations is hereby amended by striking out the words, \"The date of shipment is determined for this purpose by the date of the bill of lading, if there is one; otherwise, by the consular certificate to the invoice (S. 14910),\" and the words, \"A consular currency certificate is not required when the invoice is stated in coin not included in the Secretary of the Treasury's quarterly statement of values. The customs officers at the port of entry will in such cases ascertain from the most available sources the value of the coin in the money of the United States (S. 2909),\" and by the addition of the words, \"When an invoice is certified by a consul of a nation at the time in amity with the United States, or by two respectable merchants, as provided by section 2844, Revised Statutes, the currency certificate required by section 2903, Revised Statutes, may be issued by the foreign consul or the two respectable merchants who certify the invoice,\" and the words, \"The date of the consular certification of any invoice shall, for the purposes of this section, be considered the date of exportation (tariff of 1894, sec. 25).\"", "The paragraph will then read as follows:", "\"692. Currency Certificates.—The price of merchandise obtained by purchase must be stated in the currency actually paid therefor; and when the currency paid for purchased merchandise is depreciated, a currency certificate (Form No. 144) must be attached to the invoice showing the percentage of depreciation as compared with the corresponding standard coin currency and the value in such standard coin currency of the total amount of the depreciated currency paid for merchandise included in the invoice. (Rev. Stat., sec. 2903; S. 14287, 17252.) This certificate should show, not the value of the depreciated currency in money of account of the United States, but its value in the terms of the standard coin currency in comparison with which the currency used in the purchase is depreciated. (S. 11314, 12399, 14107, 17170.)\"", "\"In the assessment of duty the currency of the invoice is reduced to the money of account of the United States upon the basis of the values of foreign coins at the date of shipment, as proclaimed by the Secretary of the Treasury for the 1st day of January, April, July, and October of each year. (Tariff of 1894, sec. 25; S. 16921.) The date of the consular certification of any invoice shall, for the purposes of this section, be considered the date of exportation. (Tariff of 1894, sec. 25.) In the absence of a currency certificate no allowance will be made for depreciated currency. (S. 15435.)", "\"When an invoice is certified by a consul of a nation at the time in amity with the United States, or by two respectable merchants, as provided by section 2844, Rev. Stat., the currency certificate required by section 2903, Rev. Stat., may be issued by the foreign consul or the two respectable merchants who certify the invoice.", "\"For statistical purposes currency certificates are required for all invoices of merchandise purchased and paid for in depreciated currency, without regard to the dutiable or nondutiable character of the merchandise. (S. 14287.)\""], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, March 10, 1902.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Revised the consular regulations on currency certificates for import invoices, letting a friendly nation's consul or two respectable merchants issue the certificate when they certify the invoice.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs", "trade-reciprocity"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [80], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-03-10", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-168", "type": "executive_order", "number": "168", "tr_sequence": 28, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-03-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Require Examination Before Transfer from Positions which Became Classified", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_168", "revid": 1827220, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes, and of the civil-service act approved January 16, 1883, the following rule for the regulation and improvement of the executive civil service is amended as stated below, and is hereby promulgated.", "Section 7 of Rule II is hereby amended by adding thereto the following as a proviso:", "Provided, That no such person shall be transferred from any department, office, or branch of the service to a position in another department, office, or branch of the service, until he has passed the examination prescribed for original entrance to the position to which transfer is proposed.", "The section as amended will read as follows:", "A person holding a position on the date said position is classified under the civil-service act shall be entitled to all the rights and benefits possessed by persons of the same class or grade appointed upon examination under the provisions of said act: Provided, That no such person shall be transferred from any department, office, or branch of the service to a position in another department, office, or branch of the service, until he has passed the examination prescribed for original entrance to the position to which transfer is proposed.", "Approved."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, March 13, 1902.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Required people whose jobs became classified to pass the entrance examination before transferring to another department, office or branch.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [80], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-03-13", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-169", "type": "executive_order", "number": "169", "tr_sequence": 29, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-03-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Transfer After Reinstatement", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_169", "revid": 1827228, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes, and of the civil-service act approved January 16, 1883, the following rule for the regulation and improvement of the executive civil service is amended as stated below, and is hereby promulgated.", "Rule X is amended by adding at the end thereof the following section, to be numbered 11:", "No person in any department, office, or bureau, who has entered the service by reinstatement, shall be transferred to any other bureau or office of the same department, or to any other department, office, or bureau, until he has actually served six months after such reinstatement in the department, office, or bureau in which he was reinstated.", "Approved."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, March 13, 1902.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Barred reinstated federal employees from transferring until they had served six months in the office where they were reinstated.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [80], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-03-13", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-021", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 21, "date": "1902-03-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Civil Service Commissioners' recommendation of Mar. 7, 1902 — that the entrance-examination age limit of twenty years under Rule V be suspended for Richard D. Micou and other applicants who passed the computer examination for the Naval Observatory and Nautical Almanac Office — approved.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 21, "page": "188", "citations": "(1901 CSR 308; 1902 CSR 92)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Civil Service Commissioners' recommendation of Mar. 7, 1902 — that the entrance-examination age limit of twenty years under Rule V be suspended for Richard D. Micou and other applicants who passed the computer examination for the Naval Observatory and Nautical Almanac Office — approved.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Approved the Civil Service Commission's recommendation to suspend the twenty-year age limit for Richard D. Micou and others who passed the computer exam for the Naval Observatory and Nautical Almanac Office.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Richard D. Micou"], "significance": 1, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-03-13", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-170", "type": "executive_order", "number": "170", "tr_sequence": 30, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-03-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Consular Regulations Regarding Appointments to Office from Foreign States", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_170", "revid": 1817501, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Paragraph 451 of the Consular Regulations of 1896 is hereby amended by the addition of the following:", "No consular officer shall accept an appointment to office from any foreign state as administrator, guardian or any other fiduciary capacity for the settlement or conservation of the estate of deceased persons, or of their heirs or of other persons under legal disabilities, without having been previously authorized by the Secretary of State to do so."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, March 24, 1902.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Barred consular officers from accepting appointment by a foreign state as administrator, guardian or other estate fiduciary without prior approval from the Secretary of State.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [80], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-03-24", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The State Department circulated the amendment to consuls on March 31 and again on August 1, 1902.", "source": "Ingram, Digest of Circular Instructions to Consular Officers (1908), p. 27", "date": "1902", "story": 80}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-022", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 22, "date": "1902-03-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Office building and 200-ft-square tract in the abandoned Fort Yuma Military Reservation, Yuma County, Arizona Territory, reserved for the Weather Bureau.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 22, "page": "189", "citations": "X Richardson 522; (EO of Apr. 29, 1902)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Office building and 200-ft-square tract in the abandoned Fort Yuma Military Reservation, Yuma County, Arizona Territory, reserved for the Weather Bureau.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Reserved an office building and a 200-foot-square tract in the abandoned Fort Yuma Military Reservation, Arizona Territory, for the Weather Bureau.", "categories": ["public-lands", "government-administration"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Fort Yuma Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-03-26", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-024", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 24, "date": "1902-04-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Under the act of Feb. 14, 1902 (32 Stat. L. 20), Juneau Land District (entire Territory of Alaska), Land Office at Juneau, established and opened June 2, 1902; Circle, Sitka and Yukon Land Districts and their offices at Rampart City, Sitka and St. Michael discontinued May 31, 1902.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 24, "page": "189", "citations": "(1902 GLO 155)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Under the act of Feb. 14, 1902 (32 Stat. L. 20), Juneau Land District (entire Territory of Alaska), Land Office at Juneau, established and opened June 2, 1902; Circle, Sitka and Yukon Land Districts and their offices at Rampart City, Sitka and St. Michael discontinued May 31, 1902.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Created a single Juneau Land District covering all of Alaska, opening June 2, 1902, and closed the Circle, Sitka and Yukon land districts and their offices on May 31.", "categories": ["public-lands", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Juneau Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Alaska"}, {"name": "Circle Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Alaska"}, {"name": "Sitka Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Alaska"}, {"name": "Yukon Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-04-02", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Circle, Sitka and Yukon land districts and their offices at Rampart City, Sitka and St. Michael were discontinued as of May 31, 1902, and the single Juneau Land District for all of Alaska opened on June 2.", "source": "Lord, List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series", "date": "1902-06-02", "story": 111}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-467", "type": "proclamation", "number": "467", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-04-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing the San Isabel Forest Reserve", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 467, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-467"}, "statutes": {"volume": 32, "page": 1988, "last_page": 1989, "cite": "32 Stat. 1988–1989", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-32/pdf/STATUTE-32-Pg1988.pdf", "statutes_date": "1902-04-11", "table_title": "Setting apart San Isabel Forest Reserve, Colorado."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America", "A Proclamation", "Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, \"An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes\", \"That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof;\"", "And Whereas, the public lands in the State of Colorado, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Colorado and particularly described as follows, to wit:", "[Detailed metes-and-bounds description by township, range, and section omitted here for length; reproduce verbatim before publication.]", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The San Isabel Forest Reserve.", "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 11th day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two… THEODORE ROOSEVELT. By the President: DAVID J. HILL, Acting Secretary of State."], "source": "32 Stat. 1988–1989 (GovInfo STATUTE-32-Pg1988.pdf), 2026-08-22", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Abridged: the metes-and-bounds land description is omitted (marker kept) and the remainder of the dating clause is elided at the ellipsis; restore both from the page image before treating as complete. Corrects APP's modernizations (\"Act\" capitalized, year in words, \"this 11th day of April, in the year of our Lord…\"). The singular \"the tract of land\" in the warning clause is original.", "story": 33}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "David J. Hill, Acting Secretary of State", "role": null}, "summary": "Created the San Isabel Forest Reserve in Colorado, setting the described timbered public lands apart from entry and settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "San Isabel Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [33], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-04-11", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The proclamation made a single page of a single Colorado paper.", "source": "Chronicling America newspaper searches, 1902", "date": "1902", "story": 33}], "legacy": [{"text": "San Isabel still carries its own name, administered together with the Pike since 1975.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1975", "story": 33}], "today": [{"name": "San Isabel National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "origin", "state": "Colorado", "since": "1902-04-11", "note": "Administered with the Pike as the Pike-San Isabel since 1975; the two remain legally separate forests.", "source": "research entry", "story": 33}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-570", "relation": "enlarged_by", "note": null, "story": 55, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-06-12", "title": "Enlarging the San Isabel Forest Reserve, Colorado", "type": "proclamation", "number": "570"}]}
{"id": "proc-468", "type": "proclamation", "number": "468", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-04-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing the Santa Rita Forest Reserve", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 468, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-468"}, "statutes": {"volume": 32, "page": 1989, "last_page": 1991, "cite": "32 Stat. 1989–1991", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-32/pdf/STATUTE-32-Pg1989.pdf", "statutes_date": "1902-04-11", "table_title": "Setting apart Santa Rita Forest Reserve, Arizona."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the Territory of Arizona, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt. President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the Territory of Arizona, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows, to-wit:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Township fifteen (15) South, Range fourteen (14) East, Gila and Salt River Meridian, Arizona: thence southerly along the range line to its intersection with the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel South: thence, easterly along said parallel to the north-west corner of Section five (5), Township sixteen (16) South, Range fourteen (14) East; thence southerly along the section lines to the south-west corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence, easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly along the section lines to the north-east corner of Section eight (8), Township seventeen (17) South, Range fourteen (14) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly along the section lines to the north-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly along the range line to its intersection with the northern boundary of the San Ygnacio de la Canoa Grant, as con-firmed by the United States Court of Private Land Claims; thence in a south-easterly and south-westerly direction along the boundary of said grant to its intersection with the range line between Ranges thirteen (13) and fourteen (14) East; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Township nineteen (19) South. Range thirteen (13) East; thence westerly along the township line to its intersection with the boundary of said grant; thence in a southwesterly and north-westerly direction along said boundary to its intersection with the section lines between Sections twenty-eight (28) and twenty-nine (29) and thirty-two (32) and thirty-three (33), said township; thence southerly to tie north-east corner of Section (8), Township twenty (20) South, Range thirteen (13) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence southerly along the range line to its intersection with the Fourth (4th) Standard Parallel South; thence easterly, along the said surveyed and unsurveyed parallel, to the point for its intersection with the range line between Ranges fifteen (15) East, and sixteen (16) East; thence northerly along said range line to the north-west corner of Township nine-teen (19) South, Range sixteen (16) East; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34). Township eighteen (18) South, Range seventeen (17) East; thence northerly along the section lines to the south-west corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section: thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section one (1), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township seventeen (17) South, Range seven-teen (17) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township: thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section two (2), said township: thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township sixteen (16) South. Range seventeen (17) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence westerly along the quarter-section lines to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-five (25), Township sixteen (16) South, Range sixteen (16) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west, corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-three (23), said town-ship; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), said township; thence westerly along the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel South to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township fifteen (15) South. Range fifteen (15) East: thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section: thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said town-ship; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section eight (8), said township: thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), said township: thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township fourteen (14) South. Range fourteen (14) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township: thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Township fifteen (15) South. Range fourteen (14) East, the place of beginning.", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Santa Rita Forest Reserve.", "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 11th day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two and of the [SEAL.] Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 32 Stat. 1989", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve Arizona.", "Boundaries.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "The Santa Rita Forest Reserve."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "David J. Hill", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Santa Rita Forest Reserve in Arizona Territory, closing the described timbered public lands to entry and settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Santa Rita Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [33], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-04-11", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The proclamation made a single page of a single Arizona paper.", "source": "Chronicling America newspaper searches, 1902", "date": "1902", "story": 33}], "legacy": [{"text": "Santa Rita was combined with the Santa Catalina and Dragoon reserves in 1908 to form the Coronado National Forest.", "source": "Executive Order 908", "date": "1908", "story": 33}], "today": [{"name": "Coronado National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Arizona", "source": "research entry", "story": 33}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-481", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Santa Catalina, merged with Santa Rita into the Coronado in 1908.", "story": 33, "date": "1902-07-02", "title": "Establishing the Santa Catalina Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "481"}, {"id": "eo-908", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Combined with Santa Catalina and Dragoon to establish the Coronado National Forest.", "story": 33, "date": "1908-07-02", "title": "55 Specified National Forests Consolidated and/or Renamed", "type": "executive_order", "number": "908"}]}
{"id": "uo-025", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 25, "date": "1902-04-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Manila Bay Military Reservations (Mariveles, Calumpan Point, and islands and rocks between the two), Bataan and Cavite Provinces, P. I., ~180 sq. mi., established.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 25, "page": "189", "citations": "(EO 645; 1907 MR 410; 1910 MR 329; 1916 MR 343; I CFR 81, 270; III CFR 674)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Manila Bay Military Reservations (Mariveles, Calumpan Point, and islands and rocks between the two), Bataan and Cavite Provinces, P. I., ~180 sq. mi., established.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Established the Manila Bay Military Reservations in the Philippines, about 180 square miles at Mariveles, Calumpan Point and the islands and rocks between them in Bataan and Cavite provinces.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Manila Bay Military Reservations", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Mariveles", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Calumpan Point", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-04-11", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-469", "type": "proclamation", "number": "469", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-04-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing the San Francisco Mountains Forest Reserve", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 469, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-469"}, "statutes": {"volume": 32, "page": 1991, "last_page": 1993, "cite": "32 Stat. 1991–1993", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-32/pdf/STATUTE-32-Pg1991.pdf", "statutes_date": "1902-04-12", "table_title": "Consolidating San Francisco Mountains Forest Reserves, Arizona."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, the San Francisco Mountains Forest Reserves, in the Territory of Arizona, were established by proclamation elated August seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, under and by virtue of section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, which provides, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public lands bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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”, that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the Territory of Arizona, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid acts of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that, for the purpose of consolidating into one reserve the lands heretofore embraced in the said San Francisco Mountains Forest Reserves and of including therein the other adjacent lands within the description hereinafter given, there is hereby reserved and set apart as a public forest reservation all the lands embraced within the following described boundaries and lying and being situate in the Territory of Arizona, to wit:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Township twenty-two (22) North, Range one (1) East, Gila and Salt River Meridian, Arizona; thence southerly along the said meridian, allowing for the proper off-set on the Fifth (5th) Standard Parallel North, to the south-west corner of Township nineteen (19) South, Range one (1) East; thence easterly along the surveyed and unsurveyed township line to the point for the north-west corner of Township eighteen (18) North, Range four (4) East; thence southerly along the unsurveyed range line to its intersection with the Fourth (4th) Standard Parallel North; thence easterly along said Parallel to the point for the north-west corner of Township sixteen (16) North, Range five (5) East; thence southerly to the point for the south-west corner of said township; thence easterly to the point for the north-west corner of Township fifteen (15) North, Range six (6) East; thence southerly to the point for the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence easterly along the unsurveyed section line to the point for the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township fifteen (15) North, Range seven (7) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly along the unsurveyed section lines to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township fifteen (15) North, Range nine (9) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said Section; thence easterly along the section line to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence easterly along the section lines to the south-east corner of Section one (1), Township fifteen (15) North, Range eleven (11) East; thence northerly along the range line to its intersection with the Fourth (4th) Standard Parallel North; thence westerly along said parallel to the south-east corner of Township seventeen (17) North, Range eleven (11) East; thence northerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed range line to the point for the north-east corner of Township eighteen (18) North, Ange eleven (11) East; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Township nineteen (19) North, Range ten (10) East: thence northerly along the range line to its intersection with the Fifth (5th) Standard Parallel North; thence westerly along said parallel to the point for the south-east corner of Township twenty-one (21) North, Range nine (9) East; thence northerly along the unsurveyed range line, allowing for the proper offset on the Sixth (6th) Standard Parallel North, to the point for the north-east corner of Township twenty-five (25) North, Range nine (9) East; thence westerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed township line to the point for the north-west corner of Township twenty-five (25) North, Range three (3) East; thence southerly along the surveyed and unsurveved range line, allowing for the proper offset on the Sixth (6th) Standard Parallel North, to the north-east corner of Township twenty-two (22) North, Range two (2) East; thence westerly along the township line to the north-west corner of Township twenty-two (22) North, Range one (1) East, to the place of beginning.", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, That this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, tiling or settlement was made.", "Provided further, That nothing herein shall give any force or effect to any claim or right to any of the lands heretofore embraced within the said San Francisco Mountains Forest Reserves which would not have been entitled to recognition if said reserves as heretofore established had been continued in force without this consolidation.", "The reserve hereby created shall be known as the San Francisco Mountains Forest Reserve.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 12th day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 32 Stat. 1991", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 30, p. 1780.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Vol. 80, p. 36.", "Forest reserves, Arizona, consolidated.", "Boundaries.", "Lands excepted.", "San Francisco Mountains Forest Reserve.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "David J. Hill", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "title_notes": ["Not an establishment: the reserve dated from 1898. This proclamation added land and consolidated the existing reserves into one."], "summary": "Consolidated the San Francisco Mountains Forest Reserves in Arizona Territory into a single reserve and added adjacent timbered lands to it.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "San Francisco Mountains Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [33], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-04-12", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The San Francisco Mountains forest became the core of the Coconino National Forest in 1908, the only entire forest among the four units that formed it.", "source": "Proclamation 818, 35 Stat. 2196", "date": "1908-07", "story": 33}], "today": [{"name": "Coconino National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Arizona", "source": "research entry", "story": 33}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-818", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "Set apart the Coconino National Forest, with this forest as its core.", "story": 33, "date": "1908-07-02", "title": "Setting Apart the Coconino and Kaibab National Forests, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "818"}]}
{"id": "proc-470", "type": "proclamation", "number": "470", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-04-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing the Niobrara Forest Reserve", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 470, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-470"}, "statutes": {"volume": 32, "page": 1993, "last_page": 1995, "cite": "32 Stat. 1993–1995", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-32/pdf/STATUTE-32-Pg1993.pdf", "statutes_date": "1902-04-16", "table_title": "Setting apart Niobrara Forest Reserve, Nebraska."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public-reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Nebraska, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt. President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that, there is hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Nebraska and within the boundaries particularly described as follows, to wit:", "Beginning at the north-east corner of Section ten (10). Township thirty-two (32) North, Range thirty (30) West, Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian. Nebraska; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section six (6), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence westerly along the quarter-section lines to the south-east, corner of the north-east quarter of Section five (5), Township thirty-two (32) North, Range thirty-one (31) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly along the township line to the north-west corner of Section six (6), Township thirty-two (32) North, Range thirty-three (33) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence westerly along the quarter-section line to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section two (2), Township thirty-two (32) North, Range thirty-four (34) West; thence southerly along the section lines to the south-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township thirty-two (32) North, Range thirty-three (33) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), Township thirty-one (31) North, Range thirty-three (33) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Section ten (10), Township thirty-one (31) North, Range thirty-two (32) West: thence southerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section three (3), Township thirty (30) North, Range thirty-two (32) West: thence easterly along the quarter-section lines to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section two (2), Township thirty (30) North, Range thirty-one (31) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township thirty-one (31) North, Range thirty-one (31) West; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19). Township thirty-one (31) North, Range thirty (30) West; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence easterly along the quarter-section line to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty (20), said township; thence northerly along the quarter-section lines to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty-two (32), Township thirty-two (32) North, Range thirty (30) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said quarter-section; thence northerly to the south west corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence easterly along the quarter-section lines to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section ten (10), said township, the place of beginning.", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make-entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Niobrara Forest Reserve.", "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 16th day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two and of the [SEAL.] Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 32 Stat. 1993", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Nebraska.", "Boundaries.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "The Niobrara Forest Reserve."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart the Niobrara Forest Reserve in Nebraska, reserving the described public lands from entry and settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Niobrara Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Nebraska"}], "states": ["Nebraska"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [33], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-04-16", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Niobrara was combined with Dismal River and the North Platte reserve into the Nebraska National Forest in 1908.", "source": "Executive Order 908", "date": "1908", "story": 33}, {"text": "In 1971 Congress renamed the Niobrara division the Samuel R. McKelvie National Forest, a change of name only.", "source": "Public Law 92-142, 85 Stat. 393", "date": "1971-10-15", "story": 33}], "today": [{"name": "Samuel R. McKelvie National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "renamed", "state": "Nebraska", "source": "Public Law 92-142, 85 Stat. 393", "story": 33}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1971-10-15", "text": "Congress renamed the Niobrara division of the Nebraska National Forest the Samuel R. McKelvie National Forest.", "source": "Public Law 92-142, 85 Stat. 393", "story": 33}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-471", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The companion Dismal River reserve, proclaimed the same day.", "story": 33, "date": "1902-04-16", "title": "Establishing the Dismal River Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "471"}, {"id": "uo-044", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 111, "inferred": true, "date": "1902-08-09", "title": "Certain described lands in Nebraska reserved for the Agriculture Department for experimental tree planting.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}, {"id": "eo-908", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Consolidated into the Nebraska National Forest.", "story": 33, "date": "1908-07-02", "title": "55 Specified National Forests Consolidated and/or Renamed", "type": "executive_order", "number": "908"}]}
{"id": "proc-471", "type": "proclamation", "number": "471", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-04-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing the Dismal River Forest Reserve", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 471, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-471"}, "statutes": {"volume": 32, "page": 1995, "last_page": 1996, "cite": "32 Stat. 1995–1996", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-32/pdf/STATUTE-32-Pg1995.pdf", "statutes_date": "1902-04-16", "table_title": "Setting apart Dismal River Forest Reserve, Nebraska."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Nebraska, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Nebraska and within the boundaries particularly described as follows, to wit:", "Beginning at the north-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), Township twenty-two (22) North, Range twenty-five (25) West, Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian, Nebraska; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), Township twenty-two (22) North, Range twenty-six (26) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section twelve (12), said township; thence westerly along the quarter-section line to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section ten (10), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section six (6), said township; thence northerly to the north-east, corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township twenty-three (23) North, Range twenty-seven (27) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence northerly to the north-cast corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section, thence westerly along the section lines to the north-west corner of Section twenty-three (23). Township twenty-three (23) North, Range twenty-eight (28) West; thence southerly along the section lines to the south-west corner of Section two (2), Township twenty-two (22) North, Range twenty-eight (28) West; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section one (1), said township; thence southerly along the range line to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of the north-west quarter of Section nineteen (19), Township twenty-one (21) North, Range twenty-seven (27) West; thence easterly along the quarter quarter-section lines to the south-east corner of the north-cast quarter of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-three (23), Township twenty-one (21) North, Range twenty-six (26) West; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section five (5), Township twenty-one (21) North, Range twenty-five (25) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence easterly along the quarter-section lines to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section three (3), said township; thence northerly along the section lines to the north-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), Township twenty-two (22) North, Range twenty-five (25) West, the place of beginning.", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Dismal River Forest Reserve.", "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 16th day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two and of the [SEAL.] Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 32 Stat. 1995", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Nebraska.", "Boundaries.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "The Dismal River Forest Reserve."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Dismal River Forest Reserve in Nebraska from described public lands, closing them to entry and settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Dismal River Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Nebraska"}], "states": ["Nebraska"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [33], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-04-16", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Seed beds for a tree nursery were laid out in the reserve in the autumn of 1902, and the first field planting followed in 1903.", "source": "Pool, Nebraska History 34 (1953)", "date": "1902", "story": 33}], "legacy": [{"text": "Dismal River was combined with Niobrara and the North Platte reserve into the Nebraska National Forest in 1908.", "source": "Executive Order 908", "date": "1908", "story": 33}, {"text": "The tract is now the Bessey Ranger District, home of what the Forest Service calls its oldest seedling nursery and part of what it calls the largest hand-planted forest in the western hemisphere.", "source": "U.S. Forest Service", "story": 33}, {"text": "The Bovee Fire burned roughly 5,000 acres of the district.", "source": "research entry", "date": "2022", "story": 33}], "today": [{"name": "Bessey Ranger District, Nebraska National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Nebraska", "note": "Home of the Bessey Nursery.", "source": "U.S. Forest Service", "story": 33}], "uncertain": ["Whether the Bessey nursery dates from 1902 or 1903 depends on whether the autumn 1902 seed beds or the 1903 first planting is counted.", "How many acres of the forest were planted by hand is uncertain; published figures run from about 20,000 to about 26,000 acres."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-470", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The companion Niobrara reserve, proclaimed the same day.", "story": 33, "date": "1902-04-16", "title": "Establishing the Niobrara Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "470"}, {"id": "uo-044", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 111, "inferred": true, "date": "1902-08-09", "title": "Certain described lands in Nebraska reserved for the Agriculture Department for experimental tree planting.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}, {"id": "eo-908", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Consolidated into the Nebraska National Forest.", "story": 33, "date": "1908-07-02", "title": "55 Specified National Forests Consolidated and/or Renamed", "type": "executive_order", "number": "908"}]}
{"id": "eo-171", "type": "executive_order", "number": "171", "tr_sequence": 31, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-04-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Forbidding Criticisms of Diplomatic and Consular Service Officers by Others in Either Service Unless Confidential", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_171", "revid": 1822107, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas the publication of alleged charges and criticisms against officers of the diplomatic and consular service, without an opportunity being given for due consideration of both sides of the questions at issue, has led to injustice to the persons attacked and to embarrassment to the Department of State in its disposition of the public business:", "It is hereby ordered that hereafter no officer of the diplomatic or consular service of the United States shall attack, or prefer charges against, or publicly criticise, any other officer in either service, except in a communication to the Department of State.", "Whenever any such officer deems that his duty compels him to prefer charges against any other officer in either service, he shall communicate such charges confidentially to the Department of State, which will, upon due consideration of all the circumstances, make such disposition of the case as in its discretion seems wise in the interest of the public business."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, April 25, 1902.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Forbade diplomatic and consular officers from publicly attacking or criticizing one another; any charges had to go confidentially to the State Department.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [80], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-04-25", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "No newspaper report of the order was found in California papers (April 24–May 31, 1902) or Indiana papers (April 25–May 15, 1902).", "source": "California Digital Newspaper Collection; Hoosier State Chronicles", "date": "1902", "story": 80}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Secretary of State John Hay sent the order to every diplomatic and consular officer with a circular of April 26, 1902, and the State Department printed both in Foreign Relations.", "source": "FRUS 1902, pp. 5–6", "date": "1902-04-26", "story": 80}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1940-04-18", "text": "Revoked by Executive Order 8396.", "source": "Wikisource note to Executive Order 171", "story": 80}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-026", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 26, "date": "1902-04-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Flags ordered displayed at half-mast on all Federal buildings for the late J. Sterling Morton, former Agriculture Secretary.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 26, "page": "189", "citations": "X Richardson 523"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Flags ordered displayed at half-mast on all Federal buildings for the late J. Sterling Morton, former Agriculture Secretary. *(Signed by George B. Cortelyou, Secretary.)*", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Ordered flags at half-mast on all federal buildings for the late J. Sterling Morton, former Secretary of Agriculture.", "categories": ["ceremonial"], "action": "announce", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["J. Sterling Morton"], "significance": 2, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-04-29", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-027", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 27, "date": "1902-04-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Residence building and described tract in the abandoned Fort Yuma Military Reservation, Yuma County, Arizona Territory, reserved for the Customs Service.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 27, "page": "189", "citations": "X Richardson 523"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Residence building and described tract in the abandoned Fort Yuma Military Reservation, Yuma County, Arizona Territory, reserved for the Customs Service.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Reserved a residence building and described tract in the abandoned Fort Yuma Military Reservation, Arizona Territory, for the Customs Service.", "categories": ["public-lands", "government-administration"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Fort Yuma Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-04-29", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-172", "type": "executive_order", "number": "172", "tr_sequence": 32, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-04-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Exceptions from Examination for Certain Workers in Navy Department", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_172", "revid": 12438062, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes, and by \"An act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States,\" approved January 16, 1883, Civil Service Rule III is hereby amended by striking out all of clause (i), paragraph 8, in relation to positions and employees in or under the Navy Department, and the following order is hereby made and promulgated in lieu thereof:", "All persons at navy-yards, naval stations, and at private shipbuilding and manufacturing establishments where work is done by contract for the Navy Department, employed as special mechanics and civilian assistant inspectors of work and materials (including ordnance, armor, armor plate, marine engines, hulls, buildings, dredging, etc.), and all persons employed under the Navy Department as ship draftsmen, marine engine and boiler draftsmen, architectural draftsmen, structural steel work draftsmen, electrical draftsmen, cartographic draftsmen, and ordnance draftsmen, including assistant or lower-class draftsmen of the various grades, are hereby placed under regulations of the Navy Department governing the employment of labor at navy-yards. Appointments to these positions shall be made hereafter on tests of fitness prescribed in paragraphs 74 to 83, inclusive, of Navy-Yard Order No. 23, revised. Pending the result of such examinations, the Secretary of the Navy may appoint to the above positions qualified persons for a period not to exceed thirty days: Provided, That when an examination is held by the Navy Department for any of the above positions and no eligibles are obtained, temporary appointment may be made by the Secretary of the Navy for a period not to exceed ninety days, subject to the approval of the Civil Service Commission: And provided further, That transfers of draftsmen from navy-yards, naval stations, and offices outside of Washington, D. C., may be made to the respective bureaus and offices of the Navy Department proper without regard to the rule relating to apportionment.", "Approved."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "T. Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, April 30, 1902.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Placed Navy special mechanics, civilian inspectors and draftsmen under Navy Department labor regulations, with appointments made on navy-yard fitness tests instead of civil-service examinations.", "categories": ["civil-service", "military-naval"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [80], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-04-30", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-155", "relation": "supersedes", "note": "Placed Navy-yard special mechanics, inspectors and draftsmen under the Navy Department's own labor regulations in place of EO 155.", "story": 80, "date": "1902-01-20", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Exceptions from Examination for Draftsmen in Navy Department", "type": "executive_order", "number": "155"}]}
{"id": "uo-028", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 28, "date": "1902-04-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Certain described lands near Point Dume, Calif., reserved for lighthouse purposes, subject to any legal existing rights.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 28, "page": "190", "citations": "X Richardson 523"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Certain described lands near Point Dume, Calif., reserved for lighthouse purposes, subject to any legal existing rights.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Reserved described lands near Point Dume, California, for lighthouse purposes, subject to any legal existing rights.", "categories": ["lighthouses"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Point Dume", "kind": "lighthouse", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-04-30", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "uo-007", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Repeats, in nearly identical words, the Point Dume reservation of November 11, 1901.", "story": 111, "date": "1901-11-11", "title": "Certain described lands near Point Dume, Calif., reserved for lighthouse purposes, subject to any legal existing rights.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "uo-029", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 29, "date": "1902-04-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "William B. Dunlany appointed messenger in the office of the Secretary to the President without examination, because of \"peculiar qualifications.\"", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 29, "page": "190", "citations": "(1901 CSR 312; 1902 CSR 92)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "William B. Dunlany appointed messenger in the office of the Secretary to the President without examination, because of \"peculiar qualifications.\"", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Appointed William B. Dunlany messenger in the office of the Secretary to the President without examination, citing his \"peculiar qualifications.\"", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["William B. Dunlany"], "significance": 1, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-04-30", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-472", "type": "proclamation", "number": "472", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-05-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Diminution of the Fort Hall Indian Reservation for Homesteads", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 472, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-472"}, "statutes": {"volume": 32, "page": 1997, "last_page": 1999, "cite": "32 Stat. 1997–1999", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-32/pdf/STATUTE-32-Pg1997.pdf", "statutes_date": "1902-05-07", "table_title": "Declaring the opening to entry, etc., of lands in Idaho ceded by Shoshone and Bannock Indians."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America", "A Proclamation", "Whereas, by an agreement between the Shoshone and Bannock Indians of the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho, on the one part and certain commissioners of the United States on the other part, ratified by act of Congress approved June 6, 1900 (31 Stat., 672) the said Indians ceded, granted, and relinquished to the United States all right, title, and interest which they had to the following described land, the same being a part of the land obtained through the treaty of Fort Bridger on the third day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and ratified by the United States Senate on the sixteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine:", "All that portion of the said reservation embraced within and lying east and south of the following described lines:", "Commencing at a point in the south boundary of the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, being the south-west corner of township nine (9) south, range thirty-four (34) east of the Boise meridian, thence running due north on the range line between townships 33 and 34 east to a point two (2) miles north of the township line between townships five (5) and six (6) south, thence due east to the range line between ranges 35 and 36 east, thence south on said range line four (4) miles, thence due east to the east boundary line of the reservation; from this point the east and south boundaries of the said reservation as it now exists to the point of beginning, namely, the southwest corner of township nine (9) south, range thirty-four east, being the remainder of the description and metes and bounds of the said tract of land herein proposed to be ceded.\"", "And Whereas, in pursuance of said act of Congress ratifying said agreement, allotments of land have been regularly made to each Indian occupant who desired it, and a schedule has been made of the lands to be abandoned and the improvements thereon appraised, and such improvements will be offered for sale to the highest bidder at not less than the appraised price prior to the date fixed for the opening of the ceded lands to settlement, and the classification as to agricultural and grazing lands has been made;", "And Whereas, in the act of Congress ratifying said agreement it is provided:", "That on the completion of the allotments and the preparation of the schedule provided for in the preceding section, and the classification of the lands as provided for herein, the residue of said ceded lands shall be opened to settlement by the proclamation of the President, and shall be subject to disposal under the homestead, townsite, stone and timber, and mining laws of the United States only, excepting as to price and excepting the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections in each Congressional township, which shall be reserved for common school purposes and be subject to the laws of Idaho; Provided, That all purchasers of lands lying under the canal of the Idaho Canal Company, and which are susceptible of irrigation from the water from said canal, shall pay for the same at the rate of ten dollars per acre; all agricultural lands not under said canal shall be paid for at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per acre, and grazing lands at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, one-fifth of the respective sums to be paid at time of original entry, and four-fifths thereof at the time of making final proof; but no purchaser shall be permitted in any manner to purchase more than one hundred and sixty acres of the land hereinbefore referred to; but the rights of honorably discharged Union soldiers and sailors, as defined and described in sections twenty-three hundred and four and twenty-three hundred and five of the Revised Statutes of the United States, shall not be abridged, except as to the sum to be paid as aforesaid.", "* * * * *", "No lands in sections sixteen and thirty-six now occupied, as set forth in article three of the agreement herein ratified, shall be reserved for school purposes, but the State of Idaho shall be entitled to indemnity for any lands so occupied: Provided, That none of said lands shall be disposed of under the townsite laws for less than ten dollars per acre: And provided further, That all of said lands within five miles of the boundary line of the town of Pocatello shall be sold at public auction, payable as aforesaid, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior for not less than ten dollars per acre: And provided further, That any mineral lands within said five mile limit shall be disposed of under the mineral land laws of the United States, excepting that the price of such mineral lands shall be fixed at ten dollars per acre, instead of the price fixed by the said mineral land laws.", "And Whereas, all the conditions required by law to be performed prior to the opening of said lands to settlement and entry have been, as I hereby declare, duly performed, except the sale of the improvements mentioned above, but as this is not considered a bar to the opening of the unallotted and unreserved lands to settlement and entry,", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power vested in me by law, do hereby declare and make known that all of the lands so as aforesaid ceded by the Shoshone and Bannock Indians, saving and excepting all lands allotted to the Indians, and saving and excepting the lands on which the Indian improvements have been appraised, and saving and excepting the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections in each Congressional township, and saving and excepting Lots 7 and 8, section 21, NW 1/4 SW 1/4 and Lots 9 and 10, section 22, T. 9 S., R. 38 E., B. M., known as \"Lava Hot Springs,\" and saving and excepting all of the lands within five miles of the boundary line of the town of Pocatello, Idaho and saving and excepting the lands ceded under the act of September 1, 1888 (25 Stat., 452), for the purposes of a townsite, will on the 17th day of June, 1902, at and after the hour of 12 o'clock, noon (Mountain Standard time), be opened to settlement and entry under the terms of and subject to all the conditions, limitations, reservations, and restrictions contained in the statutes above specified, and the laws of the United States applicable thereto.", "[The proclamation continues with three operative paragraphs, retained in substance: the lands within five miles of Pocatello are to be offered at public auction, at not less than ten dollars per acre, beginning at noon on July 17, 1902; purchasers of appraised Indian improvements outside the five-mile Pocatello limit hold a thirty-day preference right of entry on the tracts where their purchased improvements sit; and purchasers of improvements inside the five-mile Pocatello limit have no such preference right, since that land must be sold at public auction.]", "In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.", "[SEAL.] Done at the city of Washington the 7th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President: JOHN HAY, Secretary of State."], "source": "32 Stat. 1997–1999 (GovInfo scan), 2026-08-23", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Printed in the Statutes as \"[No. 18.]\". OCR misreadings in earlier transcriptions corrected to the Statutes readings (east, beginning, tract); [SEAL.] restored in the dating clause. The final three operative paragraphs are summarized in the bracketed passage, not reproduced verbatim. The \"* * * * *\" inside the quoted statute is in the original.", "story": 35}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Opened to settlement the lands of the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in Idaho that the Shoshone and Bannock Indians had ceded to the United States under an agreement ratified in 1900.", "categories": ["indian-lands", "public-lands"], "action": "open", "places": [{"name": "Fort Hall Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "Idaho"}], "states": ["Idaho"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [35], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-05-07", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "About 1,300 men and boys, most of them mounted and many armed, rushed across the line at noon on June 17, and the New-York Tribune put the land run on its front page.", "source": "New-York Tribune, June 18, 1902, p. 1", "date": "1902-06-17", "story": 35}, {"text": "The San Francisco Call reported sooners, a flood of applications, disappointed applicants and contests, and warned of bloodshed.", "source": "San Francisco Call, June 1902, p. 3", "date": "1902-06", "story": 35}, {"text": "The Call also reported that long-resident settlers on the reservation were being filed on by newcomers, because the opening law gave them no protection.", "source": "San Francisco Call, June 1902, p. 3", "date": "1902-06", "story": 35}, {"text": "The phrase \"Fort Hall Reservation\" appears on 149 digitized newspaper pages from May through July 1902, in at least thirteen states, though few papers reprinted the proclamation's text.", "source": "Chronicling America newspaper searches, May 1–July 31, 1902", "date": "1902", "story": 35}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The ceded lands opened on schedule on June 17, 1902, and the Pocatello lands were offered for sale on July 17, with no postponement or litigation.", "source": "Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1902", "date": "1902-06-17", "story": 35}, {"kind": "economic", "text": "In the opening fortnight the Blackfoot land office recorded 126 sales under the 1900 act, on 17,539.91 acres, more than in the whole following year (106 sales on 6,668.56 acres).", "source": "Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, 1902, p. 551; 1903, p. 225", "date": "1902-06", "story": 35}, {"kind": "economic", "text": "The Pocatello auction drew little interest, and the wire report predicted few tracts would sell.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1902-07-17", "story": 35}, {"kind": "local", "text": "After two white men were found murdered near new mining claims, some people in Pocatello asked the governor for troops; the Fort Hall agent reported no excitement among the Indians and no need for troops.", "source": "A. F. Caldwell, Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1902, pp. 181–182", "date": "1902-06-24", "story": 35}], "legacy": [{"text": "The general allotment of the diminished reservation came only in 1911, and Fort Hall remains among the least fractionated of allotted reservations, with most land in tribal ownership or trust.", "source": "36 Stat. 1058, at 1063–64", "date": "1911", "story": 35}, {"text": "The tribes' claim that the 1898 cession was made for an unconscionable price, Docket 326-E, was settled in 1968 within a $15,700,000 judgment covering seven Fort Hall dockets, with no part assigned to this cession.", "source": "19 Ind. Cl. Comm. 3", "date": "1968", "story": 35}], "today": [{"name": "Lava Hot Springs (state resort)", "kind": "other", "relation": "transferred", "state": "Idaho", "note": "Held back from settlement by the proclamation and granted to Idaho by a separate act of June 13, 1902; run by the Lava Hot Springs Foundation within the Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation.", "source": "Act of June 13, 1902, 32 Stat. 330", "story": 35}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1902-06-13", "text": "Congress granted the Lava Hot Springs tract, reserved in the proclamation, to Idaho for public use.", "source": "32 Stat. 330", "story": 35}, {"date": "1911-03-03", "text": "Congress provided for the general allotment of the diminished Fort Hall Reservation.", "source": "36 Stat. 1058, at 1063–64", "story": 35}, {"date": "1968", "text": "The Indian Claims Commission entered a consolidated $15,700,000 settlement of seven Fort Hall dockets, including the claim over the 1898 cession.", "source": "19 Ind. Cl. Comm. 3", "story": 35}], "uncertain": ["Whether minutes of the 1896–98 Fort Hall councils survive is not known.", "How many people filed homestead claims on the ceded lands is not known; the land office tables do not separate them.", "The acreage figures 416,060 and 406,864 have not been traced to a measured source; the commissioners estimated about 416,000 acres."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-030", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 30, "date": "1902-05-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Spanish-American War veterans in Government service in the District of Columbia excused from duty May 21 to attend the dedication of the statue to the Spanish-American War dead at Arlington Cemetery.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 30, "page": "190", "citations": "X Richardson 524"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Spanish-American War veterans in Government service in the District of Columbia excused from duty May 21 to attend the dedication of the statue to the Spanish-American War dead at Arlington Cemetery.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Excused Spanish-American War veterans in federal jobs in the District of Columbia from duty on May 21 to attend the dedication of the statue to the war's dead at Arlington Cemetery.", "categories": ["ceremonial", "civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [{"name": "Arlington Cemetery", "kind": "other", "state": "Virginia"}], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-05-12", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-031", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 31, "date": "1902-05-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Civil War veterans in Government service in the District of Columbia excused from duty May 17 to attend the reburial of the late W. S. Rosecrans, Major-General, U.S. Army.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 31, "page": "190", "citations": "X Richardson 524"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Civil War veterans in Government service in the District of Columbia excused from duty May 17 to attend the reburial of the late W. S. Rosecrans, Major-General, U.S. Army.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Gave Civil War veterans in federal jobs in the District of Columbia the day off on May 17 to attend the reburial of Major General W. S. Rosecrans.", "categories": ["ceremonial", "civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-05-12", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-473", "type": "proclamation", "number": "473", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-05-22", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Yellowstone Forest Reserve and the Teton Forest Reserve", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 473, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-473"}, "statutes": {"volume": 32, "page": 1999, "last_page": 2002, "cite": "32 Stat. 1999–2002", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-32/pdf/STATUTE-32-Pg1999.pdf", "statutes_date": "1902-05-22", "table_title": "Setting apart the Yellowstone and Teton Forest Reserves, Wyoming."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, the Yellowstone Park Timber Land Reserve, in the State of Wyoming, was established by proclamation dated March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and the boundary lines thereof were corrected by proclamation dated September tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and the Teton Forest Reserve, in the State of Wyoming, was established by proclamation dated February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, under and by virtue of section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, which provides, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or under-growth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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”, that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Wyoming, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as public reservations;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid acts of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that, the executive proclamations of March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one (26 Stat., 1565), September tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one (27 Stat., 989) and February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven (29 Stat., 906), are hereby superseded, it being one purpose of this proclamation to establish the two forest reserves herein-after named in place of the reserves heretofore created by said execu- tive proclamations; and, therefore, there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as Public Reservations all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Wyoming and within the boundaries particularly described as follows, to wit:", "Beginning at the point where the boundary line between the States of Wyoming and Idaho intersects the southern boundary of the Yellowstone National Park; thence easterly along the southern boundary of said park to its intersection with the western boundary line of Big Horn County, Wyoming, as defined in See. 982 of the Revised Statutes of Wyoming (1899); thence, in a general southerly and southeasterly direction, along said county line to the north-west corner of the Wind River or Shoshone Indian Reservation; thence, in a general southwesterly direction, along the western boundary of said reservation to its inter-section with the township line between Townships forty-two (42) and forty-three (43) North; thence westerly along said township line to the south-west corner of Township forty-three (43) North, Range one hun- dred and seven (107) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Township forty-three (43) North, Range one hundred and nine (109) West; thence southerly along the range, line to the south-east corner of Township forty-one (41) North, Range one hundred and nine (109) West; thence easterly along the Tenth (10th) Standard Parallel North to its intersection with the western boundary of the Wind River or Shoshone Indian Reservation; thence, in a southeasterly and southerly direction, along the western boundary of said reservation to the point for its intersection with the township line between Townships thirty-three (33) and thirty-four (34) North; thence westerly along said surveyed and unsurveyed township line to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), township thirty-four (34) North, Range one hundred and nine (109) West: thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly to the south east corner of Township thirty-five (35) North, Range one hundred and ten (110) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township thirty-six (36) North, Range one hundred and ten (110) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly along the Ninth (9th) Standard Parallel North to the south-east corner of Township thirty-seven (37) North, Range one hundred and ten (110) West; thence northerly along the range line to the south-east corner of Township forty (40) North, Range one hundred and ten (110) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence southerly along the range line to the south-east corner of Township thirty-seven (37) North, Range one hundred and eleven (111) West; thence westerly along the Ninth (9th) Standard Parallel North to the north-east corner of Section (4). Township thirty-six (36) North, Range one hundred and twelve (112) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of section thirty-three (33), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Township thirty-five (35) North, Range one hundred and thirteen (113) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township: thence southerly along the range line to the south-east corner of Township thirty-three (33) North, Range one hundred and fourteen (114) West: thence westerly along the Eighth (8th) Standard Parallel North to the north-east corner of Township thirty two (32) North, Range one hundred and fifteen (115) West: thence southerly along the range line to the south-east corner of Township twenty-nine (29) North, Range one hundred and fifteen (115) West; thence westerly along the Seventh (7th) Standard Parallel North to the south-east corner of Township twenty-nine (29) North, Range one hundred and eighteen (118) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty-three (33), Township thirty (30) North, Range one hundred and eighteen (118) West; thence northerly along the quarter-section lines to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence westerly to the north-west, corner of said quarter-section; thence northerly along the section lines to the north-east corner of Section five (5), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-one (31). Township thirty-one (31) North, Range one hundred and eighteen (118) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said quarter-section; thence northerly along the, quarter-section lines to the point of intersection with the Eighth (8th) Standard Parallel North; thence easterly along said parallel to the south-east corner of Township thirty-three (33) North, Range one hundred and eighteen (118) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty-four (34), Township thirty-four (34) North, Range one hundred and eighteen (11$) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-seven (27), said township;, thence westerly to the north-west corner of said quarter-section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence northerly along the quarter-section lines to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section nine (9), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said quarter-section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section eight (8), said township: thence westerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section five (5), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said quarter-section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said quarter-section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-one (31), Township thirty-five (35) North, Range one hundred and eighteen (118) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence northerly along the range line to its intersection with the Ninth (9th) Standard Parallel North; thence westerly along said parallel to its intersection with the boundary line between the States of Wyoming and Idaho; thence northerly along said state boundary line to the point where, it intersects the southern boundary of the Yellowstone National Park, the place of beginning, to be known as The Teton Forest Reserve; excepting and excluding from reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Wyoming and particularly described as follows, to wit:", "Township forty (40) North, Range one hundred and sixteen (116) West; Townships forty-one (41) North, Ranges one hundred and fifteen (115) and one hundred and sixteen (116) West; and Townships forty-two (42) North, Ranges one hundred and fifteen (115) and one hundred and sixteen (116) West.", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; Provided, That this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Provided further, That nothing herein shall give any force or effect to any claim or right to any of the lands heretofore embraced within the Yellowstone Park Timber Land Reserve or the Teton Forest Reserve which would not have been entitled to recognition if said reserves as heretofore established had been continued in force without being merged into larger reserves as hereinbefore provided.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 22d day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and two, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 32 Stat. 1999", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Forest reservations, Wyoming.", "Vol. 26, p. 1565.", "Vol. 27, p. 989.", "Vol. 29, p. 906.", "Yellowstone Forest Reserve.", "Boundaries.", "Post, pp. 2006, 2030.", "Teton Forest Reserve.", "Boundaries.", "Post, p. 2030.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Replaced the Yellowstone Park Timber Land Reserve and the earlier Teton Forest Reserve in Wyoming with newly bounded Yellowstone and Teton forest reserves.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Yellowstone Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Wyoming"}, {"name": "Teton Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Wyoming"}], "states": ["Wyoming"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [33], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-05-22", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "proc-477", "relation": "enlarged_by", "note": "Yellowstone enlarged again three weeks later.", "story": 33, "date": "1902-06-13", "title": "Enlargement of the Yellowstone Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "477"}, {"id": "proc-496", "relation": "enlarged_by", "note": "Teton and Absaroka consolidated into the Yellowstone, January 29, 1903.", "story": 33, "date": "1903-01-29", "title": "Enlargement of the Yellowstone National Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "496"}]}
{"id": "proc-474", "type": "proclamation", "number": "474", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-05-22", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing the Medicine Bow Forest Reserve", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 474, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-474"}, "statutes": {"volume": 32, "page": 2003, "last_page": 2004, "cite": "32 Stat. 2003–2004", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-32/pdf/STATUTE-32-Pg2003.pdf", "statutes_date": "1902-05-22", "table_title": "Setting apart Medicine Bow Forest Reserve, Wyoming."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Wyoming, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part ewe red with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Wyoming and within the boundaries particularly described as follows, to wit:", "Beginning at the point where the range line between Ranges seventy-six (76) and seventy-seven (77) West, Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian, Wyoming, intersects the boundary line between the States of Wyoming and Colorado; thence westerly along said state boundary line to the point where it intersects the range line between Ranges eighty (80) and eighty-one (SI) West; thence northerly along said range line, allowing for the proper offset on the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel North, to the south-east corner of Township fourteen (14) North, Range eighty-one (81) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township: thence northerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the Fourth (4th) Standard Parallel North, to the northwest corner of Township seventeen (17) North, Range eighty-one (81) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said town-ship; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly along the Fourth (4th) Standard Parallel North to the south-west corner of Township seventeen (17) North, Range seventy-nine (79) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), Township seventeen (17) North, Range seventy-eight (78) West; thence southerly along the section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the Fourth (4th) Standard Parallel North, to the south-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township fifteen (15) North, Range seventy-eight (78) West; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Township fourteen (14) North, Range eighty (80) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly along the township line to the north-east corner of Township thirteen (13) North, Range seventy-seven (77) West; thence southerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel North, to the point where it intersects the boundary line between the States of Wyoming and Colorado, the place of beginning.", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful tiling duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation,", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Medicine Bow Forest Reserve.", "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 22d day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two and of the [SEAL.] Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 32 Stat. 2003", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest Reserve, Wyoming.", "Boundaries.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "The Medicine Bow Forest Reserve."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Medicine Bow Forest Reserve in Wyoming, closing the described timbered public lands to entry and settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Medicine Bow Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Wyoming"}], "states": ["Wyoming"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [33], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-05-22", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Medicine Bow was split in 1908. Its Colorado portion became the Colorado National Forest in 1910, renamed the Roosevelt in 1932, and is now part of the Arapaho and Roosevelt.", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, FS-612; Davis", "date": "1908", "story": 33}, {"text": "A Wyoming Medicine Bow was re-established in 1910 and has been administered with the Routt since 1995.", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, FS-612; Davis", "date": "1995", "story": 33}], "today": [{"name": "Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Colorado", "note": "The Colorado portion of the 1902 reserve became the Roosevelt National Forest.", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, FS-612; Davis", "story": 33}, {"name": "Medicine Bow National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Wyoming", "note": "Re-established in 1910; administered with the Routt since 1995.", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, FS-612; Davis", "story": 33}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1910", "text": "The Colorado portion was proclaimed the Colorado National Forest, and a Wyoming Medicine Bow National Forest was re-established.", "source": "Proclamations 1062 and 1067", "story": 33}, {"date": "1932-03-28", "text": "The Colorado National Forest was renamed the Roosevelt National Forest.", "source": "Executive Order 5826", "story": 33}, {"date": "1995", "text": "The Medicine Bow was administratively combined with the Routt.", "source": "research entry", "story": 33}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-484", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Boundary changed fifty-five days after the reserve was created.", "story": 33, "date": "1902-07-16", "title": "Modifying the Boundary Lines of the Medicine Bow Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "484"}, {"id": "proc-557", "relation": "modified_by", "note": null, "story": 55, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-05-17", "title": "Modification of the Boundaries of the Medicine Bow Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "557"}, {"id": "eo-861", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "1908 split of the Medicine Bow.", "story": 33, "date": "1908-06-30", "title": "Cheyenne National Forest, Wyo., Created", "type": "executive_order", "number": "861"}, {"id": "eo-862", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "1908 split of the Medicine Bow.", "story": 33, "date": "1908-06-30", "title": "Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyo., Diminished", "type": "executive_order", "number": "862"}]}
{"id": "proc-475", "type": "proclamation", "number": "475", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-05-22", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlargement of the Big Horn Forest Reserve", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 475, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-475"}, "statutes": {"volume": 32, "page": 2004, "last_page": 2005, "cite": "32 Stat. 2004–2005", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-32/pdf/STATUTE-32-Pg2004.pdf", "statutes_date": "1902-05-22", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of Big Horn Forest Reserve, Wyoming."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, The Big Horn Forest Reserve, in the State of Wyoming, was established by proclamation dated February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, under and by virtue of section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, which provides, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public, land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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”, that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”; under which provision, the boundary lines of the said forest reserve were changed and enlarged by proclamation dated June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby reserved from entry or settlement, and added to and made a part of the aforesaid Big Horn Forest Reserve, all those certain tracts, pieces or par- cels of land lying and being situate in the State of Wyoming and particularly described as follows, to wit:", "The west half of Township fifty-six (56) North, Range eighty-seven (87) West; all of Townships fifty-five (55) and fifty-six (56) North, Range eighty-eight (88) West; and the south half of Township fifty-seven (57) North, Range eighty-eight (88) West, Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian, Wyoming.", "Excepting from the force, and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, That this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant, continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "In witness whereof. 1 have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.", "Done at the City of Washington this 22d day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and two, and of the [SEAL.] Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 32 Stat. 2004", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 29, p. 909.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Vol. 31, p. 1976.", "The Big Horn Forest Reserve, Wyoming.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Big Horn Forest Reserve in Wyoming, adding described townships and reserving them from entry or settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Big Horn Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Wyoming"}], "states": ["Wyoming"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [33], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-05-22", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-023", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 23, "date": "1902-05-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Flags ordered displayed at half-mast on all Federal buildings for the late Lord Pauncefote, British Ambassador.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": ["Corrected from “1902-03-27”. Pauncefote died May 24, 1902; the order sets the funeral for Wednesday the 28th, and May 28 was a Wednesday. Richardson printed \"Mar.\" in error and Lord copied it (San Francisco Call, May 29, 1902)."], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 23, "page": "189", "citations": "X Richardson 523"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Flags ordered displayed at half-mast on all Federal buildings for the late Lord Pauncefote, British Ambassador. *(Signed by George B. Cortelyou, Secretary.)*", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match. **Date corrected 2026-10-12:** Pauncefote died May 24, 1902, and the order sets the funeral on \"Wednesday … 28\" — May 28, 1902 was a Wednesday, March 28 a Friday. The order belongs to May 27, 1902. See research entry #112.", "summary": "Ordered flags at half-mast on all federal buildings in honor of the late Lord Pauncefote, the British Ambassador.", "categories": ["ceremonial", "foreign-affairs"], "action": "announce", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Lord Pauncefote"], "significance": 2, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-05-27", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-476", "type": "proclamation", "number": "476", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-05-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Restoring to the Public Domain Certain Lands in the State of California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 476, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-476"}, "statutes": {"volume": 32, "page": 2005, "last_page": 2006, "cite": "32 Stat. 2005–2006", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-32/pdf/STATUTE-32-Pg2005.pdf", "statutes_date": "1902-05-29", "table_title": "Restoring certain lands in California to the public domain."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["[No. 22.]", "By the President of the United States of America.", "A PROCLAMATION.", "Whereas, by Executive Order dated December 27, 1875, Section 7, township 15 south, range 2 east, San Bernardino Meridian, California, was with certain other tracts of land withdrawn from the public domain and reserved for the use of the Captain Grande band or Village of Mission Indians; and", "Whereas, the Commission appointed under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved January 12, 1891, entitled \"An act for the relief of the Mission Indians in the State of California\", (U. S. Statutes at Large, vol. 26, page 712) selected for the said Captain Grande band or village of Indians certain tracts of land and intentionally omitted and excluded from such selection the said section 7, township 15 south, range 2 east, and reported that the tracts thus omitted included the lands upon which were found the claims of Jacob Kühner and others; and", "Whereas, the report and recommendations of the said Commission were approved by Executive Order dated December 29, 1891, which Order also directed that \"All of the lands mentioned in said report are hereby withdrawn from settlement and entry until patents shall have issued for said selected reservations, and until the recommendations of said Commission shall be fully executed, and, by the proclamation of the President of the United States, the lands or any part thereof shall be restored to the public domain\"; and", "Whereas a patent was issued March 10, 1894, to the said Indians for the lands selected by the Commission as aforesaid and which patent also excluded the said Section 7, township 15 south, range 2 east; and", "Whereas it appears that the said Jacob Kühner can not make the requisite filings on the land occupied by him until it shall have been formally restored to the public domain, and that no good reason appears to exist for the further reservation of the said section for the said band of Indians:", "Now, therefore, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested, do hereby declare and make known that the Executive Orders dated December 27, 1875 and December 29, 1891 are so far modified as to except from their provisions Section 7 of township 15 south, range 2 east, San Bernardino meridian, and the said section is hereby restored to the public domain.", "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 29 day of May in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and two, and of the [SEAL.] Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:", "DAVID J. HILL,", "Acting Secretary of State."], "source": "32 Stat. 2005–2006 (GovInfo page images), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Seal restored. 'Captain Grande' and 'Kühner' are as printed in the Statutes (confirmed on the page image). Dating clause 'this 29 day of May' as printed. GPO sidenotes not reproduced.", "story": 37}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "David J. Hill", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Restored Section 7, Township 15 South, Range 2 East, San Bernardino Meridian, California, to the public domain, removing it from lands once reserved for the Captain Grande band of Mission Indians.", "categories": ["public-lands", "indian-lands"], "action": "restore", "places": [], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [37], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-05-29", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "No press notice of the Capitan Grande restoration has been found. In the San Diego Union, \"Capitan Grande\" appears only once between May and August 1902, in an unrelated list of voting precincts, though the paper's digitized text is poor.", "source": "California Digital Newspaper Collection, San Diego Union, May–August 1902", "date": "1902", "story": 37}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The proclamation modified Grant's 1875 order and Harrison's 1891 order just far enough to free Section 7, so that Jacob Kuhner, who occupied it, could file on it under the land laws.", "source": "32 Stat. 2005–2006", "date": "1902-05-29", "story": 37}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "It was one of only four proclamations in volume 32 of the Statutes that restored a named Indian-reserved tract for a named applicant, and it reused word for word the form of McKinley's 1901 Capitan Grande restoration.", "source": "32 Stat. 1970–1971, 2005–2006", "date": "1902", "story": 37}], "legacy": [{"text": "An act of 1919 granted San Diego lands in the Capitan Grande reservation for a dam and reservoir, and the El Capitan Reservoir of the early 1930s flooded the heart of the reservation.", "source": "Act of February 28, 1919, 40 Stat. 1206", "date": "1919-02-28", "story": 37}, {"text": "The reservation's families moved to the new Barona and Viejas reservations, whose bands hold the remaining Capitan Grande land jointly in trust; it is uninhabited.", "source": "research entry", "story": 37}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1919-02-28", "text": "Congress granted the city of San Diego lands in the Capitan Grande reservation \"for dam and reservoir purposes,\" conditioned on compensating the Mission Indians, including parts of Sections 8 and 9 of the same township.", "source": "40 Stat. 1206", "story": 37}], "uncertain": ["Whether Jacob Kuhner ever perfected an entry or received a patent for Section 7 is not known.", "Who carried Kuhner's case to Washington is not known; the Interior Department letter recommending the restoration has not been found."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-478", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Companion restoration of 1902, releasing an agency tract to Anadarko for a park.", "story": 37, "date": "1902-06-23", "title": "Restoring to the Public Domain Certain Lands in the Territory of Oklahoma", "type": "proclamation", "number": "478"}, {"id": "proc-492", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 40, "inferred": true, "date": "1902-09-04", "title": "Restoring Fort Sill Indian Sub-Agency Lands to the City of Lawton, Oklahoma for Cemetery", "type": "proclamation", "number": "492"}, {"id": "proc-555", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The same form used again in 1905 to release Sections 5 and 6 of the same township for Joseph J. Henderson.", "story": 37, "date": "1905-05-15", "title": "Restoring to the Public Domain Certain Lands in the State of California", "type": "proclamation", "number": "555"}]}
{"id": "eo-173", "type": "executive_order", "number": "173", "tr_sequence": 33, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-05-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Declaration of the Meaning of Section 8, Rule II, of the Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_173", "revid": 1816312, "printed_source": "1901 CSR 58"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas certain misunderstandings have existed in regard to the proper construction of section 8 of Civil Service Rule II, which provides as follows:", "\"No removal shall be made from the competitive classified service except for just cause and for reasons given in writing; and the person sought to be removed shall have notice and be furnished a copy of such reasons, and be allowed a reasonable time for personally answering the same in writing. Copy of such reasons, notice, and answer and of the order of removal shall be made a part of the records of the proper department or office; and the reasons for any change in rank or compensation within the competitive classified service shall also be made a part of the records of the proper department or office.\"", "Now, for the purpose of preventing all such misunderstandings and improper constructions of said section, it is hereby declared that the term \"just cause,\" as used in section 8, Civil Service Rule II, is intended to mean any cause, other than one merely political or religious, which will promote the efficiency of the service; and nothing contained in said rule shall be construed to require the examination of witnesses or any trial or hearing except in the discretion of the officer making the removal."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1901 CSR 58)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "Approved. White House, May 29, 1902.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Defined \"just cause\" for removal from the classified civil service as any cause, other than a merely political or religious one, that promotes the efficiency of the service.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [80], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-05-29", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Commission had recommended the order, explaining that appointing officers had been afraid to remove useless employees for lack of proof of willful misconduct.", "source": "Civil Service Commission, Nineteenth Report, pp. 18–19", "date": "1902", "story": 80}], "legacy": [{"text": "Its definition of \"just cause\" framed a long argument over how much protection from removal a merit employee should have, choosing discretion over trial-type hearings on efficiency grounds.", "source": "research entry", "story": 80}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-032", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 32, "date": "1902-05-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Lot 1 of block 40, Alva, Oklahoma Territory, reserved for post office purposes.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 32, "page": "190", "citations": "(EO 5975)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Lot 1 of block 40, Alva, Oklahoma Territory, reserved for post office purposes.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Reserved Lot 1 of Block 40 in Alva, Oklahoma Territory, for post office purposes.", "categories": ["public-lands", "government-administration"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Alva", "kind": "town", "state": "Oklahoma"}], "states": ["Oklahoma"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-05-29", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-174", "type": "executive_order", "number": "174", "tr_sequence": 34, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-06-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Assistant Commissioner of Immigration in New York Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_174", "revid": 1829073, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["An appointment to the vacancy now existing in the position of Assistant Commissioner of Immigration at the port of New York may be made without examination under the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, June 2, 1902.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed the vacancy for Assistant Commissioner of Immigration at the port of New York to be filled without a civil-service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["New York"], "people": [], "significance": 1, "stories": [80], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-06-02", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "eo-154", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 78, "inferred": true, "date": "1902-01-18", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Assistant Commissioner of Immigrations in New York Without Examination", "type": "executive_order", "number": "154"}]}
{"id": "uo-033", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 33, "date": "1902-06-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Coal Depot, Amaknak Island, Alaska, established on certain lands reserved for lighthouse purposes by Executive Order of Jan. 13, 1899.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 33, "page": "190", "citations": "(EO 5457; I CFR 139, 270; IX CFR 775)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Coal Depot, Amaknak Island, Alaska, established on certain lands reserved for lighthouse purposes by Executive Order of Jan. 13, 1899.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Established a coal depot on Amaknak Island, Alaska, on lands reserved for lighthouse purposes in 1899.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Amaknak Island", "kind": "island", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-06-10", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-477", "type": "proclamation", "number": "477", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-06-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlargement of the Yellowstone Forest Reserve", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 477, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-477"}, "statutes": {"volume": 32, "page": 2006, "last_page": 2007, "cite": "32 Stat. 2006–2007", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-32/pdf/STATUTE-32-Pg2006.pdf", "statutes_date": "1902-06-13", "table_title": "Enlarging Yellowstone Forest Reserve, Wyoming."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, The Yellowstone Forest Reserve, in the State of Wyoming, was established by proclamation dated May twenty-second, nineteen hundred and two, under the provisions of the acts of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled. “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, and June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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”, superseding the Yellowstone Park Timber Land Reserve;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Wyoming, hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said ands;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid acts of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby reserved from entry or settlement, and added to and made a part of the aforesaid Yellowstone Forest Reserve, all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Wyoming and particularly described as follows, to wit:", "Sections one (1), two (2) and three (3), Township forty-eight (48) North, Range one hundred and four (104) West; and all of Township forty-nine (49) North, Range one hundred and four (104) West, Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian, Wyoming.", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may nave been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful tiling duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 13th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and two, and of [seat.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 32 Stat. 2006", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Ante, p. 1999.", "Post, p. 2030.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Yellowstone Forest Reserve, Wyoming.", "Area added.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Added described lands in Wyoming to the Yellowstone Forest Reserve, reserving them from entry or settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Yellowstone Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Wyoming"}], "states": ["Wyoming"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [33], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-06-13", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "proc-473", "relation": "enlarges", "note": "Enlarged the Yellowstone reserve organized three weeks earlier.", "story": 33, "date": "1902-05-22", "title": "Establishment of the Yellowstone Forest Reserve and the Teton Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "473"}]}
{"id": "uo-034", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 34, "date": "1902-06-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "San Felipe Pueblo Indian Reservation, New Mexico Territory, established for the use and occupation of the Indians of the Pueblo of San Felipe, subject to valid existing rights (lapsed rights to be added to the reservation).", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 34, "page": "190", "citations": "I Kappler 878; I IR 126; (1905 CIA 496)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "San Felipe Pueblo Indian Reservation, New Mexico Territory, established for the use and occupation of the Indians of the Pueblo of San Felipe, subject to valid existing rights (lapsed rights to be added to the reservation).", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "title_notes": ["Additional lands set apart next to a Pueblo grant confirmed by U.S. patent in 1864."], "summary": "Established the San Felipe Pueblo Indian Reservation in New Mexico Territory for the Indians of the Pueblo of San Felipe, subject to valid existing rights.", "categories": ["indian-lands"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "San Felipe Pueblo Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-06-13", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-035", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 35, "date": "1902-06-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Boundary line between the WaKeeney and Colby, Kans., Land Districts altered and redescribed.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 35, "page": "191", "citations": "X Richardson 524; (1903 GLO 343)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Boundary line between the WaKeeney and Colby, Kans., Land Districts altered and redescribed.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Redrew the boundary between the WaKeeney and Colby land districts in Kansas.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "WaKeeney Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Kansas"}, {"name": "Colby Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Kansas"}], "states": ["Kansas"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-06-13", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-036", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 36, "date": "1902-06-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Certain described lands in Kitsap County, Wash., reserved for the use of the Navy Department as a target range.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 36, "page": "191", "citations": "X Richardson 524"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Certain described lands in Kitsap County, Wash., reserved for the use of the Navy Department as a target range.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Reserved described lands in Kitsap County, Washington, for a Navy target range.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Kitsap County", "kind": "other", "state": "Washington"}], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-06-13", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-037", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 37, "date": "1902-06-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Certain lands on Adak and Kiska Islands, Alaska, reserved for naval purposes.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 37, "page": "191", "citations": "(EO 241; I CFR 139, 270; IX CFR 775, 776)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Certain lands on Adak and Kiska Islands, Alaska, reserved for naval purposes. *(Lord: \"Adakh and Kyska\")*", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "Distinct. \"(EO 241)\" is a back-reference to a later order (Dec. 9, 1903).", "summary": "Reserved certain lands on Adak and Kiska islands, Alaska, for naval purposes.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Adak Island", "kind": "island", "state": "Alaska"}, {"name": "Kiska Island", "kind": "island", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-06-13", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The naval reservation on Adak and Kiska anticipated the strategic weight those Aleutian islands would carry four decades later.", "source": "research entry", "story": 111}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-241", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 82, "inferred": true, "date": "1903-12-09", "title": "Reserving All Lands on Certain Alaska Islands, including Kiska Island, Little Kiska Island, and Adjacent Islets For Naval Purposes", "type": "executive_order", "number": "241"}]}
{"id": "eo-175", "type": "executive_order", "number": "175", "tr_sequence": 35, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-06-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Transfer of Alexander C. Caine as Disbursing Clerk in Justice Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_175", "revid": 1829064, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The vacancy now existing in the position of clerk of class 4, for designation as disbursing clerk in the Department of Justice, may be filled by the transfer of Mr. Alexander C. Caine from the excepted position of examiner which he now holds in the same Department."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, June 21, 1902.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let the Justice Department fill its vacant disbursing-clerk job by transferring Alexander C. Caine from his excepted post as examiner, without regard to civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Alexander C. Caine"], "significance": 1, "stories": [80], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-06-21", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-478", "type": "proclamation", "number": "478", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-06-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Restoring to the Public Domain Certain Lands in the Territory of Oklahoma", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 478, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-478"}, "statutes": {"volume": 32, "page": 2007, "last_page": 2007, "cite": "32 Stat. 2007", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-32/pdf/STATUTE-32-Pg2007.pdf", "statutes_date": "1902-06-23", "table_title": "Restoring Kiowa and Comanche Agency premises, Oklahoma, to the public domain."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["[No. 24.]", "By the President of the United States of America.", "A PROCLAMATION.", "Whereas, in the opening of the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, and Wichita Indian lands in the Territory of Oklahoma, by proclamation dated July 4, 1901, pursuant to section six of the Act of Congress approved June 6, 1900 (31 Stat., 672, 676), the west half of the south-east quarter of the southeast quarter and lot fourteen, of section sixteen in township seven north, of range ten west of the Indian principal meridian, containing thirty eight acres and sixty hundredths of an acre, were reserved for the use of the Kiowa and Comanche Indian Agency;", "And whereas, it appears that said land is no longer used or required for use by said Indian agency, and that it adjoins the City of Anadarko, Oklahoma Territory, and is needed by said city for park purposes, the mayor of which city has applied to make entry thereof for said purposes under the act of Congress approved September 30, 1890 (26 Stat., 502).", "Now, therefore, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section six of said act of Congress of June 6, 1900, do hereby declare and make known that said land is hereby restored to the public domain, to be disposed of to said city for park purposes under said act of Congress approved September 30, 1890.", "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 23rd day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two, and of the [SEAL.] Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty sixth.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:", "DAVID J. HILL,", "Acting Secretary of State."], "source": "32 Stat. 2007 (GovInfo page image), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Seal restored; unhyphenated 'thirty eight acres and sixty hundredths' and 'twenty sixth' as printed; no comma after 'In witness whereof'.", "story": 37}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "David J. Hill", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Returned 38.6 acres once reserved for the Kiowa and Comanche Indian Agency to the public domain, so the adjoining city of Anadarko, Oklahoma Territory, could acquire it for a park.", "categories": ["public-lands", "indian-lands"], "action": "restore", "places": [{"name": "Anadarko", "kind": "town", "state": "Oklahoma"}], "states": ["Oklahoma"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [37], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-06-23", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "No press reaction has been found, but Anadarko's own papers for June–August 1902 could not be searched.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1902", "story": 37}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The release let Anadarko's mayor enter the 38.60-acre agency tract for a park under the 1890 law, which allowed towns to buy only public land \"not reserved for public use.\"", "source": "32 Stat. 2007; 26 Stat. 502", "date": "1902-06-23", "story": 37}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Indian Office's annual report for 1902 reprinted the proclamation among the year's proclamations; Agent James F. Randlett's own report from Anadarko does not mention the park.", "source": "Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1902, pp. 287–292, 653", "date": "1902", "story": 37}, {"kind": "court", "text": "When it was signed, the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache suit against the 1901 opening of these lands was still on appeal, bound for the Supreme Court.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1902-06", "story": 37}], "legacy": [{"text": "Anadarko formally acquired the tract in 1904 and named it Randlett Park; a 1908 hydroelectric plant and a 1926 municipal pool followed its first water and electric plant there.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1904", "story": 37}, {"text": "The tribes' challenge to the opening ended in Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock, which held that Congress's authority over tribal relations was political and not subject to the courts; it remains one of the most criticized decisions in American Indian law.", "source": "187 U.S. 553, 565 (1903)", "date": "1903-01-05", "story": 37}], "today": [{"name": "Randlett Park", "kind": "other", "relation": "origin", "state": "Oklahoma", "since": "1902-06-23", "note": "Anadarko city park of about 40 acres along the Washita River; listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003 (reference 03000878).", "source": "Randlett Park, National Register nomination", "story": 37}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1903-01-05", "text": "The Supreme Court decided Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock against the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache challenge to the cession under which these lands were opened.", "source": "187 U.S. 553", "story": 37}], "uncertain": ["Whether Oklahoma Territory selected replacement school land for these 38.60 acres, which lay in a section reserved for schools, is not known.", "Agent James F. Randlett's part in the park application rests on local tradition and has not been documented."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-476", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Companion restoration of 1902 at Capitan Grande, California.", "story": 37, "date": "1902-05-29", "title": "Restoring to the Public Domain Certain Lands in the State of California", "type": "proclamation", "number": "476"}, {"id": "proc-492", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Exact twin ten weeks later: a Fort Sill sub-agency tract released to Lawton for a cemetery under the same two statutes.", "story": 37, "date": "1902-09-04", "title": "Restoring Fort Sill Indian Sub-Agency Lands to the City of Lawton, Oklahoma for Cemetery", "type": "proclamation", "number": "492"}, {"id": "proc-520", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 52, "inferred": true, "date": "1904-03-29", "title": "Restoring to the Public Domain Certain Lands Adjacent to the City of Lawton, Oklahoma Territory", "type": "proclamation", "number": "520"}]}
{"id": "proc-479", "type": "proclamation", "number": "479", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-06-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the White River Forest Reserve", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 479, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-479"}, "statutes": {"volume": 32, "page": 2008, "last_page": 2010, "cite": "32 Stat. 2008–2010", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-32/pdf/STATUTE-32-Pg2008.pdf", "statutes_date": "1902-06-28", "table_title": "Changing boundaries of White River Forest Reserve, Colorado."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, the White River Plateau Timber Land Reserve, in the State of Colorado, was established by proclamation dated October sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, under and by virtue of section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled. “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, which provides, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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”, that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that, has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do hereby make known and proclaim that the boundary lines of the aforesaid White River Plateau Timber Land Reserve are hereby changed so as to read as follows:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), Township five (5) North, Range ninety-one (91) West, Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian, Colorado; thence easterly along the section lines to the, north-east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), Township five (5) North, Range ninety (90) West; thence southerly to the southeast corner of said section: thence easterly along the section lines to the north-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly along the First (1st) Correction Line North to the north-east corner of Township four (4) North, Range ninety (90) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly along the section lines to the north-west corner of Section twelve (12), Township three (3) North, Range ninety (90) West; thence easterly along the section lines to the south-west corner of Section four (4), Township three (3) North, Range eighty-nine (89) West; thence northerly along the section lines to the north-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), Township four (4) North, Range eighty-nine (89) West; thence easterly along the section lines to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), Township three (3) North, Range eighty-eight (88) West; thence southerly along the section lines to the north-west corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence southerly along the section lines to the north-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence easterly along the section lines to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section four-teen (14), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section four (4), said township: thence northerly along the section lines to the north-west corner of Section nine (9), Township four (4) North, Range eighty-eight (88) West; thence westerly along the First (1st) Correction Line North to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township five (5) North, Range eighty-nine (89) West; thence northerly along the section lines to the north-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence easterly along the section lines to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township five (5) North, Range eighty-six (86) West; thence southerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offsets on the First (1st) Correction Line North and on the Base Line, to the south-east corner of Township two (2) South, Range eighty-six (86) West; thence westerly along the township line to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township three (3) South, Range eighty-seven (87) West: thence southerly along the section lines to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township four (4) South, Range eighty-seven (87) West; thence westerly along the township line to the south-west corner of Township four (4) South, Range ninety-one (91) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence westerly along the township line, to the south-west corner of Township three (3) South, Range ninety-three (93) West; thence northerly along the range line to the north-west corner of Township two (2) South. Range ninety-three (93) West; thence easterly along the township line to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township one (1) South, Range ninety-two (92) West; thence northerly along the section lines to the north-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence easterly along the section lines to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-six (26), Township one (1) South, Range ninety-one (91) West; thence southerly along the quarter-section lines to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner, of Section two (2). Township two (2) South, Range ninety-one (91) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twelve (12), said township; thence southerly along the quarter-section lines to the, south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence easterly along the section lines to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section eighteen (18), Town ship two (2) South, Range ninety (96) West; thence northerly along the quarter-section lines to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section six (6), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township one (1) South, Range ninety (90) West; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township one, (1) South, Range ninety-one (91) West: thence, westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section: thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said township; thence easterly along the Base Line to the south-west corner of Township one (1) North, Range ninety (90) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the southwest quarter of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence westerly along the section lines to the north-east corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township one (1) North, Range ninety-one (91) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township: thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township: thence westerly along the Base Line to the north-west corner of Township one (1) South. Range ninety-one. (91) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), Township one (1) South, Range ninety-two (92) West; thence westerly along the section lines to the south-west corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence northerly along the section lines to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence easterly along the Base Line to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township one (1) North, Range ninety-two (92) West; thence northerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed section lines to the point for the intersection with the township lino between Townships two (2) and three (3) North; thence easterly along the said town-ship line to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township three (3) North, Range ninety-one (91) West; thence northerly along the section lines to the north-west corner of Section ten (10), Township four (4) North, Range ninety-one (91) West; thence westerly along the First (1st) Correction Line North to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township five (5) North, Range ninety-one (91) West; thence northerly along the section lines to the north-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township, the place of beginning.", "The lands hereby excluded from the reservation and restored to the public domain shall be open to settlement from date hereof, but shall not be subject to entry, filing or selection until after ninety days notice by such publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.", "This reservation shall hereafter be known as the White River Forest Reserve.", "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 28th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and two, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 32 Stat. 2008", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 27, p. 993.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "White River Forest Reserve, Colorado.", "New boundaries.", "Date of opening to settlement.", "Name changed."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "title_notes": ["Not a new reserve: it re-described Harrison's White River Plateau Timber Land Reserve of 1891 (27 Stat. 993), renamed it the White River Forest Reserve and reduced it."], "summary": "Redrew the boundaries of the White River Plateau Timber Land Reserve in Colorado and renamed it the White River Forest Reserve.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "White River Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [33], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-06-28", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The reserve Roosevelt renamed and reduced, first set aside by Benjamin Harrison in 1891, is today's White River National Forest.", "source": "research entry", "story": 33}], "today": [{"name": "White River National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "renamed", "state": "Colorado", "note": "First reserved in 1891 as the White River Plateau Timber Land Reserve; this proclamation renamed it White River.", "source": "27 Stat. 993; research entry", "story": 33}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-176", "type": "executive_order", "number": "176", "tr_sequence": 36, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-06-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Make Certain Aliens Qualify for Copperplate Map Engraver Position", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": ["The Civil Service Commission's reports give June 28, 1902; the signature line of the Wikisource transcription reads June 23."], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_176", "revid": 1836440, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Section 1 of Rule V is hereby amended by adding thereto the following as a proviso:", "Provided, That in order to secure a sufficient number of eligibles to meet the needs of the service, foreign-born persons who have declared their intention to become citizens of the United States may be admitted to examinations for the position of copperplate map engraver.", "Approved."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, June 23, 1902.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Opened the copperplate map engraver examination to foreign-born applicants who had declared their intention to become U.S. citizens, to supply enough eligibles.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [80], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-06-28", "impact": {"uncertain": ["The Civil Service Commission's reports date the order June 28, 1902, but the signature line of the Wikisource transcription reads June 23."]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-204", "relation": "revoked_by", "note": "Revoked February 19, 1903, less than eight months later.", "story": 80, "date": "1903-02-19", "title": "Removing Civil Service Rule Provision which Allowed Aliens to Qualify for Copperplate Map Engraver Position", "type": "executive_order", "number": "204"}]}
{"id": "proc-480", "type": "proclamation", "number": "480", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-07-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Louisiana Purchase Exposition", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 480, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-480"}, "statutes": {"volume": 32, "page": 2011, "last_page": 2011, "cite": "32 Stat. 2011", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-32/pdf/STATUTE-32-Pg2011.pdf", "statutes_date": "1902-07-01", "table_title": "Postponing days of opening and closing of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America,", "A Proclamation.", "Whereas, The President on August 20, 1901, issued his proclamation stating that he has been advised by the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission, pursuant to the provisions of section 9 of the Act of Congress approved March 3, 1901, entitled \"An Act To provide for celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the purchase of the Louisiana Territory by the United States by holding an international exhibition of arts, industries, manufactures and the products of the soil, mine, forest and sea in the City of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri\", that provision had been made for grounds and buildings for the uses specified in the said mentioned act of Congress;", "Whereas, it was declared and proclaimed by the President in his aforesaid proclamation that such international exhibition would be opened in the City of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, not later than the first day of May, 1903, and be closed not later than the first day of December thereafter;", "And Whereas, section 8 of the Act of Congress approved June 28, 1902, entitled \"An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, one thousand nine hundred and three, and for other purposes\", fixes a subsequent date for the holding of the said international exhibition and specifically states that said commission shall provide for the dedication of the buildings of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, in said city of St. Louis, not later than the thirtieth day of April, nineteen hundred and three, with appropriate ceremonies, and thereafter said exposition shall be opened to visitors at such time as may be designated by said company, subject to the approval of said commission, not later than the first day of May, nineteen hundred and four, and shall be closed at such time as the national commission may determine, subject to the approval of said company, but not later than the first day of December thereafter\";", "Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, do hereby declare and proclaim the aforesaid provision of law to the end that it may definitely and formally be known that such international exhibition will be opened in the City of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, not later than May 1, 1904, and will be closed not later than December 1st of that year.", "In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.", "[SEAL.] Done at the City of Washington, the 1st day of July one thousand nine hundred and two, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President: DAVID J. HILL, Acting Secretary of State."], "source": "32 Stat. 2011 (GovInfo page image), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Printed as [No. 26.]. The third Whereas has a closing quotation mark after 'the first day of December thereafter' but no opening mark; this is as the Statutes print it, not a transcription loss. Seal restored; line-end hyphenations closed up.", "story": 36}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "David J. Hill", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Formally proclaimed the new schedule for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis: buildings dedicated by April 30, 1903, and opening to visitors no later than May 1, 1904.", "categories": ["ceremonial"], "action": "announce", "places": [{"name": "St. Louis", "kind": "town", "state": "Missouri"}], "states": ["Missouri"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [36], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-07-01", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The proclamation went out on the wire and ran, usually in three sentences, in some eighteen digitized papers from Missouri and New York to Hawaii; only the Washington and St. Louis papers printed its text.", "source": "Chronicling America newspaper searches, June–July 1902", "date": "1902-07", "story": 36}, {"text": "The St. Louis Republic explained that copies of the proclamation, signed July 1, were not ready for the public until July 4.", "source": "St. Louis Republic, July 4, 1902", "date": "1902-07-04", "story": 36}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "congress", "text": "The fight that followed was over money, not dates: a $4,500,000 federal loan to the fair passed the House 172–115 over stiff opposition.", "source": "Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission", "date": "1903-02", "story": 36}, {"kind": "political", "text": "As the amended law required, the buildings were dedicated on April 30, 1903, with addresses by Roosevelt and Grover Cleveland before about 80,000 people.", "source": "Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission", "date": "1903-04-30", "story": 36}, {"kind": "diplomatic", "text": "Ambassadors and ministers of twenty-six governments sat on the stand at the dedication, with representatives of more than forty states and territories.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1903-04-30", "story": 36}, {"kind": "diplomatic", "text": "After St. Louis moved its fair to 1904, the International Olympic Committee transferred the 1904 Games from Chicago to St. Louis by a postal vote of 14–2.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1902-12", "story": 36}], "legacy": [{"text": "The exposition opened on April 30, 1904, and closed December 1, the dates this proclamation made official, and was the largest world's fair held to that date by the Exposition Company's reckoning.", "source": "Official Guide to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition", "date": "1904", "story": 36}, {"text": "The first Olympic Games held in the United States were absorbed into the fair as its Department of Physical Culture.", "source": "Official Guide to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition", "date": "1904", "story": 36}, {"text": "The fair is remembered critically for its ethnological exhibits, the largest being the Philippine Exposition, and for the \"Anthropology Days\" of August 12–13, 1904.", "source": "Official Guide to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition", "date": "1904-08-12", "story": 36}], "uncertain": ["Which cabinet officers besides Elihu Root sat on the platform at the April 30, 1903 dedication is not known."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-481", "type": "proclamation", "number": "481", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-07-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing the Santa Catalina Forest Reserve", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 481, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-481"}, "statutes": {"volume": 32, "page": 2012, "last_page": 2013, "cite": "32 Stat. 2012–2013", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-32/pdf/STATUTE-32-Pg2012.pdf", "statutes_date": "1902-07-02", "table_title": "Setting apart Santa Catifina Forest Reserve, Arizona."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the Territory of Arizona, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the Territory of Arizona, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows, to wit:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Township thirteen (13) South, Range fourteen (14) East, Gila and Salt River Meridian, Arizona; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township twelve (12) South, Range fourteen (14) East; thence easterly along the unsurveyed section lines to the point for the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence northerly along the unsurveyed section lines to the point for the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of said township; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of Township eleven (11) South, Range fifteen (15) East; thence easterly along the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel South to the point for the north-east corner of said township; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence easterly along the unsurveyed section lines to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township eleven (11) South, Range seventeen (17) East; thence southerly along the unsurveyed range line to the point for the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), Township thirteen (13) South, Range seventeen (17) East; thence westerly along the unsurveyed section lines to the point for the south-west corner of Section seven (7), Township thirteen (13) South, Range fifteen (15) east; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Township thirteen (13) South, Range fourteen (14) East, the place of beginning.", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "2013 Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Santa Catalina Forest Reserve.", "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 2d day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two and of the [SEAL.] Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 32 Stat. 2012", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest Reserve, Arizona.", "Boundaries.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "The Santa Catalina Forest Reserve."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Santa Catalina Forest Reserve in Arizona Territory, setting the described timbered public lands apart from entry and settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Santa Catalina Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [33], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-07-02", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Santa Catalina was combined with the Santa Rita and Dragoon reserves in 1908 to form the Coronado National Forest.", "source": "Executive Order 908", "date": "1908", "story": 33}], "today": [{"name": "Coronado National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Arizona", "source": "research entry", "story": 33}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-468", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Santa Rita, merged with Santa Catalina into the Coronado in 1908.", "story": 33, "date": "1902-04-11", "title": "Establishing the Santa Rita Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "468"}, {"id": "eo-908", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Combined with Santa Rita and Dragoon to establish the Coronado National Forest.", "story": 33, "date": "1908-07-02", "title": "55 Specified National Forests Consolidated and/or Renamed", "type": "executive_order", "number": "908"}]}
{"id": "proc-482", "type": "proclamation", "number": "482", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-07-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Suspending Duties on Cuban Vessels Entering Ports of the United States", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 482, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-482"}, "statutes": {"volume": 32, "page": 2013, "last_page": 2013, "cite": "32 Stat. 2013", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-32/pdf/STATUTE-32-Pg2013.pdf", "statutes_date": "1902-07-03", "table_title": "Declaring suspension of discriminating duties on Cuban vessels and merchandise."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America,", "A Proclamation.", "Whereas, satisfactory proof has been given to me by the Government of Cuba that no discriminating duties of tonnage or imposts are imposed or levied in the ports of Cuba, upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States or upon the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported in the same from the United States, or from any foreign country:", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section four thousand two hundred and twenty-eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States, do hereby declare and proclaim that, from and after the date of this, my Proclamation, so long as vessels of the United States and their cargoes shall be exempt from discriminating duties as aforesaid, any such duties on Cuban vessels entering the ports of the United States, or on the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported in such vessels, shall be suspended and discontinued, and no longer.", "In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.", "[SEAL.] Done at the City of Washington, the 3rd day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President: JOHN HAY, Secretary of State."], "source": "32 Stat. 2013 (GovInfo page image), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Printed as [No. 28.]. Seal restored; section number spelled out and dating clause as printed ('3rd'; Foreign Relations 1902 p. 354 prints '3d').", "story": 38}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Suspended discriminating tonnage and import duties on Cuban vessels and their cargoes in U.S. ports, for as long as Cuba exempted American vessels from such duties.", "categories": ["trade-reciprocity", "foreign-affairs"], "action": "other", "places": [{"name": "Cuba", "kind": "country"}], "states": ["Cuba"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [38], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-07-03", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "An Associated Press item from Washington explaining the order and its cause ran in at least three California papers, including the San Francisco Call under the head \"Cuban Ship Duties Removed.\"", "source": "San Francisco Call, Los Angeles Herald and San Diego Union, July 6, 1902", "date": "1902-07-06", "story": 38}, {"text": "The item was not found in Utah or Washington state papers searched for July 1902, so the coverage found is Californian rather than national; no controversy over the order has been found.", "source": "Utah Digital Newspapers; Washington Digital Newspapers", "date": "1902-07", "story": 38}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Treasury sent the order to every collector of customs, ending the extra dollar-a-ton surcharge Cuban ships had paid since Cuban independence on May 20.", "source": "Treasury Department Circular No. 83", "date": "1902-07-07", "story": 38}, {"kind": "congress", "text": "Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw asked Congress to refund $7,352 in surcharges collected from four Cuban steamers in 1898–99 and June 1902, and Congress did so.", "source": "H. Doc. No. 62, 57th Cong., 2d Sess.; Act of January 14, 1903, 32 Stat. 771", "date": "1903-01-14", "story": 38}, {"kind": "diplomatic", "text": "The Cuban government's assurance that it charged no discriminating duties on American ships came through Herbert G. Squiers, the American minister at Havana.", "source": "Los Angeles Herald and San Diego Union, July 6, 1902", "date": "1902-07", "story": 38}], "legacy": [{"text": "The proclamation was a small shipping-side preliminary to the Cuban Reciprocity Treaty, signed December 11, 1902, and effective December 27, 1903, which cut tariffs on Cuban sugar and bound the two economies together for decades.", "source": "U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian", "date": "1903-12-27", "story": 38}, {"text": "Section 4228 of the Revised Statutes, the authority behind it, remained the standard tool for equalizing foreign shipping duties well into the twentieth century.", "source": "Proclamation 2455 (1941)", "story": 38}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1903-01-14", "text": "Congress refunded the discriminating duties collected from four Cuban steamers in 1898–99 and June 1902.", "source": "32 Stat. 771", "story": 38}, {"date": "1941-01-31", "text": "Franklin D. Roosevelt invoked the same statute, as amended in 1897, to suspend discriminating duties for New Zealand.", "source": "Proclamation 2455", "story": 38}], "uncertain": ["The form and date of the Cuban government's \"satisfactory proof\" are not known; it is not printed in Foreign Relations for 1902."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-556", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 61, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-05-15", "title": "Reciprocity with Panama", "type": "proclamation", "number": "556"}]}
{"id": "eo-177", "type": "executive_order", "number": "177", "tr_sequence": 37, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-07-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Recommendations for Promotion", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_177", "revid": 1828462, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution, and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes, and of the civil-service act approved January 16, 1883, Civil-Service Rule XI is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following section:", "No recommendation for the promotion of any employee in the classified service shall be considered by any officer concerned in making promotions except it be made by the officer or officers under whose supervision or control such employee is serving; and such recommendation by any other person, with the knowledge and consent of the employee, shall be sufficient cause for debarring him from the promotion proposed, and a repetition of the offense shall be sufficient cause for removing him from the service.", "Approved."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, July 3, 1902.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Ruled that only an employee's supervisors may recommend promotions; outside recommendations made with the employee's knowledge could bar the promotion, and a repeat could mean removal.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [80], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-07-03", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-178", "type": "executive_order", "number": "178", "tr_sequence": 38, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-07-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Prescribing Manner for Appointment of Unclassified Laborers in Executive Departments and Independent Officers", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_178", "revid": 1828465, "printed_source": "[http://www.uhuh.com/laws/donncoll/eo/1902/eo178.txt External Information about this EO]  "}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["{| style=\"margin: 0em 0em 0em 0em;\" | width=1%| |In the exercise of power vested in the President by the Constitution and of the authority given to him by the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes, it is hereby ordered that appointments of all unclassified laborers in and under the several Executive Departments and independent offices shall be made in accordance with regulations to be approved and promulgated by the heads of the several Departments and offices and the Civil Service Commission; such regulations to be in full force and effect on and after the date of their promulgation.", "Approved. | width=1%| |}", "Theodore Roosevelt White House, July 3, 1902.", "== Notes == See Related: None Available"], "source": "Wikisource (from [http://www.uhuh.com/laws/donncoll/eo/1902/eo178.txt External Information about this EO]  )", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Ordered that unclassified laborers in executive departments and independent offices be hired under regulations approved by department heads and the Civil Service Commission.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [80], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-07-03", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-179", "type": "executive_order", "number": "179", "tr_sequence": 39, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-07-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Allow Transfer of Certain Former Employees in the Military Government in Cuba", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_179", "revid": 12441338, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Special Order.", "Employees of the United States in the Military Government in Cuba.", "In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes, and of the civil-service act approved January 16, 1883, the following rule for the regulation and improvement of the executive civil service is hereby promulgated:", "Persons who were in the employ of the United States in the military government in Cuba and who are not eligible for retention in the classified service under existing rules, but have been specially commended for appointment therein by the chiefs of their respective departments, with the approval of the Secretary of War, because of efficient services rendered under conditions of personal danger from yellow fever and other tropical diseases, and whose names are embraced in the list heretofore furnished to the Civil Service Commission by the War Department, may be retained and appointed to positions of a grade corresponding to that which they now hold in the classified service, with the consent and approval of the Commission.", "Approved."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, July 3, 1902.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed certain former employees of the U.S. military government in Cuba, commended for service amid danger from yellow fever and other tropical diseases, to be appointed in the classified service.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [{"name": "Cuba", "kind": "country"}], "states": ["Cuba"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [80], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-07-03", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-483", "type": "proclamation", "number": "483", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-07-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Granting Pardon and Amnesty to Participants in Insurrection in the Philippines", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 483, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-483"}, "statutes": {"volume": 32, "page": 2014, "last_page": 2015, "cite": "32 Stat. 2014–2015", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-32/pdf/STATUTE-32-Pg2014.pdf", "statutes_date": "1902-07-04", "table_title": "Granting amnesty to Philippine insurgents."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America", "A Proclamation", "Whereas, many of the inhabitants of the Philippine archipelago were in insurrection against the authority and sovereignty of the kingdom of Spain at divers times from August, 1896, until the cession of the archipelago by that kingdom to the United States of America, and since such cession many of the persons so engaged in insurrection have until recently resisted the authority and sovereignty of the United States; and", "Whereas, the insurrection against the authority and sovereignty of the United States is now at an end, and peace has been established in all parts of the archipelago except in the country inhabited by the Moro tribes, to which this proclamation does not apply; and", "Whereas, during the course of the insurrection against the kingdom of Spain and against the government of the United States, persons engaged therein, or those in sympathy with and abetting them, committed many acts in violation of the laws of civilized warfare; but it is believed that such acts were generally committed in ignorance of these laws, and under orders issued by the civil or military insurrectionary leaders; and", "Whereas, It is deemed to be wise and humane, in accordance with the beneficent purposes of the Government of the United States towards the Filipino people, and conducive to peace, order, and loyalty among them, that the doers of such acts who have not already suffered punishment shall not be held criminally responsible, but shall be relieved from punishment for participation in these insurrections and for unlawful acts committed during the course thereof by a general amnesty and pardon;", "Now, therefore, be it known that I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power and authority vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby proclaim and declare without reservation or condition, except as hereinafter provided, a full and complete pardon and amnesty to all persons in the Philippine archipelago who have participated in the insurrections aforesaid, or who have given aid and comfort to persons participating in said insurrections, for the offenses of treason or sedition, and for all offenses political in their character committed in the course of such insurrections pursuant to orders issued by the civil or military insurrectionary authorities, or which grow out of internal political feuds or dissensions between Filipinos and Spaniards, or the Spanish authorities, or which resulted from internal political feuds or dissensions among the Filipinos themselves during either of said insurrections.", "Provided, however, that the pardon and amnesty hereby granted shall not include such persons committing crimes since May 1, 1902, in any province of the archipelago in which at the time civil government was established, nor shall it include such persons as have been heretofore finally convicted of the crimes of murder, rape, arson, or robbery, by any military or civil tribunal… but special application may be made to the proper authority for pardon by any person belonging to the exempted classes and such clemency as is consistent with humanity and justice will be liberally extended; and, further", "Provided, That this amnesty and pardon shall not affect the title or right of the Government of the United States or that of the Philippine Islands to any property or property rights heretofore used or appropriated by the military or civil authorities… by way of confiscation or otherwise; and", "Provided further, That every person who shall seek to avail himself of this proclamation shall take and subscribe the following oath… namely: \"I, ———— ————, solemnly swear (or affirm) that I recognize and accept the supreme authority of the United States of America in the Philippine Islands and will maintain true faith and allegiance thereto; that I impose upon myself this obligation voluntarily without mental reservation or purpose of evasion. So help me God.\"", "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, the 4th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-seventh.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President: JOHN HAY, Secretary of State."], "source": "32 Stat. 2014–2015 (GovInfo scan, STATUTE-32), 2026-08-22", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Proclamation proper only; the War Department's General Orders Nos. 66, 67 and 69 are separate instruments and are not included. Ellipses (…) in the provisos mark passages abridged in the research transcription. Printed in the Statutes as \"[No. 29.]\"; countersigned by John Hay, Secretary of State (the Richardson/APP text with Elihu Root's attestation is the War Department's General Orders No. 69 version). The research transcription does not show the [SEAL.] in the dating clause; check the page image.", "story": 34}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "title_notes": ["The proclamation has no title of its own; this is the American Presidency Project's caption. The Statutes at Large print it as No. 29 with the margin note \"Amnesty to Philippine insurrectionists\" (32 Stat. 2014)."], "summary": "Granted full pardon and amnesty to people in the Philippines who took part in, or aided, the insurrections against Spain and the United States, with exceptions and excluding the Moro country.", "categories": ["insular-territories", "foreign-affairs"], "action": "grant", "places": [{"name": "Philippine Archipelago", "kind": "island", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 5, "stories": [34], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-07-04", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "Newspapers carried the proclamation the same day it was signed, mostly on page one, and within three days at least twenty-seven papers across the country had printed its full text.", "source": "Chronicling America newspaper searches, July 4–7, 1902", "date": "1902-07-04", "story": 34}, {"text": "Washington's Evening Star judged that imperialism as an issue had been tested across the country and that the administration's supporters had reason to be satisfied, treating the Moros as the exception that proved the rule.", "source": "Evening Star (Washington), July 5, 1902, p. 4", "date": "1902-07-05", "story": 34}, {"text": "William Jennings Bryan's The Commoner charged that Roosevelt had seized on the Fourth of July for the proclamation, and set the item beside a prediction about the November elections.", "source": "The Commoner (Lincoln, Neb.), July 11, 1902, p. 6", "date": "1902-07-11", "story": 34}, {"text": "George S. Boutwell, president of the American Anti-Imperialist League, wrote that the struggle would go on regardless of the proclamation of peace.", "source": "Springfield Weekly Republican, July 25, 1902, p. 6", "date": "1902-07-25", "story": 34}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "political", "text": "Speaking at Pittsburgh the same day, Roosevelt himself tied the proclamation to the Fourth of July, months before the 1902 midterm elections.", "source": "New-York Tribune, July 5, 1902, p. 2; Evening Star, July 4, 1902, p. 1", "date": "1902-07-04", "story": 34}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "A separate Army order the same day relieved the general commanding the Division of the Philippines of his duties as military governor and ended that office, leaving the civil Philippine Commission in charge.", "source": "General Orders No. 67, Adjutant General's Office, July 4, 1902", "date": "1902-07-04", "story": 34}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The War Department published the amnesty to the Army over Secretary of War Elihu Root's attestation, and that soldier's version is the text most modern collections reprint.", "source": "General Orders No. 69, Adjutant General's Office, July 7, 1902", "date": "1902-07-07", "story": 34}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "Ten days after the amnesty, Roosevelt's review of Brig. Gen. Jacob H. Smith's court-martial for the Samar campaign directed that Smith be retired.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1902-07-14", "story": 34}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Moro country the proclamation left out saw years more fighting, including the killings at Bud Dajo in March 1906, until the battle of Bud Bagsak in June 1913, widely treated as the last major action.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1913", "story": 34}, {"text": "The civil government the proclamation ushered in led, through the Jones Act of 1916 and the Tydings-McDuffie Act of 1934, to Philippine independence on July 4, 1946.", "source": "Proclamation 2695, 11 Fed. Reg. 7517; 60 Stat. 1352", "date": "1946-07-04", "story": 34}, {"text": "The Philippines kept July 4 as Independence Day until 1962, then as Philippine Republic Day and later Philippine-American Friendship Day, until the Administrative Code of 1987 dropped it from the holidays.", "source": "Proclamation No. 28 (1962); Republic Act No. 4166 (1964)", "date": "1987", "story": 34}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1905-02-06", "text": "Congress renamed the head of the Philippine civil government Governor-General.", "source": "Act of February 6, 1905, 33 Stat. 692", "story": 34}, {"date": "1916-08-29", "text": "The Philippine Autonomy Act (Jones Act) was approved.", "source": "39 Stat. 545", "story": 34}, {"date": "1934-03-24", "text": "The Philippine Independence Act (Tydings-McDuffie Act) was approved.", "source": "48 Stat. 456, Pub. L. 73-127", "story": 34}, {"date": "1946-07-04", "text": "President Truman proclaimed Philippine independence on the Fourth of July.", "source": "Proclamation 2695, 11 Fed. Reg. 7517; 60 Stat. 1352", "story": 34}], "uncertain": ["Why the War Department reissued the proclamation to the Army in its own style, over Root's attestation, is not documented.", "The newspaper reactions come from machine transcriptions of digitized pages and have not been checked against the page images.", "No formal Anti-Imperialist League statement on this proclamation has been found; Boutwell is the only named anti-imperialist found responding to it.", "The Statutes page citation for the Jones Act (39 Stat. 545) has not been checked against the page image."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-038", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 38, "date": "1902-07-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Regulations governing discharge of Navy enlisted men before completion of term established.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 38, "page": "191", "citations": "X Richardson 525"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Regulations governing discharge of Navy enlisted men before completion of term established.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Established regulations for discharging Navy enlisted men before the end of their terms.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-07-10", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-484", "type": "proclamation", "number": "484", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-07-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Modifying the Boundary Lines of the Medicine Bow Forest Reserve", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 484, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-484"}, "statutes": {"volume": 32, "page": 2015, "last_page": 2016, "cite": "32 Stat. 2015–2016", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-32/pdf/STATUTE-32-Pg2015.pdf", "statutes_date": "1902-07-16", "table_title": "Changing boundaries of Medicine Bow Forest Reserve, Wyoming."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, The Medicine Bow Forest Reserve, in the State of Wyoming, was established by proclamation dated May twenty-second, nineteen hundred and two, under and by virtue of section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, which provides, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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”, that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Wyoming, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do hereby make known and proclaim that the boundary lines of the aforesaid Medicine Bow Forest Reserve are hereby changed so as to read as follows:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Township seventeen (17) North, Range eighty-one (81) West, Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian, Wyoming: thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty (36), Township seventeen (17) North, Range eighty (80) West; thence easterly along the section lines to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township seventeen (17) North, Range seventy-nine (79) West; thence easterly along the township line to the north-east corner of Section five (5), Township seventeen (17) North, Range seventy-eight (78) West; thence southerly along the section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the Fourth (4th) Standard Parallel North, to the south-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township fourteen (14) North, Range seventy-eight (78) West; thence easterly along the township line to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township thirteen (13) North, Range seventy-seven (77) West; thence southerly along the section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel North, to the point of intersection with the boundary line between the States of Wyoming and Colorado; thence westerly along said state boundary line to the point of intersection with the range line between Ranges eighty (80) and eighty-one (81) West; thence northerly along said range line, allowing for the proper offset on the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel North, to the south-east corner of Township fourteen (14) North, Range eighty-one (81) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence northerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the Fourth (4th) Standard Parallel North, to the north-west corner of Township seventeen (17) North, Range eighty-one (81) West, the place of beginning.", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or tiling of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The lands hereby excluded from the said reserve and restored to the public domain shall be open to settlement from date hereof, but shall not be subject to entry, filing or selection until after ninety days notice by such publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.", "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 16th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and two, and of the [SEAL.] Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-seventh."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 32 Stat. 2015", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Ante, p. 2003.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Medicine Bow Forest Reserve, Wyoming.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "New boundaries.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Date of opening to settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Redrew the boundary lines of the Medicine Bow Forest Reserve in Wyoming, set out the new limits, and fixed a date when lands left outside the reserve would open to settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Medicine Bow Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Wyoming"}], "states": ["Wyoming"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [33], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-07-16", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "proc-474", "relation": "modifies", "note": "Changed the Medicine Bow boundary fifty-five days after its creation.", "story": 33, "date": "1902-05-22", "title": "Establishing the Medicine Bow Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "474"}, {"id": "proc-557", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 55, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-05-17", "title": "Modification of the Boundaries of the Medicine Bow Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "557"}]}
{"id": "eo-180", "type": "executive_order", "number": "180", "tr_sequence": 40, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-07-19", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Permitting Issuance of Passports to Residents of Insular Possessions of United States", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_180", "revid": 1822139, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The act of Congress approved June 14, 1902, having amended the Revised Statutes of the United States so as to permit of the issuance of passports to persons owing allegiance to the United States, whether citizens of the United States or not, and under such rules as the President shall designate and prescribe on behalf of the United States, the Instructions to Diplomatic Officers of the United States and the United States Consular Regulations are hereby so modified and amended as to permit diplomatic and consular officers of the United States having authority to issue passports to issue them to residents of the insular possessions of the United States who make satisfactory applications. Each applicant under this provision must state, in addition to the information now required in the application of a citizen of the United States, that he owes allegiance to the United States and that he does not acknowledge allegiance to any other government, and must submit an affidavit from at least two credible witnesses having good means of knowledge in substantiation of his statements of birth, residence, and loyalty. The same fee shall be collected by diplomatic and consular officers of the United States for issuing passports to residents of the insular possessions of the United States as is now required for issuing passports to citizens of the United States.", "Theodore Roosevelt.", "Oyster Bay, N. Y., *July 19, 1902.*"], "source": "Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1902, pp. 6–12 (inclosures to Hay's circular of Oct. 22, 1902), history.state.gov digital text, 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Follows FRUS, not the American Presidency Project transcription (APP node 206985), which differs in seven places (capitalization of 'Instructions to Diplomatic Officers' and 'insular possessions', 'applications', 'good means of knowledge', 'birth, residence, and loyalty', two commas, 'of the United States' in the fee clause) and places the dateline above the text. Scanning error 'posf ssions' normalized. Collated against the digital text, not a page image; a check of the printed page for italics and punctuation is still desirable. Asterisks mark italics. No seal (executive order).", "story": 79}, "summary": "Changed passport rules so U.S. diplomats and consuls could issue passports to residents of the nation's insular possessions who swore allegiance to the United States and backed their application with two credible witnesses.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs", "insular-territories"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [79], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-07-19", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Secretary of State John Hay sent the order to diplomatic and consular officers with a circular of October 22, 1902. Island passports were to match the citizen's passport, describe the holder as a citizen of Porto Rico, the Philippine Islands or Guam owing allegiance to the United States, and be numbered in the same series as citizens' passports.", "source": "FRUS 1902, pp. 6–7", "date": "1902-10-22", "story": 79}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "Blank forms for the new passports were still being printed when the circular went out, so consuls were told to use the regular passport, amended to suit the case, in the meantime.", "source": "FRUS 1902, pp. 6–7", "date": "1902-10-22", "story": 79}], "legacy": [{"text": "The order gave working form abroad to the non-citizen national, a status from the 1898 empire that Filipinos held until independence in 1946 and that today applies chiefly to people born in American Samoa and on Swains Island.", "source": "research entry", "story": 79}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-181", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Signed the same day; rule 9 of the domestic code demands the same proof of allegiance from island residents applying at home.", "story": 79, "date": "1902-07-19", "title": "Rules Governing the Granting and Issuing of Passports in the United States", "type": "executive_order", "number": "181"}, {"id": "eo-182", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Signed the same day; rule 9 of the insular code demands the same proof of allegiance.", "story": 79, "date": "1902-07-19", "title": "Rules Governing the Granting and Issuing of Passports in the Insular Possessions of the United States", "type": "executive_order", "number": "182"}, {"id": "eo-235", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 82, "inferred": true, "date": "1903-09-12", "title": "Rules Governing the Granting and Issuing of Passports in the United States", "type": "executive_order", "number": "235"}]}
{"id": "eo-181", "type": "executive_order", "number": "181", "tr_sequence": 41, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-07-19", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Rules Governing the Granting and Issuing of Passports in the United States", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_181", "revid": 1822121, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["1. *By whom issued.*—No one but the Secretary of State may grant and issue passports in the United States. (Rev. Stats., secs. 4075, 4078.) A person who is entitled to receive a passport if temporarily abroad should apply to the diplomatic representative of the United States in the country where he happens to be; or, in the absence of a diplomatic representative, to the consul-general of the United States; or, in the absence of both, to the consul of the United States. The necessary statements may be made before the nearest consular officer of the United States. Application for a passport by a person in one of the insular possessions of the United States should be made to the chief executive of such possession.", "2. *To whom issued.*—The law forbids the granting of a passport to any person who does not owe allegiance to the United States. A person who has only made the declaration of intention to become a citizen of the United States can not receive a passport.", "3. *Applications.*—A person who is entitled to receive a passport, if within the United States, must make a written application, in the form of an affidavit, to the Secretary of State. The affidavit must be attested by an officer authorized to administer oaths, and if he has an official seal it must be affixed. If he has no seal his official character must be authenticated by certificate of the proper legal officer. If the applicant signs by mark, two attesting witnesses to his signature are required. The applicant is required to state the date and place of his birth, his occupation, and the place of his permanent residence, and to declare that he goes abroad for temporary sojourn and intends to return to the United States with the purpose of residing and performing the duties of citizenship therein. The applicant must take the oath of allegiance to the Government of the United States. The application must be accompanied by a description of the person applying, and should state the following particulars, viz: Age, ——; stature, —— feet —— inches (English measure); forehead, ——; eyes, ——; nose, ——; mouth, ——; chin, ——; hair, ——; complexion, ——; face, ——. The application must be accompanied by a certificate from at least one credible witness that the applicant is the person he represents himself to be, and that the facts stated in the affidavit are true to the best of the witness's knowledge and belief.", "4. *Native citizens.*—An application containing the information indicated by rule 3 will be sufficient evidence in the case of native citizens.", "5. *A person born abroad whose father was a native citizen of the United States.*—In addition to the statements required by rule 3, his application must show that his father was born in the United States, resided therein, and was a citizen at the time of the applicant's birth. The Department may require that this affidavit be supported by that of one other citizen acquainted with the facts.", "6. *Naturalized citizens.*—In addition to the statements required by rule 3, a naturalized citizen must transmit his certificate of naturalization, or a duly certified copy of the court record thereof, with his application. It will be returned to him after inspection. He must state in his affidavit when and from what port he emigrated to this country, what ship he sailed in, where he has lived since his arrival in the United States, when and before what court he was naturalized, and that he is the identical person described in the certificate of naturalization. The signature to the application should conform in orthography to the applicant's name as written in his certificate of naturalization.", "7. *Woman's application.*—If she is unmarried, in addition to the statements required by rule 3, she should state that she has never been married. If she is the wife of a native citizen of the United States the fact should be made to appear in her application. If she is the wife or widow of a naturalized citizen, in addition to the statements required by rule 3, she must transmit for inspection her husband's certificate of naturalization, must state that she is the wife (or widow) of the person described therein, and must set forth the facts of his emigration, naturalization, and residence, as required in the rule governing the application of a naturalized citizen.", "8. *The child of a naturalized citizen claiming citizenship through the naturalization of the parent.*—In addition to the statements required by rule 3, the applicant must state that he or she is the son or daughter, as the case may be, of the person described in the certificate of naturalization, which must be submitted for inspection, and must set forth the facts of emigration, naturalization, and residence, as required in the rule governing the application of a naturalized citizen.", "9. *A resident of an insular possession of the United States who owes allegiance to the United States.*—In addition to the statements required by rule 3, he must state that he owes allegiance to the United States and that he does not acknowledge allegiance to any other government; and must submit an affidavit from at least two credible witnesses having good means of knowledge in substantiation of his statements of birth, residence, and loyalty.", "10. *Expiration of passport.*—A passport expires two years from the date of its issuance. A new one will be issued upon a new application, and, if the applicant be a naturalized citizen, the old passport will be accepted in lieu of a certificate of naturalization, if the application upon which it was issued is found to contain sufficient information as to the naturalization of the applicant.", "11. *Wife, minor children, and servants.*—When the applicant is accompanied by his wife, minor children, or servant who would be entitled to receive a passport, it will be sufficient to state the fact, giving the respective ages of the children and the allegiance of the servant, when one passport will suffice for all. For any other person in the party a separate passport will be required. A woman's passport may include her minor children and servant under the above-named conditions.", "12. *Professional titles.*—They will not be inserted in passports.", "13. *Fee.*—By act of Congress approved March 23, 1888, a fee of one dollar is required to be collected for every citizen's passport. That amount in currency or postal money order should accompany each application made by a citizen of the United States. Orders should be made payable to the disbursing clerk of the Department of State. Drafts or checks will not be accepted.", "14. *Visés of passports.*—They will not be procured by the Department of State from the representatives of foreign governments.", "15. *Blank forms of application.*—They will be furnished by the Department to persons who desire to apply for passports, but are not furnished, except as samples, to those who make a business of procuring passports.", "16. *Address.*—Communications should be addressed to the Department of State, Passport Bureau, and each communication should give the post-office address of the person to whom the answer is to be directed.", "17. *Rejection of application.*—The Secretary of State may refuse to issue a passport to anyone who he has reason to believe desires it for an unlawful or improper purpose, or who is unable or unwilling to comply with the rules.", "Section 4075 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the act of Congress approved June 14, 1902, providing that \"the Secretary of State may grant and issue passports, and cause passports to be granted, issued, and verified in foreign countries by such diplomatic or consular officers of the United States, and by such chief or other executive officer of the insular possessions of the United States, and under such rules as the President shall designate and prescribe for and on behalf of the United States,\" the foregoing rules are hereby prescribed for the granting and issuing of passports in the United States. The Secretary of State is authorized to make regulations on the subject of issuing and granting passports additional to these rules and not inconsistent with them.", "Theodore Roosevelt.", "Oyster Bay, N. Y., *July 19, 1902.*"], "source": "Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1902, pp. 6–12 (inclosures to Hay's circular of Oct. 22, 1902), history.state.gov digital text, 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Full seventeen rules plus the closing authority paragraph, including the final sentence authorizing the Secretary of State to make additional regulations. FRUS heads it 'Rules governing the granting and issuing of passport in the United States'. Scanning errors 'sees.' (secs.) and 'horn' (born) normalized. Collated against the digital text, not a page image; check of the printed page for italics and punctuation still desirable. Asterisks mark italics. No seal (executive order).", "story": 79}, "summary": "Laid out the rules for getting a U.S. passport at home: only the Secretary of State issues them, applicants must owe allegiance to the United States, and applications take the form of a sworn affidavit with a personal description.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [79], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-07-19", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The code gave the State Department's Passport Bureau, named in rule 16, a uniform written standard for passports applied for in the United States.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1902", "story": 79}], "legacy": [{"text": "The code began a line of passport rules issued by executive order that were rewritten many times; the Passport Act of July 3, 1926 is still the basic statutory authority.", "source": "research entry", "story": 79}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-180", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Signed the same day; covers island residents applying abroad.", "story": 79, "date": "1902-07-19", "title": "Permitting Issuance of Passports to Residents of Insular Possessions of United States", "type": "executive_order", "number": "180"}, {"id": "eo-182", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The parallel code for applications made in the insular possessions.", "story": 79, "date": "1902-07-19", "title": "Rules Governing the Granting and Issuing of Passports in the Insular Possessions of the United States", "type": "executive_order", "number": "182"}, {"id": "eo-235", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "The 1903 passport rules for the United States replaced this code fourteen months later.", "story": 79, "date": "1903-09-12", "title": "Rules Governing the Granting and Issuing of Passports in the United States", "type": "executive_order", "number": "235"}]}
{"id": "eo-182", "type": "executive_order", "number": "182", "tr_sequence": 42, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-07-19", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Rules Governing the Granting and Issuing of Passports in the Insular Possessions of the United States", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_182", "revid": 1822135, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Section 4075 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the act of Congress approved June 14, 1902, providing that \"the Secretary of State may grant and issue passports, and cause passports to be granted, issued, and verified in foreign countries by such diplomatic or consular officers of the United States, and by such chief or other executive officer of the insular possessions of the United States, and under such rules as the President shall designate and prescribe for and on behalf of the United States,\" the following rules are hereby prescribed for the granting and issuing of passports in the insular possessions of the United States:", "1. *By whom issued.*—Application for a passport by a person in one of the insular possessions of the United States should be made to the chief executive of such possession. A person who is entitled to receive a passport if temporarily abroad should apply to the diplomatic representative of the United States in the country where he happens to be; or, in the absence of a diplomatic representative, to the consul-general of the United States; or, in the absence of both, to the consul of the United States. The necessary statements may be made before the nearest consular officer of the United States.", "2. *To whom issued.*—The law forbids the granting of a passport to any person who does not owe allegiance to the United States. A person who has only made the declaration of intention to become a citizen of the United States can not receive a passport.", "3. *Applications.*—A person who is entitled to receive a passport must make a written application in the form of an affidavit. The affidavit must be attested by an officer authorized to administer oaths, and if he has an official seal it must be affixed. If he has no seal, his official character must be authenticated by certificate of the proper legal officer. If the applicant signs by mark, two attesting witnesses to his signature are required. The applicant is required to state the date and place of his birth, his occupation, and the place of his permanent residence, and to declare that he goes abroad for temporary sojourn, and intends to return to the United States or one of the insular possessions of the United States with the purpose of residing and performing the duties of citizenship therein. The applicant must take the oath of allegiance to the Government of the United States. The application must be accompanied by a description of the person applying, and should state the following particulars, viz: Age, ——; stature, —— feet —— inches (English measure); forehead, ——; eyes, ——; nose, ——; mouth, ——; chin, ——; hair, ——; complexion, ——; face, ——. The application must be accompanied by a certificate from at least one credible witness that the applicant is the person he represents himself to be, and that the facts stated in the affidavit are true to the best of the witness's knowledge and belief.", "4. *Native citizens of the United States.*—An application containing the information indicated by rule 3 will be sufficient evidence in the case of native citizens of the United States.", "5. *A person born abroad whose father was a native citizen of the United States.*—In addition to the statements required by rule 3, his application must show that his father was born in the United States, resided therein, and was a citizen at the time of the applicant's birth. The Department may require that this affidavit be supported by that of one other citizen acquainted with the facts.", "6. *Naturalized citizens.*—In addition to the statements required by rule 3, a naturalized citizen must transmit his certificate of naturalization, or a duly certified copy of the court record thereof, with his application. It will be returned to him after inspection. He must state in his affidavit when and from what port he emigrated to this country, what ship he sailed in, where he has lived since his arrival in the United States, when and before what court he was naturalized, and that he is the identical person described in the certificate of naturalization. The signature to the application should conform in orthography to the applicant's name as written in his certificate of naturalization.", "7. *Woman's application.*—If she is unmarried, in addition to the statements required by rule 3, she should state that she has never been married. If she is the wife of a native citizen of the United States the fact should be made to appear in her application. If she is the wife or widow of a naturalized citizen, in addition to the statements required by rule 3, she must transmit for inspection her husband's certificate of naturalization, must state that she is the wife (or widow) of the person described therein, and must set forth the facts of his emigration, naturalization, and residence, as required in the rule governing the application of a naturalized citizen.", "8. *The child of a naturalized citizen claiming citizenship through the naturalization of the parent.*—In addition to the statements required by rule 3, the applicant must state that he or she is the son or daughter, as the case may be, of the person described in the certificate of naturalization, which must be submitted for inspection, and must set forth the facts of emigration, naturalization, and residence, as required in the rule governing the application of a naturalized citizen.", "9. *A resident of an insular possession of the United States who owes allegiance to the United States.*—In addition to the statements required by rule 3, he must state that he owes allegiance to the United States and that he does not acknowledge allegiance to any other government; and must submit an affidavit from at least two credible witnesses having good means of knowledge in substantiation of his statements of birth, residence, and loyalty.", "10. *Expiration of passport.*—A passport expires two years from the date of its issuance. A new one will be issued upon a new application, and, if the applicant be a naturalized citizen, the old passport will be accepted in lieu of a certificate of naturalization, if the application upon which it was issued is found to contain sufficient information as to the naturalization of the applicant.", "11. *Wife, minor children, and servants.*—When the applicant is accompanied by his wife, minor children, or servant who would be entitled to receive a passport, it will be sufficient to state the fact, giving the respective ages of the children and the allegiance of the servant, when one passport will suffice for all. For any other person in the party a separate passport will be required. A woman's passport may include her minor children and servant under the above-named conditions.", "12. *Professional titles.*—They will not be inserted in passports.", "13. *Rejection of application.*—The chief executive officers of the insular possessions of the United States are authorized to refuse to issue a passport to anyone who there is reason to believe desires it for an unlawful or improper purpose, or who is unable or unwilling to comply with the rules.", "Theodore Roosevelt.", "Oyster Bay, N. Y., *July 19, 1902.*"], "source": "Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1902, pp. 6–12 (inclosures to Hay's circular of Oct. 22, 1902), history.state.gov digital text, 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "FRUS 1902, pp. 9–11. Authority clause precedes the thirteen rules. Scanning errors 'horn' (born) and 'tvhose' (whose) normalized. Collated against the digital text, not a page image; check of the printed page for italics and punctuation still desirable. Asterisks mark italics. No seal (executive order).", "story": 79}, "summary": "Set the rules for issuing passports in the insular possessions, directing applicants to the chief executive of each possession and requiring a sworn affidavit from anyone owing allegiance to the United States.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs", "insular-territories"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [79], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-07-19", "impact": {"uncertain": ["Executive Order 235 of 1903 set one standard of evidence for applicants at home and in the possessions and probably replaced this separate insular code in practice, but no document says so in terms."]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-180", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Signed the same day; covers island residents applying abroad.", "story": 79, "date": "1902-07-19", "title": "Permitting Issuance of Passports to Residents of Insular Possessions of United States", "type": "executive_order", "number": "180"}, {"id": "eo-181", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The domestic code signed the same day; rules 2 and 4–12 match it almost word for word.", "story": 79, "date": "1902-07-19", "title": "Rules Governing the Granting and Issuing of Passports in the United States", "type": "executive_order", "number": "181"}]}
{"id": "eo-183", "type": "executive_order", "number": "183", "tr_sequence": 43, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-07-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Except Clerk in New York Immigration Office from Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_183", "revid": 1829044, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act, approved January 16, 1883, the following amendment to Civil Service Rule VI is hereby promulgated:", "Amend section 18 of Rule VI by designating the present exception in said paragraph as (a) and adding the following exception thereto:", "(b) Not exceeding one confidential clerk, if authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury, to the commissioner of immigration at the port of New York.", "As thus amended section 18 of Rule VI will read:", "(a) Not exceeding one private secretary or confidential clerk, if authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury, to each of the appraisers at the ports of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, respectively.", "(b) Not exceeding one confidential clerk, if authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury, to the commissioner of immigration at the port of New York.", "Approved."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, July 21, 1902.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Amended Civil Service Rule VI so one confidential clerk to the commissioner of immigration at the port of New York could be hired without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["New York"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [80], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-07-21", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-184", "type": "executive_order", "number": "184", "tr_sequence": 44, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-07-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Except Lawyer in New York Immigration Office from Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_184", "revid": 1829046, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act, approved January 16, 1883, the following amendment to Rule VI is hereby promulgated:", "Amend section 19 of Rule VI by designating the present exception in said paragraph as (a) and adding the following exception thereto:", "(b) Not exceeding one immigrant inspector and law clerk, if authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury, in the office of the commissioner of immigration at the port of New York.", "As thus amended section 19 of Rule VI will read:", "(a) Not exceeding one counsel before the Board of United States General Appraisers.", "(b) Not exceeding one immigrant inspector and law clerk, if authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury, in the office of the commissioner of immigration at the port of New York.", "Approved."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, July 21, 1902.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Amended Civil Service Rule VI to exempt one immigrant inspector and law clerk in the New York immigration commissioner's office from examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["New York"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [80], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-07-21", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-485", "type": "proclamation", "number": "485", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-07-22", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Mount Graham Forest Reserve", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 485, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-485"}, "statutes": {"volume": 32, "page": 2017, "last_page": 2018, "cite": "32 Stat. 2017–2018", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-32/pdf/STATUTE-32-Pg2017.pdf", "statutes_date": "1902-07-22", "table_title": "Setting apart Mount Graham Forest Reserve, Arizona."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes“, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land hearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the Territory of Arizona, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation:", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the Territory of Arizona, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows, to wit:", "Beginning at the south-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), Township seven (7) South, Range twenty-two (22) East, Gila and Salt River Meridian, Arizona; thence easterly along the section lines to the south-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township seven (7) South, Range twenty-three (23) East; thence easterly along the township line to the north-west corner of Township eight (8) South, Range twenty-five (25) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence easterly along the section lines to the south-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence southerly along the section lines to the south-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed section lines to the point for the intersection with the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel South; thence westerly along the said parallel to the south-east corner of Township ten (10) South, Range twenty-three (23) East; thence northerly along the range line to the point of intersection with the southern boundary of the Camp Grant Military Reservation; thence in a general north-easterly, north-westerly and south-westerly direction along the boundary of the said military reservation to the point of intersection with the township line between Townships eight (8) and nine (9) South; thence westerly along the said township line to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township eight (8) South, Range twenty-two (22) East; thence northerly along the section lines to the north-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly along the section lines to the south-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), Township seven (7) South, Range twenty-two (22) East, the place of beginning.", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful tiling duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or tiling of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, tiling or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Mount Graham Forest Reserve.", "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 22nd day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-seventh."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 32 Stat. 2017", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Arizona.", "Boundaries.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Mount Graham Forest Reserve."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "David J. Hill", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Mount Graham Forest Reserve in Arizona Territory, describing its boundaries and closing the land to settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Mount Graham Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [33], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-07-22", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "In 1908 part of Mount Graham went into the Crook National Forest and the rest was restored to the public domain.", "source": "Proclamation 816, 35 Stat. 2194", "date": "1908", "story": 33}, {"text": "When Crook was abolished and divided in 1953, its lands went to the Coronado, Gila, and Tonto national forests.", "source": "Public Land Order 924", "date": "1953", "story": 33}], "today": [{"name": "Coronado National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Arizona", "source": "Public Land Order 924", "story": 33}, {"name": "Gila National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "New Mexico", "source": "Public Land Order 924", "story": 33}, {"name": "Tonto National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Arizona", "source": "Public Land Order 924", "story": 33}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1953", "text": "The Crook National Forest, which held part of Mount Graham, was abolished and divided among the Coronado, Gila, and Tonto.", "source": "Public Land Order 924", "story": 33}], "uncertain": ["Sources disagree on whether the Crook division dates from October 23, 1953 (approval) or July 1, 1953 (effective)."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-816", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "Part of Mount Graham went into the new Crook National Forest; the rest was restored to the public domain.", "story": 33, "date": "1908-07-01", "title": "Setting Apart the Crook National Forest, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "816"}]}
{"id": "uo-039", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 39, "date": "1902-07-22", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Miraflores Island in San Juan Harbor, P. R., reserved as site for quarantine station or marine hospital under the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 39, "page": "191", "citations": "X Richardson 526"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Miraflores Island in San Juan Harbor, P. R., reserved as site for quarantine station or marine hospital under the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Reserved Miraflores Island in San Juan Harbor, Puerto Rico, as a site for a quarantine station or marine hospital run by the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service.", "categories": ["insular-territories", "government-administration"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Miraflores Island", "kind": "island", "state": "Puerto Rico"}], "states": ["Puerto Rico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-07-22", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-040", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 40, "date": "1902-07-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Ellen W. Fitzsimmons made eligible for transfer from the abolished office of Commissioner of Railroads to the Post Office Department without regard to Civil Service Rule X, section 11.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 40, "page": "191", "citations": "(1901 CSR 313; 1903 CSR 72)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Ellen W. Fitzsimmons made eligible for transfer from the abolished office of Commissioner of Railroads to the Post Office Department without regard to Civil Service Rule X, section 11.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Made Ellen W. Fitzsimmons eligible to move from the abolished office of Commissioner of Railroads to the Post Office Department, waiving a civil-service transfer rule.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Ellen W. Fitzsimmons"], "significance": 1, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-07-25", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-041", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 41, "date": "1902-07-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Compulsory retirement of Revenue Cutter Service officers reaching age sixty-four ordered.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 41, "page": "191", "citations": "X Richardson 526"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Compulsory retirement of Revenue Cutter Service officers reaching age sixty-four ordered.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Ordered compulsory retirement for Revenue Cutter Service officers once they reached age sixty-four.", "categories": ["government-administration", "military-naval"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-07-25", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-486", "type": "proclamation", "number": "486", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-07-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Lincoln Forest Reserve", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 486, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-486"}, "statutes": {"volume": 32, "page": 2018, "last_page": 2019, "cite": "32 Stat. 2018–2019", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-32/pdf/STATUTE-32-Pg2018.pdf", "statutes_date": "1902-07-26", "table_title": "Setting apart Lincoln Forest Reserve, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the Territory of New Mexico, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the Territory of New Mexico and particularly described as follows, to wit:", "Township seven (7) South, Ranges eleven (11) and twelve (12) East, New Mexico Principal Meridian, New Mexico; sections thirteen (13) to thirty-six (36), both inclusive, Township seven (7) South, Range thirteen (13) East: Township seven (7) South, Ranges fourteen (14) and fifteen (15) East; Sections thirteen (13) to thirty-six (36), both inclusive, Township seven (7) South, Ranges sixteen (16) and seventeen (17) East; Township eight (8) South, Ranges eleven (11) and twelve (12) East; Sections one (1) to ten (10), both inclusive, and fifteen (15) to eighteen (IS), both inclusive, Township eight (8) South, Range thirteen (13) East; Sections one (1) to twenty (20), both inclusive, and the North half of Sections twenty-nine (29) and thirty (30), Township eight (8) South, Range fourteen (14) East; Township eight (8) South, Ranges fifteen (15), sixteen (16)and seventeen (17) East; Township nine (9) South, Ranges ten (10), eleven (11) and twelve (12) East; Township nine (9) South, Range seventeen (17) East; Township ten (10) South, Ranges nine (9), ten (10), eleven (11) and twelve (12) East; Sections seventeen (17) to twenty (20), both inclusive, and twenty-nine (29) to thirty-two(32), both inclusive, Township ten (10) South, Range thirteen (13) East; Township eleven (11) South, Range nine and one-half (912) East; all of Township eleven (11) South, Range ten (10) East, which is not included in the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation; Sections five (5) to eight (8), both inclusive, Sections seventeen (17) to twenty (20), both inclusive, and Sections twenty-nine (29) to thirty-two (32), both inclusive, Township eleven (11) South, Range thirteen (13) East; Township twelve (12) South, Range ten (10) East; Township thirteen (13) South, Ranges ten (10) and eleven (11) East.", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful tiling duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, tiling or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Lincoln Forest Reserve.", "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 26th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-seventh."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 32 Stat. 2018", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, New Mexico", "Description.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "The Lincoln Forest Reserve."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "David J. Hill", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Lincoln Forest Reserve in New Mexico Territory, setting its boundaries and reserving the land from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Lincoln Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [33], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-07-26", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The proclamation appeared on twenty newspaper pages in 1902, every one of them in New Mexico.", "source": "Chronicling America newspaper searches, 1902", "date": "1902", "story": 33}], "legacy": [{"text": "Lincoln has kept its name continuously since 1902.", "source": "research entry", "story": 33}], "today": [{"name": "Lincoln National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "origin", "state": "New Mexico", "since": "1902-07-26", "source": "research entry", "story": 33}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-600", "relation": "modified_by", "note": null, "story": 55, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-10-03", "title": "Modifying the Boundaries of the Lincoln Forest Reserve, New Mexico", "type": "proclamation", "number": "600"}, {"id": "proc-801", "relation": "modified_by", "note": null, "story": 107, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-03-03", "title": "Diminishing Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico", "type": "proclamation", "number": "801"}]}
{"id": "proc-487", "type": "proclamation", "number": "487", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-07-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Chiricahua Forest Reserve", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 487, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-487"}, "statutes": {"volume": 32, "page": 2019, "last_page": 2021, "cite": "32 Stat. 2019–2021", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-32/pdf/STATUTE-32-Pg2019.pdf", "statutes_date": "1902-07-30", "table_title": "Setting apart Chiricahua Forest Reserve, Arizona."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the Territory of Arizona, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would he promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation:", "2020 Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the Territory of Arizona, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows, to-wit:", "Beginning at the north-east corner of Section three (3), Township sixteen (16) South, Range twenty-nine (29) East, Gila and Salt River Meridian, Arizona; thence easterly along the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel South to the north-west corner of Township sixteen (16) South, Range thirty-one (31) East; thence southerly along the range line to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township seventeen (17) South, Range thirty-one (31) East; thence easterly along the section lines to the north-east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence southerly along the section lines to the south-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence, easterly along the township line to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence southerly along the unsurveyed section lines to the point for the south-east corner of Section nine (9), Township nineteen (19) South, Range thirty-one (31) East; thence westerly along the unsurveyed section lines to the point for the south-west corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence southerly along the unsurveyed section lines to the point for the south-east corner of Section nineteen (19), said township: thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of said section: thence southerly along the range line to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), Township twenty (20) South, Range thirty (30) East: thence westerly along the section lines to the north-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly along the section lines to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township: thence northerly along the range line to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-four (24), Township nineteen (19) South, Range twenty-nine (29) East; thence westerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed quarter-section lines to the point for the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty (20), said township: thence northerly along the unsurveyed quarter-section lines to the point for the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section eight (8), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section: thence northerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed section lines to the north-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township eighteen (18) South, Range twenty-nine (29) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township: thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence easterly to the point for the south-west corner of Section fourteen (14), said township: thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence northerly to the south-east, corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly along the quarter-section lines to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section seven (7), said township; thence northerly along the range line to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section eighteen (18), Township seventeen (17) South, Range twenty-nine (29) East; thence easterly along the quarter-section lines to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly along the section lines to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section ten (10), said township; thence easterly along the quarter-section lines to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section eleven (11), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of the south-west quarter of Section twelve (12), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly along the range line to the north-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty-six (86), Township sixteen (16) South, Range twenty-nine (29) East;‘thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence northerly along the section lines to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly along the section lines to the north-east corner of Section three (3), said township, the place of beginning.", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful tiling duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settlor or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Chiricahua Forest Reserve.", "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 30th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-seventh."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 32 Stat. 2019", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Arizona.", "Boundaries.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "The Chiricahua Forest Reserve."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "David J. Hill, Actg", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart the Chiricahua Forest Reserve in Arizona Territory, describing its limits and closing the land to settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Chiricahua Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [33], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-07-30", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The proclamation made a single page of a single Arizona paper.", "source": "Chronicling America newspaper searches, 1902", "date": "1902", "story": 33}], "legacy": [{"text": "In 1917 the entire Chiricahua National Forest was transferred to the Coronado.", "source": "Executive Order 2630", "date": "1917-07-01", "story": 33}], "today": [{"name": "Coronado National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Arizona", "source": "Executive Order 2630", "story": 33}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1917-06-06", "text": "Executive Order 2630, effective July 1, 1917, transferred the Chiricahua National Forest to the Coronado.", "source": "Executive Order 2630", "story": 33}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-185", "type": "executive_order", "number": "185", "tr_sequence": 45, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-07-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Except War Department Clerk in White House Duty from Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_185", "revid": 1829062, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["An appointment to a vacancy now existing in the position of clerk at $1,000 per annum in the War Department, the person thus appointed to be detailed for duty at the White House, may be made without examination under the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, July 30, 1902.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed a $1,000-a-year War Department clerk, to be detailed for duty at the White House, to be appointed without civil-service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 1, "stories": [80], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-07-30", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-042", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 42, "date": "1902-07-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Appointment of a clerk, War Department, at $1,000 per annum for duty at the White House, without examination, authorized.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 42, "page": "191", "citations": "(1903 CSR 72)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Appointment of a clerk, War Department, at $1,000 per annum for duty at the White House, without examination, authorized.", "reconciliation": "numbered_duplicate", "duplicate_of": "eo-185", "reconciliation_note": "**= EO 185** (July 30, 1902), \"Amending Civil Service Rules to Except War Department Clerk in White House Duty from Examination.\" Same date, same subject. Lord's only citation is a parenthesized back-reference.", "summary": null, "categories": ["military-naval", "civil-service", "government-administration"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": null, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-07-30", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-043", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 43, "date": "1902-08-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Seamen Gunners or enlisted men holding certificates from petty officers' schools, seaman gunner class, allowed two dollars per month additional pay.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 43, "page": "192", "citations": "X Richardson 526"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Seamen Gunners or enlisted men holding certificates from petty officers' schools, seaman gunner class, allowed two dollars per month additional pay.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Gave seamen gunners, and enlisted men holding certificates from the seaman gunner class of the petty officers' schools, two dollars a month in extra pay.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-08-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-186", "type": "executive_order", "number": "186", "tr_sequence": 46, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-08-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Except Solicitor at Port of New York from Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_186", "revid": 1829048, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Section 14 of Rule VI is hereby amended by inserting the following language after the word \"port,\" in the second line thereof:", "or at the port of New York not exceeding one solicitor to the collector, if authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury.", "The section as amended shall read as follows:", "Not exceeding one chief or principal deputy or assistant collector at each customs port, or at the port of New York not exceeding one solicitor to the collector, if authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury; and not exceeding one principal deputy collector of customs at each subport or station.", "Approved."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, August 2, 1902.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Amended Civil Service Rule VI so the collector at the port of New York could have one solicitor appointed without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["New York"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [80], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-08-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-488", "type": "proclamation", "number": "488", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-08-08", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Ratification of Creek Indians-U.S. Treaty", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 488, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-488"}, "statutes": {"volume": 32, "page": 2021, "last_page": 2022, "cite": "32 Stat. 2021–2022", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-32/pdf/STATUTE-32-Pg2021.pdf", "statutes_date": "1902-08-08", "table_title": "Announcing ratification of supplemental agreement with Creek Indians."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["PROCLAMATION.", "Whereas the act of Congress entitled \"An Act to ratify and confirm a supplemental agreement with the Creek tribe of Indians, and for other purposes,\" approved on the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and two, contains a provision as follows:", "That the following supplemental agreement, submitted by certain commissioners of the Creek tribe of Indians, as herein amended, is hereby ratified and confirmed on the part of the United States, and the same shall be of full force and effect if ratified by the Creek tribal council on or before the first day of September, nineteen hundred and two, . . . . .", "And Whereas the principal chief of the said tribe has transmitted to me an act of the Creek national council entitled \"An Act to ratify and confirm a supplemental agreement with the United States\" approved the twenty-sixth day of July, nineteen hundred and two, which contains a provision as follows:", "That the following supplemental agreement by and between the United States and the Muskogee (or Creek) Tribe of Indians, in Indian Territory, ratified and confirmed on the part of the United States by Act of Congress approved June 30, 1902 (Public—No. 200.), is hereby ratified on the part of the Muskogee (or Creek) Nation, . . . . .", "And Whereas paragraph twenty-two provides as follows:", "The principal chief, as soon as practicable after the ratification of this agreement by Congress, shall call an extra session of the Creek Nation council and submit this agreement, as ratified by Congress, to such council for its consideration, and if the agreement be ratified by the National council, as provided in the constitution of the tribe, the principal chief shall transmit to the President of the United States a certified copy of the act of the council ratifying the agreement, and thereupon the President shall issue his proclamation making public announcement of such ratification, thenceforward all the provisions of this agreement shall have the force and effect of law.", "Now, Therefore, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States, do hereby declare said agreement duly ratified and that all the provisions thereof became law according to the terms thereof upon the twenty-sixth day of July, nineteen hundred and two.", "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 Washingtion [sic] this 8th day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth.", "[SEAL.]", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:", "ALVEY A. ADEE", "Acting Secretary of State."], "source": "32 Stat. 2021–2022 (GovInfo page images), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Statutes heading is the bare 'PROCLAMATION.' with no 'By the President' line; paragraphs 3, 5 and 7 are quoted provisions (indented in the original); omissions are printed as rows of points; [SEAL.] restored; 'ratified' (not APP's 'confirmed') in the Creek council's act; 'Washingtion' is the Statutes' own misprint.", "story": 39}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Proclaimed that the supplemental agreement between the United States and the Muskogee (Creek) Nation, approved by Congress and by the Creek national council, was ratified and had the force of law.", "categories": ["indian-lands"], "action": "announce", "places": [{"name": "Muskogee (Creek) Nation", "kind": "other", "state": "Oklahoma"}], "states": ["Oklahoma"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [39], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-08-08", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "News of the Creek council's vote traveled by wire together with reports of violence: a posse from Okmulgee arrested ten of Crazy Snake's followers gathered at Hickory Ground, one Indian was mortally wounded, and a Creek Council member was reported found shot to death nearby.", "source": "San Francisco Call, Los Angeles Herald and San Diego Union and Daily Bee, July 29, 1902", "date": "1902-07-29", "story": 39}, {"text": "A Washington item reported the Interior Department's notice of the council's ratification and the agreement's new limits on leasing Creek land.", "source": "Los Angeles Herald, July 30, 1902, p. 3; San Francisco Call, July 30, 1902", "date": "1902-07-30", "story": 39}, {"text": "A search of California papers for August 1902 found no notice of the proclamation itself; the vote and the bloodshed were the story.", "source": "California Digital Newspaper Collection", "date": "1902-08", "story": 39}, {"text": "Within Indian Territory the agreement was argued over in editorials and interviews through the summer, some reading the new Creek deeds to mean allottees could sell everything but their homesteads.", "source": "Pleasant Porter Collection finding aid, Western History Collections, University of Oklahoma", "date": "1902", "story": 39}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The agreement's provisions took effect as law on July 26, 1902, the date of the Creek council's act, as the proclamation declared.", "source": "32 Stat. 2021–2022; 32 Stat. 505", "date": "1902-07-26", "story": 39}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Secretary of the Interior was reported as saying the agreement was meant to keep Creeks from losing their lands to speculators, which matches its limits on sale and leasing.", "source": "Pleasant Porter Collection finding aid", "date": "1902-09-12", "story": 39}, {"kind": "local", "text": "The agreement deepened the split between the Creek government that negotiated it and the Snake traditionalists, whose leaders, including Chitto Harjo, were in the Leavenworth penitentiary when it took effect.", "source": "Oklahoma Historical Society", "date": "1902", "story": 39}], "legacy": [{"text": "Creek allotment was one of the steps that cleared the way for Oklahoma statehood in 1907, though allotment of Creek lands continued long after.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1907", "story": 39}, {"text": "The 1902 protections eroded after Congress relaxed the alienation restrictions in 1908, and the grafting of Creek allotments became a notorious scandal of early Oklahoma.", "source": "Act of May 27, 1908, 35 Stat. 312", "date": "1908", "story": 39}, {"text": "Snakes who refused allotment were given parcels by the Dawes Commission, some of which lay over the Cushing oil field; Jackson Barnett's wells there became the field's most spectacular producers.", "source": "Angie Debo, And Still the Waters Run (1940), pp. 58, 286, 338", "date": "1913", "story": 39}, {"text": "The Creek Nation's government, slated to end in 1906, continued, and in 2020 the Supreme Court held that the Muscogee (Creek) reservation had never been disestablished.", "source": "34 Stat. 148; McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020)", "date": "2020", "story": 39}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1906-04-26", "text": "The Five Civilized Tribes Act expressly continued the Creek tribal existence and government.", "source": "§28, 34 Stat. 148", "story": 39}, {"date": "1908-05-27", "text": "Congress relaxed the restrictions on selling allotted Creek land.", "source": "35 Stat. 312", "story": 39}, {"date": "1917-03-02", "text": "Congress prohibited further allotment of Creek lands.", "source": "39 Stat. 986", "story": 39}, {"date": "1936", "text": "Congress authorized the Creek Nation to adopt a constitution.", "source": "research entry", "story": 39}, {"date": "2020", "text": "The Supreme Court held in McGirt v. Oklahoma that the Muscogee (Creek) reservation remains Indian country for purposes of the Major Crimes Act.", "source": "McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020)", "story": 39}], "uncertain": ["Whether Principal Chief Pleasant Porter went to Washington in February 1902 to press the supplemental agreement and stop wholesale leasing rests on a finding-aid description of a clipping not yet checked.", "The name of the Creek Council member reported killed near Hickory Ground in July 1902 has not been established.", "How eastern and Indian Territory newspapers covered the agreement and the proclamation has not been sampled."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-780", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Oklahoma statehood, for which Creek allotment helped clear the legal ground.", "story": 39, "date": "1907-11-16", "title": "Announcing Admission of Oklahoma as a State", "type": "proclamation", "number": "780"}]}
{"id": "uo-044", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 44, "date": "1902-08-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Certain described lands in Nebraska reserved for the Agriculture Department for experimental tree planting.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 44, "page": "192", "citations": "X Richardson 527"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Certain described lands in Nebraska reserved for the Agriculture Department for experimental tree planting.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Reserved described lands in Nebraska for the Department of Agriculture to use for experimental tree planting.", "categories": ["forests", "public-lands"], "action": "establish", "places": [], "states": ["Nebraska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-08-09", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The roughly 240 acres set aside for experimental tree planting became the Bessey Nursery, a companion to the Nebraska National Forest rather than its origin.", "source": "research entry", "story": 111}], "today": [{"name": "Bessey Nursery", "kind": "other", "relation": "origin", "state": "Nebraska", "since": "1902-08-09", "source": "research entry", "story": 111}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-470", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The Niobrara Forest Reserve, proclaimed four months earlier, later part of the Nebraska National Forest.", "story": 111, "date": "1902-04-16", "title": "Establishing the Niobrara Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "470"}, {"id": "proc-471", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The Dismal River Forest Reserve, proclaimed four months earlier, later part of the Nebraska National Forest.", "story": 111, "date": "1902-04-16", "title": "Establishing the Dismal River Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "471"}]}
{"id": "uo-045", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 45, "date": "1902-08-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "John T. Heck made eligible for reinstatement in the Government Printing Office without regard to length of separation from the service.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 45, "page": "192", "citations": "(1901 CSR 313; 1903 CSR 72)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "John T. Heck made eligible for reinstatement in the Government Printing Office without regard to length of separation from the service.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Made John T. Heck eligible for reinstatement in the Government Printing Office no matter how long he had been out of the service.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "restore", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["John T. Heck"], "significance": 1, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-08-12", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-046", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 46, "date": "1902-08-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Regulations governing the discharge of Navy enlisted men established.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 46, "page": "192", "citations": "(EO 320-A)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Regulations governing the discharge of Navy enlisted men established.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "Distinct. \"(EO 320-A)\" is a back-reference: EO 320-A (Apr. 26, 1905) amends \"Executive Order of August 13, 1902.\"", "summary": "Set regulations governing the discharge of enlisted men from the Navy.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-08-13", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-489", "type": "proclamation", "number": "489", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-08-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Little Belt Forest Reserve", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 489, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-489"}, "statutes": {"volume": 32, "page": 2022, "last_page": 2023, "cite": "32 Stat. 2022–2023", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-32/pdf/STATUTE-32-Pg2022.pdf", "statutes_date": "1902-08-16", "table_title": "Setting apart Little Belt Mountains Forest Reserve, Montana."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Montana, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Montana, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows, to wit:", "Beginning at the south-east corner of Township sixteen (16) North, Range ten (10) East, Principal Meridian, Montana; thence southerly to the point for the north-west corner of Township fourteen (14) North, Range eleven (11) East; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of Section four (4), said township; thence southerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed section lines to the point for the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township thirteen (13) North, Range eleven (11) East; thence southerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed range line, allowing for the proper offset on the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel North, to the point for the south-east corner of Township twelve (12) North, Range eleven (11) East; thence easterly along the unsurveyed township line to the point for the north-east corner of Township eleven (11) North, Range thirteen (13) East; thence southerly along the range line to the south-west corner of Township ten (10) North, Range fourteen (14) East; thence westerly along the township line to the point for the south-west corner of Township ten (10) North, Range ten (10) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township eleven (11) North, Range nine (9) East; thence northerly along the unsurveyed section lines to the point for the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly to the point for the north-west corner of said township; thence northerly along the unsurveyed range line to the point for its intersection with the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel North; thence westerly along said unsurveyed parallel to the point for the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township thirteen (13) North, Range eight (8) East; thence northerly along the unsurveyed section lines to the point for the north-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence westerly along the unsurveyed section lines to the point for the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence northerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed range line to the south-east corner of Township sixteen (16) North, Range seven (7) East; thence easterly along the surveyed and unsurveyed township line to the south-east corner of Township sixteen (16) North, Range ten (10) East, the place of beginning.", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful tiling duly of record in the proper United States LanS Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or tiling of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, tiling or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Little Belt Mountains Forest Reserve.", "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 16th day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-seventh."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 32 Stat. 2022", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve Montana.", "Boundaries.", "Lands excepted", "Reserved from settlement.", "The Little Belt Mountains Forest Reserve."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "title_notes": ["Proclaimed as the \"Little Belt Mountains\" Forest Reserve; the shorter name dates from 1905."], "summary": "Created the Little Belt Mountains Forest Reserve in Montana, defining its boundaries and reserving the land from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Little Belt Mountains Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [33], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-08-16", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Proclaimed as the Little Belt Mountains Forest Reserve, it was enlarged and renamed simply Little Belt in 1905.", "source": "34 Stat. 3180", "date": "1905-10-03", "story": 33}], "legacy": [{"text": "Little Belt was combined into the Jefferson National Forest in 1908, and the whole Jefferson passed to the Lewis and Clark in 1932.", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, FS-612; Davis", "date": "1932-04-08", "story": 33}], "today": [{"name": "Lewis and Clark National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Montana", "note": "Administratively combined as the Helena–Lewis and Clark since 2015.", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, FS-612; Davis", "story": 33}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1932-04-08", "text": "The entire Jefferson National Forest, which held the Little Belt lands, was transferred to the Lewis and Clark.", "source": "Executive Order 5834", "story": 33}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-602", "relation": "renamed_by", "note": "Enlarged and renamed the Little Belt Forest Reserve, 34 Stat. 3180.", "story": 33, "date": "1905-10-03", "title": "Enlargement of the Little Belt Forest Reserve, Montana", "type": "proclamation", "number": "602"}, {"id": "eo-908", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Combined into the Jefferson National Forest in 1908.", "story": 33, "date": "1908-07-02", "title": "55 Specified National Forests Consolidated and/or Renamed", "type": "executive_order", "number": "908"}]}
{"id": "proc-490", "type": "proclamation", "number": "490", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-08-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Madison Forest Reserve", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 490, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-490"}, "statutes": {"volume": 32, "page": 2024, "last_page": 2025, "cite": "32 Stat. 2024–2025", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-32/pdf/STATUTE-32-Pg2024.pdf", "statutes_date": "1902-08-16", "table_title": "Setting apart Madison Forest Reserve, Montana."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Montana, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Montana, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows, to wit:", "Beginning at the point where the western boundary of the Yellowstone National Park intersects the boundary line between the States of Montana and Idaho; thence in a general north-westerly and south-westerly direction along said state boundary line to the point for its intersection with the range line between Ranges one (1) and two (2) East; thence northerly along the unsurveyed range line to the point for the south-east corner of Township thirteen (13) South, Range one (1) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Township twelve (12) South, Range one (1) West; thence westerly along the township line to the south-east corner of Township twelve (12) South, Range six (6) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said Township; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of Township twelve (12) South, Range five (5) West; thence northerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed range line, allowing for the proper offset on the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel South, to the north-west corner of Township ten (10) South, Range four (4) West; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township nine (9) South, Range four (4) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence northerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed range line to the north-west corner of Township seven (7) South, Range three (3) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Township eight (8) South, Range one (1) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said township; thence southerly along the Principal Meridian to its intersection with the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel South; thence easterly along said surveyed and unsurveyed parallel to the point for its intersection with the western boundary of the Yellowstone National Park: thence southerly along the western boundary of said park to its intersection with the boundary line between the States of Montana and Idaho, the place of beginning.", "2025 Excepting from the force and effect, of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or tiling of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Madison Forest Reserve.", "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 16th day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-seventh."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 32 Stat. 2024", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve Montana.", "Boundaries.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "The Madison Forest Resents"]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Madison Forest Reserve in Montana, laying out its boundaries and closing the land to settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Madison Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [33], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-08-16", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Madison National Forest was divided three ways in 1931 among the Beaverhead, Deerlodge, and Gallatin forests.", "source": "Executive Orders 5757, 5759, 5760", "date": "1931-12-16", "story": 33}], "today": [{"name": "Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Montana", "source": "Executive Orders 5757, 5759", "story": 33}, {"name": "Custer Gallatin National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Montana", "source": "Executive Order 5760", "story": 33}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1931-12-16", "text": "The Madison National Forest was distributed among the Beaverhead, Deerlodge, and Gallatin national forests.", "source": "Executive Orders 5757, 5759, 5760", "story": 33}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-541", "relation": "modified_by", "note": null, "story": 55, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-03-28", "title": "Modification of the Boundaries of the Madison Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "541"}, {"id": "proc-594", "relation": "enlarged_by", "note": null, "story": 55, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-10-03", "title": "Enlargement of the Madison Forest Reserve, Montana", "type": "proclamation", "number": "594"}]}
{"id": "eo-187", "type": "executive_order", "number": "187", "tr_sequence": 47, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-08-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Except from Classification Temporary Marine Hospital Service Personnel", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_187", "revid": 1829057, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution, and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act approved January 16, 1883, Civil Service Rule III is hereby amended as follows:", "In clause (f) of section 8 strike out the words \"in the United States or beyond the seas,\" after the word \"diseases\" in line 7, and add the following:", ", or for temporary duty either in the United States or elsewhere in preventing the introduction or spread of contagious or infectious diseases.", "As amended the clause will read:", "(f) Any person employed in the Marine-Hospital Service as quarantine attendant at the Gulf, South Atlantic, Mullet Key, Reedy Island, Cape Charles, Columbia River, or San Francisco quarantine; and any person temporarily employed as quarantine attendant, or acting assistant surgeon, or sanitary inspector on quarantine vessels, or in camps or stations established for quarantine purposes during epidemics of contagious diseases, or for temporary duty either in the United States or elsewhere in preventing the introduction or spread of contagious or infectious diseases."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, August 16, 1902.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Widened a civil-service exception so Marine-Hospital Service workers hired temporarily to keep contagious diseases from entering or spreading, in the United States or elsewhere, needed no examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [80], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-08-16", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-491", "type": "proclamation", "number": "491", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-08-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Alexander Archipelago Forest Reserve", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 491, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-491"}, "statutes": {"volume": 32, "page": 2025, "last_page": 2026, "cite": "32 Stat. 2025–2026", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-32/pdf/STATUTE-32-Pg2025.pdf", "statutes_date": "1902-08-20", "table_title": "Setting apart Alexander Archipelago Forest Reserve, Alaska."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the following described public lands in the Territory of Alaska are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from settlement, entry or sale, and set apart as a Public Reservation, Chichagof Island and the adjacent islands to the seaward thereof, Kupreanof Island, Kuiu Island, Zarembo Island, and Price of Wales Island and the adjacent islands to the seaward thereof, in Alaska: Provided, that this proclamation shall not be so construed as to deprive any person of any valid right possessed under the Treaty for the cession of the Russian possessions in North America to the United States, concluded at Washington on the thirtieth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, or acquired under any act of Congress relating to the Territory of Alaska.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to unlawfully enter upon or occupy any of the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Alexander Archipelago Forest Reserve.", "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 20th day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the hundred and twenty-seventh."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 32 Stat. 2025", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Alaska.", "Reserved from settlement.", "The Alexander Archipelago Forest Reserve."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Reserved Chichagof, Kupreanof, Kuiu, Zarembo and Prince of Wales islands and neighboring islands in Alaska as the Alexander Archipelago Forest Reserve, while protecting valid rights held under the 1867 treaty with Russia.", "categories": ["forests", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Alexander Archipelago Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [33], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-08-20", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The proclamation appeared on six pages in five papers in Alaska, Washington, and Oregon.", "source": "Chronicling America newspaper searches, 1902", "date": "1902", "story": 33}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Alexander Archipelago was folded into the separately created Tongass National Forest in 1908, and its name was dropped.", "source": "Proclamation of February 16, 1909, 35 Stat. 2226", "date": "1908-07-02", "story": 33}, {"text": "The Tongass is today the country's largest national forest, about 16.7 million acres.", "source": "Tongass National Forest Assessment Report, USFS Alaska Region, October 2025", "date": "2025-10", "story": 33}], "today": [{"name": "Tongass National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Alaska", "note": "Largest national forest in the country.", "source": "Tongass National Forest Assessment Report (2025)", "story": 33}], "uncertain": ["The text of Executive Order 908 has not been read; the July 2, 1908 date comes from the government's later recital of it."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-769", "relation": "reduced_by", "note": null, "story": 67, "inferred": true, "date": "1907-07-20", "title": "Diminishing Alexander Archipelago National Forest, Alaska", "type": "proclamation", "number": "769"}, {"id": "proc-772", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Created the Tongass National Forest on a separate mainland tract in 1907.", "story": 33, "date": "1907-09-10", "title": "Setting Apart Tongass National Forest, Alaska", "type": "proclamation", "number": "772"}, {"id": "eo-908", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Consolidated the Alexander Archipelago into the Tongass, July 2, 1908.", "story": 33, "date": "1908-07-02", "title": "55 Specified National Forests Consolidated and/or Renamed", "type": "executive_order", "number": "908"}, {"id": "proc-846", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Enlarged the Tongass and recites the 1908 consolidation.", "story": 33, "date": "1909-02-16", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of Tongass National Forest, Alaska", "type": "proclamation", "number": "846"}]}
{"id": "proc-492", "type": "proclamation", "number": "492", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-09-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Restoring Fort Sill Indian Sub-Agency Lands to the City of Lawton, Oklahoma for Cemetery", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 492, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-492"}, "statutes": {"volume": 32, "page": 2026, "last_page": 2026, "cite": "32 Stat. 2026", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-32/pdf/STATUTE-32-Pg2026.pdf", "statutes_date": "1902-09-04", "table_title": "Restoring land of Fort Sill Indian Subagency to the public domain."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America.", "A PROCLAMATION.", "Whereas, in the opening of the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, and Wichita Indian lands in the Territory of Oklahoma, by proclamation dated July 4, 1901, pursuant to section six of the act of Congress approved June 6, 1900 (31 Stat., 672, 676), the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section nineteen in township two north, of range eleven west of the Indian principal meridian, containing forty acres, was reserved for the use of the Fort Sill Indian sub-agency.", "And whereas it appears that said land is no longer required for use by said Fort Sill Indian sub-agency, and that it is within one and a half miles of the City of Lawton, Oklahoma Territory, and is needed by said city for cemetery purposes, and the city authorities of said city desire to make entry thereof for said purposes under the act of Congress approved September 30, 1890 (26 Stat., 502);", "Now, therefore, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section six of said act of Congress of June 6, 1900, do hereby declare and make known that said land is hereby restored to the public domain, to be disposed of to said city for cemetery purposes under said act of Congress approved September 30, 1890.", "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 September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty seventh.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President", "ALVEY A. ADEE", "Acting Secretary of State."], "source": "32 Stat. 2026 (Statutes at Large page image), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "[SEAL.] restored; 'twenty seventh' unhyphenated and 'By the President' without colon are the Statutes' own readings; Statutes heads the document [No. 38.].", "story": 40}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Returned 40 acres once held for the Fort Sill Indian sub-agency to the public domain so the nearby city of Lawton, Oklahoma Territory, could acquire it for a cemetery.", "categories": ["public-lands", "indian-lands"], "action": "restore", "places": [{"name": "Fort Sill Indian sub-agency", "kind": "other", "state": "Oklahoma"}, {"name": "Lawton", "kind": "town", "state": "Oklahoma"}], "states": ["Oklahoma"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [40], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-09-04", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "A search of California newspapers for September through December 1902 found no wire pickup of the release; the Oklahoma Territory papers have not been searched, and no contemporary objection has been found.", "source": "California Digital Newspaper Collection", "date": "1902", "story": 40}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The release let the city of Lawton buy the forty acres for a cemetery under the 1890 law, which allowed towns to enter only public land \"not reserved for public use.\"", "source": "32 Stat. 2026; 26 Stat. 502", "date": "1902-09-04", "story": 40}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Indian Office's annual report for 1903 reprinted the proclamation, but Agent James F. Randlett's Kiowa Agency report in the same volume says nothing of Lawton or a cemetery.", "source": "Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1903, pp. 266, 463–464", "date": "1903", "story": 40}, {"kind": "court", "text": "When it was signed, the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache challenge to the cession under which the land had been opened was before the Supreme Court in Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock.", "source": "187 U.S. 553", "date": "1902-09", "story": 40}], "legacy": [{"text": "By the time the Supreme Court upheld the cession in January 1903, the forty acres had already been released to Lawton.", "source": "187 U.S. 553", "date": "1903-01-05", "story": 40}, {"text": "The tract, now Government Lot 2 of section 19, forms the western part of Lawton's Highland Cemetery, whose 1936 WPA entrance arch stands at its west edge.", "source": "Bureau of Land Management, national PLSS cadastral layer", "story": 40}], "today": [{"name": "Highland Cemetery, Lawton", "kind": "other", "relation": "part", "state": "Oklahoma", "note": "Lawton's municipal cemetery, with more than 20,000 burials; the tract released by this proclamation is its western part.", "source": "Bureau of Land Management, national PLSS cadastral layer", "story": 40}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1903-01-05", "text": "The Supreme Court decided Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock, holding that Congress could dispose of the Kiowa-Comanche lands without the consent the Medicine Lodge treaty required.", "source": "187 U.S. 553", "story": 40}], "uncertain": ["The Lawton city council's request for the land and the Indian Office's finding that the sub-agency no longer needed it have not been found.", "How the Oklahoma Territory press reacted, if at all, is not known.", "The patent from the United States to the City of Lawton for the tract has not been located, so the date of the city's title is not known.", "Whether Roosevelt signed the proclamation at Oyster Bay on September 4 or during his brief Washington stop on September 5 is not known."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-476", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Another of the three 1902 restorations of a single tract for a new owner.", "story": 40, "date": "1902-05-29", "title": "Restoring to the Public Domain Certain Lands in the State of California", "type": "proclamation", "number": "476"}, {"id": "proc-478", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Twin restoration ten weeks earlier, releasing an agency tract to Anadarko for a park under the same two statutes.", "story": 40, "date": "1902-06-23", "title": "Restoring to the Public Domain Certain Lands in the Territory of Oklahoma", "type": "proclamation", "number": "478"}, {"id": "proc-520", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "In 1904 released a 120-acre Fort Sill Indian boarding-school tract to Lawton for a park under the same two statutes.", "story": 40, "date": "1904-03-29", "title": "Restoring to the Public Domain Certain Lands Adjacent to the City of Lawton, Oklahoma Territory", "type": "proclamation", "number": "520"}]}
{"id": "proc-493", "type": "proclamation", "number": "493", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-09-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Absaroka Forest Reserve", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 493, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-493"}, "statutes": {"volume": 32, "page": 2027, "last_page": 2028, "cite": "32 Stat. 2027–2028", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-32/pdf/STATUTE-32-Pg2027.pdf", "statutes_date": "1902-09-04", "table_title": "Setting apart Absaroka Forest Reserve, Montana."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart, and reserve, in any State or Territory Laving public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part cohered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Montana, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Montana, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows, to wit:", "Beginning at the point where the range line between Ranges twenty (20) and twenty-one (21) East, Principal Meridian, Montana, intersects the boundary line between the States of Montana and Wyoming; thence westerly along said state boundary line to the point of intersection with the eastern boundary of the Yellowstone National Park; thence northerly along the said boundary to the north-east corner of the said national park; thence westerly along the northern boundary of the said national park to the point for its intersection with the range line between Ranges nine (9) and ten (10) East; thence northerly along said surveyed and unsurveyed range line, allowing for the proper offset on the First (1st) Standard Parallel South, to the south-west, corner of Section eighteen (18), Township four (4) South, Range ten (10) East; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence northerly along the section lines to the north-east, corner of Section six (6), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), township three (3) South, Range ten (10) East; thence northerly along the section lines to the north-east corner of Section five (5), said township; thence easterly along the township line to the north-east corner of Township three (3) South, Range eleven (11) East: thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly along the surveyed and unsurveyed township line to the point for its intersection with the range line between Ranges thirteen (13) and fourteen (14) East; thence northerly along said surveyed and unsurveyed range line to the north-west corner of Township two (2) South, Range fourteen (14) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of Township three (3) South, Range fifteen (15) East; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly along the surveyed and unsurveyed township line to the north-west corner of Township four (4) South, Range eighteen (18) East; thence southerly along the range line to its intersection with the First (1st) Standard Parallel South; thence easterly along said parallel to its intersection with the range line between Ranges eighteen (18) and nineteen (19) East; thence southerly along said surveyed and unsurveyed range line to the south-west corner of Township seven (7) South, Range nineteen (19) East: thence easterly to the north-west corner of Township eight (8) South, Range twenty (20) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said township; thence southerly along the range line to its intersection with the boundary line between the States of Montana and Wyoming, the place of beginning.", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or tiling of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, tiling or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Absaroka Forest Reserve.", "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 September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-seventh."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 32 Stat. 2027", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Post, p. 2030.", "Forest reserve, Montana.", "Boundaries.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "The Absaroka Forest Reserve."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Absaroka Forest Reserve in Montana, describing its boundaries and reserving the land from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Absaroka Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [33], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-09-04", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The proclamation made a single page of a single Montana paper.", "source": "Chronicling America newspaper searches, 1902", "date": "1902", "story": 33}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Absaroka reserve lasted 147 days before it was consolidated into the Yellowstone and its name discontinued.", "source": "32 Stat. 2030", "date": "1903-01-29", "story": 33}], "legacy": [{"text": "A different Absaroka National Forest, created in 1908 from part of the Yellowstone and all of the Crazy Mountain forest, was later divided between the Gallatin and the Lewis and Clark.", "source": "Executive Order 875; Public Land Order 305", "date": "1945", "story": 33}], "today": [{"name": "Absaroka Forest Reserve", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "abolished", "state": "Montana", "note": "Consolidated into the Yellowstone Forest Reserve on January 29, 1903.", "source": "32 Stat. 2030", "story": 33}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1945", "text": "The later Absaroka National Forest was divided between the Gallatin and the Lewis and Clark.", "source": "Public Land Order 305", "story": 33}], "uncertain": ["Sources disagree on whether Public Land Order 305 dates from December 18, 1945 (approval) or July 1, 1945 (effective)."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-496", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "Consolidated Absaroka into the Yellowstone Forest Reserve.", "story": 33, "date": "1903-01-29", "title": "Enlargement of the Yellowstone National Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "496"}, {"id": "eo-875", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Created a different, later Absaroka National Forest in 1908.", "story": 33, "date": "1908-07-01", "title": "Absaroka National Forest, Mont., Created", "type": "executive_order", "number": "875"}]}
{"id": "eo-188", "type": "executive_order", "number": "188", "tr_sequence": 48, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-09-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Directing that Raplie M. Cheshire be Recertified for Appointment", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_188", "revid": 1893853, "printed_source": "1903 CSR 73"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The Civil Service Commission is authorized and directed to reissue certificate No. 991, as of date September 26, 1901, containing the name of Raplie M. Cheshire, appointment under said certificate having been declined by him under a mistake."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1903 CSR 73)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, September 4, 1902.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Directed the Civil Service Commission to reissue a 1901 certificate naming Raplie M. Cheshire, who had declined the appointment by mistake.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Raplie M. Cheshire"], "significance": 1, "stories": [80], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-09-04", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-189", "type": "executive_order", "number": "189", "tr_sequence": 49, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-09-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of David Lynch for Duty in the Signal Service Without Examination Under Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_189", "revid": 1830009, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["David Lynch may be appointed cable engineer for duty in the signal service in Manila, P. I., without examination under the civil-service rules. Theodore Roosevelt White House, September 4, 1902. == Notes == See Related: None Available"], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed David Lynch to be appointed cable engineer for the Signal Service in Manila without civil-service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service", "insular-territories"], "action": "appoint", "places": [{"name": "Manila", "kind": "town", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": ["David Lynch"], "significance": 1, "stories": [80], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-09-04", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-047", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 47, "date": "1902-09-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Nambe Pueblo Indian Reservation, New Mexico Territory, established for the use and occupation of the Indians of the Nambe Pueblo, subject to valid existing rights.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 47, "page": "192", "citations": "III Kappler 687; I IR 126; (1905 CIA 496)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Nambe Pueblo Indian Reservation, New Mexico Territory, established for the use and occupation of the Indians of the Nambe Pueblo, subject to valid existing rights.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "title_notes": ["Additional lands set apart next to a Pueblo grant confirmed by U.S. patent in 1864."], "summary": "Established the Nambe Pueblo Indian Reservation in New Mexico Territory for the use and occupation of the Nambe Pueblo Indians, subject to valid existing rights.", "categories": ["indian-lands"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Nambe Pueblo Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-09-04", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-190", "type": "executive_order", "number": "190", "tr_sequence": 50, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-09-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Closing of all Executive Departments for Observance of the Grand Army of the Republic Parade, October 8, 1902", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_190", "revid": 1893857, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["In order that the members of the Grand Army of the Republic employed in the public service in the city of Washington may have the opportunity of joining in the parade arranged for Wednesday, Oct. 8, 1902, and that all others may unite with the citizens of the District of Columbia in showing honor to the Union soldiers and sailors to be gathered in the national capital on that occasion, it is hereby ordered that the several executive departments, the government printing office and the navy yard and station at Washington be closed on Monday."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, September 10, 1902.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Closed the executive departments, the Government Printing Office and the Washington navy yard so federal workers could join or honor the Grand Army of the Republic parade of October 8, 1902.", "categories": ["government-administration", "ceremonial"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [80], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-09-10", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The wire carried the order's text, under the head \"For Benefit of the G. A. R.\"", "source": "Indianapolis Journal, September 16, 1902, p. 7", "date": "1902-09-16", "story": 80}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-191", "type": "executive_order", "number": "191", "tr_sequence": 51, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-10-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Retention of Workers on Government Printing Office Building Construction Without Regard to Civil Service Rules During Work on War College and Washington Barracks", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_191", "revid": 12441346, "printed_source": "1903 CSR 194"}}, "text": null, "summary": "Let workers on the Government Printing Office building be kept on, without regard to civil-service rules, for work on the War College and Washington Barracks.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [80], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-10-04", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-192", "type": "executive_order", "number": "192", "tr_sequence": 52, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-10-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Apportionment Striking Section 6 of Rule VIII", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_192", "revid": 1835252, "printed_source": "1903 CSR 194"}}, "text": null, "summary": "Struck section 6 of Civil Service Rule VIII, changing the rules on apportionment of appointments.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [80], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-10-14", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-193", "type": "executive_order", "number": "193", "tr_sequence": 53, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-10-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Ordering Reaffirmation and Enforcement of Regulations Governing the Soliciting of Contributions for Political Purposes by and From Government Officers or Employees", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_193", "revid": 1816381, "printed_source": "| notes    ="}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["On request of the Civil Service Commission, the Attorney-General has submitted to me the following opinion:", "\"Your note of the 15th instant requests me to advise you relative to the subject of political contributions as shown by the respective correspondence which you inclose between the Civil Service Commission and officers of the Republican State committees of Pennsylvania and Ohio.", "\"In the Pennsylvania case it appears that recently a circular letter was issued by the Republican State Committee, signed 'M. S. Quay, chairman,' stating that financial assistance is needed in the coming Congressional and State election, and that the committee will be greatly obliged if the addressee will aid to the extent of his ability and inclination. This circular letter bore in its caption as well the name of Senator Quay as chairman, and of W. R. Andrews (clerk to the Senate Committee on Immigration) as secretary; and was sent by mail to various Federal officers and employees at their home addresses. Upon advice from the Commission that because of their official relations, neither Senator Quay nor Mr. Andrews could properly serve upon a committee concerned in soliciting and receiving political contributions from Federal officials, or permit their names to be held forth in letters making such solicitation, the circular letter, so far as addressed to Federal officials, was withdrawn. Immediately thereafter another circular letter was issued in identically the same form, except that it bore the signature of the treasurer of the committee, who is not a Federal officeholder. The Commission pointed out the illegality of this circular, because it carried on its heading the names of Senator Quay and Mr. Andrews, and directed its recall; and this ruling is now contested by Mr. Andrews.", "\"In the Ohio case a circular was issued by the Republican State Executive Committee, bearing the names of Hon. Charles Dick (Member of Congress) and of various Federal officials, and stating that any assistance which the addressee 'can give as one of those directly interested in party success in Ohio will be gratefully acknowledged.' It seems that this circular was sent to certain Federal officials, that the Commission demanded its withdrawal, and that the Executive Committee declines or neglects to accede to this demand.", "\"The question presented is covered by section 11 of the civil service act, which provides:", "\"'That no Senator, or Representative, or Territorial Delegate of the Congress, or Senator, Representative, or Delegate elect, or any officer or employee of either of said Houses, and no executive, judicial, military, or naval officer of the United States, and no clerk or employee of any department, branch, or bureau of the executive, judicial, or military or naval service of the United States, shall, directly or indirectly, solicit or receive, or be in any manner concerned in soliciting or receiving, any assessment, subscription, or contribution for any political purpose whatever, from any officer, clerk, or employee of the United States, or any department, branch, or bureau thereof, or from any person receiving any salary or compensation from moneys derived from the Treasury of the United States.'", "\"Whatever the particular form of words adopted in such circulars in order to show a request rather than a demand and to give to responses a quasi-voluntary character, the explicit and comprehensive words of the statute forbidding those barred by their public relations to solicit from Federal officials, directly or indirectly, or to 'be in any manner concerned in soliciting or receiving any assessment, subscription, *or contribution* for any political purpose whatever,' unquestionably condemn all such circulars. They should not be sent to Federal officials, or else they should not bear the names of the public officers and employees designated in the act. In 21 Opinions, 300, Attorney-General Harmon said:", "\"'All who are in the Government service are thus protected against the possibility of actual coercion and from that of the coercion implied in the relation of the person soliciting or receiving to the Government or implied in solicitation or receipt in a public office; but Congress did not attempt to prohibit solicitation by or payment to persons not in the Government service otherwise than in Government offices.'", "\"It is also pertinent to notice section 14 of the act, viz:", "\"'That no officer, clerk, or other person in the service of the United States, shall, directly or indirectly, give or hand over to any other officer, clerk, or person in the service of the United States, or to any Senator or Member of the House of Representatives, or Territorial Delegate, any money or other valuable thing on account of or to be applied to the promotion of any political object whatever.'", "\"Your power to direct, by appropriate order, under the mandates of these sections, all persons in the executive service of the United States is clear.\"", "I hereby call the attention of all officers and employees in the Federal service to the foregoing opinion, and warn them that the provisions of law as therein construed are to be by them obeyed and enforced.", "Any official in the Federal service may, without jeopardy to his official standing, contribute or not, exactly as he pleases, provided he obeys the sections of the civil service act above referred to.", "Theodore Roosevelt.", "White House, *October 18, 1902.*"], "source": "Attorney-General's opinion collated against U.S. Civil Service Commission, Nineteenth Report (1902), pp. 144–145; surrounding text from Wikisource, 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Text is Wikisource's. The Commission's printing of the opinion differs only in house styling ('civil-service act', 'Republican State committee', '21 Op., 300', no italics). Wikisource's nested quotation marks rendered with standard single quotes. Asterisks mark italics. No seal (executive order).", "story": 80}, "summary": "Directed that the rules against soliciting political contributions from federal officers and employees be reaffirmed and enforced, after an Attorney General's opinion on circulars sent by party committees in Pennsylvania and Ohio.", "categories": ["civil-service", "government-administration"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": ["Ohio", "Pennsylvania"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [80], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-10-18", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "Newspapers ran the full text as a Washington wire story under headlines reading it as a warning to officeholders, such as \"WARNED BY PRESIDENT,\" with no comment beyond the text.", "source": "Indianapolis Journal, October 19, 1902, p. 5", "date": "1902-10-19", "story": 80}, {"text": "In California the order ran in the San Francisco Call (\"OFFICE HOLDERS ARE ADMONISHED\") and the San Diego Union, whose headline named Attorney General Knox as the opinion's author.", "source": "San Francisco Call and San Diego Union, October 19, 1902", "date": "1902-10-19", "story": 80}, {"text": "The Los Angeles Herald and the Stockton Mail printed the order the following day.", "source": "Los Angeles Herald and Stockton Mail, October 20, 1902", "date": "1902-10-20", "story": 80}, {"text": "Searches of California papers (September–December 1902) and Indiana papers (October 17–November 15, 1902) found no later story and no published reply from either the Pennsylvania or the Ohio committee.", "source": "California Digital Newspaper Collection; Hoosier State Chronicles", "date": "1902", "story": 80}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "political", "text": "The order answered open resistance: the opinion it publishes records a Senate clerk contesting the Commission's ruling and the Ohio Republican committee declining to withdraw its circular, and it names Quay, Andrews, Dick and both state committees.", "source": "Executive Order 193", "date": "1902-10-18", "story": 80}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Civil Service Commission reported that, while some political managers still tried to evade the law, most federal officials felt no obligation to contribute and no fear of refusing, and that public sentiment supported its efforts.", "source": "Civil Service Commission, Nineteenth Report, p. 21", "date": "1902", "story": 80}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Commission's next report recorded the episode only as a ruling that a federal official may not let his name appear on circulars asking other officials for political contributions, and listed no investigation or prosecution arising from either circular.", "source": "Civil Service Commission, Twentieth Report, p. 44; 24 Op. Att'y Gen. 133", "date": "1903", "story": 80}, {"kind": "court", "text": "The only political-assessment prosecution the Commission reported for the year was at Louisville, where a former collector of internal revenue, his deputy and a railroad employee pleaded guilty in March 1903; it was not connected with the Pennsylvania or Ohio circulars.", "source": "Civil Service Commission, Twentieth Report, p. 11", "date": "1903-03", "story": 80}], "legacy": [{"text": "The ban the order enforced on soliciting political money from federal workers never lapsed and descends into today's federal criminal code alongside the Hatch Act of 1939 and the modern rules on federal employees' political activity.", "source": "research entry", "story": 80}], "uncertain": ["Whether the Pennsylvania and Ohio circulars were finally recalled is not known; the Commission's reports do not say, and Eastern newspapers have not been searched."]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-642", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 16, "inferred": true, "date": "1907-06-03", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Participation in Politics", "type": "executive_order", "number": "642"}]}
{"id": "proc-494", "type": "proclamation", "number": "494", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-10-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Thanksgiving Day, 1902", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 494, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-494"}, "statutes": {"volume": 32, "page": 2028, "last_page": 2029, "cite": "32 Stat. 2028–2029", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-32/pdf/STATUTE-32-Pg2028.pdf", "statutes_date": "1902-10-29", "table_title": "Designating Thursday, November 27, 1902, as a day of general thanksgiving."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America.", "A PROCLAMATION.", "According to the yearly custom of our people, it falls upon the President at this season to appoint a day of festival and thanksgiving to God.", "Over a century and a quarter has passed since this country took its place among the nations of the earth, and during that time we have had on the whole more to be thankful for than has fallen to the lot of any other people. Generation after generation has grown to manhood and passed away. Each has had to bear its peculiar burdens, each to face its special crises, and each has known years of grim trial, when the country was menaced by malice domestic or foreign levy, when the hand of the Lord was heavy upon it in drouth or flood or pestilence, when in bodily distress and anguish of soul it paid the penalty of folly and a froward heart. Nevertheless, decade by decade, we have struggled onward and upward; we now abundantly enjoy material well-being, and under the favor of the Most High we are striving earnestly to achieve moral and spiritual uplifting. The year that has just closed has been one of peace and of overflowing plenty. Rarely has any people enjoyed greater prosperity than we are now enjoying. For this we render heartfelt and solemn thanks to the Giver of Good; and we seek to praise Him not by words only but by deeds, by the way in which we do our duty to ourselves and to our fellow men.", "Now, therefore, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States, do hereby designate as a day of general thanksgiving Thursday, the twenty-seventh of the coming November, and do recommend that throughout the land the people cease from their ordinary occupations, and in their several homes and places of worship render thanks unto Almighty God for the manifold blessings of the past year.", "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 29th day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two and [SEAL.] of the independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-seventh.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:", "JOHN HAY", "Secretary of State."], "source": "32 Stat. 2028–2029 (Statutes at Large page image), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "[SEAL.] restored; 'drouth' and 'froward' are the document's own words, not misprints; Statutes heads the document [No. 40.].", "story": 41}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Named Thursday, November 27, 1902, a national day of thanksgiving.", "categories": ["ceremonial"], "action": "announce", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [41], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-10-29", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The proclamation moved by wire the day it was signed and ran widely, often on page one and often in full, from the Stockton Mail that afternoon to papers in South Dakota and Nebraska.", "source": "Stockton Mail, October 29, 1902, p. 1; Mitchell Daily Republican, October 30, 1902, p. 1; Loup City Northwestern, November 7, 1902, p. 1", "date": "1902-10-29", "story": 41}, {"text": "Headline writers seized on the prosperity line, with heads such as \"Year of Peace and Plenty.\"", "source": "Santa Barbara Weekly Press, October 30, 1902; San Luis Obispo Morning Tribune, October 31, 1902", "date": "1902-10-30", "story": 41}, {"text": "The phrase \"overflowing plenty\" appears in 21 items in California papers between October and December 1902, two of them advertisements reprinting the President's words.", "source": "California Digital Newspaper Collection; Ventura Daily Post; Sonoma Valley Expositor", "date": "1902", "story": 41}, {"text": "The San Francisco Call's editorial said the proclamation had drawn little heed during the campaign and found it notable for its piety rather than its talk of prosperity.", "source": "San Francisco Call, November 7, 1902, p. 6, \"Now for Thanksgiving\"", "date": "1902-11-07", "story": 41}, {"text": "Leslie's Weekly gave its Thanksgiving Day cover to R. L. Dunn's photograph of Roosevelt signing the proclamation, with the full text beneath.", "source": "Leslie's Weekly, November 27, 1902", "date": "1902-11-27", "story": 41}, {"text": "No paper found set the prosperity line against the coal crisis, and no objection to the proclamation has been found.", "source": "California Digital Newspaper Collection", "date": "1902-11", "story": 41}], "legacy": [{"text": "The proclamation is one link in the unbroken chain of yearly presidential Thanksgiving proclamations running back to 1863.", "source": "research entry", "story": 41}, {"text": "The Theodore Roosevelt Center's catalog dates the Library of Congress print of the Dunn photograph December 3, 1902, most likely a copyright-deposit date rather than the date of the event.", "source": "Theodore Roosevelt Center, catalog record o306954", "story": 41}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1939", "text": "Franklin Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving a week earlier, as he did again in 1940 and 1941.", "source": "research entry", "story": 41}, {"date": "1941-12-26", "text": "A joint resolution of Congress fixed Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November.", "source": "55 Stat. 862", "story": 41}], "uncertain": ["Eastern newspaper opinion on the proclamation has not been sampled.", "Whether the R. L. Dunn photograph records the actual signing or a later pose is not established."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-466", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Roosevelt's first Thanksgiving proclamation, 1901.", "story": 41, "date": "1901-11-02", "title": "Thanksgiving Day, 1901", "type": "proclamation", "number": "466"}, {"id": "proc-508", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 47, "inferred": true, "date": "1903-10-31", "title": "Thanksgiving Day, 1903", "type": "proclamation", "number": "508"}, {"id": "proc-533", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 54, "inferred": true, "date": "1904-11-01", "title": "Thanksgiving Day, 1904", "type": "proclamation", "number": "533"}]}
{"id": "eo-194", "type": "executive_order", "number": "194", "tr_sequence": 54, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-11-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Consular Regulations of 1896, Paragraph 660, to Except Gold or Silver Bullion as Money or Currency", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Amended paragraph 660 of the 1896 Consular Regulations so gold or silver bullion is not counted as money or currency.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [80], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-11-06", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "A State Department circular of November 11, 1902 told consuls that customs collectors could accept gold and silver bullion as money on the oath of a principal officer of the importing bank or firm.", "source": "Ingram, Digest of Circular Instructions to Consular Officers (1908), p. 27", "date": "1902-11-11", "story": 80}], "uncertain": ["The verbatim text of the order has not been located; it would be in the State Department's circular to consular officers of November 11, 1902."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-048", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 48, "date": "1902-11-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Malaga Military Reservation, Samar Island Province, P. I., established.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 48, "page": "192", "citations": "(1916 MR 484)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Malaga Military Reservation, Samar Island Province, P. I., established.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Established the Malaga Military Reservation in Samar Island Province, Philippine Islands.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Malaga Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-11-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-049", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 49, "date": "1902-11-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Fort William H. Seward Military Reservation, Haines, Alaska (est. by EO of Dec. 31, 1898), enlarged to include a clay deposit for road-making; east shore of Chilkat Inlet near Dyea reserved for military purposes.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 49, "page": "192", "citations": "(EO 1067; 1907 MR 10; 1910 MR 13; 1916 MR 17; I CFR 81, 271; III CFR 669; 1903 GLO 405; 1904 GLO 464; 1905 GLO 101)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Fort William H. Seward Military Reservation, Haines, Alaska (est. by EO of Dec. 31, 1898), enlarged to include a clay deposit for road-making; east shore of Chilkat Inlet near Dyea reserved for military purposes.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Enlarged the Fort William H. Seward Military Reservation at Haines, Alaska, to take in a clay deposit for road-making, and reserved the east shore of Chilkat Inlet near Dyea for military use.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Fort William H. Seward Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}, {"name": "Chilkat Inlet", "kind": "other", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-11-21", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-050", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 50, "date": "1902-11-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Greenville Indian Industrial Training School Reservation, Calif., enlarged by addition of certain described lands.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 50, "page": "192", "citations": "III Kappler 674; I IR 38; 1903 CIA 613"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Greenville Indian Industrial Training School Reservation, Calif., enlarged by addition of certain described lands.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Added described lands to the Greenville Indian Industrial Training School Reservation in California.", "categories": ["indian-lands"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Greenville Indian Industrial Training School Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-11-26", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-051", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 51, "date": "1902-11-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Olongapo Naval Station, Zambales Province, Island of Luzon, P. I., established.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 51, "page": "193", "citations": "(I CFR 139, 271; IX CFR 778)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Olongapo Naval Station, Zambales Province, Island of Luzon, P. I., established.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Established the Olongapo Naval Station in Zambales Province on Luzon, Philippine Islands.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Olongapo Naval Station", "kind": "naval-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-11-26", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "uo-006", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Built on the Zambales and Bataan land reserved for naval purposes in November 1901.", "story": 111, "date": "1901-11-09", "title": "Certain lands in Zambales and Bataan, Island of Luzon, P. I., reserved for naval purposes.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "eo-194-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "194-A", "tr_sequence": 55, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-12-08", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Duties of Secretary to the President Defined", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Defined the duties of the Secretary to the President.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [80], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-12-08", "impact": {"uncertain": ["The text of the order has not been found, so what it said, and whether it deserves a place in the history of the White House staff, is not known; it may survive in the National Archives' executive-order series or the George B. Cortelyou Papers.", "No newspaper report of the order was found in California or Indiana papers of December 8–20, 1902."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-052", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 52, "date": "1902-12-22", "date_precision": "day", "title": "White Mountain or San Carlos Indian Reservation, Arizona Territory, diminished and certain described lands restored to the public domain.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 52, "page": "193", "citations": "III Kappler 671; I IR 37"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "White Mountain or San Carlos Indian Reservation, Arizona Territory, diminished and certain described lands restored to the public domain.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Shrank the White Mountain or San Carlos Indian Reservation in Arizona Territory, returning described lands to the public domain.", "categories": ["indian-lands", "public-lands"], "action": "reduce", "places": [{"name": "White Mountain or San Carlos Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [111], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-12-22", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-195", "type": "executive_order", "number": "195", "tr_sequence": 56, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-12-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of F. L. Templeton as Clerk in Post Office Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_195", "revid": 1836851, "printed_source": "1903 CSR 73"}}, "text": null, "summary": "Authorized F. L. Templeton's appointment as a clerk in the Post Office Department without regard to civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["F. L. Templeton"], "significance": 1, "stories": [80], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-12-23", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-196", "type": "executive_order", "number": "196", "tr_sequence": 57, "lord_number": null, "date": "1902-12-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Charles W. Newton as Physician in Western Navajo Agency Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_196", "revid": 1836856, "printed_source": "1903 CSR 73"}}, "text": null, "summary": "Allowed Charles W. Newton to be appointed physician at the Western Navajo Agency without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service", "indian-lands"], "action": "appoint", "places": [{"name": "Western Navajo Agency", "kind": "other"}], "states": [], "people": ["Charles W. Newton"], "significance": 1, "stories": [80], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1902-12-27", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-197", "type": "executive_order", "number": "197", "tr_sequence": 58, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-01-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Stainslaus M. Hamilton as Clerk in Department of State Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_197", "revid": 1836863, "printed_source": "1903 CSR 74"}}, "text": null, "summary": "Authorized reinstating Stainslaus M. Hamilton as a clerk in the Department of State without regard to civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "restore", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Stainslaus M. Hamilton"], "significance": 1, "stories": [81], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-01-07", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-198", "type": "executive_order", "number": "198", "tr_sequence": 59, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-01-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Extension of Temporary Appointment of Eight Clerks in Internal Revenue Service for Sixty Days", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_198", "revid": 12441350, "printed_source": "1903 CSR 74"}}, "text": null, "summary": "Extended the temporary appointments of eight Internal Revenue Service clerks for sixty days.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 1, "stories": [81], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-01-10", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-495", "type": "proclamation", "number": "495", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-01-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Luquillo Forest Reserve", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 495, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-495"}, "statutes": {"volume": 32, "page": 2029, "last_page": 2030, "cite": "32 Stat. 2029–2030", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-32/pdf/STATUTE-32-Pg2029.pdf", "statutes_date": "1903-01-17", "table_title": "Setting apart Luquillo Forest Reserve, Porto Rico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, it is provided by section one of the Act of Congress, approved July first, nineteen hundred and two, entitled, “An Act Authorizing the President to reserve public lands and buildings in the island of Porto Rico for public uses, and granting other public lands and buildings to the government of Porto Rico, and for other purposes”, “That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to make, within one year after the approval of this Act, such reservation of public lands and buildings belonging to the United States in the island of Porto Rico, for military, naval, light-house, marine-hospital, post-offices, custom-houses, United States courts, and other public purposes, as he may deem necessary”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the island of Porto Rico, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section one of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby reserved and set apart as a Public Forest Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of public lands, not heretofore appropriated or reserved, lying and being situate in the island of Porto Rico, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows, to wit:", "Beginning at the point where the parallel of eighteen (18) degrees and twenty-two (22) minutes, north latitude, intersects the meridian of sixty-five (65) degrees and fifty-five (55) minutes, west longitude; thence due east along said parallel to its intersection with the meridian of sixty-five (65) degrees and forty-five (45) minutes, west longitude; thence due south along said meridian to its intersection with the parallel of eighteen (18) degrees and fourteen (14) minutes, north latitude; thence due west along .said parallel to its intersection with the meridian of sixty-five (65) degrees and fifty-five (55) minutes, west longitude; thence due north along said meridian to its intersection with the parallel of eighteen (18) degrees and twenty-two (22) minutes, north latitude, the place of beginning.", "2030 Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to occupy or use the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Luquillo Forest Reserve.", "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 17th day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and three, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-seventh."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 32 Stat. 2029", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Ante, p. 731.", "Forest reserve, Porto Rico.", "Boundaries.", "Reserved from settlement.", "The Luquillo Forest Reserve."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart public lands in the Luquillo area of Puerto Rico as the Luquillo Forest Reserve, defining its limits by latitude and longitude and reserving it from settlement.", "categories": ["forests", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Luquillo Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Puerto Rico"}], "states": ["Puerto Rico"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [42], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-01-17", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Luquillo reserve barely registered on the mainland; the only wire story that mentioned it was about gold in the island's streams, not forestry.", "source": "research entry (Chronicling America search, 1903–04)", "date": "1903", "story": 42}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The proclamation reserved only unclaimed public land inside a boundary of about 65,950 acres; Gifford estimated the federal forest land at about 20,000 acres.", "source": "Gifford, USDA Bureau of Forestry Bulletin 54 (1905), p. 9", "date": "1905", "story": 42}], "legacy": [{"text": "A survey in 1916 found about 12,400 acres of federal land in the reserve.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1916", "story": 42}, {"text": "Luquillo became the Caribbean National Forest in 1935 and the El Yunque National Forest in 2007, the only tropical rainforest in the National Forest System.", "source": "EO 7059-A (1935); EO 13428, 72 F.R. 16693 (2007)", "date": "2007", "story": 42}, {"text": "El Yunque is a refuge for the Puerto Rican parrot, federally listed as endangered since March 11, 1967, and still holds a small wild flock.", "source": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, ECOS species record", "date": "1967-03-11", "story": 42}], "today": [{"name": "El Yunque National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "origin", "state": "Puerto Rico", "since": "1903-01-17", "note": "The only tropical rainforest in the National Forest System.", "source": "EO 13428, 72 F.R. 16693", "story": 42}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1907-03-04", "text": "Became the Luquillo National Forest when Congress renamed all forest reserves national forests.", "source": "Act of Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, 34 Stat. 1269", "story": 42}, {"date": "1935-06-04", "text": "Renamed the Caribbean National Forest.", "source": "Executive Order 7059-A", "story": 42}, {"date": "2007-04-02", "text": "Renamed the El Yunque National Forest by executive order, not by Congress.", "source": "Executive Order 13428, 72 F.R. 16693", "story": 42}], "uncertain": ["Exactly how much land the proclamation reserved is uncertain: the boundary enclosed about 65,950 acres, but only unclaimed public land inside it was reserved."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-502", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Made under the same Act of July 1, 1902, reserving public lands in Puerto Rico.", "story": 42, "date": "1903-06-26", "title": "Reservation of Lands in Puerto Rico for Naval Purposes", "type": "proclamation", "number": "502"}, {"id": "proc-503", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Made under the same Act of July 1, 1902, reserving public lands in Puerto Rico.", "story": 42, "date": "1903-06-30", "title": "Reservation of Lands in Puerto Rico", "type": "proclamation", "number": "503"}]}
{"id": "eo-199", "type": "executive_order", "number": "199", "tr_sequence": 60, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-01-19", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Require Certification of Laborers Who Perform Work of Grade of Classified Employees", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_199", "revid": 1835271, "printed_source": "1903 CSR 195"}}, "text": null, "summary": "Amended the civil service rules to require certification of laborers who do the work of classified employees.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [81], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-01-19", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-199-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "199-A", "tr_sequence": 61, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-01-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Placing the Midway Islands Under the Jurisdiction and Control of the Navy Department", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_199-A", "revid": 6522185, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["White House, January 20, 1903.", "Such public lands as may exist on the Midway Islands, Hawaiian group, between the parallels of 28° 05′ and 28° 25′ north latitude, and between the meridians of 177° 10′ and 177° 30′ west longitude, are hereby placed under the jurisdiction and control of the Navy Department.", "Theodore Roosevelt."], "source": "Laws Relating to the Navy, Annotated … in Force January 1, 1945, vol. 3 (Office of the Judge Advocate General, 1945–46), Part 6, p. 1856 (HathiTrust mdp.39015073410550, page image), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Body follows the official printing ('north latitude,' lower case with comma; 'west longitude'), which otherwise matches Wikisource word for word. The official printing has no place line or signature; the 'White House' date line and signature are Wikisource's (Wikisource gives no source). Not printed in the Statutes at Large. No seal (executive order).", "story": 81}, "summary": "Put the Midway Islands under the jurisdiction and control of the Navy Department.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Midway Islands", "kind": "island"}], "states": ["Midway"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [81], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-01-20", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The order was not announced until March. An Associated Press dispatch then reported that the President had turned the Midway Islands over to the Navy at the cable company's request, to protect its property from roving Japanese plume and guano hunters.", "source": "Associated Press, Washington, March 11, 1903, in Los Angeles Herald, March 12, 1903", "date": "1903-03-12", "story": 81}, {"text": "The dispatch ran widely in California, including the Santa Barbara Morning Press and Weekly Press, the Stockton Mail (\"TO PROTECT MIDWAY ISLANDS\") and the Marysville Democrat, and in Indiana in the Indianapolis News. No editorial comment turned up.", "source": "California Digital Newspaper Collection; Hoosier State Chronicles", "date": "1903-03-12", "story": 81}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Navy Department announced the order as its General Order No. 120.", "source": "Army and Navy Journal, January 31, 1903", "date": "1903-01-21", "story": 81}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Navy removed the Japanese squatters and poachers from the atoll.", "source": "Midway Atoll chronologies", "date": "1903-06-03", "story": 81}, {"kind": "economic", "text": "About thirty Commercial Pacific Cable Company workers landed to build the cable station, and the line opened that summer; Roosevelt sent the first round-the-world message over it on July 4, 1903.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1903-04-20", "story": 81}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "A detachment of about twenty Marines under Second Lieutenant Clarence S. Owens arrived to keep order, guard the cable station and stop the poaching, and stayed about four years.", "source": "Midway Atoll National Historic Landmark nomination (1987)", "date": "1904-05", "story": 81}], "legacy": [{"text": "The order began an unbroken line of Navy control through the atoll's years as a cable station, a stop for transpacific flying boats from the 1930s, and the Battle of Midway in June 1942.", "source": "research entry", "story": 81}, {"text": "Because Midway was already the Navy's, Roosevelt's Hawaiian Islands Reservation of 1909 covered the northwestern chain from Cure Island to Necker but left Midway out.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1909-02-03", "story": 81}], "today": [{"name": "Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "transferred", "state": "Midway Atoll", "note": "Navy control that began with this order ended in 1996, when Executive Order 13022 transferred the atoll to the Interior Department for the refuge.", "source": "Executive Order 13022 (1996)", "story": 81}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1996", "text": "Executive Order 13022 transferred jurisdiction over Midway from the Navy to the Department of the Interior for the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge.", "source": "Executive Order 13022", "story": 81}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-1019", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The 1909 Hawaiian Islands Reservation, which left Midway out because the Navy already held it.", "story": 81, "date": "1909-02-03", "title": "Establishing Hawaiian Islands Reservation as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1019"}]}
{"id": "eo-200", "type": "executive_order", "number": "200", "tr_sequence": 62, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-01-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Prohibit Certain Transfers if Position Can be Filled by Promotion", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_200", "revid": 1835273, "printed_source": "1903 CSR 195"}}, "text": null, "summary": "Amended the civil-service rules to bar certain transfers when a position could be filled by promotion.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [81], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-01-21", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-496", "type": "proclamation", "number": "496", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-01-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlargement of the Yellowstone National Reserve", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 496, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-496"}, "statutes": {"volume": 32, "page": 2030, "last_page": 2035, "cite": "32 Stat. 2030–2035", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-32/pdf/STATUTE-32-Pg2030.pdf", "statutes_date": "1903-01-29", "table_title": "Consolidating Teton and Absaroka forest reserves with the Yellowstone Forest Reserve, Montana and Wyoming."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, The Yellowstone Forest Reserve and The Teton Forest Reserve, in the State of Wyoming, and The Absaroka Forest Reserve, in the State of Montana, have been heretofore established by proclamations, under the provisions of the acts of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, and June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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”;", "And whereas, it appearing proper that the area embraced in said forest reserves with certain additions thereto should be included in one reserve and he distinguished by one name; and it appearing that the public lands in the States of Wyoming and Montana, within the limits hereinafter described arc in part covered with timber, and that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving the same as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid acts of Congress, do hereby make, known and proclaim that the proclamations heretofore issued respecting said forest reserves are hereby superseded, and The Yellowstone Forest Reserve is hereby established in place thereof, with boundaries as follows, to wit:", "Beginning at the point where the range line between Ranges nine (9) and ten (10) East, Principal Meridian, Montana, intersects the northern boundary of the Yellowstone National Park; thence northerly along said surveyed and unsurveyed range line, allowing for the proper offset on the First (1st) Standard Parallel South, to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township four (4) South, Range ten (10) East; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township three (3) South, Range ten (10) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), said township; thence easterly along the township line to the north-east corner of Township three (3) South, Range eleven (11) East: thence, southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly along the surveyed and unsurveyed township line to the point for the south- west corner of Township three (3) South, Range fourteen (14) East; thence northerly’ along the surveyed and unsurveyed range line to the north-west corner of Township two (2) South, Range fourteen (14) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of Township three (3) South, Range fifteen (15) East: thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly along the surveyed and unsurveyed township line to the north-west corner of Township four (4) South, Range eighteen (18) East; thence southerly along the range line to its intersection with the First (1st) Standard Parallel South; thence easterly along said parallel to the north-east corner of Township Six (6) South, Range eighteen (18) East; thence southerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed range line to the south-west corner of Township seven (7) South, Range nineteen (19) East; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Township eight (8) South, Range twenty (20) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of .said township: thence southerly along the range line to its intersection with the boundary line between the States of Montana and Wyoming; thence westerly along said state boundary line to the point for its intersection with the range line between Ranges one hundred and two (192) and one hundred and three, (103) West, Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian, Wyoming; thence southerly along said range line to its intersection with the Fourteenth (14th) Standard Parallel North; thence westerly along said parallel to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township fifty-six (56) North, Range one hundred and three (103) West; thence southerly along the section lines to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township fifty-four (54) North, Range one hundred and three (103) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Township fifty-three (53) North, Range one hundred and three (103) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence westerly along the Thirteenth (13th) Standard Parallel North to the north-west corner of township fifty-two (52) North, Range one hundred and four (104) West; thence southerly along the range line to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township fifty (50) North, Range one hundred and four (104) West; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section two (2), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section seventeen (17), Township fifty (59) North, Range one hundred and three (103) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section: thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence, northerly to the north-west corner of Section eleven (11), said township: thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly along the quarter-quarter section line to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of the north-west quarter of Section two (2), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section one (1), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section seven (7), Township fifty (50) North, Range one hundred and two (102) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence, westerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-three (23), Township fifty (50) North, Range one hundred and three (103) West; thence southerly along the quarter-section lines to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section two (2), Township forty-nine (49) North, Range one hundred and three (103) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Township forth-nine (49) North, Range one hundred and four (104) West; thence easterly along the Twelfth (12th) Standard Parallel North to the north-east corner of Township forty-eight (48) North, Range one hundred and four (104) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section one (1), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Township forty-eight (48) North, Range one hundred and three (103) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of the north-west quarter of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence easterly along the quarter-quarter section lines to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of the north-east quarter of said section: thence southerly along the quarter-quarter section lines to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of the south-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), Township forty-seven (47) North, Range one hundred and three (103) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), Township forty-seven (47) North, Range one hundred and two (102) West; thence southerly along the section lines to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township forty-five (45) North, Range one hundred and two (102) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said Township: thence southerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the Eleventh (11th) Standard Parallel North, to its intersection with the northern boundary of the Wind River or Shoshone Indian Reservation; thence, in a general northwesterly and southwesterly direction, along the northern and western boundary of said reservation to its intersection with the township line between Townships forty-two (42) and forty-three (43) North; thence westerly along said township line to the north-east corner of Township forty-two (42) North, Range one hundred and nine (109) West; thence southerly along the range line to the south-east corner of Township forty-one (41) North, Range one hundred and nine (109) West; thence easterly along the Tenth (10th) Standard Parallel North to its intersection with the western boundary of the AVind River or Shoshone Indian Reservation; thence, in a southeasterly, southerly and easterly direction, along the western and southern boundary of said reservation to its intersection with the range line between Ranges one hundred and one (101) and one hundred and two (102) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Township thirty-three (33) North, Range, one hundred and two (102) West; thence easterly along the Eighth (8th) Standard Parallel North to the north-west corner of Township thirty-two (32) North, Range one hundred (100) West; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said township; thence southerly along the range line to the south-east corner of Township twenty-nine (29) North, Range one hundred (100) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence westerly along the section lines to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (IS), Township twenty-nine (29) North, Range one hundred and two (102) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township thirty (3U) North, Range one hundred and two (102) West; thence westerly along the section lines to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), Township thirty (30) North, Range one hundred and four (104) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township thirty-one (31) North, Range one hundred and five (105) West; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township thirty-two (32) North, Range one hundred and six (106) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly along the Eighth (8th) Standard Parallel North to the south-west corner of Township thirty-three (33) North, Range one hundred and seven (107) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of section thirty-four (34), Township thirty-four (34) North, Range one hundred and nine (109) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Township thirty-five (35) North, Range one hundred and ten (110) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township thirty-six (36) North, Range one hundred and ten (110) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly along the Ninth (9th) Standard Parallel North to the south-east corner of Township thirty-seven (37) North, Range one hundred and ten (110) West; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Township thirty-seven (37) North, Range one hundred and eleven (111) West; thence westerly along the Ninth (9th) Standard Parallel North to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township thirty-six (36) North, Range one hundred and twelve (112) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Township thirty-five (35) North, Range one hundred and thirteen (113) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence southerly along the range line to the south-east corner of Township thirty-three (33) North, Range one hundred and fourteen (114) West; thence westerly along the Eighth (8th) Standard Parallel North to the north-east corner of Township thirty-two (32) North, Range one hundred and fifteen (115) West; thence southerly along the range line to the south-east corner of Township twenty-nine (29) North, Range one hundred and fifteen (115) West: thence easterly along the Seventh (7th) Standard Parallel North to the north-east corner of Township twenty-eight (28) North, Range one hundred and fifteen (115) West; thence southerly along the range line to the south-east corner of Township twenty-five (25) North, Range one hundred and fifteen (115) West: thence westerly along the Sixth (6th) Standard Parallel North to the south-west corner of Township twenty-five (25) North, Range one hundred and seventeen (117) West; thence northerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed range line to the point for the north-west corner of Township twenty-eight (28) North, Range one hundred and seventeen (117) West: thence westerly along the Seventh (7th) Standard Parallel North to the south-east corner of Township twenty-nine (29) North, Range one hundred and eighteen (118) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty-three (33), Township thirty(30) North, Range one hundred and eighteen (US) West; thence northerly along the quarter-section lines to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said quarter-section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-one (31), Township thirty-one (31) North,Range one hundred and eighteen (118) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said quarter-section; thence northerly along the quarter-section lines to the point of intersection with the Eighth (8th) Standard Parallel North; thence easterly along said parallel to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township thirty-three, (33) North, Range one hundred and eighteen (118) West; thence northerly along the section lines to the north-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), Township thirty-four (34) North, Range one hundred and eighteen (118) West; thence westerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence northerly along the quarter-section lines to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section nine (9), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said quarter-section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence westerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section five (5), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said quarter-section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said quarter-section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-one (31), Township thirty-five (35) North, Range one hundred and eighteen (118) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence northerly along the range line to its intersection with the Ninth (9th) Standard Parallel North; thence westerly along said parallel to its intersection with the boundary line between the States of Wyoming and Idaho; thence northerly along said state boundary line to the point where it intersects the southern boundary of the Yellowstone National Park; thence, in an easterly, northerly and westerly direction, along the boundary of said park to the point where it intersects the range line between Ranges nine (9) and ten (10) East, Principal Meridian, Montana, the place of beginning; excepting and excluding from reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Wyoming and particularly described as follows, to wit:", "Township forty (40) North, Range one hundred and sixteen (116) West; Townships forty-one (41) North, Ranges one hundred and fifteen (115) and one hundred and sixteen (116) West; and Townships forty-two (42) North, Ranges one hundred and fifteen (115) and one hundred and sixteen (116) West.", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or tiling of record has not expired: Provided, That this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, tiling or settlement was made.", "2035 Provided further, That nothing herein shall give any force or effect to any claim or right, to any of the lands heretofore embraced within the reserves hereby consolidated which would not have been entitled to recognition if said reserves as heretofore established had been continued in force without being merged into a single reserve as hereinbefore provided.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 29th day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-seventh."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 32 Stat. 2030", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1565; Vol. 27, p. 989; Vol. 29, p. 906.", "Ante, pp. 1999, 2006.", "Ante, p. 2027.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Yellowstone Forest Reserve, Wyoming.", "The Teton and Absaroka Forest reserves consolidated with.", "Boundaries.", "Lands excepted.", "Existing rights not affected.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Merged the Yellowstone, Teton and Absaroka forest reserves, with added lands, into a single Yellowstone Forest Reserve spanning Wyoming and Montana, superseding earlier proclamations and protecting existing rights.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Yellowstone Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Wyoming"}, {"name": "Teton Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Wyoming"}, {"name": "Absaroka Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Wyoming", "Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [42], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-01-29", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The proclamation superseded the Yellowstone and Teton reserves in Wyoming and the Absaroka in Montana and set up one Yellowstone Forest Reserve in their place.", "source": "Proc. 496, 32 Stat. 2030", "date": "1903-01-29", "story": 42}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "On May 4, 1904, Roosevelt redrew the reserve, cutting 518,600 acres.", "source": "Proc. 524; GLO Annual Report", "date": "1904-05-04", "story": 42}], "legacy": [{"text": "The reserve was divided on July 1, 1908, among the Targhee, Teton, Wyoming, Bonneville, Absaroka, Shoshone and Beartooth forests.", "source": "USFS FS-612", "date": "1908-07-01", "story": 42}], "today": [{"name": "Shoshone National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "source": "USFS FS-612", "story": 42}, {"name": "Bridger-Teton National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "source": "USFS FS-612", "story": 42}, {"name": "Caribou-Targhee National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "source": "USFS FS-612", "story": 42}, {"name": "Custer Gallatin National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "source": "USFS FS-612", "story": 42}, {"name": "Helena–Lewis and Clark National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Montana", "source": "USFS FS-612", "story": 42}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-473", "relation": "enlarges", "note": null, "story": 33, "inferred": true, "date": "1902-05-22", "title": "Establishment of the Yellowstone Forest Reserve and the Teton Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "473"}, {"id": "proc-493", "relation": "supersedes", "note": null, "story": 33, "inferred": true, "date": "1902-09-04", "title": "Establishment of the Absaroka Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "493"}, {"id": "proc-524", "relation": "reduced_by", "note": "Redrew the reserve in 1904, cutting 518,600 acres.", "story": 42, "date": "1904-05-04", "title": "Reducing Area of the Yellowstone Forest Reserve, Wyoming and Montana", "type": "proclamation", "number": "524"}, {"id": "proc-559", "relation": "enlarged_by", "note": null, "story": 55, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-05-22", "title": "Enlargement of the Yellowstone Forest Reserve, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho", "type": "proclamation", "number": "559"}, {"id": "eo-896", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "One of the July 1908 orders that divided the Yellowstone reserve.", "story": 42, "date": "1908-06-30", "title": "Beartooth National Forest, Mont., Created", "type": "executive_order", "number": "896"}, {"id": "eo-871", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "One of the July 1908 orders that divided the Yellowstone reserve.", "story": 42, "date": "1908-07-01", "title": "Targhee National Forest, Idaho and Wyo., Created", "type": "executive_order", "number": "871"}, {"id": "eo-872", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "One of the July 1908 orders that divided the Yellowstone reserve.", "story": 42, "date": "1908-07-01", "title": "Teton National Forest, Wyo., Created", "type": "executive_order", "number": "872"}, {"id": "eo-873", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "One of the July 1908 orders that divided the Yellowstone reserve.", "story": 42, "date": "1908-07-01", "title": "Wyoming National Forest, Wyo., Created", "type": "executive_order", "number": "873"}, {"id": "eo-874", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "One of the July 1908 orders that divided the Yellowstone reserve.", "story": 42, "date": "1908-07-01", "title": "Bonneville National Forest, Created", "type": "executive_order", "number": "874"}, {"id": "eo-875", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "One of the July 1908 orders that divided the Yellowstone reserve.", "story": 42, "date": "1908-07-01", "title": "Absaroka National Forest, Mont., Created", "type": "executive_order", "number": "875"}, {"id": "eo-895", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "One of the July 1908 orders that divided the Yellowstone reserve.", "story": 42, "date": "1908-07-01", "title": "Shoshone National Forest, Wyo., Created", "type": "executive_order", "number": "895"}]}
{"id": "eo-201", "type": "executive_order", "number": "201", "tr_sequence": 63, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-01-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of F. A. Collins as Private Secretary to the Public Printer Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_201", "revid": 1836865, "printed_source": "1903 CSR 75"}}, "text": null, "summary": "Allowed F. A. Collins to be appointed private secretary to the Public Printer without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["F. A. Collins"], "significance": 1, "stories": [81], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-01-30", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-202", "type": "executive_order", "number": "202", "tr_sequence": 64, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-02-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Oscar Wenderoth as Senior Draftsman in Treasury Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_202", "revid": 2400812, "printed_source": "1903 CSR 75"}}, "text": null, "summary": "Authorized reinstating Oscar Wenderoth as senior draftsman in the Treasury Department without regard to civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "restore", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Oscar Wenderoth"], "significance": 1, "stories": [81], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-02-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-497", "type": "proclamation", "number": "497", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-02-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Partial Revocation of Withdrawal From Sioux Indian Lands", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 497, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-497"}, "statutes": {"volume": 32, "page": 2035, "last_page": 2035, "cite": "32 Stat. 2035", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-32/pdf/STATUTE-32-Pg2035.pdf", "statutes_date": "1903-02-07", "table_title": "Restoring Cheyenne River Indian Agency lands to the public domain."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["[No. 43.]", "A PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT.", "Whereas, a proclamation was issued February 10, 1890, by the President making known and proclaiming the acceptance of the Sioux Act approved March 2, 1889 (25 Stats., 888) by the different bands of the Sioux Nation of Indians, and the consent thereto by them as required by the said act;", "And whereas, the proclamation contains the following clause:", "That there is also reserved as aforesaid the following described tract within which the Cheyenne River Agency, school and certain other buildings are located, to wit: Commencing at a point in the center of the main channel of the Missouri River opposite Deep Creek, about three miles south of the Cheyenne River; thence due west five and one half miles; thence due north to the Cheyenne River; thence down said river to the center of the main channel thereof to a point in the center of the Missouri River due east or opposite the mouth of said Cheyenne River; thence down the center of the main channel of the Missouri River to the place of beginning:", "And whereas, the government, agency and school buildings have been removed from the lands as above indicated to their present locations;", "And whereas, there appears to be no reason for continuing the lands in a state of reservation, the same not being needed for Indian purposes;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested do hereby declare the said lands subject to disposal under the provisions of the said act, except 160 acres of land to which the St. Johns Mission School has obtained title under the Sioux Act mentioned, in accordance with the provisions thereof.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "WHITE HOUSE,", "February 7, 1903.", "[SEAL.]", "By the President,", "JOHN HAY", "Secretary of State."], "source": "32 Stat. 2035 (GovInfo Statutes at Large page image), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Heading is \"A PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT.\"; the fifth paragraph is the clause quoted from the proclamation of February 10, 1890 (26 Stat. 1556), set as a block quotation; \"thence down said river to the center\" and \"the government, agency and school buildings\" are as printed; [SEAL.] printed below the dating line; countersignature \"By the President,\" with a comma.", "story": 46}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "White House, February 7, 1903. [seal.] John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Opened to disposal the former Cheyenne River Agency tract on Sioux lands along the Missouri River, since the agency and school buildings had moved, except 160 acres held by the St. Johns Mission School.", "categories": ["indian-lands", "public-lands"], "action": "restore", "places": [{"name": "Cheyenne River Agency", "kind": "other", "state": "South Dakota"}], "states": ["South Dakota"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [46], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-02-07", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The old Cheyenne River Agency grounds, held in reserve since the agency moved upriver in 1891, became subject to disposal like the rest of the ceded Sioux lands, except the 160 acres titled to St. John's Mission School.", "source": "32 Stat. 2035", "date": "1903-02-07", "story": 46}], "legacy": [{"text": "The 160-acre mission tract excepted here was itself declared subject to disposal in March 1904, after the Episcopal Church's missionary society said it no longer wanted it.", "source": "Proclamation 521", "date": "1904-03-30", "story": 46}, {"text": "The replacement agency site north of the Cheyenne River was later abandoned when the Oahe Dam's reservoir flooded the Missouri bottoms, and the agency moved to Eagle Butte.", "source": "research entry", "story": 46}], "uncertain": ["Who asked for the proclamation is not known; the Interior Department's letters to the State Department may show it.", "Whether South Dakota newspapers noticed the proclamation in February and March 1903 has not been checked.", "The acreage released is not stated; the boundaries suggest roughly fifteen square miles, a rough geometric estimate only.", "The exact date St. John's Mission School closed is not known; it was gone by mid-1903."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-521", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Declared the 160-acre St. John's Mission tract, excepted in 1903, subject to disposal as well.", "story": 46, "date": "1904-03-30", "title": "Disposal of Sioux Lands", "type": "proclamation", "number": "521"}]}
{"id": "eo-203", "type": "executive_order", "number": "203", "tr_sequence": 65, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-02-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Permanent Appointment of Temporary Clerks at Naval Stations in Insular Possessions", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_203", "revid": 12438625, "printed_source": "1903 CSR 196"}}, "text": null, "summary": "Permitted temporary clerks at naval stations in the insular possessions to receive permanent appointments.", "categories": ["civil-service", "military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [81], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-02-11", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-204", "type": "executive_order", "number": "204", "tr_sequence": 66, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-02-19", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Removing Civil Service Rule Provision which Allowed Aliens to Qualify for Copperplate Map Engraver Position", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_204", "revid": 1836436, "printed_source": "1903 CSR 196"}}, "text": null, "summary": "Removed the civil-service rule provision that had let aliens qualify for the position of copperplate map engraver.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [81], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-02-19", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "eo-176", "relation": "revokes", "note": null, "story": 80, "inferred": true, "date": "1902-06-28", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Make Certain Aliens Qualify for Copperplate Map Engraver Position", "type": "executive_order", "number": "176"}]}
{"id": "proc-498", "type": "proclamation", "number": "498", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Convening the Senate of the United States", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 498, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-498"}, "statutes": {"volume": 32, "page": 2036, "last_page": 2036, "cite": "32 Stat. 2036", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-32/pdf/STATUTE-32-Pg2036.pdf", "statutes_date": "1903-03-02", "table_title": "Convening extra session of the Senate."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["[No. 44.]", "By the President of the United States of America,", "A PROCLAMATION.", "Whereas, public interests require that the Senate should convene in extraordinary session;", "Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and declare that an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene at the Capitol in the city of Washington on the 5th day of March next at twelve o'clock noon, of which all persons who shall at that time be entitled to act as members of that body are hereby required to take notice.", "Given under my hand and the Seal of the United States at Washington the 2d day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-seventh.", "[SEAL.]", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:", "JOHN HAY", "Secretary of State."], "source": "32 Stat. 2036 (GovInfo Statutes at Large page image), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Statutes text of record: \"Therefore, I,\" with no \"Now,\"; \"twelve o'clock\"; [SEAL.] restored (printed in the margin of the dating clause). The American Presidency Project transcription differs in punctuation and wording and should not be used.", "story": 45}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Called the U.S. Senate into extraordinary session at the Capitol at noon on March 5, 1903.", "categories": ["congress"], "action": "convene", "places": [], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [45], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-03-02", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Morning Oregonian ran the Senate call on page one under \"EXTRA SESSION CALLED,\" printing the proclamation in full.", "source": "Morning Oregonian, Mar. 3, 1903", "date": "1903-03-03", "story": 45}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "congress", "text": "The Senate met in executive session from March 5 to March 19, 1903, to act on the canal treaty with Colombia and the Cuban commercial convention.", "source": "Roosevelt, message to the Senate, Mar. 5, 1903", "date": "1903-03-05", "story": 45}, {"kind": "congress", "text": "The Senate consented to the Hay–Herrán canal treaty without change, by a vote reported as 73 to 5.", "source": "Morning Oregonian", "date": "1903-03-17", "story": 45}, {"kind": "congress", "text": "After days of amendment fights the Senate consented to the Cuban convention, 50 to 16, adding that it would not take effect until approved by Congress.", "source": "United States v. American Sugar Refining Co., 202 U.S. 563 (1906); Morning Oregonian", "date": "1903-03-19", "story": 45}], "legacy": [{"text": "Colombia's Senate rejected the Hay–Herrán treaty, and the Panama crisis of November 1903 followed.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1903-08-12", "story": 45}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-506", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The Senate amendment adopted in this session made the November call of the whole Congress necessary.", "story": 45, "date": "1903-10-20", "title": "Convening Extraordinary Session of Congress", "type": "proclamation", "number": "506"}, {"id": "proc-856", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 109, "inferred": true, "date": "1909-02-27", "title": "Convening a Special Session of the United States Senate", "type": "proclamation", "number": "856"}]}
{"id": "eo-205", "type": "executive_order", "number": "205", "tr_sequence": 67, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-03-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Translator in Bureau of Insular Affairs Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_205", "revid": 1836735, "printed_source": "1903 CSR 75"}}, "text": null, "summary": "Authorized appointing a translator in the Bureau of Insular Affairs without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 1, "stories": [81], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-03-07", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-206", "type": "executive_order", "number": "206", "tr_sequence": 68, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-03-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Transferring Revolutionary Archives from the State Department to the Library of Congress", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_206", "revid": 1837496, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The historical archives in the Department of State, known as the Revolutionary archives, and comprising (1) the records and papers of the Continental Congress; (2) the papers of George Washington; (3) the papers of James Madison; (4) the papers of Thomas Jefferson; (5) the papers of Alexander Hamilton; (6) the papers of James Monroe; (7) the papers of Benjamin Franklin, are by authority provided by the act of Congress entitled 'An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, and for other purposes,' approved February 25, 1903, hereby ordered to be transferred from the Department of State — with such exceptions and reservations in each collection herein enumerated as in the discretion of the Secretary of State may be required for the continuity and completeness of the records and archives of the Department of State — to the possession and custody of the Library of Congress, to be there preserved and rendered accessible for historical and other legitimate uses under such rules and regulations as may from time to time be prescribed by the Librarian of Congress.", "The transfer here directed shall be made on the 1st day of July, 1903, or as promptly thereafter as shall be found conveniently practicable to the Department of State and the Library of Congress.", "Theodore Roosevelt.", "White House, March 9, 1903."], "source": "Report of the Librarian of Congress for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1903, pp. 24–25 (Internet Archive 1902a3reportoflibr00libruoft, page images n41–n42), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Printed in the report inside quotation marks as 'the following executive order issued on March 9, 1903.' The report sets the dashes closed ('State—with'); the date line is italic in the report ('March 9, 1903'). OCR faults corrected and line-end hyphens closed. No seal (executive order).", "story": 81}, "summary": "Moved the State Department's Revolutionary archives, including the Continental Congress records and the papers of Washington, Madison, Jefferson, Hamilton, Monroe and Franklin, to the Library of Congress for preservation and public use.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "transfer", "places": [], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [81], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-03-09", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "No newspaper report of the order was found in California or Indiana papers of March 8 to April 15, 1903.", "source": "California Digital Newspaper Collection; Hoosier State Chronicles", "date": "1903", "story": 81}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Librarian of Congress called it the first important transfer under the act of February 25, 1903, and reported the State Department's cooperation as prompt and cordial.", "source": "Report of the Librarian of Congress, FY1903, pp. 24–25", "date": "1903", "story": 81}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "By June 30, 1904 the Continental Congress papers (385 volumes), the Monroe, Hamilton and Washington papers, and the Stevens collection of Franklin papers had arrived, the Washington papers last on June 29, 1904; the Jefferson and Madison papers were still to come.", "source": "Report of the Librarian of Congress, FY1904, p. 57", "date": "1904-06-30", "story": 81}], "legacy": [{"text": "The papers of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, Monroe and Franklin remain cornerstones of the Library of Congress's Manuscript Division.", "source": "research entry", "story": 81}], "today": [{"name": "Library of Congress Manuscript Division", "kind": "other", "relation": "part", "state": "District of Columbia", "note": "Holds the presidential and founders' papers this order transferred.", "source": "research entry", "story": 81}, {"name": "National Archives Record Group 360 (Records of the Continental and Confederation Congresses)", "kind": "other", "relation": "transferred", "state": "District of Columbia", "note": "The Congress records sent to the Library between 1903 and 1922 went to the National Archives in 1952.", "source": "research entry", "story": 81}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1952", "text": "The records of the Continental and Confederation Congresses moved from the Library of Congress to the National Archives, where they are Record Group 360.", "source": "research entry", "story": 81}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-449", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The 1906 transfer of thirteen more State Department collections to the Library of Congress.", "story": 88, "date": "1906-05-23", "title": "Transferring Certain Specified Archives of the Department of State to the Library of Congress", "type": "executive_order", "number": "449"}]}
{"id": "eo-207", "type": "executive_order", "number": "207", "tr_sequence": 69, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-03-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Horatio C. Pollock as Clerk at Military Headquarters in Philippine Islands Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_207", "revid": 1836818, "printed_source": "1903 CSR 75"}}, "text": null, "summary": "Authorized Horatio C. Pollock's appointment as a clerk at military headquarters in the Philippine Islands without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service", "insular-territories"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": ["Horatio C. Pollock"], "significance": 1, "stories": [81], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-03-09", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-053", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 53, "date": "1903-03-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Valdez Signal Supply Station, east shore of Valdez Bay, Alaska, established for the Signal Corps.", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 53, "page": "193", "citations": "(1907 MR 11; 1910 MR 9; 1916 MR 12; I CFR 81, 271; III CFR 670; 1903 GLO 40; 1904 GLO 465; 1905 GLO 102)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Valdez Signal Station, east shore of Valdez Bay, Alaska (24,012 sq. ft.), established for the Signal Corps in connection with the Fort Liscum–Fort Egbert military telegraph line.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Valdez Signal Station, east shore of Valdez Bay, Alaska (24,012 sq. ft.), established for the Signal Corps in connection with the Fort Liscum–Fort Egbert military telegraph line”. War Department compilation (1907)."], "summary": "Established the Valdez Signal Station on the east shore of Valdez Bay, Alaska, for the Signal Corps' Fort Liscum–Fort Egbert military telegraph line.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Valdez Signal Station", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [112], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-03-10", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Signal Supply Station at Valdez, set up for the Army's Alaska military-telegraph line, was trimmed from 24,012 to 22,946 square feet a little over a year later.", "source": "War Department, Military Reservations (1907)", "date": "1904-06-30", "story": 112}]}, "related": [{"id": "uo-095", "relation": "amended_by", "note": "The order of June 30, 1904 reduced the station to 22,946 square feet.", "story": 112, "date": "1904-06-30", "title": "EO of Mar. 10, 1903 amended; Valdez Signal Station, Alaska, diminished to 22,946 sq. ft.; adjoining lands reserved for War/Justice.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "eo-208", "type": "executive_order", "number": "208", "tr_sequence": 70, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-03-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of William J. Lee as Telegrapher in Department of Commerce and Labor Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_208", "revid": 1836822, "printed_source": "1903 CSR 75"}}, "text": null, "summary": "Allowed William J. Lee to be appointed telegrapher in the Department of Commerce and Labor without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["William J. Lee"], "significance": 1, "stories": [81], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-03-12", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-054", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 54, "date": "1903-03-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Pelican Island Reservation, Fla., established as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds.", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": ["Lord gives March 13, 1903; the GLO report for fiscal 1903, Palmer's Circular 87 and The Auk give March 14. Not yet checked against the signed original."], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 54, "page": "193", "citations": "(EO 1014)"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that Pelican Island in Indian River in section nine, township thirty-one south, range thirty-nine east, State of Florida, be, and it is hereby, reserved and set apart for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds."], "source": "U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service image of the signed original; collated again word for word against the period White House file copy (dated \"March 14th, 1903\"), 2026-08-21", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "The order is a single sentence; the heading (WHITE HOUSE, March 14, 1903) and signature are not reproduced in the research entry. Numbers are spelled out as in the original; the doubled commas in \"be, and it is hereby, reserved\" are original.", "story": 1}, "lord_description": "**Pelican Island Reservation, Volusia County ‡, Fla., established as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds** — the first federal bird reservation; boundaries described. *(Enlarged later by numbered EO 1014, dated Jan. 26, 1909.)* † **Date:** the contemporary administrative record is unanimous for **March 14, 1903** — the USDA Solicitor's compilations of 1908 and 1913, the Biological Survey's FY1903 report, Palmer's Circular 87 (1912), and the Surveyor-General of Florida in the GLO report for FY1903, p. 317. **March 13** enters only through Roosevelt's own EO 1014 of 1909, which is where Lord's 1943 index appears to have taken it. Check the signed original before publishing either. ‡ **County: Lord is wrong.** The order names no county; its text runs \"Pelican Island in Indian River in section nine, township thirty-one south, range thirty-nine east, State of Florida.\" The island lay in **Brevard County** in 1903 (St. Lucie was carved from southern Brevard in 1905, Indian River from northern St. Lucie in 1925). Volusia is fourteen townships north and nine ranges west.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Pelican Island Reservation, Volusia County ‡, Fla., established as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds — the first federal bird reservation; boundaries described. † Date: the contemporary administrative record is unanimous for March 14, 1903 — the USDA Solicitor's compilations of 1908 and 1913, the Biological Survey's FY1903 report, Palmer's Circular 87 (1912), and the Surveyor-General of Florida in the GLO report for FY1903, p. 317. March 13 enters only through Roosevelt's own EO 1014 of 1909, which is where Lord's 1943 index appears to have taken it. Check the signed original before publishing either. ‡ County: Lord is wrong. The order names no county; its text runs \"Pelican Island in Indian River in section nine, township thirty-one south, range thirty-nine east, State of Florida.\" The island lay in Brevard County in 1903 (St. Lucie was carved from southern Brevard in 1905, Indian River from northern St. Lucie in 1925). Volusia is fourteen townships north and nine ranges west”. The order names no county (Lord's \"Volusia County\" is wrong; the island was then in Brevard County)."], "summary": "Set aside Pelican Island in Florida's Indian River as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds, with its boundaries described.", "categories": ["wildlife"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Pelican Island Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Florida"}], "states": ["Florida"], "people": [], "significance": 5, "stories": [1, 112], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-03-13", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The American Ornithologists' Union's report for 1903 reprinted the order under the heading \"WHITE HOUSE, March 14, 1903,\" along with the Agriculture Secretary's letter naming a keeper for the island.", "source": "William Dutcher, The Auk 21, no. 1 (January 1904), pp. 121–23", "date": "1904-01", "story": 1}, {"text": "Outside bird-protection circles the order drew little notice: no fight in Congress, little press and no organized opposition to a mangrove islet that looked worthless.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1903", "story": 1}, {"text": "No paper in the Library of Congress's digitized collection appears to have carried the order in March 1903, though that collection has no 1903 issues of Brevard County's own paper.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1903-03", "story": 112}, {"text": "The DeLand Weekly News told Florida readers that Pelican Island had been made a government reservation and that no shooting would be allowed on or near it.", "source": "DeLand Weekly News, May 8, 1903", "date": "1903-05-08", "story": 112}, {"text": "A New York Sun wire story from Washington, \"A GOVERNMENT AVIARY,\" ran in the Minneapolis Journal and was reprinted in about three dozen papers from Walla Walla to Savannah over the rest of the year.", "source": "Minneapolis Journal, June 8, 1903", "date": "1903-06-08", "story": 112}, {"text": "One reprint explained the earlier silence: the government had said nothing about the reservation because visitors were not wanted.", "source": "Chipley Banner, August 6, 1903", "date": "1903-08-06", "story": 112}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Secretary of Agriculture appointed Paul Kroegel, already one of the ornithologists' union's four paid Florida wardens, as keeper of the reservation.", "source": "Dutcher, The Auk 21 (January 1904), pp. 121–22", "date": "1903-04-04", "story": 1}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "Kroegel's federal pay was set at a dollar a month, while the ornithologists' union, partly with Florida Audubon Society money, went on paying his working wage.", "source": "James Wilson to Paul Kroegel, March 24, 1903 (copy); Dutcher, The Auk 21 (January 1904), treasurer's statement", "date": "1903", "story": 1}, {"kind": "political", "text": "The order set the precedent for fifty more bird reservations created by executive order over the next six years, fifty-one in all, none of them authorized by statute.", "source": "T. S. Palmer, Biological Survey Circular No. 87 (October 5, 1912); Chapman, Autobiography of a Bird-Lover (1933)", "date": "1903", "story": 1}, {"kind": "congress", "text": "Congress recognized executive-order bird reserves without ratifying them, making it a federal offense to disturb birds or take eggs on lands reserved as breeding grounds by any law, proclamation or Executive order.", "source": "Act of June 28, 1906, ch. 3565, 34 Stat. 536–37", "date": "1906-06-28", "story": 1}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Agriculture Department's Division of Biological Survey, which held the reservation, became a bureau.", "source": "Agricultural Appropriation Act of March 3, 1905, 33 Stat. 877", "date": "1905-07-01", "story": 1}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Agriculture Department appointed Paul Kroegel warden of the new reservation in a letter of April 4, 1903.", "source": "The Auk, January 1904 (Dutcher, A.O.U. committee report)", "date": "1903-04-04", "story": 110}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Supreme Court upheld the president's implied power to withdraw public land, in an opinion that counted the bird reserves and noted \"there was no act of Congress providing for Bird Reserves.\"", "source": "United States v. Midwest Oil Co., 236 U.S. 459 (1915)", "date": "1915", "story": 1}, {"text": "Pelican Island is treated as the origin point of the National Wildlife Refuge System, which now counts more than 570 refuges.", "source": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, \"By the Numbers\"", "story": 1}, {"text": "Florida later claimed the 1909 and 1963 refuge expansions as state land under the Swamp and Overflowed Lands Act.", "source": "research entry", "story": 1}, {"text": "Florida's brown pelicans, the population the island was reserved to protect, came off the endangered list on February 4, 1985; the species as a whole was delisted in 2009.", "source": "Brown pelican delisting rule, published November 17, 2009", "date": "1985-02-04", "story": 1}, {"text": "The island began shrinking around 1943 under wave action and now covers about three acres, roughly half the five and a half acres reserved in 1903.", "source": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service", "story": 1}, {"text": "Pelican Island, the first federal bird reservation, became the seed of the National Wildlife Refuge System.", "source": "research entry", "story": 110}, {"text": "The Biological Survey's own register lists Pelican Island as reservation No. 1, established March 14, 1903.", "source": "Palmer, Biological Survey Circular No. 87 (1912)", "date": "1912-10-05", "story": 110}], "today": [{"name": "Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "origin", "state": "Florida", "since": "1903-03-14", "note": "Renamed a national wildlife refuge in 1940.", "source": "Proc. 2416, 54 Stat. 2717", "story": 1}, {"name": "National Wildlife Refuge System", "kind": "other", "relation": "origin", "since": "1903-03-14", "note": "Pelican Island is treated as the system's starting point; the system counts more than 570 refuges.", "source": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service", "story": 1}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1915", "text": "The Supreme Court upheld the implied presidential power to withdraw public land, citing the bird reserves.", "source": "United States v. Midwest Oil Co., 236 U.S. 459", "story": 1}, {"date": "1940-07-25", "text": "Renamed Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge by Proclamation 2416, one of 193 wildlife areas renamed together.", "source": "5 Fed. Reg. 2677; 54 Stat. 2717–26", "story": 1}], "uncertain": ["Whether the order was signed March 13 or March 14, 1903: two contemporaneous texts give March 14, but the signed original has not been checked.", "The dollar-a-month federal salary rests on a March 24, 1903 letter known only from a copy on a non-archival website.", "Whether Kroegel's service as warden ended in 1920 or 1926.", "The identification of Charles DuBois as the official who supplied the legal reasoning rests on a modern reconstruction of Biological Survey files.", "Palmer's 1912 count of fifty-one bird reservations differs from Fish and Wildlife Service materials, which say fifty-three or fifty-five.", "The date rests on contemporary records saying March 14, 1903, against the March 13 recited in Executive Order 1014; the signed original in National Archives Record Group 11 has not been examined.", "Whether the order was signed March 14 or March 13, 1903: the contemporary federal record says March 14 and Roosevelt's 1909 enlargement order says March 13; only the signed original can settle it."]}, "related": [{"id": "uo-098", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 22, "inferred": true, "date": "1904-10-04", "title": "Breton Island Reservation, St. Bernard and Plaquemines Parishes, La., established as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}, {"id": "eo-296-a", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 85, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-03-09", "title": "Creating Stump Lake Reservation, North Dakota, as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Birds", "type": "executive_order", "number": "296-A"}, {"id": "eo-675", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 94, "inferred": true, "date": "1907-08-08", "title": "Establishing Tern Islands Reservation near Mississippi River Delta in Louisiana as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Birds", "type": "executive_order", "number": "675"}, {"id": "eo-923", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 102, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-08-08", "title": "Establishing Key West Reservation in Florida as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "type": "executive_order", "number": "923"}, {"id": "eo-939", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 102, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-09-15", "title": "Establishing Pine Island Reservation in Florida as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "type": "executive_order", "number": "939"}, {"id": "eo-942", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 102, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-09-26", "title": "Establishing Palma Sola Reservation in Florida as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "type": "executive_order", "number": "942"}, {"id": "eo-943", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 102, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-09-26", "title": "Establishing Matlacha Pass Reservation in Florida as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "type": "executive_order", "number": "943"}, {"id": "eo-1014", "relation": "enlarged_by", "note": "The 1909 enlargement order, whose recital (followed by Lord) gives the original order's date as March 13.", "story": 110, "date": "1909-01-26", "title": "Enlarging Pelican Island Reservation, Florida", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1014"}, {"id": "eo-1049", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Bogoslof, Alaska, the last of the fifty-one bird reservations Roosevelt created by executive order.", "story": 1, "date": "1909-03-03", "title": "Establishing Bogoslof Reservation, Alaska, as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1049"}]}
{"id": "eo-209", "type": "executive_order", "number": "209", "tr_sequence": 71, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-03-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Prescribing Civil Service Rules in Lieu of Rules of May 6, 1896", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_209", "revid": 13537757, "printed_source": "| notes    = See the Notes section for a list of Executive Orders affected by or related to the issuance of this Executive Order."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["__TOC__ In the exercise of power conferred by the Constitution, by section 1753, R. S., and by the civil-service act of January 16, 1883, the President promulgates the following rules in lieu of those promulgated May 6, 1896, and the amendments thereof:", "======", "No person in the executive civil service shall use his official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with an election or affecting the result thereof.", "No question in any form of application or in any examination shall be so framed as to elicit information concerning the political or religious opinions or affiliations of any applicant, nor shall any inquiry be made concerning such opinions or affiliations, and all disclosures thereof shall be discountenanced. No discrimination shall be exercised, threatened, or promised by any person in the executive civil service against or in favor of an applicant, eligible, or employee in the classified service because of his political or religious opinions or affiliations.", "No recommendation of an applicant, eligible, or employee in the competitive service involving a disclosure of his political or religious opinions or affiliations shall be considered or filed by the Commission or by any officer concerned in making appointments or promotions.", "======", "The classified service shall include all officers and employees in the executive civil service of the United States, heretofore or hereafter appointed or employed, in positions now existing or hereafter to be created, of whatever function or designation, whether compensated by a fixed salary or otherwise, except persons employed merely as laborers, and persons whose appointments are subject to confirmation by the Senate; but no right of classification shall accrue to persons whose appointment or assignment to classified duties is in violation of the civil-service rules.", "No person shall be appointed, employed, promoted, or transferred in the classified service, or perform the duties of any position therein, until he passes an examination in conformity with these rules, unless specially exempted thereunder.", "Appointments to the excepted positions named in Schedule A of these rules may be made without examination or upon non-competitive examination; but the proper appointing officer may fill an excepted position as competitive positions are filled, in which case the person appointed will receive all the rights of a competitive employee.", "A person appointed without competitive examination under section 3 of this rule shall not be assigned to the work of a competitive position without the approval of the Commission.", "Laborers who, in connection with their usual duties, are to perform work of the grade performed by classified employees shall be appointed upon certification by the Commission from appropriate registers of eligibles in the manner provided by these rules; and a person employed merely as a laborer or workman without examination under these rules shall not be assigned to work of the grade performed by classified employees.", "A person holding a position when it becomes classified and subject to competitive examination shall have all the rights which he would acquire if appointed thereto upon examination under these rules, except that he shall not be transferred without first passing the examination provided by the Commission; and no person who has been appointed in any post-office within three months prior to the classification thereof shall be transferred to a position of carrier within six months after such classification.", "On the date of establishment of the free-delivery system in any post-office, these rules shall apply to its officers and employees in the same manner as they apply to those in existing free-delivery offices, and the Postmaster-General shall promptly notify the Commission of all orders for such establishment.", "Whenever a post-office is consolidated with one which has city free-delivery, any regularly appointed officer or employee of the office discontinued, if he has actually served continuously therein during the sixty days next preceding such consolidation, or if he was appointed through competitive examination, may become a classified employee of the other office.", "Whenever the separate office of Indian agent shall be discontinued in any agency, and its duties devolved upon the superintendent of the training school, the agent may be made a classified employee at such school or agency upon such test of fitness as may be determined upon by the Secretary of the Interior and the Commission.", "======", "The Commission shall prepare and hold open competitive examinations for admission to the classified service, which examinations shall be of a practical and suitable character, and shall be held at such times and places as may most nearly meet the convenience of applicants and the needs of the service.", "Where, in its opinion, the conditions of good administration warrant, the Commission may give noncompetitive examinations to test fitness for (a) transfer, reinstatement, or promotion; (b) appointment of Indians in the Indian Service at large as superintendents, teachers, manual training teachers, kindergartners, physicians, matrons, clerks, seamstresses, farmers, and industrial teachers, which examinations shall consist of the same tests of fitness as those applied to other persons seeking appointment through competitive examinations; (c) the appointment of the wife of the superintendent of an Indian school as teacher or matron therein; (d) employment as inspector of safety appliances by the Interstate Commerce Commission.", "All persons at navy-yards, naval stations, and at private ship-building and manufacturing establishments where work is done by contract for the Navy Department, employed as special mechanics and civilian assistant inspectors of work and material, and all persons employed under the Navy Department as draftsmen, will be subject to the regulations of the Navy Department governing the employment of labor at navy-yards. Appointments to these positions shall be made on tests of fitness prescribed in paragraphs 74 to 83, inclusive, of Navy-Yard Order No. 23, revised.", "======", "The Commission shall designate from among persons in the Federal service, after consulting the head of the department or office in which such persons serve, such boards of examiners as it may deem necessary. Their members shall perform such duties as the Commission may direct, in connection with the execution of the civil-service act and of these rules, and in the performance thereof they shall be under the direct and sole control of the Commission. Such duties shall be considered part of the duties of the office in which they are serving, and time shall be allowed therefor during office hours. No board shall be composed solely of adherents of one political party when other persons are available and competent to serve.", "The Commission shall render all practicable assistance to the Philippine civil-service board, and shall conduct examinations, upon its request, under such regulations as may be jointly agreed upon.", "Persons in the executive civil service shall facilitate the holding of examinations and other work of the Commission; and executive officers in charge of public buildings shall permit and arrange for the use of suitable rooms under their charge, and for heating, lighting, and furnishing the same.", "======", "No person shall be admitted to examination unless he be a citizen of or owe allegiance to the United States.", "Application for examination must be made under oath, in such form and manner, and accompanied by such certificates, as the Commission may prescribe.", "Persons serving under enlistment shall not be examined without the written consent of the head of the department under which they are serving.", "The Commission may refuse to examine an applicant or to certify an eligible for any of the following reasons: (a) Dismissal from the service for delinquency or misconduct within one year next preceding the date of his application; (b) physical or mental unfitness for the position for which he applies; (c) criminal, infamous, dishonest, immoral, or notoriously disgraceful conduct; (d) intentionally making a false statement in any material fact, or practicing any deception or fraud in securing examination, registration, certification, or appointment; (e) refusal to furnish testimony as required by Rule XIV; (f) the habitual use of intoxicating beverages to excess. Any of the last five foregoing disqualifications shall also be good cause for removal from the service.", "The Commission may, with the approval of the proper appointing officer, change by regulation the existing age limits for entrance to the examinations under these rules; but persons preferred under section 1754, R. S., may be examined without regard to age.", "Applicants for positions in the recognized mechanical trades must have served as apprentices or journeymen for such periods as the Commission may prescribe.", "======", "Examination papers shall be rated on a scale of 100, and the subjects therein shall be given such relative weights as the Commission may prescribe. Competitors shall be duly notified of their ratings.", "All competitors rated at 70 or more shall be eligible for appointment, and their names shall be placed on the proper register according to their ratings; but the names of persons preferred under section 1754, R. S., rated at 65 or more, shall be placed above all others.", "The term of eligibility shall be one year, beginning with the date on which the name of the eligible is entered on the register. This term may be extended, in the discretion of the Commission, for all those on any register, when the conditions of good administration render it inexpedient to hold a new examination.", "======", "Any position or employment in the classified service not excepted from competitive examination, unless filled by reinstatement, transfer, promotion, or reduction, shall be filled only in the following manner:", "(a) The nominating or appointing officer shall request the certification of eligibles, and the Commission shall certify, from the register of eligibles appropriate for the group in which the position to be filled is classified, the three names at the head thereof which have not been certified three times to the department or office in which the vacancy exists. Certification for temporary appointment shall not be counted as one of such certifications. Certification shall be made without regard to sex, unless sex is specified in the request.", "(b) The nominating or appointing officer shall make selection from the three names certified, with sole reference to merit and fitness, unless objection shall be made, and sustained by the Commission, to one or more of the persons certified, for any of the reasons stated in Rule V, section 4.", "(c) The person selected for appointment shall be duly notified by the appointing officer, and upon accepting and reporting for duty shall receive from such officer a certificate of appointment for a probationary period of six months. If the conduct or capacity of the probationer be not satisfactory to the appointing officer the probationer shall be notified in writing that at the end of such probationary period he will not receive absolute appointment; otherwise his retention in the service shall be equivalent to his absolute appointment. A probationer separated from the service without delinquency or misconduct may be restored to the register of eligibles, in the discretion of the Commission, for the remainder of his period of eligibility.", "Certification for appointment in the departments or independent offices at Washington shall be so made as to maintain, as nearly as the conditions of good administration will warrant, the apportionment of such appointments among the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia upon the basis of population: Provided, That appointments to the following-named positions shall not be so apportioned, viz: Plate printer, printer's assistant, skilled helper, and operative, in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing; positions in the field service of the military staff departments and at Army Headquarters, mail-bag repair shop and mail-lock repair shop, Government Printing Office, Pension Agency, and local offices in the District of Columbia; page, apprentice, student, gardener, and engraver.", "The Commission may arrange the territory of the United States into appropriate districts for the purpose of certification to positions in parts of the service not subject to the apportionment, and certification to any such position may be confined to residents of the district in which such position is located.", "======", "Where an emergency requires a vacancy to be filled before an appointment can be made from certification, a request for certification shall first be made, after which such vacancy may for more than thirty days without prior approval by the Commission in writing, and in any case shall cease by limitation as soon as an appointment can be made upon certification. All be filled by an emergency appointment without examination or certification. Such emergency appointment shall not continue such emergency appointments shall be reported to the Commission as soon as made.", "When there are fewer than three eligibles on any register, the Commission shall certify the names thereon, and if the appointing officer shall elect not to make a probational appointment therefrom, he shall select for temporary appointment the one eligible, or one of the two eligibles, unless reasons satisfactory to the Commission are given why the selection should not be so made. Such temporary appointment may continue until three eligibles are provided.", "Where the work is temporary in character, after the completion of which the services of the employee will not be further needed, a temporary appointment may be made, with the prior consent of the Commission, for a period not to exceed three months, which period may, with the like consent, be extended for a further period of three months, but no longer. Such appointments, however, shall be made, so far as practicable, by certification from registers containing the names of eligibles who are immediately available; and the Commission may restrict such certifications for temporary appointments to eligibles living near the place where service is to be rendered.", "The acceptance by an eligible of a temporary appointment shall not affect his standing on any register for permanent employment; nor shall his temporary service be counted as part of his probationary period.", "======", "A person separated without delinquency or misconduct from a competitive position, or from a position which he entered by transfer or promotion from a competitive position, may be reinstated in the department or office in which he formerly served, upon certificate of the Commission, subject to the following limitations:", "(a) The separation must have occurred within one year next preceding the date of the requisition of the nominating or appointing officer for such certificate; but this limitation shall not apply to a person who served in the civil war or the war with Spain and was honorably discharged, or his widow, or an army nurse of either war.", "(b) No person may be reinstated to a position requiring an examination different from that required for the position from which he was separated, without passing an appropriate examination.", "======", "Transfers shall be governed as follows:", "No transfer shall be made to a competitive position above the lowest class in any grade, unless the appointing officer shall certify that the position can not be adequately filled by promotion; but the Commission may, with the approval of the head of any department, adopt regulations applicable to the service in or under such department declaring what class shall be regarded as the lowest in any grade.", "No person appointed without competitive examination to a position classified at the time of such appointment, and no person serving in an unclassified position or in a position named in Schedule A not appointed by competitive examination or by transfer or promotion from a competitive position, shall be transferred to a competitive position.", "Any person may be transferred to a position in which he was formerly employed, or to any position to which transfer could be made therefrom, if since his transfer he has been continuously in the executive civil service of the United States or of its insular possessions. Such transfer may be made without compliance with clauses (a), (b), (c), (d), and (e) of section 8 of this rule.", "Physicians employed as pension examining surgeons, whether organized in boards or working individually under the direction of the Commissioner of Pensions, and carriers in the Rural Free-Delivery Service, shall not be transferred to any other positions in the classified service.", "In the apportioned service transfers within the same department or office may be made without certificate of the Commission, subject to the rules and regulations regarding promotion, unless different tests are prescribed for original entrance to the position to which transfer is proposed.", "In the nonapportioned service transfers within an office, among post-offices, among the different offices of the same customs district, among the military staff departments, and from the War Department to any military staff department, may be made without certificate of the Commission, and subject to the limitations prescribed in section 5 of this rule, unless otherwise provided by regulation of the Commission.", "Operatives and other employees in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing whose duties are similar to those of operatives may be transferred without examination and certificate of the Commission to the apportioned positions of expert money counter and paper counter in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, money-order assorter and skilled laborer acting as money-order assorter in the office of the Auditor for the Post-Office Department, and expert counter, feeder and separator in the office of the Treasurer of the United States. Employees so transferred shall not be charged to the apportionment, and such transfer shall not give them rights of promotion or transfer greater than those of the positions from which they were transferred, and they shall not be assigned to duties other than those of the positions named in this section.", "Unless otherwise specifically provided in this rule, no person shall be transferred except on certificate of the Commission previously obtained, and subject to the following limitations:", "(a) He must have received absolute appointment and have actually served in the classified service at least six months next preceding the transfer.", "(b) He must be within the age limitations prescribed for examination for the position to which his transfer is proposed.", "(c) The apportionment must be observed, unless waived by the Commission upon the certificate of the appointing officer that the transfer is required in the interests of good administration, setting forth in detail the reasons therefor.", "(d) He must pass an appropriate examination whenever different tests are prescribed for original entrance to the position to which transfer is proposed.", "(e) He shall not be transferred to a position in which there is not required, in the judgment of the Commission, the performance of the same class of work or the practice of the same mechanical trade required in the position from which transfer is proposed.", "A person to be transferred from a nonapportioned to an apportioned position shall be required, previous to his transfer, to prove his residence in the same manner as for original appointment.", "An officer or employee occupying a competitive position in the Philippine classified service, who has served three years or more therein, may be transferred to the Federal classified service, subject to the provisions of these rules.", "======", "Competitive tests or examinations shall, as far as practicable and useful, be established to test fitness for promotion in the classified service.", "Until regulations to govern promotions are made, promotions may be made upon any test of fitness, not disapproved by the Commission, which may be determined upon by the promoting officer, subject to the following limitations:", "(a) The age limitations and apportionment must be observed.", "(b) In case of promotion to a position for which the entrance tests are different, the person to be promoted must first pass an appropriate examination before the Commission.", "No recommendation for the promotion of a classified employee shall be considered by any officer concerned in making promotions, unless it be made by the person under whose supervision such employee has served; and such recommendation by any other person, if made with the knowledge and consent of the employee, shall be sufficient cause for debarring him from the promotion proposed, and a repetition of the offense shall be sufficient cause for removing him from the service.", "Substitutes shall be promoted to the first vacancies occurring in regular positions in the order of their original appointment, whenever there are substitutes of the required sex who are eligible and will accept, unless such vacancies are filled by promotion, transfer, or reinstatement.", "======", "In making removals or reductions, and in other punishment, penalties like in character shall be imposed for like offenses.", "No person shall be removed from a competitive position, except for such cause as will promote the efficiency of the public service, and for reasons given in writing, and the person whose removal is sought shall have notice and be furnished a copy thereof, and be allowed a reasonable time for personally answering the same in writing; but no examination of witnesses nor any trial or hearing shall be required except in the discretion of the officer making the removal. Copy of such reasons, notice, and answer, and of the order of removal shall be made a part of the records of the proper department or office, as shall also the reasons for any change in rank or compensation, and the Commission shall upon request be furnished with copies or the originals thereof.", "Any person in the executive civil service who shall willfully violate any of the provisions of the civil-service act or of these rules shall be removed from the service.", "======", "Every nominating or appointing officer in the executive civil service shall report in detail to the Commission, whenever and in such manner as it may prescribe, all changes in the service under his authority, whether they affect positions or employees that are classified, unclassified, excepted, permanent, temporary, or subject to contract.", "Such officers shall also furnish to the Commission, when requested, a list of all the positions and employments under their authority together with the names, designations, compensations, duties, and dates of appointment or employment of all persons serving therein.", "Reports of appointments and changes in status of mere laborers or workmen shall be accompanied by a statement setting forth specifically the kind of labor performed, in detail sufficient to enable the Commission to determine the status of each position as classified or unclassified; and a similar statement of duties performed by any employee or pertaining to any position in the executive civil service shall be furnished to the Commission on request. All essential changes of duties pertaining to persons appointed as mere laborers or workmen without examination under the civil-service rules shall be at once reported to the Commission.", "======", "It shall be the duty of every officer and employee in the executive civil service, and of every applicant or eligible for a position therein, to give to the Commission, or its authorized representatives, all proper and competent information and testimony in regard to matters inquired of arising under the civil service act and rules, and to subscribe such testimony and make oath or affirmation to the same before some officer authorized by law to administer oaths.", "======", "If the Commission shall find that any person is holding a position in violation of the civil-service act or of the rules promulgated in accordance therewith, it shall, after notice to the person affected and an opportunity for explanation, certify the facts to the proper appointing officer. If such person be not dismissed within ten days thereafter it shall certify the facts to the proper disbursing and auditing officers, and such officers shall not pay or audit the salary or wages of such person thereafter accruing: Provided, That if a question of law respecting the power to appoint or employ is raised in any such case, the President or the head of a department may obtain the opinion of the Attorney-General thereon.", "======", "The Commission shall have authority to make regulations for the execution of these rules.", "No modification of the existing regulations in the Navy Department governing the employment of labor at navy-yards shall be made without the approval of the Commission.", "Approved, to take effect on and after April 15, 1903."], "source": "Wikisource (from | notes    = See the Notes section for a list of Executive Orders affected by or related to the issuance of this Executive Order.)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, March 20, 1903. ====== No office or position shall be deemed excepted unless it is specifically named herein. Not more than one position shall he treated as excepted under the title of any such position unless a different number be indicated. ======== Two private secretaries or confidential clerks to the head of each of the Executive Departments and one to each assistant head. One private secretary or confidential clerk to each of the heads of bureaus appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate in the Executive Departments, if authorized by law. All persons appointed by the President without confirmation by the Senate. Attorneys, assistant attorneys, and special assistant attorneys. Chinese and Japanese interpreters. Any person receiving not more than $300 per annum compensation for his personal salary who may lawfully perform his official duties in connection with his private business, such duties requiring only a portion of his time. Any person employed in a foreign country under the State Department, or temporarily employed in a confidential capacity in a foreign country under any department or office. Any position the duties of which are of a quasi military or quasi naval character, and for the performance of which duties a person is enlisted for a term of years; also positions in the Revenue-Cutter Service, where the persons enlist for the season of navigation only. All positions in Alaska which can not be filled from appropriate existing registers. A person serving under temporary appointment continuously since May 29, 1899, may be permanently appointed, in the discretion of the appointing officer. A person holding an excepted position, which he entered prior to November 2, 1894, and in which he has since served continuously, may, subject to the other conditions and provisions of these rules, be transferred to a competitive position. ======== One cashier in each customs district, if authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury. One chief or principal deputy or assistant collector at each customs port, and at the port of New York not exceeding one solicitor to the collector, if authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury; and not exceeding one principal deputy collector of customs at each subport or station. All deputy collectors of internal revenue who are borne on the rolls as such, and the allowance for whose salaries is approved by the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, That no position designated as a clerkship under a collector of internal revenue, appointment to which is made by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall be discontinued for the purpose of substituting a deputy collectorship therefor, or for any purpose other than a bona fide reduction of force, and that before such reduction shall be made the reasons therefor shall be given in writing by the collector of the district, and shall be approved by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and the Secretary of the Treasury. Storekeepers and gaugers whose compensation does not exceed $3 per day when actually employed and whose aggregate compensation shall not exceed $500 per annum. One private secretary or confidential clerk to the superintendent, one cashier, one deposit weigh clerk, one assistant coiner, one assistant melter and refiner, and one assistant assayer, in each mint or assay office. Any local physician employed for temporary duty as acting assistant surgeon in the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service. Any person employed in the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service as quarantine attendant at the Gulf, South Atlantic, Mullet Key, Reedy Island, Cape Charles, Columbia River, or San Francisco quarantine; and any person employed as quarantine attendant, or acting assistant surgeon, or sanitary inspector, on quarantine vessels, or in camps or stations established for quarantine purposes during epidemics of contagious diseases, for temporary duty in the United States or elsewhere in preventing the introduction or spread of contagious or infectious diseases. ======== All paymasters' clerks actually on duty with paymasters. All cable engineers. All telegraph operators, telegraph linemen, and cable seamen, receiving a monthly compensation of $60 or less, serving on military telegraph systems or at military stations, and who perform their duties in connection with their private business or with other employment, such duties requiring only a portion of their time. Appointment to such positions shall be subject to noncompetitive examination as to practical skill in the work required therein, by a signal officer or acting signal officer, whose certificate as to the professional fitness of the appointee shall be forwarded to the Secretary of War, and a duplicate thereof to the Civil Service Commission. All persons in the army transport service. ======== Wardens, chaplains, and physicians in the United States penitentiaries or prisons. One clerk to each United States district attorney. Examiners. Any person employed as office or field deputy in the office of a United States marshal. All positions and employments deemed by the Attorney-General to be legal or confidential in their character, and which relate to temporary service or which grow out of appropriation acts committing to the Attorney-General the execution of some purpose of the law and the expenditure of the funds therefor, but not creating specific positions. ======== The Assistant Attorney-General for the Post-Office Department. One private secretary or confidential clerk to the Assistant Attorney-General. One private secretary or confidential clerk to the postmaster, if authorized by the Postmaster-General, at each post-office where the receipts of the last preceding fiscal year amounted to as much as $350,000. All employees on star routes and in post-offices having no free-delivery service. One cashier or finance clerk at each first-class post-office. Inspectors of coal mines in the Territories. Special agents employed, as necessity for their employment may arise, for the purpose of protecting public lands. Inspectors of surveyors-general and district land offices. All physicians employed as pension examining surgeons, whether organized in boards or working individually under the direction of the Commissioner of Pensions. This paragraph shall not include medical examiners in the Pension Office. Five special pension examiners to investigate fraudulent and other pension claims of a criminal nature. One clerk at each pension agency to act for the agent during his absence or disability. ======== Agents, experts, and student assistants for temporary duty employed in making investigations and furnishing information for the Department, as provided by law or under the direction of the head of the Department, which agents, experts, and student assistants shall be borne on the rolls as such and be actually engaged in the duties for which they were appointed, and whose payment has been authorized by law, provided that the salary of such student assistants shall not exceed a rate of $300 per annum each while employed. One statistical agent in each State and Territory where authorized by law.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Issued a new set of civil-service rules replacing those of May 6, 1896, barring political or religious tests and coercion and requiring examinations for the classified service.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [81], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-03-20", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The 1903 rules stayed in force, amended piecemeal, for decades: the Civil Service Commission's report for fiscal 1918 still printed them under the 1903 preamble, and a 1933 compilation headed them as promulgated April 15, 1903 and revised to July 25, 1933.", "source": "Civil Service Commission, Thirty-fifth Annual Report (1918); Civil Service Act and Rules (GPO, 1933), p. 11", "date": "1933", "story": 81}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1947-02-24", "text": "Executive Order 9830, effective May 1, 1947, restated the Civil Service Rules in full.", "source": "Federal Register, February 25, 1947", "story": 81}], "uncertain": ["Whether the rules were re-promulgated as a whole at any point between July 1933 and Executive Order 9830 of 1947 is not known."]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-141", "relation": "supersedes", "note": null, "story": 77, "inferred": true, "date": "1901-10-31", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Clerk in Pension Agency in Philadelphia Without Examination", "type": "executive_order", "number": "141"}, {"id": "eo-142", "relation": "supersedes", "note": null, "story": 77, "inferred": true, "date": "1901-11-01", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Steward in White House Without Examination", "type": "executive_order", "number": "142"}, {"id": "eo-143", "relation": "supersedes", "note": null, "story": 77, "inferred": true, "date": "1901-11-06", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Coachman in Navy Department Without Examination", "type": "executive_order", "number": "143"}, {"id": "eo-144", "relation": "supersedes", "note": null, "story": 77, "inferred": true, "date": "1901-11-18", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Make Certain United States Army Positions Subject to Classification", "type": "executive_order", "number": "144"}, {"id": "eo-145", "relation": "supersedes", "note": null, "story": 77, "inferred": true, "date": "1901-11-26", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Permitting Superintendents of Indian Training Schools to be Classified", "type": "executive_order", "number": "145"}, {"id": "eo-146", "relation": "supersedes", "note": null, "story": 77, "inferred": true, "date": "1901-11-26", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Waiver of Apportionment Provisions for Transfers", "type": "executive_order", "number": "146"}, {"id": "eo-147", "relation": "supersedes", "note": null, "story": 77, "inferred": true, "date": "1901-11-27", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Classification of Post Office Personnel", "type": "executive_order", "number": "147"}, {"id": "eo-148", "relation": "supersedes", "note": null, "story": 77, "inferred": true, "date": "1901-12-11", "title": "Prescribing Procedure for Dismissal of Persons in Violation of Civil Service Act or Rules", "type": "executive_order", "number": "148"}, {"id": "eo-149", "relation": "supersedes", "note": null, "story": 77, "inferred": true, "date": "1901-12-11", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Providing that Public Officers Cooperate with Civil Service Commission Investigations", "type": "executive_order", "number": "149"}, {"id": "eo-150", "relation": "supersedes", "note": null, "story": 77, "inferred": true, "date": "1901-12-11", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Prohibit Transfer of Persons Who Have not Served Six Months in Classified Position", "type": "executive_order", "number": "150"}, {"id": "eo-151", "relation": "supersedes", "note": null, "story": 77, "inferred": true, "date": "1901-12-11", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Provide for Appointment from Incomplete Registers", "type": "executive_order", "number": "151"}, {"id": "eo-152", "relation": "supersedes", "note": null, "story": 77, "inferred": true, "date": "1901-12-23", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Age Limitations in Post Office Service", "type": "executive_order", "number": "152"}, {"id": "eo-153", "relation": "supersedes", "note": null, "story": 77, "inferred": true, "date": "1901-12-27", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Age Limitations in Post Office Service for War Veterans", "type": "executive_order", "number": "153"}, {"id": "eo-213", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Clarified eleven days later what the new rules did not do for employees serving under the old Rule VIII.", "story": 81, "date": "1903-03-31", "title": "Clarifying that Civil Service Rules of March 20, 1903 do not give Permanent Appointment to Employees Serving under Rule VIII, Sections 13-16 of Rules of 1896", "type": "executive_order", "number": "213"}, {"id": "eo-642", "relation": "amended_by", "note": null, "story": 16, "inferred": true, "date": "1907-06-03", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Participation in Politics", "type": "executive_order", "number": "642"}, {"id": "eo-740", "relation": "amended_by", "note": "Replaced Rule VII in 1908.", "story": 81, "date": "1908-01-27", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Certification Procedures", "type": "executive_order", "number": "740"}, {"id": "eo-832", "relation": "amended_by", "note": null, "story": 100, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-06-25", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Exceptions from Examination for Paymasters in New York Customs District", "type": "executive_order", "number": "832"}, {"id": "eo-1046", "relation": "amended_by", "note": null, "story": 106, "inferred": true, "date": "1909-03-02", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Make United States Marshal Office Deputies Competitive", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1046"}]}
{"id": "eo-210", "type": "executive_order", "number": "210", "tr_sequence": 72, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-03-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Appointment of Unclassified Laborers Outside of Washington, D.C.", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_210", "revid": 1836641, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is deemed desirable that the regulations governing appointments and employments of mere laborers and workmen in the Departments at Washington shall be extended, as rapidly as may be found practicable, to offices in the executive civil service outside of Washington.", "The United States Civil Service Commission is therefore directed to render such assistance as may be practicable to the heads of the Executive Departments for the establishment and maintenance of a system of registration to test the relative fitness of applicants for appointment or employment as mere laborers and workmen, to precede such appointments or employments, which test shall be competitive and open to all citizens of the United States qualified in respect to age, physical ability, character, and experience as workmen, and for that purpose to conduct inquiries upon the request of the respective heads of Departments, under such regulations as may be agreed upon by them and the Commission. These regulations shall be forthwith prepared and applied in such large cities as may be agreed upon."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, March 26, 1903.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Directed the Civil Service Commission to help departments set up competitive registration of laborers and workmen in offices outside Washington, starting in large cities.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [81], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-03-26", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-211", "type": "executive_order", "number": "211", "tr_sequence": 73, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-03-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of James A. Dumont as Inspector of Hulls in Steamboat Inspection Service Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_211", "revid": 1836829, "printed_source": "1903 CSR 76"}}, "text": null, "summary": "Authorized James A. Dumont's appointment as inspector of hulls in the Steamboat Inspection Service without regard to civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["James A. Dumont"], "significance": 1, "stories": [81], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-03-26", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-055", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 55, "date": "1903-03-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "St. Cloud, Minn., Land Office (St. Cloud Land District) transferred to Cass Lake; described lands shifted among the St. Cloud, Marshall, Crookston and Duluth Land Districts.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 55, "page": "193", "citations": "X Richardson 629; (1903 GLO 343)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "St. Cloud, Minn., Land Office (St. Cloud Land District) transferred to Cass Lake; described lands shifted among the St. Cloud, Marshall, Crookston and Duluth Land Districts.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Moved the St. Cloud, Minnesota, land office to Cass Lake and shifted described lands among the St. Cloud, Marshall, Crookston and Duluth land districts.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "St. Cloud Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Minnesota"}, {"name": "Cass Lake", "kind": "town", "state": "Minnesota"}, {"name": "Marshall Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Minnesota"}, {"name": "Crookston Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Minnesota"}, {"name": "Duluth Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Minnesota"}], "states": ["Minnesota"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [112], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-03-27", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-056", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 56, "date": "1903-03-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Marshall, Minn., Land Office directed removed to St. Cloud effective July 1, 1903.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 56, "page": "193", "citations": "X Richardson 631; (1903 GLO 344)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Marshall, Minn., Land Office directed removed to St. Cloud effective July 1, 1903.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Ordered the Marshall, Minnesota, land office moved to St. Cloud, effective July 1, 1903.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Marshall", "kind": "town", "state": "Minnesota"}, {"name": "St. Cloud", "kind": "town", "state": "Minnesota"}], "states": ["Minnesota"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [112], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-03-28", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-212", "type": "executive_order", "number": "212", "tr_sequence": 74, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-03-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Transfer of Exum L. Holland to Inspector in Customs Service Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_212", "revid": 1836833, "printed_source": "1903 CSR 76"}}, "text": null, "summary": "Authorized Exum L. Holland's transfer to inspector in the Customs Service without regard to civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "transfer", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Exum L. Holland"], "significance": 1, "stories": [81], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-03-30", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-213", "type": "executive_order", "number": "213", "tr_sequence": 75, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-03-31", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Clarifying that Civil Service Rules of March 20, 1903 do not give Permanent Appointment to Employees Serving under Rule VIII, Sections 13-16 of Rules of 1896", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Clarified that the civil-service rules of March 20, 1903, did not give permanent appointments to employees serving under sections 13-16 of Rule VIII of the 1896 rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [81], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-03-31", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "eo-209", "relation": "modifies", "note": null, "story": 81, "inferred": true, "date": "1903-03-20", "title": "Prescribing Civil Service Rules in Lieu of Rules of May 6, 1896", "type": "executive_order", "number": "209"}]}
{"id": "eo-214", "type": "executive_order", "number": "214", "tr_sequence": 76, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-03-31", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Requiring Executive Departments to Furnish Information to Secretary of the Interior for Preparation of Official Register", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_214", "revid": 1836679, "printed_source": "1903 CSR 197"}}, "text": null, "summary": "Required the executive departments to furnish the Secretary of the Interior with information for preparing the Official Register.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [81], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-03-31", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-215", "type": "executive_order", "number": "215", "tr_sequence": 77, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-04-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Albert U. Wyman as Clerk in Office of the Treasurer Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_215", "revid": 1836837, "printed_source": "1903 CSR 76"}}, "text": null, "summary": "Allowed Albert U. Wyman to be appointed clerk in the Office of the Treasurer without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Albert U. Wyman"], "significance": 1, "stories": [81], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-04-29", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-216", "type": "executive_order", "number": "216", "tr_sequence": 78, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-04-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Permanent Appointment of Lucas Blanco as Messenger in Customs Service Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_216", "revid": 1836843, "printed_source": "1903 CSR 76"}}, "text": null, "summary": "Authorized a permanent appointment for Lucas Blanco as messenger in the Customs Service without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Lucas Blanco"], "significance": 1, "stories": [81], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-04-29", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-057", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 57, "date": "1903-05-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Skagway Military Reservation, Skagway, Alaska (466.12 acres), established.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 57, "page": "193", "citations": "(1907 MR 11; 1910 MR 13; 1916 MR 17; 1903 GLO 406; 1904 GLO 465; 1905 GLO 102)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Skagway Military Reservation, Skagway, Alaska (466.12 acres), established.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Established the Skagway Military Reservation, 466.12 acres at Skagway, Alaska.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Skagway Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [112], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-05-21", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-499", "type": "proclamation", "number": "499", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-05-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Manti Forest Reserve", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 499, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-499"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2308, "last_page": 2311, "cite": "33 Stat. 2308–2311", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2308.pdf", "statutes_date": "1903-05-29", "table_title": "Setting apart Manti Forest Reserve, Utah."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, ”An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes“, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Utah, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, clo hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Utah and within the boundaries particularly described as follows, to wit:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Section eleven (11), Township fourteen (14) South, Range five (5) East, Salt Lake Meridian, Utah; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), Township fourteen (14) South, Range six (6) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township thirteen (13) South, Range six (6) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), said township; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of Section three (3), said township; thence southerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section one (1), Township fourteen (14) South, Range six (6) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), Township fourteen (14) South, Range seven (7) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Section seven (7), Township fourteen “(14) South, Range eight (8) East; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Township fifteen (15) South, Range eight (8) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly along the section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel South, to the south-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), Township sixteen (16) South, Range eight (8) East; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly along the section lines to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section thirty-five (35), Township sixteen (16) South, Range seven (7) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township seventeen (17) South, Range seven (7) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence westerly along the section lines to the south-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township seventeen (17) South, Range six (6) East; thence southerly to the point for the north-west corner of Township nineteen (19) South, Range six (6) East; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of said township; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section two (2), Township twenty (20) South, Range six (6) East; thence southerly to the point for the south-west corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence southerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the Fourth (4th) Standard Parallel South, to the north-east corner of Section thirteen (13), Township twenty-one (21) South, Range six (6) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the point for the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence southerly to the point for the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), Township twenty-one (21), South, Range five (5) East; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence westerly along the unsurveyed section lines to the point for the north-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), Township twenty-one (21) South, Range three (3) East; thence southerly to the point for the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly along the unsurveyed section lines to the point for the south-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), Township twenty-one (21) South, Range two (2) East; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section ten (10), said town-ship; thence easterly to the point for the south-west corner of Section one (1), said township; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the point for the south-east corner of Township (20) South, Range two (2) East; thence northerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed range line to the south-west corner of Township eighteen (18) South, Range three (3) East; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), said town-ship; thence northerly to the point for the south-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence easterly to the point for the south-west corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed range line to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), Township seventeen (17) South, Ran^e three (3) East; thence easterly to the point for the south-west corner of Section three (3), Township seventeen (17) South, Range four (4) East; thence northerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed section lines to the north-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), Township sixteen (16) South, Range four (4) East; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section one (1), said township; thence easterly along the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel South to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township fifteen (15) South, Range five (5) East; thence northerly along the section lines to the north-west corner of Section eleven (11), Township fourteen (14) South, Range five (5) East, the place of beginning.", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Manti Forest Reserve.", "2311 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 29th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three and of [seal.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-seventh."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 33 Stat. 2308", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Utah.", "Boundaries.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "The Manti Forest Reserve."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Manti Forest Reserve in Utah, setting out its boundaries and reserving the land from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Manti Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [42], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-05-29", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Salt Lake Herald ran the Gunnison and Mayfield petition under the headline \"RIGHTS OF PEOPLE AS AGAINST SHEEP.\"", "source": "Salt Lake Herald, Feb. 22, 1904", "date": "1904-02-22", "story": 42}, {"text": "The Deseret Evening News reported the claim that the federal order would cause the destruction of 200,000 sheep.", "source": "Deseret Evening News, Feb. 17, 1904", "date": "1904-02-17", "story": 42}, {"text": "The Salt Lake Tribune headlined the raised grazing limit \"AN EXCELLENT COMPROMISE.\"", "source": "Salt Lake Tribune, Feb. 8, 1904", "date": "1904-02-08", "story": 42}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "local", "text": "By early February 1904 Sanpete County wool growers met in convention at Manti and cattlemen at Ephraim; Gunnison and Mayfield petitioned for the water of Twelve Mile Creek, and Manti residents sent a counter-petition.", "source": "Salt Lake Herald, Feb. 22, 1904", "date": "1904-02", "story": 42}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "After Senators Reed Smoot and Thomas Kearns intervened, Smoot going to Pinchot personally, Interior raised the grazing limit from 175,000 head to 300,000.", "source": "Salt Lake Tribune, Feb. 8, 1904", "date": "1904-02", "story": 42}], "legacy": [{"text": "The La Sal National Forest was abolished and joined to the Manti in 1949, and the combined forest was renamed Manti-La Sal in 1950.", "source": "PLO 618, 14 F.R. 7271; PLO 667, 15 F.R. 5957", "date": "1950-08-28", "story": 42}], "today": [{"name": "Manti-La Sal National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "origin", "state": "Utah", "since": "1903-05-29", "note": "The only hyphenated national forest that is a single proclaimed forest.", "source": "USFS FS-612", "story": 42}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1949-11-28", "text": "La Sal National Forest lands transferred to the Manti.", "source": "Public Land Order 618, 14 F.R. 7271", "story": 42}, {"date": "1950-08-28", "text": "Combined forest renamed Manti-La Sal National Forest.", "source": "Public Land Order 667, 15 F.R. 5957", "story": 42}], "uncertain": ["The full size of the Manti grazing fight may be larger than the surviving record shows, since Salt Lake papers of the period are hard to read in digitized form."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-500", "type": "proclamation", "number": "500", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-05-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Logan Forest Reserve", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 500, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-500"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2307, "last_page": 2308, "cite": "33 Stat. 2307–2308", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2307.pdf", "statutes_date": "1903-05-29", "table_title": "Setting apart Logan Forest Reserve, Utah."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as dpublic reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, eclare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Utah, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Utah and within the boundaries particularly described as follows, to wit:", "Beginning at the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township eleven (11) North, Range two (2) East, Salt Lake Meridian, Utah; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly along the quarter section line to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said town-ship; thence northerly along the range line to the point for the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township twelve (12) North, Range two (2) East; thence easterly to the point for the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly along the quarter-section line to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section seven (7), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence northerly along the section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel North, to the point for the south-east corner of Section thirty (30), Township thirteen (13) North, Range two (2) East; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), said township; thence easterly along the township line to the north-east corner of Township thirteen (13) North, Range four (4) East; thence southerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel North, to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township twelve (12) North, Range four (4) East; thence westerly to the southwest corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township eleven (11) North, Range four (4) East; thence southerly to the southeast corner of said section; thence westerly to the southeast corner of the southwest quarter of said section; thence southerly along the quarter-section line to the southeast corner of the southwest quarter of Section nine (9), said township; thence westerly to the southwest corner of said section; thence southerly to the southeast corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Township eleven (11) North, Range three (3) East; thence westerly along the township line to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township eleven (11) North, Range two (2) East, the place of beginning.", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Logan Forest Reserve.", "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 29th day of May, [seal] in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and . three and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-seventh."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 33 Stat. 2307", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 26, 1103.", "Forest reserve, Utah.", "Boundaries.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "The Logan Forest Reserve."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Logan Forest Reserve in Utah, describing its limits and closing the land to settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Logan Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [42], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-05-29", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Logan was combined with about 500,000 more acres into the Bear River Forest Reserve in 1906; the eastern part of the Bear River became the Cache National Forest in 1908, and the Utah portion went to today's Uinta-Wasatch-Cache after 1973.", "source": "USFS FS-612", "date": "1973", "story": 42}], "today": [{"name": "Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Utah", "source": "USFS FS-612", "story": 42}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1973", "text": "The Cache National Forest was split; the Utah portion holding the original Logan lands went to what is now the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache.", "source": "USFS FS-612", "story": 42}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-627", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "Bear River Forest Reserve created in place of the Logan, with about 500,000 more acres.", "story": 42, "date": "1906-05-28", "title": "Setting Apart the Bear River Forest Reserve, Idaho and Utah", "type": "proclamation", "number": "627"}, {"id": "eo-802", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Abolished the Bear River and created the Cache National Forest from its eastern part.", "story": 42, "date": "1908-05-26", "title": "Abolishing Bear River National Forest and Establishing Cache National Forest", "type": "executive_order", "number": "802"}]}
{"id": "uo-058", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 58, "date": "1903-05-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Torrey Barracks Military Reservation, Malabang, Island of Mindanao, P. I., established, and boundaries defined.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 58, "page": "194", "citations": "(EOs 483, 1364, 3056; 1907 MR 409; 1910 MR 328; 1916 MR 349)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Torrey Barracks Military Reservation, Malabang, Island of Mindanao, P. I., established, and boundaries defined.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Established the Torrey Barracks Military Reservation at Malabang on Mindanao, Philippine Islands, and defined its boundaries.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Torrey Barracks Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [112], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-05-29", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-059", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 59, "date": "1903-05-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Certain described lands in the St. Cloud, Minn., Land District transferred to the Duluth Land District, effective June 30, 1903.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 59, "page": "194", "citations": "X Richardson 631; (1903 GLO 344)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Certain described lands in the St. Cloud, Minn., Land District transferred to the Duluth Land District, effective June 30, 1903.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Transferred described lands from the St. Cloud, Minnesota, land district to the Duluth land district, effective June 30, 1903.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "St. Cloud Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Minnesota"}, {"name": "Duluth Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Minnesota"}], "states": ["Minnesota"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [112], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-05-29", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-217", "type": "executive_order", "number": "217", "tr_sequence": 79, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-06-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Consular Regulations of 1896, Paragraph 463, on Issuance of Circulars", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Amended paragraph 463 of the Consular Regulations of 1896 on the issuing of circulars.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [81], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-06-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-501", "type": "proclamation", "number": "501", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-06-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing the Lewis and Clark Forest Reserve in Montana", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 501, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-501"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2311, "last_page": 2313, "cite": "33 Stat. 2311–2313", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2311.pdf", "statutes_date": "1903-06-09", "table_title": "Consolidating Flathead with Lewis and Clarke Forest Reserve, Montana."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, The Lewis and Clarke Forest Reserve and The Flathead Forest Reserve, in the State of Montana, were established by proclamations dated February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, under and by virtue of section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, which provides, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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”, that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”;", "And whereas, it appears proper that the areas embraced in saic[ forest reserves, modified by various additions thereto and the elimination of certain lands, should be included in one reserve, and be designated by one name; and it appears that the public lands in the State of Montana, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid acts of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that the proclamations heretofore issued respecting said forest reserves are hereby superseded, and The Lewis and Clarke Forest Reserve is hereby established in place thereof, with boundaries as follows, to wit:", "Beginning at the south-west corner of Township thirty-three (33) North, Range twenty-five (25) West, Principal Meridian, Montana; thence northerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed range line between ranges twenty-five (25) and twenty-six (26) West, allowing for the proper offset on the Ninth (9th) Standard Parallel North, to the point for the intersection with the International Boundary Line between the State of Montana and the British Possessions; thence easterly along- said boundary line to the north-west corner of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation; thence south-easterly along the western boundary of said Indian reservation as defined and described in the Act of Congress approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, entitled, “An Act making appropriations for current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department and fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and for other purposes”, to the south-west corner of said reservation; thence in a general easterly direction along the southern boundary of said reservation to the point due north of the point for the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township twenty-eight (28) North, Range ten (10) West; thence southerly along the unsurveyed section lines to the point for the south-east corner of said Section thirty-three (33); thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of Township twenty-seven (27) North, Range ten (10) West; thence southerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section seven (7), Township twenty-seven (27) North, Range nine (9), West; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence southerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of Township twenty-six (26) North, Range nine (9) West; thence southerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed range line, allowing for the proper offsets on the Sixth (6th) and Fifth (Sth) Standard Parallels North to the point for the north-west corner of Township eighteen (18) North, Range eight (8) West; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of said township; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of Township seventeen (17) North, Range seven (7) West; thence southerly, allowing for the proper offset on the Fourth (4th) Standard Parallel North, to the point for the south-east corner of Township sixteen (16) North, Range seven (7) West; thence westerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed township line, allowing for the proper offsets on the range lines, to the south-east corner of Township sixteen (16) North, Range thirteen (13) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Town-ship sixteen (16) North, Range fourteen (14) West; thence westerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed township line to the point for the intersection with the eastern boundary of the Flathead Indian Reservation; thence in a general north-westerly direction along said boundary to the north-east corner of said Indian reservation; thence westerly along the northern boundary of said reservation to the point of inter-section with the eastern shore of Flathead Lake; thence northerly along the shore of said lake to the point for the intersection with the town-ship line between Townships twenty-five (25) and twenty-six (26) North; thence easterly along said surveyed and unsurveyed township line to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township twenty-six (26) North, Range eighteen (18) West; thence northerly along the unsurveyed section lines to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said town-ship; thence westerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed township line to the south-east corner of Township twenty-seven (27) North, Range nineteen (19) West; thence northerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed range line to the point for the south-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township twenty-eight (28) North, Range nineteen (19) West- thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty one (21), said township; thence northerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the Seventh (7th) Standard Parallel North, to the point for the north-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), Township thirty-two (32) North, Range nineteen (19) West; thence westerly along the unsurveyed section lines to the point for the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township thirty- two (32) North, Range twenty-one (21) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Township thirty-two (32) North, Range twenty-two (22) West; thence westerly along the Eighth (Sth) Standard Parallel North to the north-east corner of Township thirty-two (32) North, Range twenty-four (24) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of Township thirty-two (32) North, Range twenty-five (25) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence westerly along the Eighth (8th) Standard Parallel North to the south-west corner of Township thirty-three (33) North, Range twenty-five (25) -West, the place of beginning.", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, That this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Provided further, That nothing herein shall give any force or effect to any claim or right to any of the lands heretofore eihbraced within the reserves hereby consolidated which would not have been entitled to recognition if said reserves as heretofore established had been continued in force without being merged into a single reserve as herein-before provided.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The lands hereby eliminated from the reserve shall be open to settlement from the date hereof, but shall not be subject to entry, filing or selection until after ninety days notice by such publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.", "The rights and privileges reserved to the Indians of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation by Article I of the agreement set forth in, and accepted, ratified, and confirmed by, the Act of Congress approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, hereinbefore referred to, respecting that portion of their reservation relinquished to the United States by said Article I, shall be in no way infringed or modified by reason of the fact that a part of the area so relinquished is embraced within the limits of the boundaries herein described and set apart as a forest reservation; nor shall the right of occupation, location, and purchase of said relinquished lands under the provisions of the mineral-land laws, accorded by said Act of Congress, be abridged.", "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 9th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and three, and of [seal.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-seventh."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 33 Stat. 2311", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 29, pp. 907, 911.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "The Lewis and Clarke Forest Reserve, Montana.", "The Flathead Forest Reserve consolidated with.", "New boundaries.", "Vol. 29, p. 354.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Date of opening to settlement.", "Vol. 29, p. 354."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Combined the Lewis and Clarke and Flathead forest reserves in Montana into one Lewis and Clarke Forest Reserve with new boundaries, adding some lands, dropping others, and setting a date for excluded lands to open.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Lewis and Clarke Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}, {"name": "Flathead Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [42], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-06-09", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The proclamation superseded both the 1897 Lewis and Clarke reserve and the 1897 Flathead reserve.", "source": "Proc. 501, 33 Stat. 2311", "date": "1903-06-09", "story": 42}], "today": [{"name": "Helena–Lewis and Clark National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Montana", "note": "Administratively combined in 2015.", "source": "81 F.R. 86689", "story": 42}], "later_actions": [{"date": "2015-12-11", "text": "The Helena and Lewis and Clark National Forests were administratively combined.", "source": "81 F.R. 86689", "story": 42}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-733", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "The 1907 proclamation that dropped the final \"e\" from Clarke.", "story": 42, "date": "1907-03-02", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Lewis and Clark Forest Reserve, Montana", "type": "proclamation", "number": "733"}]}
{"id": "uo-060", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 60, "date": "1903-06-19", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Isabela de Basilan Reservation (Zamboanga), Poloc Reservation (Parang), and Fort San Pedro (Cebu), P. I., reserved for naval purposes.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 60, "page": "194", "citations": "(EOs 1215, 2934; 1907 MR 408; …; IX CFR 778)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Isabela de Basilan Reservation (Zamboanga), Poloc Reservation (Parang), and Fort San Pedro (Cebu), P. I., reserved for naval purposes.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Reserved the Isabela de Basilan Reservation at Zamboanga, the Poloc Reservation at Parang and Fort San Pedro at Cebu, Philippine Islands, for naval purposes.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Isabela de Basilan Reservation", "kind": "naval-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Poloc Reservation", "kind": "naval-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Fort San Pedro", "kind": "naval-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [112], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-06-19", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-502", "type": "proclamation", "number": "502", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-06-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reservation of Lands in Puerto Rico for Naval Purposes", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 502, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-502"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2314, "last_page": 2315, "cite": "33 Stat. 2314–2315", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2314.pdf", "statutes_date": "1903-06-26", "table_title": "Reserving lands in Porto Rico for naval purposes."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States", "A Proclamation.", "Whereas, by \"An Act Authorizing the President to reserve public lands and buildings in the island of Porto Rico for public uses, and granting other public lands and buildings to the government of Porto Rico, and for other purposes,\" approved July 1, 1902, the President is authorized to make, within one year after the approval of said act such reservation of public lands and buildings belonging to the United States in the Island of Porto Rico for military, naval, light-house, marine hospital, post offices, custom houses, United States Courts and other public uses as he may deem necessary, all public lands and buildings, not including harbor areas, navigable streams and bodies of water and the submerged land underlying the same, owned by the United States in said Island and not so reserved, being granted to the government of Porto Rico upon the condition that such government by proper authority, release to the United States any interest or claim they may have in or upon the lands or buildings reserved under the provisions of said act; and", "Whereas, the government of Porto Rico, by an act of the Legislative Assembly of said Island entitled \"An Act Authorizing the Governor of Porto Rico to convey certain lands to the United States for naval, military and other public purposes,\" approved February 16, 1903, has authorized the governor of Porto Rico to release any interest or claim that the people of said Island \"now have or may hereafter acquire in and upon any lands or buildings belonging to the United States,\" for public uses under and by virtue of the power vested in the President under the terms of the act of the Congress above cited;", "Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the authority in me vested, and in pursuance of said Act of the Congress, approved July 1, 1902, do hereby declare, proclaim and make known that the following described lands be, and the same are hereby, reserved for naval purposes, to-wit:", "All public lands, natural, reclaimed, partly reclaimed, or which may be reclaimed, in the island of Porto Rico, embraced within the following boundaries:", "1. The public land lying south of the Caguas Road, shown on the United States Hydrographic Map No. 1745 of July, 1898, and for 250 feet north of said Caguas Road, to be bounded on the west by a true north and south line passing through the eastern corner of the railway station shown on said map, on the south by the shore of the harbor, and to extend east 2400 feet, more or less, to include 80 acres; provided, however, that there may be excepted from the foregoing reservation such areas as may by the Secretary of the Navy be deemed requisite to provide suitable access to the City of San Juan across said reservation by railroad or other public highways.", "2. The entire island lying to the southward of the above described reservations, and shown on the United States Hydrographic Map No. 1745 of July 1898 as Isla Grande (or Manglar), said island being more particularly described as situated in the northeastern part of the harbor of San Juan, Porto Rico, and bounded on the north by the Cano de San Antonio and the strait connecting the Cano de San Antonio with Miraflores Bay, on the east by the strait connecting the Cano de San Antonio with Miraflores Bay and by Miraflores Bay; on the south by Miraflores Bay and by the waters of that part of the harbor of San Juan which separates Isla Grande from Anegado and Largo shoals, and on the west by that part of the waters of the harbor of San Juan which separates Isla Grande from the city of San Juan and the Puntilla.", "3. All public lands and the structures thereon, situated on the peninsular extending into the harbor on the south side of the city of San Juan, Porto Rico, known as the Barrio de la Puntilla, or Puntilla Point, bounded on the north by the south boundary of the Paseo de la Princesa, and on the east, south and west, by the navigable waters of the harbor of San Juan, at such port warden's line as may be established by competent authority.", "4. The public lands south of the Scarf wall on the Puntilla, known as the Park and the Presidio and bounded on the north by the said Scarf wall; on the east by a line drawn 74 feet east of the northeast corner of the San Justo Bastion; on the south by the south side of Paseo de la Princesa; and on the west by the deep water channel of the harbor entrance.", "5. All public lands and buildings thereon, belonging to the United States on the Island of Culebra and adjacent keys, lying between the parallels of 18° 15′ and 18° 23′ north latitude and between the meridians of 65° 12′ and 65° 25′ west longitude.", "In witness whereof, I have here unto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.", "Done at the City of Washington, this 26th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and three, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-seventh.", "[SEAL.]", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President", "JOHN HAY", "Secretary of State."], "source": "33 Stat. 2314–2315 (GovInfo Statutes at Large page images), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Heading reads \"By the President of the United States\" (no \"of America\"); \"By the President\" with no colon; [SEAL.] restored. \"to-wit\", \"the peninsular extending\", \"Cano\" (no tilde), \"here unto\" and \"Scarf wall\" are as printed. Statutes marginal sidenote: \"Public lands in Porto Rico reserved for naval purposes.\"", "story": 44}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Reserved described public lands in Puerto Rico for naval purposes under the 1902 act letting the President keep federal lands on the island for public uses.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories", "public-lands"], "action": "establish", "places": [], "states": ["Puerto Rico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [44], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-06-26", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "A wire dispatch ran in the Los Angeles Herald under \"PORTO RICO LANDS / President Makes First Reservation For Naval Purposes,\" and on page one of the San Bernardino Sun and the Bakersfield Morning Echo.", "source": "Los Angeles Herald, San Bernardino Sun, Morning Echo, June 30, 1903 (California Digital Newspaper Collection)", "date": "1903-06-30", "story": 44}, {"text": "The Santa Barbara Weekly Press carried the same dispatch.", "source": "Santa Barbara Weekly Press, July 2, 1903", "date": "1903-07-02", "story": 44}, {"text": "No editorial comment has been found, and searches of Colorado and New York papers found nothing on the reservation.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1903", "story": 44}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Presidio, San Juan's penitentiary, was withdrawn from the naval reservation four days after it was reserved.", "source": "EO 220, 33 Stat. 2315", "date": "1903-06-30", "story": 44}, {"kind": "congress", "text": "Congress passed an act to readjust the boundaries of the naval reservations in Puerto Rico.", "source": "Act of Mar. 4, 1907", "date": "1907-03-04", "story": 44}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The governor and a Navy commodore exchanged deeds, and Proclamation 819 returned most of the 80-acre Caguas Road tract to the island, keeping the naval hospital and wireless station.", "source": "Proc. 819", "date": "1908-08-04", "story": 44}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Navy built nothing on Isla Grande until a naval air station contract was awarded on October 30, 1939; the site was largely mangrove swamp and tidal flats, and most of the station was built on dredged fill.", "source": "Bureau of Yards and Docks, Building the Navy's Bases in World War II (1947), vol. 2, ch. 18", "date": "1939-10-30", "story": 44}, {"text": "The Navy and Marines used Culebra for advance-base and landing exercises in the 1910s and 1920s and as a gunnery and bombing range from the late 1930s.", "source": "research entry", "story": 44}, {"text": "Senator Edmund Muskie entered press accounts into the Congressional Record reporting that 304 of 313 Culebra families had asked the Navy to leave; protest and civil disobedience followed in 1971.", "source": "Congressional Record, July 14, 1970", "date": "1970-07-14", "story": 44}, {"text": "Navy training on Culebra ended, with operations moving to Vieques.", "source": "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers", "date": "1975-09-30", "story": 44}], "today": [{"name": "Fernando Luis Ribas Dominicci Airport (Isla Grande)", "kind": "other", "relation": "part", "state": "Puerto Rico", "note": "Isla Grande became a naval air station and later San Juan's Isla Grande Airport.", "source": "research entry", "story": 44}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1907-03-04", "text": "Act of Congress readjusting the boundaries of the naval reservations in Puerto Rico.", "source": "research entry", "story": 44}, {"date": "1941", "text": "Executive Order 8684 added a naval defensive sea area at Culebra.", "source": "Executive Order 8684", "story": 44}, {"date": "1975-09-30", "text": "Navy training on Culebra ended.", "source": "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers", "story": 44}, {"date": "1977", "text": "Former Navy lands on Culebra were divided between the Commonwealth and the Fish and Wildlife Service.", "source": "research entry", "story": 44}], "uncertain": ["No departmental request has been found for the San Juan harbor parcels reserved to the Navy.", "When Isla Grande passed to civil airport use is not documented in the sources consulted."]}, "related": [{"id": "uo-013", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The December 1901 order that first placed Culebra's public lands under the Navy.", "story": 44, "date": "1901-12-17", "title": "Certain described lands on Culebra Island, off Puerto Rico, placed under Navy Department jurisdiction, subject to existing private rights.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}, {"id": "proc-495", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 42, "inferred": true, "date": "1903-01-17", "title": "Establishment of the Luquillo Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "495"}, {"id": "uo-061", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Lord's unnumbered-series listing of the naval reservation of June 26, 1903.", "story": 44, "date": "1903-06-26", "title": "Certain described lands in Puerto Rico reserved for naval purposes.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}, {"id": "eo-219", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Reserved the President's right to amend the proclamation and invited Navy and governor memoranda on use of the lands.", "story": 44, "date": "1903-06-30", "title": "Right to Amend or Modify the Proclamation of June 26, 1903, Reserving Lands in Puerto Rico for Naval Purposes, Reserved; Submission of Memoranda on Use of the Lands Permitted", "type": "executive_order", "number": "219"}, {"id": "eo-220", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Withdrew the Presidio from the naval reservation.", "story": 44, "date": "1903-06-30", "title": "Eliminating Lands and Building Known as The Presidio, San Juan, Porto Rico, from Operation of Proclamation of June 26, 1903", "type": "executive_order", "number": "220"}, {"id": "proc-503", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Companion reservation under the same statute; its San Juan customs use sits on Puntilla ground reserved here.", "story": 44, "date": "1903-06-30", "title": "Reservation of Lands in Puerto Rico", "type": "proclamation", "number": "503"}, {"id": "proc-819", "relation": "reduced_by", "note": "Returned most of the Caguas Road tract to Puerto Rico in 1908.", "story": 44, "date": "1908-08-04", "title": "Exchanging Lands with Porto Rico for Public Uses", "type": "proclamation", "number": "819"}, {"id": "eo-1042", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "1909 bird reservation over the Culebra group, subject to naval and light-house use.", "story": 44, "date": "1909-02-27", "title": "Establishment of a Bird Reservation on the Island of Culebra, Porto Rico", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1042"}]}
{"id": "uo-061", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 61, "date": "1903-06-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Certain described lands in Puerto Rico reserved for naval purposes.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 61, "page": "194", "citations": "(EO 220)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Certain described lands in Puerto Rico reserved for naval purposes.", "reconciliation": "numbered_duplicate", "duplicate_of": "proc-502", "reconciliation_note": "**= Proclamation 502** (June 26, 1903), *Reservation of Lands in Puerto Rico for Naval Purposes* (33 Stat. 2314; research entry #44). Same date, same subject. Lord's only citation, \"(EO 220)\", is an order whose own title calls this document the \"Proclamation of June 26, 1903.\"", "summary": null, "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": null, "places": [], "states": ["Puerto Rico"], "people": [], "significance": null, "stories": [44, 112], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-06-26", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "proc-502", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 44, "inferred": true, "date": "1903-06-26", "title": "Reservation of Lands in Puerto Rico for Naval Purposes", "type": "proclamation", "number": "502"}]}
{"id": "eo-218", "type": "executive_order", "number": "218", "tr_sequence": 80, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-06-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Certain Property at Ponce, Mayaguez, and San Juan, Porto Rico, Reserved for Use of Courts, District Attorney, and Marshal", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_218", "revid": 1837505, "printed_source": null}}, "text": null, "summary": "Reserved property at Ponce, Mayaguez and San Juan, Puerto Rico, for the use of the federal courts, district attorney and marshal.", "categories": ["insular-territories", "government-administration"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Ponce", "kind": "town", "state": "Puerto Rico"}, {"name": "Mayaguez", "kind": "town", "state": "Puerto Rico"}, {"name": "San Juan", "kind": "town", "state": "Puerto Rico"}], "states": ["Puerto Rico"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [44, 81], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-06-29", "impact": {"uncertain": ["What later became of the Ponce, Mayaguez and San Juan property reserved for the federal courts, district attorney and marshal has not been researched."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-503", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 44, "inferred": true, "date": "1903-06-30", "title": "Reservation of Lands in Puerto Rico", "type": "proclamation", "number": "503"}]}
{"id": "proc-503", "type": "proclamation", "number": "503", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-06-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reservation of Lands in Puerto Rico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 503, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-503"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2315, "last_page": 2317, "cite": "33 Stat. 2315–2317", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2315.pdf", "statutes_date": "1903-06-30", "table_title": "Reserving lands in Porto Rico fur public uses."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States", "A Proclamation.", "Whereas, by \"An Act Authorizing the President to reserve public lands and buildings in the island of Porto Rico for public uses, and granting other public lands and buildings to the government of Porto Rico, and for other purposes,\" approved July 1, 1902, the President is authorized to make, within one year after the approval of said act such reservation of public lands and buildings belonging to the United States in the Island of Porto Rico for military, naval, light-house, marine hospital, post offices, custom houses, United States Courts and other public uses as he may deem necessary, all public lands and buildings, not including harbor areas, navigable streams and bodies of water and the submerged land underlying the same, owned by the United States in said Island and not so reserved, being granted to the government of Porto Rico upon the condition that such government by proper authority, release to the United States any interest or claim they may have in or upon the lands or buildings reserved under the provisions of said act; and", "Whereas, the government of Porto Rico, by an act of the Legislative Assembly of said Island entitled \"An Act Authorizing the Governor of Porto Rico to convey certain lands to the United States for naval, military and other public purposes,\" approved February 16, 1903, has authorized the governor of Porto Rico to release any interest or claim that the people of said Island \"now have or may hereafter acquire in and upon any lands or buildings belonging to the United States,\" for public uses under and by virtue of the Power vested in the President under the terms of the act of the Congress above cited;", "Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the authority in me vested, and in pursuance of said Act of the Congress, approved July 1, 1902, do hereby declare, proclaim and make known that the following described lands be, and the same are hereby, reserved.", "For a public building site in the city of San Juan the following parcel of land. That certain tract or piece lying in a northerly direction from block number fifty five of said city and southerly and westerly from block number ninety, the said tract being now vacant and containing an approximate area of one thousand by two hundred feet,—as appears by a map of San Juan, compiled in the office of the Bureau of Public Works, by A. Morales, in 1901.", "For the use of the Marine hospital service, a parcel of land at San Juan lying next west of the north and south line of the eastern boundary line of the military reservation west of the first line of defense, near San Antonio bridge,—running three hundred feet front east and west along the so called military road and extending toward the north to the old stone ditch defense.", "For Custom House purposes:", "The lots and buildings used and occupied as custom houses at Ponce, Mayaguez and Humacao and the right until otherwise ordered to the use of the lots and buildings within the Puntilla point at San Juan now used and occupied by the Custom authorities for custom house purposes in said city.", "For light house and buoy purposes at San Juan:", "[Light-house and buoy tracts at San Juan, and light-house areas at Cape San Juan, Point Mulas, Point Ferro, Point Tuna, Point Figuras, Muertos Island, Guanica, Cape Rojo, Point Jiguero, Point Borinquen, and Arecibo, described by bearings, distances and acreages, omitted; see 33 Stat. 2316–2317.]", "Also for Light House purposes at Mona Island a tract of land at and about the present light house station consisting of the area which lies East of a North and South line 500 ft. to the westward of the centre of the present light house in said Island; also that Island lying south of Ponce known as Cardona Island.", "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 30th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and three, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-seventh.", "[SEAL.]", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President", "FRANCIS B LOOMIS", "Acting Secretary of State."], "source": "33 Stat. 2315–2317 (GovInfo Statutes at Large page images), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Abridged: the bearings, distances and fractional acreages of the San Juan light-house and buoy tracts and the coastal light-house areas are omitted and must be reproduced from 33 Stat. 2316–2317 before this text is treated as complete. In the omitted passage the original prints \"ares\" for \"areas\", and a tract headed \"Land Adjacent to San Juan Bastion\" is described from \"the N. E. corner of San Justo Bastion\". Countersignature printed \"Francis B Loomis\" without a period after the initial; [SEAL.] restored.", "story": 44}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Kept described federal lands in Puerto Rico for public uses, including a public building site in San Juan, a marine hospital, custom-houses and lighthouses.", "categories": ["public-lands", "insular-territories", "lighthouses"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "San Juan", "kind": "town", "state": "Puerto Rico"}], "states": ["Puerto Rico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [44], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-06-30", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Los Angeles Herald ran a short item headed \"Land Reservations in Porto Rico\"; whether it reported this proclamation or the Presidio order is not known.", "source": "Los Angeles Herald, July 1, 1903", "date": "1903-07-01", "story": 44}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Customs at San Juan got only the use, \"until otherwise ordered,\" of buildings on Puntilla Point, which had just been reserved to the Navy.", "source": "Proc. 503, 33 Stat. 2315–2317", "date": "1903-06-30", "story": 44}], "legacy": [{"text": "The civilian reservations became the custom houses, Marine Hospital Service sites and light-house stations of federal Puerto Rico; several of the light stations named still stand.", "source": "research entry", "story": 44}], "uncertain": ["Whether the Los Angeles Herald item of July 1, 1903 concerned this proclamation is not known."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-495", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 42, "inferred": true, "date": "1903-01-17", "title": "Establishment of the Luquillo Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "495"}, {"id": "proc-502", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Companion naval reservation of June 26, 1903.", "story": 44, "date": "1903-06-26", "title": "Reservation of Lands in Puerto Rico for Naval Purposes", "type": "proclamation", "number": "502"}, {"id": "eo-218", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Same-week reservation of property for the federal courts.", "story": 44, "date": "1903-06-29", "title": "Certain Property at Ponce, Mayaguez, and San Juan, Porto Rico, Reserved for Use of Courts, District Attorney, and Marshal", "type": "executive_order", "number": "218"}, {"id": "proc-819", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 107, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-08-04", "title": "Exchanging Lands with Porto Rico for Public Uses", "type": "proclamation", "number": "819"}]}
{"id": "eo-219", "type": "executive_order", "number": "219", "tr_sequence": 81, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-06-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Right to Amend or Modify the Proclamation of June 26, 1903, Reserving Lands in Puerto Rico for Naval Purposes, Reserved; Submission of Memoranda on Use of the Lands Permitted", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Reserving Certain Lands in Puerto Rico for Naval Purposes; Submission of Memoranda of Understanding Concerning Use of Said Lands by Secretary of Navy and Governor of Puerto Rico Permitted”. The order reserves no land itself. Lord, Presidential Executive Orders, Numbered 1–8030 (1944), vol. 1, pp. 21–22."], "summary": "Reserved the right to amend the June 26, 1903 proclamation setting aside Puerto Rico lands for the Navy, and allowed the Navy Secretary and the Governor of Puerto Rico to submit memoranda on how the lands would be used.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [], "states": ["Puerto Rico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [44, 81], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-06-30", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Added no land; kept the President's right to amend the naval reservation and invited the Secretary of the Navy and the governor to set down how the lands would be used.", "source": "Lord, Presidential Executive Orders, Numbered (1944), vol. 1, pp. 21–22", "date": "1903-06-30", "story": 44}], "uncertain": ["The text of the order has not been found, and what later became of the lands concerned has not been researched."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-502", "relation": "modifies", "note": "Conditioned the naval reservation of June 26, 1903.", "story": 44, "date": "1903-06-26", "title": "Reservation of Lands in Puerto Rico for Naval Purposes", "type": "proclamation", "number": "502"}]}
{"id": "eo-220", "type": "executive_order", "number": "220", "tr_sequence": 82, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-06-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Eliminating Lands and Building Known as The Presidio, San Juan, Porto Rico, from Operation of Proclamation of June 26, 1903", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_220", "revid": 1837517, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that so much of the order or proclamation by me signed on June 26th, 1903, reserving certain lands in the Island of Porto Rico for naval uses as set apart and reserved that certain building and tract of land known as The Presidio or penitentiary at San Juan, be and the same is hereby modified, and the said tract of land together with the buildings thereon are hereby ordered withdrawn from the operation of the said above referred to proclamation or order, and from any and all effect thereof.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "WHITE HOUSE, June 30, 1903."], "source": "33 Stat. 2315 (GovInfo Statutes at Large page image), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Printed directly after Proclamation 502 in the Statutes, without number or title.", "story": 44}, "summary": "Withdrew The Presidio, the penitentiary grounds and buildings at San Juan, from the June 26, 1903, proclamation reserving Puerto Rico lands for naval use.", "categories": ["insular-territories", "military-naval"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "The Presidio", "kind": "other", "state": "Puerto Rico"}], "states": ["Puerto Rico"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [44, 81], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-06-30", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Withdrew the Presidio, San Juan's penitentiary, from the naval reservation made four days earlier; the order gives no reason.", "source": "33 Stat. 2315", "date": "1903-06-30", "story": 44}], "uncertain": ["Who asked for the Presidio's withdrawal is not known; Governor Hunt's administration is a candidate but unconfirmed."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-502", "relation": "modifies", "note": "Withdrew the Presidio from Proclamation 502's naval reservation.", "story": 44, "date": "1903-06-26", "title": "Reservation of Lands in Puerto Rico for Naval Purposes", "type": "proclamation", "number": "502"}]}
{"id": "uo-062", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 62, "date": "1903-06-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Certain described lands in Puerto Rico reserved for military purposes.", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 62, "page": "194", "citations": "(EOs 2322, 3300, 3310, 4386; 1907 MR 415–417; …)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Puerto Rico military reservations established as a group: Aibonito, Aguadilla, Fajardo (Palominos/Cordilleras/Icacos/Lobos), Henry Barracks (Cayey, ~15 acres), Mayagüez, San Juan (incl. La Palma Bastion, San Sebastián guardhouse, Santo Domingo Barracks, La Puntilla), and San Juan Harbor (Cabras, Cañuelo, Punta Salinas).", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "Distinct. Checked against Proclamation 503 of the same date, which reserves custom-house, marine-hospital, public-building and lighthouse sites but **no military lands** (APP text checked 2026-10-12). Also checked against EO 219 of the same date, which covers naval lands only. Lord's own later wording is \"EO of June 30, 1903 … for military and lighthouse purposes\" (nos. 74–75). The lighthouse half may echo Proc. 503.", "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Puerto Rico military reservations established as a group: Aibonito, Aguadilla, Fajardo (Palominos/Cordilleras/Icacos/Lobos), Henry Barracks (Cayey, ~15 acres), Mayagüez, San Juan (incl. La Palma Bastion, San Sebastián guardhouse, Santo Domingo Barracks, La Puntilla), and San Juan Harbor (Cabras, Cañuelo, Punta Salinas)”. Lord's abstract (Unnumbered Series, 1943, p. 194), read from the page image. Some place names in the typescript are partly illegible."], "summary": "Established a group of military reservations across Puerto Rico, including Aibonito, Aguadilla, Fajardo, Henry Barracks at Cayey, Mayagüez, San Juan and sites around San Juan Harbor.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Aibonito", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Puerto Rico"}, {"name": "Aguadilla", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Puerto Rico"}, {"name": "Fajardo", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Puerto Rico"}, {"name": "Henry Barracks", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Puerto Rico"}, {"name": "Mayagüez", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Puerto Rico"}, {"name": "San Juan", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Puerto Rico"}, {"name": "San Juan Harbor", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Puerto Rico"}], "states": ["Puerto Rico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [44, 112], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-06-30", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Lands near Aibonito reserved for military purposes by this order were transferred to Puerto Rico in 1920.", "source": "EO 3310; Lord, Presidential Executive Orders, Numbered (1944), vol. 1, p. 281", "date": "1920-07-17", "story": 44}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1920-07-17", "text": "Executive Order 3310 transferred to Puerto Rico certain lands near Aibonito reserved by this order.", "source": "Lord, Presidential Executive Orders, Numbered (1944), vol. 1, p. 281", "story": 44}]}, "related": [{"id": "uo-074", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "First of two November 1903 changes to the June 30 Puerto Rico military reservations.", "story": 112, "date": "1903-11-05", "title": "EO of June 30, 1903 (Puerto Rico military/lighthouse lands) modified.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}, {"id": "uo-075", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Second November 1903 change to the June 30 Puerto Rico military reservations.", "story": 112, "date": "1903-11-26", "title": "EO of June 30, 1903 (Puerto Rico military/lighthouse lands) further modified.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "eo-221", "type": "executive_order", "number": "221", "tr_sequence": 83, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-07-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Charles B. Terry as Clerk in Post Office Department Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_221", "revid": 1814316, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["On September 25, 1901, Charles B. Terry, a clerk on the temporary roll of the Post-Office Department, was transferred to the position of laborer in the Washington city post-office, apparently in order to provide a place on the temporary roll for a favorite of one of his superior officers. His name was, therefore, not included in the list of employees on the temporary roll which were classified by the act of April 28, 1902. When the facts were brought to the attention of the Postmaster-General he sought, on July 1, 1902, to reinstate Terry to the position he had formerly occupied. Such action, however, required a special exception to the rules. The Commission made an investigation of the circumstances attending his transfer from the temporary roll and became convinced that an injustice had been done him. The investigation, however, disclosed the fact that he had been convicted of a crime in 1894, but had been pardoned and restored to his civil rights by the President. The Commission therefore refused to recommend a special exception to the rules unless he would prove that he was eligible under the rules to take an examination for the same position. Upon his filing an application with satisfactory vouchers in regard to his efficiency and integrity, together with an explanation of his case by the United States attorney stating that Mr. Terry's conviction did not in any way reflect on his honesty or integrity, the Commission submitted a form of Executive order to the President, which received his approval on July 3, 1903."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, July 3, 1903.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Authorized reinstating Charles B. Terry as a clerk in the Post Office Department after he had been shifted off the temporary roll and missed classification.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "restore", "places": [], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": ["Charles B. Terry"], "significance": 1, "stories": [81], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-07-03", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-222", "type": "executive_order", "number": "222", "tr_sequence": 84, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-07-08", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Prescribing Manner of Examination for Unskilled Labor Positions and Veterans of the Civil War", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_222", "revid": 1742843, "printed_source": "[http://www.uhuh.com/laws/donncoll/eo/1903/eo222.txt External Information about this EO]  "}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["{| style=\"margin: 0em 0em 0em 0em;\" | width=1%| |In the tests prescribed under regulations governing the employment of unskilled labor the element of age shall be omitted in the case of soldiers and sailors of the Civil War, and their relative fitness decided by their physical qualifications, moral character, industry, and adaptability for manual labor. | width=1%| |}", "Theodore Roosevelt White House, July 8, 1903.", "== Notes == See Related: None Available"], "source": "Wikisource (from [http://www.uhuh.com/laws/donncoll/eo/1903/eo222.txt External Information about this EO]  )", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Dropped the age requirement from unskilled-labor tests for Civil War soldiers and sailors, judging them instead on physical fitness, character, industry and adaptability for manual labor.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [82], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-07-08", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-063", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 63, "date": "1903-07-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Nonucan (later Camp Overton) Military Reservation, Mindanao, P. I., established.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 63, "page": "194", "citations": "(EOs 985, 1595; 1907 MR 410; …)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Nonucan (later Camp Overton) Military Reservation, Mindanao, P. I., established.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Established the Nonucan Military Reservation, later Camp Overton, on Mindanao, Philippine Islands.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Nonucan Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [112], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-07-11", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-223", "type": "executive_order", "number": "223", "tr_sequence": 85, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-07-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Ten Persons to Positions in Department of Commerce and Labor Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_223", "revid": 1814346, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The Secretary of the Department of Commerce and Labor forwarded to the Commission under date of June 30, 1903, the names of 10 men whom it was desired to appoint to various positions within the Department without examination under the civil-service rules. The reasons for which it was desired to waive the rules in each case were set forth by the Secretary as follows:", "E. Dana Durand, appointed special examiner, at $2,500, May 1, 1903. Mr. Durand's special qualifications for service in the Bureau of Corporations are by reason of having been secretary to the Industrial Commission, the Commissioners testifying to his general worth, and are of the opinion that much of the success of the work of the Commission is due to his expert knowledge of the questions handled.", "James C. Monaghan, appointed clerk, at $1,800, June 10, 1903. For special qualifications, see reasons for requesting appointment as chief of division of consular reports, Bureau of Statistics.", "James C. Monaghan, appointed chief of division, consular reports, Bureau of Statistics, at $2,100, July 1, 1903. It is stated that Mr. Monaghan is especially qualified for the position by reason of long service as U. S. Consul at Mannheim and Chemnitz, and special knowledge acquired as editor of The Manufacturer, the organ of the Manufacturers' Club of Philadelphia, and as Professor of Commerce in the University of Wisconsin. He is said to be an authority on the history of commerce, manufacture, and labor.", "John H. Anderson and Charles D. Evans, appointed assistant telegraphers, at $1,000, April 29, 1903. The appointments of Messrs. Anderson and Evans were made for the reason that at the time of their appointments there was not a register of eligibles in the Civil Service Commission from which telegraphers of sufficient experience could be selected. The appointees are both men of known experience in every line of their profession.", "Alfred C. Chatfield, appointed lieutenant of the watch, at $720, June 16, 1903. Mr. Chatfield has special qualifications for the position of lieutenant of watch, by reason of fourteen years' service in the United States Army and experience as sergeant of police in the Philippine Service and as inspector in the Philippine constabulary.", "The initial steps in the organization of the Department of Commerce and Labor required the services of several messengers, whose characters, integrity, and ability to do the work required, were personally known to the Secretary, or the executive officers assisting in the work of organization. For this reason the following-named persons were appointed: Robert F. Richardson, Buchannan W. Faire, De Forest Gray, Newport F. Henry, messengers, and Walter Barnum, assistant messenger.", "For the reasons set forth by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor in his memorandum the Commission recommended to the President that the appointment of these men, without examination, under the rules be approved and the order was issued on July 13, 1903."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, July 13, 1903.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Approved appointing ten people to positions in the Department of Commerce and Labor without civil-service examination, citing each one's special qualifications.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["E. Dana Durand", "James C. Monaghan", "John H. Anderson", "Charles D. Evans", "Alfred C. Chatfield"], "significance": 1, "stories": [82], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-07-13", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The order helped staff the new Bureau of Corporations, naming E. Dana Durand among ten men appointed in the Department of Commerce and Labor without examination.", "source": "U.S. Civil Service Commission, Twenty-first Report, pp. 82–83", "date": "1903-07-13", "story": 82}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-064", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 64, "date": "1903-07-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Ten specified persons appointed to the Commerce and Labor Department, without examination.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 64, "page": "195", "citations": "X Richardson 632; 1904 CSR 82"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Ten specified persons appointed to the Commerce and Labor Department, without examination.", "reconciliation": "numbered_duplicate", "duplicate_of": "eo-223", "reconciliation_note": "**= EO 223** (July 13, 1903), \"Authorizing Appointment of Ten Persons to Positions in Department of Commerce and Labor Without Examination.\" Same date, same subject.", "summary": null, "categories": ["civil-service", "government-administration"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": null, "stories": [112], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-07-13", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-224", "type": "executive_order", "number": "224", "tr_sequence": 86, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-07-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Sarah McLanahan as Sewer in Government Printing Office Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_224", "revid": 1822281, "printed_source": "1904 CSR 83"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. McLanahan, after twelve years' service, was separated from the position of sewer in the Government Printing Office prior to her marriage in 1894. In June, 1903, she was left a widow with three children to support. In view of her unfortunate circumstances and previous efficient service attested by the Public Printer, the Commission recommended to the President a special order waiving the rule requiring reinstatement within one year, which was approved by the President July 25, 1903."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1904 CSR 83)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, July 25, 1903.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Waived the one-year reinstatement limit so Sarah McLanahan, widowed with three children, could return as a sewer at the Government Printing Office.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "restore", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Sarah McLanahan"], "significance": 1, "stories": [82], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-07-25", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-065", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 65, "date": "1903-07-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Regularly detailed Navy gun captains granted five dollars additional monthly pay.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 65, "page": "195", "citations": "(EO 1614)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Regularly detailed Navy gun captains granted five dollars additional monthly pay.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Granted Navy gun captains on regular detail five dollars a month in extra pay.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [112], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-07-25", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-225", "type": "executive_order", "number": "225", "tr_sequence": 87, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-07-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Approving the Extension of Certain Temporary Employees Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_225", "revid": 1893541, "printed_source": "| notes    ="}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["This following is the Civil Service Commission description, not the actual order text, which was in the form of an approval of a message from the Commission.", "On February 9, 1903, the Commission wrote to the President stating that occasionally instances arose in which conditions seemed to justify granting of requests for the extension of temporary (job) employments beyond the period of six months to which they were limited by the rules.", "On February 11, 1903, the President addressed the following communication to the Commission:", "Gentlemen: You are authorized to approve between now and July 1, 1903, all cases of request for the extension of temporary (job) employments beyond the period of six months, limited in section 16 of Rule VIII, where the conditions appear to justify such action. All such cases are to be submitted to me for approval at the termination of the above period.", "In accordance with the above authority, the Commission approved the extension of the following temporary employments: John Sheridan, carpenter, Quartermaster's Department at Large, Fort Sheridan, Ill.; G. P. Crouse, carpenter, Quartermaster's Department at Large, Fort Barrancas, Fla.; E. Kilby, painter, Quartermaster's Department at Large, Fort Barrancas, Fla.; William H. Goldie, engineer, Quartermaster's Department at Large, Fort H. G. Wright, N. Y.; Joseph G. Cleveland, carpenter, Quartermaster's Department at Large, Fort Niagara, N. Y.; Duncan MacArthur, architectural draftsman, Naval War College, Newport, R. I.; A. A. Bennett, clerk and overseer, Quartermaster's Department at Large, Monterey, Cal.; Roger Duval, property clerk, Quartermaster's Department at Large, Monterey, Cal.; Thomas Grant, train master, Quartermaster's Department at Large, Monterey, Cal.; John Dinwiddie, blacksmith, Quartermaster's Department at Large, Monterey, Cal.; George Stockhill, carpenter, Quartermaster's Department at Large, Fort Keogh, Mont.; Samuel Rieben, carpenter, Quartermaster's Department at Large, Fort Douglas, Utah; A. U. Wyman, clerk, office of United States Treasurer, Washington, D. C.; Carson E. Phillips, engineer and inspector, Quartermaster-General's Department at Large, St. Louis, Mo.; Edgar A. Bennett, rodman, Quartermaster-General's Department at Large, St. Louis, Mo.; M. C. Furstenau, draftsman, engineer district, Charleston, S. C.; E. B. Harden, instrument man, navy-yard, Charleston, S. C.; William Cook, mechanic, Quartermaster's Department at Large, Fort Apache, Ariz.; Frank H. Cranford, foreman, Quartermaster's Department at Large, Presidio of San Francisco, Cal.; William E. Neff, special laborer, navy-yard, Washington, D. C.; Miss Lelia B. Mannakee, Mrs. Claudia S. Coles, Mrs. Florence O. Quimby, clerks (typewriters), Bureau of Insular Affairs, Washington, D. C.; Clarence K. Andrews, carpenter, Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.; Stephen A. Reid, carpenter, Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.; Miss Ella Merritt, piecework computer, Naval Observatory, Washington, D. C.; twenty-seven employees, Quartermaster's Department at Large, Monterey, Cal.; Eugene L. Thompson, typewriter, Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D. C.; Carson E. Phillips, engineer and inspector, Quartermaster's Department at Large, St. Louis, Mo.; H. M. Hathaway, deck officer, steamer Patterson, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.", "A statement showing the action of the Commission in these cases was submitted to the President and received his approval on July 29, 1903."], "source": "Wikisource (from | notes    =)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Approved Civil Service Commission extensions of temporary job employments beyond six months, covering carpenters, clerks and other workers at posts from Monterey to Fort Niagara.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["John Sheridan", "G. P. Crouse", "E. Kilby", "William H. Goldie", "Joseph G. Cleveland", "Duncan MacArthur", "A. A. Bennett", "Roger Duval", "Thomas Grant", "John Dinwiddie", "George Stockhill", "Samuel Rieben", "A. U. Wyman", "Carson E. Phillips"], "significance": 1, "stories": [82], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-07-29", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-226", "type": "executive_order", "number": "226", "tr_sequence": 88, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-07-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Annie M. West and Sadie B. Yates to Positions in Government Printing Office", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_226", "revid": 12002537, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. Annie M. West and Mrs. Sadie B. Yates may be reinstated to the positions of sewer and telephone operator, respectively, in the Government Printing Office, without regard to the provisions of Rule IX limiting the period of eligibility for reinstatement to one year from the date of separation."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, July 29, 1903.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Annie M. West and Sadie B. Yates be reinstated as sewer and telephone operator at the Government Printing Office despite the one-year reinstatement limit.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "restore", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Annie M. West", "Sadie B. Yates"], "significance": 1, "stories": [82], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-07-29", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-227", "type": "executive_order", "number": "227", "tr_sequence": 89, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-07-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Luther M. Walter as Law Clerk in Interstate Commerce Commission Upon Noncompetitive Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_227", "revid": 1814356, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Luther M. Walter may be appointed to the position of law clerk in the Interstate Commerce Commission upon appropriate noncompetitive examination."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, July 30, 1903.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Luther M. Walter to be appointed law clerk in the Interstate Commerce Commission after a noncompetitive examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Luther M. Walter"], "significance": 1, "stories": [82], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-07-30", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-066", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 66, "date": "1903-07-31", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Camp Hartshorne Military Reservation, Laguan, Samar Island, P. I., established.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 66, "page": "195", "citations": "(EO 645)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Camp Hartshorne Military Reservation, Laguan, Samar Island, P. I., established.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Established the Camp Hartshorne Military Reservation at Laguan, Samar Island, Philippine Islands.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Camp Hartshorne Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [112], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-07-31", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-067", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 67, "date": "1903-07-31", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Moapa River (Paiute) Indian Reservation, Nev., enlarged by certain described lands.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 67, "page": "195", "citations": "III Kappler 681; 1903 CIA 481; I IR 113; X Richardson 634"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Moapa River (Paiute) Indian Reservation, Nev., enlarged by certain described lands.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Enlarged the Moapa River (Paiute) Indian Reservation in Nevada by adding certain described lands.", "categories": ["indian-lands"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Moapa River (Paiute) Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "Nevada"}], "states": ["Nevada"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [112], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-07-31", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-228", "type": "executive_order", "number": "228", "tr_sequence": 90, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-08-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Extending Time Limit for Completion of Work of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission to March 2, 1904", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_228", "revid": 1837846, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By authority of the sixteenth section of the act of Congress approved March second, 1901, entitled \"An act to carry into effect the stipulations of article seven of the treaty between the United States and Spain, concluded on the tenth day of December, 1898,\" the period of two years from the date of the approval of said act (during which the powers and jurisdiction granted to the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission duly appointed under the first section of said act of Congress to examine and adjudicate all claims of citizens of the United States against Spain, which the United States agreed to adjudicate and settle by the seventh article of said treaty were, according to said act, to be in force and continue) is hereby extended for and during six months from and after the second day of September, nineteen hundred and three, and for no longer time, it being the judgment of the President that such time is necessary to enable the Commission to complete its work."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, August 1, 1903.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Gave the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission six more months, past September 2, 1903, to finish judging American citizens' claims against Spain under the 1898 treaty.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs", "government-administration"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Spain", "kind": "country"}], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [82], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-08-01", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The order kept the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission at work for six more months, to March 2, 1904, the longest single extension the 1901 law allowed.", "source": "Act of March 2, 1901, ch. 800, § 16, 31 Stat. 877, 880", "date": "1903-08-01", "story": 82}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-246", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Extended the commission again, to September 2, 1904.", "story": 82, "date": "1904-01-12", "title": "Extending Time Limit for Completion of Work of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission to September 2, 1904", "type": "executive_order", "number": "246"}]}
{"id": "eo-229", "type": "executive_order", "number": "229", "tr_sequence": 91, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-08-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Julia W. Wellborn as Clerk in the Geological Survey Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_229", "revid": 1814360, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. Julia W. Wellborn may be permanently appointed Clerk in the Geological Survey without examination under the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, August 9, 1903.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Julia W. Wellborn to be permanently appointed a clerk in the Geological Survey without a civil-service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Julia W. Wellborn"], "significance": 1, "stories": [82], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-08-09", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-230", "type": "executive_order", "number": "230", "tr_sequence": 92, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-08-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Exceptions from Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_230", "revid": 1837955, "printed_source": "1903 CSR 197"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Schedule A, of the Civil Service Rules, defining the positions excepted from examination under Rule II, clause 3, is amended by striking out clause 13 of Subdivision VI, Department of the Interior, which reads:", "One clerk at each pension agency to act for the agent during his absence or disability."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1903 CSR 197)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, August 10, 1903.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Amended the civil-service rules to drop the exception from examination for one clerk at each pension agency who stood in for the agent during absence or disability.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [82], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-08-10", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-504", "type": "proclamation", "number": "504", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-08-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Revocation of Withdrawal for Day County Seat in Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian Reservation", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 504, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-504"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2317, "last_page": 2318, "cite": "33 Stat. 2317–2318", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2317.pdf", "statutes_date": "1903-08-12", "table_title": "Restoring to public domain lands in Day County, Oklahoma."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["[No. 6.]", "By the President of the United States of America.", "A PROCLAMATION.", "Whereas, in the opening of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe ceded Indian lands in the Territory of Oklahoma, by proclamation dated April 12, 1892, pursuant to section sixteen of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1891 (26 Stat., 989, 1026), the south one-half of section fifteen, township seventeen north, range twenty-two west, of the Indian Principal Meridian, was reserved for county-seat purposes for county \"E,\" now Day county, in said Territory.", "And whereas it appears that the county-seat of said county was removed from said land to the town of Grand in said county in 1893, and that said land has not since been used for county-seat purposes, and is not now needed for such purposes, and no entry has been made thereof;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section sixteen of said act of Congress of March 3, 1891, do hereby declare and make known that said land is hereby opened to settlement and restored to the public domain, to be disposed of under the provisions of section sixteen of said act of Congress of March 3, 1891, and all other laws and agreements applicable thereto.", "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 12th day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty eighth.", "[SEAL.]", "T. ROOSEVELT", "By the President:", "FRANCIS B LOOMIS.", "Acting Secretary of State."], "source": "33 Stat. 2317–2318 (GovInfo Statutes at Large page images), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Signature printed as the abbreviated \"T. Roosevelt\" (small capitals); [SEAL.] restored; first recital ends with a period; \"twenty eighth\" unhyphenated; countersignature \"Francis B Loomis.\" with no period after the initial.", "story": 46}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Restored to settlement a half-section in the former Cheyenne and Arapahoe lands of Oklahoma Territory once held for Day County's county seat, which had moved to the town of Grand in 1893.", "categories": ["public-lands", "indian-lands"], "action": "restore", "places": [{"name": "Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "Oklahoma"}], "states": ["Oklahoma"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [46], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-08-12", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "local", "text": "By reciting that the county seat was removed from Ioland to Grand in 1893, the proclamation treated Grand as Day County's working seat for federal land purposes, though which town was the lawful seat was still disputed.", "source": "33 Stat. 2317–2318; Squire, Chronicles of Oklahoma 28 (1950)", "date": "1903-08-12", "story": 46}, {"kind": "court", "text": "In a 1907 bond case the territorial supreme court accepted that Ioland was the original seat and that Grand was where the county's business was done, but declined to decide which was the lawful seat.", "source": "Board of County Commissioners of Day County v. State of Kansas, 19 Okla. 375, 91 P. 699", "date": "1907-09-05", "story": 46}], "legacy": [{"text": "Day County was abolished at Oklahoma statehood; its land north of the Canadian went to Ellis County and the land south to Roger Mills County.", "source": "Everett, Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture", "date": "1907-11-16", "story": 46}, {"text": "Grand lost a county-seat fight to Arnett and, once the county property finished moving in the spring of 1909, ceased to be a town of any importance; by 1950 nothing was left to show where it stood.", "source": "Squire, Chronicles of Oklahoma 28 (1950), p. 402", "date": "1909", "story": 46}], "uncertain": ["Who asked for the proclamation is not known; the Interior Department's letters to the State Department may show it.", "Whether the Day County Tribune at Grand or other western Oklahoma papers noticed the proclamation in August and September 1903 has not been checked."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-231", "type": "executive_order", "number": "231", "tr_sequence": 93, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-08-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Employment of Allen Hazen as Engineer in Washington Filtration Plant for Two Years", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_231", "revid": 1845094, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Allen Hazen, who has been employed temporarily as expert and consulting engineer in connection with the preparation of plans, estimates, and specifications for the Washington filtration plant, may be continued during the construction and initial operation of the plant, not to exceed twenty-four months."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, August 17, 1903.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let consulting engineer Allen Hazen stay on through construction and early operation of the Washington filtration plant, for no more than 24 months.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": ["Allen Hazen"], "significance": 1, "stories": [82], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-08-17", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-232", "type": "executive_order", "number": "232", "tr_sequence": 94, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-08-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Dr. William A. White as Superintendent of the Government Hospital for the Insane Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_232", "revid": 1814373, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Dr. William A. White may be appointed to the vacancy now existing in the position of superintendent of the Government Hospital for the Insane without examination under the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, August 20, 1903.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Dr. William A. White to fill the vacant superintendent's post at the Government Hospital for the Insane without a civil-service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["William A. White"], "significance": 1, "stories": [82], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-08-20", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Dr. William A. White led the Government Hospital for the Insane (St. Elizabeths) until 1937 and became a leading figure in American psychiatry.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1937", "story": 82}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-233", "type": "executive_order", "number": "233", "tr_sequence": 95, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-08-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Transfer of W. E. Lackland to Post-Office at Prescott, Arizona, Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_233", "revid": 1815874, "printed_source": "1904 CSR 85"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The requirement that a person proposed for transfer must have actually served in the classified service at least six months next preceding the transfer may be waived in the case of the transfer of W. E. Lackland from the Treasury Department to the Post-Office at Prescott, Arizona."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1904 CSR 85)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, August 26, 1903.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Waived the six-month service requirement so W. E. Lackland could transfer from the Treasury Department to the post office at Prescott, Arizona.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Prescott", "kind": "town", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": ["W. E. Lackland"], "significance": 1, "stories": [82], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-08-26", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-234", "type": "executive_order", "number": "234", "tr_sequence": 96, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-08-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Emma J. Rawlings as Teller in the Treasury Department", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_234", "revid": 1822294, "printed_source": "1904 CSR 85"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Miss Emma J. Rawlings, the daughter of a veteran of the civil war, was employed from February 12, 1870, to February 16, 1876, as expert money teller in the redemption division of the Treasury Department. Her health having failed she resigned and her position was taken by her widowed mother. Miss Rawlings afterwards served in several temporary positions in the Census Office and Treasury Department. In June, 1903, having regained her health, and her mother's health having failed, she sought reinstatement to her mother's position. The Treasury Department made request upon the Commission September 8, 1903, for a certificate for her reinstatement, quoting a letter to the Secretary of the Treasury from the secretary to the President stating that the President approved her reinstatement. The Commission issued the certificate November 5, 1903.", "The letter was regarded by the Civil Service Commission as an Executive Order."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1904 CSR 85)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, August 27, 1903.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Approved reinstating Emma J. Rawlings, a former expert money teller and daughter of a Civil War veteran, to the Treasury Department post her mother had held.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Emma J. Rawlings"], "significance": 1, "stories": [82], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-08-27", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-068", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 68, "date": "1903-09-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Fifteen Philippine military reservations established in one order (Camp Stotsenberg at Angeles, Camp McGrath at Batangas, and others).", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 68, "page": "195–196", "citations": "(EOs 1870, 2316; 1907 MR 406–412; …)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "~16 Philippine military reservations established in one order (Angeles/Camp Stotsenberg ~7,668 acres; Bacon; Batangas/Camp McGrath; Bayambang/Camp Gregg; Bongao; Calbayog; Cebu/Fort San Pedro; Los Baños/Camp Eldridge; Lucena/Camp Wilhelm; Nueva Cáceres; Ormoc/Camp Downes; San Fernando/Camp Wallace; Solomague; Tacloban/Camp Bumpus; Warwick Barracks; Camp Jossman).", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "title_notes": ["Corrected from “~16 Philippine military reservations established in one order (Angeles/Camp Stotsenberg ~7,668 acres; Bacon; Batangas/Camp McGrath; Bayambang/Camp Gregg; Bongao; Calbayog; Cebu/Fort San Pedro; Los Baños/Camp Eldridge; Lucena/Camp Wilhelm; Nueva Cáceres; Ormoc/Camp Downes; San Fernando/Camp Wallace; Solomague; Tacloban/Camp Bumpus; Warwick Barracks; Camp Jossman)”. War Department compilation (1907), pp. 406–412, and 1938 Code of Federal Regulations, Title 3, p. 225."], "summary": "Set up fifteen military reservations across the Philippines in a single order, including Camp Stotsenberg at Angeles and Camp McGrath at Batangas.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Angeles (Camp Stotsenberg)", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Bacon", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Batangas (Camp McGrath)", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Bayambang (Camp Gregg)", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Bongao", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Calbayog", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Cebu (Fort San Pedro)", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Los Baños (Camp Eldridge)", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Lucena (Camp Wilhelm)", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Nueva Cáceres", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Ormoc (Camp Downes)", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "San Fernando (Camp Wallace)", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Solomague", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Tacloban (Camp Bumpus)", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Warwick Barracks", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Camp Jossman", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [112], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-09-01", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Angeles tract of 7,668.8 acres was enlarged on April 30, 1908, and by 1910 the Camp Stotsenberg reservation covered more than 151,000 acres.", "source": "War Department, Military Reservations (1910 ed.)", "date": "1908-04-30", "story": 112}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Camp Stotsenberg reservation that grew from the Angeles tract later became Clark Field.", "source": "research entry", "story": 112}, {"text": "Most of the posts set apart in 1903 made up the American garrison map of the Philippines for the next forty years, and several had long and sometimes tragic histories in the Second World War.", "source": "research entry", "story": 112}], "uncertain": ["Why the War Department's 1916 compilation lists Fort San Pedro, Cebu and Warwick Barracks as separate entries under this order; the order's own text in General Orders No. 34 (1903) has not been found."]}, "related": [{"id": "uo-100", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Enlarged Camp Eldridge at Los Baños, one of the fifteen posts.", "story": 112, "date": "1904-12-06", "title": "EO of Sept. 1, 1903 modified; Camp Eldridge Military Reservation, Los Baños, Luzon (68.35 acres), enlarged.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}, {"id": "eo-790", "relation": "enlarged_by", "note": "Enlarged the Camp Stotsenberg reservation at Angeles in 1908.", "story": 112, "date": "1908-04-30", "title": "Enlarging Camp Stotsenburg Military Reservation Near Angeles, Pampanga, Luzon, Philippine Islands", "type": "executive_order", "number": "790"}]}
{"id": "proc-505", "type": "proclamation", "number": "505", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-09-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Pocatello Forest Reserve", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 505, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-505"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2318, "last_page": 2319, "cite": "33 Stat. 2318–2319", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2318.pdf", "statutes_date": "1903-09-05", "table_title": "Setting apart Pocatello Forest Reserve, Idaho."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Idaho, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Idaho and particularly described as follows, to wit:", "Sections twenty-nine (29), thirty (30), thirty-one (31), thirty-two (32) and thirty-three (33), Township six (6) South, Range thirty-four (34) East; Sections two (2), three (3), four (4), five (5), six (6), seven (7), eight (8), nine (9), ten (10), eleven (11), fourteen (14), fifteen (15), six-teen (16), seventeen (17), eighteen (18), nineteen (19), twenty (20), twenty-one (21), twenty-two (22), twenty-three (23), twenty-four (24), twenty-five (25), twenty-six (26), twenty-seven (27), twenty-eight (28), twenty-nine (29), thirty (30), thirty-one (31), thirty-two (32), thirty- three (33), thirty-four (34), thirty-five (35) and thirty-six (36), Town-ship seven (7) South, Range thirty-four (34) East; Sections one (1), two (2); three (3), four (4), five (5), nine (9), ten (10), eleven (11), twelve (12), thirteen (13), fourteen (14), fifteen (15), twenty-three (23), twenty-four (24), twenty-five (25) and twenty-six (26), Township eight (8) South, Range thirty-four (34) East; Sections three (3), four (4), five (5), six (6), seven (7), eight (8), nine (9), ten (10), fifteen (15), six-teen (16), seventeen (17), eighteen (18), nineteen (19), twenty (20), twenty-one (21), twenty-two (22), twenty-seven (27), twenty-eight (28), twenty-nine (29), thirty (30), thirty-one (31), thirty-two (32), thirty- three (33) and thirty-four (34), Township eight (8) South, Range thirty- five (35) East, Boise’ Meridian, Idaho.", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Pocatello Forest Reserve.", "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 5th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three, and [seal.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 33 Stat. 2318", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve Idaho.", "Boundaries.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from, settlement.", "The Pocatello Forest Reserve."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Pocatello Forest Reserve in Idaho, reserving timbered public lands within set boundaries from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Pocatello Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Idaho"}], "states": ["Idaho"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [42], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-09-05", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "A syndicated survey of Idaho protest against reserves exempted Pocatello, saying it was \"to protect the water supply of Pocatello and a necessity existed for its creation.\"", "source": "syndicated wire survey, March 1904", "date": "1904-03", "story": 42}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "court", "text": "A September 1903 wire story reported a federal suit against southeastern Idaho stockmen, including a sitting state senator, for grazing 28,000 sheep on the Portneuf headwaters and fouling Pocatello's water.", "source": "wire story, September 1903", "date": "1903-09", "story": 42}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Pocatello was abolished in 1915 and its lands moved to the Cache, then on to the Caribou in 1939 and 1942.", "source": "EO 2179; EO 8130, 4 F.R. 2017; EO 9124, 7 F.R. 2692", "date": "1942", "story": 42}], "today": [{"name": "Caribou-Targhee National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Idaho", "source": "USFS FS-612", "story": 42}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1915-04-21", "text": "Pocatello National Forest abolished and its lands moved to the Cache, effective July 1, 1915.", "source": "Executive Order 2179", "story": 42}, {"date": "1939-05-11", "text": "Pocatello and Portneuf divisions moved to the Caribou National Forest.", "source": "Executive Order 8130, 4 F.R. 2017", "story": 42}, {"date": "1942-04-07", "text": "Malad division moved to the Caribou National Forest.", "source": "Executive Order 9124, 7 F.R. 2692", "story": 42}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-698", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Created the Caribou Forest Reserve, which later received the old Pocatello lands.", "story": 42, "date": "1907-01-15", "title": "Setting Apart the Caribou Forest Reserve, Idaho and Wyoming", "type": "proclamation", "number": "698"}]}
{"id": "eo-235", "type": "executive_order", "number": "235", "tr_sequence": 97, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-09-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Rules Governing the Granting and Issuing of Passports in the United States", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_235", "revid": 1817244, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["1. By whom issued.—No one but the Secretary of State may grant and issue passports in the United States. Rev. Stat. §§ 4075, 4078 [U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, pp. 2764, 2766].", "A person who is entitled to receive a passport if temporarily abroad should apply to the diplomatic representative of the United States in the country where he happens to be; or, in the absence of a diplomatic representative, to the consul general of the United States; or, in the absence of both, to the consul of the United States. The necessary statements may be made before the nearest consular officer of the United States.", "Application for a passport by a person in one of the insular possessions of the United States should be made to the chief executive of such possession.", "(The evidence required of a person making application abroad or in an insular possession of the United States is the same as that required of an applicant in the United States.)", "2. To whom issued.—The law forbids the granting of a passport to any person who does not owe allegiance to the United States.", "A person who has only made the declaration of intention to become a citizen of the United States cannot receive a passport.", "3. Applications.—A person who is entitled to receive a passport, if within the United States, must make a written application, in the form of an affidavit, to the Secretary of State.", "The affidavit must be attested by an officer authorized to administer oaths, and if he has an official seal it must be affixed. If he has no seal, his official character must be authenticated by certificate of the proper legal officer.", "If the applicant signs by mark, two attesting witnesses to his signature are required.", "The applicant is required to state the date and place of his birth, his occupation, and the place of his permanent residence, and to declare that he goes abroad for temporary sojourn, and intends to return to the United States with the purpose of residing and performing the duties of citizenship therein.", "The applicant must take the oath of allegiance to the government of the United States.", "The application must be accompanied by a description of the person applying, and should state the following particulars, *viz.*: Age, _____; stature, _____ feet _____ inches (English measure) ; forehead, _____; eyes, _____; nose, _____; mouth, _____; chin, _____; hair, _____; complexion, _____; face, _____.", "The application must be accompanied by a certificate from at least one credible witness that the applicant is the person he represents himself to be, and that the facts stated in the affidavit are true to the best of the witness's knowledge and belief.", "4. Native citizens.—An application containing the information indicated by rule 3 will be sufficient evidence in the case of native citizens; but a person of the Chinese race, alleging birth in the United States, must accompany his application with supporting affidavits from at least two credible witnesses, preferably not of the Chinese race, having personal knowledge of the applicant's birth in the United States.", "5. A person born abroad, whose father was a native citizen of the United States.—In addition to the statements required by rule 3, his application must show that his father was born in the United States, resided therein, and was a citizen at the time of the applicant's birth. The Department may require that this affidavit be supported by that of one other citizen acquainted with the facts.", "6. Naturalized citizens.—In addition to the statements required by rule 3, a naturalized citizen must transmit his certificate of naturalization, or a duly certified copy of the court record thereof, with his application. It will be returned to him after inspection. He must state in his affidavit when and from what port he emigrated to this country, what ship he sailed in, where he has lived since his arrival in the United States, when and before what court he was naturalized, and that he is the identical person described in the certificate of naturalization. The signature to the application should conform in orthography to the applicant's name as written in his certificate of naturalization.", "7. Woman's application.—If she is unmarried, in addition to the statements required by rule 3, she should state that she has never been married. If she is the wife of a native citizen of the United States the fact should be made to appear in her application. If she is the wife or widow of a naturalized citizen, in addition to the statements required by rule 3, she must transmit for inspection her husband's certificate of naturalization, must state that she is the wife (or widow) of the person described therein, and must set forth the facts of his emigration, naturalization, and residence, as required in the rule governing the application of a naturalized citizen.", "(A married woman's citizenship follows that of her husband so far as her international status is concerned. It is essential, therefore, that a woman's marital relations be indicated in her application for a passport, and that in the case of a married woman her husband's citizenship be established.)", "8. The child of a naturalized citizen claiming citizenship through the naturalization of the parent.—In addition to the statements required by rule 3, the applicant must state that he or she is the son or daughter, as the case may be, of the person described in the certificate of naturalization, which must be submitted for inspection, and must set forth the facts of emigration, naturalization, and residence, as required in the rule governing the application of a naturalized citizen.", "9. A resident of an insular possession of the United States, who owes allegiance to the United States.—In addition to the statements required by rule 3, he must state that he owes allegiance to the United States, and that he does not acknowledge allegiance to any other government; and must submit an affidavit from at least two credible witnesses having good means of knowledge in substantiation of his statements of birth, residence, and loyalty.", "10. Expiration of passport.—A passport expires two years from the date of its issuance. A new one will be issued upon a new application, and, if the applicant be a naturalized citizen, the old passport will be accepted in lieu of a certificate of naturalization, if the application upon which it was issued is found to contain sufficient information as to the naturalization of the applicant.", "11. Wife, minor children, and servants.—When the applicant is accompanied by his wife, minor children, or servant who would be entitled to receive a passport, it will be sufficient to state the fact, giving the respective ages of the children and the allegiance of the servant, when one passport will suffice for all. For any other person in the party a separate passport will be required. A woman's passport may include her minor children and servant under the above-named conditions.", "(The term \"servant\" does not include a governess, tutor, pupil, companion, or person holding like relations to the applicant for a passport.)", "12. Professional titles.—They will not be inserted in passports.", "13. Fee.—By act of Congress approved March 23, 1888 [24 Stat. at L. 45, chap. 34], a fee of $1 is required to be collected for every citizen's passport. That amount in currency or postal money order should accompany each application made by a citizen of the United States. Orders should be made payable to the disbursing clerk of the Department of State. Drafts or checks will not be accepted.", "14. Blank forms of application.—They will be furnished by the Department to persons who desire to apply for passports, but are not furnished, except as samples, to those who make a business of procuring passports.", "15. Address.—Communications should be addressed to the Department of State, Passport Bureau, and each communication should give the postoffice address of the person to whom the answer is to be directed.", "16. Rejection of application.—The Secretary of State has the right in his discretion to refuse to issue a passport, and will exercise this right towards anyone who, he has reason to believe, desires it for an unlawful or improper purpose.", "Section 4075 of the Revised Statutes of the United States [U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 2764], as amended by the act of Congress, approved June 14, 1902 [32 Stat. at L. 386, chap. 1088], providing that \"the Secretary of State may grant and issue passports, and cause passports to be granted, issued, and verified in foreign countries by such diplomatic or consular officers of the United States, and by such chief or other executive officer of the insular possessions of the United States, and under such rules as the President shall designate and prescribe for and on behalf of the United States,\" the foregoing rules are hereby prescribed for the granting and issuing of passports in the United States.", "The Secretary of State is authorized to make regulations on the subject of issuing and granting passports additional to these rules and not inconsistent with them.", "Theodore Roosevelt.", "Oyster Bay, New York, *September 12, 1903.*"], "source": "Frederick Van Dyne, Citizenship of the United States (Rochester: Lawyers' Co-operative, 1904), § 87, pp. 253–258 (HathiTrust hvd.32044021204177, OCR text read page by page), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Base text is Wikisource's; matches Van Dyne word for word, rule by rule, including the bracketed statute references. Van Dyne is a commercial law treatise, not a government printing; the State Department's own September 1903 printing has not been seen. The bracket '[24 Stat. at L. 45, chap. 34]' is wrong (the 1888 act is 25 Stat. 45) but is left as both printings give it. Asterisks mark italics. Blanks in the physical-description list as given. No seal (executive order).", "story": 82}, "summary": "Laid out the rules for U.S. passports: only the Secretary of State issues them, only those owing allegiance qualify, and applicants must file a sworn, attested application with personal details.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [82], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-09-12", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The rules added a new requirement that a person \"of the Chinese race\" claiming birth in the United States supply affidavits from at least two witnesses with personal knowledge of the birth, a burden no other applicant carried.", "source": "EO 235, rule 4, in Van Dyne, Citizenship of the United States (1904), pp. 253–258", "date": "1903-09-12", "story": 82}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "Refusing a passport became a discretionary \"right\" of the Secretary of State, and the 1902 ground of refusal for anyone unable or unwilling to comply with the rules was dropped.", "source": "EO 235 compared with EO 181, Foreign Relations 1902, pp. 6–9", "date": "1903-09-12", "story": 82}], "legacy": [{"text": "Chinese Exclusion, the source of the extra proof burden on Chinese-American applicants, was repealed by the Magnuson Act.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1943-12-17", "story": 82}, {"text": "The rule that a married woman's citizenship followed her husband's was broken by the Cable Act of 1922, though that act still stripped citizenship from women who married \"an alien ineligible to citizenship\" until 1931.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1922", "story": 82}, {"text": "A passport became a standing legal requirement for leaving or entering the country only in 1978, and even then the President could make exceptions.", "source": "Pub. L. 95-426, § 707(b), 92 Stat. 963, 993", "date": "1978-10-07", "story": 82}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1918", "text": "A passport was required for travel in wartime.", "source": "research entry", "story": 82}, {"date": "1926", "text": "Congress passed the Passport Act of 1926.", "source": "research entry", "story": 82}, {"date": "1941", "text": "Passports were required again under emergency proclamations tied to a declared national emergency.", "source": "research entry", "story": 82}, {"date": "1978-10-07", "text": "Congress made it unlawful for a citizen to leave or enter the United States without a valid passport, subject to exceptions the President may authorize.", "source": "Pub. L. 95-426, § 707(b), 92 Stat. 963, 993", "story": 82}], "uncertain": ["Why the State Department added the extra proof requirement for Chinese-American applicants in 1903 is not known."]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-180", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Continued the 1902 provision for residents of the island possessions who owed allegiance without being citizens.", "story": 82, "date": "1902-07-19", "title": "Permitting Issuance of Passports to Residents of Insular Possessions of United States", "type": "executive_order", "number": "180"}, {"id": "eo-181", "relation": "supersedes", "note": "Replaced the seventeen passport rules of July 1902.", "story": 82, "date": "1902-07-19", "title": "Rules Governing the Granting and Issuing of Passports in the United States", "type": "executive_order", "number": "181"}, {"id": "eo-654", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "Replaced in 1907 by new rules that added further requirements for Chinese applicants.", "story": 82, "date": "1907-06-13", "title": "Prescribing Rules Governing the Granting and Issuing of Passports in the United States", "type": "executive_order", "number": "654"}]}
{"id": "uo-069", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 69, "date": "1903-09-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Abandoned Camp McDowell Military Reservation, Maricopa County, Arizona Territory, set aside for the Mojave-Apache Indians living on or near it and other Indians the Interior Secretary might place there.", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 69, "page": "196", "citations": "III Kappler 667; 1903 CIA 481; I IR 3; X Richardson 634"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Abandoned Camp McDowell Military Reservation, Maricopa County, Arizona Territory, set aside for the Mojaves and other Indians living thereon.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Abandoned Camp McDowell Military Reservation, Maricopa County, Arizona Territory, set aside for the Mojaves and other Indians living thereon”. The order reserves the land \"for the use and occupancy of such Mojave-Apache Indians as are now living thereon or in the vicinity and such other Indians as the Secretary of the Interior may hereafter deem necessary to place thereon\" (Kappler, vol. III, p. 667); Lord's description drops \"-Apache\" and misreads the second clause.", "The order says \"Mojave-Apache\"; the people were Yavapai (Kappler, vol. III, p. 667)."], "summary": "Set aside the abandoned Camp McDowell Military Reservation in Maricopa County, Arizona Territory, for the Mojave-Apache Indians living on or near it and for other Indians the Secretary of the Interior might later place there.", "categories": ["indian-lands", "military-naval"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Camp McDowell Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [112], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-09-15", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation ties its territory to this order. Its 1999 constitution notes the community was formerly known as the Fort McDowell Mohave-Apache Community, echoing the order's period misnomer for the Yavapai.", "source": "Constitution of the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation (1999)", "date": "1999", "story": 112}], "today": [{"name": "Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation", "kind": "indian_reservation", "relation": "origin", "state": "Arizona", "since": "1903-09-15", "note": "The order called the people \"Mojave-Apache\"; they are Yavapai.", "source": "Constitution of the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation (1999)", "story": 112}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-070", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 70, "date": "1903-09-22", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Siassi Military Reservation, Moro Province, P. I., established as a pipe-line right of way.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 70, "page": "196", "citations": "(EOs 1629, 2934; 1907 MR 412; …)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Siassi Military Reservation, Moro Province, P. I., established as a pipe-line right of way.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Established the Siassi Military Reservation in Moro Province, Philippines, as a right of way for a pipe line.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Siassi Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [112], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-09-22", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-236", "type": "executive_order", "number": "236", "tr_sequence": 98, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-10-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Clarence A. Cook as Special Agent in Department of Commerce and Labor Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_236", "revid": 1814388, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Clarence A. Cook may be appointed special agent of the Bureau of Corporations, Department of Commerce and Labor, at a salary of $2,000 per annum, without examination under the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, October 9, 1903.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Clarence A. Cook to be appointed a special agent of the Bureau of Corporations at $2,000 a year without a civil-service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Clarence A. Cook"], "significance": 1, "stories": [82], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-10-09", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The order named special examiners or agents for the Bureau of Corporations without examination.", "source": "research entry", "story": 82}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-071", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 71, "date": "1903-10-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Fort D. A. Russell Target and Maneuver Reservation, on lands of the Crow Creek Forest Reserve, Albany County, Wyo., established.", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 71, "page": "196", "citations": "(EOs 1080, 1192, 4245; 1907 MR 397; …)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Fort D. A. Russell Target and Maneuver Reservation (former Crow Creek Forest Reserve), Albany County, Wyo., ~56,320 acres *(corrected 2026-10-12 from ~36,800: the order transferred the whole Crow Creek reserve, whose Proc. 450 boundary encloses 88 sections; see research entry #112)*, established.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Fort D. A. Russell Target and Maneuver Reservation (former Crow Creek Forest Reserve), Albany County, Wyo., ~56,320 acres, established”. The forest-reserve status continued until April 19, 1910 (EO 1192); War Department compilations of 1910 and 1916."], "summary": "Turned the former Crow Creek Forest Reserve in Albany County, Wyoming, into the Fort D. A. Russell Target and Maneuver Reservation.", "categories": ["military-naval", "forests"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Fort D. A. Russell Target and Maneuver Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Wyoming"}, {"name": "Crow Creek Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Wyoming"}], "states": ["Wyoming"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [112], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-10-09", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Crow Creek lands went to the War Department on the understanding that their use as a rifle range would not interfere with the purposes of the forest reserve, so they stayed in forest reservation.", "source": "War Department, Military Reservations (1910 ed.)", "date": "1903-10-09", "story": 112}], "legacy": [{"text": "From the 1916 compilation on, the War Department listed the maneuver ground as the Pole Mountain Reservation.", "source": "War Department, Military Reservations (1916 ed.), p. 470", "date": "1916", "story": 112}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1909-05-28", "text": "Taft's Executive Order 1080 excluded 320 acres from the reservation.", "source": "Executive Order 1080", "story": 112}, {"date": "1910-04-19", "text": "Taft's Executive Order 1192 provided that the lands should no longer be regarded as reserved for forest purposes.", "source": "Executive Order 1192; War Department, Military Reservations (1916 ed.)", "story": 112}], "uncertain": ["Where the 1907 and 1910 War Department figures of about 36,800 and 36,320 acres came from; they cannot fit the boundary of the roughly 56,000-acre reserve that was transferred."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-072", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 72, "date": "1903-10-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Fort San Pedro Military Reservation, Iloilo, Island of Panay, P. I., established.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 72, "page": "196", "citations": "(EOs 351-B, 512; 1907 MR 411; …)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Fort San Pedro Military Reservation, Iloilo, Island of Panay, P. I., established.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Established the Fort San Pedro Military Reservation at Iloilo on the island of Panay in the Philippines.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Fort San Pedro Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Panay", "kind": "island", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [112], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-10-10", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-073", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 73, "date": "1903-10-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Baguio (later Camp John Hay) Military Reservation, Benguet Province, Luzon, P. I., 535.63 acres, established.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 73, "page": "196", "citations": "(EOs 553, 1610, 1855; 1907 MR 406; …)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Baguio (later Camp John Hay) Military Reservation, Benguet Province, Luzon, P. I., 535.63 acres, established.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Created a 535.63-acre military reservation at Baguio in Benguet Province, Luzon, in the Philippines.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Baguio Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [112], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-10-10", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "After John Hay's death in July 1905, General Leonard Wood ordered that the Baguio post be known as Camp John Hay.", "source": "Evening Star (Washington), March 4, 1906", "date": "1906-03", "story": 112}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-553", "relation": "enlarged_by", "note": "Roosevelt's 1907 addition to Camp John Hay, which refers back to the order of October 10, 1903.", "story": 112, "date": "1907-01-23", "title": "Addition to the Camp John Hay Military Reservation, Luzon, Philippine Islands", "type": "executive_order", "number": "553"}]}
{"id": "proc-506", "type": "proclamation", "number": "506", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-10-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Convening Extraordinary Session of Congress", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 506, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-506"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2319, "last_page": 2319, "cite": "33 Stat. 2319", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2319.pdf", "statutes_date": "1903-10-20", "table_title": "Convening extraordinary session of Congress."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["[No. 8.]", "By the President of the United States of America,", "A PROCLAMATION.", "Whereas, by the resolution of the Senate of March 19, 1903, the approval by Congress of the reciprocal Commercial Convention between the United States and the Republic of Cuba, signed at Havana on December 11, 1902, is necessary before the said Convention shall take effect;", "And Whereas, it is important to the public interests of the United States that the said Convention shall become operative as early as may be;", "Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby proclaim and declare that an extraordinary occasion requires the convening of both Houses of the Congress of the United States at their respective Chambers in the city of Washington on the 9th day of November next, at 12 o'clock noon, to the end that they may consider and determine whether the approval of the Congress shall be given to the said Convention.", "All persons entitled to act as members of the 58th Congress are required to take notice of this proclamation.", "Given under my hand and the Seal of the United States at Washington the 20th day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth.", "[SEAL.]", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:", "JOHN HAY", "Secretary of State."], "source": "33 Stat. 2319 (GovInfo Statutes at Large page image), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "American Presidency Project transcription found faithful to the Statutes; [SEAL.] (printed in the margin of the dating clause) restored. Italic and small-capital typography not reproduced.", "story": 45}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Called both houses of Congress into extraordinary session on November 9, 1903, to decide whether to approve the reciprocal trade convention with Cuba signed at Havana.", "categories": ["congress", "trade-reciprocity"], "action": "convene", "places": [{"name": "Cuba", "kind": "country"}], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [45], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-10-20", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Morning Oregonian headlined \"EXTRA SESSION / President Calls Congress to Meet November 9,\" printing the full text.", "source": "Morning Oregonian, Oct. 21, 1903", "date": "1903-10-21", "story": 45}, {"text": "The Los Angeles Herald noted of the House vote on the Cuban bill: \"There Was No Record Vote.\"", "source": "Los Angeles Herald, Nov. 20, 1903", "date": "1903-11-20", "story": 45}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "congress", "text": "The House adopted a special rule fixing the time of the vote, 183 to 160, with six Republicans from Michigan and Colorado voting with the Democrats against it.", "source": "Voteview, House roll calls 3–5, 58th Congress; Morning Oregonian, Nov. 17, 1903", "date": "1903-11-11", "story": 45}, {"kind": "congress", "text": "The House passed the Cuban reciprocity bill by a rising vote of 335 to 21, with no names recorded.", "source": "San Francisco Call, Nov. 20, 1903 (AP); Press Democrat (Santa Rosa), Nov. 20, 1903", "date": "1903-11-19", "story": 45}, {"kind": "congress", "text": "The Senate talked the bill past the end of the special session, which merged into the regular session on December 7, then passed it 57 to 18 on December 16.", "source": "Voteview, Senate roll call 1, 58th Congress; Congressional Record vol. 38, p. 286", "date": "1903-12-16", "story": 45}, {"kind": "congress", "text": "Roosevelt signed the bill on December 17, 1903; it became chapter 1 of the regular second session.", "source": "Act of Dec. 17, 1903, ch. 1, 33 Stat. 3", "date": "1903-12-17", "story": 45}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Cuban convention took effect on December 27, 1903, and bound the Cuban and American sugar trades closely together for the next three decades.", "source": "United States v. American Sugar Refining Co., 202 U.S. 563 (1906)", "date": "1903-12-27", "story": 45}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-498", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The March Senate session added the requirement of congressional approval.", "story": 45, "date": "1903-03-02", "title": "Convening the Senate of the United States", "type": "proclamation", "number": "498"}, {"id": "proc-510", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Cuban copyright proclamation signed eight days into this session.", "story": 45, "date": "1903-11-17", "title": "Extending Benefits of Copyright Law to Citizens of Cuba", "type": "proclamation", "number": "510"}]}
{"id": "eo-237", "type": "executive_order", "number": "237", "tr_sequence": 99, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-10-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Lillian B. Kellogg as Sewer in Government Printing Office Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_237", "revid": 1814390, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. Lillian B. Kellogg may be reinstated to the position of piece sewer in the Government Printing Office without regard to the provisions of Rule IX limiting the period of eligibility for reinstatement to one year from the date of separation."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, October 23, 1903.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Lillian B. Kellogg to return as a piece sewer at the Government Printing Office despite the one-year limit on reinstatement.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Lillian B. Kellogg"], "significance": 1, "stories": [82], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-10-23", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-507", "type": "proclamation", "number": "507", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-10-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Aquarius Forest Reserve", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 507, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-507"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2320, "last_page": 2321, "cite": "33 Stat. 2320–2321", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2320.pdf", "statutes_date": "1903-10-24", "table_title": "Setting apart Aquarius Forest Reserve, Utah."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Utah, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Utah and within the boundaries particularly described as follows, to wit:", "Beginning at the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), Township twenty-nine (29) South, Range three (3) East, Salt Lake Meridian, Utah; thence easterly along the section lines to the north-east corner of Section twenty (20), Township twenty-nine (29) South, Range four (4) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Township thirty (30) South, Range five (5) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section six (6), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section four (4), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence southerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence easterly along the unsurveyed section lines to the point for the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), Township thirty (30) South, Range six (6) East; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence easterly along the unsurveyed Sixth (6th) Standard Parallel South to the point for the north-east corner of Township thirty-one (31) South, Range six (6) East; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), Township thirty-two (32) South, Range six (6) East; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of said township; thence southerly to the point for the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township thirty-three (33) South, Range six (6) East; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section seventeen (17), Township thirty-three (33) South, Range five (5) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence westerly along the unsurveyed township line to the point for the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township thirty-three (33) South, Range three (3) East; thence southerly to the point for the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), Township thirty-four (34) South, Range three (3) East; thence westerly along the unsurveyed section lines to the point for the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township thirty-four (34) South, Range two (2) East; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Township thirty-five (35) South, Range one (1) East; thence westerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed township line to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-six (36), Township thirty-four (34) South, Range two (2) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the northeast quarter of Section eleven (11), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed section lines to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section twelve (12), Township thirty-three (33) South, Range two (2) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section one (1), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township thirty-two (32) South, Range one (1) West; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly along the unsurveyed section lines to the point for the north-west corner of Section five (5), Township thirty-one (31) South, Range one (1) West; thence easterly along the Sixth (6th) Standard Parallel South to the point for the south-west corner of Township thirty (30) South, Range one (1) East; thence northerly along the unsurveyed Salt Lake Meridian to the point for the north-west corner of said township; thence easterly along the unsurveyed township line to the point for the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township twenty-nine (29) South, Range three (3) East; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township, the place of beginning.", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Aquarius Forest Reserve.", "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 24th day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 33 Stat. 2320", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve.", "Utah.", "Boundaries.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "The Aquarius Forest Reserve."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Aquarius Forest Reserve in Utah, reserving timbered public lands within set boundaries from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Aquarius Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [42], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-10-24", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Salt Lake Tribune reported that people living on and near the Aquarius reserve were \"well satisfied with the reserve.\"", "source": "Salt Lake Tribune, March 1904", "date": "1904-03", "story": 42}], "legacy": [{"text": "Renamed the Powell National Forest in 1908, it was abolished in 1944–45 and all 1,056,278 gross acres joined to the Dixie, which still has a Powell Ranger District.", "source": "EO 908; PLO 260, 10 F.R. 1244", "date": "1944-10-01", "story": 42}], "today": [{"name": "Dixie National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Utah", "note": "The northern part of the old Aquarius Plateau lands is managed by the neighboring Fishlake.", "source": "USFS FS-612", "story": 42}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1945-01-19", "text": "Powell National Forest abolished, effective October 1, 1944, and its lands made part of the Dixie.", "source": "Public Land Order 260, 10 F.R. 1244", "story": 42}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-908", "relation": "renamed_by", "note": "Renamed the Powell National Forest.", "story": 42, "date": "1908-07-02", "title": "55 Specified National Forests Consolidated and/or Renamed", "type": "executive_order", "number": "908"}]}
{"id": "proc-508", "type": "proclamation", "number": "508", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-10-31", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Thanksgiving Day, 1903", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 508, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-508"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2322, "last_page": 2322, "cite": "33 Stat. 2322", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2322.pdf", "statutes_date": "1903-10-31", "table_title": "Designating Thursday, November 26, 1903, as a day of general thanksgiving."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America.", "A PROCLAMATION.", "The season is at hand when according to the custom of our people it falls upon the President to appoint a day of praise and thanksgiving to God.", "During the last year the Lord has dealt bountifully with us, giving us peace at home and abroad and the chance for our citizens to work for their welfare unhindered by war, famine or plague. It behooves us not only to rejoice greatly because of what has been given us, but to accept it with a solemn sense of responsibility, realizing that under Heaven it rests with us ourselves to show that we are worthy to use aright what has thus been entrusted to our care. In no other place and at no other time has the experiment of government of the people, by the people, for the people, been tried on so vast a scale as here in our own country in the opening years of the 20th Century. Failure would not only be a dreadful thing for us, but a dreadful thing for all mankind, because it would mean loss of hope for all who believe in the power and the righteousness of liberty. Therefore, in thanking God for the mercies extended to us in the past, we beseech Him that He may not withhold them in the future, and that our hearts may be roused to war steadfastly for good and against all the forces of evil, public and private. We pray for strength, and light, so that in the coming years we may with cleanliness, fearlessness, and wisdom, do our allotted work on the earth in such manner as to show that we are not altogether unworthy of the blessings we have received.", "Now, therefore, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States, do hereby designate as a day of general thanksgiving Thursday, the twenty-sixth of the coming November, and do recommend that throughout the land the people cease from their wonted occupations, and in their several homes and places of worship render thanks unto Almighty God for His manifold mercies.", "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 31st day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three and of [SEAL.] the independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:", "JOHN HAY", "Secretary of State."], "source": "33 Stat. 2322 (Statutes at Large page image), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Statutes heads the document [No. 10.]. First sentence reads 'falls' (APP transcription has the error 'fails'); [SEAL.] restored; APP also differs in capitalization and punctuation of the closing clauses. 'Cleanliness' is the Statutes' word, no [sic].", "story": 47}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Named Thursday, November 26, 1903, a national day of thanksgiving, asking Americans to set aside their usual work and give thanks in their homes and places of worship.", "categories": ["ceremonial"], "action": "announce", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [47], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-10-31", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The proclamation went out by wire the day it was signed, and the Los Angeles Herald printed it in full the next morning.", "source": "Los Angeles Herald, November 1, 1903", "date": "1903-11-01", "story": 47}, {"text": "The Stockton Mail put it on page one under the headline \"Roosevelt Tells Why the People Should Be Grateful,\" and at least ten other California papers reprinted it over the following ten days.", "source": "Stockton Mail, November 2, 1903, p. 1; California Digital Newspaper Collection", "date": "1903-11-02", "story": 47}, {"text": "Denver, Leadville and Pueblo papers all ran it on November 1, and New York State papers from Plattsburgh to New Rochelle carried it in the first half of November, some on page one.", "source": "Colorado Historic Newspapers; NYS Historic Newspapers", "date": "1903-11", "story": 47}, {"text": "The Alameda Encinal read the call to war against \"the forces of evil, public and private\" as a nod to the Post Office scandal then under investigation.", "source": "Alameda Encinal, November 10, 1903, p. 2", "date": "1903-11-10", "story": 47}, {"text": "The San Francisco Call urged readers to study the proclamation and note its strongly religious tone.", "source": "San Francisco Call, November 22, 1903", "date": "1903-11-22", "story": 47}, {"text": "A partisan jab from the Woodland Democrat, reprinted in the Napa Journal, forecast that Roosevelt would write only one more Thanksgiving proclamation.", "source": "Napa Journal, November 22, 1903", "date": "1903-11-22", "story": 47}, {"text": "The Stanislaus County Weekly News headlined the proclamation as setting forth the nation's great prosperity, which the text does not do.", "source": "Stanislaus County Weekly News, November 13, 1903", "date": "1903-11-13", "story": 47}, {"text": "Congregations in Stockton, Truckee, Santa Cruz, Cloverdale, Napa and Eureka heard the proclamation read aloud on Thanksgiving Day. No objection to it has been found.", "source": "California Digital Newspaper Collection", "date": "1903-11-26", "story": 47}], "legacy": [{"text": "The holiday stayed on a customary date, usually the last Thursday of November, until Franklin Roosevelt moved it a week earlier in 1939, 1940 and 1941.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1939", "story": 47}, {"text": "The widely used American Presidency Project transcription misreads the opening line as \"it fails upon the President\"; the Statutes at Large print \"falls.\"", "source": "33 Stat. 2322 (page image)", "story": 47}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1941-12-26", "text": "A joint resolution of Congress fixed Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November.", "source": "55 Stat. 862", "story": 47}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-466", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Thanksgiving proclamation of 1901.", "story": 47, "date": "1901-11-02", "title": "Thanksgiving Day, 1901", "type": "proclamation", "number": "466"}, {"id": "proc-494", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Thanksgiving proclamation of 1902.", "story": 47, "date": "1902-10-29", "title": "Thanksgiving Day, 1902", "type": "proclamation", "number": "494"}]}
{"id": "eo-238", "type": "executive_order", "number": "238", "tr_sequence": 100, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-11-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Mrs. Roy L. Quackenbush as Clerk in Post Office Department Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_238", "revid": 1814393, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. Roy L. Quackenbush, who has been employed temporarily as a clerk in the Post-Office Department, may be given permanent appointment without examination."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, November 2, 1903.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Mrs. Roy L. Quackenbush, a temporary Post-Office Department clerk, to be made permanent without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Mrs. Roy L. Quackenbush"], "significance": 1, "stories": [82], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-11-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-509", "type": "proclamation", "number": "509", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-11-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlargement of the Payson Forest Reserve", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 509, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-509"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2322, "last_page": 2324, "cite": "33 Stat. 2322–2324", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2322.pdf", "statutes_date": "1903-11-05", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of Payson Forest Reserve, Utah."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bear ing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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”, that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Utah, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation:", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid Acts of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that The Payson Forest Reserve, in the State of Utah, established by proclamation of August third, nineteen hundred and one, is hereby so changed and enlarged as to include all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Utah, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows, to wit:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Section five (5), Township ten (10) South, Range two (2) East; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township ten (10) South, Range three (3) East; thence southerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed sections lines, allowing for the proper offset on the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel South, to the south-east corner of Section nine (9), Town-ship twelve (12) South, Range three (3) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Township thirteen (13) South, Range two (2) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said town-ship; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township twelve (12) South, Range one (1) East; thence westerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty- one (21), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of the north-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of the south-west quarter of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of the south-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section nine (9), said township; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section two (2), Township eleven (11) South, Range one (1) East; thence easterly along the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel South to the south-west corner of Township ten (10) South, Range two (2) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section five (5), said township, the place of beginning.", "2324 Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful tiling duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or tiling of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 5th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 33 Stat. 2322", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "The Payson Forest Reserve, Utah, enlarged.", "Vol. 32, p, 1985.", "Boundaries.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Payson Forest Reserve in Utah, first established in 1901, to take in additional described lands.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Payson Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [42], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-11-05", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Payson merged into the Nebo National Forest in 1908; in 1915 the Mount Nebo unit, which held the 1903 addition, went to the Uinta.", "source": "EO 827; EO 2153; Proc. 1298, 39 Stat. 1733", "date": "1915", "story": 42}], "today": [{"name": "Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Utah", "source": "USFS FS-612", "story": 42}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1915-03-24", "text": "Nebo National Forest abolished and its lands sent to the Manti.", "source": "Executive Order 2153", "story": 42}, {"date": "1915-06-23", "text": "Mount Nebo unit, holding Roosevelt's 1903 addition, given to the Uinta with an earlier effective date than the executive order.", "source": "Proclamation 1298, 39 Stat. 1733", "story": 42}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-583", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 55, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-07-21", "title": "Enlargement of the Payson Forest Reserve, Utah", "type": "proclamation", "number": "583"}, {"id": "eo-827", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "Merged the Payson into the Nebo National Forest.", "story": 42, "date": "1908-06-18", "title": "Nebo National Forest, Utah, Created", "type": "executive_order", "number": "827"}]}
{"id": "uo-074", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 74, "date": "1903-11-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "EO of June 30, 1903 (Puerto Rico military/lighthouse lands) modified.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 74, "page": "197", "citations": "(EO 4386)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "EO of June 30, 1903 (Puerto Rico military/lighthouse lands) modified.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Modified the June 30, 1903, order setting aside military and lighthouse lands in Puerto Rico.", "categories": ["military-naval", "lighthouses", "insular-territories"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": ["Puerto Rico"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [112], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-11-05", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "uo-062", "relation": "modifies", "note": null, "story": 112, "inferred": true, "date": "1903-06-30", "title": "Certain described lands in Puerto Rico reserved for military purposes.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "proc-510", "type": "proclamation", "number": "510", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-11-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Extending Benefits of Copyright Law to Citizens of Cuba", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 510, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-510"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2324, "last_page": 2324, "cite": "33 Stat. 2324", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2324.pdf", "statutes_date": "1903-11-17", "table_title": "Extending benefits of copyright law to citizens of Cuba."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America.\nA PROCLAMATION.", "WHEREAS, it is provided by section 13 of the act of Congress of March 3, 1891, entitled \"An act to amend title sixty, chapter three, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to copyrights\", that said act \"shall only apply to a citizen or subject of a foreign state or nation when such foreign state or nation permits to citizens of the United States of America the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as its own citizens; or when such foreign state or nation is a party to an international agreement which provides for reciprocity in the granting of copyright, by the terms of which agreement the United States of America may, at its pleasure, become a party to such agreement\";", "AND WHEREAS it is also provided by said section that \"the existence of either of the conditions aforesaid shall be determined by the President of the United States by proclamation made from time to time as the purposes of this act may require\";", "AND WHEREAS satisfactory official assurances have been given that in Cuba the law permits to citizens of the United States the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as to the citizens of Cuba:", "NOW, THEREFORE, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do declare and proclaim that the first of the conditions specified in section 13 of the act of March 3, 1891, now exists and is fulfilled in respect to the citizens of Cuba.", "IN TESTIMONY 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 17th day of November one thousand nine hundred and three and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth.", "[SEAL.]", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:\nJOHN HAY\nSecretary of State."], "source": "33 Stat. 2324 (GovInfo page image), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Follows the Statutes styling, which differs from the American Presidency Project transcription: no comma after \"entitled,\" none after \"AND WHEREAS\" in the second and third recitals, none after \"17th day of November\"; \"City\" capitalized; no comma after \"JOHN HAY\"; [SEAL.] restored (APP omits it).", "story": 43}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Extended U.S. copyright protection to citizens of Cuba after assurances that Cuban law gives Americans copyright on the same basis as its own citizens.", "categories": ["copyright", "foreign-affairs"], "action": "grant", "places": [{"name": "Cuba", "kind": "country"}], "states": ["Cuba"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [43], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-11-17", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "A Washington dispatch reported that the proclamation had been issued several days earlier without being made public, and that the Cuban minister had called on Secretary Hay about U.S. copyright for Cuban authors.", "source": "San Francisco Call, Nov. 20, 1903, p. 11", "date": "1903-11-20", "story": 43}, {"text": "The Berne copyright union's monthly, Le Droit d'Auteur, reported the proclamation, noting that its text matched the earlier proclamations for other countries.", "source": "Le Droit d'Auteur, Dec. 15, 1903, p. 133", "date": "1903-12-15", "story": 43}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "diplomatic", "text": "The finding opened U.S. copyright to Cuban authors on the same terms as other foreigners, including the requirement that their books be printed from type set in the United States.", "source": "Act of Mar. 3, 1891, sec. 13, 26 Stat. 1110", "date": "1903-11-17", "story": 43}, {"kind": "diplomatic", "text": "Protection for Americans in Cuba already existed under orders of the U.S. military government, which the Cuban republic told the Berne bureau in February 1903 were still in force; the proclamation completed the American side.", "source": "Le Droit d'Auteur, Apr. 15, 1903, pp. 37–38", "date": "1903", "story": 43}], "legacy": [{"text": "After the Copyright Act of 1909, Cuba was named again in proclamations of 1910 and 1911.", "source": "36 Stat. 2685; 37 Stat. 1721", "date": "1911", "story": 43}, {"text": "Copyright relations between the two countries were later carried by the Buenos Aires Convention (for Cuba from 1913) and the Universal Copyright Convention (1957).", "source": "U.S. Copyright Office, Circular 38a", "date": "1957-06-18", "story": 43}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1910-04-09", "text": "Cuba named again in a multi-country copyright proclamation under the 1909 act.", "source": "36 Stat. 2685", "story": 43}, {"date": "1911-11-27", "text": "Proclamation for Cuba under the 1909 act, effective from May 29, 1911.", "source": "37 Stat. 1721", "story": 43}, {"date": "1913-05-28", "text": "Buenos Aires Convention took effect for Cuba.", "source": "U.S. Copyright Office, Circular 38a", "story": 43}, {"date": "1957-06-18", "text": "Universal Copyright Convention took effect between the two countries.", "source": "U.S. Copyright Office, Circular 38a", "story": 43}], "uncertain": ["Who asked for the proclamation, and what Cuba's \"satisfactory official assurances\" said, is not known.", "Whether East Coast newspapers reported the proclamation has not been checked."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-506", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Signed eight days into the special session called to approve the Cuban commercial convention.", "story": 43, "date": "1903-10-20", "title": "Convening Extraordinary Session of Congress", "type": "proclamation", "number": "506"}, {"id": "proc-577", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Later Chace Act reciprocity proclamation, for Norway.", "story": 43, "date": "1905-07-01", "title": "Extending Foreign Copyright Protection to Norway", "type": "proclamation", "number": "577"}, {"id": "proc-774", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Later Chace Act reciprocity proclamation, for Austria.", "story": 43, "date": "1907-09-20", "title": "Extending Copyright Benefits to Citizens of Austria", "type": "proclamation", "number": "774"}]}
{"id": "uo-075", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 75, "date": "1903-11-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "EO of June 30, 1903 (Puerto Rico military/lighthouse lands) further modified.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 75, "page": "197", "citations": "(EO 4386)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "EO of June 30, 1903 (Puerto Rico military/lighthouse lands) further modified.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Further modified the June 30, 1903, order setting aside military and lighthouse lands in Puerto Rico.", "categories": ["military-naval", "lighthouses", "insular-territories"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": ["Puerto Rico"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [112], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-11-26", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "uo-062", "relation": "modifies", "note": null, "story": 112, "inferred": true, "date": "1903-06-30", "title": "Certain described lands in Puerto Rico reserved for military purposes.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "eo-239", "type": "executive_order", "number": "239", "tr_sequence": 101, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-12-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Francis L. Hawes as Special Agent in Bureau of Corporations Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_239", "revid": 1814397, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Francis L. Hawes, of New York, may be appointed a special agent in the Bureau of Corporations at $1,600 per annum, without examination under the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, December 4, 1903.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Francis L. Hawes of New York to be appointed a special agent in the Bureau of Corporations at $1,600 a year without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["New York"], "people": ["Francis L. Hawes"], "significance": 1, "stories": [82], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-12-04", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The order named special examiners or agents for the Bureau of Corporations without examination.", "source": "research entry", "story": 82}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-240", "type": "executive_order", "number": "240", "tr_sequence": 102, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-12-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Prohibiting Use of Official Letterheads and Signatures by Consular Officers on Private Correspondence", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Barred consular officers from using official letterheads and signatures on private correspondence.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs", "government-administration"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [82], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-12-05", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The State Department sent the rule to consular officers by circular two days after the order was signed.", "source": "Ingram, Digest of Circular Instructions to Consular Officers (1908), p. 33", "date": "1903-12-07", "story": 82}], "uncertain": ["The exact wording of EO 240 is not known; the State Department circular of December 7, 1903 should carry it."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-241", "type": "executive_order", "number": "241", "tr_sequence": 103, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-12-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving All Lands on Certain Alaska Islands, including Kiska Island, Little Kiska Island, and Adjacent Islets For Naval Purposes", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_241", "revid": 1814407, "printed_source": null}}, "text": null, "summary": "Reserved all land on Kiska Island, Little Kiska Island and nearby islets in Alaska for naval purposes.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Kiska Island", "kind": "island", "state": "Alaska"}, {"name": "Little Kiska Island", "kind": "island", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [82], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-12-09", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Navy's General Board recommended a coaling station at Kiska with a coal depot of 20,000 tons, to grow to 100,000, but Secretary Moody was not prepared to approve the proposed $1,500,000.", "source": "Army and Navy Journal, January 30, 1904", "date": "1904-01-30", "story": 82}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The gunboat Petrel was detached from the Pacific Squadron for special service at Kiska, and the Mare Island yard fitted out a Kiska Island expedition.", "source": "Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy, 1904, pp. 342, 484", "date": "1904-03-29", "story": 82}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "Navy colliers and the Pacific Squadron were bound for Kiska in May and June 1904.", "source": "Army and Navy Journal, June 11 and 18, July 9, 1904", "date": "1904", "story": 82}], "legacy": [{"text": "Japanese forces landed on Kiska in June 1942; the garrison slipped away under fog in late July 1943, and the Allied force that landed on August 15 found the island empty.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1942-06", "story": 82}, {"text": "Attu and Kiska, the western Aleutians Japan held in 1942–43, were the only ground in North America occupied by an enemy during the Second World War.", "source": "research entry", "story": 82}], "uncertain": ["The full text of EO 241 and any purpose it stated have not been found.", "Whether EO 241 enlarged the 1902 naval reservation on Kiska cannot be confirmed without its text."]}, "related": [{"id": "uo-037", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The June 13, 1902 order had already reserved certain lands on Adak and Kiska for naval purposes; Lord cross-references it to EO 241.", "story": 82, "date": "1902-06-13", "title": "Certain lands on Adak and Kiska Islands, Alaska, reserved for naval purposes.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "proc-511", "type": "proclamation", "number": "511", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-12-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Highwood Mountains Forest Reserve", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 511, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-511"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2325, "last_page": 2326, "cite": "33 Stat. 2325–2326", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2325.pdf", "statutes_date": "1903-12-12", "table_title": "Setting apart Highwood Forest Reserve, Montana."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Montana, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Montana, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows, to wit:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township twenty (20) North, Range eight (8) East, Principal Meridian, Montana; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of the north-east quarter of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said township; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section nineteen (19), Town-ship twenty (20) North, Range nine (9) East; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty (20), said township; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence easterly along the surveyed and unsurveyed section lines to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section seventeen (17), Township twenty (20) North, Range ten (10) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said town-ship; thence southerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the northeast corner of the south-east quarter of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-six (26), said town-ship; thence westerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section thirty-two (32), said town-ship; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of the north-east quarter of Section five (5), Town-ship nineteen (19) North, Range ten (10) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of the north-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section four (4), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Town-ship nineteen (19) North, Range nine (9) East; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the point for the north-east corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence westerly along the unsurveyed section lines to the point for the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-five (25), Township nineteen (19) North, Range eight (8) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence northerly to the point for the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section ten (10), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section eight (8), said township; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township twenty (20) North, Range eight (8) East; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section, the place of beginning.", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The High-wood Mountains Forest Reserve.", "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 12th day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 33 Stat. 2325", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve,", "Montana.", "Boundaries.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "The Highwood Mountains Forest Re-serve."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Highwood Mountains Forest Reserve in Montana, reserving timbered public lands within set boundaries from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Highwood Mountains Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [42], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-12-12", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "A petition asking that a supervisor be appointed for the Highwood Mountains reserve was \"being generously signed.\"", "source": "River Press (Fort Benton), June 24, 1903", "date": "1903-06-24", "story": 42}], "legacy": [{"text": "Combined into the Jefferson National Forest of Montana in 1908; that forest was abolished in 1932 and its lands moved to the Lewis and Clark. The Highwood Mountains are still listed among its ranges.", "source": "EO 908; EO 5834", "date": "1932-04-08", "story": 42}], "today": [{"name": "Helena–Lewis and Clark National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Montana", "source": "USFS FS-612", "story": 42}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1932-04-08", "text": "Jefferson National Forest (Montana) abolished and its 1,174,804 gross acres transferred to the Lewis and Clark.", "source": "Executive Order 5834", "story": 42}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-908", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "Combined the Highwood Mountains into the Jefferson National Forest (Montana).", "story": 42, "date": "1908-07-02", "title": "55 Specified National Forests Consolidated and/or Renamed", "type": "executive_order", "number": "908"}]}
{"id": "uo-076", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 76, "date": "1903-12-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Red Bank Military Reservation, N. J. (100 acres), diminished by transfer of a 400-sq-ft monument site to the Interior Department.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 76, "page": "197", "citations": "(1907 MR 209; 1910 MR 236)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Red Bank Military Reservation, N. J. (100 acres), diminished by transfer of a 400-sq-ft monument site to the Interior Department.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Trimmed the Red Bank Military Reservation in New Jersey by handing a 400-square-foot monument site to the Interior Department.", "categories": ["military-naval", "monuments"], "action": "reduce", "places": [{"name": "Red Bank Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "New Jersey"}], "states": ["New Jersey"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [112], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-12-15", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-512", "type": "proclamation", "number": "512", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-12-22", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Santa Barbara Forest Reserve", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 512, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-512"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2327, "last_page": 2329, "cite": "33 Stat. 2327–2329", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2327.pdf", "statutes_date": "1903-12-22", "table_title": "Merging Pine Mountain and Zaca JAc and Santa Ynez forest reserves into Santa Barbara Forest Reserve, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, The Pine Mountain and Zaca Lake Forest Reserve and The Santa Ynez Forest Reserve, in the State of California, have been heretofore established by proclamations, under the provisions of the acts of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, and June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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”;", "And whereas, it appears proper that the area embraced in said forest reserves, with the addition thereto of certain lands, should be included in one reserve and be designated by one name ; and it appears that the public lands in the State of California, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving the same as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid acts of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that the proclamations heretofore issued respecting said forest reserves are hereby superseded, and The Santa Barbara Forest Reserve is hereby established in place thereof, with boundaries as follows, to, wit:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of fractional Township twelve (12) North, Range thirty (30) West, San Bernardino Base and Meridian, California; thence southerly along the range line to the south-west corner of said fractional .township; thence westerly along the township line to the north-west corner of Section three (3), Township eleven (11) North, Range thirty-one (31) West; thence southerly along the section line to the south-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence westerly along the section line to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence southerly along the range line between Ranges thirty-one (31) and thirty-two (32) West, to the northern boundary of the rancho Sisquoc; thence in a general south-easterly direction along the boundaries of the ranchos Sisquoc, La Laguna, Canada de los Pinos or College Rancho, Tequepis, and San Marcos, to the most easterly point of the rancho San Marcos; thence in a general south-westerly direction along the southern boundaries of the ranchos San Marcos, Tequepis, Lomas de la Purificación and Nojoqui to the eastern boundary of the rancho Las Cruces; thence in a general southerly direction along the eastern boundary of the said rancho Las Cruces to the northern boundary of the rancho Nuestra Señora del Refugio; thence in a general south-easterly direction along the northern boundaries of the ranchos Nuestra Señora del Refugio, Canada del Corral, Los Dos Pueblos, La Goleta, Pueblo and Mission Lands of Santa Barbara and the rancho El Rincon (Arellanes) to its most eastern point; thence in a south-westerly direction along the southern boundary of said rancho to the point where it intersects the township line between Township three (3) and four (4) North, Range twenty- five (25) West; thence easterly along the township line to the western boundary of the rancho Santa Ana; thence north-easterly along the western boundary of said rancho to its intersection with the township line between Townships four (4) and five (5) North, Range twenty- three (23) West; thence easterly along said township line to the western boundary of the rancho Temascal; thence along the western, northern and eastern boundary of said rancho to the northern boundary of the rancho San Francisco; thence along the northern and eastern boundary of said rancho to its south-east corner and continuing southerly to the northern boundary of the Ex Mission de San Fernando Grant; thence along the northern boundary of said grant to its intersection with the range line between Ranges fourteen (14) and fifteen (15) West; thence northerly along said range line to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township four (4) North, Range fifteen (15) West; thence easterly along the section lines to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), Township four (4) North, Range thirteen (13) West; thence northerly along the range line to the south-west corner of Township five (5) North, Range twelve (12) West; thence easterly along the township line to the south-east corner of said township; thence northerly along the range line to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12) of said township; thence westerly along the section line to the north-west corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence northerly along the range line to the First (1st) Standard Parallel North; 'thence westerly along the First (1st) Standard Parallel North to the south-east corner of Township six (6) North, Range thirteen (13) West; thence northerly along the range line to the north-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence westerly along the section lines to the northwest corner of Section thirteen (13), Township six (6) North, Range fourteen (14) West; thence northerly along the section line to the north-east corner of Section two (2), said township; thence westerly along the township line to the north-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence northerly along the section lines to the north-east corner of Section five (5), Township seven (7) North, Range fourteen (14) West; thence westerly along the township line to the north-west corner of fractional Section one (1), Township seven (7) North, Range seventeen (17) West; thence northerly along the section line to the intersection with the southern boundary of the rancho La Liebre; thence north-westerly along the boundaries of the ranchos La Liebre and Los Alamos y Agua Caliente to the township line between Townships eight (8) and nine (9) North; thence westerly along said township line to the south-east corner of Township nine (9) North, Range twenty-two (22) West; thence northerly along the range line to the the north-east corner of said township; thence westerly along the township line to the south-east corner of Township ten (10) North, Range twenty-seven (27) West; thence in a general north-westerly direction along the southern boundaries of the ranchos Cuyama to the Eighth (8th) Standard Parallel South; thence westerly along said parallel to the north-west corner of fractional Township twelve (12) North, Range thirty (30) West, the place of beginning.", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, That this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Provided further, That nothing herein shall give any force or effect to any claim or right to any of the lands heretofore embraced within the reserves hereby consolidated which would not have been entitled to recognition if said reserves as heretofore established had been continued in force without being merged into a single reserve as herein-before provided.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "2329 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 22d day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 33 Stat. 2327", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 30, p. 1767.", "Vol. 30, p. 1776.", "Vol. 31, p, 1954.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Vol. 30, p. 34.", "Santa Barbara Forest Reserve, California, established in place of Pine Mountain and Zaca Lake and Santa Ynez forest reserves.", "New boundaries.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Combined the Pine Mountain and Zaca Lake and the Santa Ynez forest reserves, plus added lands, into a single new Santa Barbara Forest Reserve in California.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Santa Barbara Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}, {"name": "Pine Mountain and Zaca Lake Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}, {"name": "Santa Ynez Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [42], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-12-22", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Santa Barbara Morning Press greeted the signing as insuring \"For All Time A Sufficient Water Supply For This City.\"", "source": "Morning Press (Santa Barbara), Dec. 23, 1903, p. 8", "date": "1903-12-23", "story": 42}, {"text": "The Los Angeles Herald called the added ranch the principal watershed of the Santa Ynez River, from which Santa Barbara hoped to draw a permanent water supply.", "source": "Los Angeles Herald, Dec. 23, 1903, p. 11", "date": "1903-12-23", "story": 42}, {"text": "The Ventura Daily Post noted the new Santa Barbara Forest Reserve.", "source": "Ventura Daily Post, Jan. 6, 1904, p. 3", "date": "1904-01-06", "story": 42}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "local", "text": "The reserve was a local campaign won: Senator Thomas R. Bard and others had worked for over two years to bring the Rancho Los Prietos y Najalayegua watershed into the reserves.", "source": "Morning Press (Santa Barbara), Dec. 23, 1903, p. 8", "date": "1903-12-23", "story": 42}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The proclamation consolidated the Pine Mountain and Zaca Lake reserve of 1898 and the Santa Ynez reserve of 1899.", "source": "Proc. 512, 33 Stat. 2327", "date": "1903-12-22", "story": 42}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Santa Barbara National Forest was renamed Los Padres in 1936.", "source": "EO 7501, 1 F.R. 2141", "date": "1936-12-03", "story": 42}], "today": [{"name": "Los Padres National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "renamed", "state": "California", "source": "EO 7501, 1 F.R. 2141", "story": 42}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1936-12-03", "text": "Renamed the Los Padres National Forest.", "source": "Executive Order 7501, 1 F.R. 2141", "story": 42}], "uncertain": ["The terms of the land exchange for the Rancho Los Prietos y Najalayegua are known only from press reports, not from the proclamation."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-513", "type": "proclamation", "number": "513", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-12-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Lighthouses in Hawaii", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 513, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-513"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2329, "last_page": 2329, "cite": "33 Stat. 2329", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2329.pdf", "statutes_date": "1903-12-28", "table_title": "Taking Hawaii light-house establishment for uses of United States."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,", "A PROCLAMATION.", "Whereas, the maintenance of light-houses and other aids to navigation in the Territory of Hawaii is necessary for the safe navigation of the waters thereof by the vessels of the Navy and of the merchant marine of the United States, and for the promotion of its commercial interests,", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the authority in me vested, and pursuant to Section 91 of the Act of April 30, 1900, entitled An Act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii, do hereby declare and proclaim that all the public property of the former government of the Republic of Hawaii ceded heretofore to the United States, consisting of light-houses and the public lands adjacent thereto and used in connection therewith, to the extent of five acres, or thereabout, adjacent to each light-house, when practicable to obtain so much, the exact location of said land and its metes and bounds to be hereafter determined and defined by the Light-House Board, light-vessels, light-house tenders, beacons, buoys, sea-marks and their appendages, and all apparatus, supplies and materials of all kinds provided therefor, and all the archives, books, documents, drawings, models, returns, and all other things appertaining to any light-house establishment maintained by the said government of the former Republic of Hawaii, be and hereby are taken for the uses and purposes of the United States, and the Department of Commerce and Labor, through the Light-House Board, is hereby charged with all administrative duties relating to the said light-house establishment.", "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 twenty-eighth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth.", "[SEAL.]", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:", "FRANCIS B. LOOMIS", "Acting Secretary of State."], "source": "33 Stat. 2329 (GovInfo page images), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Printed in the Statutes as No. 15. Follows the Statutes over the APP transcription: comma (not semicolon) after 'interests'; 'light-house tenders' hyphenated; no comma after 'In witness whereof'; 'City' capitalized, 'independence' lower-cased; no period after signature; [SEAL.] restored. Small capitals rendered as capitals.", "story": 48}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Took over the former Republic of Hawaii's lighthouses, nearby land, buoys, beacons and records for the United States, placing them under the Light-House Board of the Department of Commerce and Labor.", "categories": ["lighthouses", "insular-territories"], "action": "transfer", "places": [], "states": ["Hawaii"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [48], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-12-28", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "Roosevelt's call, three weeks earlier, to take over Hawaii's lighthouses ran across page one of the Hawaiian Star the afternoon his annual message was delivered.", "source": "Hawaiian Star, December 7, 1903, p. 1", "date": "1903-12-07", "story": 48}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Light-House Board was directed to take charge of the Hawaiian service the day after the signing, and the federal service took over the work on January 1, 1904.", "source": "Report of the Light-House Board, 1904, p. 285; Annual Report of the Light-House Board, fiscal 1906, p. 134", "date": "1903-12-29", "story": 48}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Board added the Hawaiian Islands to its Twelfth District and assigned a naval officer and an Army engineer to duty there.", "source": "Report of the Light-House Board, 1904, p. 285", "date": "1904-01-04", "story": 48}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Board's first survey found some lights to be little more than household lamps; Lahaina's was two ordinary kitchen lamps, hard to tell from the lights of the town.", "source": "Report of the Light-House Board, 1904, pp. 285–287", "date": "1904", "story": 48}, {"kind": "congress", "text": "A bill to reimburse the Territory, which had spent about $501.90 a month on the lights, was before the House Committee on Claims by early 1906.", "source": "Annual Report of the Light-House Board, fiscal 1906, p. 134", "date": "1906-02-07", "story": 48}, {"kind": "congress", "text": "Congress repaid the Territory $23,393.69 for keeping up its lights from annexation until the federal Board took over.", "source": "Act of February 4, 1909, ch. 64, 35 Stat. 594", "date": "1909-02-04", "story": 48}], "legacy": [{"text": "Federal control brought a wave of construction: at least fifteen lights were built in the islands between 1906 and 1920.", "source": "Noble, Alaska & Hawaii (USCG, 1991)", "date": "1906", "story": 48}, {"text": "Makapuʻu Point Light on Oahu, funded in 1906, was first lit on October 1, 1909, with a twelve-foot hyperradiant Fresnel lens, the largest size ever made.", "source": "Reports of the Department of Commerce and Labor, 1910, p. 508; LighthouseFriends", "date": "1909-10-01", "story": 48}, {"text": "The Molokaʻi Light at Kalaupapa, the tallest tower in Hawaii, was first lit on September 1, 1909, at a cost of $59,977.04.", "source": "Reports of the Department of Commerce and Labor, 1910, p. 508", "date": "1909-09-01", "story": 48}], "today": [{"name": "U.S. Coast Guard aids to navigation in Hawaii", "kind": "other", "relation": "transferred", "state": "Hawaii", "note": "The Light-House Board's duties passed to the Bureau of Lighthouses in 1910 and to the Coast Guard in 1939.", "source": "33 U.S.C. ch. 16 notes", "story": 48}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1910-06-17", "text": "Congress replaced the Light-House Board with a Bureau of Lighthouses.", "source": "36 Stat. 534", "story": 48}, {"date": "1939-07-01", "text": "Reorganization Plan No. II consolidated the Bureau of Lighthouses into the U.S. Coast Guard.", "source": "53 Stat. 1432", "story": 48}], "uncertain": ["How Honolulu papers greeted the proclamation itself in late December 1903 and early January 1904 has not been checked.", "A Hawaiian Gazette item of May 6, 1904, seems to say lighthouse work was to wait on the Attorney General; the legal question is not known."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-826", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 74, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-12-04", "title": "Reserving Land for Light-House Uses on Hana Bay, Maui Island, Hawaii", "type": "proclamation", "number": "826"}, {"id": "proc-827", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 74, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-12-04", "title": "Reserving Land for Light-House Uses at Lae o Kokole, Kauai Island, Hawaii", "type": "proclamation", "number": "827"}, {"id": "proc-828", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 74, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-12-04", "title": "Reserving Land for Light-House Uses at McGregor's Point, Maui Island, Hawaii", "type": "proclamation", "number": "828"}, {"id": "proc-829", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 74, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-12-04", "title": "Reserving Land for Light-House Uses at Kahala Point, Kauai Island, Hawaii", "type": "proclamation", "number": "829"}, {"id": "proc-830", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 74, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-12-04", "title": "Reserving Land for Light-House Uses at Ka Lae, Hawaii Island, Hawaii", "type": "proclamation", "number": "830"}]}
{"id": "eo-242", "type": "executive_order", "number": "242", "tr_sequence": 104, "lord_number": null, "date": "1903-12-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Mrs. Frank L. Harrigan as Machine Feeder in Government Printing Office Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_242", "revid": 1822305, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. Frank L. Harrigan may be reinstated to the position of ruling machine feeder in the Government Printing Office without regard to the provisions of Rule IX limiting the period of eligibility for reinstatement to one year from the date of separation."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, December 28, 1903.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Mrs. Frank L. Harrigan to return as a ruling machine feeder at the Government Printing Office despite the one-year limit on reinstatement.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Mrs. Frank L. Harrigan"], "significance": 1, "stories": [82], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-12-28", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-077", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 77, "date": "1903-12-31", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Fort Liscum Military Reservation, Port Valdez, Alaska (est. EO July 18, 1900), diminished to 659.89 acres.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 77, "page": "197", "citations": "(1907 MR 9; 1910 MR 12; 1916 MR 15; …)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Fort Liscum Military Reservation, Port Valdez, Alaska (est. EO July 18, 1900), diminished to 659.89 acres.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Shrank the Fort Liscum Military Reservation at Port Valdez, Alaska, to 659.89 acres.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "reduce", "places": [{"name": "Fort Liscum Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [112], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1903-12-31", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The 940.11 acres cut from Fort Liscum, the difference between its original 1,600 acres and the 659.89 left, went to the Interior Department.", "source": "Bureau of Land Management, Orders Affecting Public Lands in Alaska, ref. 55", "date": "1903-12-31", "story": 112}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-243", "type": "executive_order", "number": "243", "tr_sequence": 105, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-01-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Evelyn M. Ford as Clerk in the War Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_243", "revid": 1815859, "printed_source": "1904 CSR 86"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. Evelyn M. Ford may be reinstated to the position of clerk in the office of the Secretary of War without regard to the provisions of Rule IX limiting the period of eligibility to one year from the date of separation."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1904 CSR 86)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, January 4, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Evelyn M. Ford to be reinstated as a clerk in the office of the Secretary of War despite the one-year limit on reinstatement.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Evelyn M. Ford"], "significance": 1, "stories": [83], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-01-04", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-514", "type": "proclamation", "number": "514", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-01-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Grant of Fort Marcy Military Reservation to the Town of Santa Fe, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 514, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-514"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2330, "last_page": 2330, "cite": "33 Stat. 2330", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2330.pdf", "statutes_date": "1904-01-05", "table_title": "Granting Fort Marcy Reservation lands to Santa Fe, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America.", "A PROCLAMATION.", "WHEREAS, it is provided in the Act of Congress approved March 3, 1893, entitled \"An Act making appopriatiorns for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and for other purposes\" \"That the President is hereby authorized by proclamation to withhold from sale and grant for public use to the municipal corporation in which the same is situated all or any portion of any abandoned military reservation not exceeding twenty acres in one place\",", "And WHEREAS, the Fort Marcy Military reservation at Santa Fe, New Mexico, containing seventeen and three-quarter acres more or less, as described in Executive Order of August 28, 1868, creating same, was by Executive Order of June 15, 1895, placed under the custody of the Interior Department for disposal under the Act of July 5, 1884, being \"An Act to provide for the disposal of abandoned and useless military reservations\",", "And WHEREAS, the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico has petitioned that the said reservation be granted to the municipal corporation of Santa Fe, New Mexico,", "And WHEREAS, it appears that on the fourteenth day of August, 1902, the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico, entered into an agreement with the Board of Education of the said city of Santa Fe, whereby it was agreed on the part of said city that, in case the President of the United States should grant, under the provisions of said Act of March 3, 1893, said reservation to the city of Santa Fe for public purposes, the said city would, by its municipal authorities, turn over and deliver to the said Board of Education and its successors, the said reservation, to be held by said Board forever, to aid and assist in the support of the public schools of the city of Santa Fe; and that, by the same agreement, the said Board of Education, on its part, agreed and undertook that it would accept the said reservation for the purposes so designated by the city of Santa Fe, and keep and use the same and the proceeds thereof, for the use, benefit and maintenance of the public schools and turn over said property or such parts of it as might be in its possession, to its successors.", "Now, THEREFORE, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress aforesaid, do hereby withdraw from sale, entry or other disposition, the lands embraced within the former Fort Marcy Military reservation, as the same are described in Executive Order approved August 28, 1868, and do hereby grant for public use, the said described land to the incorporated town of Santa Fe, New Mexico.", "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 fifth day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and four,", "[SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:", "FRANCIS B. LOOMIS", "Acting Secretary of State."], "source": "33 Stat. 2330 (GovInfo page image), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Statutes heads the document [No. 16.]. 'Appopriatiorns' is the Statutes' own misprint, confirmed on the page image, reproduced as printed. Recitals close with commas as in the Statutes; [SEAL.] restored. Proclamation 519 (33 Stat. 2339), the correcting proclamation, differs only in small points (grant to the 'city' rather than 'town', title spelled 'appropriations', comma and styling changes, dating clause, countersigned John Hay) and is not reproduced in full.", "story": 50}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Granted the abandoned Fort Marcy Military Reservation, about 17¾ acres, to the town of Santa Fe, New Mexico, which had agreed to hand it to the Board of Education to support public schools.", "categories": ["military-naval", "public-lands"], "action": "grant", "places": [{"name": "Fort Marcy Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "New Mexico"}, {"name": "Santa Fe", "kind": "town", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [50], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-01-05", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The grant went against the recorded advice of the General Land Office and Interior Secretary Hitchcock, who had warned the President in April 1903 that the request was \"a job\" and asked him not to make the grant.", "source": "Hitchcock to Roosevelt, April 24, 1903, TR Papers (via TR Center)", "date": "1904-01-05", "story": 50}, {"kind": "local", "text": "It settled a split in Santa Fe in favor of the city and its schools, over taxpayers who wanted the post auctioned to private owners to add to the tax rolls.", "source": "N. B. Laughlin to Matthew Quay, April 1903, TR Papers", "date": "1904", "story": 50}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "It appears to be the first time a President used the 1893 proviso allowing grants of small abandoned military reservations to towns; no earlier proclamation in the Statutes at Large quotes it.", "source": "Statutes at Large vols. 28–33 (GovInfo full-text search); 27 Stat. 593", "date": "1904-01-05", "story": 50}], "legacy": [{"text": "The land was delivered to the city in 1904 and passed to the Board of Education for sale to private owners.", "source": "SAH Archipedia", "date": "1904", "story": 50}, {"text": "The Otero-Bergere family bought the officers' quarters they had been living in from the Board for $2,700.", "source": "Georgia O'Keeffe Museum research guide", "date": "1905-12-22", "story": 50}, {"text": "One officers' quarters survives on Lincoln Avenue, remodeled in Pueblo Revival style as Edgar Lee Hewett's residence in 1916 and now home to the Museum of New Mexico Foundation; the other post buildings were razed.", "source": "SAH Archipedia; National Park Service", "date": "1916", "story": 50}], "uncertain": ["Whether the General Land Office or Secretary Hitchcock changed his recommendation before the grant, or whether Roosevelt overruled them, is not known.", "How the Santa Fe New Mexican and other papers greeted the grant in January 1904 has not been checked.", "Whether the Fort Marcy Ballfield on Bishops Lodge Road lies inside the 17¾ acres granted is not known."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-519", "relation": "amended_by", "note": "Labeled a correction in the Statutes; regranted the same land to the incorporated \"city\" rather than \"town\" of Santa Fe.", "story": 50, "date": "1904-03-10", "title": "Granting Fort Marcy Reservation Lands to Santa Fe, New Mexico", "type": "proclamation", "number": "519"}]}
{"id": "eo-244", "type": "executive_order", "number": "244", "tr_sequence": 106, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-01-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Mrs. G. W. Shipman as Clerk in Office of the First Assistant Postmaster-General Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_244", "revid": 1837536, "printed_source": "1904 CSR 87"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. G. W. Shipman may be appointed a clerk in the Office of the First Assistant Postmaster-General without examination under the Civil-Service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1904 CSR 87)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, January 7, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Mrs. G. W. Shipman to be appointed a clerk in the Office of the First Assistant Postmaster-General without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Mrs. G. W. Shipman"], "significance": 1, "stories": [83], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-01-07", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-245", "type": "executive_order", "number": "245", "tr_sequence": 107, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-01-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Elizabeth C. Peters as Sewer in Government Printing Office Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_245", "revid": 1815861, "printed_source": "1904 CSR 87"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. Elizabeth C. Peters may be reinstated to the position of sewer in the Government Printing Office without regard to the provision of Rule IX limiting the period of eligibility for reinstatements to one year from the date of separation."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1904 CSR 87)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, January 9, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Elizabeth C. Peters to return as a sewer at the Government Printing Office despite the one-year limit on reinstatement.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Elizabeth C. Peters"], "significance": 1, "stories": [83], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-01-09", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-078", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 78, "date": "1904-01-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Guantánamo Bay Military Reservation, Cuba, established.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 78, "page": "197", "citations": "(1907 MR 400; 1910 MR 36; 1916 MR 45; I CFR 139, 273; IX CFR 776)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Guantánamo Bay Military Reservation, Cuba, established.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "title_notes": ["The order created three War Department parcels (Cuzco Hills, Conde Bluff, the west side of the harbor) inside the naval station leased from Cuba (War Department compilation, 1907, pp. 400–402)."], "summary": "Established the Guantánamo Bay Military Reservation in Cuba.", "categories": ["military-naval", "foreign-affairs"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Guantánamo Bay Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation"}, {"name": "Cuba", "kind": "country"}], "states": ["Cuba"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [113], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-01-09", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The War Department parcels lasted into the 1930s; Franklin Roosevelt's Executive Order 7800 still described Reservation No. 1 at Cuzco Hills as created by the order of January 9, 1904.", "source": "Executive Order 7800 (1938)", "date": "1938", "story": 113}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1938", "text": "Franklin Roosevelt's Executive Order 7800 transferred part of Reservation No. 1 at Cuzco Hills from the Army to the Navy.", "source": "Executive Order 7800", "story": 113}], "uncertain": ["Whether any newspaper noticed the order: a dozen searches of the digitized press, including \"Cuzco Hills\" and \"Conde Bluff,\" found nothing, which is not proof that none was printed."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-246", "type": "executive_order", "number": "246", "tr_sequence": 108, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-01-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Extending Time Limit for Completion of Work of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission to September 2, 1904", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_246", "revid": 1858386, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By authority of the sixteenth section of the act of Congress approved March second, 1901, entitled \"An act to carry into effect the stipulations of article seven of the treaty between the United States and Spain, concluded on the tenth day of December, 1898,\" the period of two years from the date of the approval of said act (during which the powers and jurisdiction granted to the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission duly appointed under the first section of said act of Congress to examine and adjudicate all claims of citizens of the United States against Spain, which the United States agreed to adjudicate and settle by the seventh article of said treaty were, according to said act, to be in force and continue) is hereby extended for and during six months from and after the second day of March, nineteen hundred and four, and for no longer time, it being the judgment of the President that such extension is necessary to enable the Commission to complete its work."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, January 12, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Gave the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission another six months, past March 2, 1904, to finish judging American citizens' claims against Spain.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs", "government-administration"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Spain", "kind": "country"}], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [83], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-01-12", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The order carried the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission's work to September 2, 1904.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1904-01-12", "story": 83}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-228", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The previous six-month extension, to March 2, 1904.", "story": 83, "date": "1903-08-01", "title": "Extending Time Limit for Completion of Work of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission to March 2, 1904", "type": "executive_order", "number": "228"}, {"id": "eo-292", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 85, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-01-31", "title": "Extending Time Limit for Completion of Work of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission to September 2, 1905", "type": "executive_order", "number": "292"}]}
{"id": "uo-079", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 79, "date": "1904-01-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Fort Yates Military Reservation, N. Dak. (est. Dec. 23, 1874), transferred to Interior for the Indian Service.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 79, "page": "197", "citations": "(1916 MR 490)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Fort Yates Military Reservation, N. Dak. (est. Dec. 23, 1874), transferred to Interior for the Indian Service.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Transferred the Fort Yates Military Reservation in North Dakota to the Interior Department for use by the Indian Service.", "categories": ["military-naval", "indian-lands"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Fort Yates Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "North Dakota"}], "states": ["North Dakota"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [113], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-01-13", "impact": {"uncertain": ["What document established Fort Yates on December 23, 1874; it was probably a War Department order, and no executive order created the post."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-080", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 80, "date": "1904-01-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Oklahoma (City) Land District abolished; lands and Land Office business/archives transferred to the Guthrie district and office.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 80, "page": "197", "citations": "(1904 GLO 402)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Oklahoma (City) Land District abolished; lands and Land Office business/archives transferred to the Guthrie district and office.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Abolished the Oklahoma (City) land district, moving its lands, business and records to the Guthrie district and land office.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "revoke", "places": [{"name": "Oklahoma land district", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Oklahoma"}, {"name": "Guthrie land district", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Oklahoma"}], "states": ["Oklahoma"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [113], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-01-15", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "uo-015", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 111, "inferred": true, "date": "1902-01-20", "title": "Oklahoma City Land District, Oklahoma Territory, diminished by transfer of certain described lands to the El Reno and Mangum Land Districts.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "uo-081", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 81, "date": "1904-01-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Fort Egbert Military Reservation, Alaska (est. EO June 13, 1899), further diminished.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 81, "page": "198", "citations": "(1907 MR 7; 1910 MR 10; 1916 MR 13; …)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Fort Egbert Military Reservation, Alaska (est. EO June 13, 1899), further diminished.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Further reduced the Fort Egbert Military Reservation in Alaska.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "reduce", "places": [{"name": "Fort Egbert Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [113], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-01-25", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-082", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 82, "date": "1904-01-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Pine Ridge Sioux Indian Reservation, S. Dak., diminished by restoring to the public domain the Nebraska lands added by EO of Jan. 24, 1882.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 82, "page": "198", "citations": "III Kappler 681; 1904 CIA 530; I IR 162; X Richardson 796; (EO of Feb. 20, 1904)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Pine Ridge Sioux Indian Reservation, S. Dak., diminished by restoring to the public domain the Nebraska lands added by EO of Jan. 24, 1882.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Shrank the Pine Ridge Sioux Indian Reservation by returning to the public domain the Nebraska lands added to it in January 1882.", "categories": ["indian-lands", "public-lands"], "action": "reduce", "places": [{"name": "Pine Ridge Sioux Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "South Dakota"}], "states": ["South Dakota", "Nebraska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [113], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-01-25", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "Before the order was signed, the Omaha Daily Bee ran \"WANTS LAND FOR SETTLERS\" and the Beatrice Daily Express \"To Open Strip of Nebraska Land.\"", "source": "Omaha Daily Bee and Beatrice Daily Express, January 13, 1904", "date": "1904-01-13", "story": 113}, {"text": "Within weeks the Omaha Daily Bee reported squatters rushing to claim timbered land in Sheridan County on what had been known as \"No Man's Land.\"", "source": "Omaha Daily Bee, February 12, 1904", "date": "1904-02-12", "story": 113}, {"text": "The Pine Ridge agent's annual report for 1904 says nothing about the restoration, and no Oglala protest appears in the published agency and school reports of 1904–05.", "source": "Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1904, pt. 1, pp. 328–332", "date": "1904-08-17", "story": 113}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "political", "text": "Judge Westover of the Sheridan County district court wrote Representative Kinkaid urging that the strip be opened, and later filed a 640-acre claim on it himself.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1904", "story": 113}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "No proclamation opened the land; a General Land Office telegram to the register at Alliance did.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1904-02-08", "story": 113}, {"kind": "local", "text": "Formal entry on the strip followed in June 1905, largely in the 640-acre sections the Kinkaid Act allowed.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1905-06", "story": 113}], "uncertain": ["Whether any Oglala protest met the restoration; the unpublished Office of Indian Affairs correspondence at the National Archives (RG 75) has not been examined."]}, "related": [{"id": "uo-085", "relation": "amended_by", "note": "Kept one section of the restored tract permanently for the Pine Ridge Boarding School.", "story": 113, "date": "1904-02-20", "title": "EO of Jan. 25, 1904 amended to reserve permanently the irrigation-ditch and school-pasture section of the Pine Ridge Boarding School, Nebr.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "eo-247", "type": "executive_order", "number": "247", "tr_sequence": 109, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-01-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of E. W. Libbey as Operator in Department of Commerce and Labor without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_247", "revid": 1815864, "printed_source": "1904 CSR 87"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The appointment of Mr. E. W. Libbey as telegraph and telephone operator, at $1,000 per annum, in the Department of Commerce and Labor, on July 13, 1903, is approved, and he may be continued in the service without examination under the Civil Service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1904 CSR 87)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, January 27, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Approved E. W. Libbey's July 1903 appointment as telegraph and telephone operator in the Department of Commerce and Labor and let him stay without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["E. W. Libbey"], "significance": 1, "stories": [83], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-01-27", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-248", "type": "executive_order", "number": "248", "tr_sequence": 110, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-02-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Kate L. Croggan as Sewer in Government Printing Office Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_248", "revid": 1814819, "printed_source": "1904 CSR 88"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. Kate L. Croggan may be reinstated to the position of sewer in the Government Printing Office without regard to the provision of Rule IX limiting the period of eligibility for reinstatement to one year from the date of separation."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1904 CSR 88)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, February 1, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Kate L. Croggan to return as a sewer at the Government Printing Office despite the one-year limit on reinstatement.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Kate L. Croggan"], "significance": 1, "stories": [83], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-02-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-083", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 83, "date": "1904-02-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authority to lease certain Alaskan islands for fox propagation transferred from the Secretary of the Treasury to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor.", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 83, "page": "198", "citations": "(EO 1182½)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Commerce and Labor Secretary authorized to lease certain Alaskan islands for fox propagation.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Commerce and Labor Secretary authorized to lease certain Alaskan islands for fox propagation”. 25 Op. Att'y Gen. 497, 502 (1905)."], "summary": "Moved the authority to lease certain Alaskan islands for fox raising from the Treasury Secretary to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor.", "categories": ["wildlife", "insular-territories"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [113], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-02-02", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Attorney General quoted the order in a 1905 opinion and judged that the Treasury leasing practice it transferred had begun in 1882 without statutory sanction.", "source": "25 Op. Att'y Gen. 497, 502", "date": "1905", "story": 113}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1910-03-25", "text": "Taft's Executive Order 1182½ extended the arrangement to fur-bearing animals besides foxes.", "source": "Executive Order 1182½", "story": 113}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-515", "type": "proclamation", "number": "515", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-02-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing the Baker City Forest Reserve", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 515, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-515"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2331, "last_page": 2332, "cite": "33 Stat. 2331–2332", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2331.pdf", "statutes_date": "1904-02-05", "table_title": "Setting apart Baker City Forest Reserve, Oregon."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Oregon, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Oregon and particularly described as follows, to wit:", "In Township eight (8) South, Range thirty-seven (37) East, Willamette Meridian, Oregon, Sections one (1), two (2), three (3), ten (10) to fifteen (15), both inclusive, twenty-two (22) to twenty-seven (27), both inclusive, thirty-four (34), thirty-five (35) and thirty-six (36); in Town-ship nine (9) South, Range thirty-seven (37) East, Sections one (1), two (2), three (3), ten (10) to fourteen (14), both inclusive, and twenty-three (23) to twenty-six (26), both inclusive; in Township eight (8) South, Range thirty-eight (38) East, the west half of the south-east quarter and the south-west quarter of Section five (5), Sections six (6), seven (7), eight (8), seventeen (17) to twenty (20), both inclusive, and twenty-nine (29) to thirty-four (34), both inclusive, and the west half of the north-west quarter and the west half of the south-west quarter of Section thirty-five (35); in Township nine (9) South, Range thirty-eight (38) East, Sections two (2) to thirty (30), both inclusive, and thirty-four (34), thirty-five (35) and thirty-six (36); in Township nine (9) South, Range thirty-nine (39) East, Sections seven (7), eighteen (18), nineteen (19), twenty (20), the west half of the north-west quarter and the west half of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-nine (29), Section thirty-one (31), and the west half of the north-west quarter of Section thirty-two (32).", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered I by any lawful I filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation1 hereby established shallI be known as The Baker City Forest Reserve.", "2332 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 5th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four and [seal.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 33 Stat. 2331", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Oregon.", "Boundaries.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "The Baker City Forest Reserve."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Baker City Forest Reserve in Oregon, reserving timbered public lands within set boundaries from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Baker City Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}], "states": ["Oregon"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [49], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-02-05", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Morning Oregonian's Washington bureau put the signing on page one and called it \"record time in creating forest reserves.\"", "source": "Morning Oregonian, February 6, 1904, p. 1", "date": "1904-02-06", "story": 49}, {"text": "Short wire items in La Grande and Salem papers reported the signing without comment or objection.", "source": "La Grande Morning Observer, February 7, 1904, p. 1; Weekly Oregon Statesman, February 9, 1904, p. 4", "date": "1904-02", "story": 49}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "political", "text": "Oregon's Senator Fulton and Representative Williamson called on Roosevelt the morning he signed and urged him to act promptly.", "source": "Morning Oregonian, February 6, 1904, p. 1", "date": "1904-02-05", "story": 49}], "legacy": [{"text": "The reserve was broken up in 1906: part went into the new Blue Mountains reserve, the rest returned to the public domain, and the Baker City name was dropped.", "source": "34 Stat. 3194; Forest Service, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (1959)", "date": "1906-03-15", "story": 49}], "today": [{"name": "Wallowa-Whitman National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Oregon", "note": "The lands kept in 1906 lie mainly in this forest.", "source": "Forest Service, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (1959)", "story": 49}], "uncertain": ["The General Land Office estimated the reserve at 52,480 acres, one section more than a count of the sections in the proclamation's own description; the reason is not known."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-618", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "The Blue Mountains proclamation took in part of the Baker City reserve and ended it as a separate reserve.", "story": 49, "date": "1906-03-15", "title": "Setting Apart the Blue Mountains Forest Reserve, Oregon", "type": "proclamation", "number": "618"}]}
{"id": "eo-249", "type": "executive_order", "number": "249", "tr_sequence": 111, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-02-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Employment of James M. Cooper and Ralston Williams by Medical Board Investigating Typhoid Fever", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_249", "revid": 1822374, "printed_source": "1904 CSR 88"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["James M. Cooper and Ralston Williams may be employed by the board of medical officers appointed to investigate the origin and spread of typhoid fever in United States military camps in 1898 until the completion of the report of the board."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1904 CSR 88)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, February 5, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let James M. Cooper and Ralston Williams work for the Army medical board studying typhoid fever in the 1898 military camps until its report was done.", "categories": ["civil-service", "military-naval"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["James M. Cooper", "Ralston Williams"], "significance": 1, "stories": [83], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-02-05", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-250", "type": "executive_order", "number": "250", "tr_sequence": 112, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-02-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Revoking Special Civil Service Rule of July 3, 1902, Pertaining to Persons Formerly Employed in Military Government of Cuba", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_250", "revid": 1814821, "printed_source": "1904 CSR 79"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The special rule of July 3, 1902, rendering certain persons who were in the employ of the United States in the military government of Cuba eligible to retention and employment in positions in the classified service of a grade corresponding to that which they then held, is hereby revoked."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1904 CSR 79)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, February 5, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Revoked the July 3, 1902, special rule that let former employees of the U.S. military government of Cuba move into matching classified-service jobs.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "revoke", "places": [], "states": ["Cuba"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [83], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-02-05", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-251", "type": "executive_order", "number": "251", "tr_sequence": 113, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-02-08", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Allowing Transfer of Matthew J. McCarthy from Excepted Position of Special Deputy Surveyor to Deputy Surveyor and Inspector at Customs Port of Syracuse, N.Y., Without Examination", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Allowing Transfer of Matthew J. McCarty to Non-Expected Position of Deputy Surveyor and Inspector at Customs Port of Syracuse, N.Y., Without Examination”. Lord's WPA list gives McCarthy and the \"excepted position\"."], "summary": "Allowed Matthew J. McCarthy to transfer without examination from the excepted post of special deputy surveyor to deputy surveyor and inspector at the customs port of Syracuse, New York.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Syracuse", "kind": "town", "state": "New York"}], "states": ["New York"], "people": ["Matthew J. McCarthy"], "significance": 1, "stories": [83], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-02-08", "impact": {"uncertain": ["EO 251's description rests on Lord's List alone; it does not appear in the Civil Service Commission's Twenty-first Report."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-516", "type": "proclamation", "number": "516", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-02-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Declaration of Neutrality in the War Between Japan and Russia", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 516, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-516"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2332, "last_page": 2335, "cite": "33 Stat. 2332–2335", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2332.pdf", "statutes_date": "1904-02-11", "table_title": "Declaration of neutrality, war between Japan and Russia."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS a state of war unhappily exists between Japan, on the one side, and Russia, on the other side;", "AND WHEREAS the United States are on terms of friendship and amity with both the contending powers, and with the persons inhabiting their several dominions;", "AND WHEREAS there are citizens of the United States residing within the territories or dominions of each of the said belligerents and carrying on commerce, trade, or other business or pursuits therein, protected by the faith of treaties;", "AND WHEREAS there are subjects of each of the said belligerents residing within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States, and carrying on commerce, trade, or other business or pursuits therein;", "AND WHEREAS the laws of the United States, without interfering with the free expression of opinion and sympathy, or with the open manufacture or sale of arms or munitions of war, nevertheless impose upon all persons who may be within their territory and jurisdiction the duty of an impartial neutrality during the existence of the contest;", "AND WHEREAS it is the duty of a neutral government not to permit or suffer the making of its waters subservient to the purposes of war;", "NOW, THEREFORE, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, in order to preserve the neutrality of the United States and of their citizens and of persons within their territory and jurisdiction, and to enforce their laws, and in order that all persons, being warned of the general tenor of the laws and treaties of the United States in this behalf, and of the law of nations, may thus be prevented from an unintentional violation of the same, do hereby declare and proclaim that by the act passed on the 20th day of April, A. D. 1818, commonly known as the “neutrality law”, the following acts are forbidden to be done, under severe penalties, within the territory and jurisdiction of the United States, to-wit:—", "2333 7. Retaining another person to go beyond the limits of the United States with intent to be entered into service as aforesaid. (But the said act is not to be construed to extend to a citizen or subject of either belligerent who, being transiently within the United States, shall, on board of any vessel of war, which, at the time of its arrival within the United States, was fitted and equipped as such vessel of war, enlist or enter himself or hire or retain another subject or citizen of the same belligerent, who is transiently within the United States, to enlist or enter himself to serve such belligerent on board such vessel of war, if the United States shall then be at peace with such belligerent.) 8. Fitting out and arming, or attempting to fit out and arm, or procuring to be fitted out and armed, or knowingly being concerned in the furnishing, fitting out, or arming of any ship or vessel with intent that such ship or vessel shall be employed in the service of either of the said belligerents. 9. Issuing or delivering a commission within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States for any ship or vessel to the intent that she may be employed as aforesaid. 10. Increasing or augmenting, or procuring to be increased or augmented, or knowingly being concerned in increasing or augmenting, the force of any ship of war, cruiser, or other armed vessel, which at the time of her arrival within the United States was a ship of war, cruiser, or armed vessel in the service of either of the said belligerents, or belonging to the subjects of either, by adding to the number of guns of such vessels, or by changing those on board of her for guns of a larger calibre, or by the addition thereto of any equipment solely applicable to war. 11. Beginning or setting on foot or providing or preparing the means for any military expedition or enterprise to be carried on from the territory or jurisdiction of the United States against the territories or dominions of either of the said belligerents. And I do hereby further declare and proclaim that any frequenting and use of the waters within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States by the armed vessels of either belligerent, whether public ships or privateers, for the purpose of preparing for hostile operations, or as posts of observations upon the ships of war or privateers or merchant vessels of the other belligerent lying within or being about to enter the jurisdiction of the United States, must be regarded as unfriendly and offensive, and in violation of that neutrality which it is the determination of this government to observe; and to the end that the hazard and inconvenience of such apprehended practices may be avoided, I further proclaim and declare that from and after the fifteenth day of February instant, and during the continuance of the present hostilities between Japan and Russia, no ship of war or privateer of either belligerent shall be permitted to make use of any port, harbor, roadstead, or waters subject to the jurisdiction of the United States from which a vessel of the other belligerent (whether the same shall be a ship of war, a privateer, or a merchant ship) shall have previously departed, until after the expiration of at least twenty-four hours from the departure of such last-mentioned vessel beyond the jurisdiction of the United States. If any ship of war or privateer of either belligerent shall, after the time this notification takes effect, enter any port, harbor, roadstead, or waters of the United States, such vessel shall be required to depart and to put to sea within twenty- four hours after her entrance into such port, harbor, roadstead, or waters, except in case of stress of weather or of her requiring provisions or things necessary for the subsistence of her crew, or for repairs; in either of which cases the authorities of the port or of the nearest port (as the case may be) shall require her to put to sea as soon as possible after the expiration of such period of twenty-four hours, without permitting her to take in supplies beyond what may be necessary, for her immediate use; and no such vessel which may have been permitted to remain within the waters of the United States for the purpose of repair shall continue within such port, harbor, roadstead, or waters for a longer period than twenty-four hours after her necessary repairs shall have been completed, unless within such twenty-four hours a vessel, whether ship of war, privateer, or merchant ship of the other belligerent, shall have departed therefrom, in which case the time limited for the departure of such ship of war or privateer shall be extended so far as may be necessary to secure an interval of not less than twenty-four hours between such departure and that of any ship of war, privateer, or merchant ship of the other belligerent which may have previously quit the same port, harbor, roadstead, or waters. No ship of war or privateer of either belligerent shall be detained in any port, harbor, roadstead, or waters of the United States more than twenty-four hours, by reason of the successive departures from such port, harbor, roadstead, or waters of more than one vessel of the other belligerent. But if there be several vessels of each or either of the two belligerents in the same port, harbor, roadstead, or waters, the order of their departure therefrom shall be so arranged as to afford the opportunity of leaving alternately to the vessels of the respective belligerents, and to cause the least detention consistent with the objects of this proclamation. No ship of war or privateer of either belligerent shall be permitted, while in any port, harbor, roadstead, or waters within the jurisdiction of the United States, to take in any supplies except pro-visions and such other things as may be requisite for the subsistence of her crew, and except so much coal only as may be sufficient to carry such vessel, if without any sail power, to the nearest port of her own country; or in case the vessel is rigged to go under sail, and may also be propelled by steam power, then with half the quantity of coal which she would be entitled to receive, if dependent upon steam alone, and no coal shall be again supplied to any such ship of war or privateer in the same or any other port, harbor, roadstead, or waters of the United States, without special permission, until after the expiration of three months from the time when such coal may have been last supplied to her within the waters of the United States, unless such ship of war or privateer shall, since last thus supplied, have entered a port of the government to which she belongs.", "And I further declare and proclaim that by the first article of the Convention as to rights of neutrals at sea, which was concluded between the United States of America and His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias on the 22nd day of July A. D. 1854, the following principles were recognized as permanent and immutable, to-wit:", "And I do further declare and proclaim that the statutes of the United States and the law of nations alike require that no person, within the territory and jurisdiction of the United States, shall take part, directly or indirectly, in the said war, but shall remain at peace with each of the said belligerents, and shall maintain a strict and impartial neutrality, and that whatever privileges shall be accorded to one belligerent within the ports of the United States, shall be, in like manner, accorded to the other.", "And I do hereby enjoin all the good citizens of the United States, and all persons residing or being within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States, to observe the laws thereof, and to commit no act contrary to the provisions of the said statutes, or in violation of the law of nations in that behalf.", "And I do hereby warn all citizens of the United States, and all per-sons residing or being within their territory or jurisdiction that, while the free and full expression of sympathies in public and private is not restricted by the laws of the United States, military forces in aid of either belligerent cannot lawfully be originated or organized within their jurisdiction; and that while all persons may lawfully, and without restriction by reason of the aforesaid state of war, manufacture and sell within the United States arms and munitions of war, and other articles ordinarily known as “ contraband of war”, yet they cannot carry such articles upon the high seas for the use or service of either belligerent, nor can they transport soldiers and officers of either, or attempt to break any blockade which may be lawfully established and maintained during the war, without incurring the risk of hostile capture, and the penalties denounced by the law of nations in that behalf.", "And I do hereby give notice that all citizens of the United States and others who may claim the protection of this government, who may misconduct themselves in the premises, will do so at their peril, and that they can in no wise obtain any protection from the government of the United States against the consequences of their misconduct.", "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 11th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four and [SEAL.] of the independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 33 Stat. 2332", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "War between Russia and Japan.", "Declaration of neutrality.", "Vol. 3, p. 447.", "R. S., Title LXVII, p. 1024.", "Acts prohibited.", "Vessels of belligerents.", "Rights of neutrals at sea.", "Vol. 10, p. 1105.", "Strict neutrality to be maintained.", "Military aid to belligerents prohibited.", "Contraband of war.", "Notice."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Declared U.S. neutrality in the war between Japan and Russia, warning Americans against aiding either side and laying out rules on belligerent vessels, contraband and neutral rights at sea.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs"], "action": "announce", "places": [{"name": "Japan", "kind": "country"}, {"name": "Russia", "kind": "country"}], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 5, "stories": [13], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-02-11", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The proclamation was a routine act at the start of a foreign war and stirred little debate at home, though American sympathy ran strongly toward Japan.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1904", "story": 13}, {"text": "Sympathy for Japan ran especially strong among American Jewish organizations and financiers after the Kishinev pogrom, and Jacob Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb underwrote a large share of Japan's war loans.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1904", "story": 13}, {"text": "Roosevelt's 1906 Nobel Peace Prize for ending the war was controversial: Norway's political Left called him a \"military mad\" imperialist, Swedish papers said Nobel was turning in his grave, and the committee's adviser Halvdan Koht filed a long, critical report.", "source": "nobelprize.org", "date": "1906", "story": 13}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "diplomatic", "text": "Having kept the country neutral, Roosevelt sent an identical note to Russia and Japan proposing direct peace talks \"without any intermediary\" and offering his good offices to arrange them. Japan accepted on June 10 and Russia on June 12.", "source": "FRUS 1905, ch. 167, Docs. 876–877", "date": "1905-06-08", "story": 13}, {"kind": "diplomatic", "text": "The peace conference met at the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine, from August 9, and the Treaty of Portsmouth ending the war was signed there on September 5, 1905.", "source": "Treaty of Portsmouth; NAVSEA fact sheet", "date": "1905-09-05", "story": 13}, {"kind": "diplomatic", "text": "Both governments delivered notice of ratification on October 15, 1905, and the treaty took effect that day.", "source": "FRUS 1905, Docs. 907, 909, 910", "date": "1905-10-15", "story": 13}, {"kind": "political", "text": "Anger in Japan over a peace with no indemnity and only half of Sakhalin led to three days of rioting in Tokyo after the Hibiya Park rally; seventeen people were killed and martial law lasted until November 29.", "source": "Andrew Gordon; Nipponica; JACAR", "date": "1905-09-05", "story": 13}, {"kind": "political", "text": "Roosevelt received the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ending the war, the first Nobel Prize of any kind awarded to an American. The American minister, Herbert H. D. Peirce, accepted it for him.", "source": "nobelprize.org", "date": "1906-12-10", "story": 13}], "legacy": [{"text": "Hague Convention XIII of 1907 carried forward the kind of neutral-port rules the proclamation applied.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1907", "story": 13}, {"text": "Roosevelt held the Nobel prize money in trust for an industrial-peace foundation and later asked Congress to release the grown sum, $45,482.83, for wartime relief charities.", "source": "nobelprize.org", "story": 13}, {"text": "Japanese resentment of the American-brokered peace fed a longer cooling of relations between the United States and Japan.", "source": "research entry", "story": 13}, {"text": "Ship-by-ship neutrality law of this kind faded away through the two world wars, the Neutrality Acts of the 1930s and their repeal, and the collective-security system of the United Nations Charter.", "source": "research entry", "story": 13}], "uncertain": ["Japan's private request that Roosevelt act, usually dated May 31, 1905, rests on secondary accounts; the published State Department record for 1905 begins with his note of June 8.", "Counts of the injured in the September 1905 Tokyo riots range from about 1,000 to some 2,000 and cannot be reconciled from available sources."]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-258", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Directed all civil, military and naval officials to observe the February 11 neutrality proclamation.", "story": 13, "date": "1904-03-10", "title": "Further Reaffirming the Observance of Proclamation of February 11, 1904 by All Officials of the Government", "type": "executive_order", "number": "258"}]}
{"id": "uo-084", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 84, "date": "1904-02-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Parang (later Ludlow Barracks) Military Reservation, Moro/Cotabato Province, Mindanao, P. I., 1,159 acres, established.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 84, "page": "198", "citations": "(EO 1055; 1907 MR 411; …)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Parang (later Ludlow Barracks) Military Reservation, Moro/Cotabato Province, Mindanao, P. I., 1,159 acres, established.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Established a 1,159-acre military reservation at Parang in Mindanao, Philippines.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Parang Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [113], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-02-15", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-252", "type": "executive_order", "number": "252", "tr_sequence": 114, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-02-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Certification of Marie L. Baldwin as Clerk in Office of Indian Affairs Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_252", "revid": 1814825, "printed_source": "1904 CSR 88"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. Marie L. Baldwin, whose name appears upon the Minnesota clerk register, may be certified for appointment as clerk at $900 in the Office of Indian Affairs without regard to the provisions of Civil-Service Rule VII."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1904 CSR 88)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, February 17, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Marie L. Baldwin, on the Minnesota clerk register, to be certified as a $900 clerk in the Office of Indian Affairs, setting aside Rule VII.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Minnesota"], "people": ["Marie L. Baldwin"], "significance": 1, "stories": [83], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-02-17", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin, appointed under this order, served in the Office of Indian Affairs until 1932 and became, in the National Park Service's words, its \"highest paid Indigenous woman.\"", "source": "National Park Service biography of Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin", "date": "1932", "story": 83}, {"text": "Baldwin became the first Native American graduate of the Washington College of Law in 1914, marched in the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession, and was an officer of the Society of American Indians.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1914", "story": 83}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-253", "type": "executive_order", "number": "253", "tr_sequence": 115, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-02-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Except Commissioners of National Military Parks from Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_253", "revid": 1939237, "printed_source": "1904 CSR 80"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Schedule A is hereby amended by adding under the subheading \"War Department\" a clause as follows:", "All commissioners for the national military parks."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1904 CSR 80)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, January 27, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Added all commissioners of the national military parks to the War Department positions exempt from civil-service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service", "military-naval"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [83], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-02-17", "impact": {"later_actions": [{"date": "1910", "text": "The Schedule A clause excepting national military park commissioners was amended by Executive Order 1163.", "source": "research entry", "story": 83}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-254", "type": "executive_order", "number": "254", "tr_sequence": 116, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-02-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Ordering federal Offices in Ohio Closed on February 19, 1904 for Funeral Services of Marcus A. Hanna", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_254", "revid": 1853583, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["As a mark of respect to the memory of Hon. Marcus A. Hanna, late senator from the state of Ohio, it is hereby ordered that all federal offices in Ohio be closed during the hours of the funeral tomorrow, Friday, the 19th instant.", "Theodore Roosevelt.", "White House, February 18, 1904."], "source": "Fresno Evening Democrat, February 18, 1904, 'Hanna Funeral Train' (California Digital Newspaper Collection), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Base text is Wikisource's (which cites no printed source); the newspaper prints the sentence word for word under a Washington, February 18 dateline, without the signature and date line, which are Wikisource's. No official printing seen. No seal (executive order).", "story": 83}, "summary": "Closed all federal offices in Ohio during the funeral of Senator Marcus A. Hanna on February 19, 1904, as a mark of respect.", "categories": ["ceremonial"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["Ohio"], "people": ["Marcus A. Hanna"], "significance": 2, "stories": [83], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-02-18", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Fresno Evening Democrat printed the President's one-sentence order word for word under a Washington dateline the day it was issued.", "source": "Fresno Evening Democrat, February 18, 1904, \"Hanna Funeral Train\"", "date": "1904-02-18", "story": 83}, {"text": "The New York Times carried the order the next morning.", "source": "New York Times, February 19, 1904", "date": "1904-02-19", "story": 83}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "All federal offices in Ohio closed during the hours of Senator Hanna's funeral on Friday, February 19, 1904.", "source": "EO 254, Wikisource", "date": "1904-02-19", "story": 83}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-085", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 85, "date": "1904-02-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "EO of Jan. 25, 1904 amended to reserve permanently the irrigation-ditch and school-pasture section of the Pine Ridge Boarding School, Nebr.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 85, "page": "198", "citations": "III Kappler 681; 1904 CIA 530; I IR 162; X Richardson 797"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "EO of Jan. 25, 1904 amended to reserve permanently the irrigation-ditch and school-pasture section of the Pine Ridge Boarding School, Nebr.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "title_notes": ["The section straddles the Nebraska–South Dakota line, mostly in Sheridan County, Nebraska (Kappler III, 681)."], "summary": "Amended a January 1904 order to permanently reserve the section holding the irrigation ditch and school pasture of the Pine Ridge Boarding School in Nebraska.", "categories": ["indian-lands"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": ["Nebraska"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [113], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-02-20", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "local", "text": "The Oglala boarding-school superintendent reported that the section south of the school farm, which held the dam and head of the irrigation ditch, had been reserved by the President and attached to the school farm.", "source": "Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1904, pt. 1, p. 332", "date": "1904-08-18", "story": 113}], "uncertain": ["The section's acreage: the ground was unsurveyed, the order gives no figure, and Hodge's 1910 Handbook prints both 610 and 640 acres."]}, "related": [{"id": "uo-082", "relation": "amends", "note": "Held back one section of the Nebraska strip restored on January 25, 1904.", "story": 113, "date": "1904-01-25", "title": "Pine Ridge Sioux Indian Reservation, S. Dak., diminished by restoring to the public domain the Nebraska lands added by EO of Jan. 24, 1882.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "eo-255", "type": "executive_order", "number": "255", "tr_sequence": 117, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-02-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Francis Walker as Special Agent in Bureau of Corporations Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_255", "revid": 1822342, "printed_source": "1904 CSR 89"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Francis Walker, of Massachusetts, may be appointed a special agent in the Bureau of Corporations, at $2,000 per annum, without examination under the Civil-Service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1904 CSR 89)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, February 25, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Francis Walker of Massachusetts to be appointed a special agent in the Bureau of Corporations at $2,000 a year without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Massachusetts"], "people": ["Francis Walker"], "significance": 1, "stories": [83], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-02-25", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-256", "type": "executive_order", "number": "256", "tr_sequence": 118, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-03-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Designating All Position Except Laborers in Civil Service of War Department in Philippines as Classified Under Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_256", "revid": 1814841, "printed_source": "1904 CSR 77"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["All positions in the civil service of the War Department in the Philippines, except those filled by persons employed merely as skilled or unskilled laborers, and by persons appointed by the President, will be treated as classified under the civil-service rules. The present occupants of these positions who have been specially commended for retention by their chiefs, with the approval of the Secretary of War, and whose names appear on the list furnished the United States Civil Service Commission, may be retained, and after three years' service in such positions shall be eligible for transfer to competitive positions in the United States, subject to the civil-service rules and regulations."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1904 CSR 77)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, March 1, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Brought nearly every War Department civil-service job in the Philippines under the classified civil service, except laborers and presidential appointees, and set terms for retaining current workers.", "categories": ["civil-service", "insular-territories"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [83], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-03-01", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "War Department civilian positions in the Philippines, other than laborers and presidential appointees, became classified, and present employees kept on could transfer to competitive positions in the United States after three years.", "source": "EO 256, Wikisource", "date": "1904-03-01", "story": 83}], "legacy": [{"text": "The order is one step in extending the merit system to federal civilian employees serving overseas.", "source": "research entry", "story": 83}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-257", "type": "executive_order", "number": "257", "tr_sequence": 119, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-03-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Transfer of Merrit O. Chance to Superintendent in Post Office Department Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_257", "revid": 1814843, "printed_source": "1904 CSR 89"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Merrit O. Chance may be transferred from clerk to the Secretary of War to superintendent of post-office supplies in the Post-Office Department without taking a noncompetitive examination, in view of his having passed the examination for entrance to the classified service in the clerk grade, and because of his former service in the Post-Office Department and his general knowledge of postal affairs, which, it is believed, qualify him for the position of superintendent of post-office supplies."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1904 CSR 89)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, March 4, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Merrit O. Chance to move from clerk to the Secretary of War to superintendent of post-office supplies without a noncompetitive examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "transfer", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Merrit O. Chance"], "significance": 1, "stories": [83], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-03-04", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-517", "type": "proclamation", "number": "517", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-03-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing the Cave Hills Forest Reserve", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 517, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-517"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2335, "last_page": 2337, "cite": "33 Stat. 2335–2337", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2335.pdf", "statutes_date": "1904-03-05", "table_title": "Setting apart Cave Hills Forest Reserve, South Dakota."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["[No. 19.]", "BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.", "A PROCLAMATION.", "WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, \"An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes\", \"That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof\";", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of South Dakota, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of South Dakota and particularly described as follows, to wit:", "[Boundary description by township, range, and section omitted …]", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, That this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Cave Hills Forest Reserve.", "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 5th day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four and of the [SEAL.] Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:", "JOHN HAY,", "Secretary of State."], "source": "33 Stat. 2335–2337 (Statutes at Large page images), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Printed as No. 19. [SEAL.] restored to the dating clause; 'City' capitalized and no comma after 'four', per the page image. Boundary description (Townships 20–23 North, Ranges 4–6 East, Black Hills Meridian) abridged and must be supplied verbatim from the Statutes before full-text publication.", "story": 49}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Cave Hills Forest Reserve in South Dakota, reserving timbered public lands within set boundaries from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Cave Hills Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "South Dakota"}], "states": ["South Dakota"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [49], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-03-05", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Gifford Pinchot wrote the President's secretary the day before the signing that he agreed with Interior Secretary Hitchcock that the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes proclamations should be signed.", "source": "Pinchot to Loeb, March 4, 1904, TR Papers (TR Center o157998)", "date": "1904-03-04", "story": 49}], "legacy": [{"text": "Cave Hills became a national forest in 1907 and was consolidated into the Sioux National Forest by an executive order effective July 1, 1908.", "source": "Forest Service, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (1959)", "date": "1908-07-01", "story": 49}], "today": [{"name": "Custer Gallatin National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "South Dakota", "note": "The Cave Hills lands are a unit of the Sioux Ranger District.", "source": "Forest Service, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (1959)", "story": 49}], "uncertain": ["How South Dakota newspapers greeted the Cave Hills reserve in March 1904 has not been checked."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-518", "type": "proclamation", "number": "518", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-03-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing the Slim Buttes Forest Reserve", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 518, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-518"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2337, "last_page": 2338, "cite": "33 Stat. 2337–2338", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2337.pdf", "statutes_date": "1904-03-05", "table_title": "Setting apart Slim Buttes Forest Reserve, South Dakota."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with1 timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of South Dakota, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of South Dakota and particularly described as follows, to wit:", "In Township seventeen (17) North, Range seven (7) East, Sections one (1), twelve (12), and thirteen (13), the south half of the north-east quarter and the south-east quarter of Section fourteen (14), the south-west quarter and the east half of Section twenty-three (23), Sections twenty-four (24), twenty-five (25), twenty-six (26) and thirty-five (35); in Township eighteen (18) North, Range seven (7) East, Section one (1), the east half of Section two (2), the south half of the north-east quarter, the south half of the north-west quarter and the south half of Section twenty-four (24) and Section twenty-five (25); in Township nineteen (19) North, Range seven (7) East, the east half of Section eleven (11), Sections twelve (12) and thirteen (13), the east half of Sections fourteen (14) and twenty-three (23), Section twenty-four (24), the north half of the south-east quarter, the north half of the south-west quarter and the north half of Section twenty-five (25) and the north half of the south-east quarter and the north-east quarter of Sec tion twenty-six (26); in Township sixteen (16) North, Range eight (8) East, the west half of Section one (1), Sections two (2) to eleven (11), both inclusive, the west half and the south-east quarter of Section twelve (12), Sections thirteen (13), fourteen (14) and fifteen (15), the north half of Sections seventeen (17) and eighteen (18) and Section twenty-four (24); in. Township seventeen (17) North, Range eight (8) East, Sections six (6), seven (7), eighteen (18), nineteen (19), twenty- nine (29), thirty (30), thirty-one (31) and thirty-two (32), the south half of Sections thirty-three (33), thirty-four (34) and thirty-five (35); in Township eighteen (18) North, Range eight (8) East, the north-west quarter of Section three (3), the north half of Section four (4), the west half of Section five (5), Sections six (6) and seven (7), the west half of Section eight (8), Sections seventeen (17), eighteen (18), nineteen (19) and twenty (20), the west half of Sections twenty-one (21) and twenty-eight (28), Sections twenty-nine (29), thirty (30), thirty-one (31) and thirty-two (32) and the west half of Section thirty-three (33); in Township nineteen (19) North, Range eight (8) East, the south half of Section three (3), the south-east quarter of Section four (4), Sections seven (7), eight (8), nine (9), ten (10) and eleven (11), the west half of Section thirteen (13), Sections fourteen (14) to twenty-three ,(23) , both inclusive, the west half of Sections twenty-four (24) and twenty-five (25), Sections twenty-six (26) to twenty-nine (29), both inclusive, the south-east quarter of the south-east quarter, the north half of the south-east quarter, the north half of the south-west quarter and the north half of Section thirty (30), the north-east quarter of the north-east quarter, the south half of the north-east quarter, the south half of the north-west quarter and the south half of Section thirty-one (31), Sections thirty-two (32) and thirty-three (33) and the west half of Section thirty-four (34); and in Township sixteen (16) North, Range nine (9) East, the south-west quarter of Section fifteen (15), the south half of Sections seventeen (17) and eighteen (18), Sections nineteen (19), twenty (20), twenty-one (21) and twenty-two (22), the south-west quarter of Section twenty-three (23), the west half of Section twenty-six (26), Sections twenty-seven (27) and twenty-eight (28), the east half and the north-west quarter of Section twenty-nine (29), the north half of Section thirty-three (33) and the north-west quarter of Section thirty-four (34); all of Black Hills Meridian, South Dakota.", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Slim Buttes Forest Reserve.", "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 5th day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four, and of the [SEAL.] Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 33 Stat. 2337", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, South Dakota.", "Description.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "The Slim Buttes Forest Reserve."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Slim Buttes Forest Reserve in South Dakota, reserving timbered public lands within set boundaries from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Slim Buttes Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "South Dakota"}], "states": ["South Dakota"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [49], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-03-05", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Gifford Pinchot wrote the President's secretary the day before the signing that he agreed with Interior Secretary Hitchcock that the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes proclamations should be signed.", "source": "Pinchot to Loeb, March 4, 1904, TR Papers (TR Center o157998)", "date": "1904-03-04", "story": 49}], "legacy": [{"text": "Slim Buttes became a national forest in 1907 and was consolidated into the Sioux National Forest by an executive order effective July 1, 1908.", "source": "Forest Service, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (1959)", "date": "1908-07-01", "story": 49}], "today": [{"name": "Custer Gallatin National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "South Dakota", "note": "The Slim Buttes lands are a unit of the Sioux Ranger District.", "source": "Forest Service, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (1959)", "story": 49}], "uncertain": ["How South Dakota newspapers greeted the Slim Buttes reserve in March 1904 has not been checked."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-519", "type": "proclamation", "number": "519", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-03-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Granting Fort Marcy Reservation Lands to Santa Fe, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 519, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-519"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2339, "last_page": 2339, "cite": "33 Stat. 2339", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2339.pdf", "statutes_date": "1904-03-10", "table_title": "Granting Fort Marcy Reservation lands to Santa Fe, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided in the Act of Congress approved March 3, 1893, entitled “An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and for other purposes” “That the President is hereby authorized by proclamation to withhold from sale and grant for public use to the municipal corporation in which the same is situated al! or any portion of any abandoned military reservation not exceeding twenty acres in one place”,", "And Whereas, the Fort Marcy Military reservation at Santa Fe, New Mexico, containing seventeen and three-quarter acres more or less, as described in Executive Order of August 28, 1868, creating same, was by Executive Order of June 15, 1895, placed under the custody of the Interior Department for disposal under the Act of July 5, 1884, being “An Act to provide for the disposal of abandoned and use-less military reservations”,", "And Whereas, the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico has petitioned that the said reservation be granted to the municipal corporation of Santa Fe, New Mexico,", "And Whereas, it appears that on the fourteenth day of August, 1902, the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico, entered into an agreement with the Board of Education of the said city of Santa Fe, whereby it was agreed on the part of said city that in case the President of the United States should grant, under the provisions of said Act of March 3, 1893, said reservation to the city of Santa Fe for public purposes, the said city would, by its municipal authorities, turn over and deliver to the said Board of Education and its successors, the said reservation to be held by said Board forever, to aid and assist in the support of the public schools of the city of Santa Fe; and that, by the same agreement, the said Board of Education, on its part, agreed and undertook that it would accept the said reservation, for the purposes so designated by the city of Santa Fe, and keep and use the same and the proceeds thereof, for the use, benefit and maintenance of the public schools and turn over said property or such parts of it as might be in its possession, to its successors.", "Now, Therefore, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress aforesaid, do hereby with-draw from sale, entry or other disposition, the lands embraced within the former Fort Marcy Military reservation, as the same are described in Executive Order approved August 28, 1868, and do hereby grant for public use, the said described land to the incorporated city of Santa Fe, New Mexico.", "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 10th day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and four, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 33 Stat. 2339", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 27, p. 593.", "Ante, p. 2330.", "Correction.", "Vol. 23, p. 103.", "Vol. 27, p. 593.", "Fort Marcy Military reservation.", "Lands of, granted to Santa Fe, N. Mex., for public use."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Corrected and reissued the grant of the abandoned Fort Marcy Military Reservation to the town of Santa Fe, New Mexico, for public use in support of its public schools.", "categories": ["military-naval", "public-lands"], "action": "grant", "places": [{"name": "Fort Marcy Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "New Mexico"}, {"name": "Santa Fe", "kind": "town", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [50], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-03-10", "impact": {"uncertain": ["How the Santa Fe New Mexican and other papers greeted the corrected grant in March 1904 has not been checked."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-514", "relation": "amends", "note": "Corrects the grantee from the \"incorporated town\" to the \"incorporated city\" of Santa Fe.", "story": 50, "date": "1904-01-05", "title": "Grant of Fort Marcy Military Reservation to the Town of Santa Fe, New Mexico", "type": "proclamation", "number": "514"}]}
{"id": "eo-258", "type": "executive_order", "number": "258", "tr_sequence": 120, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-03-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Further Reaffirming the Observance of Proclamation of February 11, 1904 by All Officials of the Government", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_258", "revid": 1742917, "printed_source": "[http://www.uhuh.com/laws/donncoll/eo/1904/eo258.txt External Information about this EO]  "}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["All officials of the Government, civil, military, and naval, are hereby directed not only to observe the President's proclamation of neutrality in the pending war between Russia and Japan, but also to abstain from either action or speech which can legitimately cause irritation to either of the combatants. The Government of the United States represents the people of the United States, not only in the sincerity with which it is endeavoring to keep the scales of neutrality exact and even, but in the sincerity with which it deplores the breaking out of the present war, and hopes that it will end at the earliest possible moment and with the smallest possible loss to those engaged. Such a war inevitably increases and inflames the susceptibilities of the combatants to anything in the nature of an injury or slight by outsiders. Too often combatants make conflicting claims as to the duties and obligations of neutrals, so that even when discharging these duties and obligations with scrupulous care it is difficult to avoid giving offense to one or the other party. To such unavoidable causes of offense, due to the performance of national duty, there must not be added any avoidable causes. It is always unfortunate to bring old-world antipathies and jealousies into our life, or by speech or conduct to excite anger and resentment toward our nation in friendly foreign lands; but in a government employee, whose official position makes him in some sense the representative of the people, the mischief of such actions is greatly increased. A strong and self-confident nation should be peculiarly careful not only of the rights but of the susceptibilities of its neighbors; and nowadays all the nations of the world are neighbors one to the other. Courtesy, moderation, and self-restraint should mark international, no less than private, intercourse.", "All the officials of the Government, civil, military, and naval, are expected so to carry themselves both in act and in deed as to give no cause of just offense to the people of any foreign and friendly power—and with all mankind we are now in friendship.", "Theodore Roosevelt White House, March 10, 1904.", "== Notes == See Related: Proclamation 516, February 11, 1904"], "source": "Wikisource (from [http://www.uhuh.com/laws/donncoll/eo/1904/eo258.txt External Information about this EO]  )", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Further Reaffirming the Observance of Proclamation of February 11, 104 by All Officials of the Government”. Typo (\"104\"); the neutrality proclamation of February 11, 1904 (33 Stat. 2332)."], "summary": "Directed all civil, military and naval officials to observe the neutrality proclamation in the Russia–Japan war and avoid any act or speech that could irritate either combatant.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs"], "action": "regulate", "places": [{"name": "Russia", "kind": "country"}, {"name": "Japan", "kind": "country"}], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [83], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-03-10", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Washington Evening Star ran the order on its front page the day it was signed, calling it an \"important and significant executive order\" and \"of marked significance\" as an answer to the Russian belief that the United States was unfriendly.", "source": "Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), March 10, 1904, p. 1", "date": "1904-03-10", "story": 83}, {"text": "The Associated Press text of the order ran in papers across the country the next day.", "source": "San Francisco Call and Los Angeles Herald, March 11, 1904", "date": "1904-03-11", "story": 83}, {"text": "An AP dispatch from St. Petersburg reported that the order had \"produced a great impression here\" and that Russia's Official Gazette accepted it as a complete answer to charges of American hostility.", "source": "San Francisco Call, March 15, 1904", "date": "1904-03-14", "story": 83}, {"text": "A Chicago Post editorial judged the order's general effect \"cannot fail to be decidedly wholesome\" and predicted army and navy officers would have to stop signing articles about the fighting in Korea and Manchuria.", "source": "Chicago Post, reprinted in Humboldt Times (Eureka, Calif.), March 24, 1904", "date": "1904-03-24", "story": 83}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "congress", "text": "Some members of Congress were reported to criticize the order in so far as it applied to civilian employees.", "source": "Chicago Post, reprinted in Humboldt Times (Eureka, Calif.), March 24, 1904", "date": "1904-03", "story": 83}, {"kind": "diplomatic", "text": "Russia's Official Gazette accepted the order unreservedly as an answer to charges that the American government was hostile to Russia.", "source": "San Francisco Call, March 15, 1904", "date": "1904-03-14", "story": 83}], "legacy": [{"text": "The order marks the neutral posture that the following year let Roosevelt mediate between Russia and Japan at Portsmouth, work for which he received the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1905", "story": 83}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-516", "relation": "implements", "note": "Bound every federal officer to the neutrality proclamation of February 11, 1904.", "story": 83, "date": "1904-02-11", "title": "Declaration of Neutrality in the War Between Japan and Russia", "type": "proclamation", "number": "516"}]}
{"id": "uo-086", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 86, "date": "1904-03-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Manila Bay Military Reservations (est. EO Apr. 11, 1902) diminished.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 86, "page": "198", "citations": "(EOs 645, 4112; 1907 MR 410; …)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Manila Bay Military Reservations (est. EO Apr. 11, 1902) diminished.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Reduced the Manila Bay Military Reservations in the Philippines, first set aside in April 1902.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "reduce", "places": [{"name": "Manila Bay Military Reservations", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [113], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-03-14", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-087", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 87, "date": "1904-03-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Mariveles Military Reservation, Bataan Province, Luzon, P. I., redefined.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 87, "page": "198", "citations": "(EO 4112)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Mariveles Military Reservation, Bataan Province, Luzon, P. I., redefined.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Redefined the Mariveles Military Reservation in Bataan Province, Luzon, Philippines.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Mariveles Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [113], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-03-17", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-089", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 89, "date": "1904-03-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Boundary between the Boise and Lewiston, Idaho, Land Districts modified, effective May 2, 1904.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 89, "page": "199", "citations": "(1904 GLO 403)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Boundary between the Boise and Lewiston, Idaho, Land Districts modified, effective May 2, 1904.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Shifted the boundary between the Boise and Lewiston land districts in Idaho, effective May 2, 1904.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Boise land district", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Idaho"}, {"name": "Lewiston land district", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Idaho"}], "states": ["Idaho"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [113], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-03-18", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-088", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 88, "date": "1904-03-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Sangley Point Military Reservation, Cañacao Bay, Luzon, P. I. (~2 acres within the naval reservation), established.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 88, "page": "199", "citations": "(EO 1134; 1907 MR 411; 1916 MR 487)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Sangley Point Military Reservation, Cañacao Bay, Luzon, P. I. (~2 acres within the naval reservation), established.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Established the Sangley Point Military Reservation, about two acres inside the naval reservation on Cañacao Bay, Luzon, Philippines.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Sangley Point Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [113], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-03-25", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-259", "type": "executive_order", "number": "259", "tr_sequence": 121, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-03-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Physicians in Indian Service", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_259", "revid": 1814852, "printed_source": "1904 CSR 81"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Schedule A, Section VI, of the civil-service rules is hereby amended by striking out, in the first line of paragraph 10, the words \"at Indian schools\" and inserting in their place the words \"in the Indian service.\"", "As amended, paragraph 10 will read:", "\"10. Physicians employed by contract in the Indian service and receiving not more than $720 per annum salary, may lawfully perform their official duties in connection with their private practice, each employment, however, to be subject to the approval of the Commission.\""], "source": "Wikisource (from 1904 CSR 81)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, March 26, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Widened a civil-service exception so contract physicians anywhere in the Indian service, not just at Indian schools, earning up to $720 a year could keep a private practice.", "categories": ["civil-service", "indian-lands"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [83], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-03-26", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-090", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 90, "date": "1904-03-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Compensation of members of the Isthmian Canal Commission prescribed.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 90, "page": "199", "citations": "McGuigan 20"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Compensation of members of the Isthmian Canal Commission prescribed.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Set the pay for members of the Isthmian Canal Commission.", "categories": ["canal-zone", "government-administration"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [113], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-03-26", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "On the day the canal treaty was ratified, the San Francisco Call reported that the commissioners' pay had not been announced but would probably exceed $10,000 a year.", "source": "San Francisco Call, February 26, 1904", "date": "1904-02-26", "story": 113}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The flat salary of twelve thousand dollars for every commissioner, chairman included, did not survive the commission's reorganization in 1906.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1906", "story": 113}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-520", "type": "proclamation", "number": "520", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-03-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Restoring to the Public Domain Certain Lands Adjacent to the City of Lawton, Oklahoma Territory", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 520, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-520"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2340, "last_page": 2340, "cite": "33 Stat. 2340", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2340.pdf", "statutes_date": "1904-03-29", "table_title": "Granting land to Lawton, Oklahoma."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America.", "A PROCLAMATION.", "Whereas, in the opening of the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, and Wichita Indian lands in the Territory of Oklahoma, by proclamation dated July 4, 1901, pursuant to section six of the act of Congress approved June 6, 1900 (31 Stat., 672, 676), the north half of the northwest quarter and the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section thirty-two in township two north, of range eleven west of the Indian principal meridian, containing one hundred and twenty acres, was reserved for the use of the Fort Sill Indian boarding school of Kiowa agency;", "And whereas it appears that said land is no longer required for use by said school, and that it adjoins the City of Lawton, Oklahoma Territory, and the city authorities of said city desire to make entry thereof for park purposes under the act of Congress approved September 30, 1890 (26 Stat., 502);", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section six of said act of Congress of June 6, 1900, do hereby declare and make known that said land is hereby restored to the public domain, to be disposed of to said city, for park purposes under said act of Congress approved September 30, 1890.", "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 29th day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four, and of", "[SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President", "JOHN HAY", "Secretary of State."], "source": "33 Stat. 2340 (page image), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Statutes heads the document [No. 22.]; [SEAL.] restored (APP omits it); 'By the President' without colon is the Statutes' reading; line-end hyphens closed up.", "story": 52}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Returned 120 acres once reserved for the Fort Sill Indian boarding school to the public domain so the adjoining city of Lawton, Oklahoma Territory, could claim it for a park.", "categories": ["public-lands", "indian-lands"], "action": "restore", "places": [{"name": "Lawton", "kind": "town", "state": "Oklahoma"}], "states": ["Oklahoma"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [52], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-03-29", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Restored to the public domain 120 acres adjoining Lawton that had been reserved in 1901 for the Fort Sill Indian boarding school, so the city could buy them for a park under the act of September 30, 1890.", "source": "33 Stat. 2340", "date": "1904-03-29", "story": 52}, {"kind": "local", "text": "The proclamation answered a request from Lawton's city authorities, who wanted to enter the land for park purposes.", "source": "33 Stat. 2340", "date": "1904-03-29", "story": 52}], "uncertain": ["Whether Lawton ever completed the purchase and used the 120 acres as a park, and when it gave them up, has not been established; the area is now mapped as residential streets.", "How Lawton's newspapers, or any others, reported the grant in 1904 has not been checked."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-478", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Freed agency land beside Anadarko for a town park in 1902.", "story": 52, "date": "1902-06-23", "title": "Restoring to the Public Domain Certain Lands in the Territory of Oklahoma", "type": "proclamation", "number": "478"}, {"id": "proc-492", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Restored a forty-acre Fort Sill sub-agency tract to Lawton for a cemetery in 1902.", "story": 52, "date": "1902-09-04", "title": "Restoring Fort Sill Indian Sub-Agency Lands to the City of Lawton, Oklahoma for Cemetery", "type": "proclamation", "number": "492"}]}
{"id": "proc-521", "type": "proclamation", "number": "521", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-03-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Disposal of Sioux Lands", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 521, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-521"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2340, "last_page": 2341, "cite": "33 Stat. 2340–2341", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2340.pdf", "statutes_date": "1904-03-30", "table_title": "Restoring to public domain St. John’s Mission School land, South Dakota."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, a proclamation was issued February 10, 1890, by the President, making known and proclaiming the acceptance of the Sioux Act approved March 2, 1889 (25 Stats., 888) by the different bands of the Sioux Nation of Indians, and the consent thereto by them as required by the said Act:", "AND WHEREAS, the proclamation contains the following clause:", "That there is also reserved as aforesaid the following described tract within which the Cheyenne River Agency, school and certain other buildings are located, to wit: Commencing at a point in the center of the main channel of the Missouri River opposite Deep Creek, about three miles south of the Cheyenne River; thence due west five and one half miles; thence due north to the Cheyenne River; thence down said river to the center of the main channel thereof to a point in the center of the Missouri River due east or opposite the mouth of said Cheyenne River; thence down the center of the main channel of the Missouri River to the place of beginning:", "AND WHEREAS, a proclamation was issued February 7, 1903, by the President, declaring said lands subject to disposal under the provisions of the said Act, except 160 acres of land reserved and set apart for the use of St. John’s Mission School;", "AND WHEREAS, due notice has been received that the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society no longer desires the use of the lands set apart for the St. John’s Mission School by the Secretary of the Interior, and excepted from disposal in the proclamation of February 7, 1903, as aforesaid, said lands being described as follows:", "Beginning at the northwest corner of Section. 29. Township 9 N., Range 29 E., at a stake and four witness holes, and running east 40 chains to a stake and stones, near the west bank of the Missouri River; thence south along said river to the center of said section, 40 chains; thence west 40 chains to a stake and two witness holes; thence north 40 chains to the place of beginning, and containing 160 acres, more or less.", "NOW, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested, do declare the said tract of land subject to disposal under the provisions of said Act.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set mv hand and caused the-seal of the United States to be affixed.", "Done at the city of Washington, this 30th day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and four, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 33 Stat. 2340", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1554.", "Vol. 25, p. 888.", "Vol. 32, p. 2035.", "Vol. 32, p. 2035.", "Description.", "St. John’s Mission School lands, S. Dak., restored to public domain."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Opened to disposal the 160-acre St. John's Mission School tract near the Cheyenne River Agency in South Dakota after the missionary society gave up its use.", "categories": ["indian-lands", "public-lands"], "action": "restore", "places": [], "states": ["South Dakota"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [51], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-03-30", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Released for disposal under the Sioux Act of 1889 a single 160-acre tract in the old Cheyenne River Agency reserve, set apart for St. John's Mission School, after the Episcopal Church's Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society said it no longer wanted the land. It opened no reservation surplus and used no registration or drawing.", "source": "33 Stat. 2340–2341", "date": "1904-03-30", "story": 51}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-497", "relation": "amends", "note": "The February 7, 1903 proclamation that released the rest of the old Cheyenne River Agency reserve once the agency and school buildings had moved.", "story": 51, "date": "1903-02-07", "title": "Partial Revocation of Withdrawal From Sioux Indian Lands", "type": "proclamation", "number": "497"}]}
{"id": "proc-522", "type": "proclamation", "number": "522", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-05-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlargement of the Fish Lake Forest Reserve, Utah", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 522, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-522"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2341, "last_page": 2343, "cite": "33 Stat. 2341–2343", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2341.pdf", "statutes_date": "1904-05-02", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of Fish Dike Forest Reserve Utah."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof ”;", "And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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”, that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Utah, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "2342 Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid acts of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that The Fish Lake Forest Reserve, in the State of Utah, established by proclamation of February tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, is hereby so changed and enlarged as to include all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Utah, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows, to wit:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Section one (1), Township twenty-three (23) South, Range three (3) East, Salt Lake Meridian, Utah; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township twenty-two (22) South, Range four(4) East; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), Township twenty-four (24) South, Range four (4) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the township line, to the north-west corner of Section eleven (11), Township twenty- five (25) South, Range four (4) East; thence westerly to the point for the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section eight (8), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence westerly along the Fifth (5th) Standard Parallel South to the north-east corner of Township twenty-six (26) South Range three (3) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township twenty-six (26) South, Range one (1) East; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section two (2), said township; thence easterly along the Fifth (5th) Standard Parallel South to the south-west corner of Township twenty-five (25) South, Range two (2) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township twenty-four(24) South, Range two (2) East; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), Township twenty-three (23) South, Range two (2) East; thence easterly to the point for the south-west corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence northerly to the point for the north-West corner of Section one (1), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section four (4), Township twenty-three (23) South, Range three (3) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section nine (9), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty- one (31), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section one (1), said township, the place of beginning.", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within wThich to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 2nd day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four and of the [SEAL.] Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 33 Stat. 2341", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Vol. 30, p. 34.", "Fish Lake Forest Reserve, Utah.", "Vol. 30, p. 1787.", "Boundaries changed.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Fish Lake Forest Reserve in Utah, established in 1899, by redrawing its boundaries to take in more land.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Fish Lake Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [49], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-05-02", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The General Land Office listed Fish Lake among the reserves enlarged that year, with an estimated area of 199,040 acres.", "source": "Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, fiscal 1904, p. 299", "date": "1904", "story": 49}], "today": [{"name": "Fishlake National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Utah", "source": "Forest Service, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (1959)", "story": 49}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-523", "type": "proclamation", "number": "523", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-05-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Certain Lands Within the Hailey Land District", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 523, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-523"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2343, "last_page": 2344, "cite": "33 Stat. 2343–2344", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2343.pdf", "statutes_date": "1904-05-02", "table_title": "Reserving lands for townsite entries, Hailey land district, Idaho."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.", "A PROCLAMATION.", "Whereas, under the provisions of the Reclamation Act approved June 17, 1902—31 Stat., 388—the Secretary of the Interior, by Departmental order dated November 17, 1902, withdrew from entry, except under the homestead law, the following described tracts of land, among others, in the Hailey land district, Idaho:", "In township nine south, range twenty four east, Boise Meridian.", "The southeast quarter, the south half of northeast quarter, the east half of southwest quarter, and the southeast quarter of northwest quarter, all in section one;", "The south half of southeast quarter, of section twenty; and", "The northeast quarter, the east half of northwest quarter, of section twenty nine.", "In township ten south, range twenty three east, B. M.", "The northeast quarter, the northwest quarter, the southwest quarter, and the west half of southeast quarter, of section fifteen;", "The southeast quarter of northeast quarter, and lots six and seven, of section sixteen, and", "Lots three and four, of section twenty two;", "And whereas, by Departmental order dated April 26, 1904, the said order of withdrawal of said lands was vacated, and they were at once temporarily withdrawn from all entry whatever for the purpose of securing their subsequent reservation for townsite purposes under sections 2380 and 2381 of the Revised Statutes of the United States;", "And whereas, the Director of the United States Geological Survey, by letter dated April 15, 1904, has represented that said lands have been found suitable for townsite purposes along the line of a proposed railroad which may be extended through large tracts of land to be irrigated under the operation of said Reclamation Act, and will thereby become centers of population and necessary to the proper development of the project;", "And whereas, the Secretary of the Interior, under date of April 30, 1904, has requested that said lands be reserved for townsites to be created under existing statute;", "Now therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by sections 2380 and 2381 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, do hereby declare and make known that said lands are hereby reserved for occupation as townsites, to be disposed of by the United States under the terms of the statutes applicable thereto.", "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 2nd day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four, and of the [SEAL.] Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President: FRANCIS B. LOOMIS Acting Secretary of State."], "source": "33 Stat. 2343–2344 (LOC page images), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Seal restored. The citation \"31 Stat., 388\" for the Reclamation Act is an error in the document as issued (correct: 32 Stat. 388) and is reproduced as printed.", "story": 53}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Reserved tracts in Idaho's Hailey land district for future townsites along a proposed railroad through lands to be irrigated under the Reclamation Act.", "categories": ["water-reclamation", "public-lands"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Hailey land district", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Idaho"}], "states": ["Idaho"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [53], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-05-02", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "A settler's letter from Minidoka told Utah readers that the government had laid out three town sites along the proposed railroad branch, and that the lots would be sold to the highest bidders once water reached the land.", "source": "W. H. Pace, letter of July 10, 1904, Iron County Record (Cedar City, Utah), July 23, 1904, p. 1", "date": "1904-07-23", "story": 53}, {"text": "Utah's dailies, which followed the Minidoka country closely, did not report the proclamation itself, and no objection to the reservation turned up in the papers searched.", "source": "Utah Digital Newspapers, 1904", "date": "1904", "story": 53}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "local", "text": "Homesteaders were traveling 123 miles to the land office at Hailey to file, and Minidoka had grown in sixty days from a depot and water tank into a place with lumberyards, a hotel, a restaurant and saloons.", "source": "W. H. Pace, Iron County Record, July 23, 1904, p. 1", "date": "1904-07", "story": 53}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Rupert and Heyburn town sites were surveyed from August to October 1905, and the General Land Office reported their plats approved.", "source": "Reclamation Service, Sixth Annual Report (1906–1907), p. 89; Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, 1906, p. 24", "date": "1905", "story": 53}, {"kind": "local", "text": "Rupert was platted on November 21, 1905, and incorporated on April 12, 1906.", "source": "Minidoka County, History; City of Rupert, Historic Rupert", "date": "1905-11-21", "story": 53}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "Town lots were first offered at Heyburn on August 20, 1906 and at Rupert on August 27, 1906, under the Act of April 16, 1906 rather than the old town-site law.", "source": "Reclamation Service, Sixth Annual Report (1906–1907), p. 89", "date": "1906-08", "story": 53}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Reclamation Service named Heyburn, Rupert and Acequia as the town sites established on the Minidoka project and traced their withdrawal to this proclamation.", "source": "Reclamation Service, Sixth Annual Report (1906–1907), Minidoka Project, \"Town Sites,\" p. 89", "date": "1907", "story": 53}, {"text": "The Bureau of Reclamation lists four government towns on the Minidoka project: Rupert, Heyburn, Minidoka and Acequia. Nearby Burley is not one of them and does not stand on land this proclamation reserved.", "source": "Bureau of Reclamation, Minidoka Project history", "story": 53}], "today": [{"name": "Rupert, Idaho", "kind": "other", "relation": "part", "state": "Idaho", "note": "Downtown Rupert lies in section 29, T. 9 S., R. 24 E., one of the reserved tracts.", "source": "BLM PLSS cadastral data (CadNSDI)", "story": 53}, {"name": "Heyburn, Idaho", "kind": "other", "relation": "part", "state": "Idaho", "note": "Heyburn lies in section 15, T. 10 S., R. 23 E., one of the reserved tracts.", "source": "BLM PLSS cadastral data (CadNSDI)", "story": 53}, {"name": "Acequia, Idaho", "kind": "other", "relation": "part", "state": "Idaho", "note": "Acequia lies in section 1, T. 9 S., R. 24 E., one of the reserved tracts.", "source": "Reclamation Service, Sixth Annual Report, p. 89; BLM PLSS cadastral data", "story": 53}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1906-04-16", "text": "Congress let the Secretary of the Interior withdraw up to 160 acres at a time for town sites on reclamation projects, survey them into lots and auction them, with the proceeds going to the reclamation fund.", "source": "Act of April 16, 1906, ch. 1631, 34 Stat. 116", "story": 53}], "uncertain": ["Whether Idaho newspapers reported or criticized the reservation in 1904 has not been checked.", "The Geological Survey's April 15, 1904 letter has not been seen, so the railroad it had in mind is identified from other sources.", "A 1907 Reclamation Service expenditure table names the town sites \"Heyburn, Rupert, and Scherer\"; what Scherer refers to is not explained.", "Heyburn's first lots were offered August 20, 1906 by the Reclamation Service's report, while a county history gives a sale date of October 20, 1906."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-633", "relation": "reduced_by", "note": "Excluded 480 acres in three 160-acre blocks so they could be withdrawn and sold under the Act of April 16, 1906.", "story": 53, "date": "1906-06-15", "title": "Excluding Lands Reserved for Town Sites in the Hailey Land District, Idaho", "type": "proclamation", "number": "633"}]}
{"id": "proc-524", "type": "proclamation", "number": "524", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-05-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reducing Area of the Yellowstone Forest Reserve, Wyoming and Montana", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 524, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-524"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2344, "last_page": 2352, "cite": "33 Stat. 2344–2352", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2344.pdf", "statutes_date": "1904-05-04", "table_title": "Reducing area of Yellowstone Forest Reserve, Wyoming and Montana."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, The Yellowstone Forest Reserve, in the States of Wyoming and Montana, was established by proclamation, dated January twenty-ninth, one thousand nine hundred and three, under the provisions of the act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws and for other purposes”, and the act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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”;", "And whereas, it is provided by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred ninety-seven, that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the States of Wyoming and Montana, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do hereby make known and proclaim that the boundary lines of the aforesaid Yellowstone Forest Reserve are hereby modified so as to read as follows:", "Beginning at the point where the boundary line between the States of Wyoming and Idaho intersects the southern boundary of the Yellowstone National Park; thence easterly, northerly and westerly along the boundary of said park to the point for the intersection of said boundary with the range line between Ranges nine (9) and ten (10) East, Principal Meridian, Montana; thence northerly along said surveyed and unsurveyed range line, allowing for the proper offset on the First (1st) Standard Parallel South, to the south west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township four (4) South, Range ten (10) East; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section six, (6), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township three (3) South, Range ten (10) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), said township; thence easterly along the township line to the north-east corner of Township three (3) South, Range eleven (11) East; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township three (3) South, Range twelve (12) East; thence easterly along the surveyed and unsurveyed section lines to the point for the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township three (3) South, Range thirteen (13) East; thence northerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed range line to the point for the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township two (2) South, Range fourteen (14) East; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section five (5), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence southerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township two (2) South, Range fifteen (15) East; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence southerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed range line to the south-west corner of Section seven (7), Township five (5) South, Range sixteen (16) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township: thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five ,(25) said township; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly along the First (1st) Standard Parallel South to the/north-west corner of Section five (5), Township six (6) South, Range seventeen (17) East; thence southerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence southerly to the point for the north-west corner of Township seven (7) South, Range eighteen (18) East; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township seven (7) South, Range nine-teen (19) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence easterly along the section lines to the north-east corner of Section thirty (30), Township seven (7) South, Range twenty (20) East; thence southerly along the section lines to the north-west corner of Section twenty-nine (29), Township eight (8) South, Range twenty (20) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence southerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed section lines to the boundary line between the States of Montana and Wyoming; thence westerly along said state boundary line-to the point for the north-west corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township fifty-eight (58) North, Range one hun dred and three (103) West, Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian, Wyoming; thence southerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed section lines to the point for the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), Town-ship fifty-seven (57) North, Range one hundred and three (103) West; thence westerly along the Fourteenth (14th) Standard Parallel North to the north-west corner of Township fifty-six (56) North, Range one hundred and three (103) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), Township fifty-four (54) North, Range one hundred and three (103) West; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section five (5), said township; thence southerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township fifty-three (53) North, Range one hundred and three (103) West; thence westerly along the Thirteenth (13th) Standard Parallel North to the north-west corner of Township fifty-two (52) North, Range one hundred and four (104) West; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), Township fifty-two (52) North, Range one hundred and five (105) West; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of Section seven ,(7) , said township; thence southerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township fifty-one (51) North, Range one hundred and four (104) West; thence westerly to the point for the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township fifty (50) North, Range one hundred and five (105) West; thence southerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty (30), Township fifty (50) North, Range one hundred and four (104) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township fifty (50) North, Range one hundred and three (103) West; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Township forty-nine (49) North. Range one hundred and four (104) West; thence easterly along the Twelfth (12th) Standard Parallel North to the north-east corner of Township forth-eight (48) North, Range one hundred and four (104) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section one (1), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Township forty-eight (48) North, Range one hundred and three (103) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of the north-west quarter of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of the north-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of the south-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), Township forty-seven (47) North, Range one hundred and three (103) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence east erly to the north-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), Township forty-seven (47) North, Range one hundred and two (102) West; thence southerly along the section lines to the south-east corner of Section sixteen (16), Township forty-six (46) North, Range one hundred and two (102) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28) , said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-live (25), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), Township forty-five (45) North, Range one hundred and one (101) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence westerly along the Eleventh (11th) Standard Parallel North to the north-east corner of Township forty-four (44) North, Range one hundred and two (102) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said town-ship; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Township forty-four (44) North, Range one hundred and three (103) West; thence westerly to the northern boundary of the Wind River or Shoshone Indian Reservation; thence in a general north-westerly and south-westerly direction along the boundary of said reservation to the inter-section of said boundary with the south line of Section Twenty-nine (29), Township forty-three (43) North, Range one hundred and four (104) West; thence westerly along the section lines to the south-west corner of Section twenty-six (26), Township forty-three (43) North, Range one hundred and seven (107) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence northerly to the point for the south-east corner of Section eighteen (18), said town-ship; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section twelve (12), Township forty-three (43) North, Range one hundred and eight (108) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section eleven (11), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section (2), said township; thence westerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section five (5), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty (30) , said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township forty-two (42) North, Range one hundred and eight (.108) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of township forty-one (41) North, Range one hundred and seven (107) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section eight, (8) said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly along the Tenth (10th) Standard Parallel North to the north-east corner of Lot (2), Section three (3), Township forty (40) North, Range one hundred and six (106) West; thence southerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section ten (10), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section twelve (12), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township forty (40) North, Range one hundred and five (105) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the western boundary of the Wind River or Shoshone Indian Reservation; thence southerly and easterly along the boundary of said reservation to the north-east corner of Township thirty-three (33) North, Range one hundred and two (102) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly along the Eighth (Sth) Standard Parallel North to the north.west corner of Township thirty-two (32) North, Range one hundred (100) West: thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of the southwest quarter of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section three (3), Township thirty-one (31) North, Range one hundred (100) West; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), Township thirty (30) North, Range ninety-nine (99) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township twenty-nine (29) North, Range one hundred (100) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section ten (10), Township twenty-nine (29) North, Range one hundred and two (102) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section thirty-two (32), Township thirty (30) North, Range one hundred and two (102) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section fourteen (14), Township thirty (30) North, Range one hundred and four (104) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township thirty-one (31) North, Range one hundred and five (105) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly to the point for the south-east corner of Township thirty-two (32) North, Range one hundred and six (106) West; thence northerly to the point for the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence northerly, allowing for the proper offset on the Eighth (Sth) Standard Parallel North, to the point for the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-one (21), Town ship thirty-three (33) North, Range one hundred and six (106) West; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the point for the south-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence westerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed section lines to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section eighteen (18), Township thirty-three (33) North, Range one hundred and seven (107) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly along the quarter-section lines to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section fourteen (14), Township thirty-three (33) North, Range one hundred and eight (108) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section eleven (11), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section twelve (12), said township; thence northerly to the point for the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township thirty-four (34) North, Range one hundred and eight (108) West; thence westerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed section lines to the south-west corner of Section twenty-six (26), Township thirty-four (34) North, Range one hundred and nine (109) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of the south-west quarter of Section thirty-five (35), Township thirty-five (35) North, Range one hundred and nine (109) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of the north-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of the south-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of the south-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township thirty-six (36) North, Range one hundred and nine (109) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), Township thirty-six (36) North, Range one hundred and ten (110) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly along the Ninth (9th) Standard Parallel North to the south-east corner of Township thirty-seven (37) North, Range one hundred and ten (110) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section three (3), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twelve (12), Township thirty-seven (37) North, Range one hundred and eleven (111) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence westerly along the Ninth (9th) Standard Parallell North to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township thirty-seven (37) North, Range one hundred and twelve (112) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section one (1), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section two (2), Township thirty-seven (37) North. Range one hundred and thirteen (113) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence westerly along the Ninth (9th) Standard Parallel North to the north-east” corner of Township thirty-six (36) North, Range one hundred and four-teen (114) West; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), Township thirty-four (34) North, Range one hundred and fourteen (114) West; thence westerly to the point for the north-east corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section three (3), Township thirty-three (33), North, Range one hundred and fourteen (114) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty (20), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence easterly along the Eighth (Sth) Standard Parallel North to the north-west corner of Township thirty-two (32) North, Range one hundred and fourteen (114) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Township twenty-nine (29) North, Range one hundred and fifteen (115) West; thence easterly along the Seventh (7th) Standard Parallel North to the north-east corner of Township twenty-eight (28) North, Range one hundred and fifteen (115) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Township twenty-six (26) North, Range one hundred and sixteen (116) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township twenty-six (26) North, Range one hundred and seventeen (117) West; thence northerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed range line to the point for the north-west corner of Township twenty-eight (28) North, Range one hundred and seventeen (117) West; thence westerly along the Seventh (7th) Standard Parallel North to the south-east corner of Township twenty-nine (29) North, Range one hundred and eighteen (118) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of the south-east ‘quarter of Section thirty-four (34), Township thirty (30) North, Range one hundred and eighteen (118) West; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence westerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-one (31), Township thirty-one (31) North, Range one hundred and eighteen ((118) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly along the quarter-section lines to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section six (6), Township thirty-two (32) North, Range one hundred and eighteen (118) West; thence easterly along the Eighth (Sth) Standard Parallel North to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township thirty-three (33) North, Range one hundred and eighteen (118) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), Township thirty-four (34) North, Range one hundred and eighteen (118) West; thence westerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section nine (9), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence westerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section five (5), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-one (31), Township thirty-five (35) North, Range one hundred and eighteen (118) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence northerly along the range line to the point for the north-east corner of Township thirty-six (36) North, Range one hundred and nineteen (119) West; thence westerly along the unsurveyed Ninth (9th) Standard Parallel North to the point for the south-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township thirty-seven (37) North, Range one hundred and eighteen (118) West; thence northerly to the point for the south-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence westerly to the boundary line between the States of Wyoming and Idaho; thence northerly along-said state boundary line to the point for the intersection with the north line of Section seven (7), Township forty-three (43) North, Range one hundred and eighteen (118) West; thence easterly to the point for the south-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township forty-four (44) North, Range one hundred and eighteen (118) West; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the point for the south-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence westerly along the unsurveyed Eleventh (11th) Standard Parallel North to the boundary line between the States of Wyoming and Idaho; thence northerly along said state boundary line to the point of intersection with the southern boundary of the Yellowstone National Park, the place of beginning.", "Excepting and excluding from reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Wyoming and within the boundaries particularly described as follows, to wit:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Township forty-two (42) North, Range one hundred and sixteen (116) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township forty-two (42) North, Range one hundred and fifteen (115) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), Township forty-one (41) North, Range one hundred and fifteen (115) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence westerly along the Tenth,(10th) Standard Parallel North to the point for the north-west corner of Section three (3), Township forty (40) North, Range one hundred and sixteen (116) West; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said town-ship; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), said town-ship; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township forty (40) North. Range one hundred and seventeen (117) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence westerly to the point for the south-east corner of Section six (6), said township; thence northerly to the point for the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly along the Tenth (10th) Standard Parallel North to the point for the south-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), Township forty-one (41) North, Range one hundred and seventeen (117) West; thence northerly to the point for the south-west corner of Section seventeen (17), said town-ship; thence easterly to the point for the south-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the point for the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence northerly to the point for the south-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), Township forty-two (42) North, Range one hundred and seventeen (117) West; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township forty-two (42) North, Range one hundred and sixteen (116) West, the place of beginning.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The lands hereby excluded from the reserve and restored to the public domain shall be open to settlement from the date hereof, but shall not be subject to entry, filing or selection until after ninety days notice by such publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my band and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.", "Done at the City of Washington this 4th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four, and of the [seal.] Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 33 Stat. 2344", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 32, p. 2030.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Yellowstone Forest Reserve, Wyo., and Mont.", "New boundaries.", "Lands excepted.", "Boundaries.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Date of opening to settlement lands restored to public domain."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Enlargement of the Yellowstone Forest Reserve, Wyoming and Montana”. The Statutes list (vol. 33) captions it \"Reducing area of Yellowstone Forest Reserve\"; the General Land Office report for fiscal 1904 (p. 299) gives 130,560 acres added and 649,160 removed. The American Presidency Project title says \"Enlargement\"."], "summary": "Redrew the Yellowstone Forest Reserve in Wyoming and Montana, adding some land but removing far more, for a net reduction of the reserve.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Yellowstone Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Wyoming"}], "states": ["Wyoming", "Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [49], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-05-04", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The General Land Office counted 130,560 acres added and 649,160 acres removed, a net reduction of 518,600 acres, and listed Yellowstone among the reserves reduced.", "source": "Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, fiscal 1904, p. 299", "date": "1904", "story": 49}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Yellowstone reserve was split in 1908 into several national forests.", "source": "Forest Service, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (1959)", "date": "1908", "story": 49}], "today": [{"name": "Shoshone National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Wyoming", "source": "Forest Service, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (1959)", "story": 49}, {"name": "Bridger-Teton National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Wyoming", "source": "Forest Service, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (1959)", "story": 49}, {"name": "Custer Gallatin National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Montana", "source": "Forest Service, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (1959)", "story": 49}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-496", "relation": "reduces", "note": null, "story": 42, "inferred": true, "date": "1903-01-29", "title": "Enlargement of the Yellowstone National Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "496"}, {"id": "proc-559", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 55, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-05-22", "title": "Enlargement of the Yellowstone Forest Reserve, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho", "type": "proclamation", "number": "559"}]}
{"id": "proc-525", "type": "proclamation", "number": "525", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-05-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Grantsville Forest Reserve, Utah", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 525, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-525"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2352, "last_page": 2354, "cite": "33 Stat. 2352–2354", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2352.pdf", "statutes_date": "1904-05-07", "table_title": "Setting apart Grantsville Forest Reserve, Utah."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Utah, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Utah, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the point for the north-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), Township two (2) South, Range six (6) West, Salt Lake Base and Meridian, Utah; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section eighteen (18), Township three (3) South, Range six (6) West; thence westerly to the point for the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of Section thirty (30), said town ship; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), Township four (4) South, Range six (6) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section nine (9), said township; thence southerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed quarter-section lines to the joint for the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence westerly to the point for the north-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township five (5) South. Range six (6) West; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence westerly to the point for the north-east corner of Section thirteen (13), Township five (5) South, Range seven (7) West; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence northerly to the point for the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section five (5), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the point for the south-east corner of Section thirty (30), Township four (4) South, Range seven (7) West; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of said township; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of Section six (6), said township; thence northerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed section lines to the south-east corner of Section thirty (30), Township two (2) South, Range seven (7) West; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), Township two (2) South, Range six (6) West, the place of beginning.", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful tiling duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Grantsville Forest Reserve.", "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 7th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four, and of [seal.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 33 Stat. 2352", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Utah.", "Boundaries.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "The Grantsville Forest Reserve."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Grantsville Forest Reserve in Utah, reserving timbered public lands within set boundaries from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Grantsville Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [49], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-05-07", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "local", "text": "The Utah reserves answered petitions from Utah citizens, received over several years, for small reserves to protect water for irrigation and household use.", "source": "Deseret Evening News, March 17, 1903, p. 5", "date": "1903", "story": 49}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Grantsville reserve was merged into the Wasatch National Forest in 1908.", "source": "Forest Service, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (1959)", "date": "1908", "story": 49}], "today": [{"name": "Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Utah", "source": "Forest Service, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (1959)", "story": 49}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-526", "type": "proclamation", "number": "526", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-05-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Opening of Sioux Lands of the Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 526, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-526"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2354, "last_page": 2358, "cite": "33 Stat. 2354–2358", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2354.pdf", "statutes_date": "1904-05-13", "table_title": "Opening to entry lands ceded on Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America", "A Proclamation", "Whereas by an agreement between the Sioux tribe of Indians on the Rosebud Reservation, in the State of South Dakota, on the one part, and James McLaughlin, a United States Indian Inspector, on the other part, amended and ratified by act of Congress approved April 23, 1904 (Public—No. 148), the said Indian tribe ceded, conveyed, transferred, relinquished, and surrendered, forever and absolutely, without any reservation whatsoever, expressed or implied, unto the United States of America, all their claim, title, and interest of every kind and character in and to the unallotted lands embraced in the following described tract of country now in the State of South Dakota, to wit:", "Commencing in the middle of the main channel of the Missouri River at the intersection of the south line of Brule County; thence down said middle of the main channel of said river to the intersection of the ninety-ninth degree of west longitude from Greenwich; thence due south to the forty-third parallel of latitude; thence west along said parallel of latitude to its intersection with the tenth guide meridian; thence north along said guide meridian to its intersection with the township line between townships one hundred and one hundred and one north; thence east along said township line to the point of beginning.", "The unallotted and unreserved land to be disposed of hereunder approximates three hundred and eighty-two thousand (382,000) acres, lying and being within the boundaries of Gregory County, South Dakota, as said county is at present defined and organized.", "And whereas, in pursuance of said act of Congress ratifying the agreement named, the lands necessary for sub-issue station, Indian day school, Catholic and Congregational missions are by this proclamation, as hereinafter appears, reserved for such purposes, respectively:", "And whereas, in the act of Congress ratifying the said agreement, it is provided:", "[Sections 2 and 4 of the ratifying act omitted …]", "And whereas, all of the conditions required by law to be performed prior to the opening of said tracts of land to settlement and entry have been, as I hereby declare, duly performed:", "NOW, THEREFORE, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power vested in me by law, do hereby declare and make known that all of the lands so as aforesaid ceded by the Sioux tribe of Indians of the Rosebud Reservation, saving and excepting [school sections, state indemnity lands, and reserved sub-issue-station, day-school and mission tracts omitted …], will, on the eighth day of August, 1904, at 9 o'clock a. m., in the manner herein prescribed and not otherwise, be opened to entry and settlement and to disposition under the general provisions of the homestead and townsite laws of the United States.", "[Registration, drawing, entry, townsite and admonition paragraphs omitted …]", "The Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe all needful rules and regulations necessary to carry into full effect the opening herein provided for.", "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 13th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four, and of", "[SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:", "FRANCIS B. LOOMIS,", "Acting Secretary of State."], "source": "33 Stat. 2354–2358 (page images), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "ABRIDGED: the quoted sections of the ratifying act, the descriptions of the excepted lands, and the registration/drawing paragraphs are omitted and must be supplied verbatim from the Statutes before this text is used as a full override. The excepted-lands passage prints 'sixteeen' [sic] (confirmed on the page image of 33 Stat. 2355). APP's transcription drops 'full' from the regulations clause, misprints 'United State' in the witness clause, and omits the [SEAL.].", "story": 51}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Opened about 382,000 acres of Rosebud Reservation land in Gregory County, South Dakota, ceded by the Sioux, to settlement, while holding back tracts for a sub-issue station, day school and missions.", "categories": ["indian-lands", "public-lands"], "action": "open", "places": [{"name": "Rosebud Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "South Dakota"}], "states": ["South Dakota"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [51], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-05-13", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Rosebud lottery drew 106,308 registered applicants for 2,412 claims, odds of about one in forty-six.", "source": "Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1904, Part I, p. 4", "date": "1904", "story": 51}, {"text": "Registration ran 57,432 at Yankton, 35,176 at Bonesteel, 8,700 at Fairfax and 6,100 at Chamberlain.", "source": "South Dakota State Historical Society marker, Bonesteel", "date": "1904-07", "story": 51}, {"text": "Connecticut's Norwich Bulletin carried wire dispatches on the registration through July, reporting a crowd of 316 who had waited all night in the rain at Bonesteel, about 1,500 people on hand when the office opened, and officers expecting two to three thousand registrations a day.", "source": "Norwich Bulletin, July 6, 7 and 22, 1904", "date": "1904-07", "story": 51}, {"text": "Collier's ran a long illustrated feature by Richard Lloyd Jones picturing the land seekers as an army a hundred thousand strong and describing the grafters who took hold of Bonesteel; like the wire coverage, it treated the opening as a story of crowds and disorder, not controversy.", "source": "Collier's, August 13, 1904 (vol. 33, no. 20)", "date": "1904-08-13", "story": 51}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The General Land Office opened 385,817.11 acres at Bonesteel on August 8, 1904, divided into 2,412 claims.", "source": "Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1904, Part I, p. 4", "date": "1904-08-08", "story": 51}, {"kind": "local", "text": "The crowds brought gamblers and confidence men, and Bonesteel's townspeople fought a street battle to drive them out, the \"Battle of Bonesteel,\" in which one man was killed.", "source": "South Dakota State Historical Society marker, Bonesteel", "date": "1904", "story": 51}, {"kind": "political", "text": "The cession was enacted on terms that three-fourths of Rosebud's adult men never accepted, as the 1868 treaty required; McLaughlin's 1903 canvass won only a majority.", "source": "Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip, 430 U.S. 584, 591–594", "story": 51}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Rosebud opening was the first of three cessions (1904, 1907, 1910) that the Supreme Court held, 6–3, were meant to diminish the reservation, removing the unallotted lands of Gregory County. The ruling remains central to jurisdiction disputes on and around the reservation.", "source": "Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip, 430 U.S. 584 (1977)", "date": "1977", "story": 51}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1907", "text": "A second cession act took the unallotted lands of Tripp County and a small part of Lyman County from the reservation.", "source": "Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip, 430 U.S. 584 (1977)", "story": 51}, {"date": "1910", "text": "A third cession act took the unallotted lands of Mellette County.", "source": "Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip, 430 U.S. 584 (1977)", "story": 51}, {"date": "1977", "text": "The Supreme Court held in Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip that the 1904, 1907 and 1910 acts diminished the Rosebud Reservation.", "source": "430 U.S. 584", "story": 51}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-530", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The Devils Lake opening, carried out the same way a few weeks later.", "story": 51, "date": "1904-06-02", "title": "Partial Opening of Lands of the Sisseton, Wahpeton and Cut-Head Bands of the Sioux Indian Tribe", "type": "proclamation", "number": "530"}, {"id": "proc-820", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 107, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-08-24", "title": "Rosebud Indian Reservation", "type": "proclamation", "number": "820"}]}
{"id": "proc-527", "type": "proclamation", "number": "527", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-05-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Modification of the Boundaries of the Battlement Mesa Forest Reserve", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 527, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-527"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2359, "last_page": 2360, "cite": "33 Stat. 2359–2360", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2359.pdf", "statutes_date": "1904-05-16", "table_title": "Reducing area of Battlement Mesa Forest Reserve, Colorado."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, the Battlement Mesa Forest Reserve, in the State of Colorado, was established by proclamation dated December twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, under and by virtue of section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, which provides, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or under-growth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof” ;", "And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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”, that “the President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do hereby make known and proclaim that the boundary lines of the aforesaid Battlement Mesa Forest Reserve are hereby modified so as to read as follows:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Section three (3), Township nine (9) South, Range ninety-seven (97) West, Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian, Colorado; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township eight (8) South, Range ninety-six (96) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence easterly along the section lines to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), Township eight (8) South, Range ninety-five (95) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Township seven (7) South, Range ninety-four (94) West; thence northerly to the point for the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence easterly along the surveyed and unsurveyed section lines to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), Township seven (7) South, Range ninety-three (93) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section three (3), Township eight (8) South, Range ninety-three (93) West; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence southerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township eight (8) South. Range ninety-two (92) West: thence easterly along the unsurveyed section lines to the point for the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly to the point for the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township eight (8) South, Range ninety-one (91) West; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence easterly along the unsurveyed township line to the point for the north-east corner of Township eight (8) South, Range ninety (90) West; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Township nine (9) South, Range eighty-nine (89) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township; thence southerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed range line, allowing for the proper offset on the township line between Townships ten (10) and eleven (11) South, to the south-east corner of Township twelve (12) South. Range eighty-nine (89) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township twelve (12) South, Range ninety (90) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Township twelve (12) South, Range ninety-two (92) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township twelve (12) South, Range ninety-three (93) West; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), Town-ship twelve (12) South, Range ninety-four (94) West; thence westerly along the section lines to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), Township twelve (12) South, Range ninety-live (95) West; thence southerly along the section lines to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township fourteen (14) South, Range ninety-five (95) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township fourteen (14) .South, Range ninety-six (96) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of fractional Section thirty-five (35), Township thirteen (13) South, Range ninety-eight (98) West; thence northerly along the section lines to the north-west corner of fractional Section two (2), Township twelve (12) South, Range ninety-eight (98) West; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Township eleven (11) South, Range ninety-six (96) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Township ten (10) South, Range ninety-three (93) West; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Township eight (8) South, Range ninety-three (93) West; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Township nine (9) South, Range ninety-five (95) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said town-ship; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township nine (9) South, Range ninety-six (96) West; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Township nine (9) South, Range ninety-seven (97) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township, the place of beginning.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the reserved lands within the above-described boundaries.", "The lands hereby excluded from the reserve and restored to the public domain shall be open to settlement from the date hereof, but shall not be subject to entry, filing or selection until after ninety days notice by such publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.", "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 16th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and four, and of [seal.]the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 33 Stat. 2359", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 27, p. 1053.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Battlement Mesa Forest Reserve, Colo.", "New boundaries.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Date of opening for settlement lands restored to public domain."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Modification of the Boundries of the Battlement Mesa Forest Reserve”. Spelling (\"Boundries\" in the American Presidency Project caption). The Statutes list reads \"Reducing area of Battlement Mesa Forest Reserve, Colorado.\""], "summary": "Redrew the boundaries of the Battlement Mesa Forest Reserve in Colorado and set a date for opening lands left outside to settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Battlement Mesa Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [49], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-05-16", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The General Land Office listed Battlement Mesa among the reserves reduced that year, leaving an estimated 808,960 acres.", "source": "Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, fiscal 1904, p. 299", "date": "1904", "story": 49}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-568", "relation": "modified_by", "note": null, "story": 55, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-06-05", "title": "Modifying the Boundaries of the Battlement Mesa Forest Reserve, Colorado", "type": "proclamation", "number": "568"}]}
{"id": "eo-260", "type": "executive_order", "number": "260", "tr_sequence": 122, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-05-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Katherine C. Masterson in Government Printing Office Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_260", "revid": 1814860, "printed_source": "1904 CSR 89"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Miss Katherine C. Masterson may be reinstated in the Government Printing Office without regard to the year limitation of Civil-Service Rule IX, relating to reinstatements."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1904 CSR 89)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, May 18, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Katherine C. Masterson to be reinstated at the Government Printing Office despite the one-year limit on reinstatement.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Katherine C. Masterson"], "significance": 1, "stories": [83], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-05-18", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-528", "type": "proclamation", "number": "528", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-05-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Modification of the Boundaries of the White River Forest Reserve, Colorado", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 528, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-528"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2361, "last_page": 2364, "cite": "33 Stat. 2361–2364", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2361.pdf", "statutes_date": "1904-05-21", "table_title": "Reducing area of White River Forest Reserve, Colorado."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, The White River Forest Reserve, in the State of Colorado, was established by proclamation dated October sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, under and by virtue of section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, which provides, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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”, that “the President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary line of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”; under which provision, the boundary lines of the said forest reserve were modified by proclamation dated June twenty-eight, nineteen hundred and two.", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do hereby make known and proclaim that the boundary lines of the aforesaid White River Forest Reserve are hereby further modified so as to read as follows:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Section nine (9), Township four (4) North, Range ninety (90) West, Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian, Colorado; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said town-ship; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section fourteen (14), Township three (3) North, Range ninety (90) West; thence westerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said quarter-section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said quarter-section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said quarter-section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty (30), Township three (3) North, Range eighty-nine (89) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said town-ship; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township four (4) North, Range eighty-nine (89) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence-northerly to the north-west corner of'Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), Township three (3) North, Range eighty-eight (88) West; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section seventeen (17), said town-ship; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-six (36), said town-ship; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-three (33), Township three (3) North, Range eighty-seven (87) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said quarter-section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said quarter-section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty (30), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township three (3) North, Range eighty-eight (88) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section ten (10), said town-ship; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-three (33) , Township four (4) North, Range eighty-eight (88) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-two (32), Township four (4) North, Range eighty-seven (87) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly along the surveyed and unsurveyed section lines to the point for the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-nine (29), Township four (4) North’ Range eighty-six (86) West; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-four (34) , said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said town-ship; thence southerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the Base Line, to the south-east corner of Township two (2) South, Range eighty-six (86) West; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township three (3) South, Range eighty- seven (87) West; thence southerly along the section lines to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township four (4) South, Range eighty-seven (87) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township four (4) South, Range ninety-one (91) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township three (3) South, Range ninety-three (93) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township two (2) South, Range ninety-three (93) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section three (3), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirteen (13), said town-ship; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section seventeen (17), Township two (2) South, Range ninety-two (92) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township one (I) South, Range ninety-two (92) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township one (1) South, Range ninety-one (91) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section two (2), Township two (2) South, Range ninety-one (91) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twelve (12), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section eighteen (18), Township two (2) South, Range ninety (90) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section six (6), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township one (1) South, Range ninety (90) West; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township one (1) South, Range ninety-one (91) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said township; thence easterly along the Base Line to the south-west corner of Township one (1) North, Range ninety (90) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-two (22), said, township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south- east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township one (1) North, Range ninety-one (91) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence westerly along the Base Line to the south-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twelve (12), Township one (1) North, Range ninety-two (92) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), Town-ship two (2) North, Range ninety-two (92) West; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township three (3) North, Range ninety-one (91) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township three (3) North, Range ninety (90) West; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township four (4) North, Range ninety (90) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section nine (9), said township, the place of beginning.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the reserved lands within the above-described boundaries.", "The lands hereby excluded from the reserve and restored to the public domain shall be open to settlement from the date hereof, but shall not be subject to entry, filing or selection until after ninety days notice by such publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.", "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 21st day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and four, and of [seal.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 33 Stat. 2361", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 27, p. 993.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Vol. 32, p. 2008.", "White .River Forest Reserve, Colo.", "New boundaries.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Date of opening to settlement lands restored to public domain."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Further redrew the boundaries of the White River Forest Reserve in Colorado and set a date for opening lands left outside to settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "White River Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [49], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-05-21", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The General Land Office listed White River among the reserves reduced that year, leaving an estimated 978,880 acres.", "source": "Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, fiscal 1904, p. 299", "date": "1904", "story": 49}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-529", "type": "proclamation", "number": "529", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-05-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Salt Lake Forest Reserve, Utah", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 529, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-529"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2364, "last_page": 2367, "cite": "33 Stat. 2364–2367", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2364.pdf", "statutes_date": "1904-05-26", "table_title": "Setting apart Salt Lake Forest Reserves, Utah."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “ That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Utah, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as public reservations;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as public reservations all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Utah, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows, to wit:", "Beginning at the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section eighteen (18), Township one (1) South, Range two (2) East, Salt Lake Meridian, Utah; thence easterly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly along the section lines to the north-east corner of Section eighteen (18), Township one (1) South, Range three (3) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section three (3), Township two (2) South, Range three (3) East; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section ten (10), said township; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence westerly to the point for the north-east corner of Section two (2), Township three (3) South, Range three (3) East; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly to the point for the north-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section eighteen-(18), said township; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section thirteen (13), Township three (3) South, Range two (2) East; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty (20), said township; thence northerly to the point for the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), Township three (3) South, Range one (1) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section one (1), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township two (2) South, Range one (1) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said quarter-section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said quarter-section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said quarter-section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of the south-west quarter of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of the south-east quarter of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of the north-east quarter of Section eleven (11), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of the north-east quarter of Section twelve (12), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township one (1) South, Range one (1) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south east quarter of the south-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of the north-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the. north-west corner of the north-east quarter of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section nineteen (19), Township one (1) South, Range two (2) East; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of said quarter-section; thence northerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section eighteen (18), said township, the place of beginning;", "Also:", "In Township one (1) South, Range one (1) East, the north-west quarter, and the north-west quarter of the south-west quarter of Section one (1), the north-east quarter, the north-east quarter of the north-west quarter, and the east half and south-west quarter of the south-east quarter of Section twelve (12), the north-west quarter, the north half and south-east quarter of the north-east quarter, the east half of the south-west quarter, and the north-east quarter and the south-west quarter of the south-east quarter of Section thirteen (13), the north half and south-east quarter of the north-west quarter, the north half of the north-east quarter, and the south half of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-four (24);", "In Township one (1) North, Range one (1) East, Section twelve (12), the south-east quarter, and the east half of the north-east quarter of Section fourteen (14), the south half of the south-west quarter, the north-west quarter, and the east half of Section twenty-four (24), the south-west quarter and east half of Section twenty-six (26):", "In Township one (1) South, Range two (2) East, the north-east quarter and the west half of Section four (4), the south-east quarter, and the east half and south-west quarter of the south-west quarter of Section five (5), the south-east quarter of the south-east quarter, and the south-west quarter of the south-west quarter of Section six (6), all Section seven (7), the north-west quarter of the south-east quarter, the north-east quarter, and the west half of Section eight (8), the north-west quarter of the south-east quarter of Section eleven (11), the north-east quarter, and the north half and south-west quarter of the north-west quarter of Section twelve (12), the north half of the north-west quarter, the south half of the south-west quarter, and the south half and north-east quarter of the south-east quarter of Section seventeen (17), the west half and north-east quarter of the south-west quarter, the north-west quarter of the south-east quarter, and the north half of Section eighteen (18), the north-west quarter of Section nineteen (19);", "In Township one (1) North, Range two (2) East, the north-west quarter, the north half of the north-east quarter, and the north half and south-east quarter of the south-west quarter of Section four (4), all Sections six (6), eight (8), ten (10) and twelve (12), the north half and south-east quarter of Section fourteen (14), all Section eighteen (18), the north half, the south-west quarter, and the west half and north-east quarter of the south-east quarter of Section twenty (20), the west half of the north-east quarter, the west half of the south-east quarter, the west half and south-east quarter of the north-west quarter, and the south-west quart: r of Section twenty-two (22), the east half of Section twenty-four (24), all Section twenty-six (26), the south-west quarter, the north half of the north-east quarter, and the north half of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-eight (28), the north half of the south-east quarter, the south-west quarter, and the north half of Section thirty (30), the north-west quarter of the south-east quarter, the north-east quarter, and the south-west quarter of Section thirty-four (34);", "In Township two (2) North, Range two (2) East, the south half of Section thirty-four (34);", "In Township one (1) South, Range three (3) East, Section six (6), the south-east quarter of the south-east quarter and the north half of Section eight (8), the south-west quarter of Section twenty-two (22), the north half of Section thirty-three (33), the south-west quarter and the south half of the north-west quarter of Section thirty-four (34);", "In Township one (1) North, Range three (3) East, Section six (6), the south-west quarter of Section eight (8), all Section eighteen (18), the west half of Section twenty (20), and all Section thirty (30).", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservations hereby established shall be known as The Salt Lake Forest Reserves.", "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 26th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four, and of the [seal.] Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 33 Stat. 2364", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Utah.", "Boundaries.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "The Salt Lake Forest Reserves."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Salt Lake Forest Reserve in Utah, reserving timbered public lands within set boundaries from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Salt Lake Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [49], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-05-26", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "local", "text": "The Utah reserves answered petitions from Utah citizens, received over several years, for small reserves to protect water for irrigation and household use.", "source": "Deseret Evening News, March 17, 1903, p. 5", "date": "1903", "story": 49}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Salt Lake reserve was merged into the Wasatch National Forest in 1908.", "source": "Forest Service, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (1959)", "date": "1908", "story": 49}], "today": [{"name": "Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Utah", "source": "Forest Service, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (1959)", "story": 49}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-261", "type": "executive_order", "number": "261", "tr_sequence": 123, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-05-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of I. B. Conklin as Clerk in Washington Navy Yard Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_261", "revid": 1814877, "printed_source": "1904 CSR 89"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. I. B. Conklin may be appointed as special laborer (clerk) at $3.28 per diem in the office of the paymaster, navy-yard, Washington, D. C, without examination under the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1904 CSR 89)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, May 26, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed I. B. Conklin to be hired as a clerk at $3.28 a day in the paymaster's office of the Washington Navy Yard without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": ["I. B. Conklin"], "significance": 1, "stories": [83], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-05-26", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-530", "type": "proclamation", "number": "530", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-06-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Partial Opening of Lands of the Sisseton, Wahpeton and Cut-Head Bands of the Sioux Indian Tribe", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": ["GovInfo's catalog dates this printing 1904-05-04, but the proclamation itself is dated 1904-06-02."], "citations": {"app": {"number": 530, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-530"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2368, "last_page": 2372, "cite": "33 Stat. 2368–2372", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2368.pdf", "statutes_date": "1904-06-02", "table_title": "Opening to entry lands ceded on Devils Lake Indian Reservation, North Dakota."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas by an agreement between the Sisseton, Wahpeton, and Cut-Head bands of the Sioux tribe of Indians on the Devils Lake Reservation, in the State of North Dakota, on the one part, and James McLaughlin, a United States Indian Inspector, on the other part, amended and ratified by act of Congress approved April 27, 1904 (Public No. 179), the said bands of the said Indian tribe ceded, conveyed, transferred, relinquished, and surrendered, forever and absolutely, without any reservation whatsoever, expressed or implied, unto the United States of America, all their claim, title, and interest of every kind and character in and to the unallotted lands embraced in t he following-described tract of country now in the State of North Dakota, to wit: All that part of the Devils Lake Indian Reservation now remaining unallotted, including the tract of land at present known as the Fort Totten Military Reserve, situated within the boundaries of the said Devils Lake Indian Reservation, and being a part thereof; except six thousand one hundred and sixty acres required for allotments to sixty-one Indians of said reservation entitled to allotments.", "The unallotted and unreserved land to be disposed of hereunder approximates 88,000 acres.", "And whereas, in pursuance of said act of Congress ratifying the agreement named, the lands necessary for church, mission, and agency purposes, and for the Fort Totten Indian school, and for a public park, are by this proclamation, as hereinafter appears, reserved for such purposes, respectively:", "And whereas, in the act of Congress ratifying the said agreement, it is provided: Sec. 4. That the lands ceded to the United States under said agreement, including the Fort Totten abandoned military reservation, which are exclusive of six thousand one hundred and sixty acres which are required for allotments, excepting sections six-teen and thirty-six or an equivalent of two sections in each township, and such tracts as may be reserved by the President as hereinafter provided, shall be disposed of under the general provisions of the homestead and townsite laws of the United States, and shall be opened to settlement and entry by proclamation of the President, which proclamation shall prescribe the manner in which these lands may be settled upon, occupied, and entered by persons entitled to make entry thereof, and no person shall be permitted to settle upon, occupy, or enter any of said lands, except as prescribed in such proclamation, until after the expiration of sixty days from the time when the same are opened to settlement and entry; Provided, That the rights of honorably discharged Union soldiers and sailors of the late civil and the Spanish war, as defined and described in sections twenty-three hundred and four and twenty-three hundred and five of the Revised Statutes, as amended by the Act of March first, nineteen hundred and one, shall not be abridged: And provided further, That the price of said lands entered under the provisions of this Act shall be four dollars and fifty cents per acre, payable as follows: One dollar and fifty cents when the entry is made, and the remainder in annual installments of fifty cents per acre until paid for: Provided further, That in case any entryman fails to make such payments, or any of them, within the time stated, all rights in and to the land covered by his or her entry shall at once cease, and any payments theretofore made shall be forfeited and the entry shall be canceled: And provided further, That the lands embraced within such canceled entry shall, after the cancellation of such entry, be subject to entry under the provisions of the homestead law at four dollars and fifty cents per acre up to and until provision may be made for the disposition of said land by proclamation of the President as hereinafter provided: And provided further, That nothing in this Act shall prevent homestead settlers from commuting their entries under section twenty-three hundred and one, Revised Statutes, by paying for the land entered the price fixed herein, receiving credit for payments previously made. In addition to the price to be paid for the land, the entryman shall pay the same fees and commissions at the time of commutation or final entry, as now provided by law, where the price of the land is one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre: And provided further, That aliens who have declared their intention to become citizens of the United States may become purchasers under this Act, but before proving up and acquiring title must take out their full naturalization papers: And provided further, That when, in the judgment of the President no more of the land herein ceded can be disposed of at said price, he may by proclamation, to be repeated in his discretion, sell from time to time the remaining lands subject to the provisions of the homestead law or otherwise as he may deem most advantageous, at such price or prices, in such manner, upon such conditions, with such restrictions, and upon such terms as he may deem best for all interests concerned: And provided further, That the President is hereby authorized to reserve, in his proclamation for the opening of the said lands, so much of the tracts heretofore reserved for church, mission, and agency purposes, as he may deem necessary, not to exceed nine hundred acres, and also not exceeding two and one-half sections for the Fort Totten Indian school, and the United States stipulates and agrees to pay for said reserved lands at the rate of three dollars and twenty-five cents per acre. The President is also authorized to reserve a tract embracing Sullys Hill, in the north-eastern portion of the abandoned military reservation, about nine hundred and sixty acres, as a public park. Sec. 5. That sections sixteen and thirty-six of the lands hereby acquired in each township shall not be subject to entry, but shall be reserved for the use of the common schools and paid for by the United States at three dollars and twenty-five cents per acre, and the same are hereby granted to the State of North Dakota for such purpose; and in case any of said sections, or parts thereof, of the land in the said Devils Lake Indian Reservation or Fort Totten abandoned military reservation should be lost to said State of North Dakota by reason of allotments thereof to any Indian or Indians now holding the same, or otherwise, the governor of said State, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, is hereby authorized to locate other lands not occupied, in the townships where said lands are lost, provided sufficient lands are to be had in the said townships, otherwise the selections to be made elsewhere within the ceded tract, which shall be paid for by the United States, as provided in article two of the treaty as herein amended, in quantity equal to the loss, and such selections shall be made prior to the opening of such lands to settlement.", "And whereas, all of the conditions required by law to be performed prior to the opening of said tracts of land to settlement and entry have been, as I hereby declare, duly performed;", "Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power vested in me by law, do hereby declare and make known that all of the lands so as aforesaid ceded by the Sisseton, Wahpeton, and Cut-Head bands of the Sioux tribe of Indians belonging to the Devils Lake Reservation, saving and excepting sections 16 and 36 in each township, and all lands located or selected by the State of North Dakota as indemnity school or educational lands, and saving and excepting the N½ of the NW¼ and the SW¼ of the NW¼ of Sec. 14, and the SE¼ of the NEJ of Sec. 15, T. 152 N., R. 66 W., of the fifth principal meridian, which are hereby reserved for the use of the Raven Hill Presbyterian Church; and saving and excepting the N½ of the NW¼ of Sec. 14, the NE¼ of the NE¼ of Sec. 15, the SE¼ of the SW¼ of Sec. 11, and the S½ of the SE¼ of the SE¼ of the SE¼ of Sec. 10, T. 151 N., R. 64 W., of the fifth principal meridian, which are hereby reserved for the use of the Wood Lake Presbyterian Church; and saving and excepting the SE¼ of the SW¼ and Lot 8 of Sec. 8, the NE¼ of the NW¼, the NW¼ of the NE¼ and a tract of 4.43 acres in the southwest corner of Lot 1, Sec. 17, T. 152 N., R. 65 W., of the fifth principal meridian, which are hereby reserved for the use of the Mission of Sisters of Charity from Montreal; and saving and excepting the N½ of the SE¼, the NE¼ of the SW¼, Lot 5, and a tract of 1.60 acres in Lot 6, Sec. 17, T. 152 N., R. 64 W., of the fifth principal meridian, which are hereby reserved for the use of St. Michiel’s Church, Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions; and saving and excepting the W½ of the NW¼ of Sec. 15, T. 152 N., R. 66 W., of the fifth principal meridian, which is hereby reserved for the use of St. Jerome’s Church, Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions; and saving and excepting the W½ of Sec. 21, the W½ of the NE¼ of Sec. 21, the E½ of Sec. 20, the NW¼ of Sec. 20, and Lots 6, 7, and 8 and the SE¼ of the SW¼ of Sec. 16 (excepting 7 acres thereof, which are hereby reserved for the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church), and Lots 6, 7, 8, and 9 of Sec. 17, T. 152 N., R. 65 W., of the fifth principal meridian, which are hereby reserved for the use of the Fort Totten School; and saving and excepting the SE14 of the NE14 and Lot 1 (excepting 4.43 acres of said Lot 1, reserved for the use of the Mission of Sisters of Charity from Montreal), Sec. 17. and Lot 1 of Sec. 16, T. 152 N., R. 65 W., of the fifth principal meridian, which are hereby reserved for the use of the Fort Totten School, Grey Nuns Department; and saving and excepting the NW14 of the NW14 of Sec. 8, the E14 of the NE14, the SW14 of the NE14 and the SE14 of Sec. 7, T. 151 N., R. 65 W., of the fifth principal meridian, which are hereby reserved for the Fort Totten school and for the Grey Nuns Department for meadow purposes; and saving and excepting those portions of Lot 2 of Sec. 16 and Lots 2 and 3 of Sec. 17, T. 152 N., R. 65 W., fifth principal meridian not embraced in Allotment #585 of Jesse G. Palmer, which are hereby reserved for use for agency purposes; and saving and excepting Lots 4, 5, 6, and 7 of Sec. 10, the NW14, the W12 of the SW14 and Lots 5 and 6 of Sec. 15, Lots 1 and 2 of Sec. 9, the E12 of the NE14, the SE14 of the SE14 and Lots 3, 4, and 5 of Sec. 16, T. 152 N., R. 65 W., of the fifth principal meridian, which are hereby reserved for public use as a park to be known as Sully’s Hill Park, will, on the sixth day of September, 1904, at 9 o’clock A. M., in the manner herein prescribed, and not otherwise, be opened to entry and settlement and to disposition under the general provisions of the homestead and townsite laws of the United States.", "Commencing at 9 o’clock A. M., Monday, August 8th, 1904, and ending at 6 o’clock P. M., Saturday, August 20th, 1904, a registration will be had at Devils Lake and Grand Forks, State of North Dakota, for the purpose of ascertaining what persons desire to enter, settle upon, and acquire title to any of said lands under the homestead law, and of ascertaining their qualifications so to do. To obtain registration each applicant will be required to show himself duly qualified, by written application to be made only on a blank form provided by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, to make homestead entry of these lands under existing laws, and to give the registering officer such appropriate matters of description and identity as will protect the applicant and the Government against any attempted impersonation. Registration cannot be effected through the use of the mails or the employment of an agent, excepting that honorably discharged soldiers and sailors entitled to the benefits of section 2304 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the act of Congress approved March 1, 1901 (31 Stat., 847), may present their applications for registration and due proofs of their qualifications through an agent of their own selection, having a duly executed power of attorney, but no person will be permitted to act as agent for more than one such soldier or sailor. No person will be permitted to register more than once or in any other than his true name.", "Each applicant who shows himself duly qualified will be registered and given a nontransferable certificate to that effect, which will entitle him to go upon and examine the lands to be opened hereunder; but the only purpose for which he can go upon and examine said lands is that of enabling him later on, as herein provided, to understandingly select the lands for which he will make entry. No one will be permitted to make settlement upon any of said lands in advance of the opening herein provided for, and during the first sixty days following said opening no one but registered applicants will be permitted to make homestead settlement upon any of said lands, and then only in pursuance of a homestead entry duly allowed by the local land officers, or of a soldier’s declaratory statement duly accepted by such officers.", "The order in which, during the first sixty days following the opening, the registered applicants will be permitted to make homestead entry of the lands opened hereunder, will be determined by a drawing for the district publicly held at Devils Lake, North Dakota, commencing at 9 o’clock A. M., Wednesday, August 24th, 1904, and continuing for such period as may be necessary to complete the same. The drawing-will be had under the supervision and immediate observance of a committee of three persons whose integrity is such as to make their control of the drawing a guaranty of its fairness. The members of this committee will be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, who will prescribe suitable compensation for their services. Preparatory to this drawing the registration officers will, at the time of registering each applicant who shows himself duly qualified, makeout a card, which must be signed by the applicant, and giving such a description of the applicant as will enable the local land officers to thereafter identify him. This card will be subsequently sealed in a separate envelope which will bear no other distinguishing label or mark than such as may be necessary to show that it is to go into the drawing. These envelopes will be carefully preserved and remain sealed until opened in the course of the drawing herein provided. When the registration is completed, all of these sealed envelopes will be brought together at the place of drawing and turned over to the committee in charge of the drawing, who, in such manner as in their judgment will be attended with entire fairness and equality of opportunity, shall proceed to draw out and open the separate envelopes and to give to each enclosed card a number in the order in which the envelope containing the same was drawn. The result of the drawing will be certified by the committee to the officers of the district and will determine the order in which the applicants may make homestead entry of said lands and settlement thereon.", "Notice of the drawings, stating the name of each applicant and number assigned to him by the drawing, will be posted each day at the place of drawing, and each applicant will be notified of his number, and of the day upon which he must make his entry, by a postal card mailed to him at the address given by him at the time of registration. The result of each day’s drawing will also be given to the press to be published as a matter of news. Applications for homestead entry of said lands during the first sixty days following the opening can be made only by registered applicants and in the order established by the drawing. At the land office for the district at Devils Lake, North Dakota, commencing Tuesday, September 6, 1904, at 9 o’clock A. M., the applications of those drawing numbers 1 to 50, inclusive, must be presented and will be considered in their numerical order during the first day, and the applications of those drawing numbers 51 to 100, inclusive, must be presented and will be considered in their numerical order during the second day. and so on at that rate until all of said lands subject to entry under the homestead law, and desired there-under, have been entered. If any applicant fails to appear and present his application for entry when the number assigned to him by the drawing is reached, his right to enter will be passed until after the other applications assigned for that day have been disposed of, when he will be given another opportunity to make entry, failing in which he will be deemed to have abandoned his right to make entry under such drawing.", "To obtain the allowance of a homestead entry, each applicant must personally present the certificate of registration theretofore issued to him, together with a regular homestead application and the necessary accompanying proofs, and make the first payment of one dollar and fifty cents per acre for the land embraced in his application, together with the regular land office fees, but an honorably discharged soldier or sailor may file his declaratory statement through his agent, who can represent but one soldier or sailor as in the matter of registration. The production of the certificate of registration will be dispensed with only upon satisfactory proof of its loss or destruction. If at the time of considering his regular application for entry it appear that an applicant is disqualified from making homestead entry of these lands, his application will be rejected, notwithstanding his prior registration. If any applicant shall register more than once hereunder, or in any other than his true name, or shall transfer his registration certificate, he will thereby lose all the benefits of the registration and drawing herein provided for, and will be precluded from entering or settling upon any of said lands during the first sixty days following said opening.", "Any person, or persons desiring to found, or to suggest establishing, a townsite upon any of said ceded lands, at any point, may, at any time before the opening herein provided for, file in the land office a written application to that effect, describing by legal subdivisions the lands intended to be affected, and stating fully and under oath the necessity or propriety of founding or establishing a town at that place. The local officers will forthwith transmit said petition to the Commissioner of the General Land Office with their recommendation in the premises. Such Commissioner, if he believes the public interests will be subserved thereby, will, if the Secretary of the Interior approve thereof, issue an order withdrawing the lands described in such petition, or any portion thereof, from homestead entry and settlement and directing that the same be held for the time being for townsite settlement, entry, and disposition only. In such event the lands so withheld from homestead entry and settlement will, at the time of said opening, and not before, become subject to settlement, entry, and disposition under the general townsite laws of the United States. None of said ceded lands will be subject to settlement, entry, or disposition under such general townsite laws except in the manner herein prescribed until after the expiration of sixty days from the time of said opening.", "All persons are especially admonished that under the said act of Congress approved April 27, 1904, it is provided that no person shall be permitted to settle upon, occupy, or enter any of said ceded lands except in the manner prescribed in this proclamation until after the expiration of sixty days from the time when the same are opened to settlement and entry. After the expiration of the said period of sixty days, but not before, any of said lands remaining undisposed of may be settled upon, occupied, and entered under the general provisions of the homestead and townsite laws of the United States in like manner as if the manner of effecting such settlement, occupancy, and entry had not been prescribed herein in obedience to law, subject, however, to the payment of four dollars and fifty cents per acre for the land entered, in the manner and at the times required by the said act of Congress above mentioned.", "The Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe all needful rules and regulations necessary to carry into full effect the opening herein provided for.", "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 2nd day of June, in the year of our Lord 1904, and of the Independence of the United [SEAL.] States the one hundred and twenty-eighth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 33 Stat. 2368", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Ante, p. 319.", "Lands ceded by Sioux Indians.", "Lands to be sold subject to homestead and townsite laws.", "Ante, p. 322.", "Proclamation opening lands to settlement.", "Provisos.", "Soldiers’ and sailors’ rights not affected.", "R. S., secs. 2304, 2305, p. 422.", "Vol. 31, p. 847.", "Price per acre.", "Forfeiture.", "Canceled entries.", "Price per acre.", "Right to commute entries not affected.", "R. S., sec. 2301, p. 421.", "Fees.", "Rights of aliens.", "Registration.", "R. S., sec. 2304, p. 422.", "Vol. 31, p. 847.", "Applicants.", "Drawings.", "Notice of drawings.", "Certificates of registration.", "Town sites.", "Disposal of remaining lands.", "Ante, pp. 322,700.", "Regulations."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt By the President:", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Opened about 88,000 acres of the Devils Lake Reservation in North Dakota, including the old Fort Totten Military Reserve, ceded by Sisseton, Wahpeton and Cut-Head Sioux, to homestead and townsite entry.", "categories": ["indian-lands", "public-lands"], "action": "open", "places": [{"name": "Devils Lake Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "North Dakota"}, {"name": "Fort Totten Military Reserve", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "North Dakota"}], "states": ["North Dakota"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [51], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-06-02", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Devils Lake opening drew 15,086 registrants.", "source": "Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1904, Part I, p. 4", "date": "1904", "story": 51}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "congress", "text": "When the Devils Lake bill reached the Senate floor, Senator Fred T. Dubois of Idaho asked whether the $4.50 price was the agreement made with the Indians; Orville Platt answered that it was not. Dubois objected for the settlers' sake, not the tribe's, and the bill went over for the day.", "source": "Congressional Record, 58th Cong., 2d Sess., vol. 38, pt. 5, pp. 4138–4139", "date": "1904-04-02", "story": 51}, {"kind": "congress", "text": "The Act of April 27, 1904, rewrote the 1901 agreement's outright sale for $345,000 into a trust arrangement paying the tribe the proceeds of sales, and made it effective on ratification by Congress alone, without sending the new terms back to the tribe.", "source": "Act of April 27, 1904, ch. 1620, 33 Stat. 319–324", "date": "1904-04-27", "story": 51}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The General Land Office opened 88,948.39 acres, divided into 556 claims.", "source": "Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1904, Part I, p. 4", "date": "1904-09-06", "story": 51}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The proclamation reserved land for public use as Sully's Hill Park, using the power the 1904 act gave the President to set aside about 960 acres around Sullys Hill.", "source": "33 Stat. 2368–2372", "date": "1904-06-02", "story": 51}], "legacy": [{"text": "The National Park Service came to count Sully's Hill Park among the national parks of Roosevelt's presidency.", "source": "research entry", "story": 51}, {"text": "The 994-acre preserve that grew from the park still shelters bison and elk near the shore of Devils Lake, within the Spirit Lake Tribe's reservation as drawn in 1867.", "source": "research entry", "story": 51}], "today": [{"name": "White Horse Hill National Game Preserve", "kind": "other", "relation": "origin", "state": "North Dakota", "since": "1904-06-02", "note": "Formerly Sully's Hill Park and then Sullys Hill National Game Preserve; renamed in 2019 at the Spirit Lake Tribe's request.", "source": "Pub. L. 116-94", "story": 51}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1914", "text": "Congress funded a big-game preserve inside Sully's Hill Park.", "source": "38 Stat. 434", "story": 51}, {"date": "1931", "text": "Congress converted the whole park into Sullys Hill National Game Preserve.", "source": "46 Stat. 1509", "story": 51}, {"date": "2019-12", "text": "Congress renamed it White Horse Hill National Game Preserve at the Spirit Lake Tribe's request.", "source": "Pub. L. 116-94", "story": 51}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-526", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The Rosebud opening, carried out the same way a few weeks earlier.", "story": 51, "date": "1904-05-13", "title": "Opening of Sioux Lands of the Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota", "type": "proclamation", "number": "526"}, {"id": "proc-765", "relation": "modified_by", "note": null, "story": 68, "inferred": true, "date": "1907-06-08", "title": "Disposal of Lands in the Former Devil's Lake Indian Reservation, North Dakota", "type": "proclamation", "number": "765"}]}
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{"id": "eo-262", "type": "executive_order", "number": "262", "tr_sequence": 124, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-06-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Promotion to Former Positions", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_262", "revid": 1814890, "printed_source": "1904 CSR 81"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["A person who has been reinstated in the classified service in a grade lower than that from which he had been separated, may be promoted to his former grade without examination."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1904 CSR 81)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, June 13, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Changed the civil-service rules so a person reinstated at a lower grade can be promoted back to the former grade without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [83], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-06-13", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-531", "type": "proclamation", "number": "531", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-06-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Diminution of Bitter Root Forest Reserve, Idaho and Montana", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 531, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-531"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2373, "last_page": 2373, "cite": "33 Stat. 2373", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2373.pdf", "statutes_date": "1904-06-14", "table_title": "Reducing area of Bitter Root Forest Reserve, Idaho and Montana."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, The Bitter Root Forest Reserve, in the States of Idaho and Montana, was established by proclamation dated February twenty- second, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, under and by virtue of section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, which provides, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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”, that “the President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest' reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary line of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do hereby make known and proclaim that the following described lands in the State of Idaho are hereby released and eliminated from the aforesaid Bitter Root Forest Reserve, and the aforesaid proclamation dated February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, establishing said reserve is hereby vacated to that extent, and no more:", "What will be when surveyed Sections one (1) to eighteen (18), both inclusive, Township twenty-six (26) North, Range six (6) East, Boise Base and Meridian, Idaho; Sections nineteen (19) to thirty-six (36), both inclusive, Township twenty-seven (27) North, Range, six (6) East; Sections four (4) to nine (9), both inclusive, and Sections sixteen (16), seventeen (17) and eighteen (18), Township twenty-six (26) North, Range seven (7) East; Sections nineteen (19), twenty (20) and twenty- one (21), and Sections twenty-eight (28) to thirty-three (33), both inclusive, Township twenty-seven (27) North, Range seven (7) East; and all Township twenty-nine (29) North, Range eight (8) East.", "The lands hereby excluded from the reserve and restored to the public domain shall be open to settlement from the date hereof, but shall not be subject to entry, tiling or selection until after ninety days notice by such publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescri be.", "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 14th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and four, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 33 Stat. 2373", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 29, p. 899.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Vol. 30, p. 36", "Bitter Root Forest Reserve, Idaho and Mont.", "Vol. 29, p. 899.", "Lands of, restored to public domain.", "Date of opening to settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt By the President:", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Cut described lands in Idaho out of the Bitter Root Forest Reserve and restored them to the public domain, with a set date for opening them to settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "reduce", "places": [{"name": "Bitter Root Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Idaho"}], "states": ["Idaho"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [49], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-06-14", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The General Land Office listed Bitter Root among the reserves reduced that year, leaving an estimated 4,089,600 acres.", "source": "Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, fiscal 1904, p. 299", "date": "1904", "story": 49}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Bitter Root reserve was divided in 1908 among the Bitterroot, Nezperce, Salmon and other national forests.", "source": "Forest Service, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (1959)", "date": "1908", "story": 49}], "today": [{"name": "Bitterroot National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Montana and Idaho", "source": "Forest Service, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (1959)", "story": 49}], "uncertain": ["Who asked for the Bitter Root reduction, and why, is not known; the Interior Secretary's recommendation letters in the General Land Office forest-reserve files would settle it."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-558", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 55, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-05-22", "title": "Modification of the Boundaries of the Bitter Root Forest Reserve, Idaho and Montana", "type": "proclamation", "number": "558"}]}
{"id": "eo-263", "type": "executive_order", "number": "263", "tr_sequence": 125, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-06-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Samuel D. Amen as Internal Revenue Agent Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_263", "revid": 1814892, "printed_source": "1904 CSR 90"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["An exception to the requirements of the civil-service rules is hereby made to permit the appointment of Mr. Samuel D. Amen to the position of internal-revenue agent."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1904 CSR 90)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, June 17, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Made an exception to the civil-service rules so Samuel D. Amen could be appointed an internal-revenue agent.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Samuel D. Amen"], "significance": 1, "stories": [83], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-06-17", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-092", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 92, "date": "1904-06-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Pasay Military Reservation (Rizal Province, ~96.6 acres) and Zamboanga/Pettit Barracks (Mindanao, ~131 acres), P. I., established.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 92, "page": "199", "citations": "(EOs 324-E, 1411; 1907 MR 411, 413; …)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Pasay Military Reservation (Rizal Province, ~96.6 acres) and Zamboanga/Pettit Barracks (Mindanao, ~131 acres), P. I., established.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Established two Philippine military reservations: about 96.6 acres at Pasay in Rizal Province and about 131 acres at Zamboanga (Pettit Barracks) on Mindanao.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Pasay Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Pettit Barracks", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [113], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-06-20", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-093", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 93, "date": "1904-06-22", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Fort Niobrara Military Reservation, Cherry County, Nebr. (est. EO Dec. 10, 1879), enlarged by 25,900 acres to ~60,000.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 93, "page": "199", "citations": "(EO 1389; 1907 MR 196; 1910 MR 223)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Fort Niobrara Military Reservation, Cherry County, Nebr. (est. EO Dec. 10, 1879), enlarged by 25,900 acres to ~60,000.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "title_notes": ["Sources differ on the enlargement: Lord and the 1910 compilation give 25,900 acres, the 1907 compilation 26,000."], "summary": "Enlarged the Fort Niobrara Military Reservation in Cherry County, Nebraska, by 25,900 acres, to about 60,000 acres.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Fort Niobrara Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Nebraska"}], "states": ["Nebraska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [113], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-06-22", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Army abandoned Fort Niobrara in October 1906, a little over two years after the enlargement.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1906-10", "story": 113}], "legacy": [{"text": "A wildlife refuge later came out of Fort Niobrara, but from the older core of the post: every section of Taft's 1912 bird preserve but one school section lay inside the reservation as it stood before 1904.", "source": "GLO Annual Report, fiscal 1904, p. 143; EO 1461 in USDA, Laws Applicable (1913), pp. 223–24", "date": "1912", "story": 113}, {"text": "The Fish and Wildlife Service gives the refuge as 13,279 acres when established and 19,131 acres today.", "source": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service", "story": 113}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1911-08-01", "text": "All but 1,093.50 acres of the reservation went to the Interior Department.", "source": "research entry", "story": 113}, {"date": "1912-01-11", "text": "Taft's Executive Order 1461 reserved about twenty-two and seven-eighths square miles as the Niobrara Reservation, a bird preserve.", "source": "Executive Order 1461; USDA, Laws Applicable (1913), pp. 223–24", "story": 113}, {"date": "1913-09", "text": "Most of the remaining land was opened to homestead settlement by proclamation.", "source": "research entry", "story": 113}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-264", "type": "executive_order", "number": "264", "tr_sequence": 126, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-06-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Dr. William L. Ralph as Curator in National Museum Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_264", "revid": 1814901, "printed_source": "1904 CSR 90"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["An exception to the requirements of the civil-service rules is hereby made to permit the appointment, without examination, of Dr. William L. Ralph as curator of the section of birds' eggs in the National Museum, at a salary of $100 per month."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1904 CSR 90)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, June 23, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Dr. William L. Ralph to be appointed curator of birds' eggs at the National Museum, at $100 a month, without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["William L. Ralph"], "significance": 1, "stories": [83], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-06-23", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-265", "type": "executive_order", "number": "265", "tr_sequence": 127, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-06-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Clarence Reeder as Secretary to the Director of the Geological Survey Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_265", "revid": 1814913, "printed_source": "1904 CSR 91"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Clarence Reeder may be appointed as private secretary to the Director of the Geological Survey, without examination under the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1904 CSR 91)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, June 24, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Clarence Reeder to be appointed private secretary to the Director of the Geological Survey without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Clarence Reeder"], "significance": 1, "stories": [83], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-06-24", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-266", "type": "executive_order", "number": "266", "tr_sequence": 128, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-06-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Permanent Appointment of Edna K. Hoyt as Clerk in Department of State Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_266", "revid": 1815866, "printed_source": "1904 CSR 91"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. Edna K. Hoyt, who is temporarily employed as clerk in the Department of State, may be permanently appointed, without examination under the civil service rules, with a salary at the rate of $1,200 per annum.", "(Note) Done at the request of Secretary Hay, who says she is now the best clerk of her class that he has."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1904 CSR 91)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, June 29, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Edna K. Hoyt, a temporary State Department clerk, be made permanent at $1,200 a year without examination, at Secretary Hay's request.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Edna K. Hoyt"], "significance": 1, "stories": [83], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-06-29", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-094", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 94, "date": "1904-06-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "~11.7 acres at Fort Santiago, Manila, P. I., reserved for an ordnance depot.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 94, "page": "199", "citations": "(1907 MR 409; 1910 MR 328; 1916 MR 341)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "~11.7 acres at Fort Santiago, Manila, P. I., reserved for an ordnance depot.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Reserved about 11.7 acres at Fort Santiago in Manila, Philippines, for an ordnance depot.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Fort Santiago", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [113], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-06-29", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-095", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 95, "date": "1904-06-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "EO of Mar. 10, 1903 amended; Valdez Signal Station, Alaska, diminished to 22,946 sq. ft.; adjoining lands reserved for War/Justice.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 95, "page": "200", "citations": "(EO 1361; 1907 MR 11; …)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "EO of Mar. 10, 1903 amended; Valdez Signal Station, Alaska, diminished to 22,946 sq. ft.; adjoining lands reserved for War/Justice.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Shrank the Valdez Signal Station in Alaska to 22,946 square feet, amending a March 10, 1903, order, and reserved the adjoining lands for the War and Justice Departments.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "reduce", "places": [{"name": "Valdez Signal Station", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [113], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-06-30", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "uo-053", "relation": "amends", "note": "Reduced the Valdez Signal Supply Station set apart March 10, 1903.", "story": 113, "date": "1903-03-10", "title": "Valdez Signal Supply Station, east shore of Valdez Bay, Alaska, established for the Signal Corps.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "eo-267", "type": "executive_order", "number": "267", "tr_sequence": 129, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-07-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Extending Time Limit for Completion of Work of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission to March 2, 1905", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Gave the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission until March 2, 1905, to finish its work.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs", "government-administration"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [83], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-07-30", "impact": {"uncertain": ["The text of EO 267 and the date to which it extended the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission are not confirmed; Lord's List gives \"until Feb. 2, 1904,\" which cannot be right for an order signed in July 1904."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-268", "type": "executive_order", "number": "268", "tr_sequence": 130, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-08-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of James E. S. Kinsella as Minor Under Instruction in Navy Yard Without Regard to Navy Yard Order No. 13", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_268", "revid": 1838831, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 82"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. James E. S. Kinsella may be appointed as a minor under instruction in the department of ordnance, navy-yard, Washington, D. C., without complying with the provisions of Navy-Yard Order No. 13."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 82)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, August 6, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed James E. S. Kinsella to be appointed a minor under instruction in the ordnance department of the Washington, D.C., navy yard without meeting Navy Yard Order No. 13.", "categories": ["civil-service", "military-naval"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": ["James E. S. Kinsella"], "significance": 1, "stories": [83], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-08-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-269", "type": "executive_order", "number": "269", "tr_sequence": 131, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-08-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Promotion of Ludwick C. Young to Clerk in Census Office Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_269", "revid": 1838835, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 82"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Ludwick C. Young, laborer in the Census Office, may be promoted to clerk without examination under the civil service rules in view of his former service as a clerk in that Office and as recommended by the Director of the Census."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 82)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, August 9, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Ludwick C. Young, a laborer in the Census Office, be promoted to clerk without examination, in view of his earlier service as a clerk there.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Ludwick C. Young"], "significance": 1, "stories": [83], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-08-09", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-096", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 96, "date": "1904-08-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Whipple Barracks Target Range Military Reservation, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory, 1,680 acres, established.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 96, "page": "200", "citations": "(1907 MR 13; 1910 MR 15; 1916 MR 21; …)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Whipple Barracks Target Range Military Reservation, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory, 1,680 acres, established.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "title_notes": ["The order was one of three sources for the 1,680 acres, with a railway quitclaim deed (760 acres) and land deeded by John H. Smith and the city of Prescott."], "summary": "Created the Whipple Barracks Target Range Military Reservation, 1,680 acres in Yavapai County, Arizona Territory.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Whipple Barracks Target Range Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [113], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-08-18", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-270", "type": "executive_order", "number": "270", "tr_sequence": 132, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-08-19", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Permanent Appointment of Dr. William Conyngton as Physician at Grand River Indian School After Special Examination'", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_270", "revid": 1838842, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 82"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Dr. William Conyngton may be permanently appointed physician at the Grand River Indian School, North Dakota, as result of special examination, which was made necessary because increased illness at the school required the immediate services of a physician and all persons eligible under the rules had declined the position."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 82)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, August 19, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Permitted Dr. William Conyngton to be permanently appointed physician at the Grand River Indian School in North Dakota after a special examination, needed because illness at the school was rising and every eligible candidate had declined.", "categories": ["civil-service", "indian-lands"], "action": "appoint", "places": [{"name": "Grand River Indian School", "kind": "other", "state": "North Dakota"}], "states": ["North Dakota"], "people": ["William Conyngton"], "significance": 1, "stories": [84], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-08-19", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-097", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 97, "date": "1904-09-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "EO of Mar. 25, 1904 (Sangley Point Military Reservation) amended.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 97, "page": "200", "citations": "(EO 1134; 1907 MR 411)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "EO of Mar. 25, 1904 (Sangley Point Military Reservation) amended.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Amended the March 25, 1904, order concerning the Sangley Point Military Reservation.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Sangley Point Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [113], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-09-23", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-098", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 98, "date": "1904-10-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Breton Island Reservation, St. Bernard and Plaquemines Parishes, La., established as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds.", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 98, "page": "200", "citations": "XIV CFR 2249"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that Breton island, as shown by the General Land Office map of the State of Louisiana of date 1896, in Township 18 South, Range 20 East, St. Helena Meridian, when same shall be surveyed; and Old Harbor and Freemason islands, in Townships 14 and 15 South, Ranges 21 and 22 East, same Meridian, when surveyed, be, and they are hereby reserved and set apart for the use of the Department of Agriculture, as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds. This reservation to be known as \"Breton Island Reservation.\"", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT"], "source": "Laws Applicable to the United States Department of Agriculture (rev. to 1912; GPO 1913), pp. 210–211, printed under the heading \"EXECUTIVE ORDER OCTOBER 4, 1904\"; collated word for word", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "The 1912 compilation ends with the signature alone and has no White House dateline. Wikisource's added line \"The White House, November 11, 1905\" is unsourced and is omitted. This text belongs to the October 4, 1904 order; no printed text of the November 11, 1905 order (EO 369-A) has been found.", "story": 22}, "lord_description": "**Breton Island Wildlife Reservation, St. Bernard and Plaquemines Parishes, La., established** (the second federal bird reservation — this date resolves the long-standing 1904/1905 conflict noted at research entry #22).", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "Distinct. FDR's EO 7983 (1938) revokes **two** Breton orders by date: Oct. 4, 1904 and Nov. 11, 1905. The 1905 order is the numbered **EO 369-A**, so this 1904 entry is a separate unnumbered instrument (research entry #22).", "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Breton Island Wildlife Reservation, St. Bernard and Plaquemines Parishes, La., established”. Formatting and working notes removed. Date confirmed by Bird-Lore VII (1905), p. 72, and Palmer, Circular 87."], "summary": "Established the Breton Island reservation for wildlife in St. Bernard and Plaquemines Parishes, Louisiana.", "categories": ["wildlife"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Breton Island Wildlife Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Louisiana"}, {"name": "Breton Island", "kind": "island", "state": "Louisiana"}], "states": ["Louisiana"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [22, 113], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-10-04", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Evening Star reported from the cabinet room the day of signing that Secretary Hitchcock had presented the order to the President.", "source": "Evening Star (Washington), October 4, 1904", "date": "1904-10-04", "story": 113}, {"text": "The New-York Tribune ran it as \"U. S. RESERVATION FOR WILD FOWL,\" the Savannah Morning News as \"TO THE AID OF THE DUCKS,\" and the Washington Times as \"TO SAVE SONG BIRDS.\"", "source": "New-York Tribune and Savannah Morning News, October 5, 1904; Washington Times, October 6, 1904", "date": "1904-10-05", "story": 113}, {"text": "Bird-Lore printed the order's full text in its January–February 1905 issue.", "source": "Bird-Lore VII (1905), p. 72", "date": "1905", "story": 113}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Biological Survey issued a one-page circular warning against trespass on Breton Island Reservation.", "source": "Catalogue of United States Public Documents, No. 121, January 1905, p. 68 (Biological Survey Circular 45)", "date": "1905-01-19", "story": 22}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "Captain William Sprinkle of the Audubon boat Royal Tern was put in charge of the reservation as its warden, paid partly by the Biological Survey and partly by the Audubon Society.", "source": "Roosevelt, A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open (1916)", "story": 22}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Biological Survey's T. S. Palmer recorded terns breeding on Southwest Harbor Key in the Old Harbor Islands and dated the federal reserve to October 4, 1904.", "source": "Palmer, Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture, 1905, p. 561", "date": "1905-07-02", "story": 22}, {"kind": "political", "text": "The order needed no act of Congress, and no congressional fight or organized opposition followed.", "source": "research entry", "story": 22}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "Because the Chandeleurs were a lighthouse reservation, Frank Bond arranged with the Light-House Board for the Chandeleur Light keeper to patrol as far as Freemason Island against shooting, egging, trespass and the taking of shells.", "source": "Bird-Lore VII (1905)", "date": "1904-10-21", "story": 113}], "legacy": [{"text": "Breton became the second federal bird reservation, after Pelican Island, and is now the second-oldest unit of the National Wildlife Refuge System.", "source": "Laws Applicable to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (rev. 1912); U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service", "story": 22}, {"text": "Roosevelt visited the reservation on a five-day voyage in June 1915 and counted about 35,000 nests of five chief species, against about 1,000 at the start; it is the only refuge he is known to have visited.", "source": "Roosevelt, \"Bird Reserves at the Mouth of the Mississippi,\" A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open (1916)", "date": "1915-06", "story": 22}, {"text": "Herbert K. Job's film of the 1915 trip survives as Roosevelt, Friend of the Birds in the Library of Congress.", "source": "Library of Congress, Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection", "date": "1915", "story": 22}, {"text": "Louisiana entered the October 1904 order as an exhibit in United States v. Louisiana.", "source": "United States v. Louisiana (No. 9 Original), printed record, Louisiana Exhibit 1483", "story": 22}, {"text": "Hurricanes and erosion have repeatedly cut into the islands; the North Breton Island Restoration rebuilt more than 400 acres of barrier island with about 5.9 million cubic yards of dredged sand.", "source": "North Breton Island Restoration project materials", "date": "2020-12-09", "story": 22}, {"text": "Public Law 93-632 designated 5,000 acres of the refuge as wilderness, all federally owned refuge land except North Breton Island.", "source": "Public Law 93-632", "date": "1975-01-03", "story": 22}, {"text": "Breton Island was the second federal bird reservation, and Lord's listing under October 4, 1904 settles an old conflict between 1904 and 1905.", "source": "Lord, List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series", "date": "1904-10-04", "story": 110}], "today": [{"name": "Breton National Wildlife Refuge", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "origin", "state": "Louisiana", "since": "1904-10-04", "note": "Second-oldest refuge in the system; 1,100 acres in St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes per the FWS fact sheet.", "source": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service fact sheet", "story": 22}, {"name": "Breton Wilderness", "kind": "other", "relation": "part", "state": "Louisiana", "note": "5,000 acres designated in 1975.", "source": "Public Law 93-632", "story": 22}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1938-10-04", "text": "Executive Order 7983 revoked the 1904 order and reserved an enlarged Breton Bird Refuge, adding Errol Island and the southern Chandeleur Islands.", "source": "EO 7983, 3 Fed. Reg. 2389", "story": 22}, {"date": "1940-07-25", "text": "Proclamation 2416 renamed the refuge again.", "source": "Proclamation 2416", "story": 22}], "uncertain": ["How the New Orleans Times-Democrat and Daily Picayune reported the reservation in October 1904 and January 1905 has not been checked.", "How New Orleans papers covered the order; no New Orleans daily of 1904–05 is digitized."]}, "related": [{"id": "uo-054", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Pelican Island, the first federal bird reservation; Breton was the second.", "story": 22, "date": "1903-03-13", "title": "Pelican Island Reservation, Fla., established as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}, {"id": "eo-296-a", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 85, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-03-09", "title": "Creating Stump Lake Reservation, North Dakota, as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Birds", "type": "executive_order", "number": "296-A"}, {"id": "eo-369-a", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Second Breton order of November 11, 1905, covering the same three island groups; its purpose is unknown.", "story": 22, "date": "1905-11-11", "title": "Establishing Breton Island Reservation, Louisiana", "type": "executive_order", "number": "369-A"}]}
{"id": "eo-271", "type": "executive_order", "number": "271", "tr_sequence": 133, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-10-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Ordering Mourning Formalities for Death of Henry Clay Payne, Postmaster General", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_271", "revid": 15016966, "printed_source": "[http://books.google.com/books?output=html&id=inRMAAAAMAAJ&jtp=169 Source]"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["To the People of the United States:", "Henry Clay Payne, Postmaster-General of the United States, died in this city at 10 minutes past 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon.", "Rising to eminence by his own efforts, successful in his enterprises, attaining to positions of high trust in private business, energetic and conscientious in his relations with his fellow men, of singularly gentle, loyal and lovable nature, inspired by a large sense of the duties of a true citizen, and winning the respect and esteem of all with whom he associated, he was called in the fullness of his powers to discharge the duties of a peculiarly onerous and responsible office in the high councils of the nation. His career is an example for good citizens to follow, and his untimely death is mourned by all.", "The President directs that the several executive departments and their dependencies shall show fitting regard for the memory of this distinguished public man; that the departments in the city of Washington shall be closed between the hours of 9 o'clock a.m. and 1 o'clock p.m. on the day of the funeral, Friday, the 7th inst., and that the national flag shall be displayed at half-mast upon all the public buildings throughout the United States from now until the funeral shall have taken place.", "By direction of the President.", "John Hay", "Department of State, Washington, October 5, 1904."], "source": "Wikisource transcription of William Ward Wight, Henry Clay Payne: A Life (Milwaukee, 1907), p. 169; 'yesterday afternoon' checked against the Internet Archive copy of Wight, p. 169; compared with AP printings (Riverside Enterprise and Stockton Daily Independent, October 6, 1904), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "State Department notice; no seal; not printed in the Statutes at Large. AP wire printings sign 'John Hay, Secretary of State' and some omit 'afternoon'; the Wight/Wikisource wording is kept.", "story": 84}, "summary": "Announced the death of Postmaster General Henry Clay Payne, closed the departments in Washington on the morning of his funeral, and ordered flags on public buildings nationwide flown at half-mast until he was buried.", "categories": ["ceremonial"], "action": "announce", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Henry Clay Payne"], "significance": 2, "stories": [84], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-10-05", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Associated Press carried the order's full text, and papers printed it the next morning.", "source": "Riverside Enterprise and Stockton Daily Independent, October 6, 1904; Chicago Daily Tribune, October 6, 1904", "date": "1904-10-06", "story": 84}, {"text": "The Democratic Los Angeles Herald's editorial column said of Payne only that close application to his duties seemed to have overtaxed his strength, and kept the post-office fraud charges in a separate paragraph.", "source": "Los Angeles Herald, October 6, 1904", "date": "1904-10-06", "story": 84}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Washington departments closed from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the day of the funeral, Friday, October 7, and flags flew at half-mast on public buildings until the funeral.", "source": "EO 271, in Wight, Henry Clay Payne: A Life (1907), p. 169", "date": "1904-10-07", "story": 84}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "Robert J. Wynne, First Assistant Postmaster-General, was named acting Postmaster-General the day after Payne's death and Postmaster-General on October 10, serving until March 1905.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1904-10-10", "story": 84}, {"kind": "political", "text": "Five weeks before the election, the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, Henry G. Davis, was attacking the post-office frauds and the Republicans' refusal of a congressional investigation.", "source": "Los Angeles Herald, October 6, 1904", "date": "1904-10-06", "story": 84}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-532", "type": "proclamation", "number": "532", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-10-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Granting Land to Woodward, Oklahoma", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 532, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-532"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2374, "last_page": 2374, "cite": "33 Stat. 2374", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2374.pdf", "statutes_date": "1904-10-13", "table_title": "Granting land to Woodward, Oklahoma."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America.", "A PROCLAMATION.", "WHEREAS, in the opening of the \"Cherokee Outlet\" in the Territory of Oklahoma, by proclamation dated August 19, 1893, pursuant to section ten of the Act of Congress approved March 3, 1893 (27 Stat., 612,640), lot one containing four acres, in block forty-eight according to the plat of the official townsite survey of the south half of section twenty-five in township twenty-three north, of range twenty-one west of the Indian principal meridian, known as Woodward Townsite, approved by the Commissioner of the General land Office, was reserved for the site of a court-house for county \"N\", now Woodward County, in said Territory;", "AND WHEREAS, the county board of commissioners of said county have relinquished all right, title, and interest said county had in said lot one, block forty-eight, known as \"Court House Reserve\", and have consented and recommended that the same be patented to the \"Town of Woodward\" for use as a public park, and it appearing that said reserve is no longer used or required for use as a court-house site, and that it is needed and desired by said \"Town of Woodward\" for public park purposes;", "Now, therefore, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section ten of said act of Congress, do hereby declare and make known that said lot one in block forty-eight of said Woodward Townsite is hereby restored to the public domain, to be disposed of to said Town of Woodward for public park purposes under the fourth section of the Act of Congress approved May 14, 1890 (26 Stat., 109).", "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 13th day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four, and", "[SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth.", "T. ROOSEVELT", "By the President:", "JOHN HAY", "Secretary of State."], "source": "33 Stat. 2374 (page image), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Statutes heads the document [No. 34.]; [SEAL.] restored (APP omits it); signature printed 'T. Roosevelt' in small capitals (APP normalizes to THEODORE ROOSEVELT); 'General land Office' with lower-case 'l' is the Statutes' own reading, reproduced as printed.", "story": 52}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt By the President:", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Returned a four-acre lot in Woodward, Oklahoma Territory, once held as a county courthouse site, to the public domain so it could go to the Town of Woodward for a public park.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "grant", "places": [{"name": "Woodward", "kind": "town", "state": "Oklahoma"}], "states": ["Oklahoma"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [52], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-10-13", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Restored to the public domain the four-acre Court House Reserve, lot one of block forty-eight in the Woodward townsite, to be disposed of to the Town of Woodward for a public park under the Oklahoma townsite act of May 14, 1890.", "source": "33 Stat. 2374", "date": "1904-10-13", "story": 52}, {"kind": "local", "text": "The Woodward County commissioners had relinquished the lot and recommended that it be patented to the town for a park.", "source": "33 Stat. 2374", "date": "1904-10-13", "story": 52}], "uncertain": ["Whether the Town of Woodward received a patent for the lot is not known, and the lot has not been located on a modern plat.", "How Woodward's newspapers reported the grant in 1904 has not been checked."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-533", "type": "proclamation", "number": "533", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-11-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Thanksgiving Day, 1904", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 533, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-533"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2374, "last_page": 2375, "cite": "33 Stat. 2374–2375", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2374.pdf", "statutes_date": "1904-11-01", "table_title": "Designating Thursday, November 24, 1904, as a day of general thanksgiving."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America.", "A PROCLAMATION.", "It has pleased Almighty God to bring the American people in safety and honor through another year, and, in accordance with the long unbroken custom handed down to us by our forefathers, the time has come when a special day shall be set apart in which to thank Him who holds all nations in the hollow of His hand for the mercies thus vouchsafed to us. During the century and a quarter of our national life we as a people have been blessed beyond all others, and for this we owe humble and heartfelt thanks to the Author of all blessings. The year that has closed has been one of peace within our own borders as well as between us and all other nations. The harvests have been abundant, and those who work, whether with hand or brain, are prospering greatly. Reward has waited upon honest effort. We have been enabled to do our duty to ourselves and to others. Never has there been a time when religious and charitable effort has been more evident. Much has been given to us and much will be expected from us. We speak of what has been done by this nation in no spirit of boastfulness or vainglory, but with full and reverent realization that our strength is as nothing unless we are helped from above. Hitherto we have been given the heart and the strength to do the tasks allotted to us as they severally arose. We are thankful for all that has been done for us in the past, and we pray that in the future we may be strengthened in the unending struggle to do our duty fearlessly and honestly, with charity and goodwill, with respect for ourselves and with love toward our fellow-men. In this great republic the effort to combine national strength with personal freedom is being tried on a scale more gigantic than ever before in the world's history. Our success will mean much not only for ourselves, but for the future of all mankind; and every man or woman in our land should feel the grave responsibility resting upon him or her, for in the last analysis this success must depend upon the high average of our individual citizenship, upon the way in which each of us does his duty by himself and his neighbor.", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, do hereby appoint and set apart Thursday, the twenty-fourth of this November, to be observed as a day of festival and thanksgiving by all the people of the United States at home or abroad, and do recommend that on that day they cease from their ordinary occupations and gather in their several places of worship or in their homes, devoutly to give thanks unto Almighty God for the benefits he has conferred upon us as individuals and as a nation, and to beseech Him that in the future His Divine favor may be continued to us.", "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 1st day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four and [SEAL.] of the independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President: JOHN HAY Secretary of State."], "source": "33 Stat. 2374–2375 (page images), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Seal restored. The point after \"Thursday\" is faint on the scan; a comma is kept.", "story": 54}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt By the President:", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart Thursday, November 24, 1904, as a national day of thanksgiving for a year of peace, abundant harvests and prosperity.", "categories": ["ceremonial"], "action": "announce", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [54], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-11-01", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Associated Press carried the proclamation from Washington the day after it was signed, and it ran widely, usually in full, including on page one of Pueblo's Colorado Daily Chieftain.", "source": "Colorado Daily Chieftain (Pueblo), November 2, 1904, p. 1", "date": "1904-11-02", "story": 54}, {"text": "Papers across California, from the San Francisco Call to the Santa Cruz Surf, printed the full text or long extracts between November 2 and November 23, two of them on election day.", "source": "California Digital Newspaper Collection, November 1904", "date": "1904-11", "story": 54}, {"text": "An Oakland Herald editorial, reprinted in San Luis Obispo, found the proclamation unusual for suggesting that Americans had done something for themselves, and heard in it a healthy note of self-reliance typical of Roosevelt.", "source": "\"NEW NOTE IN THANKSGIVING,\" Morning Tribune (San Luis Obispo), November 4, 1904, reprinted from the Oakland Herald", "date": "1904-11-04", "story": 54}, {"text": "A Cincinnati Commercial Tribune editorial called the proclamation's language characteristic of Roosevelt and its sentiments sincere, and urged every grateful citizen to respond.", "source": "\"UPON HONEST EFFORT,\" Aspen Daily Times, November 10, 1904", "date": "1904-11-10", "story": 54}, {"text": "A Petaluma preacher made the proclamation the text of his annual Thanksgiving sermon, praising it and urging his congregation to do as the President asked.", "source": "Petaluma Daily Morning Courier, November 25, 1904, p. 3", "date": "1904-11-25", "story": 54}, {"text": "Nine California printings read \"scheme\" where the official text reads \"success\" in the closing sentence, while the AP text in Colorado and a Cincinnati editor's copy agree with the Statutes.", "source": "California Digital Newspaper Collection; Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection", "date": "1904-11", "story": 54}], "legacy": [{"text": "It is one of eight Thanksgiving proclamations Roosevelt issued, one in each year of his presidency, in the unbroken chain that began with Lincoln in 1863.", "source": "research entry", "story": 54}, {"text": "Its closing sentence on national strength, personal freedom and the high average of individual citizenship is the passage most likely to be quoted today; quote it from the Statutes at Large.", "source": "33 Stat. 2374–2375", "story": 54}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1939", "text": "Franklin Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving a week earlier than the last Thursday of November, and did so again in 1940 and 1941.", "source": "research entry", "story": 54}, {"date": "1941-12-26", "text": "A joint resolution of Congress fixed Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November.", "source": "55 Stat. 862", "story": 54}], "uncertain": ["Whether any newspaper treated the proclamation, signed a week before the election, as campaign material is untested beyond California and Colorado papers of November 1904.", "Why the California printings read \"scheme\" for \"success\" is not certain; a slip in the wire relay that served them is the likeliest explanation."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-466", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Thanksgiving Day, 1901.", "story": 54, "date": "1901-11-02", "title": "Thanksgiving Day, 1901", "type": "proclamation", "number": "466"}, {"id": "proc-494", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Thanksgiving Day, 1902, which counted blessings without this one's closing charge.", "story": 54, "date": "1902-10-29", "title": "Thanksgiving Day, 1902", "type": "proclamation", "number": "494"}]}
{"id": "eo-272", "type": "executive_order", "number": "272", "tr_sequence": 134, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-11-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Luther Conant, Jr., as Special Examiner in Bureau of Corporations Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_272", "revid": 1838425, "printed_source": "| notes    ="}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Luther Conant, jr., may be appointed as a special examiner in the Bureau of Corporations, at $2,500 per annum, without examination under the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from | notes    =)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, November 9, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Luther Conant, Jr., to be appointed a special examiner in the Bureau of Corporations, at $2,500 a year, without a civil-service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Luther Conant, jr."], "significance": 1, "stories": [84], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-11-09", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-099", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 99, "date": "1904-11-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Philippine military reservations: Jolo (~339.7 acres), Daraga/Regan Barracks (~318.8 acres), and Augur Barracks incl. Asturias (~535.7 acres).", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 99, "page": "200", "citations": "(EOs 1703, 3086, 4787; 1907 MR 408; …)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Philippine military reservations: Jolo (~339.7 acres), Daraga/Regan Barracks (~318.8 acres), and Augur Barracks incl. Asturias (~535.7 acres).", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Reserved military land in the Philippines at Jolo (about 339.7 acres), Daraga's Regan Barracks (about 318.8 acres) and Augur Barracks, including Asturias (about 535.7 acres).", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Jolo", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Regan Barracks", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Augur Barracks", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [113], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-11-10", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-273", "type": "executive_order", "number": "273", "tr_sequence": 135, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-11-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Positions Excepted from Examination for Isthmian Canal Commission Personnel", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_273", "revid": 12440729, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Schedule A of the civil-service rules is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof a new section, reading:", "Secretary. Assistant secretary. Executive secretary to the governor of the Canal Zone. Chief clerk. Treasurer. One deputy treasurer. One chief of materials and supplies. Auditor. Two deputy auditors. One disbursing officer for the Canal Zone. One collector of revenue. Chief engineer of the Commission. Division engineers. Resident engineers. Hospital attendants. Chief sanitary officer. Assistant sanitary officers. Director of hospitals. Superintendents of canal hospitals, one for each hospital. Chief quarantine officer. Two assistant quarantine officers. Sanitary officer at Colon. Sanitary officer at Panama."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, November 15, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Exempted top Isthmian Canal Commission posts from civil-service examination, among them its secretary, treasurer, auditor, chief engineer, the Canal Zone governor's executive secretary, and sanitary, hospital and quarantine officers.", "categories": ["civil-service", "canal-zone"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [84], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-11-15", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-274", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Signed the same day, classifying the Isthmian Canal Commission.", "story": 84, "date": "1904-11-15", "title": "Applying Civil Service Rules to Employees of Isthmian Canal Commission", "type": "executive_order", "number": "274"}, {"id": "eo-289", "relation": "amended_by", "note": "Added further excepted positions on the Isthmus, January 5, 1905.", "story": 84, "date": "1905-01-05", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Add Further Excepted Positions on Isthmus of Panama", "type": "executive_order", "number": "289"}, {"id": "eo-394", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "Replaced the canal exceptions in 1906.", "story": 84, "date": "1906-01-12", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Positions Excepted from Examination for Isthmian Canal Commission Personnel", "type": "executive_order", "number": "394"}]}
{"id": "eo-274", "type": "executive_order", "number": "274", "tr_sequence": 136, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-11-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Applying Civil Service Rules to Employees of Isthmian Canal Commission", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_274", "revid": 1814934, "printed_source": "| notes    = Also see Executive Order 273, November 15, 1904."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["In the exercise of the power vested in the President by Section 1753 of the Revised Statutes and acts amendatory thereof:", "IT IS ORDERED, That the Isthmian Canal Commission be classified and the civil-service act and rules applied thereto, and that no person be hereafter appointed, employed, promoted, or transferred in the service of said Commission until he passes an examination in conformity therewith, unless specifically exempted thereunder. This order shall apply to all officers and employees, except persons employed merely as laborers, persons whose appointments are confirmed by the Senate, and engineers detailed from the army.", "The officers and employees included within the provisions of this order are hereby arranged in classes according to annual salary or compensation as follows:", "A. Less than $720. B. $720 or more and less than $840. C. $840 or more and less than $900. D. $900 or more and less than $1,000. E. $1,000 or more and less than $1,200. 1. $1,200 or more and less than $1,400. 2. $1,400 or more and less than $1,600. 3. $1,600 or more and less than $1,800. 4. $1,800 or more and less than $2,000. 5. $2,000 or more and less than $2,500. 6. $2,500 or more."], "source": "Wikisource (from | notes    = Also see Executive Order 273, November 15, 1904.)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, November 15, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Brought the Isthmian Canal Commission under the civil-service act and rules, so that most officers and employees, apart from laborers, Senate-confirmed officials and detailed Army engineers, must pass an examination before being hired or promoted.", "categories": ["civil-service", "canal-zone"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [84], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-11-15", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The San Francisco Call reported that civil-service rules would reach the canal commission's employees, apart from presidential appointees, laborers and \"about thirty places.\"", "source": "San Francisco Call, November 15, 1904", "date": "1904-11-15", "story": 84}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "By December the Civil Service Commission was circulating recruiting notices for the Isthmus through its local boards.", "source": "Fresno Evening Democrat, December 19, 1904", "date": "1904-12", "story": 84}], "legacy": [{"text": "The order was an early piece of the personnel system that would build the Panama Canal.", "source": "research entry", "story": 84}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-273", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Signed the same day, excepting twenty-three classes of canal position from examination.", "story": 84, "date": "1904-11-15", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Positions Excepted from Examination for Isthmian Canal Commission Personnel", "type": "executive_order", "number": "273"}, {"id": "eo-283", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Citizenship waiver for positions on the Isthmus.", "story": 84, "date": "1904-12-08", "title": "Waiving Civil Service Requirements of United States Citizenship for Positions on Isthmus of Panama", "type": "executive_order", "number": "283"}]}
{"id": "eo-275", "type": "executive_order", "number": "275", "tr_sequence": 137, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-11-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Regulations Governing the Appointment of Unclassified Laborers in the Departments at Washington, D.C.", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_275", "revid": 12438068, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["In the exercise of power conferred by section 1753 of the Revised Statutes, the President makes the following regulations to govern the selection of unskilled laborers for appointment or employment in the Executive civil service with a view of securing skill and efficiency and of excluding other considerations.", "{{c|REGULATION }}", "The head of each department and independent executive office may designate one of its employees to serve as a member of a board of labor employment. The Civil Service Commission shall supervise and direct the work of the board, and its representative on the board, in the absence of other members, shall perform the duties of the board.", "{{c|REGULATION }}", "Applicants must be citizens of the United States, physically and mentally qualified, of good character and habits, and of requisite experience as attested by vouchers. Age limits may be prescribed by the Commission with the approval of appointing officers. Deception or fraud in any material fact shall be good cause for refusing the application or for removal from the service.", "{{c|REGULATION }}", "The ratings of applicants shall be based upon their relative ability to perform manual labor as shown by their physical condition, which shall be ascertained by physicians in the Federal service detailed therefor. An applicant away from Washington may be examined by his local physician in the manner prescribed by the board and the ratings based thereon; but after selection and before appointment the applicant must appear before the Government physician in Washington for remarking, and any serious discrepancy shall disqualify for appointment.", "{{c|REGULATION }}", "The board shall enter upon registers, showing the kind of labor in which proficient, the names of applicants rated at 70 or more in the order of their ratings, except that eligibles preferred under section 1754, Revised Statutes, rated at 70 or more, and honorably discharged veterans of the civil war rated at 85 or more, shall have priority. The period of eligibility shall be one year. Eligibles on existing labor registers shall be transferred in the order of their physical ratings to the new registers for the remaining period of eligibility.", "{{c|REGULATION }}", "When an appointment or employment of an unskilled laborer is to be made, the appointing officer shall request the board to certify eligibles, stating the principal duties of the position. If in the opinion of the board the duties are of the grade performed by classified employees, the facts shall be referred to the Civil Service Commission to determine the status of the position as classified or unclassified under section 3 of civil service Rule XIII, and the vacancy shall be filled in accordance with such finding.", "{{c|REGULATION }}", "If the status of the position is determined to be that of an unskilled laborer, the board shall certify from the proper register the names of the three persons at the head thereof having the requisite qualifications, which have not been three times certified, to the appointing officer. The appointing officer shall select one or more of such persons, unless he shall offer objections which the board, with the approval of the Commission, may deem sufficient, in which case a new certificate shall be issued omitting the names of those to whom objection has been made.", "{{c|REGULATION }}", "Appointment or employment for temporary service shall be made as far as practicable as appointments to permanent positions. Where the needs of the service require, the board may authorize the temporary appointment of any eligible or of a person whose name is not on any register; but no person shall render more than thirty days' temporary service in any period of twelve months where appointed out of his turn, or outside these regulations.", "{{c|REGULATION }}", "A laborer separated without misconduct shall be eligible to be restored to the register for his remaining period of eligibility, or for reinstatement in the same department or office upon certificate of the board, within one year from the date of separation.", "{{c|REGULATION }}", "An employee in good standing may be transferred to another department or office upon certificate of the board to any position requiring like qualifications.", "{{c|REGULATION }}", "Thirty days after the date hereof the board shall organize and be given all existing registers and all applications then in the possession of the existing board for rating and transfer to the new registers. Upon the establishment of such new registers the board shall notify appointing officers that it is prepared to certify eligibles, and thereafter no appointment or employment of an unskilled laborer shall be made, except in accordance with these regulations."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, November 15, 1904. == Notes == Amended by: Executive Order 339, July 12, 1905 Executive Order 955, October 21, 1908 See Related: Executive Order 285, December 12, 1904", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Set rules for hiring unskilled laborers in the departments at Washington, with a labor employment board under the Civil Service Commission rating applicants on physical fitness for manual work as judged by federal physicians.", "categories": ["civil-service", "labor-business"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [84], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-11-15", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The National Civil Service Reform League's journal, Good Government, printed the original regulations in full.", "source": "Good Government, December 1904", "date": "1904-12", "story": 84}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "As amended by July 12, 1905, the Washington labor rules rated applicants on \"physical fitness and efficiency\" rather than \"skill and efficiency\" and raised the passing rating from 70 to 85.", "source": "U.S. Civil Service Commission, Twenty-second Annual Report (1905), pp. 95–99", "date": "1905-07-12", "story": 84}], "legacy": [{"text": "The labor regulations fed into the slow, decades-long extension of the merit system to the whole federal workforce.", "source": "research entry", "story": 84}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-285", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Parallel system for New York, Boston, Philadelphia and St. Louis.", "story": 84, "date": "1904-12-12", "title": "Regulations to Govern the Employment of Unskilled Laborers in the Federal Offices Outside of Washington, D. C.", "type": "executive_order", "number": "285"}, {"id": "eo-955", "relation": "amended_by", "note": "Amended the Washington labor regulations on demotions and temporary appointments, 1908.", "story": 84, "date": "1908-10-21", "title": "Amending Regulations Governing Employment of Unskilled Laborers in Washington, D.C. Regarding Demotions and Temporary Appointments", "type": "executive_order", "number": "955"}]}
{"id": "eo-276", "type": "executive_order", "number": "276", "tr_sequence": 138, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-11-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Permanent Appointment of Clare A. Cooper as Matron in Immigration Service Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_276", "revid": 1838811, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 82"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. Clare A. Cooper may be permanently appointed matron in the Immigration Service without examination under the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 82)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, November 21, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Clare A. Cooper to be permanently appointed matron in the Immigration Service without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Clare A. Cooper"], "significance": 1, "stories": [84], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-11-21", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-277", "type": "executive_order", "number": "277", "tr_sequence": 139, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-11-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Restoring Customs Service Cashiers and Deputies to the Competitive Service", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_277", "revid": 1846337, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["This is the Civil Service Commission's description of the Executive Order, not the order text itself.", "The President promulgated an order amending Schedule A by striking out paragraphs 1 and 2 and part of paragraph 3 of section 2, which had the effect of restoring to the competitive service the positions of deputy or assistant collector, deputy naval officer, deputy surveyor, and cashier in the Customs Service."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Amending Civil Service Rules to Make Treasury Department Cashiers and Deputies Subject to Examination”. Civil Service Commission, Twenty-second Annual Report, p. 72."], "summary": "Returned several Customs Service posts, including deputy or assistant collector, deputy naval officer, deputy surveyor and cashier, to the competitive service, so they now require examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [84], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-11-23", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "Good Government counted 374 positions moved from the excepted to the competitive class by the order.", "source": "Good Government, December 1904", "date": "1904-12", "story": 84}], "uncertain": ["The original text of EO 277 has not been found in print; it is known only from the Civil Service Commission's description."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-534", "type": "proclamation", "number": "534", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-11-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Warner Mountains Forest Reserve, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 534, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-534"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2375, "last_page": 2379, "cite": "33 Stat. 2375–2379", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2375.pdf", "statutes_date": "1904-11-29", "table_title": "Setting apart Warner Mountain Forest Reserve, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of California, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore? Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of California, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Township forty-seven (47) North, Range fifteen (15) East, Mount Diablo Base and Meridian, California; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township; thence northerly along the range line to the State Line between the States of California and Oregon; thence easterly along said State Line to the point for the north-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township forty-eight (48) North, Range sixteen (16) East; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section two (2), Township forty-seven (47) North, Range sixteen (16) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the point for the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section thirty- four (34), Township forty-eight (48) North, Range sixteen (16) East; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the point for the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township forty-seven (47) North, Range sixteen (16) East; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence-easterly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section (28), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township: thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section one (1), Township forty-six (46) North, Range fifteen (15) East; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of Section two (2), said Township; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the point for the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of the north-west quarter of Section twenty- three (23), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-four (24) , said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly along the Ninth (9th) Standard Parallel North to the north-east corner of Township forty-five (45) North, Range fifteen (15) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said town-ship; thence southerly along the section lines to the south-east corner of Section two (2), Township forty-four (44) North, Range fifteen (15) East; thence westerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section eleven (11), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of th'e south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Lot four (4) of Section one (1), Township forty-three (43) North, Range fifteen (15) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of the south-west quarter of said Section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twelve (12), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township forty-two (42) North, Range fifteen (15) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west' quarter of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence southerly to the norths west corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence easterly to the north east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township forty-one (41) North, Range fifteen (15) East; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Lot 2 of Section nineteen (19), Township forty-one (41) North, Range sixteen (16) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of the north-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty (30), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly along the Eighth (8th) Standard Parallel North to the point for the north-east corner of Section six (6), Township forty (40) North, Range sixteen (16) East; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence eastterly to the point for the north-east corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section three (3), Township thirty-nine (39) North, Range sixteen (16) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Lot three (3) of Section three (3), Township thirty-eight (38) North, Range sixteen (16) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section ten (10) said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section fifteen (15) said town-ship; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section seven-teen (17), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly along the section lines to the south-west corner of Section twenty-nine (29), Township thirty-eight (38) North, Range fifteen (15) East; thence southerly along the range line to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township thirty-eight (38) North, Range fourteen (14), East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section ten (10), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township thirty-nine (39), North, Range fourteen (14), East; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty (20), said town-ship; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section eight (8), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly along the section lines to the north-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), Township forty (40) North, Range fourteen (14) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Lot two (2) of Section four (4), said town-ship; thence easterly along the Eighth (8th) Standard Parallel North to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty- three (33), Township forty-one (41) North, Range fourteen (14) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly along the section lines to the north-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), Township forty-three (43) North, Range fourteen (14) East; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarteibof said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township forty-four (44) North, Range fourteen (14) East; thence westerly to the south west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly along the section lines to the north-west corner of Section two (2), Township forty-five (45) North, Range four-teen (14), East; thence westerly along the Ninth (9th) Standard Parallel North to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Town-ship forty-six (46) North, Range fourteen (14) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section ten (10), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section eleven (11), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section two (2), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township forty-seven (47) North, Range fifteen (15) East, the place of beginning.", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Warner Mountains Forest Reserve.", "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 29th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 33 Stat. 2375", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, California.", "Boundaries.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "The Warner Mountains Forest Reserve."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt By the President:", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Warner Mountains Forest Reserve in California, closing the timbered public lands within its boundaries to entry and settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Warner Mountains Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [49], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-11-29", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "Before the signing, a Washington dispatch reprinted across California tied the larger Warner Mountain proposal to the indicted Hyde–Benson land ring, which had bought barren land inside its lines to trade for timber scrip.", "source": "Humboldt Times, February 25, 1904; Mariposa Gazette, March 19, 1904", "date": "1904-02", "story": 49}, {"text": "A search of California papers found no coverage of the November 1904 signing.", "source": "California Digital Newspaper Collection", "date": "1904-11", "story": 49}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "local", "text": "Instead of the roughly million-acre withdrawal reported in 1903, which reached into Oregon, Roosevelt created two separate California reserves; Warner Mountains covered 306,518 acres gross.", "source": "Brown, History of the Modoc National Forest (1945), p. 20", "date": "1904-11-29", "story": 49}], "legacy": [{"text": "Warner Mountains was combined into the Modoc National Forest on July 1, 1908.", "source": "Forest Service, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (1959)", "date": "1908-07-01", "story": 49}], "today": [{"name": "Modoc National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "California", "note": "With the Modoc reserve, the core of today's forest.", "source": "Forest Service, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (1959)", "story": 49}], "uncertain": ["The February 1904 land-fraud dispatch is known only from rough newspaper OCR and should be read from the page image before it is quoted."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-535", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Signed the same day for the neighboring Modoc reserve.", "story": 49, "date": "1904-11-29", "title": "Establishment of the Modoc Forest Reserve, California", "type": "proclamation", "number": "535"}]}
{"id": "proc-535", "type": "proclamation", "number": "535", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-11-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Modoc Forest Reserve, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 535, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-535"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2380, "last_page": 2382, "cite": "33 Stat. 2380–2382", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2380.pdf", "statutes_date": "1904-11-29", "table_title": "Setting apart Modoc Forest Reserve, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservationsand the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of California, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of California, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Township forty-eight (48) North, Range ten (10) East, Mount Diablo Base and Meridian, California; thence easterly along the State Line between the States of California and Oregon, to the north-east corner of Lot three (3) of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township forty-seven (47) North, Range ten (10) East; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township forty-seven (47) North, Range eleven (11) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Lot three (3) of Section seven (7), Town-ship forty-seven (47) North, Range twelve (12) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section eight (8), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section ten (10), said townghip; thence easterly along the quarter section lines to the point of intersection with the shore line of Goose Lake, in Section eight (8), Township forty-seven (47) North, Range thirteen (13) East;- thence in a general southerly direction along the shore line of Goose Lake to the point of intersection with the section line between Sections twenty-seven (27) and twenty-eight (28), Township forty-five (45) North, Range thirteen (13) East; thence southerly along the section lines to the south-east corner of Section nine (9), Township forty-four (44) North, Range thirteen (13) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty- one (21), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township forty-four (44) North, Range twelve (12) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said town-ship; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township forty-four (44) North, Range eleven (11) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said ‘township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township forty- four (44) North, Range ten (10) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of the north-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-e’ast corner of the south-east quarter of the north-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13) , said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section fifteen (15). said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north east corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section thirty (30), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the Ninth (9th) Standard Parallel North, to the north-west corner of Township forty-eight (48) North, Range ten (10) East, the place of beginning.", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: PROVIDED, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "2382 Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Modoc Forest Reserve.", "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 29th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one, hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 33 Stat. 2380", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, California.", "Boundaries.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "The Modoc Forest Reserve."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt By the President:", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Modoc Forest Reserve in northern California along the state line, reserving its partly timbered public lands from entry and settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Modoc Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [49], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-11-29", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "A search of California papers found no coverage of the November 1904 signing.", "source": "California Digital Newspaper Collection", "date": "1904-11", "story": 49}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "local", "text": "The reserve answered an Alturas mass meeting that asked, with no reported dissent, for a permanent Modoc reserve to protect the streams feeding the Pit River valleys, and a petition from more than two hundred farmers and stock raisers.", "source": "Alturas New Era, March 16, 1904, p. 5", "date": "1904-03", "story": 49}], "legacy": [{"text": "Roosevelt enlarged Modoc by 570,000 acres in 1908 and by 306,281 acres in 1909, bringing it to 1,471,817 acres gross.", "source": "Brown, History of the Modoc National Forest (1945), p. 20", "date": "1909", "story": 49}], "today": [{"name": "Modoc National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "origin", "state": "California", "since": "1904-11-29", "note": "288,218 acres gross at creation.", "source": "Forest Service, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (1959)", "story": 49}], "uncertain": ["The Alturas mass-meeting resolutions are known only from rough newspaper OCR and should be read from the page image before they are quoted."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-534", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Signed the same day for the neighboring Warner Mountains reserve, later merged into Modoc.", "story": 49, "date": "1904-11-29", "title": "Establishment of the Warner Mountains Forest Reserve, California", "type": "proclamation", "number": "534"}, {"id": "proc-800", "relation": "enlarged_by", "note": "Added 570,000 acres.", "story": 49, "date": "1908-02-13", "title": "Enlarging Modoc National Forest, California", "type": "proclamation", "number": "800"}, {"id": "proc-853", "relation": "enlarged_by", "note": "Added 306,281 acres.", "story": 49, "date": "1909-02-25", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of Modoc National Forest, California", "type": "proclamation", "number": "853"}]}
{"id": "eo-278", "type": "executive_order", "number": "278", "tr_sequence": 140, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-11-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Designating Substitute Watchmen in Government Printing Office as Classified Under Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_278", "revid": 1842487, "printed_source": "1904 CSR 78"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Substitute watchmen in the Government Printing Office will hereafter be regarded as classified under the civil-service rules. The forty persons named in the list transmitted to the Civil Service Commission by the Public Printer under date of October 4, 1904, now serving in that office, will be treated as classified in accordance with section 6, Rule II, civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1904 CSR 78)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, November 29, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Classified substitute watchmen at the Government Printing Office under the civil-service rules, including the forty men already serving on the Public Printer's list.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [{"name": "Government Printing Office", "kind": "other"}], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [84], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-11-29", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-279", "type": "executive_order", "number": "279", "tr_sequence": 141, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-11-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Prohibiting Appointment in Executive Departments for Any Service of Character Performed by Classified Employees Except Under Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_279", "revid": 1847164, "printed_source": "1904 CSR 78"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["No person shall be appointed or employed in any Executive Department or office for the performance of any service of the character performed by classified employees except in accordance with the provisions of the civil-service rules; and before making any appointment or employment for service with respect to which there may be reasonable doubt as to the requirement of examination the head of the Department or office shall confer with the Civil Service Commission for the purpose of determining whether examination is required, and when such conference does not result in agreement the case shall be presented to the Attorney-General for his opinion."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1904 CSR 78)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, November 29, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Barred executive departments from hiring anyone to do the work of classified employees except under the civil-service rules, and sent doubtful cases to the Civil Service Commission and, failing agreement, to the Attorney General.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [84], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-11-29", "impact": {"later_actions": [{"date": "1947-02-24", "text": "President Truman's Executive Order 9830 revoked the rule against hiring outside the civil-service rules for classified-type work.", "source": "Executive Order 9830", "story": 84}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-280", "type": "executive_order", "number": "280", "tr_sequence": 142, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-11-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of James Rankin Young as Superintendent of Dead Letter Office Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_280", "revid": 1838889, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 83"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. James Rankin Young, of Pennsylvania, may be appointed as Superintendent of the Dead-Letter Office without examination under the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 83)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, November 30, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed James Rankin Young of Pennsylvania to be appointed Superintendent of the Dead Letter Office without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Pennsylvania"], "people": ["James Rankin Young"], "significance": 1, "stories": [84], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-11-30", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "political", "text": "Giving the Dead Letter Office post to James Rankin Young, just out of Congress after three terms, is the group's clearest example of the standing complaint that appointments without examination wore down the merit system.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1904", "story": 84}], "legacy": [{"text": "Young held the Dead Letter Office post until 1913.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1913", "story": 84}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-281", "type": "executive_order", "number": "281", "tr_sequence": 143, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-11-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Permanent Appointment of Marcus Braun as Inspector in Immigration Service Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_281", "revid": 1838892, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 83"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Marcus Braun may be permanently appointed immigrant inspector in the Immigration Service without examination under the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 83)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, November 30, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Marcus Braun to be permanently appointed an immigrant inspector in the Immigration Service without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Marcus Braun"], "significance": 1, "stories": [84], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-11-30", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-282", "type": "executive_order", "number": "282", "tr_sequence": 144, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-11-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Permanent Appointment of Joseph Watkinson as Assistant Inspector in Steamboat Inspection Service Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_282", "revid": 1838904, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 83"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Capt. Joseph Watkinson may be permanently appointed assistant inspector of hulls in the Steamboat-Inspection Service without examination under the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 83)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, November 30, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Permitted Capt. Joseph Watkinson to be permanently appointed assistant inspector of hulls in the Steamboat Inspection Service without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Joseph Watkinson"], "significance": 1, "stories": [84], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-11-30", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-536", "type": "proclamation", "number": "536", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-12-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Diminution of the South Platte Forest Reserve, Colorado", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 536, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-536"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2382, "last_page": 2383, "cite": "33 Stat. 2382–2383", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2382.pdf", "statutes_date": "1904-12-06", "table_title": "Reducing area of South Platte Forest Reserve Colorado."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the South Platte Forest Reserve, in the State of Colorado, was established by proclamation dated December ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, under and by virtue of section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, which provides, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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”, that “ the President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary line of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”; Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do hereby make known and proclaim that the following described lands in the State of Colorado are hereby released and eliminated from the aforesaid South Platte Forest Reserve, and the aforesaid proclamation dated December ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, establishing said reserve, is hereby vacated to that extent, and no more:", "In Township eleven (11) South, Range seventy-three (73) West, Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian, Colorado, the west half of Section eighteen (18), Section nineteen (19), the west half of Section twenty-eight (28), Sections twenty-nine (29), thirty (30), thirty-one (31) and thirty-two (32), and the south half and north-west quarter of Section thirty-three (33);", "In Township twelve (12) South, Range seventy-three (73) West. Lots three (3) and (4) and the south-west quarter of Section three (3), Sec tions four (4) to nine (9), both inclusive. Sections sixteen (16) to twenty- one (21), both inclusive, the south half of Section twenty-two (22), the west half of Sections twenty-three (23) and twenty-six (26), and Sections twenty-seven (27) to thirty-five (35), both inclusive;", "In Township ten (10) South, Range seventy-four (74) West, the west half of Section three (3), the east half of Section four (4), the south-east quarter of Section eight (8), Section nine (9). the west half of Section ten (10), Sections fifteen (15) to twenty-two (22), both inclusive, Sections twenty-seven (27) to thirty-three (33), both inclusive, and the north half and south-west quarter of Section thirty-four (34);", "In Township twelve (12) South, Range seventy-four (74) West, Section thirteen (13), the east half of Sections fourteen (14) and twenty- three (23), Section twenty-four (24), the north half of Section twenty- five (25), and the north-east quarter of Section twenty-six (26).", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Colorado, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation, 1 hereby further make known and proclaim, by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid acts of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, that the following described public lands are hereby reserved from entry or settlement, and are added to and made a part of the aforesaid South Platte Forest Reserve:", "In Township eleven (11) South, Range seventy-four (74) West, Sections one (1) and two (2), the east half of Section three (3), the north-east quarter of Section ten (10), Sections eleven (11) and twelve (12), and the north half of Sections thirteen (13) and fourteen (14).", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "The lands hereby excluded from the reserve and restored to the public domain shall be open to settlement from the date hereof, but shall not be subject to entry, filing or selection until after ninety days notice by such publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 6th day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 33 Stat. 2382", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 27, p. 1044.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "South Platte Forest; Reserve, Colo.", "Lands released from.", "Lands reserved.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Lands excepted.", "Date of opening to settlement lands restored to public domain.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt By the President:", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Reduced the South Platte Forest Reserve in Colorado, releasing some lands back to the public domain for later settlement while keeping the rest reserved.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "reduce", "places": [{"name": "South Platte Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [49], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-12-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-100", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 100, "date": "1904-12-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "EO of Sept. 1, 1903 modified; Camp Eldridge Military Reservation, Los Baños, Luzon (68.35 acres), enlarged.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 100, "page": "200", "citations": "(EO 2316; 1907 MR 409; …)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "EO of Sept. 1, 1903 modified; Camp Eldridge Military Reservation, Los Baños, Luzon (68.35 acres), enlarged.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Enlarged the Camp Eldridge Military Reservation at Los Baños, Luzon, listed at 68.35 acres, modifying an order of September 1, 1903.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Camp Eldridge Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [113], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-12-06", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "uo-068", "relation": "modifies", "note": "Enlarged Camp Eldridge at Los Baños, one of the fifteen posts of September 1, 1903.", "story": 113, "date": "1903-09-01", "title": "Fifteen Philippine military reservations established in one order (Camp Stotsenberg at Angeles, Camp McGrath at Batangas, and others).", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "eo-283", "type": "executive_order", "number": "283", "tr_sequence": 145, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-12-08", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Waiving Civil Service Requirements of United States Citizenship for Positions on Isthmus of Panama", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_283", "revid": 1853075, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 69"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The requirements as to United States citizenship may be waived for applicants for positions on the Isthmus of Panama, under such regulations as may be provided by the United States Civil Service Commission."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 69)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, December 8, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Waving Civil Service Requirements of United States Citizenship for Positions on Isthmus of Panama”. Spelling (\"Waving\")."], "summary": "Allowed the U.S. citizenship requirement to be waived for applicants for jobs on the Isthmus of Panama, under Civil Service Commission regulations.", "categories": ["civil-service", "canal-zone"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [84], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-12-08", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Civil Service Commission explained that the waiver was made at the Isthmian Canal Commission's request, because the service's needs could not be met without hiring non-citizens.", "source": "U.S. Civil Service Commission, Twenty-second Annual Report (1905), p. 69", "date": "1905", "story": 84}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1947-02-24", "text": "President Truman's Executive Order 9830 revoked the citizenship waiver.", "source": "Executive Order 9830", "story": 84}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-274", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 84, "inferred": true, "date": "1904-11-15", "title": "Applying Civil Service Rules to Employees of Isthmian Canal Commission", "type": "executive_order", "number": "274"}]}
{"id": "eo-284", "type": "executive_order", "number": "284", "tr_sequence": 146, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-12-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Permanent Appointment of Mrs. William H. Tabberah as Keeper of the Cumberland Head Light Station, New York, Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_284", "revid": 1838913, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 83"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. William H. Tabberah may be permanently appointed as keeper of the Cumberland Head Light Station, New York, without examination under the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 83)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, December 12, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Mrs. William H. Tabberah to be permanently appointed keeper of the Cumberland Head Light Station in New York without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service", "lighthouses"], "action": "appoint", "places": [{"name": "Cumberland Head Light Station", "kind": "lighthouse", "state": "New York"}], "states": ["New York"], "people": ["Mrs. William H. Tabberah"], "significance": 1, "stories": [84], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-12-12", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-285", "type": "executive_order", "number": "285", "tr_sequence": 147, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-12-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Regulations to Govern the Employment of Unskilled Laborers in the Federal Offices Outside of Washington, D. C.", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_285", "revid": 12440732, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["As amended July 12, 1905", "The following regulations to govern the employment of unskilled laborers in the Federal offices outside of Washington, D. C., are approved, to take effect at New York, N. Y., Boston, Mass., Philadelphia, Pa., and St. Louis, Mo., as soon as appointments can be made upon certification. They shall be extended to such Federal offices in other cities as the Civil Service Commission may at any time deem expedient. This system of appointment is distinct from the classified service, and does not classify positions of mere laborers under the civil service act and rules.", "The board of examiners for the United States civil service district, of which each of the above-named cities is the headquarters, shall serve as the board of labor employment for the Federal offices in that city, under the direction of the United States Civil Service Commission.", "Section 1. No person shall be admitted to examination who is not a citizen of the United States, or who is less than 20 or more than 60 years of age, except that veterans of the civil war who have been honorably discharged may be examined without regard to their age.", "Sec. 2. The board may refuse to register an applicant for any of the following reasons:", "(a) Dismissal from the public service—Federal, State, or municipal—for misconduct, within one year preceding. (b) Physical or mental unfitness. (c) Criminal, infamous, dishonest, immoral, or notoriously disgraceful conduct. (d) Intentionally making a false statement in any material fact or practicing deception or fraud in securing registration or appointment. (e) Habitual intoxication.", "Sec. 3. Application for examination shall be made in such form and manner, and be accompanied by such certificates as the Commission may prescribe.", "Sec. 4. No information shall be received or considered concerning the political or religious opinions or affiliations of any applicant.", "Section 1. Applicants shall be rated on a scale of 100 upon their physical qualifications and apparent ability to perform manual labor, by a physician designated by the Commission. Competitors shall be duly notified of their rating.", "Sec. 2. Upon completion of the physical examinations the board shall enter upon registers, by sex, the names of applicants rated at 85 or more, as follows:", "Male eligibles— (a) Persons honorably discharged from the Army or Navy of the United States by reason of wounds or disability incurred in line of duty, in the order of their physical rating. (b) Honorably discharged veterans of the civil war, in the order of their physical rating. (c) All others in order of physical rating.", "Female eligibles will be entered on the registers in the order of physical rating.", "Sec. 3. The period of eligibility shall be one year from the date of entry upon the register.", "Sec. 4. A copy of the register shall be kept in a place accessible to the public in the post-office of the city for which the applicants are eligible.", "Section 1. Any position or employment of a mere laborer or workman in the unclassified service, unless filled by reinstatement, transfer, promotion, or reduction, shall be filled in the following manner:", "(a) The nominating or appointing officer shall request the certification of eligibles, specifying sex and principal duties of the position, and the board shall certify from the proper register the three names at the head thereof, of the sex specified, which may not have been certified three times to the office in which the vacancy exists.", "(b) The nominating or appointing officer shall make selection from the three names certified, with sole reference to fitness, unless he shall offer written objections which the board, with the approval of the Commission, may deem sufficient, in which case a new certificate shall be issued, omitting the names of those to whom objection has been made.", "(c) The person selected for appointment shall be duly notified by the appointing officer, and upon reporting for duty shall be given a fair trial of his conduct and capacity.", "Sec. 2. A laborer separated without misconduct may, upon written application, be restored to the register of eligibles for his remaining period of eligibility, or may be reemployed, without further certification, in the office from which he was separated, at any time within one year.", "Sec 3. When a demand for appointment or employment arises which can not be met in the manner provided in section 1, a person whose name is either not on the register or not in turn for certification may be appointed temporarily; but such appointment shall continue only during the continuance, in the judgment of the Commission, of the conditions which necessitated it, and no such person shall be thus employed more than thirty days in any period of twelve months.", "Sec 4. A person appointed to an unclassified position shall not be assigned to work of a classified competitive position, and shall not be transferred or promoted to such a position.", "Section 1. No laborer shall be removed except for such cause as, in the judgment of the head of the office, will promote the efficiency of the service, and no trial or hearing shall be required except at the discretion of the officer making the removal.", "Sec 2. The reasons for any removal shall be made of record in the office in which the person is serving, and shall be open to the inspection of the board and the Commission.", "Sec. 3. Heads of offices shall require assistant superintendents or foremen of divisions or crews to make monthly reports showing specifically the kind of labor performed by the unclassified laborers in their charge, which report shall be open to the inspection of the board and the Commission."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, December 12, 1904. == Notes == Amended by: Executive Order 339, July 12, 1905 Executive Order 714, November 22, 1907 Executive Order 922, August 3, 1908 Executive Order 953, October 21, 1908 See Related: Executive Order 275, November 15, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Set rules for hiring unskilled laborers in federal offices outside Washington, starting in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and St. Louis, with local civil-service boards registering applicants aged 20 to 60.", "categories": ["civil-service", "labor-business"], "action": "regulate", "places": [{"name": "New York", "kind": "town", "state": "New York"}, {"name": "Boston", "kind": "town", "state": "Massachusetts"}, {"name": "Philadelphia", "kind": "town", "state": "Pennsylvania"}, {"name": "St. Louis", "kind": "town", "state": "Missouri"}], "states": ["New York", "Massachusetts", "Pennsylvania", "Missouri"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [84], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-12-12", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The National Civil Service Reform League's journal, Good Government, printed the original regulations in full.", "source": "Good Government, December 1904", "date": "1904-12", "story": 84}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-275", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The Washington labor regulations it paralleled.", "story": 84, "date": "1904-11-15", "title": "Regulations Governing the Appointment of Unclassified Laborers in the Departments at Washington, D.C.", "type": "executive_order", "number": "275"}, {"id": "eo-339", "relation": "amended_by", "note": "Amended July 12, 1905.", "story": 84, "date": "1905-07-12", "title": "Amending Regulations Governing the Employment of Unskilled Laborers in Federal Offices Outside Washington, D.C.", "type": "executive_order", "number": "339"}, {"id": "eo-714", "relation": "amended_by", "note": "Amended November 22, 1907.", "story": 84, "date": "1907-11-22", "title": "Amending Regulations to Govern the Employment of Unskilled Laborers Outside Washington, D.C.", "type": "executive_order", "number": "714"}, {"id": "eo-922", "relation": "amended_by", "note": "Amended August 3, 1908, on the period of eligibility.", "story": 84, "date": "1908-08-03", "title": "Amending Regulations Governing Employment of Unskilled Laborers Outside Washington, D.C. Regarding Period of Eligibility", "type": "executive_order", "number": "922"}, {"id": "eo-953", "relation": "amended_by", "note": "Amended October 21, 1908, on demotions and transfers.", "story": 84, "date": "1908-10-21", "title": "Amending Regulations Governing Employment of Unskilled Laborers Outside Washington, D.C. Regarding Demotions and Transfers", "type": "executive_order", "number": "953"}]}
{"id": "eo-286", "type": "executive_order", "number": "286", "tr_sequence": 148, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-12-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Classifying Employees of General Land Office of the Interior Department Involved in Protection of Forestry Reserves", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_286", "revid": 1839565, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 79"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["In the exercise of the power vested in the President by section 1753 of the Revised Statutes and acts amendatory thereof—", "It is ordered that all persons employed in the field and in the District of Columbia in the \"protection and administration of the forestry reserves in or under the General Land Office of the Interior Department\" be classified and the civil service act and rules applied thereto, and that no person be hereafter appointed, employed, promoted, or transferred in said service until he passes an examination in conformity therewith, unless specially exempted thereunder. This order shall apply to all officers and employees, except persons employed merely as laborers, and persons whose appointments are confirmed by the Senate.", "The officers and employees included within the provisions of this order are hereby arranged in classes according to annual salary or compensation as follows:", "A. Less than $720. B. $720 or more, and less than $840. C. $840 or more, and less than $900. D. $900 or more, and less than $1,000. E. $1,000 or more, and less than $1,200. 1. $1,200 or more, and less than $1,400. 2. $1,400 or more, and less than $1,600. 3. $1,600 or more, and less than $1,800. 4. $1,800 or more, and less than $2,000. 5. $2,000 or more, and less than $2,500. 6. $2,500 or more."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 79)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, December 17, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Placed the General Land Office employees who protect and administer the forest reserves, in the field and in Washington, under the civil-service rules, so new hires and promotions require examination.", "categories": ["civil-service", "forests"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [84], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-12-17", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The forest guards it classified passed with the reserves to the Department of Agriculture in 1905, where the reserves became the foundation of the Forest Service.", "source": "Transfer Act of February 1, 1905, 33 Stat. 628", "date": "1905-02-01", "story": 84}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-537", "type": "proclamation", "number": "537", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-12-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Modification of the Boundaries of the Big Horn Forest Reserve, Wyoming", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 537, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-537"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2384, "last_page": 2388, "cite": "33 Stat. 2384–2388", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2384.pdf", "statutes_date": "1904-12-23", "table_title": "Modifying boundaries of Big Horn Forest Reserve, Wyoming."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, The Big Horn Forest Reserve, in the State of Wyoming, was established by proclamation dated February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, under and by virtue of section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, which provides, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or under-growth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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”, that “the President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”; under which provision, the boundary lines of the said forest reserve were changed and enlarged by proclamations dated June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred, and May twenty-second, nineteen hundred and two;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by releasing and excluding certain lands from the said forest reserve, and by including therein certain additional lands which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do hereby make known and proclaim that the boundary lines of the aforesaid Big Horn Forest Reserve are hereby further modified so as to read as follows:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Section seventeen (17), Town-ship fifty-eight (58) North, Range eighty-nine (89) West, Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian, Wyoming; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township fifty-seven (57) North, Range eighty-nine (89) West; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of Section seventeen (17), Township fifty-seven (57) North, Range eighty-eight (88) West; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township fifty-seven (57) North, Range eighty-seven (87) West; thence easterly to the 1north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence southerly to the south east corner of said section; thence westerly along the Fourteenth (14th) Standard Parallel North to the north-east corner of Section six (6), Township fifty-six (56) North, Range eighty-seven (87) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), Township fifty-five (55) North, Range eighty-six (86) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Township fifty-four (54) North, Range eighty-six (86) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section two (2), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty (20), Township fifty-four (54) North, Range eighty-five (85) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Township fifty-three (53) North, Range eighty-five (85) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section two (2), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section fourteen (14), Township fifty-three (53) North, Range eighty-four (84) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence easterly along the Thirteenth (13th) Standard Parallel North to the north-east corner of Section two (2), Township fifty-two (52) North, Range eighty-four (84) West; thence southerly along the section lines to the north-west corner of Section twelve (12), Township fifty-one (51) North, Range eighty-four (84) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township fifty-one (51) North, Range eighty-three (83) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said town-ship; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly along the section lines, allowing for offsets, to the north-west corner of Section nine (9), Township fifty (50) North, Range eighty-three (83) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly along the section lines to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township forty-nine (49) North, Range eighty-three (83) West; thence westerly along the Twelfth (12th) Standard Parallel North to the north-east corner of Township forty-eight (48) North, Range eighty-four (84) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said town ship; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), Township forty-seven (47) North, Range eighty-four (84) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said town-ship; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), Township forty-seven (47) North, Range eighty-five (85) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Town-ship forty-seven (47) North, Range, eighty-seven (87) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence northerly along the section lines to the north-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township forty-eight (48) North, Range eighty-seven (87) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section one (1), said township; thence westerly along the Twelfth (12th) Standard Parallel North to the south-west corner or Section thirty-five (35), Township forty-nine (49) North, Range eighty-seven (87) West; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty- two (22), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), Township fifty (50) North, Range eighty-eight (88) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township fifty-one(51) North, Range eighty-eight (88) West; thence northerly along the section lines to the north-west corner of Section five (5), Township fifty-two (52) North, Range eighty-eight (881 West; thence westerly along the Thirteenth (13th) Standard Parallel North to the south-west corner of Township fifty- three (53) North, Range eighty-eight (88) West; thence northerly “to the north-west corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township fifty-three (53) North, Range eighty-nine (89) West; thence northerly to the point for the south-east corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of Section sixteen (16), Township fifty-three (53) North, Range ninety (90) West; thence northerly to the point for the south-east corner of Section five (5), said township; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section six (6), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence northerly to the point for the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township fifty- four (54) North, Range ninety-one (91) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said Town-ship; thence northerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed section lines to the north-east corner of Section twenty-eight (28), Township fifty- five (55) North, Range ninety-one (91) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence northerly to the point for the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township fifty-five (55) North, Range ninety-two (92) West; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence northerly to the point for the north-east corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly to the point for the north-east corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence westerly to the point for the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township fifty-six (56) North, Range ninety-two (92) West; thence northerly to the point for the south-east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), Township fifty-six (56) North, Range ninety-three (93) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section one (1), said township; thence easterly along the Fourteenth (14th) Standard Parallel North to the point for the south-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), Town-ship fifty-seven (57) North, Range ninety-two (92) West; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence easterly to the point for the south-west corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township fifty-eight (58) North, Range ninety-two (92) West; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section six-teen (16), said township; thence easterly along the State Line between the States of Wyoming and Montana to the north-west corner of Section seventeen (17), Township fifty-eight (58) North, Range eighty-nine (89) West, , the place of beginning.", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entry man, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "The lands hereby excluded from the reserve and restored to the public domain shall be open to settlement from the date hereof, but shall not be subject to entry, filing or selection until after ninety days notice by such publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all personsnot to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "2388 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 23d day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and four, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 33 Stat. 2384", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Vol. 29, p. 909.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Vol. 31, p, 1976.", "Vol. 32, p. 2004.", "The Big Horn Forest Reserve, Wyo.", "New boundaries.", "Lands excepted.", "Date of opening to settlement.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt By the President:", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Modification of the Boundries of the Big Horn Forest Reserve, Wyoming”. Spelling (\"Boundries\" in the American Presidency Project caption)."], "summary": "Redrew the boundaries of the Big Horn Forest Reserve in Wyoming, setting a date for excluded lands to open to settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Big Horn Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Wyoming"}], "states": ["Wyoming"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [49], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-12-23", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Bighorn National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Wyoming", "source": "Forest Service, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (1959)", "story": 49}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-287", "type": "executive_order", "number": "287", "tr_sequence": 149, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-12-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Except from Examination a Consulting Architect in the War Department for Work on the United States Military Academy", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_287", "revid": 1839571, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 72"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Schedule A, classified positions excepted from examination under Rule II, clause 3, is hereby amended by adding, under the subheading \"War Department,\" a clause as follows:", "Consulting architect, for work of reconstructing United States Military Academy, at West Point, New York."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 72)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, December 24, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Exempted from examination a consulting architect hired by the War Department to rebuild the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York.", "categories": ["civil-service", "military-naval"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [{"name": "United States Military Academy", "kind": "other", "state": "New York"}], "states": ["New York"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [84], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-12-24", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-288", "type": "executive_order", "number": "288", "tr_sequence": 150, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-12-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Permanent Appointment for Thirteen Clerks in the Bureau of the Census", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_288", "revid": 1847073, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 84"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The following-named temporary clerks, now employed in the Bureau of the Census in connection with the compilation of the census of the Philippine Islands, may be permanently appointed, at the salaries they are now receiving, to positions within the competitive classified service, it appearing that the original appointments, without certifications from the registers of the Civil Service Commission, were necessary for the reason that the Commission was unable to certify eligibles possessing the requisite qualifications, and it appearing also that these employees, by reason of their training in census work, are especially adapted to the duties devolving upon the permanent force of that Bureau and are needed in connection therewith:", "Bailey, Edna M. Crew, Clara A. Herriott, Ruth E. Jackson, Carrie O. Kippen, Della. La Grange, Mrs. Carrie C. Keleher, Eva A. W. Munson, William F. Pickford, Mrs. Grace D. Sawyer, Mrs. Sarah H. Sutherland, Lucy. Williams, Martha W. Wysor, Ethel."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 84)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, December 24, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed thirteen temporary clerks compiling the Philippine census in the Bureau of the Census to be permanently appointed, since the Civil Service Commission could not certify qualified eligibles.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": ["Edna M. Bailey", "Clara A. Crew", "Ruth E. Herriott", "Carrie O. Jackson", "Della Kippen", "Mrs. Carrie C. La Grange", "Eva A. W. Keleher", "William F. Munson", "Mrs. Grace D. Pickford", "Mrs. Sarah H. Sawyer", "Lucy Sutherland", "Martha W. Williams", "Ethel Wysor"], "significance": 1, "stories": [84], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-12-24", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-288-half", "type": "executive_order", "number": "288½", "tr_sequence": 151, "lord_number": null, "date": "1904-12-31", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Forbidding Notaries Public in Government Service to Charge Fees for Notarial Acts", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_288%C2%BD", "revid": 1912696, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that hereafter no officer, clerk, or employee in the executive service of the Government, who is also a notary public, shall charge or receive any compensation whatever for performing any notarial act for an officer, clerk, or employee of the Government in his official capacity, or in any matter in which the Government is interested, or for any person when, in the case of such person, the act is performed during the hours of such notary's service to the Government. Disobedience of this order shall be ground for immediate dismissal from the service."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, December 31, 1904.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "title_notes": ["The order barred employee-notaries from charging fees for official acts, for government matters, or during working hours."], "summary": "Barred federal employees who are also notaries public from charging fees for notarial acts done for government business, for fellow employees acting officially, or during their government work hours. Breaking the rule meant immediate dismissal.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [84], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-12-31", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Atlanta Constitution carried the order from Washington under the headline \"No Graft for Notaries.\"", "source": "Atlanta Constitution, January 4, 1905", "date": "1905-01-04", "story": 114}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The order was amended on March 31, 1905, and a Commerce and Labor circular of April 7 quoted the amendment.", "source": "Department of Commerce and Labor, Circular No. 68, April 7, 1905", "date": "1905-04-07", "story": 114}]}, "related": [{"id": "uo-101", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Very probably the same order, carried again in Lord's unnumbered list.", "story": 84, "date": "1904-12-31", "title": "Notaries public in government employ forbidden to accept compensation for notarial acts of interest to the government.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}, {"id": "eo-319", "relation": "amended_by", "note": "Amended the notaries order of December 31, 1904.", "story": 114, "date": "1905-03-31", "title": "Amending Executive Order of December 31, 1904, Relating to Restrictions on Notarial Fees, to Exclude Oaths of Disinterestedness", "type": "executive_order", "number": "319"}, {"id": "eo-977", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "Replaced by a new notarial-fee rule, November 24, 1908.", "story": 84, "date": "1908-11-24", "title": "Forbidding Most Notaries Public in Government Service to Charge Fees for Notarial Acts", "type": "executive_order", "number": "977"}]}
{"id": "uo-101", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 101, "date": "1904-12-31", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Notaries public in government employ forbidden to accept compensation for notarial acts of interest to the government.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": ["Corrected from “1905-01-04”. This is EO 288½ of December 31, 1904; January 4, 1905 is when newspapers carried it (Commerce Circular No. 68; Lord's numbered volume)."], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 101, "page": "201", "citations": "(1906 CSA 25; 1908 CSA 27; EO of Mar. 31, 1905)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Notaries public in government employ forbidden to accept compensation for notarial acts of interest to the government.", "reconciliation": "numbered_duplicate", "duplicate_of": "eo-288-half", "reconciliation_note": "**Confirmed 2026-10-12 = EO 288½.** Commerce Department Circulars Nos. 55 (Jan. 1905) and 68 (Apr. 7, 1905) and the Jan. 4, 1905 press (*Atlanta Constitution*, \"No Graft for Notaries\") carry the single order; Lord's 1944 numbered volume lists it as 288½. See entry #114.", "summary": null, "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": null, "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": null, "stories": [114], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1904-12-31", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Atlanta Constitution carried the order from Washington under the headline \"No Graft for Notaries.\"", "source": "Atlanta Constitution, January 4, 1905", "date": "1905-01-04", "story": 114}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The order was amended on March 31, 1905, and a Commerce and Labor circular of April 7 quoted the amendment.", "source": "Department of Commerce and Labor, Circular No. 68, April 7, 1905", "date": "1905-04-07", "story": 114}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-288-half", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The same order; Lord's unnumbered list carries this numbered document a second time.", "story": 114, "date": "1904-12-31", "title": "Forbidding Notaries Public in Government Service to Charge Fees for Notarial Acts", "type": "executive_order", "number": "288½"}, {"id": "eo-319", "relation": "amended_by", "note": "Amended the notaries order of December 31, 1904.", "story": 114, "date": "1905-03-31", "title": "Amending Executive Order of December 31, 1904, Relating to Restrictions on Notarial Fees, to Exclude Oaths of Disinterestedness", "type": "executive_order", "number": "319"}]}
{"id": "eo-289", "type": "executive_order", "number": "289", "tr_sequence": 152, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-01-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Add Further Excepted Positions on Isthmus of Panama", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_289", "revid": 1908243, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 72"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Section VIII of Schedule A of the civil service rules is hereby amended by adding the following named positions:", "Chief justice and judges of supreme and circuit courts. Clerks of the supreme and circuit courts. Marshals of the supreme and circuit courts. Municipal judges. Occasional officers of courts, such as referees, trustees, commissioners, and guardians ad litem. Notaries public. Mayors of municipalities. Municipal secretaries. Assessors of taxes. One private secretary to governor of Canal Zone. Warden and keeper of penitentiary at Gorgona. One chief of police. Captains of police. Detectives. Corporals and privates of police force. All employees in mechanical trades or other skilled manual occupations who are appointed locally upon the Isthmus of Panama, and whose compensation is $4 per diem or less, or $100 per month or less while actually employed."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 72)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, January 5, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Added more Canal Zone posts to the list exempt from civil-service examination, including judges, court officers, mayors, police and locally hired skilled tradesmen earning $4 a day or less.", "categories": ["civil-service", "canal-zone"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-01-05", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Isthmian Canal Commission Secretary Murphy announced that all positions exempted from examination by executive order had been filled and that further appointments would go through the Civil Service Commission.", "source": "Fresno Evening Democrat, January 7, 1905; Santa Rosa Press Democrat, January 8, 1905", "date": "1905-01-07", "story": 85}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-273", "relation": "amends", "note": "Added further excepted positions on the Isthmus to the November 1904 list.", "story": 85, "date": "1904-11-15", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Positions Excepted from Examination for Isthmian Canal Commission Personnel", "type": "executive_order", "number": "273"}]}
{"id": "eo-290", "type": "executive_order", "number": "290", "tr_sequence": 153, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-01-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Classification of Certain Laborers Employed in the City of Washington, District of Columbia", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_290", "revid": 1847134, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 80"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Laborers in the Executive Departments and offices at Washington who were reported in the lists furnished by the Departments to the Civil Service Commission in 1902, in compliance with section 3, civil service Rule XII, as amended January 23, 1902, whose principal duties were at that time and are now of the grade performed by classified employees will be regarded as classified laborers in the positions occupied by them on the date of this order, and may be promoted to clerical grade or be transferred in the manner provided by the civil service rules and regulations."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 80)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, January 12, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Classified the Washington department laborers who had been doing clerical-grade work since 1902, allowing them to be promoted to clerk or transferred under the civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-01-12", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-102", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 102, "date": "1905-01-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Joseph L. Bristow appointed Special Commissioner to investigate trans-Isthmus trade and freight rates and Panama Railroad management.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 102, "page": "201", "citations": "McGuigan 34"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Joseph L. Bristow appointed Special Commissioner to investigate trans-Isthmus trade and freight rates and Panama Railroad management.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Named Joseph L. Bristow special commissioner to look into trade and freight rates across the Isthmus of Panama and the management of the Panama Railroad.", "categories": ["canal-zone", "trade-reciprocity"], "action": "appoint", "places": [{"name": "Panama Railroad", "kind": "other"}], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": ["Joseph L. Bristow"], "significance": 3, "stories": [114], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-01-13", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-103", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 103, "date": "1905-01-19", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Camp Marahui (later Camp Keithley) Military Reservation, Moro Province, Mindanao, P. I., established.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 103, "page": "201", "citations": "(EO 693; 1907 MR 407; …)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Camp Marahui (later Camp Keithley) Military Reservation, Moro Province, Mindanao, P. I., established.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Established Camp Marahui Military Reservation, later called Camp Keithley, in Moro Province on Mindanao in the Philippines.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Camp Marahui Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [114], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-01-19", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-291", "type": "executive_order", "number": "291", "tr_sequence": 154, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-01-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Exceptions from Examination for Customs Service Positions in Alaska", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_291", "revid": 1839659, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 81"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Clause 9 of Subdivision I, of Schedule A, civil service rules, is hereby amended by adding the following words: \"except those in the Customs Service,\" so that as amended the clause will read: \"All positions in Alaska which can not be filled from appropriate existing registers, except those in the Customs Service.\"", "In Subdivision II, of Schedule A, insert a new clause, as follows:", "\"In the Alaska Customs Service all persons appointed or employed for the season of navigation only,\" these amendments to be effective on and after March 1, 1905."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 81)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, January 24, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Removed Alaska's Customs Service from the blanket civil-service exemption for hard-to-fill Alaska posts, while exempting seasonal Alaska customs workers hired only for the navigation season.", "categories": ["civil-service", "insular-territories"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-01-24", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-292", "type": "executive_order", "number": "292", "tr_sequence": 155, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-01-31", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Extending Time Limit for Completion of Work of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission to September 2, 1905", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Extended the deadline for the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission to finish its work to September 2, 1905.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs", "government-administration"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-01-31", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-246", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Earlier extension of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, to September 2, 1904.", "story": 85, "date": "1904-01-12", "title": "Extending Time Limit for Completion of Work of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission to September 2, 1904", "type": "executive_order", "number": "246"}, {"id": "eo-345", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The next extension, to March 2, 1906.", "story": 85, "date": "1905-08-03", "title": "Extending Time Limit for Completion of Work of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission to March 2, 1906", "type": "executive_order", "number": "345"}]}
{"id": "eo-293", "type": "executive_order", "number": "293", "tr_sequence": 156, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-02-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Transfer of Stephen W. Fuller to Messenger in Department of Commerce and Labor Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_293", "revid": 1840220, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 84"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Stephen W. Fuller, a messenger boy in the Library of Congress, may be transferred to the position of messenger in the Bureau of Manufactures of the Department of Commerce and Labor."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 84)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, February 6, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Stephen W. Fuller, a messenger boy at the Library of Congress, to transfer to messenger in the Bureau of Manufactures, Department of Commerce and Labor.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "transfer", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Stephen W. Fuller"], "significance": 1, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-02-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-104", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 104, "date": "1905-02-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Duties, records and files of the Commissioner of Railroads transferred from Interior to Commerce and Labor.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 104, "page": "201", "citations": "(EO 313-A)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Duties, records and files of the Commissioner of Railroads transferred from Interior to Commerce and Labor.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "Distinct. The numbered list itself titles **EO 313-A** (Mar. 31, 1905) \"Revoked **Unnumbered** Order of February 9, 1905.\"", "summary": "Moved the duties, records and files of the Commissioner of Railroads from the Interior Department to the Department of Commerce and Labor.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "transfer", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [114], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-02-09", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The transfer did not hold: seven weeks later it was revoked, and the old railroad office's work stayed at the Interior Department.", "source": "Executive Order 313-A", "date": "1905-03-31", "story": 114}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-313-a", "relation": "revoked_by", "note": "Revoked the transfer on March 31, 1905.", "story": 114, "date": "1905-03-31", "title": "Revoked Unnumbered Order of February 9, 1905, which Transferred Office of the Commissioner of Railroads to Dept of Commerce and Labor", "type": "executive_order", "number": "313-A"}]}
{"id": "eo-294", "type": "executive_order", "number": "294", "tr_sequence": 157, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-02-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Waiving Citizenship Requirements for Applicants for Examination for Officers of Ships of the Coast and Geodetic Survey on Duty in the Philippines", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_294", "revid": 1853077, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 69"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The requirement as to United States citizenship may be waived for applicants for examination for the positions of officers of ships of the Coast and Geodetic Survey on duty in the Philippine Islands under such regulations as may be provided by the United States Civil Service Commission."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 69)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, February 15, 1905. == Notes == Revoked by: Executive Order 9830, February 24, 1947", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed the U.S. citizenship requirement to be waived for applicants seeking officer posts on Coast and Geodetic Survey ships serving in the Philippine Islands.", "categories": ["civil-service", "insular-territories"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-02-15", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-295", "type": "executive_order", "number": "295", "tr_sequence": 158, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-02-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of George F. Otis as Clerk in Quartermaster's Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_295", "revid": 1840229, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 85"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["George F. Otis may be reinstated to the position of clerk in the Quartermaster's Department at large without regard to the provision of Rule IX, limiting the period of eligibility for reinstatement to one year from date of separation."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 85)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, February 15, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed George F. Otis to be reinstated as a clerk in the Quartermaster's Department despite the one-year limit on reinstatement.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "restore", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["George F. Otis"], "significance": 1, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-02-15", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-538", "type": "proclamation", "number": "538", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-02-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Convening a Special Session of the United States Senate", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 538, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-538"}, "statutes": {"volume": 33, "page": 2388, "last_page": 2388, "cite": "33 Stat. 2388", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-33/pdf/STATUTE-33-Pg2388.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-02-23", "table_title": "Convening extra session of the Senate."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["[No. 40.]", "By the President of the United States of America.\nA PROCLAMATION.", "Whereas public interests require that the Senate of the United States be convened at 12 o'clock on the 4th day of March next, to receive such communications as may be made by the Executive:", "NOW, THEREFORE, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and declare that an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene at the Capitol in the city of Washington on the 4th day of March next, at 12 o'clock noon, of which all persons who shall at that time be entitled to act as members of that body are hereby required to take notice.", "GIVEN under my hand and the seal of the United States at Washington, the 23rd day of February in the year of Our Lord\n[SEAL.] one thousand nine hundred and five, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:\nJOHN HAY\nSecretary of State."], "source": "33 Stat. 2388 ([No. 40.]; GovInfo page image), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Words agree with APP; Statutes styling followed ('Whereas' without comma, 'Our Lord', [SEAL.], no points after signatures). The title 'Convening a Special Session of the United States Senate' is an APP caption; the Statutes sidenote reads 'Convening special session of the Senate.'", "story": 62}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt By the President:", "countersigned_by": {"name": "John Hay", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Called the U.S. Senate into special session at the Capitol at noon on March 4, 1905, to receive communications from the President.", "categories": ["congress"], "action": "convene", "places": [], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [62], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-02-23", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Senate call went out on the Associated Press wire and was printed in full by the Santa Barbara Morning Press and summarized in the Chico Record and Morning Echo, all without comment.", "source": "Santa Barbara Morning Press, Chico Record and Morning Echo, Feb. 24, 1905 (California Digital Newspaper Collection)", "date": "1905-02-24", "story": 62}, {"text": "The Morning Oregonian's front page that day carried nothing on the Senate call.", "source": "Morning Oregonian, Feb. 24, 1905, p. 1", "date": "1905-02-24", "story": 62}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "congress", "text": "The session, March 4 to 18, 1905, took up Roosevelt's treaty with Santo Domingo, which he pressed in a special message on March 6, but Democratic opposition blocked a vote and the Senate adjourned without consenting.", "source": "Morning Oregonian, Mar. 9, 1905; FRUS 1905", "date": "1905-03-18", "story": 62}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Twentieth Amendment moved the start of the congressional term to January 3, ending the need to summon the Senate at the start of a presidential term.", "source": "U.S. Constitution, Twentieth Amendment", "date": "1933", "story": 62}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1933", "text": "The Twentieth Amendment moved the start of the congressional term ahead of inauguration day.", "source": "U.S. Constitution, Twentieth Amendment", "story": 62}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-856", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 109, "inferred": true, "date": "1909-02-27", "title": "Convening a Special Session of the United States Senate", "type": "proclamation", "number": "856"}]}
{"id": "eo-296", "type": "executive_order", "number": "296", "tr_sequence": 159, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-03-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Ordering Formation of a Commission to Investigate the Naturalization of Aliens Under Existing Laws and to Report its Findings No Later than November 15, 1905", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Ordered a commission to investigate the naturalization of aliens under existing laws and report by November 15, 1905.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "establish", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-03-01", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "An Associated Press dispatch reported that Roosevelt had before him reports of many instances of gross fraud and error under the naturalization laws, evils he had seen himself in New York City's government.", "source": "San Francisco Call, March 11, 1905", "date": "1905-03-10", "story": 85}, {"text": "A second AP dispatch announced the three commissioners and said the work would \"commence at once.\"", "source": "Stockton Daily Independent, March 26, 1905", "date": "1905-03-25", "story": 85}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The department heads chose the commissioners: Milton D. Purdy of Justice as chairman, Gaillard Hunt of State, and Richard K. Campbell of Commerce and Labor.", "source": "Report of the Commission on Naturalization, H. Doc. 46, 59th Cong., 1st Sess.", "date": "1905", "story": 85}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The commission counted 5,160 courts naturalizing aliens, 157 federal and 5,003 state, and recommended a uniform, federally supervised process.", "source": "Report of the Commission on Naturalization, H. Doc. 46, p. 22", "date": "1905", "story": 85}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The commission submitted its report on November 8, 1905, a week before its deadline.", "source": "Report of the Commission on Naturalization, H. Doc. 46, letter of transmittal", "date": "1905-11-08", "story": 85}, {"kind": "congress", "text": "Roosevelt sent the commission's report to Congress.", "source": "Roosevelt, message to Congress, December 5, 1905", "date": "1905-12-05", "story": 85}], "legacy": [{"text": "The commission's report led directly to the Naturalization Act of 1906, which made the federal government the arbiter of naturalization and standardized the process and certificate nationwide.", "source": "Act of June 29, 1906, ch. 3592, 34 Stat. 596", "date": "1906-06-29", "story": 85}, {"text": "The 1906 act renamed the Bureau of Immigration the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, the institutional ancestor of today's citizenship service.", "source": "Act of June 29, 1906, § 1, 34 Stat. 596", "date": "1906-06-29", "story": 85}, {"text": "Commissioner Richard K. Campbell went on to head the bureau's Naturalization Division and served as Commissioner of Naturalization from 1913 to 1922.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1913", "story": 85}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1906-06-29", "text": "Congress passed the Naturalization Act, standardizing naturalization under federal supervision.", "source": "ch. 3592, 34 Stat. 596", "story": 85}], "uncertain": ["The text of EO 296 has not been found in print; the signed original in the National Archives would settle its wording."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-297", "type": "executive_order", "number": "297", "tr_sequence": 161, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of John Nolan as Carrier in Postal Service Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_297", "revid": 1840529, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 85"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. John Nolan may be reinstated as a carrier in the Postal Service without regard to the limitations prescribed by the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 85)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, March 2, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed John Nolan to be reinstated as a Postal Service carrier without regard to civil-service time limits.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "restore", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["John Nolan"], "significance": 1, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-03-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-298", "type": "executive_order", "number": "298", "tr_sequence": 162, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-03-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Make Certain Interior Department Positions Subject to Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_298", "revid": 1841539, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 73"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Schedule A of the civil service rules is hereby amended by striking out paragraphs 4 and 5 of Section VI, relating to the Department of the Interior, which are as follows:", "Special agents employed, as necessity for their employment may arise, for the purpose of protecting public lands. Inspectors of surveyors-general and district land offices.", "The succeeding paragraphs will be renumbered accordingly."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 73)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, March 3, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Ended the examination exemption for Interior Department special agents protecting public lands and for inspectors of surveyors-general and district land offices.", "categories": ["civil-service", "public-lands"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-03-03", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-299", "type": "executive_order", "number": "299", "tr_sequence": 163, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-03-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Except Five Special Agents in Interior Department from Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_299", "revid": 1908272, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 73"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Schedule A of the civil service rules is hereby amended by the addition to Section VI, relating to the Department of the Interior, of a paragraph (to be numbered 11) to read as follows:", "Five special agents of the General Land Office to investigate fraudulent entries and other matters of a criminal nature."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 73)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, March 3, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Exempted from examination five General Land Office special agents assigned to investigate fraudulent land entries and other criminal matters.", "categories": ["civil-service", "public-lands"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-03-03", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-300", "type": "executive_order", "number": "300", "tr_sequence": 164, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-03-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Except Physicians in Indian Service from Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_300", "revid": 1850016, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Schedule A of the Civil Service Rules is hereby amended by striking out paragraph 10 of Section VI, relating to the Department of the Interior, and inserting in lieu thereof the following:", "Physicians employed in the Indian service and receiving not more than $720 per annum salary, who may lawfully perform their official duties in connection with their private practice, each employment, however, to be subject to the approval of the Commission."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, March 3, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Exempted from examination Indian Service physicians paid no more than $720 a year who may also keep a private practice, with each hire subject to Commission approval.", "categories": ["civil-service", "indian-lands"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-03-03", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-301", "type": "executive_order", "number": "301", "tr_sequence": 165, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-03-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Allow Appointment of Retired Army Officers as Superintendents at Indian Schools Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_301", "revid": 1845980, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 69"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Section IX of Civil Service Rule II is hereby amended by adding to Section IX the following:", "A retired army officer may be appointed as superintendent of an Indian school without competitive examination upon request of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, setting forth that such officer has the required educational and business qualifications for such position, and accompanied by the authenticated military record of said officer. The Commission will then issue the necessary certificate."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 69)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, March 3, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed retired Army officers to be appointed Indian school superintendents without competitive examination, at the request of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and with the Interior Secretary's approval.", "categories": ["civil-service", "indian-lands"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-03-03", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-296-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "296-A", "tr_sequence": 160, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-03-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Creating Stump Lake Reservation, North Dakota, as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Birds", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_296-A", "revid": 1842597, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that the following described islands in Stump Lake in Township 151 North, Range 61 West, 5th Principal Meridian, North Dakota, shown on the official plat approved February 13, 1905, on file in the General Land Office, be, and they are hereby reserved and set apart for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds, viz.:", "Two islands in Section 10, one shown as Lot 3 of the section, containing 12 acres, and one shown as Lot 4 of the section, containing 7.64 acres; one island in Section 11, shown as Lot 4 of the section, containing 2.22 acres; also one island in Section 15, shown as Lot 2 of the section, containing 5.53, total area 27.39 acres. This reservation to be known as the Stump Lake Reservation."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 9, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Set aside four islands in Stump Lake, North Dakota, totaling 27.39 acres, as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds under the Department of Agriculture, to be known as the Stump Lake Reservation.", "categories": ["wildlife"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Stump Lake Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "North Dakota"}], "states": ["North Dakota"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-03-09", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Audubon association printed the full order, with its lot acreages, in its annual report.", "source": "Bird-Lore 7 (1905), p. 299", "date": "1905", "story": 85}], "legacy": [{"text": "Stump Lake was the third federal bird reservation in the country and the first in North Dakota.", "source": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Stump Lake NWR", "date": "1905-03-09", "story": 85}, {"text": "Stump Lake and Devils Lake began rising in 1993; by 2005 the refuge islands were completely submerged, and they remain under 15 feet of water.", "source": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Stump Lake NWR", "date": "2005", "story": 85}], "today": [{"name": "Stump Lake National Wildlife Refuge", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "origin", "state": "North Dakota", "since": "1905-03-09", "note": "Administered from the Devils Lake Wetland Management District; closed to the public, its islands entirely under water.", "source": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service", "story": 85}]}, "related": [{"id": "uo-054", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Pelican Island, the first federal bird reservation (1903).", "story": 85, "date": "1903-03-13", "title": "Pelican Island Reservation, Fla., established as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}, {"id": "uo-098", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Breton Island, the second federal bird reservation (October 4, 1904).", "story": 85, "date": "1904-10-04", "title": "Breton Island Reservation, St. Bernard and Plaquemines Parishes, La., established as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}, {"id": "eo-369-a", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The second Breton order, later in 1905, which can make Stump Lake look like the second reservation in the numbered series.", "story": 85, "date": "1905-11-11", "title": "Establishing Breton Island Reservation, Louisiana", "type": "executive_order", "number": "369-A"}, {"id": "eo-699", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 95, "inferred": true, "date": "1907-10-14", "title": "Establishing Three Arch Rocks Reservation as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds and Animals", "type": "executive_order", "number": "699"}]}
{"id": "eo-302", "type": "executive_order", "number": "302", "tr_sequence": 166, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-03-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Donald G. Mitchell as Supervisor in Interior Department Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_302", "revid": 1841798, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 85"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Donald G. Mitchell, jr., who was employed on October 1, 1901, with the approval of the contractor, to supervise the construction of the buildings comprising the extension to the Government Hospital for the Insane, may be retained and appointed as supervisor of buildings and grounds without examination under the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 85)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, March 10, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Donald G. Mitchell, Jr., who had supervised construction of the Government Hospital for the Insane's new buildings, stay on as supervisor of buildings and grounds without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [{"name": "Government Hospital for the Insane", "kind": "other"}], "states": [], "people": ["Donald G. Mitchell, jr."], "significance": 1, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-03-10", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-302-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "302A", "tr_sequence": 167, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-03-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Lands Set Apart and Reserved for Navajo Indian Reservation, Utah", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_302-A", "revid": 1852154, "printed_source": "  "}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that the following-described lands situated in the State of Utah be, and the same are hereby, withheld from sale and settlement and set apart for Indian purposes as an addition to the Navaho Indian Reservation, viz:", "Beginning at the mouth of Montezuma Creek (in Utah); running thence due east to the Colorado State line; thence south along the Colorado State line to the San Juan River; thence down the San Juan River to the place of beginning: Provided, That any tract or tracts within the region of country described as aforesaid, which are settled upon or occupied, or to which valid rights have attached under existing laws of the United States prior to the date of this order, are hereby excluded from the reservation.", "Theodore Roosevelt The White House, March 10, 1905. == Notes == Revoked by: Executive Order 324-A, May 15, 1905"], "source": "Wikisource (from   )", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Enlarged the lands set apart for the Navajo Indian Reservation in Utah.", "categories": ["indian-lands"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Navajo Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-03-10", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-303", "type": "executive_order", "number": "303", "tr_sequence": 168, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-03-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Catharine M. Gallagher to Classified Service Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_303", "revid": 1841807, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 85"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The provisions of the civil service rules are hereby waived, so as to permit the reinstatement to the classified service in any Executive Department at Washington, D. C., on the application of the head thereof, at a grade no higher than that formerly held by her, of Mrs. Catharine M. Gallagher, who resigned a clerkship of Class D, $900 per annum, in the Department of the Interior, as Miss Catharine M. Kilbourne, on October 15, 1901."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 85)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, March 10, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Waived civil-service rules so Mrs. Catharine M. Gallagher, who left an Interior Department clerkship in 1901, could be reinstated in a Washington department at no higher grade.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "restore", "places": [], "states": ["Washington"], "people": ["Catharine M. Gallagher"], "significance": 1, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-03-10", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-304", "type": "executive_order", "number": "304", "tr_sequence": 169, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-03-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Prohibit Salary Increase of Classified Laborers Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_304", "revid": 1847132, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 70"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Laborers classified as clerks shall not receive further increase of compensation without examination and certification under the regulation governing promotion from the subclerical to the clerical grade."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 70)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 11, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Barred laborers classified as clerks from further pay raises unless they pass the examination for promotion to the clerical grade.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-03-11", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-305", "type": "executive_order", "number": "305", "tr_sequence": 170, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-03-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Dr. Cyrus Adler as Assistant Secretary in Smithsonian Institution Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_305", "revid": 1841593, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 85"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Dr. Cyrus Adler may be appointed as assistant secretary, in charge of the library and exchanges, Smithsonian Institution, at a compensation of $2,700 per annum, without examination under the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 85)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, March 14, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Dr. Cyrus Adler to be appointed assistant secretary in charge of the library and exchanges at the Smithsonian Institution, at $2,700 a year, without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Cyrus Adler"], "significance": 1, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-03-14", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-306", "type": "executive_order", "number": "306", "tr_sequence": 171, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-03-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Creating Consultative Board of Architects for Public Buildings in District of Columbia", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_306", "revid": 6031777, "printed_source": "| notes    = Order issued during debates about the Department of Agriculture building."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that whenever discretion is conferred by law on the head or heads of any department, on the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, or on any other executive officer or officers, to fix the exact position of a public building in the District of Columbia, and to approve the plans for the same, he or they shall confer with the consultative board hereinafter constituted, and shall not either locate the exact site or approve the plans until both the question of location and plans shall have been submitted to such board, and the board shall have made a report and recommendation in respect to the matter.", "A consultative board is hereby constituted of the following gentlemen: Bernard R. Green, chairman; Daniel H. Burnham, Charles F. McKim, Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Frederick Law Olmsted, jr.", "The members of the board will serve without compensation. It is intended through the recommendations of the board to bring about harmony of design in all future public buildings and conformity to an artistic system of improvement based on the original plans for laying out the capital. The examination of the board of architects should be confined to the location and the artistic effect of the exterior of the buildings.", "The Secretary of War is directed to advise each member of the board of his appointment, and to learn whether he will accept the appointment on the conditions named."], "source": "Wikisource (from | notes    = Order issued during debates about the Department of Agriculture building.)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 14, 1905. == Notes == Amended by: Executive Order 310, March 18, 1905 Revoked by: Executive Order 311, March 27, 1905 See related: Executive Order 1010, January 19, 1909 == References ==", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Created an unpaid consultative board of architects, chaired by Bernard R. Green, that must review the site and exterior design of every new public building in the District of Columbia before approval.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "establish", "places": [], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": ["Bernard R. Green", "Daniel H. Burnham", "Charles F. McKim", "Augustus Saint-Gaudens", "Frederick Law Olmsted, jr."], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-03-14", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-310", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Set compensation for a board EO 306 said would serve without it.", "story": 85, "date": "1905-03-18", "title": "Compensation of Consultative Board of Architects Prescribed", "type": "executive_order", "number": "310"}]}
{"id": "eo-307", "type": "executive_order", "number": "307", "tr_sequence": 172, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-03-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Sydnie Kennedy as Chief of Division in Isthmian Canal Service Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_307", "revid": 1841602, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 86"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Sydnie Kennedy may be appointed as chief of division, clerk, and stenographer, at $1,800 per annum, in the Isthmian Canal Service without examination under the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 86)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, March 15, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Sydnie Kennedy to be appointed chief of division, clerk and stenographer in the Isthmian Canal Service, at $1,800 a year, without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service", "canal-zone"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Sydnie Kennedy"], "significance": 1, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-03-15", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-308", "type": "executive_order", "number": "308", "tr_sequence": 173, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-03-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of W. G. Tucker as Clerk in Isthmian Canal Service Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_308", "revid": 1841606, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 86"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. W. G. Tucker may be appointed as clerk at $1,500 per annum, Isthmian Canal Commission, without examination under the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 86)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, March 15, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed W. G. Tucker to be appointed a clerk with the Isthmian Canal Commission, at $1,500 a year, without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service", "canal-zone"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["W. G. Tucker"], "significance": 1, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-03-15", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-309", "type": "executive_order", "number": "309", "tr_sequence": 174, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-03-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Mrs. M. G. Lauxmann as Writer in Coast and Geodetic Survey Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_309", "revid": 1841612, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 86"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. M. G. Lauxmann may be permanently appointed as writer in the Coast and Geodetic Survey without examination under the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 86)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, March 18, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Mrs. M. G. Lauxmann to be permanently appointed a writer in the Coast and Geodetic Survey without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["M. G. Lauxmann"], "significance": 1, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-03-18", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-310", "type": "executive_order", "number": "310", "tr_sequence": 175, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-03-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Compensation of Consultative Board of Architects Prescribed", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Set the pay of the Consultative Board of Architects.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-03-18", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-306", "relation": "modifies", "note": "Set pay for the board created by EO 306.", "story": 85, "date": "1905-03-14", "title": "Creating Consultative Board of Architects for Public Buildings in District of Columbia", "type": "executive_order", "number": "306"}, {"id": "eo-311", "relation": "revoked_by", "note": "Revoked nine days later; the board itself survived.", "story": 85, "date": "1905-03-27", "title": "Revoked Executive Order 310", "type": "executive_order", "number": "311"}]}
{"id": "proc-539", "type": "proclamation", "number": "539", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-03-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing the Pinal Mountains Forest Reserve, Arizona", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 539, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-539"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": null, "last_page": 2992, "cite": "34 Stat. None–2992", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-PgNone.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-03-20", "table_title": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof", "And whereas, the public lands in the Territory of Arizona, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the Territory of Arizona, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the point for the north-west corner of Section eleven (11), Township one (1) South. Range fourteen (14) East, Gila and Salt River Meridian, Arizona; thence easterly along the unsurveyed section lines to the point for the north-east corner of Section eight (8), Township one (1) South, Range fifteen (15) East; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly along the unsurveyed section lines to the point for the north-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of said section: thence easterly along the unsurveyed section lines to the point of intersection with the western boundary of the White Mountain Indian Reservation; thence in a southwesterly direction along said boundary to the point for its intersection with the unsurveyed section line between Sections seventeen (17) and twenty (20), Township two (2) South. Range sixteen (16) East; thence westerly along the unsurveyed section lines to the point for the south-west corner of Section fourteen (14), Township two (2) South. Range fourteen (14) East; thence northerly along the unsurveyed section lines to the point for the north-west corner of Section eleven (11), Township one (1) South, Range fourteen (14) East, the place of beginning.", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Pinal Mountains Forest Reserve.", "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 20th day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. None", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["The Pinal Mountains Forest Reserve, Ariz.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 20, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Arizona.", "Description.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Name."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Pinal Mountains Forest Reserve in Arizona Territory, reserving its partly timbered public lands from entry and settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Pinal Mountains Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-03-20", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Pinal Mountains was folded into the Tonto National Forest on January 13, 1908.", "source": "Proc. 795; Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "date": "1908-01-13", "story": 55}], "today": [{"name": "Tonto National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Arizona", "source": "Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "story": 55}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-598", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 55, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-10-03", "title": "Establishment of the Tonto Forest Reserve, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "598"}, {"id": "proc-795", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Proclamation 795 took the Pinal Mountains reserve into the Tonto National Forest.", "story": 55, "date": "1908-01-13", "title": "Enlarging Tonto National Forest, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "795"}]}
{"id": "eo-310-b", "type": "executive_order", "number": "310-B", "tr_sequence": 177, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-03-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Land Office at Oregon City Transferred to Portland", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Moved the land office at Oregon City to Portland.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Oregon City", "kind": "town", "state": "Oregon"}, {"name": "Portland", "kind": "town", "state": "Oregon"}], "states": ["Oregon"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-03-21", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "uo-105", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 114, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-03-21", "title": "Oregon City, Oreg., Land Office abolished (eff. June 30, 1905); business/records to the Portland office.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "uo-105", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 105, "date": "1905-03-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Oregon City, Oreg., Land Office abolished (eff. June 30, 1905); business/records to the Portland office.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 105, "page": "201", "citations": "(1905 GLO 185)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Oregon City, Oreg., Land Office abolished (eff. June 30, 1905); business/records to the Portland office.", "reconciliation": "numbered_duplicate", "duplicate_of": "eo-310-b", "reconciliation_note": "**= EO 310-B** (Mar. 21, 1905), \"Land Office at Oregon City Transferred to Portland.\" Same date, same subject.", "summary": null, "categories": ["public-lands", "government-administration"], "action": "revoke", "places": [], "states": ["Oregon"], "people": [], "significance": null, "stories": [114], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-03-21", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-310-b", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The same order; Lord's unnumbered list carries this numbered document a second time.", "story": 114, "date": "1905-03-21", "title": "Land Office at Oregon City Transferred to Portland", "type": "executive_order", "number": "310-B"}]}
{"id": "eo-310-c", "type": "executive_order", "number": "310-C", "tr_sequence": 178, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-03-22", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Approved War Sec'y recommendation that certain Minnesota lands be reserved for flowage purposes", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Approved the Secretary of War's recommendation to reserve certain Minnesota lands for flowage purposes.", "categories": ["water-reclamation", "public-lands"], "action": "establish", "places": [], "states": ["Minnesota"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-03-22", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-540", "type": "proclamation", "number": "540", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-03-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing the Plumas Forest Reserve, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 540, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-540"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 2992, "last_page": 2995, "cite": "34 Stat. 2992–2995", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg2992.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-03-27", "table_title": "Setting apart the Plumas Forest Reserve, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of gress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes ”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of California, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of California, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the north-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), Township twenty-eight (28) North, Range six (6) East, Mount Diablo Base and Meridian, California; thence southerly to the southeast corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), Township twenty-seven (27) North, Range six (6) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section seventeen (17), Township twenty-six (26) North Range six (6) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence southerly to the southeast corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township twenty-six (26) North, Range seven (7) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section ; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section \"seventeen (17), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section ten (10), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section eleven (11), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the northeast corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of the north-west quarter of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section twelve (12), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section one (1), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township twenty-seven (27) North, Range seven (7) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-nine (29),Township twenty-seven (27) North, Range eight (8) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-one (31), Township twenty-six (26) North, Range nine (9) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence southerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the Fifth (5th) Standard Parallel North, to the south-east corner of Section one (1), Township twenty-four (24) North, Range nine (9) East; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-one (31), Township twenty-four (24) North, Range ten (10) East; thence easterly to the northeast corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section five (5), Township twenty-three (23) North, Range ten (10) East; thence easterly to the northeast corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section seven (7), Township twenty-three (23) North, Range eleven (11) East; thence easterly to the northeast corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence easterly to the northeast corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section three (3), Township twenty-two (22) North, Range eleven (11) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township twenty-two (22) North, Range twelve (12) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township twenty-two (22) North, Range eleven (11) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), said township ; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), Township twenty-two (22) North, Range ten (10) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-three (23), Township twenty-two (22) North, Range nine (9) East; thence southerly to the southeast corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-six (26), Township twenty-two (22) North, Range eight. (8) East; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Township twenty-two (22) North, Range seven (7) East; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township twenty-one (21) North, Range seven (7) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the southeast corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), Township twenty-one (21) North, Range six (6) East; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section four (4), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township twenty-two (22) North, Range six (6) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township twenty-three (23) North, Range six (6) East; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), Township twenty-four (24) North, Range six (6) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of fractional Section twenty-four (24), Township twenty-four (24) North, Range five (5) East; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section two (2), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence northerly to the southeast corner of Section four (4), Township twenty-five (25) North, Range five (5) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly along the Fifth (5th) Standard Parallel North to the south-west corner of Township twenty-six (26) North, Range five (5) East; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), Township twenty-six (26) North, Range four (4) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the southwest corner of the south-east quarter of Section ten (10), said township ; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township twenty-seven (27) North, Range four (4) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section two (2), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Township twenty-eight (28) North, Range five (5) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), Township twenty-eight (28) North, Range six (6) East, the place of beginning; such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Plumas Forest Reserve.", "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 27th day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 2992", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["The Plumas Forest Reserve, Cal.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26. p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, California.", "Description.", "Plumas Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Plumas Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Name."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Plumas Forest Reserve in California, setting its partly timbered public lands apart from entry and settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Plumas Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-03-27", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Plumas National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "origin", "state": "California", "since": "1905-03-27", "source": "research entry", "story": 55}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-311", "type": "executive_order", "number": "311", "tr_sequence": 180, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-03-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Revoked Executive Order 310", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Revoked Executive Order 310, which had set the compensation of the consultative board of architects.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "revoke", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-03-27", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-310", "relation": "revokes", "note": "Revoked only the compensation order, not the board.", "story": 85, "date": "1905-03-18", "title": "Compensation of Consultative Board of Architects Prescribed", "type": "executive_order", "number": "310"}]}
{"id": "proc-541", "type": "proclamation", "number": "541", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-03-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Modification of the Boundaries of the Madison Forest Reserve", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 541, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-541"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 2995, "last_page": 2997, "cite": "34 Stat. 2995–2997", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg2995.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-03-28", "table_title": "Modifying boundaries of the Madison Forest Reserve, Montana."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, The Madison Forest Reserve, in the State of Montana, was established by proclamation dated August sixteenth, nineteen hundred and two, under and by virtue of section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, which provides, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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”, that “the President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by releasing and excluding certain lands from the said forest reserve;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do hereby make known and proclaim that the boundary lines of the aforesaid Madison Forest Reserve are hereby modified so as to read as follows:", "Beginning at the point where the western boundary of the Yellowstone National Park intersects the boundary line between the States of Montana and Idaho; thence in a general north-westerly and southwesterly direction along said state boundary line to its intersection with the range line between Ranges one (1) and two (2) East; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Township thirteen (13) South, Range one (1) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Township twelve (12) South, Range one (1) West; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Township twelve (12) South, Range six (6) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township twelve (12) South, Range five (5) West; thence northerly, allowing for the proper offset on the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel South, to the north-west corner of Township ten (10) South, Range four (4) West; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township nine (9) South, Range four (4) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township seven (7) South, Range three (3) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Township eight (8) South, Range one (1) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said township; thence southerly along the Principal Meridian to its intersection with the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel South; thence easterly along said parallel to its intersection with the western boundary of the Yellowstone National Park; thence southerly along the western boundary of said park to its intersection with the boundary line between the States of Montana and Idaho, the place of beginning; such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys.", "The lands hereby excluded from the reserve and restored to the public domain shall be open to settlement from the date hereof, but shall not be subject to entry, filing or selection until after ninety days notice by such publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.", "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 28th day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and five, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 2995", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["The Madison Forest Reserve, Mont.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 32, p. 2024.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Post, p. 3148.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Boundaries modified.", "Description.", "Restored lands open to settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Changed the boundaries of the Madison Forest Reserve in Montana, releasing some lands and opening them to settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Madison Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-03-28", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "proc-490", "relation": "modifies", "note": "Redrew the boundaries of the Madison reserve of August 16, 1902.", "story": 55, "date": "1902-08-16", "title": "Establishment of the Madison Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "490"}, {"id": "proc-594", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The Madison was enlarged again in October 1905.", "story": 55, "date": "1905-10-03", "title": "Enlargement of the Madison Forest Reserve, Montana", "type": "proclamation", "number": "594"}]}
{"id": "eo-312", "type": "executive_order", "number": "312", "tr_sequence": 181, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-03-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of George W. Pitts as Messenger in Post Office Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_312", "revid": 1842291, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 86"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["George W. Pitts, a skilled laborer in the Department of Commerce and Labor, may be appointed messenger in the Post-Office Department without reference to civil service Rule X, section 8, requiring a service of six months next preceding transfer."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 86)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, March 28, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed George W. Pitts, a skilled laborer at Commerce and Labor, to be appointed messenger in the Post Office Department without the usual six months of prior service.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "transfer", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["George W. Pitts"], "significance": 1, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-03-28", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-542", "type": "proclamation", "number": "542", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-03-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Celebration of the 300th Anniversary of the Founding of Jamestown, Virginia", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 542, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-542"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 2997, "last_page": 2998, "cite": "34 Stat. 2997–2998", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg2997.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-03-29", "table_title": "Jamestown, Va., Ter-Centennial Celebration."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America.", "A PROCLAMATION.", "Whereas the Congress of the United States has passed an Act approved March 3, 1905, and entitled, \"An Act To provide for celebrating the birth of the American nation, the first permanent settlement of English-speaking people on the Western Hemisphere, by the holding of an international naval, marine, and military celebration in the vicinity of Jamestown, on the waters of Hampton Roads, in the State of Virginia; to provide for a suitable and permanent commemoration of said event, and to authorize an appropriation in aid thereof, and for other purposes.\";", "And Whereas Section 3 of the said Act reads as follows:", "\"Sec. 3. The President of the United States is hereby authorized to make proclamation of said celebration, setting forth the event to be commemorated, inviting foreign nations to participate by the sending of their naval vessels and such representation of their military organizations as may be practicable, . . . . .\":", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the said Act, do hereby declare and proclaim that there shall be inaugurated, in the year nineteen hundred and seven, on and near the waters of Hampton Roads, in the State of Virginia, an international naval, marine and military celebration, beginning May 13, and ending not later than November 1, 1907, for the purpose of commemorating, in a fitting and appropriate manner, the birth of the American nation, the first permanent settlement of English-speaking people on the American Continent, made at Jamestown, Virginia, on the thirteenth day of May, sixteen hundred and seven, and in order that the great events of American history which have resulted therefrom, may be accentuated to the present and future generations of American citizens. And in the name of the Government and of the people of the United States, I do hereby invite all the nations of the earth to take part in the commemoration of an event which has had a far reaching effect upon the course of human history, by sending their naval vessels to the said celebration and by making such representations of their military organizations as may be practicable.", "IN TESTIMONY 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 29th day of March, [SEAL.] one thousand nine hundred and five, and of the Independence of the United States, the one hundred and twenty-ninth.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:", "ALVEY A. ADEE", "Acting Secretary of State."], "source": "34 Stat. 2997–2998 (GovInfo Statutes at Large page images, vol. 34, pt. 3), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Seal restored. Statutes reads 'may be practicable' where APP has 'may he practicable'. The ellipsis after 'practicable' is the proclamation's own, cutting Section 3 of the act mid-sentence. Capitalization and punctuation follow the Statutes, not APP. Marginal citation of the act: Vol. 33, pp. 1046–1047. Countersigned Alvey A. Adee, Acting Secretary of State.", "story": 58}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Proclaimed an international naval, marine and military celebration on Hampton Roads, Virginia, from May 13 to November 1, 1907, marking 300 years since the Jamestown settlement, and invited foreign nations to send ships and troops.", "categories": ["ceremonial", "foreign-affairs"], "action": "announce", "places": [{"name": "Jamestown", "kind": "town", "state": "Virginia"}, {"name": "Hampton Roads", "kind": "other", "state": "Virginia"}], "states": ["Virginia"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [58], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-03-29", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The proclamation made the front pages of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, the Newport News Daily Press and the Richmond Times-Dispatch, and ran in papers across Virginia over the following week.", "source": "Virginia Chronicle, March 30–April 5, 1905", "date": "1905-03-30", "story": 58}, {"text": "The Times-Dispatch reported that C. Brooks Johnston, chairman of the exposition company's board of governors, praised the promptness and wording of the proclamation, which let the managers call at once on foreign governments.", "source": "Richmond Times-Dispatch, March 31, 1905, p. 5", "date": "1905-03-31", "story": 58}, {"text": "A Norfolk paper wrote that the proclamation made certain the exposition would feature the greatest naval display in the world's history, and predicted it would draw more visitors than any feature of earlier American fairs.", "source": "Norfolk Journal of Commerce and Twice-a-Week Virginian-Pilot, April 4, 1905, p. 4", "date": "1905-04-04", "story": 58}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Jamestown Ter-Centennial Commission of the Secretaries of the Treasury, War and the Navy was constituted by executive order on January 5, 1906.", "source": "EO 389½", "date": "1906-01-05", "story": 58}, {"kind": "congress", "text": "In 1906 Congress paid for the government's own exhibits, buildings and piers at the fair ($200,000, $350,000 and $400,000), not the exposition company.", "source": "Sundry civil act of June 30, 1906, 34 Stat. 764–766", "date": "1906-06-30", "story": 58}, {"kind": "congress", "text": "Money for the company came only in February 1907: $1,000,000 to help finish and open the exposition, made a debt to the government and secured by a first lien on gate and concession receipts, 40 percent of which were to go to the Treasury twice a month.", "source": "Urgent deficiency act of February 9, 1907, 34 Stat. 886–887", "date": "1907-02-09", "story": 58}, {"kind": "local", "text": "Fitzhugh Lee, the company's president, died in 1905 and was succeeded by former Congressman Harry St. George Tucker; the company struggled from the start to finance and finish its grounds.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1905", "story": 58}, {"kind": "diplomatic", "text": "Roosevelt opened the exposition on April 26, 1907, and reviewed the assembled American and foreign warships from the presidential yacht Mayflower.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1907-04-26", "story": 58}], "legacy": [{"text": "The fair closed at midnight on November 30, 1907, after about 2.8 million admissions, far below the six million its promoters had hoped for.", "source": "Newport News Daily Press, Dec. 1, 1907, p. 1", "date": "1907-11-30", "story": 58}, {"text": "At the close the company still owed the government $900,000 of the 1907 loan, and less than a month later it declared bankruptcy.", "source": "Newport News Daily Press, Dec. 1, 1907, p. 1; Virginia Places", "date": "1907-12", "story": 58}, {"text": "The sixteen battleships later called the Great White Fleet sailed from Hampton Roads on December 16, 1907, with Roosevelt watching, and returned there on February 22, 1909.", "source": "Naval History and Heritage Command", "date": "1907-12-16", "story": 58}, {"text": "Seventeen exposition buildings still stand on the naval base, most of them former state pavilions now known as Admiral's Row, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.", "source": "Virginia Department of Historic Resources, file 122-0054", "date": "1975", "story": 58}], "today": [{"name": "Naval Station Norfolk", "kind": "military_installation", "relation": "part", "state": "Virginia", "note": "Built on the Sewell's Point exposition grounds taken for the Navy in 1917.", "source": "Virginia Department of Historic Resources", "story": 58}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1917-06-15", "text": "Congress authorized the President to take the Jamestown Exposition site for a naval operating base, with $1,200,000 for compensation and $1,600,000 toward equipping the base.", "source": "Act of June 15, 1917, ch. 29, 40 Stat. 182, 207–208", "story": 58}, {"date": "1917-06-28", "text": "Woodrow Wilson took possession of the exposition site by proclamation.", "source": "40 Stat. 1674–1675", "story": 58}], "uncertain": ["What the government finally paid for the exposition grounds in 1917, and how many acres they covered, is not stated in the act or the proclamation."]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-389-half", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Constituted the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Commission the 1905 act allowed.", "story": 58, "date": "1906-01-05", "title": "Creating the Jamestown Tercentennial Commission and Appointing Members Thereto", "type": "executive_order", "number": "389½"}, {"id": "proc-626", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Invited the state militias, using the part of the act the proclamation's ellipsis left out.", "story": 58, "date": "1906-05-28", "title": "Inviting the Militia to Attend the Jamestown, Virginia Tercentennial Celebration", "type": "proclamation", "number": "626"}]}
{"id": "eo-310-d", "type": "executive_order", "number": "310-D", "tr_sequence": 179, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-03-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Certain Lands in Lakeview Land District, Oregon, Transferred to Burns Land District", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Shifted certain lands from the Lakeview Land District in Oregon to the Burns Land District.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Lakeview Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Oregon"}, {"name": "Burns Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Oregon"}], "states": ["Oregon"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-03-29", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-313", "type": "executive_order", "number": "313", "tr_sequence": 182, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-03-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Make Post Office Department Cashiers and Finance Clerks Subject to Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_313", "revid": 1842482, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 74"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Schedule A of the civil service rules is hereby amended by striking out in Section V, Post-Office Department, clauses 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12, and inserting in lieu thereof the following:", "\"No cashier or finance clerk appointed under the exceptions from examination formerly contained in this schedule shall acquire any of the rights or privileges conferred by these rules upon competitive employees except upon recommendation by the Postmaster-General.\""], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 74)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, March 30, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Amended the civil service rules so Post Office Department cashiers and finance clerks hired without examination gain competitive status only on the Postmaster-General's recommendation.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-03-30", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-314", "type": "executive_order", "number": "314", "tr_sequence": 184, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-03-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Classifying Certain Laborers Previously Assigned to Classified Work and Forbidding Further Such Assignments", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_314", "revid": 1853076, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 80"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["On January 12, 1905, I directed the classification of certain laborers in the Departments at Washington, whose principal duties were of a classified character. These were laborers who had been doing classified work since 1902, when regulations were issued for the appointment of laborers by competitive tests. It now appears from reports made by the heads of Departments that since these reports were made a considerable number of laborers have been assigned to classified work. With the view that hereafter under no circumstances whatever shall any classified laborer be assigned to classified work, I direct that the additional laborers referred to as shown in reports already made to the Civil Service Commission be regarded as classified in the positions occupied by them on the date of this order, and that they may be promoted to the clerical grade or transferred in the manner provided by the civil service rules and regulations. Laborers who, in connection with their usual duties, are to perform work of the grade performed by classified employees shall be appointed upon certificate of the Commission from appropriate registers of eligibles in the manner provided by the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 80)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 30, 1905. == Notes == Amended by: Executive Order 1065, April 21, 1909 See Related: Executive Order 290, January 12, 1905 Revoked by: Executive Order 9830, February 24, 1947", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Classified laborers assigned to clerical-grade work since the January 1905 order and forbade any further such assignments; laborers needed for that work must now come from civil-service registers.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-03-30", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-315", "type": "executive_order", "number": "315", "tr_sequence": 185, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-03-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Designating Five Substitute Watchmen in Government Printing Office as Classified under Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_315", "revid": 1842316, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 79"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The Executive order of November 29, 1904, classifying 40 substitute watchmen in the Government Printing Office is hereby amended to include 5 others, who were appointed subsequent to the date of the list mentioned therein, but before the date of its approval."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 79)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, March 30, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Extended the November 1904 order classifying substitute watchmen at the Government Printing Office to five more men hired after the original list.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [{"name": "Government Printing Office", "kind": "other"}], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 1, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-03-30", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-316", "type": "executive_order", "number": "316", "tr_sequence": 186, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-03-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Civil Service Rules Amended to Except Certain Interior Department Positions from Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_316", "revid": 1842485, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 74"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Schedule A of the civil service rules is hereby amended by adding to Division VI the following:", "Consulting engineers of the Reclamation Service under the Geological Survey. One confidential clerk and one record clerk to the Superintendent of the Government Hospital for the Insane."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 74)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, March 30, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Exempted from examination the Reclamation Service's consulting engineers and a confidential clerk and record clerk for the superintendent of the Government Hospital for the Insane.", "categories": ["civil-service", "water-reclamation"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-03-30", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-317", "type": "executive_order", "number": "317", "tr_sequence": 187, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-03-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of S. F. Scott, Jr., in Post Office Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_317", "revid": 1842489, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 86"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["S. F. Scott, jr., may be reinstated in the Post-Office Service without regard to the time limit upon eligibility for reinstatement."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 86)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, March 30, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed S. F. Scott, Jr., to be reinstated in the Post-Office Service despite the time limit on reinstatement.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["S. F. Scott, Jr."], "significance": 1, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-03-30", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-313-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "313-A", "tr_sequence": 183, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-03-31", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Revoked Unnumbered Order of February 9, 1905, which Transferred Office of the Commissioner of Railroads to Dept of Commerce and Labor", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Revoked an unnumbered order of February 9, 1905, that had moved the Office of the Commissioner of Railroads to the Department of Commerce and Labor.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "revoke", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-03-31", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "uo-104", "relation": "revokes", "note": null, "story": 114, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-02-09", "title": "Duties, records and files of the Commissioner of Railroads transferred from Interior to Commerce and Labor.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "eo-318", "type": "executive_order", "number": "318", "tr_sequence": 189, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-03-31", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Make Certain Bureau of Immigration Positions Subject to Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_318", "revid": 2391077, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 74"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Clause 7 of section 1, Schedule A, is amended to read as follows: \"Any person employed in a foreign country under the State Department, or temporarily employed in a confidential capacity in a foreign country under any department or office; but this exception shall not apply to any person employed in a foreign country contiguous to the United States in the service of the Bureau of Immigration, Department of Commerce and Labor.\""], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 74)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, March 31, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Required civil-service examination for Bureau of Immigration employees working in countries bordering the United States, narrowing an exemption for federal jobs abroad.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-03-31", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-319", "type": "executive_order", "number": "319", "tr_sequence": 190, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-03-31", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Executive Order of December 31, 1904, Relating to Restrictions on Notarial Fees, to Exclude Oaths of Disinterestedness", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_319", "revid": 1912697, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["This is the Department of the Interior's description of the Executive Order, not the order text itself.", "On March 31, 1905, the President directed the amendment of the above [ Executive Order 288½ ] by adding at the end thereof the following paragraph:", "This order shall not apply to oaths of disinterestedness, or other oaths required to be made by law, provided that the work in connection therewith is not performed during office hours."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Amended the December 1904 notary-fee ban so it no longer covers oaths of disinterestedness and other oaths required by law, as long as the work is done outside office hours.", "categories": ["government-administration", "civil-service"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-03-31", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "eo-288-half", "relation": "amends", "note": null, "story": 114, "inferred": true, "date": "1904-12-31", "title": "Forbidding Notaries Public in Government Service to Charge Fees for Notarial Acts", "type": "executive_order", "number": "288½"}, {"id": "uo-101", "relation": "amends", "note": null, "story": 114, "inferred": true, "date": "1904-12-31", "title": "Notaries public in government employ forbidden to accept compensation for notarial acts of interest to the government.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "eo-317-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "317-A", "tr_sequence": 188, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-04-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reorganization of the Isthmian Canal Commission", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_317-A", "revid": 12440734, "printed_source": "1904 PCR 107"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The practical result of the operations of the Isthmian Canal Commission appointed and acting under previous executive orders has not been satisfactory, and requires a change in the personnel of the Commission and in the instructions for its guidance.", "The Commission will hold quarterly sessions the first of January, April, July, and October of each year, at the office of the Governor on the Isthmus of Panama, and will continue each session as long as public business may require. Further notice of such meetings shall not be necessary to their regularity. The Commission may hold special sessions at the call of the Chairman. Four members shall constitute a quorum, and the action of such majority shall be the action of the Commission.", "The Commission, under the supervision and direction of the Secretary of War and subject to the approval of the President, is charged with the general duty of the adoption of plans for the construction and maintenance of the canal and with the execution of the work of the same; with the purchase and delivery of supplies, machinery and necessary plant; the employment of the necessary officers, employes and laborers, and with the fixing of their salaries and wages; with the commercial operation of the Panama Railroad Company and its steamship lines as common carriers; with the utilization of the railroad as a means of constructing the canal; with the making of contracts for construction and excavation, and with all other matters incident and necessary to the building of a waterway across the Isthmus of Panama, as provided by the Act of Congress of June 28, 1902.", "For convenience and to secure the uninterrupted course of the work, an Executive Committee of not less than three members of the Commission shall be appointed by the Commission to act in place of the Commission during the intervals between the meetings of the Commission, and to report its doings in full to the Commission at the next regular meeting. A minute of every transaction of the Executive Committee shall be made, and one copy of the minutes shall be forwarded to the Secretary of War and another copy transmitted for the consideration of the Commission at its next meeting. Regular meetings of the Executive Committee shall be held at the office of the Governor on the Isthmus of Panama at 10 o'clock in the forenoon on each Monday and Wednesday of every week, and further notice of such meetings shall not be necessary to their legality. A majority of their number shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at such meetings. The action of such majority shall be the action of the Executive Committee.", "For convenience of executing the work to be done, there shall be constituted three executive departments: (a) The head of the first department shall be the Chairman of the Commission, who shall have direct and immediate charge of: The fiscal affairs of the Commission; The purchase and delivery of all materials and supplies; The accounts, bookkeeping and audits; The commercial operations in the United States of the Panama Railroad and steamship lines. He shall have charge of the general concerns of the Commission, subject to the supervision and direction of the Secretary of War, and shall perform such other duties as may be placed upon him from time to time by the Secretary of War.", "(b) The head of the second department shall be the Governor of the Zone, with the duties and powers indicated in the Executive Order of May 9, 1904, which includes, in general: The administration and enforcement of law in the Zone; All matters of sanitation within the Canal Zone, and also in the cities of Panama and Colon and the harbors, etc., so far as authorized by the treaty, the Executive Orders and Decrees of December 3, 1904, between the United States and the Republic of Panama relating thereto. The custody of all supplies needed for sanitary purposes, and such construction necessary for sanitary purposes, as may be assigned to this Department by the Commission. Such other duties as he may be charged with from time to time by the Secretary of War. He shall reside on the Isthmus and devote his entire time to the service, except when granted leave of absence by the Secretary of War.", "(c) The head of the third department shall be the Chief Engineer. He shall have full charge on the Isthmus: Of all the actual work of construction carried on by the Commission on the Isthmus; The custody of all supplies and plant of the Commission upon the Isthmus; The practical operation of the railroad on the Isthmus, with the special view to its utilization in canal construction work. He shall reside on the Isthmus and devote his entire time to the service, except when granted leave of absence by the Secretary of War.", "All officers and employes shall be appointed and their salaries shall be fixed by the head of the department in which they are engaged. Their appointment and salary shall be subject to the approval either of the Commission or, if the Commission is not in session, of the Executive Committee. The employment of laborers, where the contract of employment is made in the United States or outside of the Isthmus! shall be negotiated and concluded by the Chairman of the Commission, subject to the approval of the Executive Committee. Where the employment of laborers is effected upon the Isthmus, it shall be conducted under the supervision of the Chief Engineer, subject to the approval of the Executive Committee.", "Contracts for the purchase of supplies or for construction involving an estimated expenditure exceeding $10,000 shall only be made after due public advertisement in newspapers of general circulation, and shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder, except in case of emergency, when, with the approval of the Secretary of War, advertising may be dispensed with. In the making of contracts for supplies or construction involving an estimated expenditure of more than $1,000 or less than $10,000 competitive bids should be secured by invitation or advertisement whenever practicable.", "As soon as practicable after the date of this order, the Isthmian Canal Commission, as hereafter constituted, shall hold a session in the city of Washington for the general purpose of reorganization under this order, and for the special purpose of fixing the number and character of officers and employes to serve in the city of Washington in the work of the Commission. The Commission is especially charged with the duty of maintaining a complete system of accounts on the Isthmus, which shall be duplicated in Washington, so that there may always be in Washington the proper means of informing the President, the Secretary of War and the Congress of the amount of work done, the cost of the same, the amount of money available, the amount of money expended, and the general financial condition of the enterprise.", "There will hereafter be appointed by the President, nine civil engineers of the highest standing, having experience in works of canal construction and hydraulics, to constitute a Board of Consulting Engineers, to which will be submitted by the Isthmian Canal Commission, for its consideration and advice, the important engineering questions arising in the selection of the best plan for the construction of the canal. The recommendation of the Board of Consulting Engineers shall be considered by the Isthmian Canal Commission, and, with the recommendations of the Commission, shall finally be submitted, through the Secretary of War, to the President for his decision.", "The executive officers of the Commission shall make duplicate reports upon the work and operation of their respective departments to the Secretary of War and the Isthmian Canal Commission from time to time, and as often as may be required by the Secretary of War or the Chairman of the Commission.", "The Secretary of War will make to the President a report at least annually, and as often as he may deem advisable or the President may require.", "All executive orders relating to the subject of the Panama Canal, except so far as they may be inconsistent with the present order, remain in force.", "Theodore P. Shonts is hereby appointed a member of the Isthmian Canal Commission, and its Chairman; Charles E. Magoon is hereby appointed a member of the Commission and Governor of the Canal Zone; the appointment as Governor shall take effect upon the date of his arrival on the Isthmus, and the resignation of the present incumbent of said office shall thereupon take effect; John F. Wallace is hereby appointed member of the Commission and Chief Engineer; Rear-Admiral Mordecai T. Endicott, U. S. N.; Brigadier-General Peter C. Hains, U. S. A. (retired) ; Colonel Oswald H. Ernst, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., and Benjamin M. Harrod are hereby appointed members of the Isthmian Canal Commission."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1904 PCR 107)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, April 1, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reorganized the Isthmian Canal Commission, calling its performance unsatisfactory. Set quarterly sessions on the Isthmus, a four-member quorum and an Executive Committee, and charged the Commission, under the Secretary of War, with planning and building the canal and running the Panama Railroad.", "categories": ["canal-zone"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Isthmus of Panama", "kind": "canal-zone"}], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-04-01", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-527", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Amended in November 1906.", "story": 90, "date": "1906-11-17", "title": "Amending the Organization and Duties of the Isthmian Canal Commission", "type": "executive_order", "number": "527"}]}
{"id": "proc-543", "type": "proclamation", "number": "543", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-04-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Trinity Forest Reserve, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": ["GovInfo's catalog dates this printing 1905-04-29, but the proclamation itself is dated 1905-04-26."], "citations": {"app": {"number": 543, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-543"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 2998, "last_page": 3001, "cite": "34 Stat. 2998–3001", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg2998.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-04-26", "table_title": "Setting apart the Trinity Forest Reserve, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of California, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of California, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Section seven (7), Township nine (9), North, Range seven (7) East, Humboldt Base and Meridian, California; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section eighteen (18), fractional Township nine (9), North, Range eight (8) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section Twenty (20), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township thirty-eight (38) North, Range twelve (12) West, Mount Diablo Base and Meridian; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section four (4),Township thirty-seven (37) North,Range twelve (12) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section eleven (11), said township ; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section sixteen (16), Township thirty-seven (37) North, Range eleven (11) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the northeast corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section one (1), Township thirty-six (36) North, Range eleven (11) West; thence westerly to the northeast corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence westerly along the Seventh (7th) Standard Parallel North to the north-east corner of Section five (5), Township thirty-five (35) North, Range eleven (11) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section seventeen (17), Township thirty-four (34) North, Range eleven (11) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Township thirty-three (33) North, Range eleven (11) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section three (3), said township; thence southerly to-the. south-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), Township thirty-two (32) North, Range eleven (11) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township thirty-two (32) North, Range twelve (12) West; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), Township thirty-one (31) North, Range twelve (12) West; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly along the Sixth (6th) Standard Parallel North, to the south-west corner of Township thirty-one (31) North, Range eleven (11) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township thirty-one (31) North, Range ten (10) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence easterly along the Sixth (6th) Standard Parallel North, to the north-east corner of Section two (2), Township thirty (30) North, Range ten (10) West; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section four (4), Township twenty-nine (29) North, Range ten (10) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township ; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Township twenty-eight (28) North, Range nine (9) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Township twenty-six (26) North, Range nine (9) West; thence westerly along the Fifth (5th) Standard Parallel North, to the south-west corner of Township twenty-six (26) North, Range eleven (11) West; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township twenty-six (26) North, Range twelve (12) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section sixteen (16), fractional Township two (2) South, Range eight (8) East, Humboldt Base and Meridian; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section six (6), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township one (1) South, Range seven (7) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the southwest corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence westerly to the southwest corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence northerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the Humboldt Base Line, to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township one (1) North, Range six (6) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly to the southwest corner of said section; thence northerly along the section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the township line, to the south-east corner of Section twenty-eight (28), Township two (2) North, Range six (6) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section five (5), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township three (3) North, Range six (6) East; thence northerly to the southeast corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township three (3) North, Range five (5) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section ; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township four (4) North, Range five (5) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), Township five (5) North, Range four (4) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence northerly along the section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the First (1st) Standard Parallel North, to the north-west corner of Section fifteen (15), Township six (6) North, Range four (4) East; thence easterly to the southwest corner of Section ten (10), Township six (6) North, Range five (5) East; thence northerly along the section lines to the intersection with the southern boundary of the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation; thence northeasterly and northwesterly along the boundary of said reservation to the intersection with the township line between Townships eight (8) and nine (9) North, Range five (5) East; thence easterly along said township line to the south-west corner of Township nine (9) North, Range seven (7) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section seven (7), said township, the place of beginning; such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Trinity Forest Reserve.", "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 26th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 2998", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["The Trinity Forest Reserve, Cal.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, California.", "Description.", "Trinity Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Trinity Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Name."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Trinity Forest Reserve in California, reserving its partly timbered public lands from entry and settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Trinity Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-04-26", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Trinity continued under its own name.", "source": "Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "story": 55}], "today": [{"name": "Shasta-Trinity National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "California", "note": "Trinity and Shasta are today joined as the Shasta-Trinity.", "source": "research entry", "story": 55}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-320", "type": "executive_order", "number": "320", "tr_sequence": 191, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-04-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Except Certain Firemen of War Department from Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_320", "revid": 1871073, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 75"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Section III of Schedule A, relating to the War Department, is hereby amended by the addition of the following clause, to be numbered 6:", "All firemen employed on torpedo planters."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 75)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, April 26, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Excepted all firemen on War Department torpedo planters from civil service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service", "military-naval"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-04-26", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-320-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "320-A", "tr_sequence": 192, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-04-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Executive Order of August 13, 1902, to Authorize Navy Department to Discharge Men of Messmen Branch who Enlist for Summer Practice Cruises", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_320-A", "revid": 1844031, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The Executive Order of August 13, 1902, is so far modified that the Navy Department is authorized to discharge, upon request, men of the messmen branch who enlist for service with the midshipmen of the Naval Academy on their summer practice cruise."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, April 26, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Modified an order of August 13, 1902, so the Navy Department could discharge, on request, messmen who enlist only for the Naval Academy midshipmen's summer practice cruise.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-04-26", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-321", "type": "executive_order", "number": "321", "tr_sequence": 193, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Transfer of Edward H. Hareford to Forest Assistant in Department of Agriculture Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_321", "revid": 1843437, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 87"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The requirements of three years' service in the Philippines is hereby waived to permit the transfer of Mr. Edward H. Hareford to the position of forest assistant in the Department of Agriculture, in view of his services both in the Philippine and American Forestry Services."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 87)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, May 1, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Waived the three-year Philippine service requirement so Edward H. Hareford could transfer to forest assistant in the Department of Agriculture.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": ["Edward H. Hareford"], "significance": 1, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-321-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "321-A", "tr_sequence": 194, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Abolishing of Ironton Land District, Mo.; Transferred to Springfield Land District", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Abolished the Ironton Land District in Missouri and folded it into the Springfield Land District.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Ironton Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Missouri"}, {"name": "Springfield Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Missouri"}], "states": ["Missouri"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-01", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "uo-107", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 114, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-05-01", "title": "Ironton, Mo., Land Office abolished (eff. June 30, 1905); to the Springfield office.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "eo-321-b", "type": "executive_order", "number": "321-B", "tr_sequence": 195, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Approving War Secretary Recommendation to Reserve Certain Lands Around Subic Bay, Luzon, Philippine Islands for Military Purposes", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_321-B", "revid": 1867180, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 73, War Dept., May 19, 1905"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The following is the description from the Department of War's General Order No. 73 of 1905, not the actual order text, which was in the form of an approval of a recommendation from the Secretary of War.", "The President of the United States by order dated May 1, 1905, pursuant to section 12 of the Act of Congress, approved July 1, 1902, entitled \"An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes\" (32 Stat. L., 691), reserved for military purposes, subject to private rights, all public lands in the Island of Luzon, Philippine Islands, included within boundaries described as follows, viz:", "On the east side of the entrance to Subig Bay in the Province of Bataan: Beginning at a stone monument at the head of Ilanin Bay, marked No. 1, on a map bearing the legend \"Proposed Military Reservations at Subig Bay * * * Office Engineer Officer, Philippines Division, Manila, P. I., Feb. 1905,\" which monument is on the southern boundary of the United States Naval Reservation at Olongapo; thence due east, with four intermediate stone monuments, 20,616 feet to a stone monument marked No. 6 on said map; thence south 48° 09′ 36″ east, 4,640 feet to a stone monument marked No. 7 on said map; thence south 58° 37′ 35″ east, 5,034 feet to a stone monument marked No. 8 on said map; thence south 37° 20′ 23″ east, 4,931 feet to a stone monument marked No. 9 on said map; thence south 61° 37′ 37″ west, 5,245 feet to a stone monument marked No. 10 on said map; thence south 80° 26′ 50″ west, 5,315 feet to a stone monument marked No. 11 on said map; thence north 47° 14′ 48″ west, 3,568 feet to a stone monument marked No. 12 on said map; thence south 83° 01′ 14″ west, 5,531 feet to a stone monument marked No. 13 on said map; thence south 83° 37′ 16″ west, 6,503 feet to a stone monument marked No. 14 on said map; thence north 76° 49′ 04″ west, 584 feet to a stone monument on the shore of Binanga Bay marked No. 15 on said map; thence, in prolongation of course 14 to 15 to low-water line of Binanga Bay; thence in a northerly direction, following the low-water line of Binanga and Ilanin Bays, to point of intersection of this line with the prolongation of course 2 to 1; thence to point of beginning. Area 7,593.057 acres.", "On the west side of the entrance to Subig Bay in the Province of Zambales: Beginning at a rock forty feet high rising out of the sea at Biniptican Point; thence north 38° 00′ east, 214.4 feet to a stone monument marked No. 1 on said map: thence north 5° 40′ east, 2,829 feet to a stone monument marked No. 2 on said map; thence north 00° 36′ east, 3608.4 feet to a stone monument marked No. 3 on said map; thence north about 19° 00′ west, 6,350 feet, more or less, to the western peak of Mt. Silanguin; thence, following the mountain ridge, in a northwesterly direction, about 9,000 feet through each of the Cincos Picos Mountains to the top of the northernmost mountain; thence following the divide between the Agosun and Caguan rivers in a northwesterly direction, about 4,000 feet; thence, still following the divide, in a northeasterly direction, about 19,000 feet to a stone monument on top of Mt. Redondo, marked No. 4 on said map; thence south 68° 39′ east, 2,654.5 feet to a stone monument marked No. 5 on said map; thence south 68° 38′ east, 7,593.3 feet to a stone monument marked No. 6 on said map, which is at Point Petambu on Subig Bay; thence, continuing the same direction, about 30 feet, to low-water line; thence, following the low-water line of Subig Bay, to point of beginning. Area 8,754.66 acres.", "Grande Island, at the entrance to Subig Bay, and lying between the reservation on the east side of the entrance to Subig Bay and the reservation on the west side of the entrance to Subig Bay. Area about 95 acres."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 73, War Dept., May 19, 1905)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved public lands on the east side of the entrance to Subig Bay, in Bataan Province on Luzon, for military purposes, subject to private rights, approving a Secretary of War recommendation.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Subig Bay", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Luzon", "kind": "island", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-321-c", "type": "executive_order", "number": "321-C", "tr_sequence": 196, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Abolishing of Marysville Land District and Transferring to Sacramento Land District", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Abolished the Marysville Land District and transferred it to the Sacramento Land District.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Marysville Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "California"}, {"name": "Sacramento Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-321-d", "type": "executive_order", "number": "321-D", "tr_sequence": 197, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Abolishing of Boonville Land District and Transferring to Springfield Land District", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Abolished the Boonville Land District and transferred it to the Springfield Land District.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Boonville Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Missouri"}, {"name": "Springfield Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Missouri"}], "states": ["Missouri"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-321-e", "type": "executive_order", "number": "321-E", "tr_sequence": 198, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of Uintah Land District", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Created the Uintah Land District.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Uintah Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-01", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Commissioner of the General Land Office announced the order in a public notice dated May 9, which said the Vernal office would open for business on July 1, 1905.", "source": "Salt Lake Tribune, May 18, 1905, p. 8", "date": "1905-05-09", "story": 114}]}, "related": [{"id": "uo-108", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 114, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-05-01", "title": "Vernal, Utah, designated the Land Office for the Uintah Land District (act of Mar. 3, 1905, 33 Stat. L. 1014).", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "uo-107", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 107, "date": "1905-05-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Ironton, Mo., Land Office abolished (eff. June 30, 1905); to the Springfield office.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": ["Lord printed this date in brackets: his own inference.", "Corrected from “1905-03-21”. This is EO 321-A; Lord's bracketed March 21 was his guess (Lord's numbered volume; GLO report for fiscal 1905)."], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 107, "page": "201", "citations": "(1905 GLO 172)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Ironton, Mo., Land Office abolished (eff. June 30, 1905); to the Springfield office.", "reconciliation": "numbered_duplicate", "duplicate_of": "eo-321-a", "reconciliation_note": "**Confirmed 2026-10-12 = EO 321-A.** As for no. 106 (GLO FY1905; *Oakland Tribune*, May 13, 1905). See entry #114.", "summary": null, "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "revoke", "places": [], "states": ["Missouri"], "people": [], "significance": null, "stories": [114], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-01", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-321-a", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The same order; Lord's unnumbered list carries this numbered document a second time.", "story": 114, "date": "1905-05-01", "title": "Abolishing of Ironton Land District, Mo.; Transferred to Springfield Land District", "type": "executive_order", "number": "321-A"}]}
{"id": "uo-108", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 108, "date": "1905-05-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Vernal, Utah, designated the Land Office for the Uintah Land District (act of Mar. 3, 1905, 33 Stat. L. 1014).", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 108, "page": "202", "citations": "(1905 GLO 190)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Vernal, Utah, designated the Land Office for the Uinta Land District (act of Mar. 3, 1905, 33 Stat. L. 1014).", "reconciliation": "numbered_duplicate", "duplicate_of": "eo-321-e", "reconciliation_note": "**= EO 321-E** (May 1, 1905), \"Establishment of Uintah Land District.\" Same date, same subject. Lord's own numbered-series volume carries the May 1, 1905 date (research entry #114).", "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Vernal, Utah, designated the Land Office for the Uinta Land District (act of Mar. 3, 1905, 33 Stat. L. 1014)”. Spelling in the act and the GLO reports."], "summary": null, "categories": ["indian-lands", "public-lands"], "action": null, "places": [], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": null, "stories": [114], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-01", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Commissioner of the General Land Office announced the order in a public notice dated May 9, which said the Vernal office would open for business on July 1, 1905.", "source": "Salt Lake Tribune, May 18, 1905, p. 8", "date": "1905-05-09", "story": 114}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-321-e", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The same order; Lord's unnumbered list carries this numbered document a second time.", "story": 114, "date": "1905-05-01", "title": "Establishment of Uintah Land District", "type": "executive_order", "number": "321-E"}]}
{"id": "proc-544", "type": "proclamation", "number": "544", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Klamath Forest Reserve, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 544, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-544"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3001, "last_page": 3003, "cite": "34 Stat. 3001–3003", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3001.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-05-06", "table_title": "Setting apart the Klamath Forest Reserve, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or m part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of California, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation:", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of California, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of fractional Township nineteen (19) North, Range three (3) East, Humboldt Base and Meridian, California; thence easterly along the State Line between the States of California and Oregon to the north-east corner of fractional Township forty-eight (48) North, Range eight (8) West, Mount Diablo Base and Meridian; thence southerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the Ninth (9th) Standard Parallel North, to the south-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township forty-five (45) North, Range eight (8) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of fractional Section thirty (30), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Township forty-five (45) North, Range nine (9) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Township forty-four (44) North, Range ten (10) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township forty-one (41) North, Range ten (10) West; thence easterly along the Eighth (8th) Standard Parallel North to the north-east corner of fractional Section five (5), Township forty (40) North, Range ten (10) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township thirty-nine (39) North, Range ten (10) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township thirty-eight (38) North, Range ten (10) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section two (2), Township thirty-seven (37) North, Range ten (10) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence westerly to the southwest corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), Township thirty-six (36) North, Range ten (10) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township thirty-seven (37) North, Range eleven (11) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twelve (12), Township thirty-seven (37) North, Range twelve (12) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the southwest corner of Section three (3), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the southwest corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township thirty-eight (38) North, Range twelve (12) West; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the northwest corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of fractional Section twenty-one (21), Township nine (9) North, Range eight (8) East, Humboldt Base and Meridian; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eleven (11), Township nine (9) North, Range seven (7) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Township nine (9) North, Range six (6) East; thence westerly along the township line to its intersection with the eastern boundary of the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation; thence in a north-westerly and south-westerly direction along said boundary to its intersection with the range line between Ranges four (4) and five (5) East; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township ten (10) North, Range four (4) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly along the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel North to the south-west corner of Township eleven (11) North, Range four (4) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Township twelve (12) North, Range three (3) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township thirteen (13) North, Range three (3) East; thence northerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel North, to the north-west corner of fractional Township nineteen (19) North, Range three (3) East, the place of beginning;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Klamath Forest Reserve.", "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 6th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3001", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["The Klamath Forest Reserve, Cal.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, California.", "Description.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Name."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Klamath Forest Reserve in northern California, reserving its partly timbered public lands from entry and settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Klamath Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-06", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Klamath National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "origin", "state": "California", "since": "1905-05-06", "source": "research entry", "story": 55}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-545", "type": "proclamation", "number": "545", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Fort Sherman Military Reservation at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 545, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-545"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3004, "last_page": 3004, "cite": "34 Stat. 3004", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3004.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-05-06", "table_title": "Granting land to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America.\nA PROCLAMATION.", "WHEREAS, it is provided in the Act of Congress approved March 3, 1893, entitled \"An Act Making appropriations for sudry [sic] civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and for other purposes\", \"That the President is hereby authorized by proclamation to withhold from sale and grant for public use to the municipal corporation in which the same is situated all or any portion of any abandoned military reservation not exceeding twenty acres in one place\",", "And, Whereas, the Fort Sherman Military reservation at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, created by Executive orders of August 25, 1879, and April 22, 1880, and enlarged by Executive orders of May 26, 1891, and February 2, 1892, and containing 902.21 acres, more or less, was by Executive order of October 5, 1900, placed under the custody of the Interior Department for disposal under the act of July 5, 1884, being \"An Act To provide for the disposal of abandoned and useless military reservations\",", "And, Whereas, the citizens of the town of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, have petitioned that a portion of the said reservation be granted to the Municipal Authorities of the town of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, for the use of a public cemetery,", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress aforesaid, do hereby withdraw from sale, entry or other disposition, the land embraced in the legal subdivision, designated on the official plat of survey of the former Fort Sherman Military reservation as Lot 9 in section 14, township 50 north of range 4 west, Boise Meridian, containing 19.45 acres, and do hereby grant, for public use, the said described tract of land to the incorporated town of Coeur d'Alene, in the State of Idaho.", "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 6th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of\n[SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth.", "T. ROOSEVELT", "By the President:\nFRANCIS B LOOMIS\nActing Secretary of State."], "source": "34 Stat. 3004 (GovInfo page image), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "'sudry [sic]' is a misprint in the volume. Statutes forms kept: 'Now, therefore,'; 'T. ROOSEVELT'; 'FRANCIS B LOOMIS' with no period; [SEAL.] in the dating clause (all differ from APP). A press blemish between 'day' and 'of' is not reproduced. Margin cites the 1893 act at Vol. 27, p. 593, and the 1884 act at Vol. 23, p. 103.", "story": 60}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Withdrew part of the abandoned Fort Sherman Military Reservation from sale and granted it to the town of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, for a public cemetery, as the townspeople had petitioned.", "categories": ["public-lands", "military-naval"], "action": "grant", "places": [{"name": "Fort Sherman Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Idaho"}, {"name": "Coeur d'Alene", "kind": "town", "state": "Idaho"}], "states": ["Idaho"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [60], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-06", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "Washington State papers that reported the 1905 auction of the old Fort Sherman grounds said nothing about the cemetery grant, and no press notice of the proclamation has been found.", "source": "Chewelah Independent, June 9, 1905; Pullman Herald, June 10, 1905 (Washington Digital Newspapers)", "date": "1905-06", "story": 60}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "local", "text": "The proclamation answered a petition from the citizens of Coeur d'Alene, granting the town 19.45 acres, which already held the old post's burying ground, for a public cemetery.", "source": "Proclamation 545, 34 Stat. 3004; City of Coeur d'Alene Cemetery Division", "date": "1905-05-06", "story": 60}], "legacy": [{"text": "The tract is today's Forest Cemetery on North Government Way, run by the city, which later bought neighboring land for Riverview Cemetery.", "source": "City of Coeur d'Alene Cemetery Division", "story": 60}, {"text": "Most of the rest of the old post was sold at public auction in 1905, much of it to the Stack and Gibbs Lumber Company; North Idaho College moved to the fort site in 1949.", "source": "Idaho State Historical Society, Reference Series No. 355; North Idaho College history page", "date": "1905", "story": 60}], "today": [{"name": "Forest Cemetery, Coeur d'Alene", "kind": "other", "relation": "origin", "state": "Idaho", "since": "1905-05-06", "note": "City-run cemetery at 1011 North Government Way.", "source": "City of Coeur d'Alene Cemetery Division", "story": 60}], "uncertain": ["A 2021 Coeur d'Alene Press account describes the grant as one acre of the old post cemetery plus 19.7 added acres, which does not match the proclamation's single 19.45-acre lot; the plat would resolve it."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-546", "type": "proclamation", "number": "546", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Wallowa Forest Reserve, Oregon", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 546, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-546"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3004, "last_page": 3008, "cite": "34 Stat. 3004–3008", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3004.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-05-06", "table_title": "Setting apart the Wallowa Forest Reserve, Oregon."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Oregon, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Oregon, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows: Beginning at the north-west corner of Township one (1) South, Range forty-one (41) East, Willamette Meridian, Oregon; thence easterly along the Base Line to the north-east corner of Section six (6), Township one (1) South, Range forty-two (42) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the northwest corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence easterly along the section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the range line, to the north-east corner of Section nineteen (19), Township one (1) South, Range forty-three (43) East; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section fifteen (15) Township two (2) South, Range forty-three (43) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township two (2) South, Range forty-four (44) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section three (3), Township three (3) South, Range forty-four (44) East; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section eighteen (18), Township three (3) South, Range forty-five (45) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section seventeen (17),.said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty (30), Township three (3) South, Range forty-six (46) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-two (22), Township three (3) South, Range forty-seven (47) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the northeast corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the northwest corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section seventeen (17), Township three (3) South, Range Forty-eight (48) East; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section four (4), Township four (4) South, Range forty-eight (48) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the southwest corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence westerly to the southwest corner of the north-west quarter of said section} thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township ; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the northwest quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of the southeast quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township three (3), South, Range forty-eight (48) East; thence northerly to the northwest corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township three (3) South, Range forty-nine (49) East; thence easterly to the middle of the channel of Snake River; thence in a general south-westerly direction along the middle of the channel of said river to its intersection with the section line between Sections nineteen (19) and thirty (30), Township five (5) South, Range forty-nine (49) East; thence westerly to the northeast corner of Section twenty-six (26), Township five (5) South, Range forty-eight (48) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly along the First (1st) Standard Parallel South to the north-east corner of Section five (5), Township six (6) South. Range forty-eight (48) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), Township seven (7) South, Range forty-seven (47) East; thence westerly to the northeast corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the southwest corner of the south-east quarter of Section fifteen (15), Township seven (7) South, Range forty-six (46) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), Township seven (7) South, Range forty-five (45) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the southeast quarter of Section seven (7), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Township six (6) South; Range forty-three (43) East; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), Township six (6) South, Range forty-two (42) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section seven (7), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section six (6), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the First (1st) Standard Parallel South, to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty (30), Township five (5) South, Range forty-two (42) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence westerly along the section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the range line, to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section fourteen (14), Township five (5) South, Range forty-one (41) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-seven (27), Township four (4) South, Range forty-one (41) East: thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-two (32), Township three (3) South, Range forty-one (41) East; thence northerly to the northwest corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty (30), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), Township three (3) South, Range forty (40) East; thence westerly to the southwest corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of section two (2), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the southeast corner of the north-west quarter of Section thirty-five (35), Township two (2) South, Range forty (40) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township one (1) South, Range forty-one (41) East, the place of beginning; such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys.", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Wallowa Forest Reserve.", "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 6th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3004", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["The Wallowa Forest Reserve, Oreg.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Post, p. 3284.", "Forest reserve, Oregon.", "Description.", "Wallowa Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Wallowa Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Wallowa Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Name."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Wallowa Forest Reserve in northeastern Oregon, closing its partly timbered public lands to entry and settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Wallowa Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}], "states": ["Oregon"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-06", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Wallowa and Chesnimnus were combined as the Imnaha on March 1, 1907, and the Imnaha was renamed Wallowa in 1908.", "source": "Proc. 713; Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "date": "1907-03-01", "story": 55}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-551", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Chesnimnus, combined with Wallowa in 1907.", "story": 55, "date": "1905-05-12", "title": "Establishment of the Chesnimnus Forest Reserve, Oregon", "type": "proclamation", "number": "551"}, {"id": "proc-713", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "The Imnaha Forest Reserve was established in place of the Wallowa and Chesnimnus.", "story": 55, "date": "1907-03-01", "title": "Establishing Imnaha Forest Reserve, Oregon, in Place of the Wallowa and Chesnimnus Forest Reserves", "type": "proclamation", "number": "713"}]}
{"id": "proc-547", "type": "proclamation", "number": "547", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlargement of the Grand Canyon Forest Reserve, Arizona", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 547, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-547"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3009, "last_page": 3010, "cite": "34 Stat. 3009–3010", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3009.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-05-06", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Grand Canon Forest Reserve, Arizona."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, The Grand Canon Forest Reserve, in the Territory of Arizona, was established by proclamation dated February twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, under and by virtue of section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, which provides, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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”, that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”;", "Now, therefore, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States, by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby reserved from entry or settlement, and added to and made a part of the aforesaid Grand Canon Forest Reserve, all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the Territory of Arizona and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the point where the range line between Ranges four (4) and four and one-half (412) West, Salt Lake Meridian, intersects the boundary line between the State of Utah and the Territory of Arizona; thence due south twelve (12) miles; thence due west four (4) miles; thence due south six (6) miles; thence due west eight (8) miles; thence due south to the centre of the stream bed of Snake Gulch; thence in a westerly direction along the centre of the stream bed of said Gulch to its intersection with Kanab Creek; thence in a general southerly direction along the middle of the channel of said creek to its intersection with the north boundary of The Grand Canon Forest Reserve; thence easterly along said boundary thirty-eight (38) miles; thence due north seven (7) miles; thence due west two (2) miles; thence due north four (4) miles; thence due west two (2) miles; thence due north five (5) miles; thence due west one (1) mile; thence due north twelve (12) miles; thence due east one (1) mile; thence due north to the boundary line between the State of Utah and the Territory of Arizona; thence westerly along said boundary line to its intersection with the range line between Ranges four (4) and four and one-half (412) West, Salt Lake Meridian, the place of beginning;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to ail persons not to make settlement upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation.", "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 6th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and five, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3009", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["The Grand Canon Forest Reserve, Ariz.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 27, p. 1064.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Post, pp. 3223, 3263.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Lands added.", "Description.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Added lands to the Grand Canyon Forest Reserve in Arizona Territory, which had been established in 1893.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Grand Canon Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-321-f", "type": "executive_order", "number": "321-F", "tr_sequence": 199, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Abolishing of Akron Land District, Colo., Transferred to Sterling Land District", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Abolished the Akron Land District in Colorado and moved it into the Sterling Land District.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Akron Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Colorado"}, {"name": "Sterling Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-06", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "A Washington dispatch reported that the President had issued an order abolishing the land office at Akron.", "source": "Oakland Tribune, May 13, 1905", "date": "1905-05-13", "story": 114}]}, "related": [{"id": "uo-106", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 114, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-05-06", "title": "Akron, Colo., Land Office abolished (eff. June 30, 1905); to the Sterling office.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "uo-106", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 106, "date": "1905-05-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Akron, Colo., Land Office abolished (eff. June 30, 1905); to the Sterling office.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": ["Lord printed this date in brackets: his own inference.", "Corrected from “1905-03-21”. This is EO 321-F; Lord's bracketed March 21 was his guess (Lord, Numbered 1–8030; Oakland Tribune, May 13, 1905)."], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 106, "page": "201", "citations": "(1905 GLO 158)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Akron, Colo., Land Office abolished (eff. June 30, 1905); to the Sterling office.", "reconciliation": "numbered_duplicate", "duplicate_of": "eo-321-f", "reconciliation_note": "**Confirmed 2026-10-12 = EO 321-F.** Lord's 1944 numbered volume and the GLO FY1905 report treat the Akron abolition as the one numbered order; Lord's bracketed \"Mar. 21\" was his inference. See entry #114.", "summary": null, "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "revoke", "places": [], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": null, "stories": [114], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-06", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "A Washington dispatch reported that the President had issued an order abolishing the land office at Akron.", "source": "Oakland Tribune, May 13, 1905", "date": "1905-05-13", "story": 114}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-321-f", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The same order; Lord's unnumbered list carries this numbered document a second time.", "story": 114, "date": "1905-05-06", "title": "Abolishing of Akron Land District, Colo., Transferred to Sterling Land District", "type": "executive_order", "number": "321-F"}]}
{"id": "proc-548", "type": "proclamation", "number": "548", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Wenaha Forest Reserve, Oregon and Washington", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 548, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-548"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3010, "last_page": 3013, "cite": "34 Stat. 3010–3013", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3010.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-05-12", "table_title": "Setting apart the Wenaha Forest Reserve, Oregon and Washington."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not. as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the States of Oregon and Washington, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the States of Oregon and Washington, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Township nine (9) North, Range forty-one (41) East, Willamette Meridian, Washington; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Township nine (9) North, Range forty-three (43) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence easterly to the southeast corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township: thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly along the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel North to the north-east corner of Section six (6),Township eight (8) North, Range forty-four (44) East; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section eleven (11), Township seven (7) North, Range forty-four (44) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township seven (7) North, Range forty-three (43) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence southerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the State Line between the States of Washington and Oregon, to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), Township five (5) North, Range forty-two (42) East, Willamette Meridian, Oregon; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the First (1st) Standard Parallel North, to the south-east corner of Section one (1), Township four (4) North, Range forty-one (41) East; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section seven (7), said township: thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section one (1), Township three (3) North, Range forty (40) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township four (4) North, Range thirty-nine (39) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section three (3), Township three (3) North, Range thirty-nine (39) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence westerly to the northeast corner of Township two (2) North, Range thirty-eight (38) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section one (1), Township one (1) North, Range thirty-eight (38) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section five (5), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence easterly along the Base Line to the north-east corner of Section five (5), Township one (1) South, Range thirty-eight (38) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section five (5), Township two (2) South, Range thirty-eight (38) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section three (3), Township two (2) South, Range thirty-seven (37) East; thence northerly to the northwest corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township one (1) South, Range thirty-seven (37) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence northerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offsets, to the north-west corner of Township three (3) North, Range thirty-seven (37) East; thence easterly to the northeast corner of said township; thence northerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the First (1st) Standard Parallel North, to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township five (5) North, Range thirty-eight (38) East; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence northerly along the section lines, allowing for the proper offsets, to the north-west corner of Section twenty-eight 128), Township six (6) North, Range thirty-eight (38) East; thence easterly to the northeast corner of said section; thence northerly along the section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the State Line between the States of Oregon and Washington, to the north-west corner of Section ten (10), said township, in Washington; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section one (1), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township seven (7) North, Range thirty-nine (39) East; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section ; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Township eight (8) North, Range forty (10) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence northerly to the northeast corner of Section four (4), said township; thence westerly along the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel North to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township nine (9) North, Range forty (40) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence northerly to the northwest corner of Township nine (9) North, Range forty-one (41) East, the place of beginning: such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys:", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Wenaha Forest Reserve.", "3013 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 12th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3010", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["The Wenaha Forest Reserve, Oreg, and Wash.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Post, p. 3279.", "Forest reserve, Oregon and Washington.", "Description.", "Wenaha Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Wenaha Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Name."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Wenaha Forest Reserve on partly timbered public lands straddling Oregon and Washington, reserving the area from settlement apart from lands already lawfully claimed.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Wenaha Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}], "states": ["Oregon", "Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-12", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Umatilla National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Oregon and Washington", "source": "Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "story": 55}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1920", "text": "The Wenaha National Forest was transferred entire to the Umatilla National Forest.", "source": "E.O. 3349; Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "story": 55}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-549", "type": "proclamation", "number": "549", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Leadville Forest Reserve, Colorado", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 549, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-549"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3013, "last_page": 3020, "cite": "34 Stat. 3013–3020", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3013.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-05-12", "table_title": "Setting apart the Leadville Forest Reserve, Colorado."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Colorado, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Colorado, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Section fifteen (15), Township one (1) North, Range seventy-eight (78) West, Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian, Colorado; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section eighteen (18), Township one (1) North, Range seventy-seven (77) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence southerly to the southeast corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly along the Base Line to the north-east corner of Section three (3), Township one (1) South, Range seventy-seven (77) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township: thence, easterly to the north-east corner of Township two (2) South, Range seventy-seven (77) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township three (3) South, Range seventy-six (76) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township four (4) South, Range seventy-six (76) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township five (5) South, Range seventy-six (76) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence westerly along the First Correction Line South to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township six (6) South, Range seventy-six (76) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section two (2), Township seven (7) South, Range seventy-seven (77) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township ; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Township eight (8) South, Range seventy-nine (79) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence southerly along the section lines, allowing for the proper offsets, to the south-east corner of Section fourteen (14), Township twelve (12) South, Range seventy-nine (79) West; thence easterly to the northeast corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-two (22), Township twelve (12) South, Range seventy-eight (78) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence easterly to the northeast corner of Township thirteen (13) South, Range seventy-eight (78) West; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township thirteen (13) South, Range seventy-seven (77) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township fourteen (14) South, Range seventy-seven (77) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Township fifteen (15) South, Range seventy-seven (77) West; thence westerly along the Third (3rd) Correction Line South to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), Township fourteen (14) South, Range seventy-eight (78) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section two (2), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township thirteen (13) South, Range seventy-eight (78) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty (30), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section one (1), Township thirteen (13) South, Range seventy-nine (79) West; thence westerly to the southwest corner of said section: thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-five (35), Township twelve (12) South, Range seventy-nine (79) West; thence northerly to the northwest corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the southwest corner of the north-east quarter of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section nine (9), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty (20), Township eleven (11) South, Range seventy-nine (79) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the southwest corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirteen (13), Township eleven (11) South, Range eighty (80) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence northerly along the section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the Second (2nd) Correction Line South, to the south-east corner of Section fourteen (14), Township ten (10) South, Range eighty (80) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section one (1), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township nine (9) South, Range seventy-nine (79) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township eight (8) South, Range seventy-nine (79) West; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section one (1), Township nine (9) South, Range eighty (80) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section eleven (11), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the northwest quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence westerly to the southwest corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), Township eight (8) South, Range eighty (80) West; thence westerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section eight (8), Township nine (9) South, Range eighty (80) West; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section fourteen (14), Township nine (9) South, Range eighty-one (81) West; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twelve (12), Township ten (10) South, Range eighty-one (81) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township ten (10) South, Range eighty (80) West; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence southerly along the section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the Second (2nd) Correction Line South, to the north-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), Township eleven (11) South, Range eighty (80) West; thence easterly to the northeast corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the northwest quarter of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section eleven (11), Township twelve (12) South, Range eighty (80) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township twelve (12) South, Range seventy-nine (79) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section ten (10), Township thirteen (13) South, Range seventy-nine (79) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section fifteen (15), Township fourteen (14) South, Range seventy-nine (79) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section ; thence southerly to the northwest corner of Section eleven (11), Township fifteen (15) South, Range seventy-nine (79) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the northwest corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the southeast quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly along the Third (3rd) Correction Line South to the north-east corner of Township fifty-one (51) North, Range seven (7) East, New Mexico Principal Meridian; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township fifty-one (51) North, Range five (5) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence westerly along the Third (3rd) Correction Line South to the south-west corner of Township fifteen (15) South, Range eighty-one (81) West, Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township thirteen (13) South, Range eighty-one (81) West; thence westerly to the southwest corner of Township twelve (12) South, Range eighty-two (82) West; thence northerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the Second (2nd) Correction Line South, to the northwest corner of Township ten (10) South, Range eighty-two (82) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township eight (8) South, Range eighty-one (81) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township eight (8) South, Range eighty (80) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township six (6) South, Range seventy-nine (79) West; thence westerly along the First (1st) Correction Line South to the south-west corner of Township five (5) South, Range seventy-nine (79) West; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Township three (3) South, Range eighty (80) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Township two (2) South, Range eighty-one (81) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), said township; thence easterly along the township line, allowing for the proper offset, to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township two (2) South, Range eighty (80) West; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence easterly to the northeast corner of said section: thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section thirty (30), Township two (2) South, Range seventy-nine (79) West; thence southerly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township three (3) South, Range seventy-nine (79) West; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the northwest corner of Section thirty-one (31), Township three (3) South, Range seventy-eight (78) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of the southeast quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section four (4), Township four (4) South, Range seventy-eight (78) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section nine (9), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the southeast quarter of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section eleven (11), Township five (5) South, Range seventy-eight (78) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section ; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of the north-west quarter of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of the north-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence westerly along the First (1st) Correction Line South to the north-east corner of the northwest quarter of the north-west quarter of Section one (1), Township six (6) South, Range seventy-eight (78) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twelve (12), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of the north-east quarter of Section thirteen (13), said township ; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of the south-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section one (1), Township seven (7) South, Range seventy-eight (78) West; thence easterly to the southwest corner of Section five (5), Township seven (7) South, Range seventy-seven (77) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township six (6) South. Range seventy-seven (77) West; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the northeast quarter of Section twenty (20), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of the south-west quarter of Section seven (7), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of the north-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section six (6), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly along the First (1st) Correction Line South to the south-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township five (5) South, Range seventy-seven (77) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the southeast quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section five (5), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section six (6), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-five (25), Township four (4) South, Range seventy-eight (78) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section ; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section thirty-four (34), township three (3) South, Range seventy-eight (78) West; thence westerly to the southwest corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section thirty-six (36), Township two (2) South, Range seventy-nine (79) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the southwest corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty (20), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section five (5), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section six (6), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township one (1) South, Range seventy-nine (79) West; thence northerly to the northwest corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township ; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section thirty-two (32), Township one (1) South, Range seventy-eight (78) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence southerly to the southeast corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the northwest corner of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly along the Base Line to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township one (1) North, Range seventy-eight (78) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section, the place of beginning; such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Leadville Forest Reserve.", "3020 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 12th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3013", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["The Leadville Forest Reserve, Colo.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Colorado.", "Description.", "Leadville Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Leadville Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Leadville Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Leadville Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Leadville Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Leadville Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Name."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart the Leadville Forest Reserve in Colorado as a public reservation, covering public lands described as partly timbered and excepting lands already lawfully claimed.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Leadville Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-12", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Leadville National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "abolished", "state": "Colorado", "note": "Broken up among neighboring forests in 1930.", "source": "Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "story": 55}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1930-05-26", "text": "The Leadville National Forest was broken up among neighboring forests, including the Arapaho, Cochetopa and Pike.", "source": "Procs. 1906–1909, 46 Stat. 3021–3022", "story": 55}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-550", "type": "proclamation", "number": "550", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Sevier Forest Reserve, Utah", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 550, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-550"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3020, "last_page": 3022, "cite": "34 Stat. 3020–3022", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3020.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-05-12", "table_title": "Setting apart the Sevier Forest Reserve, Utah."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Utah, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Utah, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the north-east corner of Township thirty-three (33) South, Range six (6) West, Salt Lake Meridian, Utah; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section ten (10), Township thirty-four (34) South, Range six (6) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township thirty-five (35) South, Range six (6) West; thence westerly along the Seventh (7th) Standard Parallel South to the north-east corner of Section five (5), Township thirty-six (36) South. Range six (6) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the northeast quarter of Section twenty (20), Township thirty-eight (38) South, Range six (6) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-four (24), Township thirty-eight (38) South. Range seven (7) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Town- ship thirty-nine (39) South, Range seven (7) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirteen (13), Township thirty-nine (39) South, Range eight (8) West; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section thirty-four (34), Township thirty-eight (38) South, Range eight (8) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty (20), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section thirteen (13), Township thirty-eight (38) South, Range nine (9) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the southwest quarter of Section two (2), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the northwest corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township thirty-seven (37) South, Range nine (9) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township thirty-six (36) South, Range nine (9) West; thence easterly along the Seventh (7th) Standard Parallel South to the north-east corner of said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township thirty-five (35) South, Range eight (8) West; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Township thirty-four (34) South, Range eight (8) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township thirty-three (33) South, Range seven (7) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township thirty-three (33) South, Range six (6) West, the place of beginning; such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Sevier Forest Reserve.", "3022 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 12th day of May, in the year year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3020", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["The Sevier Forest Reserve, Utah.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Post, p. 3187.", "Forest reserve, Utah.", "Description.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Name."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Sevier Forest Reserve on partly timbered public lands in Utah and closed it to settlement, apart from lands already lawfully claimed.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Sevier Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-12", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Sevier continued under its own name.", "source": "Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "story": 55}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-551", "type": "proclamation", "number": "551", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Chesnimnus Forest Reserve, Oregon", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 551, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-551"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3022, "last_page": 3024, "cite": "34 Stat. 3022–3024", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3022.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-05-12", "table_title": "Setting apart the Chesnimnus Forest Reserve, Oregon."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Oregon, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Oregon, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township four (4) North. Range forty-four (44) East, Willamette Meridian, Oregon; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said township: thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township four (4) North, Range forty-five (45) East; thence easterly along the First (1st) Standard Parallel North to the south-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), Township five (5) North, Range forty-five (45) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13). Township five (5) North, Range forty-six (46) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township five (5) North, Range forty-seven (47) East; thence easterly to the northeast corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence easterly to the northeast corner of Section twenty (20). said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence southerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the First (1st) Standard Parallel North, to the north-west corner of Section seven (7), Township four (4) North, Range forty-eight (48) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty (20), said township ; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-eight (28), Township three (3) North, Range forty-eight (48) East; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township three (3) North, Range forty-seven (47) East; thence northerly to the northeast corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township three (3) North, Range forty-six (46) East; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), Township two (2) North, Range forty-five (45) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the northeast quarter of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section thirty-six (36), Township two (2) North, Range forty-four (44) East; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section six (6), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township three (3) North, Range forty-four (44) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township four (4) North, Range forty-four (44) East, the place of beginning; such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "3024 The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Chesnimnus Forest Reserve.", "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 12th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3022", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["The Chesnimmis Forest Reserve, Oreg.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Post, p. 3284.", "Forest reserve, Oregon.", "Description.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Name."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Reserved partly timbered public lands in northeastern Oregon as the Chesnimnus Forest Reserve, withdrawing them from settlement except for existing lawful claims.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Chesnimnus Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}], "states": ["Oregon"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-12", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Chesnimnus and Wallowa were combined as the Imnaha on March 1, 1907, and the Imnaha was renamed Wallowa in 1908.", "source": "Proc. 713; Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "date": "1907-03-01", "story": 55}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-546", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Wallowa, combined with Chesnimnus in 1907.", "story": 55, "date": "1905-05-06", "title": "Establishment of the Wallowa Forest Reserve, Oregon", "type": "proclamation", "number": "546"}, {"id": "proc-713", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "The Imnaha Forest Reserve was established in place of the Wallowa and Chesnimnus.", "story": 55, "date": "1907-03-01", "title": "Establishing Imnaha Forest Reserve, Oregon, in Place of the Wallowa and Chesnimnus Forest Reserves", "type": "proclamation", "number": "713"}]}
{"id": "proc-552", "type": "proclamation", "number": "552", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Elkhorn Forest Reserve, Montana", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 552, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-552"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3024, "last_page": 3025, "cite": "34 Stat. 3024–3025", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3024.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-05-12", "table_title": "Setting apart the Elkhorn Forest Reserve, Montana."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Montana, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Montana, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the south-west corner of Township six (6) North. Range three (3) West, Principal Meridian, Montana; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township seven (7) North, Range three (3) \"West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township eight (8) North, Range three (3) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), said township; thence easterly along the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel North to the south-east corner of Township nine (9) North, Range three (3) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township nine (9) North, Range two (2) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township nine (9) North, Range one (1) \"West; thence easterly along the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel North to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township eight (8) North, Range one (1) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Township six (6) North, Range one (1) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township six (6) North, Range three (3) West, the place of beginning; such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Elkhorn Forest Reserve.", "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 12th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3024", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["The Elkhorn Forest Reserve, Mont.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Montana.", "Description.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Name."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Elkhorn Forest Reserve in Montana, setting aside partly timbered public lands as a public reservation closed to settlement, apart from lands already lawfully claimed.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Elkhorn Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-12", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Elkhorn was combined entire with the Helena National Forest in 1908.", "source": "E.O. 881; Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "date": "1908-07-01", "story": 55}], "today": [{"name": "Helena–Lewis and Clark National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Montana", "source": "Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "story": 55}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-881", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Combined Elkhorn with the Helena.", "story": 55, "date": "1908-07-01", "title": "Helena National Forest, Mont., Modified", "type": "executive_order", "number": "881"}]}
{"id": "proc-553", "type": "proclamation", "number": "553", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Gunnison Forest Reserve, Colorado", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 553, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-553"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3025, "last_page": 3028, "cite": "34 Stat. 3025–3028", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3025.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-05-12", "table_title": "Setting apart the Gunnison Forest Reserve, Colorado."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Colorado, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Colorado, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Township twelve (12) South, Range eighty-eight (88) West, Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian, Colorado; thence easterly along the township line to the north-east corner of Township twelve (12) South, Range eighty-three (83) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township thirteen (13) South, Range eighty-two (82) West; thence southerly to the southeast corner of Township fifteen (15) South, Range eighty-two (82) West; thence easterly along the Third (3rd) Correction Line South to the north-east corner of Township fifty-one (51) North, Range four (4) East, New Mexico Principal Meridian; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the southwest corner of Section thirty-four (34), fractional Township fiftyone (51) North, Range two (2) East; thence northerly to the northwest corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence westerly along the Third (3rd) Correction Line South to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township fifteen South, Range eighty-four (84) West, Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section twenty (20), Township fifteen (15) South, Range eighty-three (83) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section five (5), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), Township fifteen (15) South, Range eighty-four (84) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township fourteen (14) South, Range eighty-five (85) West; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township ; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township thirteen (13) South, Range eighty-six (86) West; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence southerly to the northwest corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township: thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section sixteen (16), Township fourteen (14) South, Range eighty-six (86) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section three (3), Township fifteen (15) South, Range eighty-seven (87) West; thence southerly to the northwest corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly along the Third (3rd) Correction Line South to the north-east corner of Township fifty-one (51) North, Range two (2) West, New Mexico Principal Meridian; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section eleven (11), Township fifty (50) North, Range two (2) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section ; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Township forty-nine (49) North, Range four (4) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), Township forty-nine (49) North, Range five (5) West; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township forty-nine (49) North, Range six (6) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the southwest corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township fifty (50) North, Range six (6) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township ; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eleven (11), said township ; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section one (1), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Township fifty-one (51) North, Range six (6) West; thence westerly along the Third (3rd) Correction Line South to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-four (34), Township fifteen (15) South, Range ninety-one (91) West, Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section five (5), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-two (32), Township fourteen (14) South, Range ninety-one (91) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township ; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township thirteen (13) South, Range ninety (90) West; thence easterly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty (20), said township; thence northerly to the northwest corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section fourteen (14), said township ; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section seven (7), Township thirteen (13) South, Range eighty-nine (89) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the southeast quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section nine (9), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the northeast corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township twelve (12) South, Range eighty-eight (88) West, the place of beginning; such of the abovenamed corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Gunnison Forest Reserve.", "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 12th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3025", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["The Gunnison Forest Reserve, Colo.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Colorado.", "Description.", "Gunnison Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Reserve—Continued.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Name."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Gunnison Forest Reserve on partly timbered public lands in Colorado, reserving them from settlement except for lands already lawfully claimed.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Gunnison Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-12", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Surface Creek Champion of Cedaredge reported that the Gunnison News-Champion and several Gunnison citizens were objecting \"in very strong language\" to the reserve, claiming it had been made through the influence of sheepmen.", "source": "Surface Creek Champion (Cedaredge, Colo.), June 9, 1905", "date": "1905-06-09", "story": 55}, {"text": "The same Delta County paper answered from experience with its own reserve that it was \"working an immense amount of good\" in \"preserving the forests and holding water.\"", "source": "Surface Creek Champion (Cedaredge, Colo.), June 9, 1905", "date": "1905-06-09", "story": 55}, {"text": "The Gunnison News-Champion kept up the attack, pointing to evidence from the Oregon land-fraud trials that sheep interests had sought to enlarge a forest reserve at the cattlemen's expense, and suggesting that all sorts of influences were at work in making reserves.", "source": "Gunnison News-Champion, August 25, 1905", "date": "1905-08-25", "story": 55}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-554", "type": "proclamation", "number": "554", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Pikes Peak Forest Reserve, Colorado", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 554, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-554"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3029, "last_page": 3037, "cite": "34 Stat. 3029–3037", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3029.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-05-12", "table_title": "Establishing the Pikes Peak Forest Reserve, Colorado, in place of the Pikes Peak, Plum Creek, and South Platte reserves."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, The Pikes Peak Timber Land Reserve, The Plum Creek Timber Land Reserve and the South Platte Forest Reserve, in the State of Colorada, have been heretofore established by proclamations, under the provisions of the acts of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, and June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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”;", "And whereas, it appears proper that the greater portion of the area embraced in said forest reserves, with the addition thereto of certain lands, should be included in one reserve and be designated by one name; and it appears that the public lands in the State of Colorado, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving the same as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid acts of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that the proclamations heretofore issued respecting said forest reserves are hereby superseded, and The Pikes Peak Forest Reserve is hereby established in place thereof, with boundaries as follows:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township two (2) South, Range seventy-four (74) West, Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian, Colorado; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirteen (13), Township two (2) South, Range seventy-three (73) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence southerly to the southeast corner of Section fifteen (15), Township three (3) South, Range seventy-three (73) West; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty (20), Township three (3) South, Range seventy-four (74) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the northeast quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section eighteen (18), Township four (4) South, Range seventy-four (74) West; thence westerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section seventeen (17), Township four (4) South, Range seventy-five (75) West; thence southerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty (20), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section nineteen (19), Township four (4) South, Range seventy-four (74) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence easterly to the northeast corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-two (32), Township four (4) South, Range seventy-three (73) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of the northwest quarter of Section thirty-four (34), said township ; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township ; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section two (2), Township five (5) South. Range seventy-three (73) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty (30), Township five (5) South, Range seventy-two (72) West; thence easterly to the northeast corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence southerly along the section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the First (1st) Correction Line South, to the south-east corner of Section nine (9), Township six (6) South, Range seventy-two (72) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty (20), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of lot two (2) of fractional Section nineteen (19), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), Township six (6) South, Range seventy-three (73) West; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the southwest corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township seven (7) South, Range seventy-three (73) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of lot two (2) of fractional Section thirty (30), Township seven (7) South, Range seventy-two (72) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-nine (29), said township thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-nine (29), Township seven (7) South, Range seventy (70) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the southwest quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said town- ship; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township seven (7) South, Range sixty-nine (69) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Township eight (8) South, Range sixty-nine (69) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section five (5), Township nine (9) South, Range sixty-eight (68) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence easterly to the northeast corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the northeast corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township ten (10) South, Range sixty-eight (68) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly along the Second (2nd) Correction Line South to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township eleven (11) South, Range sixty-seven (67) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township thirteen (13) South, Range sixty-seven (67) West; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Township fourteen (14) South, Range sixty-eight (68) West; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township fourteen (14) South, Range sixty-seven (67) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence easterly to the northeast corner of Section three (3), Township fifteen (15) South, Range sixty-seven (67) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence westerly along the Third (3rd) Correction Line South, to the south-west corner of Township fifteen (15) South, Range sixty-eight (68) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township fourteen (14) South, Range sixty-nine (69) West; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence westerly to the southwest corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the southeast quarter of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section eight (8), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the northeast corner of the south-east quarter of Section six (6), said township ; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the northwest quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township thirteen (13) South, Range sixty-nine (69) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Township eleven (11) South, Range sixty-nine (69) West; thence westerly along the Second (2nd) Correction Line South to the north-east corner of Section five (5), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township ; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section three (3), Township twelve (12) South, Range sixty-nine (69) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section ; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section thirteen (13), Township twelve (12) South, Range seventy (70) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence westerly to the southwest corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the northwest quarter of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section fifteen (15), Township twelve (12) South, Range seventy-one (71) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township thirteen (13) South, Range seventy-one (71) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Township fourteen (14) South, Range seventy-one (71) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section one (1), Township fourteen (14) South, Range seventy-two (72) West; thence westerly to the northeast corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirteen (13), Township fourteen (14) South, Range seventy-three (73) West; thence southerly to the southeast corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-eight (28), said township: thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirteen (13), Township fourteen (14) South. Range seventy-four (74) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence westerly lo the south-west corner of the north west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section two (2), Township fifteen (15) South, Range seventy-four (74) West; thence westerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section four (4), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section ten (10), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly along the section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the Third (3rd) Correction Line South, to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section nine (9), Township fifty-one (51) North, Range twelve (12) East, New Mexico Principal Meridian; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section fourteen (14), Township fifty-one (51) North, Range eleven (11) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence northerly along the section lines to the point of intersection with the Third (3rd) Correction Line South; thence westerly along said Correction Line to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-one (31), Township fifteen (15) South, Range seventy-five (75) West, Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the southwest quarter of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence southerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of the south-east quarter of said section ; thence easterly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township fourteen (14) South, Range seventy-four (74) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section five (5), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the southeast quarter of Section one (1), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section six (6), Township thirteen (13) South. Range seventy-three (73) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section five (5), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section ten (10), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section twelve (12), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section two (2), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the northwest quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township twelve (12) South, Range seventy-three (73) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section three (3), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township eleven (11) South, Range seventy-three (73) West; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section ; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section thirteen (13), Township eleven (11) South, Range seventy-four (74) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the northwest quarter of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence northerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section eleven (11), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section ten (10), said township; thence northerly along the quarter-section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the Second (2nd) Correction Line South, to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-four (34), Township ten (10) South, Range seventy-four (74) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section four (4), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the southwest quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence northerly to the northeast corner of Township nine (9) South, Range seventy-five (75) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township eight (8) South, Range seventy-five (75) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township seven (7) South, Range seventy-five (75) West; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township seven (7) South, Range seventy-six (76) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section sixteen (16), Township eight (8) South, Range seventy-six (76) West; thence westerly to the southwest corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence southerly to the southeast corner of Section one (1), Township nine (9) South, Range seventy-seven (77) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section two (2). said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence southerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the Second (2nd) Correction Line South, to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township eleven (11) South, Range seventy-seven (77) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township: thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), Township twelve (12) South, Range seventy-seven (77) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section four (4), Township thirteen (13) South, Range seventy-seven (77) West: thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section eleven (11), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section seventeen (17), Township thirteen (13) South, Range seventy-six (76) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the northwest quarter of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township fourteen (14) South, Range seventy-six (76) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-five (25), said township: thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section one (1), Township fifteen (15) South, Range seventy-six (76) West; thence westerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section two (2), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of the northwest quarter of Section ten (10), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section sixteen (16), said township: thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township: thence northerly to the south-east corner of Township thirteen (13) South, Range seventy-seven (77) West: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Township twelve (12) South. Range seventy-eight (78) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirteen (13), Township twelve (12) South, Range seventy-nine (79) West; thence northerly along the section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the Second (2nd) Correction Line South, to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township eight (8) South, Range seventy-nine (79) West; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said township; thence northerly to the northwest corner of Township eight (8) South, Range seventy-eight (78) West; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township seven (7) South, Range seventy-seven (77) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section one (1), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township six (6) South, Range seventy-six (76) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township: thence easterly along the First (1st) Correction Line South to the south-east corner of Township five (5) South, Range seventy-six (76) West; thence northerly to the northeast corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township four (4) South. Range seventy-six (76) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), Township three (3) South, Range seventy-six (76) West; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Township two (2) South, Range seventy-four (74) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township, the place of beginning; such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in extending the surveys;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, That this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made;", "Provided further, That nothing herein shall give any force or effect to any claim or right to any of the lands heretofore embraced within the reserves hereby consolidated which would not have been entitled to recognition if said reserves as heretofore established had been continued in force without being merged into a single reserve as hereinbefore provided.", "The lands hereby excluded from the reserve and restored to the public domain shall be open to settlement from the date hereof, but shall not be subject to entry, filing or selection until after ninety days notice by such publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 12th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3029", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["The Pikes Peak Forest Reserve, Colo.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 27. pp. 1006, 1014, 1029, 1044; Vol. 33, p. 2382.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Pikes Peak Forest Reserve, Colo., established in place of Pikes Peak, Plum Creek, and South Platte reserves.", "Description.", "Pikes Peak Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Pikes Peak Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Pikes Peak Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Pikes Peak Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Pikes Peak Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Pikes Teak Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Fikes Peak Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Lands excepted.", "Excluded lands restored to public domain.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "title_notes": ["The proclamation combined three older reserves into the Pikes Peak Forest Reserve rather than creating new ground."], "summary": "Combined the Pikes Peak Timber Land Reserve, the Plum Creek Timber Land Reserve and the South Platte Forest Reserve, plus added lands, into a single Pikes Peak Forest Reserve in Colorado, superseding the earlier proclamations.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Pikes Peak Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}, {"name": "Plum Creek Timber Land Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}, {"name": "South Platte Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-12", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Pikes Peak was a consolidation, not a new reserve: it superseded the Pikes Peak Timber Land, Plum Creek Timber Land and South Platte reserves and set up the Pikes Peak Forest Reserve in their place.", "source": "34 Stat. 3029–3033", "date": "1905-05-12", "story": 55}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-322", "type": "executive_order", "number": "322", "tr_sequence": 200, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Except Certain Law Officers in Bureau of Insular Affairs from Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_322", "revid": 1843445, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 75"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Schedule A of the civil service rules is hereby amended by the addition to Section III, War Department, of a paragraph which shall be numbered 6, and shall read as follows:", "One law officer in the Bureau of Insular Affairs."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 75)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, May 12, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Amended Schedule A of the civil service rules so that one law officer in the War Department's Bureau of Insular Affairs could be hired without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service", "government-administration"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-12", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-323", "type": "executive_order", "number": "323", "tr_sequence": 201, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Carriage Driver for Treasury Secretary Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_323", "revid": 1843438, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 87"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["An appointment to the vacancy now existing in the position of laborer in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for assignment to the duties of driver of the carriage of the Secretary of the Treasury may be made without examination under the civil service rules or labor regulations."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 87)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, May 12, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed a laborer to be hired, without examination, to drive the Treasury Secretary's carriage.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 1, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-12", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-323-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "323-A", "tr_sequence": 202, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Placing Administration of Navigation Aids Under Department of Commerce and Labor", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_323-A", "revid": 1845314, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It Is hereby directed that the Department of Commerce and Labor take charge of and use the proper measures for lighting and buoying the Guam Island waters, and have estimates prepared by the Light-House Establishment and submitted to Congress for an appropriation to defray the expenses of the establishment and maintenance of these aids to navigation."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, May 13, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Directed the Department of Commerce and Labor to take charge of lighting and buoying the waters around Guam, and to have the Light-House Establishment prepare cost estimates for Congress.", "categories": ["lighthouses", "insular-territories"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Guam", "kind": "island", "state": "Guam"}], "states": ["Guam"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-13", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-555", "type": "proclamation", "number": "555", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Restoring to the Public Domain Certain Lands in the State of California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 555, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-555"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3037, "last_page": 3038, "cite": "34 Stat. 3037–3038", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3037.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-05-15", "table_title": "Restoring Mission Indian lands, California, to the public domain."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America.\nA PROCLAMATION.", "WHEREAS, by Executive Order dated December 27, 1875, Sections 5 and 6, township 15 south, range 2 east, San Bernardino Meridian, California, were with certain other tracts of land withdrawn from the public domain and reserved for the use of the Capitan Grande Band or Village of Mission Indians; and", "WHEREAS, the Commission appointed upder [sic] the provisions of the Act of Congress approved January 12, 1891, entitled \"An Act for the relief of the Mission Indians in the State of California,\" (U. S. Statutes at Large, vol. 26, page 712) selected for the said Capitan Grande band or village of Indians certain tracts of land and intentionally omitted and excluded from such selection the said sections 5 and 6, township 15 south, range 2 east; and", "WHEREAS, the report and recommendations of the said Commission were approved by Executive Order dated December 29, 1891, which Order also directed that \"All of the lands mentioned in said report are hereby withdrawn from settlement and entry until patents shall have issued for said selected reservations, and until the recommendations of said Commission shall be fully executed, and, by the proclamation of the President of the United States, the lands or any part thereof shall be restored to the public domain;\" and", "WHEREAS, a patent was issued March 10, 1894, to the said Indians for the lands selected by the Commission as aforesaid and which patent also excluded the said Sections 5 and 6, township 15 south, range 2 east; and", "WHEREAS it appears that on the 10th day of March, 1895, Joseph J. Henderson entered upon the Southeast ¼ of the Southeast ¼, Section 5, township 15 south, range 2 east, San Bernardino Meridian, for the purpose of taking the land under the homestead law, and cannot make the requisite filings on the land occupied by him until it shall have been formally restored to the public domain, and that no good reason appears to exist for the further reservation of said Sections 5 and 6 for the said band of Indians:", "NOW, THEREFORE, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, by virtue of the power in me vested, do hereby declare and make known that Executive Orders dated December 27, 1875, and December 29, 1891, are so far modified as to except from their provisions Sections 5 and 6, of township 15 south, range 2 east, San Bernardino Meridian, and the said sections are hereby restored to the public domain.", "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 15th day of May in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and five, and of\n[SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth.", "T. ROOSEVELT", "By the President:\nFRANCIS B. LOOMIS\nActing Secretary of State."], "source": "34 Stat. 3037–3038 (GovInfo page images), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "'upder [sic]' is a misprint in the volume. APP differs (comma after 'Done', semicolon before 'NOW, THEREFORE,', 'THEODORE ROOSEVELT.', no [SEAL.]); the Statutes text is followed.", "story": 60}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Restored to the public domain two sections of land in southern California once reserved for the Capitan Grande band of Mission Indians but left out of the band's later selection and patent.", "categories": ["public-lands", "indian-lands"], "action": "restore", "places": [], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [60], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-15", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "A search of California papers, including the San Diego Union, for May through July 1905 found no notice of the restoration.", "source": "California Digital Newspaper Collection", "date": "1905", "story": 60}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "local", "text": "The restoration cleared the way for Joseph J. Henderson, who had lived on part of Section 5 since March 10, 1895, to file a homestead claim on the land.", "source": "Proclamation 555, 34 Stat. 3037–3038", "date": "1905-05-15", "story": 60}], "uncertain": ["Who asked for the restoration (Henderson, the General Land Office or the Indian Office) is not known.", "What became of Sections 5 and 6 and of Henderson's homestead claim after restoration is not known."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-476", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The 1902 proclamation used the same mechanism to release neighboring Section 7 of the Capitan Grande lands for the settler Jacob Kuhner.", "story": 60, "date": "1902-05-29", "title": "Restoring to the Public Domain Certain Lands in the State of California", "type": "proclamation", "number": "476"}]}
{"id": "proc-556", "type": "proclamation", "number": "556", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reciprocity with Panama", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 556, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-556"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3038, "last_page": 3038, "cite": "34 Stat. 3038", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3038.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-05-15", "table_title": "Suspending discriminating tonnage, etc., duties, Panama."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America,", "A PROCLAMATION.", "Whereas, satisfactory proof has been given to me by the Government of the Republic of Panama that no discriminating duties of tonnage or imposts are imposed or levied in the ports of that Republic 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, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section four thousand two hundred and twenty-eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States, do hereby declare and proclaim that, the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and imposts within the United States are suspended and discontinued so far as respects the vessels of the Republic of Panama, and the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported into the United States from the Republic of Panama, or from any other foreign country; the suspension to take effect on and after the date of this proclamation 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 testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.", "Done at the City of Washington, the 15th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth.", "[SEAL.]", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:\nF. B LOOMIS [sic]\nActing Secretary of State."], "source": "34 Stat. 3038 (GovInfo page image), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Replaces the APP transcription: preamble ends in a colon; [SEAL.] restored; countersignature printed 'F. B LOOMIS' with no period after 'B' on the page (the [sic] marks this).", "story": 61}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Suspended foreign discriminating tonnage duties and imposts on Panamanian vessels and their cargoes, after Panama showed it levied no such duties on American ships, for as long as that reciprocal treatment continues.", "categories": ["trade-reciprocity", "foreign-affairs"], "action": "grant", "places": [{"name": "Republic of Panama", "kind": "country"}], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [61], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-15", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "A search of California papers from mid-May to mid-June 1905 found no notice of the Panama proclamation.", "source": "California Digital Newspaper Collection", "date": "1905", "story": 61}], "uncertain": ["When and through whom Panama supplied the proof recited in the proclamation, and whether the Treasury or the Canal Commission pressed for it, is not known."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-482", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The 1902 Cuban vessels proclamation used the same section 4228 authority, with differently worded operative clauses.", "story": 61, "date": "1902-07-03", "title": "Suspending Duties on Cuban Vessels Entering Ports of the United States", "type": "proclamation", "number": "482"}]}
{"id": "eo-324", "type": "executive_order", "number": "324", "tr_sequence": 203, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of John Ball Osborne as Chief of Bureau of Trade Relations in State Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_324", "revid": 1843440, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 87"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. John Ball Osborne may be appointed chief of the Bureau of Trade Relations in the State Department without reference to the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 87)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, May 15, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed John Ball Osborne to be appointed chief of the State Department's Bureau of Trade Relations without regard to civil service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["John Ball Osborne"], "significance": 1, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-15", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-324-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "324-A", "tr_sequence": 204, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Cancellation of Executive Order 302-A of March 10, 1905, and Reserving Additional Lands in Lieu Of", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_324-A", "revid": 1852152, "printed_source": null}}, "text": null, "summary": "Canceled Executive Order 302-A of March 10, 1905, and reserved additional lands in its place.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-15", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-557", "type": "proclamation", "number": "557", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Modification of the Boundaries of the Medicine Bow Forest Reserve", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 557, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-557"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3039, "last_page": 3044, "cite": "34 Stat. 3039–3044", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3039.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-05-17", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Medicine Bow Forest Reserve, Colorado and Wyoming."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, The Medicine Bow Forest Reserve, in the State of Wyoming, was established by proclamation dated May twenty-second, nineteen hundred and two, under and by virtue of section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, which provides, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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”, that “the President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”; under which provision the boundary lines of the said forest reserve were changed and enlarged by proclamation dated July sixteenth, nineteen hundred and two;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by including within the said forest reserve certain additional lands in the State of Colorado which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do hereby make known and proclaim that the boundary lines of the aforesaid Medicine Bow Forest Reserve are hereby further modified so as to read as follows:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Township seventeen (17) North, Range eighty-one (81) West, Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian, Wyoming; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township seventeen (17) North, Range eighty (80) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township seventeen (17) North, Range seventy-nine (79) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), Township seventeen (17) North, Range seventy-eight (78) West; thence southerly along the section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the Fourth (4th) Standard Parallel North, to the south-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township fourteen (14) North, Range seventy-eight (78) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township thirteen (13) North, Range seventy-seven (77) West; thence southerly along the section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel North, to the point of intersection with the boundary line between the States of Wyoming and Colorado; thence westerly along said state boundary line to the point of intersection with the range line between Ranges seventy-seven (77) and seventy-eight (78) West; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Township eleven (11) North, Range seventy-seven (77) West; Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian, Colorado; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the northeast corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), Township ten (10) North, Range seventy-six (76) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section one (1), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), Township eleven (11) North, Range seventy-five (75) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), Township ten (10) North, Range seventy-four (74) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), Township nine (9) North, Range seventy-three (73) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence easterly along the Second (2nd) Correction Line North to the north-west corner of Section one (1), Township eight (8) North, Range seventy-two (72) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the northwest corner of the north-east quarter of Section two (2), Township seven (7) North, Range seventy-two (72) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section eleven (11), Township six (6) North, Range seventy-two (72) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the southeast corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), Township five (5) North, Range seventy-three (73) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence southerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the First (1st) Correction Line North, to the south-west corner of Section six (6), Township four (4) North, Range seventy-three (73) West; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section ; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), Township two (2) North, Range seventy-three (73) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section eleven (11), Township one (1) North, Range seventy-three (73) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eight (8), Township one (1) North, Range seventy-four (74) West; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty (30), Township two (2) North, Range seventy-four (74) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), Township two (2) North, Range seventy-five (75) West; thence northerly to the northeast corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township three (3) North, Range seventy-five (75) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section seven (7), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section nine (9), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section four (4), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-one (31), Township four (4) North, Range seventy-five (75) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the southwest quarter of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence northerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the First (1st) Correction Line North, to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township five (5) North, Range seventy-six (76) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence westerly along the First (1st) Correction Line North to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section two (2), Township four (4) North, Range seventy-six (76) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section eleven (11), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence westerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section two (2), Township three (3) North, Range seventy-six (76) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-three (23), Township three (3) North, Range seventy-seven (77) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township\"; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Township two (2) North, Range seventy-eight (78) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section one (1), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the southwest corner of Section nine (9), Township two (2)\" North, Range seventy-nine (79) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township three (3) North, Range seventy-nine (79) West; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section six (6), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township four (4) North, Range eighty (80) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section fourteen (14), Township four (4) North, Range eighty-one (81) West; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly along the section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the First (1st) Correction Line North, to the north-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), Township live (5) North, Range eighty-one (81) West; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section eight (8), Township five (5) North, Range eighty (80) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Township five (5) North, Range seventy-eight (78) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), said township; thence easterly to the southeast corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly to the northwest corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the southeast corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the southeast corner of the north-east quarter of Section eighteen (18), Township five (5) North, Range seventy-seven (77) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section ; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section one (1), Township five (5) North, Range seventy-eight (78) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-five (25), Township six (6) North, Range seventy-eight (78) West; thence westerly to the southwest corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the northeast quarter of Section eleven (11), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section one (1), said township; thence north- erly to the north-west corner of Township six (6) North, Range seventy-seven (77) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section three (3), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township seven (7) North, Range seventy-seven (77) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), Township eight (8) North, Range seventy-seven (77) West; thence easterly along the Second (2nd) Correction Line North to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty-four (34), Township nine (9) North, Range seventy-seven (77) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section six (6), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township ten (10) North, Range seventy-eight (78) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section eight (8), said township ; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township eleven (11) North. Range seventy-nine (79) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township twelve (12) North, Range seventy-nine (79) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section ten (10), Township eleven (11) North, Range seventy-nine (79) West; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; 1 hence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twelve (12), Township eleven (11) North, Range eighty (80) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the southwest corner of Section two (2), said township; thence northerly along the section lines to the point of intersection with the boundary line between the States of Colorado and Wyoming; thence westerly along said state boundary line to the point of intersection with the range line between Ranges eighty (80) and eighty-one (81) West; thence northerly along said range line, allowing for the proper offset on the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel North, to the south-east corner of Township fourteen (14) North, Range eighty-one (81) West, Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian, Wyoming; thence westerly to the southwest corner of said township; thence northerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the Fourth (4th) Standard Parallel North, to the north-west corner of Township seventeen (17) North, Range eighty-one (81) West, the place of beginning;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman. settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to affixed.", "Done at the City of Washington this 17th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and five, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3039", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["The Medicine Bow Forest Reserve, Colo, and Wyo.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 32, pp. 2003, 2015.", "Vol. 20, p. 1103.", "Post, p. 3303.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Vol. 32, p. 2015.", "Area enlarged.", "Description.", "Medicine Bow Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Medicine Bow Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Medicine Bow Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Medicine Bow Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Medicine Bow Forest Reserve by adding partly timbered lands in Colorado, redrawing the boundaries of a reserve first created in Wyoming.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Medicine Bow Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Wyoming"}], "states": ["Colorado", "Wyoming"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-17", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "proc-474", "relation": "modifies", "note": "Redrew the Medicine Bow reserve of May 22, 1902.", "story": 55, "date": "1902-05-22", "title": "Establishing the Medicine Bow Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "474"}, {"id": "proc-484", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The July 16, 1902 Medicine Bow boundary change.", "story": 55, "date": "1902-07-16", "title": "Modifying the Boundary Lines of the Medicine Bow Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "484"}]}
{"id": "eo-324-b", "type": "executive_order", "number": "324-B", "tr_sequence": 205, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Executive Order 310-C Amended Eliminate Lands Comprising Homestead Entry of Louis Zeph", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Amended Executive Order 310-C, the Minnesota flowage reservation, to leave out the lands in Louis Zeph's homestead entry.", "categories": ["water-reclamation", "public-lands"], "action": "reduce", "places": [], "states": ["Minnesota"], "people": ["Louis Zeph"], "significance": 2, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-17", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-324-c", "type": "executive_order", "number": "324-C", "tr_sequence": 206, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Approving War Secretary Recommendation to Reserve Seven Tracts of Land in Philippine Islands for Military Purposes", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_324-C", "revid": 1909775, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 77, War Dept., May 27, 1905"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The following is the description from the Department of War's General Order No. 77 of 1905, not the actual order text, which was in the form of an approval of a recommendation from the Secretary of War.", "The President of the United States, by order dated May 17, 1905, reserved for military purposes, under section 12 of the Act of Congress, approved July 1, 1902, entitled \"An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes\" (32 Stat. L., 691-695), the following properties of the United States, situated in the city of Manila, Philippine Islands, viz:", "The Cuartel Meisic, three parcels bounded and described as follows:", "(a) Parcel I, comprising an area of 24,017 square meters (about 5.935 acres), bounded on the north by Calle Felipe II; on the east by Calle Reina Regente; on the south by an alley without name; and on the west by Calle Meisic. with metes and bounds as follows:", "Beginning at the northeast angle of the main stone wall surrounding Cuartel Meisic, said point being on the south line of Calle Felipe II, and distant 8.75 meters in a direction north 80° 14′ west from the intersection of said line with the west line of Calle Reina Regente, and is marked \"A\" on plan, dated January 31, 1905, prepared In the office of the City Engineer, Manila, P. I. (Book 95, page 18), and designated as \"Map of Military Reservation Cuartel Meysic, District of Binondo;\" thence south 9° 20′ west, 213.54 meters, along the outer face of the stone wall surrounding the barrack buildings of the Cuartel Meisic, to the southeast angle of same marked \"B\" on plan; thence north 81° 00′ west, 94.37 meters, along the north side of an alley approximately 3 meters wide leading to the estero and bridge of Jolo, to the southwest angle of the main buildings of the Cuartel Meisic, shown at \"C\" on plan; thence north 35° 33′ west, 37.15 meters, to an angle of the stone building containing the guard house of the barracks, shown at \"D\" on plan; thence north 8° 57′ east, 13.59 meters, along the outer and lower edge of the stone buttresses of the last mentioned stone building, to its northwest corner, shown at \"E\" on plan; thence south 81° 00′ east, 12.30 meters, along the outer face of said stone building, to the intersection of this line with the east line of Calle Meisic, as approved by the Municipal Board January 25, 1905, point of intersection marked \"F\" on plan; thence north 6° 35′ east, 174.95 meters, along the east line of Calle Meisic as approved by the Municipal Board on January 25th, 1905, to its intersection with the south side of Calle Felipe II, as approved by the Municipal Board January 25, 1905, shown at \"G\" on plan; thence south 80° 14′ east, 116.25 meters, along the north side of the Cuartel buildings, to the point of beginning.", "(b) Parcel II, comprising an area of 1,364 square meters (about 0.337 acre), being a triangular parcel of land bounded by Calle Santa Elena on the north; Calle Meisic on the east; and an unnamed street on the west, with truncated angle at each corner of the triangle; said lines being these established by the Municipal Board on January 25, 1905, with metes and bounds as follows:", "Beginning at a point marked \"H\" on said plan, said point being south 6° 35′ west, 3.495 meters, from the intersection of the south line of Calle Santa Elena with the west line of Calle Meisic; thence south 6° 35′ west, 74.63 meters, along the west line of Calle Meisic to the chaflan corner marked \"I\" on plan; thence south 82° 58′ west, 2.355 meters, along the south chaflan of the triangle formed by the three streets above named, to point marked \"J\" on plan; thence north 20° 39′ 30″ west, 63.885 meters, along the east line of the unnamed street lying between Calle Meisic and the Estero de Jolo to the angle of the northwest chaflan marked \"K\" on plan; thence north 23° 47′ 30″ east, 6.115 meters, along said chaflan to the south line of Calle Santa Elena, point marked \"L\" on plan; thence north 68° 14′ 30″ east, 30.24 meters, along the south line of Calle Santa Elena to the angle of the northeast chaflan, marked \"M\" on plan; thence south 52° 35′ east, 3.58 meters, along said northeast chaflan to the point ol beginning.", "(c) Parcel III, comprising an area of 3,580 square meters (about 0.885 acre), bounded on the north by Calle Felipe II; on the east by Calle Meisic; on the south by Calle Santa Elena; on the west by the property of Mr. Rafael Perez; with metes and bounds as follows:", "Beginning at the southeast angle of the stone wall bounding the property of Mr. Rafael Perez at its intersection with the north line of Calle Santa Elena, shown at \"N\" on said plan; thence north 12° 24′ west, 81.90 meters, along the line of the stone wall aforementioned, to its intersection with the south line of Calle Felipe II, as established by the Municipal Board of the City of Manila on January 25,1905, said point being shown at \"O\" on plan; thence south 80° 14′ east, 66.88 meters, along said south line of Calle Felipe II to its intersection with the west line of Calle Meisic as established January 25, 1905, shown at \"P\" on plan; thence south 6° 35′ west, 49.15 meters, along said west line of Calle Meisic to the angle of the chaflan shown at \"Q\" on plan; thence south 37° 25′ west, 5.15 meters, along said chaflan to its intersection with the north line of Calle Santa Elena aforementioned, point shown at \"R\" on plan; thence south 68° 14′ 30″ west, 42.56 meters, along said north line of Calle Santa Elena to the point of beginning.", "All bearings are from true meridian.", "The Estado Mayor, comprising an area of 10,380 square meters (about 2.565 acres), bounded on the north by military land; on the east by the Pasig River; on the south by land of the City of Manila; on the west by Calle Arroceros; with metes and bounds as follows:", "Beginning at a point marked \"J\" on plan of survey of said reservation dated January 27, 1905 (Book 509, page 1). prepared in the Office of the City Engineer, Manila, P. I., and designated as \"Plan of Survey of Portion of Land Occupied by the Military Authorities at Estado Mayor, District of Ermita, Manila, P. I.,\" which point is at the southeast corner of a stone post at the intersection of a stone wall on the westerly side of the Pasig River and a wood and stone fence on the northerly side of land of the City of Manila (Arroceros Shops); thence south 64° 37′ west, along the southerly side of a wood and stone fence for 128.86 meters to point \"A\" on plan; thence north 28° 44′ west, along the present property line of Calle Arroceros for 65.64 meters to point \"C\" on plan; thence north 57° 15′ east, along the line of a wooden building for 60.09 meters to point \"D\" on plan; thence south 32° 02′ east along the line of a wooden building for 6.33 meters to point \"E\" on plan; thence north 59° 22′ east, along the line of a wooden building for 12.25 meters to point \"F\" on plan; thence north 31° 01′ west, along the line of a wooden building for 32.12 meters to point \"G\" on plan; thence north 58° 23′ east, along the line of a wooden building for 47.60 meters to point \"H\" on plan; thence south 40° 56′ east, along the outside of a stone wall built on the westerly side of Pasig River, for 11.90 meters to point \"I\" on plan; thence south 33° 15′ east, along the outside of the last-mentioned stone wall for 94.40 meters to point \"J\" on plan, or point of beginning.", "All bearings magnetic for 1905.", "\"Malate Barracks,\" commonly called \"Cuartel Malate,\" two parcels, bounded and described as follows:", "(a) Parcel \"A,\" comprising an area of 12,653.85 square meters (about 3.126 acres), bounded on the north by Calle Herran; on the east by Calle Nueva; on the south by Calle Cortado, and on the west by Calle Real; with metes and bounds as follows:", "Beginning at a point marked \"1\" on plan, dated February 3, 1905, prepared in the office of the City Engineer, Manila. P. I., and designated as \"Map of Military Reservation, Cuartel Malate,\" said point being the intersection of the west building line of Calle Nueva and the south building line of Calle Herran, as approved by the Municipal Board, December 11, 1903, and December 20, 1904; thence south 25° 22′ east, along the aforementioned west building line of Calle Nueva, a distance of 129.74 meters to point \"2\" on plan; thence south 65° 31′ west, along the north building line of Calle Cortado (approved February 3, 1905), a distance of 93.80 meters to point \"3\" on plan; thence north 26° 13′ west, along the east building line of Calle Real (approved December 18, 1903), a distance of 137.34 meters to point \"4\" on plan; thence north 70° 13′ east, along the south building line of Calle Herran (approved December 20, 1904), a distance of 96.28 meters to point \"1\" on plan, or point of beginning.", "(b) Parcel \"B,\" comprising an area of 16,985.85 square meters (about 4.197 acres), bounded on the north by a callejon and city property; on the east by Calle Real; on the south by the land of Encarnacion de Elizalde & Sons, and on the west by Manila Bay; with metes and bounds as follows:", "Beginning at a point marked \"1\" on said plan, said point being the intersection of the west building line of Calle Real (approved December 18, 1903), and the south side of a callejon marking the north boundary of the Military Reservation, also being 45.15 meters north 26° 13′ west, from the Intersection of center line of Calle Herran and the west building line of Calle Real; thence south 67° 14′ west, along south side of said callejon a distance of 66.20 meters to point \"2\" on plan; thence following the line of high water in Manila Bay, south 14° 26′ east, for 8.33 meters to point \"3\" on plan; thence south 25° 44′ east, for 37.20 meters to point \"4\" on plan; thence south 11° 19′ east, for 13.00 meters to point \"5\" on plan; thence still following the line of high water south 26° 57′ east, for 169.07 meters, to point \"6\" on plan; thence south 14° 57′ east, for 17.68 meters to point \"7\" on plan; thence along the north face of a stone wall north 64° 28′ east for a distance of 10.97 meters to point \"8\" on plan; thence north 65° 31′ east, for a distance of 17.23 meters to point \"9\" on plan; thence still following north face of wall north 64° 05′ east, for a distance of 44.61 meters to point \"10\" on plan, being on the west building line of Calle Real; thence north 26° 13′ west, along the west building line of Calle Real, a distance of 240.97 meters to point \"1\" on plan, or point of beginning, including the land between high and low water mark of Manila Bay in front of said parcel.", "All bearings are from the magnetic meridian.", "Fort Santiago, including the lands reserved for an ordnance depot by Executive Order of June 29, 1904 (G. O., No. 125, War Department, July 20, 1904), comprising an area of 11.696 acres, bounded on the north by the Pasig River; on the east by the street system of Manila; on the south and southeast by the street system of Manila and by Plaza Moriones, and on the west and southwest by the moat, with metes and bounds us follows:", "Beginning at a point marked \"1\" on plan of survey of said reservation, prepared in February, 1905, marked \"Plan of Fort Santiago, Manila, P.I. to be reserved by the military authorities, U. S. A.\", said point being the south corner of the building situated at the intersection of the southwest building line of Calle Hospital and the northwest building line of Calle Santa Clara; thence north 42° 45′ 30″ west, along said building line, a distance of 3.98 feet, to point marked \"2\" on plan; thence north 41° 19′ 30″ west, along said building, a distance of 204.67 feet, to point marked \"3\" on plan; thence south 46° 59′ 45″ west, along said building, a distance of 5.48 feet, to point marked \"4\" on plan; thence north 42° 53′ 15″ west, a distance of 381.13 feet, to point marked \"5\" on plan; thence north 34° 16′ 15″ west, a distance of 25.71 feet, to point marked \"6\" on plan; thence south 47° 06′ 30″ west, a distance of 4.54 feet, to point marked \"7\" on plan; thence north 42° 53′ 30″ west, a distance of 20.19 feet, to corner at the intersection with the south edge of the moat, said corner being marked \"8\" on plan; thence south 47° 09′ 15″ west, a distance of 177.29 feet, along the southerly edge of the moat, to point marked \"9\" on plan; thence south 27° 43′ west, a distance of 26.23 feet, along the southerly edge of the moat to corner of small building, and marked \"10\" on plan; thence south 42° 14′ 30″ east, a distance of 351.50 feet, along face of said building and stone fence, to point marked \"11\" on plan; thence south 38° 27′ 15″ east, a distance of 53.77 feet, to point marked \"12\" on plan; thence south 33° 39′ 15″ east, a distance of 218.33 feet, along back face of rampart, to point marked \"13\" on plan; thence south 56° 23′ west, a distance of 67.05 feet, along end of rampart, to point marked \"14\" on plan, said point being the most southerly point of the fort; thence north 33° 36′ 15″ west, a distance of 188.45 feet, along the edge of the moat and at the base of the rampart, to point marked \" 15\" on plan; thence south 56° 46′ 15″ west, a distance of 86.58 feet, to point marked \"16\" on plan; thence north 71° 56′ 45″ west, a distance of 35.88 feet, to point marked \"17\" on plan; thence north 1° 59′ 45″ east, a distance of 38.48 feet, to point marked \"18\" on plan; thence north 46° 57′ east, a distance of 29.40 feet, to point marked \"19\" on plan; thence north 42° 52′ 30″ west, a distance of 7.24 feet, to point marked \"20\" on plan; thence north 48° 46′ east, a distance of 10.40 feet, to point marked \"21\" on plan; thence north 42° 26′ 15″ west, a distance of 379.26 feet, to point marked \"22\" on plan; thence south 34° 07′ 15″ west, a distance of 26.25 feet, to point marked \"23-A\" on plan; thence along the curve at the base of the bastion a distance of 14.74 feet, to point marked \"23-B\" on plan, said point being north 89° 29′ 30″ west, a distance of 14.08 feet, from point \"23-A;\" thence north 25° 38′ 45″ west, a distance of 142.65 feet, to point marked \"24\" on plan; thence north 60° 12′ 15″ east, a distance of 31.11 feet, to point marked \"25\" on plan; thence north 34° 15′ 15″ west, a distance of 385.36 feet, to point marked \"26\" on plan; thence south 54° 29′ 15″ west, a distance of 7.68 feet, to point marked \"27\" on plan; thence north 40° 22′ 30″ west, a distance of 146.70 feet, to point marked \"28\" on plan; thence south 51° 12′ west, a distance of 17.62 feet, to point marked \"29\" on plan; thence north 18° 56′ 30″ west, a distance of 52.31 feet, to point marked \"29-A\" on plan; thence along the curve of the wall a distance of 146.09 feet, to point marked \"30\" on plan, said point bearing north 58° 26′ 15″ east, a distance of 112.91 feet, from point \"29-A;\" thence south 79° 45′ 30″ east, a distance of 98.54 feet, to point marked \"31\" on plan; thence along the curve of the wall, a distance of 112.00 feet, to point marked \"32\" on plan, said point bearing south 73° 24′ 30″ east, a distance of 66.70 feet from point \"31;\" thence south 60° 50′ 45″ east, a distance of 110.95 feet, to point marked \"33\" on plan; thence south 26° 08′ 45″ west, a distance of 14.11 feet, to point marked \"34\" on plan; thence south 66° 24′ 30″ east, a distance of 296.88 feet, to point marked \"35\" on plan; thence south 69° 11′ 45″ east, a distance of 60.00 feet, to point marked \"36\" on plan; thence south 70° 04′ 15″ east, a distance of 180.11 feet, to point marked \"37\" on plan; thence north 69° 04′ 45″ east, a distance of 149.38 feet, to point marked \"38\" on plan: thence south 72° 26′ east, a distance of 154.53 feet, to point marked \"39\" on plan; thence south 3° 58′ 30″ east, a distance of 65.67 feet, to point marked \"40\" on plan; thence south 79° 26′ east, a distance of 66.26 feet, to point marked \"41\" on plan; thence south 10° 32′ 30″ west, a distance of 69.38 feet, to point marked \"42\" on plan; thence north 82° 04′ 30″ west, a distance of 17.18 feet, to point marked \"43\" on plan; thence south 9° 25′ 15″ west, a distance ol 20.16 feet, to point marked \"44\" on plan; thence south 46° 36′ 45″ west, a distance of 123.17 feet, to point marked \"45\" on plan; thence south 41° 52′ 30″ east, a distance of 287.91 feet, to point marked \"46\" on plan; thence south 48° 22′ west, a distance of 236.90 feet, to point marked \"1\" on plan, or the point of beginning.", "The bearings are true, and are determined from the bearing of the last course of this survey (points \"46\" to \"1\"), as given in the map of Fort Santiago made under the direction of Captain William M. Harts, in March and April, 1903."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 77, War Dept., May 27, 1905)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved government properties in Manila for military use, including the Cuartel Meisic barracks, approving a Secretary of War recommendation.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Cuartel Meisic", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Manila", "kind": "town", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-17", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-324-d", "type": "executive_order", "number": "324-D", "tr_sequence": 207, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Approving War Secretary Recommendation to Reserve Nine Additional Tracts of Land in Jolo, Philippine Islands for Military Purposes", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_324-D", "revid": 1881054, "printed_source": "| notes    = See the Notes section for a list of Executive Orders affected by or related to the issuance of this Executive Order."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The following is the description from the Department of War's General Order No. 76 of 1905, not the actual order text, which was in the form of an approval of a recommendation from the Secretary of War.", "The President of the United States by order dated May 17, 1905, reserved for military purposes, subject to private rights, pursuant to section 12 of the Act of Congress approved July 1, 1902, entitled \"An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes\" (32 Stat. L., 691), the following-described tracts of land at Jolo, Jolo, Philippine Islands, as additions to the military reservation at that place, declared by Executive Order of November 10, 1904, published in General Orders, No. 177, War Department, November 21, 1904, viz:", "Tract \"A.\" Starting at a stone monument, which is Station 2 of the original reservation: thence south 40° 38′ west, 130.6 feet to a stone monument (station \"a\"); thence south 60° 31′ east, 365.3 feet to a stone monument (station \"b\"); thence north 71° 07′ east, 97.3 feet to a stone monument (station \"c\"); thence south 84° 10′ east, 447 feet to a stone monument (station \"d\"); thence north 71° 14′ east, 1,846 feet to a stone monument which is Station 3 of the original reservation; thence south 83° 11′ west, 2,537 feet to point of beginning. Area: about 15.8 acres.", "Tract \"B.\" Starting at a point which is on the face of the wall surrounding the city of Jolo on its extreme northeasternmost side (Station II of the original reservation); thence north 42° 49′ west, 590 feet to a point marked \"e\" on map; thence south 44° 46′ west, 278 feet to a point marked \"f\" on map, which is on inner face of sea-wall on northwestern side of the city of Jolo; thence south 43° 24′ east, 207.2 feet to a point marked \"g\" on map; thence south 45° 36′ west, 107.6 feet to a point marked \"h\" on map; thence south 43° 43′ east, 427.8 feet to a point marked \"i\" on map; thence south 47° 30′ west, 64.6 feet to a point marked \"j\" on map; thence south 42° 30′ east, 414 feet to point of beginning of the original reservation; thence along line of original reservation to point of beginning. Area: about 5.25 acres.", "Tract \"C.\" Starting at a point which is a mark cut on face of southeast wall of city of Jolo, 435.7 feet southwest of center of gateway in southeast wall of city; thence south 42° 45′ east, 236 feet to a point marked \"k\" on map; thence south 47° 15′ west, 320 feet to a point marked \"l\" on map; thence north 42° 45′ west, 661.6 feet to mean low-water line, marked \"m\" on map; thence, along mean low-water line, north 47° 15′ east, 383.2 feet to a point marked \"n\" on map; thence south 42° 45′ east, 117.7 feet to a point marked \"o\" on map; thence north 47° 15′ east, 85.9 feet to a point marked \"p\" on map; thence south 42° 45′ east, 143.9 feet to a point marked \"q\" on map; thence south 47° 15′ west, 86.4 feet to a point marked \"r\" on map; thence south 42° 45′ east, 145.4 feet to a point marked \"s\" on map; thence south 47° 15′ west, 62.7 feet to a point marked \"t\" on map; thence south 42° 45′ east, 18.6 feet to point of beginning. Area: about 5.68 acres.", "Tract \"D\" (Post Hospital). Starting at a point on property line on southwest side of Calle Dolance 137 feet from intersection of this property line with the northwest face of sea-wall; thence south 46° 41′ west, 195 feet; thence north 43° 19′ west, 137 feet; thence north 46° 41′ east, 195 feet to intersection of property line Calle Dolance with face of sea-wall; thence south 43° 19′ east, along property line of Calle Dolance to point of beginning. Area: 26.715 square feet. This property is surrounded by sea-wall built into bay.", "Tract \"E\" (Officers' Club Building). Starting at a point on property line on northwest side of Calle Sebantes, 90 feet from its intersection at southwest end of street with inner face of sea-wall; thence north 43° 19′ west, 76 feet; thence south 46° 41′ west, 153 feet; thence south 43° 19′ east, 124 feet; thence north 46° 41′ east, 153 feet; thence north 43° 19′ west, 48 feet to point of beginning. Area: 18,974 square feet.", "Tract \"F \" (Ice Plant). Starting at a point on property line on southeast side of Calle Travesi 57 feet southwest of intersection of said property line with property line on southwest side of Calle Buyon; thence along property line of Calle Travesi south 43° 23′ west, 77.4 feet; thence south 43° 37′ east, 102.6 feet; thence north 46° 23′ east, 77.4 feet; thence north 43° 37′ west, 102.6 feet to point of beginning. Area: 7,941.24 square feet.", "Tract \"G\" (Quartermaster Shop and Blacksmith Shop). Starting at intersection of property line on southeast side of Calle Travesi, with property line on northeast side of Calle Dolance; thence south 43° 19′ east, 44.7 feet; thence north 46° 41′ east, 87 feet; thence north 43° 19′ west, 44.7 feet to property line of Calle Travesi; thence south 46° 41′ west, 87 feet, along property line of Calle Travesi, to point of beginning. Area: 3,888.9 square feet.", "Tract \"H\" (Boat House). Starting at a point on inner face of southwest wall of pier, 335.4 feet northwest of intersection of inner face of southwest wall of pier with stone sentry box at entrance to pier; thence north 45° 32′ west, 51 feet; thence south 44° 28′ west, 79.3 feet; thence south 45° 32′ east, 51 feet; thence north 44° 28′ east, 79.3 feet to point of beginning. Area: 4,044.3 square feet.", "Tract \"I\" (Blockhouse, not included within reservation or additions previously described). Starting at a point bearing south 1° 38′ east, and distant 415 feet from station \"d\" of Tract \"A\"; thence south 74° 49′ east, 90.6 feet; thence north 25° 17′ east, 77.25 feet; thence north 72° 59′ west, 99.5 feet; thence south 18° 27′ west, 79.34 feet, to point of beginning. Area: 6,289.84 square feet.", "The foregoing lands are shown on a map marked \"Map of Proposed Additions to Military Reservation of Jolo, P. I., * * * Office Engineer Officer, Philippines Division, Manila, P. I., Jan., 1905,\" which map is referred to in some of the descriptions. The bearings given are true. Magnetic variation (1898), 1° 31′ east.", "== Notes == Amended by: Executive Order 5493, November 18, 1930 See Related: Executive Order of November 10, 1904 (unnumbered series)"], "source": "Wikisource (from | notes    = See the Notes section for a list of Executive Orders affected by or related to the issuance of this Executive Order.)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Added tracts of land at Jolo, Philippine Islands, to the existing military reservation there, subject to private rights, approving a Secretary of War recommendation.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Jolo", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-17", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-324-e", "type": "executive_order", "number": "324-E", "tr_sequence": 208, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Approving War Secretary Recommendation of May 15, 1905, to Amend Executive Order of June 30, 1904, Changing Borders of Military Reservation at Zamboanga, Mindanao, Philippine Islands", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_324-E", "revid": 1852072, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The following is the description from the Department of War's General Order No. 76 of 1905, not the actual order text, which was in the form of an approval of a recommendation from the Secretary of War.", "The President of the United States by order dated May 17, 1905, modified Executive Order of June 20, 1904, published in General Orders, No. 116, War Department, June 27, 1904, so far as it relates to the military reservation at Zamboanga, Mindanao, Philippine Islands, so as to reserve for military purposes, subject to private rights, pursuant to section 12 of the Act of Congress, approved July 1, 1902, entitled \"An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes\" (32 Stat. L., 691), all public lands included within boundaries described as follows, viz:", "Beginning at a post marked U. S. on the beach and in the yard of Williamson and Redding; thence north 25° 18′ east, along the east side of Calle Villalobos, for 532.84 feet, to a post marked U. S. set in the northeast corner of the intersection of Calle Marahui with Calle Villalobos; thence south 68° 54′ east, for 493.97 feet, to a post marked U. S.; thence north 23° 30′ east, for 16.4 feet, to a post marked U. S.; thence south 89° 52′ east, for 261.7 feet, to a post marked U. S. set at east side of Tumaga road; thence north 7° 14′ west, along east side of Tumaga road, for 268.2 feet, to a post marked U. S.; thence south 83° 12′ east, for 212.75 feet, to a post marked U. S.; thence south 45° 28′ east, for 466.6 feet, to a post marked U. S.; thence north 76° 3′ east, for 2,051.1 feet, to a post marked U. S., set on left bank of Estero; thence meandering along left bank of Estero, for 2,550 feet, more or less, to a post marked U. S., set on left bank of Estero near its junction with Rio Hondo; thence south 60° 13′ west, across Rio Hondo, for 276.4 feet, to a post marked U. S., set on its left bank; thence meandering the left bank of Rio Hondo, for 400 feet, to a post marked U. S., set near high-water mark on beach; thence north 51° 56′ west, across Rio Hondo, for 276.4 feet to a post marked U. S., set near low-water mark on beach; thence meandering said beach, sea wall, and low-water mark on beach, for 3,760.15 feet, more or less, to point of beginning. Area: 131.3 acres, more or less. All bearings are magnetic.", "The said reservation is shown on a map marked \"Boundaries of Proposed Military Reservation, Zamboanga, Mindanao, P. I. Surveyed under direction of Captain Charles Keller, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., by 1st Lieut. L. V. Frazier, Corps of Engineers. * * * Moro Province, Office Engineer, Dec., 1904.\""], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Redrew the boundaries of the military reservation at Zamboanga, Mindanao, amending an earlier 1904 order and reserving the public lands within the new lines, subject to private rights.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Zamboanga", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Mindanao", "kind": "island", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-17", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-325", "type": "executive_order", "number": "325", "tr_sequence": 209, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Transfer of Chauncey O. Howard in Bureau of Pensions from Excepted to Non-Excepted Position Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_325", "revid": 1844044, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Chauncey O. Howard may be transferred from a position of special examiner in the Bureau of Pensions, which is excepted from examination under Schedule A, to a similar position which is not excepted."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, May 18, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Chauncey O. Howard to move from an excepted special examiner post in the Bureau of Pensions to a similar post that is not excepted.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Chauncey O. Howard"], "significance": 1, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-18", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-325-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "325-A", "tr_sequence": 210, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Ordering A Stipulation Be Placed In All Government Contracts Forbidding the Use of Convict Labor", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_325-A", "revid": 1853078, "printed_source": "Published: [http://books.google.com/books?output=html&id=FPcWAQAAIAAJ&jtp=937 T. D., No. 26412], Treasury Dept., May 29, 1905  "}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas by an act of Congress which received Executive approval on February 23, 1887, all officers or agents of the United States were as a matter of public policy forbidden, under appropriate penalties, to hire or contract out the labor of any criminals who might thereafter be confined in any prison, jail, or other place of incarceration for the violation of any laws of the Government of the United States of America;", "It is hereby ordered, that all contracts which shall hereafter be entered into by officers or agents of the United States involving the employment of labor in the States composing the Union, or the Territories of the United States contiguous thereto, shall, unless otherwise provided by law, contain a stipulation forbidding, in the performance of such contracts, the employment of persons undergoing sentences of imprisonment at hard labor which have been imposed by courts of the several States, Territories, or municipalities having criminal jurisdiction.", "Theodore Roosevelt The White House, May 18, 1905. == Notes == Amended by: Executive Order 2960, September 14, 1918 Suspended by: Executive Order 9196, July 9, 1942 Restored by: Executive Order 9859, May 31, 1947 Superseded by: Executive Order 11755, December 29, 1973"], "source": "Wikisource (from Published: [http://books.google.com/books?output=html&id=FPcWAQAAIAAJ&jtp=937 T. D., No. 26412], Treasury Dept., May 29, 1905  )", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Required federal contracts for work in the states and adjoining territories to forbid the use of convicts sentenced to hard labor by state, territorial or municipal courts, unless law provided otherwise.", "categories": ["labor-business"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-18", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-326", "type": "executive_order", "number": "326", "tr_sequence": 211, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Certain Positions in the Washington, D. C. Filtration Plant Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_326", "revid": 1844055, "printed_source": "1905 CSR  75"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["One superintendent, one chief chemist and assistant superintendent, and one first assistant chemist, for service in connection with the operation of the Washington filtration plant under the Engineer Department, may be appointed without reference to the requirements of the civil service rules, in view of the probable transfer of the plant within one year to the municipal service of the District of Columbia, which is not subject to the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR  75)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, May 18, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let a superintendent, chief chemist and first assistant chemist at the Washington filtration plant be hired outside civil service rules, since the plant was expected to pass to the District of Columbia's municipal service within a year.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [{"name": "Washington filtration plant", "kind": "other", "state": "District of Columbia"}], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": [], "significance": 1, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-18", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-327", "type": "executive_order", "number": "327", "tr_sequence": 212, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Eleanor Relyea Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_327", "revid": 1844062, "printed_source": "1905 CSR  88"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. Eleanor Relyea may be reinstated in the Departmental Service without reference to the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR  88)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, May 20, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Mrs. Eleanor Relyea to be reinstated in the departmental service without reference to civil service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Eleanor Relyea"], "significance": 1, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-20", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-558", "type": "proclamation", "number": "558", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-22", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Modification of the Boundaries of the Bitter Root Forest Reserve, Idaho and Montana", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 558, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-558"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3044, "last_page": 3049, "cite": "34 Stat. 3044–3049", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3044.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-05-22", "table_title": "Modifying boundaries of the Bitter Root Forest Reserve, Idaho and Montana."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, The Bitter Root Forest Reserve, in the States of Idaho and Montana, was established by proclamation dated February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, under and by virtue of section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, which provides, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with, timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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”, that “the President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”; under which provision the boundary lines of the said forest reserve were changed and the area reduced by proclamation dated June fourteenth, nineteen hundred and four:", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by further releasing and excluding lands from the said forest reserve, and by including therein additional lands which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do hereby make known and proclaim that the boundary lines of the aforesaid Bitter Root Forest Reserve are hereby further modified so as to read as follows:", "Beginning at the north-east corner of Township thirty-six (36) North, Range five (5) East, Boise Base and Meridian, Idaho; thence southerly, allowing for the proper offset on the Sixth and one-half (612) Standard Parallel North, to the north-east corner of Township thirty-one (31) North, Range five (5) East; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), said township; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township ; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section three (3), Township thirty (30) North, Range four (4) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (30), Township thirty (30) North, Range three (3) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section: thence southerly, allowing for the proper offset on the Sixth (Oth) Standard Parallel North, to the north-east corner of Section fourteen (14), Township twenty-nine (29) North, Range three (3) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section four (4), Township twenty-eight (28) North, Range two (2) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township twenty-six (26) North, Range two (2) East; thence westerly, along the Fifth and one-half (512) Standard Parallel North, to the north-west corner of Township twenty-five (25) North, Range two (2) East; thence southerly along the range line to its intersection with the Salmon River; thence in a general easterly direction along the middle of the channel of said river to its intersection with the range line between Ranges eighteen (18) and nineteen (19) East; thence northerly along said range line to its intersection with the boundary line between the States of Idaho and Montana; thence in a general northeasterly direction along said state boundary line to its intersection with the township line between Townships one (1) and two (2) South, Base and Principal Meridian, Montana; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Township one (1) South, Range nineteen (19) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said township ; thence westerly along the Base Line to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-two (32). Township one (1) North, Range nineteen (19) West; thence northerly to the northwest corner of the north-east quarter of Section five (5), said town- ship; thence westerly to the north-east corner of lot one (1) of Section three (3), Township one (1) North, Range twenty-one (21) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section nine (9), said township: thence southerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence westerly to the south-east corner of the southwest quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence southerly, allowing for the proper offset on the Base Line, to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section one (1), Township one (1) South, Range twenty-two (22) West; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section eleven (11). said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section three (3), Township two (2) South, Range twenty-two (22) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence westerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section three (3), Township three (3) South, Range twenty-two (22) West; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section four (4), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section sixteen (16), Township two (2) South, Range twenty-two (22) West; thence westerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the northeast corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty-four (34), Township one (1) South, Range twenty-two (22) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section two (2), said township: thence northerly, allowing for the proper offset on the Base Line, to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-six (36), Township one (1) North, Range twenty-two (22) West; thence westerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly along the Base Line to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the northwest quarter of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section nineteen (19), Township one (1) North, Range twenty-one (21) West; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence northerly, allowing for the proper offset on the township line, to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty-three (33), Township two (2) North, Range twenty-one (21) West; thence easterly to the northeast corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township ; thence westerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section ; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the southwest quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township three (3) North, Range twenty-one (21) West; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty (20), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of the north-east quarter of Section seven (7), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-west corner of lot one (1) of Section six (6), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of lot two (2) of Section five (5), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-nine (29), Township four (4) North, Range twenty-one (21) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence easterly to the southeast corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section six (6), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the northeast quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section five (5), said township; thence easterly along the First (1st) Standard Parallel North to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty-three (33), Township five (5) North, Range twenty-one (21) West; thence northerly to the northeast corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section thirty-three (33), Township six (6) North, Range twenty-one (21) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-nine (29), Township seven (7) North, Range twenty-one (21) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section ; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section five (5), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township eight (8) North, Range twenty-one (21) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15). said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section ten (10), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section three (3), said township: thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly, along the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel North, to the south-east corner of Township nine (9) North, Range twenty-one (21) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Township ten (10) North, Range twenty-one (21) West; thence westerly along the township line to its intersection with the boundary line between the States of Montana and Idaho; thence along said state boundary line to its intersection with the township line between Townships thirty-eight (38) and thirty-nine (39) North, Boise Base and Meridian, Idaho; thence westerly along said township line to the north-west corner of Township thirty-eight (38) North, Range ten (10) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township thirty-seven (37) North, Range ten (10) East; thence westerly along the Seventh (7th) Standard Parallel North to the north-east corner of Township thirty-six (36) North, Range five (5) East, the place of beginning; such of the above-named corners and other turning points as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where the same would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys; except- ing and excluding from reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Idaho and particularly described as follows:", "What will be when surveyed Sections one (1) to eighteen (18), both inclusive, Township twenty-six (26) North, Range six (6) East, Boise Base and Meridian, Idaho; Sections nineteen (19) to thirty-six (36), both inclusive, Township twenty-seven (27) North, Range six (6) East; Sections four (4) to nine (9), both inclusive, and Sections sixteen (16), seventeen (17) and eighteen (18), Township twenty-six (26) North, Range seven (7) East; Sections nineteen (19), twenty (20) and twenty-one (21), and Sections twenty-eight (28) to thirty-three (33), both inclusive, Township twenty-seven (27) North, Range seven (7) East; and all Township twenty-nine (29) North, Range eight (8) East;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "The lands in the State of Montana hereby excluded from the reserve and restored to the public domain shall be open to settlement from the date hereof, but shall not be subject to entry, filing or selection until after ninety days notice by such publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 22d day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and five, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3044", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["The Bitter Root Forest Reserve, Idaho and Mont.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 29. p. 899; Vol. 33. p. 2373.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Vol. 33, p. 2373.", "Area modified.", "Description.", "Bitter Root Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Bitter Root Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Bitter Root Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Lands in Idaho excluded.", "Lands excepted.", "Excluded lands in Montana restored to public domain.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Redrew the boundaries of the Bitter Root Forest Reserve in Idaho and Montana, releasing some lands, including lands in Idaho, and adding other partly timbered lands.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Bitter Root Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Idaho", "Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-22", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "proc-531", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The Bitter Root reduction of June 14, 1904.", "story": 55, "date": "1904-06-14", "title": "Diminution of Bitter Root Forest Reserve, Idaho and Montana", "type": "proclamation", "number": "531"}]}
{"id": "proc-559", "type": "proclamation", "number": "559", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-22", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlargement of the Yellowstone Forest Reserve, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 559, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-559"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3049, "last_page": 3051, "cite": "34 Stat. 3049–3051", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3049.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-05-22", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Yellowstone Forest Reserve, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, The Yellowstone Forest Reserve, in the States of Wyoming and Montana, was established by proclamation, dated January twenty-ninth, one thousand nine hundred and three, under the provisions of the act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws and for other purposes”, and the act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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”;", "And whereas, it is provided by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, that “ The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”, under which provision the boundary lines of the said forest reserve were changed and the area thereof reduced by proclamation dated May fourth, nineteen hundred and four;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Idaho, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement, and added to and made a part of the aforesaid Yellowstone Forest Reserve, all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Idaho and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the point where the section line between Sections twenty (20) and twenty-nine (29), Township three (3) North, Range forty-six (46) East, Boise Base and Meridian, Idaho, intersects the western boundary of the Yellowstone Forest Reserve; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township three (3) North, Range forty-five (45) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township three (3) North, Range forty-four (44) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), Township four (4) North, Range forty-four (44) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township five (5) North, Range forty-four (44) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Township five (5) North, Range forty-three (43) East; thence westerly along the First (1st) Standard Parallel North to the north-west corner of Section five (5), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section three (3), Township four (4) North, Range\" forty-three (43) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township four (4) North, Range forty-four (44) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section eight (8), Township three (3) North, Range forty-four (44) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Township two (2) North, Range forty-four (44) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section three (3), Township one (1) North, Range forty-four (44) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence southerly, allowing for the proper offset on the Base Line, to the south-west corner of Section four (4), Township one (1) South, Range forty-five (45) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), Township two (2) South, Range forty-six (46) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence southerly to the southwest corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence easterly along the section lines to the point of intersection with the western boundary of the Yellowstone Forest Reserve; thence northerly along said boundary to the point of intersection with the section line between Sections twenty (20) and twenty-nine (29), Township three (3) North. Range forty-six (46) East, the place of beginning; such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 22d day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3049", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["The Yellowstone Forest Reserve, Wyo., Mont., and Idaho.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1565; Vol. 27, p. 989; Vol. 32, pp. 1999, 2006, 2030; Vol. 33. p. 2344.", "Post, p. 3291.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Vol. 33, p. 2344.", "Lands in Idaho added to Yellowstone Forest Reserve.", "Description.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Added partly timbered public lands in Idaho to the Yellowstone Forest Reserve, which had covered lands in Wyoming and Montana.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Yellowstone Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Wyoming"}], "states": ["Idaho", "Montana", "Wyoming"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-22", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "proc-496", "relation": "enlarges", "note": "Enlarged the Yellowstone reserve as set on January 29, 1903.", "story": 55, "date": "1903-01-29", "title": "Enlargement of the Yellowstone National Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "496"}, {"id": "proc-524", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The 1904 reduction of the Yellowstone reserve.", "story": 55, "date": "1904-05-04", "title": "Reducing Area of the Yellowstone Forest Reserve, Wyoming and Montana", "type": "proclamation", "number": "524"}]}
{"id": "eo-328", "type": "executive_order", "number": "328", "tr_sequence": 213, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-22", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of William J. Humphreys as Professor of Meteorological Physics in Weather Bureau Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_328", "revid": 1844076, "printed_source": "1905 CSR  88"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["William J. Humphreys may be appointed professor of meteorological physics in the Weather Bureau, Department of Agriculture, without examination under the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR  88)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, May 22, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed William J. Humphreys to be appointed professor of meteorological physics in the Weather Bureau without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["William J. Humphreys"], "significance": 1, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-22", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-560", "type": "proclamation", "number": "560", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Henrys Lake Forest Reserve, Idaho", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 560, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-560"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3052, "last_page": 3055, "cite": "34 Stat. 3052–3055", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3052.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-05-23", "table_title": "Setting apart the Henrys Lake Forest Reserve, Idaho."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHERE AS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Idaho, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Idaho and particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the point where the State Line between the States of Idaho and Montana intersects the western boundary of the Yellowstone National Park; thence southerly and easterly along the boundary of said Park to the point of intersection with the State Line between the States of Idaho and Wyoming; thence southerly along said State Line to the south-east corner of Township seven (7) North, Range forty-six (46) East, Boise Base and Meridian, Idaho; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township seven (7) North, Range forty-five (45) East; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township eight (8) North, Range forty-five (45) East; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section eight (8), said township ; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section five (5), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section six (6), said township; thence northerly, allowing for the proper offset on the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel North, to the southeast corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township nine (9) North, Range forty-four (44) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section ten (10), said township: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section one (1), Township nine (9) North, Range forty-three (43) East; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Township ten (10) North, Range forty-two (42) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Township eleven (11) North, Range forty-one (41) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence southerly to the southeast corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section one (1), Township eleven (11) North, Range forty (40) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section two (2), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), Township twelve (12) North, Range forty (40) East; thence easterly along the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel North to the north-west corner of Section two (2), Township twelve (12) North, Range forty-one (41) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section: thence easterly to the southeast corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section twelve (12), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section eight (8), Township twelve (12) North, Range forty-two (42) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township thirteen (13) North, Range forty-two (42) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence northerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-west corner of the northeast quarter of Section twelve (12), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section one (1), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Township thirteen (13) North, Range forty-one (41) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section one (1), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section four (4), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section ten (10), Township thirteen (13) North, Range forty (40) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), Township thirteen (13) North, Range thirty-nine (39) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township thirteen (13) North, Range thirty-eight (38) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly, allowing for the proper offset on the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel North, to the north-east corner of Section ten (10), Township twelve (12) North, Range thirty-eight (38) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the northwest corner of Section eighteen (18), Township twelve (12) North, Range thirty-seven (37) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), Township twelve (12) North, Range thirty-six (36) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township twelve (12) North, Range thirty-five (35) East; thence northerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel North, to the State Line between the States of Idaho and Montana; thence in a general easterly direction along said State Line to the point of intersection with the western boundary of the Yellowstone National Park, the place of beginning; excepting and excluding from reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Section thirty-one (31), Township sixteen (16) North, Range forty-three (43) East, Boise Base and Meridian, Idaho; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township fifteen (15) North, Range forty-three (43) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), Township fourteen (14) North, Range forty-four (44) East; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section seventeen, said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), Township fourteen (14) North, Range forty-three (43) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eleven (11),said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), Township fifteen (15) North, Range forty-three (43) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the northwest corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence northerly to the northwest corner of Section thirty-one (31), Township sixteen (16) North, Range forty-three (43) East, the place of beginning;", "Such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Henrys Lake Forest Reserve.", "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 23d day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of the [SEAL.] Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3052", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["The Henrys Lake Forest Reserve, Idaho.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Idaho.", "Description.", "Henrys Lake Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Henrys Lake Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Lands excluded.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Name."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set aside the Henrys Lake Forest Reserve in Idaho on partly timbered public lands, closing it to settlement apart from lands already lawfully claimed.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Henrys Lake Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Idaho"}], "states": ["Idaho"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-23", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Henrys Lake was combined with part of the Yellowstone reserve to establish the Targhee National Forest in 1908.", "source": "E.O. 871; Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "date": "1908-07-01", "story": 55}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-871", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Combined Henrys Lake with part of the Yellowstone to form the Targhee.", "story": 55, "date": "1908-07-01", "title": "Targhee National Forest, Idaho and Wyo., Created", "type": "executive_order", "number": "871"}]}
{"id": "eo-328-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "328-A", "tr_sequence": 214, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Boundaries of Uintah Land District, Utah, Modified; in Form of Proclamation", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Changed the boundaries of the Uintah Land District in Utah, issued in the form of a proclamation.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Uintah Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-23", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-328-b", "type": "executive_order", "number": "328-B", "tr_sequence": 215, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Approving Acting War Secretary Recommendation of May 24, 1905 to Reserve 13 Tracts of Described Lands in Alaska for Use by the Signal Corps. United States Army", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_328-B", "revid": 12438070, "printed_source": "Published: [http://books.google.com/books?id=hJ5PAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA393 General Orders, No. 83], War Dept., June 5, 1905  "}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["__NOTOC__ The President of the United States, by order dated May 24, 1905, reserved for the use of the Signal Corps, United States Army, in its operation and maintenance of the United States military telegraph lines in Alaska, subject to private rights, the following described lands in the District of Alaska, viz:", "===== 1. right of way. =====", "{|style=\"margin: 0em 2em 1em 2em;\" |-valign=\"top\" |A strip of land 100 feet wide (50 feet on either side of center of telegraph line) along the United States military telegraph lines from Valdez to Fort Egbert, from Fort Egbert to boundary, from Northfork to Fort Gibbon, from Baker to Rampart, from Fort Gibbon to St. Michael, and from Safety Harbor to Fort Davis, which owing to its aggregate length of over 1,400 miles is necessarily unstaked. |}", "===== 2. land for telegraph offices, storehouses and stables, wood and pole reserves, located and bounded as follows: ===== {|style=\"margin: 1em 2em 1em 4.0em;\" |-valign=\"top\" |nowrap align=\"right\"|(a) |Central.—Beginning at the initial corner, which is the northwest corner, situated about 1,200 feet northwest of Central telegraph station; thence 2,500 feet east to the northeast corner; thence 1,250 feet south to the southeast corner; thence 2,500 feet west to the southwest corner; thence 1,250 feet north to the place of beginning. |-valign=\"top\" |nowrap align=\"right\"|(b) |Chestochena.—The southeast corner of the United States military reservation is located 160 yards southeast of the southeast corner of cabin at a post marked ‘‘U. S. M. R. No. 1;’’ thence west one mile to a post marked ‘‘U. S. M. R. No. 2;’’ thence north one mile to post marked ‘‘U. S. M. R. No. 3;’’ thence east one mile to a post marked ‘‘U. S. M. R. No. 4;’’ thence south one mile to post No. 1, the point of beginning. |-valign=\"top\" |nowrap align=\"right\"|(c) |Copper Center.—The northwest corner of the United States military reservation is located about one mile west—20 degrees south—from northwest corner of cabin at post marked ‘‘U. S. M. R. No. 1;’’ thence east one mile to post marked ‘‘U. S. M. R. No. 2;’’ thence south one mile to post marked ‘‘U. S. M. R. No. 3;’’ thence west one mile to post marked ‘‘U. S. M. R. No. 4;’’ thence north one mile to post No. 1, the point of beginning. The reservation to join south of homestead staked by William Soule, July 20, 1904. |-valign=\"top\" |nowrap align=\"right\"|(d) |Gakona.—The southwest corner of the United States military reservation is located one-half mile north from the Gakona Roadhouse, on United States military trail, post marked ‘‘U. S. M. R. No. 1;’’ thence north one mile to post marked ‘‘U. S. M.B.No.2;’’ thence east one mile to post marked ‘‘U. S. M. R. No. 3;’’ thence south one mile to post marked ‘‘U. S. M. R. No. 4;’’ thence west one mile, to post No, 1, the point of beginning, |-valign=\"top\" |nowrap align=\"right\"|(e) |Ketchumstock.—Beginning at the initial corner, which is the southwest corner, situated 300 feet southwest of the Ketchumstock telegraph station; thence due north 2,640 feet to northwest corner; thence due east 2,640 feet to the northeast corner post; thence due south 2,640 feet to southeast corner; and thence due west 2,640 feet to the southwest corner, place of beginning. |-valign=\"top\" |nowrap align=\"right\"|(f) |Mentasta.—The northwest corner of the reservation is located 320 yards northwest of the northwest corner of the cabin, post marked ‘‘U. S. M. R. No. 1;’’ thence east one mile to post marked ‘‘U. S. M. R. No. 2;’’ thence south one mile to post marked ‘‘U. S. M. R. No. 3;’’ thence west one mile to post marked ‘‘U. S. M. R. No. 4;’’ thence north one mile to post No. 1, the point of beginning. |-valign=\"top\" |nowrap align=\"right\"|(g) |Northfork.—Beginning at the initial corner, which is the southwest corner, situated 140 feet southwest of the Northfork telegraph station; thence one mile north to the northwest corner; thence 1,980 feet east to the northeast corner; thence one mile south to the southeast corner; thence 1,980 feet west to the place of beginning. |-valign=\"top\" |nowrap align=\"right\"|(h) |Saina.—The northwest corner of the United States military reservation is located 3,000 feet northeast of cabin, and is designated by a cottonwood tree one foot in diameter, marked ‘‘U. S. M. R. N. W. 1;’’ thence east one mile, boundary being along the Saina River to post No. 2, which is a cottonwood tree three inches in diameter, marked ‘‘U. S. M. R. No. 2;’’ thence south one mile, crossing the United States military trail to foot of mountain to a spruce tree, six inches in diameter, marked ‘‘U. S. M. R. No. 3;’’ thence west one mile, along the base of mountain to Blair Gulch, to a spruce tree, ten inches in diameter, marked ‘‘U. S. M. R. No. 4;’’ thence one mile down Blair Gulch and Saina River to point of beginning. |-valign=\"top\" |nowrap align=\"right\"|(i) |Summit.—Beginning at the initial stake, which is the northwest corner, situated 760 feet northwest of the Summit telegraph station; thence 1,600 feet east to northeast stake; thence 2,000 feet south to southeast stake; thence 1,600 feet west to southwest stake; and thence 2,000 feet north to place of beginning. |-valign=\"top\" |nowrap align=\"right\"|(k) |Teikheil.—The northwest corner of the United States military reservation is located 3,680 feet northwest of the northwest corner of cabin, post marked ‘‘U. S. M. R. No. 1;’’ thence east one mile to post marked ‘‘U. S. M. R. No. 2;’’ thence south one mile to post marked ‘‘U. S. M. R. No. 3;’’ thence west one mile to post marked ‘‘U. S. M. R. No. 4;’’ thence north one mile to point of beginning at post No. 1. |-valign=\"top\" |nowrap align=\"right\"|(l) |Tonsina.—The northwest corner of the United States military reservation is located 660 feet northwest of the northwest corner of cabin, post marked ‘‘U. S. M. R. No. 1;’’ thence east 440 yards to a post marked ‘‘U. S. M. R. No. 2;’’ thence south 3,080 yards to a post marked ‘‘U. S. M. R. No. 3;’’ thence west 440 yards to a post marked ‘‘U. S. M. R. No. 4;’’ thence north 3,080 yards to post marked ‘‘U. S. M. R. No. 1,’’ the point of beginning. |-valign=\"top\" |nowrap align=\"right\"|(m) |Workmans.—The southwest corner of the United States military reservation is located 1,000 feet south of the military trail, and set one and one-half miles westerly from-Workman's Roadhouse, and is designated by a spruce post six inches in diameter, marked ‘‘S. W. Cor. U. S. M. R. No. 1;’’ thence northerly 1,500 feet to the foot of the mountain and to a spruce tree blazed and marked ‘‘N. W. Cor. U. S. M. R. No. 2;’’ thence easterly along the foot of the mountain parallel with the military trail two and one-halt miles to a spruce tree, six inches in diameter, blazed and marked ‘‘N. E. Cor U. S. M. R. No. 3;’’ thence southerly 1,500 feet, more or less, to Lowe River, to a spruce post, four inches in diameter, marked ‘‘S. E. Cor. U. S. M. R. No. 4;’’ thence westerly along Lowe River to place of beginning. |}", "Theodore Roosevelt The White House, May 24, 1905.", "== Notes == Revoked (in part) by: Executive Order 702, October 23, 1907 Executive Order 1438, November 23, 1911 See Related: Executive Order 769, March 13, 1908 Executive Order 1746, March 14, 1913 Executive Order 1831, September 25, 1913 Executive Order 2259, October 14, 1915 Executive Order 2981, October 25, 1918 Executive Order 4131, January 22, 1925 Executive Order 7127, August 6, 1935 Executive Order 8014, November 26, 1938"], "source": "Wikisource (from Published: [http://books.google.com/books?id=hJ5PAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA393 General Orders, No. 83], War Dept., June 5, 1905  )", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved lands in Alaska for the Army Signal Corps' military telegraph lines: a 100-foot right of way along more than 1,400 miles of line, plus sites for telegraph offices, storehouses, stables and wood reserves such as Central, Chestochena and Copper Center.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Central", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}, {"name": "Chestochena", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}, {"name": "Copper Center", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-24", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The reservation at Central was released by a later order of October 23, 1907.", "source": "Wickersham, Bibliography of Alaskan Literature (1927)", "date": "1907-10-23", "story": 114}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The reservation at Summit was released by a later order of October 23, 1907.", "source": "Wickersham, Bibliography of Alaskan Literature (1927)", "date": "1907-10-23", "story": 114}]}, "related": [{"id": "uo-109", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 114, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-05-24", "title": "Certain lands near Central, Alaska, reserved for military purposes.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}, {"id": "uo-110", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 114, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-05-24", "title": "Certain lands at Summit, Alaska, reserved for military purposes.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}, {"id": "eo-702", "relation": "revoked_by", "note": "Released the reservations at Central and Summit.", "story": 114, "date": "1907-10-23", "title": "Reserving Lands in Alaska for Army Signal Corps Telegraph Lines", "type": "executive_order", "number": "702"}, {"id": "eo-769", "relation": "revoked_by", "note": null, "story": 97, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-03-13", "title": "Certain Lands Near Chena and Fairbanks, Alaska, Reserved for Signal Corps Telegraph Lines; EO 328-B Revoked", "type": "executive_order", "number": "769"}]}
{"id": "uo-109", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 109, "date": "1905-05-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Certain lands near Central, Alaska, reserved for military purposes.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 109, "page": "202", "citations": "(1916 MR 478)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Certain lands near Central, Alaska, reserved for military purposes.", "reconciliation": "numbered_duplicate", "duplicate_of": "eo-328-b", "reconciliation_note": "**Confirmed 2026-10-12 = part of EO 328-B.** Wickersham, *Bibliography of Alaskan Literature* (1927), lists the May 24, 1905 order covering the telegraph right-of-way and stations including Central and Summit, and EO 702 (Oct. 23, 1907) releasing \"reservations at Central and Summit made by Executive Order of May 24, 1905.\" Nos. 109 and 110 are one numbered order. See entry #114.", "summary": null, "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": null, "places": [], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": null, "stories": [114], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-24", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The reservation at Central was released by a later order of October 23, 1907.", "source": "Wickersham, Bibliography of Alaskan Literature (1927)", "date": "1907-10-23", "story": 114}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-328-b", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Central is one of the thirteen Signal Corps tracts reserved by this numbered order the same day.", "story": 114, "date": "1905-05-24", "title": "Approving Acting War Secretary Recommendation of May 24, 1905 to Reserve 13 Tracts of Described Lands in Alaska for Use by the Signal Corps. United States Army", "type": "executive_order", "number": "328-B"}, {"id": "eo-702", "relation": "revoked_by", "note": "Released the reservations at Central and Summit.", "story": 114, "date": "1907-10-23", "title": "Reserving Lands in Alaska for Army Signal Corps Telegraph Lines", "type": "executive_order", "number": "702"}]}
{"id": "uo-110", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 110, "date": "1905-05-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Certain lands at Summit, Alaska, reserved for military purposes.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 110, "page": "202", "citations": "(1916 MR 489)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Certain lands at Summit, Alaska, reserved for military purposes.", "reconciliation": "numbered_duplicate", "duplicate_of": "eo-328-b", "reconciliation_note": "**Confirmed 2026-10-12 = part of EO 328-B.** See no. 109.", "summary": null, "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": null, "places": [], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": null, "stories": [114], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-24", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The reservation at Summit was released by a later order of October 23, 1907.", "source": "Wickersham, Bibliography of Alaskan Literature (1927)", "date": "1907-10-23", "story": 114}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-328-b", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Summit is one of the thirteen Signal Corps tracts reserved by this numbered order the same day.", "story": 114, "date": "1905-05-24", "title": "Approving Acting War Secretary Recommendation of May 24, 1905 to Reserve 13 Tracts of Described Lands in Alaska for Use by the Signal Corps. United States Army", "type": "executive_order", "number": "328-B"}, {"id": "eo-702", "relation": "revoked_by", "note": "Released the reservations at Central and Summit.", "story": 114, "date": "1907-10-23", "title": "Reserving Lands in Alaska for Army Signal Corps Telegraph Lines", "type": "executive_order", "number": "702"}]}
{"id": "proc-561", "type": "proclamation", "number": "561", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Weiser Forest Reserve, Idaho", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 561, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-561"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3055, "last_page": 3058, "cite": "34 Stat. 3055–3058", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3055.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-05-25", "table_title": "Setting apart the Weiser Forest Reserve, Idaho."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Idaho, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Idaho, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Township eighteen (18) North, Range one (1) East, Boise Base and Meridian, Idaho; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), said township; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-one (31), Township eighteen (18) North, Range two (2) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly along the Fourth (4th) Standard Parallel North to the north-east corner of Section five (5), Township seventeen (17) North, Range two (2) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the northwest quarter of Section nine (9), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township sixteen (16) North. Range two (2) East; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), Township fifteen (15) North, Range three (3) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30). said township; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township fifteen (15) North, Range two (2) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township fourteen (14) North, Range three (3) East; thence easterly to the southeast corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence easterly to the southeast corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence easterly along the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel North to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township thirteen (13) North, Range three (3) East; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section ; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section fourteen (14), Township twelve (12) North, Range three (3) East; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty (20), Township eleven (11) North, Range three (3) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township eleven (11) North, Range two (2) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), Township ten (10) North, Range two (2) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the northwest corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township ten (10) North, Range three (3) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), said township; thence southerly along the section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel North, to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township nine (9) North, Range three (3) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township nine (9) North, Range two (2) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nine (9), said township: thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), said township; thence westerly along the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel North to the south-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township ten (10) North, Range two (2) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), Township eleven (11) North, Range two (2) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township twelve (12) North. Range one (1) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township thirteen (13) North, Range one (1) East; thence northerly along the section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel North, to the south-east corner of Section three (3), Township fourteen (14) North, Range one (1) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the northwest corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township fifteen (15) North, Range one (1) East; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section ; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township sixteen (16) North, Range one (1) East; thence northerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the Fourth (4th) Standard Parallel North, to the north-west corner of Township eighteen (18) North, Range one (1) East, the place of beginning; such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "3058 The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Weiser Forest Reserve.", "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 25th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3055", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["The Weiser Forest Reserve, Idaho.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Post, pp. 3199, 3294.", "Forest reserve, Idaho.", "Description.", "Weiser Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Weiser Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Name."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Weiser Forest Reserve in Idaho, reserving partly timbered public lands from settlement except for lands already lawfully claimed.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Weiser Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Idaho"}], "states": ["Idaho"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-25", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Payette National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Idaho", "note": "The present Payette was formed in 1944 from the Weiser and Idaho forests.", "source": "research entry", "story": 55}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1944-04-01", "text": "The Weiser and Idaho national forests were combined to re-establish a new Payette National Forest.", "source": "research entry", "story": 55}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-562", "type": "proclamation", "number": "562", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-05-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Sawtooth Forest Reserve, Idaho", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 562, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-562"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3058, "last_page": 3062, "cite": "34 Stat. 3058–3062", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3058.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-05-29", "table_title": "Setting apart the Sawtooth Forest Reserve, Idaho."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Idaho, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Idaho, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Section three (3), Township thirteen (13) North, Range five (5) East, Boise Base and Meridian, Idaho; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township thirteen (13) North, Range eight (8) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), Township twelve (12) North, Range eight (8) East: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township twelve (12) North, Range nine (9) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township twelve (12) North, Range ten (10) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township twelve (12) North, Range eleven (11) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), Township eleven (11) North, Range eleven (11) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), Township eleven (11) North, Range twelve (12) East; thence southerly to the southwest corner of Section sixteen (16), Township ten (10) North, Range twelve (12) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township ten (10) North, Range thirteen (13) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section three (3), Township nine (9) North, Range thirteen (13) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section one (1), Township eight (8) North, Range thirteen (13) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township eight (8) North, Range fourteen (14) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), Township seven (7) North, Range fourteen (14) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Township seven (7) North, Range thirteen (13) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section one (1), Township six (6) North, Range thirteen (13) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty (30), Township six (6) North, Range fourteen (14) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township six (6) North, Range fifteen (15) East; thence southerly, allowing for the proper offset on the First (1st) Standard Parallel North, to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), Township four (4) North, Range fifteen (15) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township ; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Township three (3) North, Range fifteen (15) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section one (1), Township three (3) North, Range fourteen (14) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township three (3) North, Range ten (10) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section eleven (11), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section seven (7), Township three (3) North, Range eleven (11) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section four (4), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section five (5), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the northwest quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section one (1), Township three (3) North, Range ten (10) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section two (2), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township four (4) North, Range ten (10) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the southeast corner of Section five (5), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-three (33). said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section nine (9), Township three (3) North, Range ten (10) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township three (3) North, Range seven (7) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township three (3) North, Range six (6) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section six (6), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township four (4) North, Range six (6) East; thence easterly to the southeast corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township ; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township four (4) North, Range seven (7) East; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence easterly to the southeast corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the northwest corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), Township four (4) North, Range six (6) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence southerly to the southeast corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township four (4) North, Range five (5) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence easterly to the south-east -corner of Township five (5) North, Range five (5) East; thence northerly to the northwest corner of Township five (5) North, Range six (6) East; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Township six (6) North, Range six (6) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township seven (7) North, Range six (6) East; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Township eight (8) North, Range five (5) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (30), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township eight (8) North, Range four (4) East; thence northerly to the northwest corner of said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section eleven (11), said township ; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section one (1), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Township nine (9) North, Range four (4) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the southwest corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township ten (10) North, Range four (4) East; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the northeast quarter of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section ; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township eleven (11) North, Range four (4) East; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township twelve (12) North, Range four (4) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Township thirteen (13) North, Range five (5) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township, the place of beginning; such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Sawtooth Forest Reserve.", "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 29th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3058", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["The Sawtooth Forest Reserve, Idaho.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Post, p. 3260.", "Forest reserve, Idaho.", "Description.", "Sawtooth Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Sawtooth Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Sawtooth Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Name."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Sawtooth Forest Reserve on partly timbered public lands in Idaho and withdrew it from settlement, apart from existing lawful claims.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Sawtooth Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Idaho"}], "states": ["Idaho"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-05-29", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Sawtooth National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "origin", "state": "Idaho", "since": "1905-05-29", "source": "research entry", "story": 55}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-563", "type": "proclamation", "number": "563", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-06-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Redesignating the Wichita Forest Reserve, Oklahoma, as a Game Preserve", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 563, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-563"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3062, "last_page": 3063, "cite": "34 Stat. 3062–3063", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3062.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-06-02", "table_title": "Establishing a game preserve in the Wichita Forest Reserve, Oklahoma."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved January twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and five, entitled, “An Act for the protection of wild animals and birds in the Wichita Forest Reserve”, That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to designate such areas in the Wichita Forest Reserve as should, in his opinion, be set aside for the protection of game animals and birds and be recognized as a breeding place therefor. “Sec. 2. That when such areas have been designated as provided for in section one of this Act, hunting, trapping, killing, or capturing of game animals and birds upon the lands of the United States within the limits of said areas shall be unlawful, except under such regulations as may be prescribed from time to time, by the Secretary of Agriculture; and any person violating such regulations or the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction in any United States court of competent jurisdiction, be fined in a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars or be imprisoned for a period not exceeding one year, or shall suffer both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. “Sec. 3. That it is the purpose of this Act to protect from trespass the public lands of the United States and the game animals and birds which may be thereon, and not to interfere with the operation of the local game laws as affecting private, State, or Territorial lands ”; And whereas, for the purpose of giving this Act effect, it appears desirable that the entire Wichita Forest Reserve be declared a Game Preserve;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that the Wichita Forest Reserve, in the Territory of Oklahoma, is designated and set aside for the protection of game animals and birds, and shall be rec- ognized as a breeding place therefor, and that the hunting, trapping, killing or capturing of game animals and birds upon the lands of the United States within the limits of said area is unlawful, except under such regulations as may be prescribed from time to time by the Secretary of Agriculture.", "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 2nd day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3062", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Game preserve, Wichita Forest Reserve, Okla.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 33, p. 614.", "Post, p. 3207.", "Vol. 32, p. 1973.", "Wichita Forest Reserve, Okla., set apart as a game preserve."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Designated the entire Wichita Forest Reserve in Oklahoma Territory as a game preserve and breeding place for game animals and birds, making hunting or trapping there unlawful except under Agriculture Department regulations.", "categories": ["wildlife", "forests"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Wichita Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oklahoma"}], "states": ["Oklahoma"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [18], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-06-02", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The proclamation itself drew little controversy: it covered land already reserved, in a lightly settled territory, under a specific act of Congress.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1905", "story": 18}, {"text": "When the bison arrived at Cache in October 1907, the town turned out along with a band of Comanche people, some of whom camped at the corrals on October 20.", "source": "Elwin R. Sanborn, Zoological Society Bulletin No. 28, pp. 409–10", "date": "1907-10", "story": 18}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "congress", "text": "Congress appropriated $15,000 to fence the preserve, build sheds and maintain a buffalo herd presented by the New York Zoological Society, the first federal money spent developing land for wildlife.", "source": "Act of June 30, 1906, ch. 3913, 34 Stat. 696", "date": "1906-06-30", "story": 18}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "Work began on a steel-wire fence seven feet six inches high, shelter sheds, a hay barn and flood-gates, and the first year's hay was bought.", "source": "American Bison Society, First Report (1905–1907)", "date": "1906", "story": 18}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "With the renaming of the forest reserves as national forests, the preserve became the Wichita Mountains National Forest and Game Preserve.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1907", "story": 18}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "Fifteen bison from the New York Zoological Park traveled 1,858 miles by rail to Cache, with Forest Service guard Frank Rush riding along to take charge of the herd.", "source": "American Bison Society, First Report (1905–1907), pp. 64–67", "date": "1907-10", "story": 18}], "legacy": [{"text": "The transplanted herd took hold and grew, in one of the first deliberate reintroductions of a native species to its former range in North America.", "source": "research entry", "story": 18}, {"text": "The Wichita became the template for later big-game refuges, including the National Bison Range in Montana in 1908.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1908", "story": 18}], "today": [{"name": "Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "origin", "state": "Oklahoma", "since": "1905-06-02", "note": "59,020 acres of mixed-grass prairie and granite uplands; still home to descendants of the 1907 bison herd, along with elk and longhorn cattle.", "source": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, About Us", "story": 18}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1906-06-30", "text": "Congress appropriated $15,000 for a fence, sheds and the maintenance of a buffalo herd on the preserve.", "source": "34 Stat. 696", "story": 18}, {"date": "1907", "text": "Renamed the Wichita Mountains National Forest and Game Preserve when forest reserves became national forests.", "source": "research entry", "story": 18}, {"date": "1909-12-15", "text": "Taft's Executive Order 1147 reserved about 16,420 acres for Fort Sill's water supply, describing land partly within the game preserve of June 2, 1905.", "source": "Executive Order 1147", "story": 114}], "uncertain": ["Whether the Comanche leader Quanah Parker was at Cache when the bison arrived is not known; neither 1907–08 eyewitness account names him.", "Current head counts for the refuge's bison, elk and longhorn herds are not published."]}, "related": [{"id": "uo-111", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 114, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-06-02", "title": "Wichita Forest Reserve, Oklahoma, redesignated as a game preserve.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}, {"id": "proc-628", "relation": "enlarged_by", "note": "Roosevelt enlarged the Wichita reserve on May 29, 1906.", "story": 18, "date": "1906-05-29", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Wichita Forest Reserve, Oklahoma", "type": "proclamation", "number": "628"}, {"id": "proc-694", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 31, "inferred": true, "date": "1906-11-28", "title": "Setting Aside Game Preserve in Grand Canyon Forest Reserve, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "694"}]}
{"id": "proc-564", "type": "proclamation", "number": "564", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-06-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing the Lassen Peak Forest Reserve, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 564, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-564"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3063, "last_page": 3066, "cite": "34 Stat. 3063–3066", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3063.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-06-02", "table_title": "Setting apart the Lassen Peak Forest Reserve, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of California, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of California, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Section three (3), Township thirty-five (35) North, Range four (4) East, Mount Diablo Base and Meridian, California; thence easterly along the Seventh (7th) Standard Parallel North to the north-east corner of said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of fractional Township thirty-five (35) North, Range five (5) East; thence easterly along the Seventh (7th) Standard Parallel North to the north-east corner of Township thirty-five (35) North, Range six (6) East; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18). Township thirty-five (35) North, Range seven (7) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township thirty-four (34) North, Range seven (7) East; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township thirty-three (33) North, Range ten (10) East; thence southerly along the range line to the shore line of Eagle Lake, in Section twenty-five (25), said township ; thence in a general south-easterly and south-westerly direction along the shore line of Eagle Lake to the township line between Townships thirty-one (31) and thirty-two (32) North, Range ten (10) East; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township thirty-two (32) North, Range nine (9) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the northeast corner of Township thirty-one (31) North, Range eight (8) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence easterly along the Sixth (6th) Standard Parallel North to the north-east corner of Section five (5), Township thirty (30) North, Range eight (8) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15) ,said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section seven (7), Township thirty (30) North, Range nine (9) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section two (2), Township twenty-nine (29) North, Range nine (9) East; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirteen (13), Township twenty-nine (29) North, Range eight (8) East: thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section seventeen (17), Township twenty-nine (29) North, Range seven (7) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the northeast corner of Section twenty-two (22), Township twenty-nine (29) North, Range six (6) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township twenty-nine (29) North, Range five (5) East; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township twenty-nine (29) North, Range four (4) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the northeast corner of fractional Township twenty-eight (28) North, Range four (4) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-nine (29) said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township twenty-eight (28) North, Range three (3) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section ; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence northerly allowing for the proper offset on the township line, to the north-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township twenty-nine (29) North, Range three (3) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), Township thirty (30) North, Range three (3) East; thence easterly along the Sixth (6th) Standard Parallel North to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township thirty-one (31) North, Range three (3) East; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township thirty-two (32) North, Range three (3) East; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township thirty-two (32) North, Range two (2) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Township thirty-three (33). North, Range three (3) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the northwest corner of Section four (4), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township thirty-four (34) North, Range three (3) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section six (6), Township thirty-four (34) North, Range four (4) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section: thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33). Township thirty-five (35) North, Range four (4) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township ; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township the place of beginning; such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located al the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the propel United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of laud unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lauds reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Lassen Peak Forest Reserve.", "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 2d day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of the [SEAL.] Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3063", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["The Lassen Peak Forest Reserve, Cal.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, California.", "Description.", "Lassen Peak Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Lassen Peak Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Name."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Reserved partly timbered public lands in northern California as the Lassen Peak Forest Reserve, closed to settlement except for lands already lawfully claimed.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Lassen Peak Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-06-02", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Lassen Peak reserve became the Lassen National Forest. The 1907 Lassen Peak and Cinder Cone national monuments were carved out of it; the Lassen Peak proclamation places the peak \"within the Lassen Peak National Forest.\"", "source": "research entry; Proc. 754", "date": "1907", "story": 55}], "today": [{"name": "Lassen National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "renamed", "state": "California", "source": "research entry", "story": 55}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-753", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Cinder Cone National Monument, the other 1907 volcanic monument carved from the forest.", "story": 55, "date": "1907-05-06", "title": "Setting Aside Cinder Cone National Monument, California", "type": "proclamation", "number": "753"}, {"id": "proc-754", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Lassen Peak National Monument was set aside within this forest in 1907.", "story": 55, "date": "1907-05-06", "title": "Setting Aside Lassen Peak National Monument, California", "type": "proclamation", "number": "754"}]}
{"id": "proc-565", "type": "proclamation", "number": "565", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-06-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing the Maury Mountain Forest Reserve, Oregon", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 565, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-565"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3066, "last_page": 3067, "cite": "34 Stat. 3066–3067", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3066.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-06-02", "table_title": "Setting apart the Maury Mountain Forest Reserve, Oregon."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “ That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Oregon, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in .the State of Oregon, and particularly described as follows:", "In Township eighteen (18) South, Range eighteen (18) East, Sections one (1), two (2), three (3), four (4), and Sections nine (9) to fifteen (15), both inclusive;", "In Township seventeen (17) South, Range nineteen (19) East, Sections twenty-three (23) to thirty-six (36), both inclusive;", "In Township eighteen (18) South, Range nineteen (19) East, Sections one (1) to fifteen (15), both inclusive, and Sections seventeen (17), eighteen (18), twenty-two (22), twenty-three (23) and twenty-four (24);", "In Township seventeen (17) South, Range twenty (20) East, Sections nineteen (19) to thirty-six (36), both inclusive;", "In Township eighteen (18) South, Range twenty (20) East, Sections one (1) to twelve (12), both inclusive;", "In Township seventeen (17) South, Range twenty-one (21) East, Sections nineteen (19), twenty-nine (29), thirty (30), thirty-one (31), thirty-two (32) and the west half of Section thirty-three (33);", "In Township eighteen (18) South, Range twenty-one (21) East, the west half of Section four (4), Sections five (5), six (6), seven (7), eight (8) and the west half of Section nine (9); all of Wiliamette Meridian, Oregon;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Maury Mountain Forest Reserve.", "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 2d day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3066", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["The Maury Mountain Forest Reserve, Oreg.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Post, p. 3302.", "Forest reserve, Oregon.", "Description.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Name."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Establishing the Mauty Mountain Forest Reserve, Oregon”. \"Mauty\" is a transcription typo; the proclamation reads \"The Maury Mountain Forest Reserve\" (34 Stat. 3066)."], "summary": "Created the Maury Mountain Forest Reserve on partly timbered public lands in Oregon, withdrawing the area from settlement apart from existing lawful claims.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Maury Mountain Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}], "states": ["Oregon"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-06-02", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The 54,220-acre Maury Mountain reserve was merged into the Blue Mountains forest in 1907 and lies today largely in the Ochoco National Forest.", "source": "34 Stat. 3066–3067; research entry", "date": "1907", "story": 55}], "today": [{"name": "Ochoco National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Oregon", "note": "Largely within the Ochoco.", "source": "research entry", "story": 55}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-731", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "Incorporated the Maury Mountain reserve into the enlarged Blue Mountains reserve.", "story": 55, "date": "1907-03-02", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Blue Mountains Forest Reserve, Oregon, and Incorporating Therewith the Maury Mountain Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "731"}]}
{"id": "eo-328-c", "type": "executive_order", "number": "328-C", "tr_sequence": 216, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-06-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Prescribing Compensation for Enlisted Men of the Navy Detailed as Ship's Tailors", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_328-C", "revid": 1862159, "printed_source": "Published: [http://books.google.com/books?output=html&id=5PcuAAAAMAAJ&jtp=930 General Orders, No. 186], Navy Dept., June 5, 1905  "}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Any enlisted man of the Navy detailed to perform the duties of ‘‘ship's tailor’’ on board of a vessel having a complement of six hundred men or more, exclusive of marines, shall receive twenty dollars per month in addition to the monthly pay of his rating; on a vessel having a complement of from three hundred to six hundred men, exclusive of marines, fifteen dollars per month in addition to the monthly pay of his rating; on a vessel having a complement of less than three hundred men, exclusive of marines, ten dollars per month in addition to the monthly pay of his rating. Any enlisted man of the Navy detailed as ‘‘tailor's helper’’ on board of a vessel having a complement of six hundred men or more, exclusive of marines, shall receive ten dollars per month in addition to the monthly pay of his rating: Provided, That the total pay of an enlisted man detailed to perform the duties of ‘‘ship's tailor’’ shall not exceed fifty dollars per month, and of ‘‘tailor's helper’’ shall not exceed forty dollars per month.", "Theodore Roosevelt The White House, June 2, 1905. == Notes == See Related: none available"], "source": "Wikisource (from Published: [http://books.google.com/books?output=html&id=5PcuAAAAMAAJ&jtp=930 General Orders, No. 186], Navy Dept., June 5, 1905  )", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Set extra monthly pay for Navy enlisted men detailed as ship's tailors ($10 to $20, depending on the ship's crew size) and as tailor's helpers ($10), with caps on their total pay.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-06-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-111", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 111, "date": "1905-06-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Wichita Forest Reserve, Oklahoma, redesignated as a game preserve.", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 111, "page": "202", "citations": "EO 1147; 1910 MR 301; 1916 MR 310"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Certain Oklahoma lands, partly within the Fort Sill (water-supply) Reserve, Comanche County, set apart as a game preserve.", "reconciliation": "numbered_duplicate", "duplicate_of": "proc-563", "reconciliation_note": "**= Proclamation 563** (June 2, 1905), *Redesignating the Wichita Forest Reserve, Oklahoma, as a Game Preserve* (34 Stat. 3062). It is not an executive order. Lord's \"Fort Sill (water-supply)\" wording comes from Taft's EO 1147 of Dec. 15, 1909 (research entry #114).", "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Certain Oklahoma lands, partly within the Fort Sill (water-supply) Reserve, Comanche County, set apart as a game preserve”. This is Proclamation 563 (34 Stat. 3062); the Fort Sill wording comes from Taft's EO 1147 of December 15, 1909."], "summary": null, "categories": ["forests", "wildlife"], "action": null, "places": [], "states": ["Oklahoma"], "people": [], "significance": null, "stories": [114], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-06-02", "impact": {"later_actions": [{"date": "1909-12-15", "text": "Taft's Executive Order 1147 reserved about 16,420 acres for Fort Sill's water supply, describing land partly within the game preserve of June 2, 1905.", "source": "Executive Order 1147", "story": 114}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-563", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The same document: Lord lists the Wichita game-preserve proclamation as an executive order.", "story": 114, "date": "1905-06-02", "title": "Redesignating the Wichita Forest Reserve, Oklahoma, as a Game Preserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "563"}]}
{"id": "proc-566", "type": "proclamation", "number": "566", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-06-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing the Payette Forest Reserve, Idaho", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 566, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-566"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3067, "last_page": 3070, "cite": "34 Stat. 3067–3070", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3067.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-06-03", "table_title": "Setting apart the Payette Forest Reserve, Idaho."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Idaho, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Idaho, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the north-vest corner of Township twenty-three (23) North, Range four (4) East, Boise Base and Meridian, Idaho; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Township twenty-three (23) North, Range three (3) East; thence westerly to the northwest corner of Township twenty-two (22) North, Range two (2) East; thence southerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the Fifth (5th) Standard Parallel North, to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township twenty (20) North, Range two (2) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section sixteen (16), Township nineteen (19) North, Range two (2) East; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), Township nineteen (19) North, Range three (3) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township twenty (20) North, Range three (3) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), Township nineteen (19) North, Range three (3) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township, thence easterly to the southeast corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township nineteen (19) North, Range four (4) East; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section five (5), Township eighteen (18) North, Range four (4) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence westerly along the Fourth (4th) Standard Parallel North, to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section five (5), Township seventeen (17) North, Range four (4) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section eight (8); said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence southerly to the southeast corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the northwest corner of Section one (1), Township sixteen (16) North, Range four (4) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section one (1), Township fifteen (15) North. Range four (4) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section five (5), Township fourteen (14) North, Range four (4) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section twelve; said township; thence easterly to the southeast corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township fourteen (14) North, Range five (5) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence easterly along the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel North to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33). Township fourteen (14) North, Range seven (7) East; thence northerly along the section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the Fourth (4th) Standard Parallel North, to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township eighteen (18) North, Range seven (7) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township nineteen (19) North, Range seven (7) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Township nineteen (19) North, Range six (6) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township twenty (20) North, Range six (6) East; thence northerly along the section lines to the point of intersection with the Fifth (5th) Standard Parallel North; thence easterly along said parallel to its intersection with the Middle Fork of the Salmon River; thence in a general north-easterly direction along the middle of the channel of said Middle Fork of the Salmon River to its confluence with said river; thence in a general north-westerly direction along the middle of the channel of said river to its intersection with the range line between Ranges six (6) and seven (7) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Township twenty-four (24) North, Range six (6) East; thence westerly to the northwest corner of Township twenty-three (23) North, Range four (4) East, the place of beginning; such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or selection was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Payette Forest Reserve.", "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 3d day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of the [SEAL.] Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3067", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["The Payette Forest Reserve, Idaho.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Idaho.", "Description.", "Payette Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Name."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B Loomis Acting Secretary of States", "role": null}, "summary": "Set aside the Payette Forest Reserve in Idaho on partly timbered public lands, reserved from settlement except for lands already lawfully claimed.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Payette Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Idaho"}], "states": ["Idaho"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-06-03", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Payette name dates from 1905, but the 1905 Payette lands do not lie in today's Payette National Forest.", "source": "research entry", "story": 55}], "today": [{"name": "Boise National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "transferred", "state": "Idaho", "note": "The 1905 Payette lands went to the Boise in 1944; the name Payette passed to a new forest to the north.", "source": "research entry", "story": 55}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1944-04-01", "text": "The whole of the old Payette National Forest was transferred to the Boise National Forest.", "source": "research entry", "story": 55}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-567", "type": "proclamation", "number": "567", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-06-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing the San Juan Forest Reserve, Colorado", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 567, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-567"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3070, "last_page": 3076, "cite": "34 Stat. 3070–3076", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3070.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-06-03", "table_title": "Setting apart the San Juan Forest Reserve, Colorado."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Colorado, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Colorado, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Township forty-two (42) North, Range three (3) West, New Mexico Principal Meridian, Colorado; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section three (3), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section fourteen (14), Township forty-one (41) North, Range three (3) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36),said township; thence easterly along the Tenth (10th) Correction Line North to the north-east corner of Township forty (40) North, Range three (3) West: thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), Township forty (40) North, Range two (2) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-nine (29), Township forty (40) North, Range one (1) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly along the section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the Tenth (10th) Correction Line North, to the north-west corner of Section thirty-three (33). Township forty-one (41) North, Range one (1) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the northwest corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section seventeen (17), Township forty-one (41) North, Range one (1) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence southerly to the southeast corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly along the section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the Tenth (10th) Correction Line North, to the north-west corner of Section ten (10), Township forty (40) North, Range one (1) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the north west quarter of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township forty (40) North, Range two (2) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), Township thirty-nine (39) North, Range three (3) East; thence southerly to the southeast corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section eight (8), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the southwest quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section one (1), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), Township thirty-nine (39) North, Range four (4) East; thence southerly to the southeast corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), Township thirty-eight (38) North, Range four (4) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence easterly to the southeast corner of Section eight (8), Township thirty-eight (38) North, Range five (5) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-three (33), Township thirty-nine (39) North, Range five (5) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), Township thirty-eight (38) North, Range five (5) East; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township thirty-seven (37) North, Range six (6) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence westerly along the Ninth (9th) Correction Line North to the north-west corner of Township thirty-six (36) North, Range six (6) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the northwest corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township thirty-six (36) North, Range five (5) East; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township ; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section sixteen (16), Township thirty-five (35) North, Range five (5) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section eight (8), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section seven (7), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section seventeen (17), Township thirty-four (34) North, Range five (5) East; thence easterly to the northeast corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section ten (10), Township thirty-three (33) North, Range five (5) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence westerly along the Eighth (8th) Correction Line North to its intersection with the eastern boundary of the Tierra Amarilla Grant; thence in a north-westerly and south-westerly direction along said boundary to its intersection with the quarter-section line between the north-half and the south-half of Section nineteen (19), Township thirty-four (34) North, Range three (3) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-four (24), Township thirty-four (34) North, Range two (2) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), Township thirty-three (33) North, Range two (2) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section eight (8), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township thirty-four (34) North, Range one (1) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section seven (7), Township thirty-four (34) North, Range two (2) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section five (5), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty (20), Township thirty-five (35) North, Range two (2) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section thirty (30), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township thirty-five (35) North, Range one (1) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the southwest corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township ; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the northeast corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), said township; thence northerly along the New Mexico Principal Meridian to the south-east corner of Township thirty-six (36) North, Range one (1) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township ; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), said township; thence westerly along the Ninth (9th) Correction Line North to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-four (34), Township thirty-seven (37) North, Range one (1) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence easterly along the Ninth (9th) Correction Line North to the north-east corner of Section six (6), Township thirty-six (36) North, Range one (1) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section ten (10), Township thirty-six (36) North, Range two (2) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section: thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the northeast quarter of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty (20). said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the southeast corner of the north-east quarter of Section thirteen (13), fractional Township thirty-six (36) North, Range two and one-half (212) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of fractional Section ten (10), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of fractional Section three (3), said township; thence easterly along the Ninth (9th) Correction Line North to the south-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), Township thirty-seven (37) North. Range two (2) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), Township thirty-seven (37) North, Range three (3) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the southwest quarter of said section; thence westerly along the Ninth (9th) Correction Line North to the north-west corner of Section four (4), Township thirty-six (36) North, Range three (3) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section three (3), Township thirty-five (35) North, Range three (3) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirteen (13), said township ; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence northerly to north-east corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township thirty-five (35) North, Range four (4) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township thirty-five (35) North, Range five (5) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Township thirty-six (36) North, Range six (6) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence northerly to north-east corner of Section twelve (12), Township thirty-six (36) North, Range seven (7) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section eleven (11), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the northeast quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the southwest corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence westerly to the southwest corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence northerly along the section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the Ninth (9th) Correction Line North, to the north-east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), Township thirty-seven (37) North, Range seven (7) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township thirty-eight (38) North, Range seven (7) West; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Township thirty-nine (39) North, Range seven (7) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township thirty-nine (39) North, Range six (6) West; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township forty (40) North, Range six (6) West; thence northerly along the section lines to the point of intersection with the Tenth (10th) Correction Line North; thence easterly along said Correction Line to the south-east corner of Township forty-one (41) North, Range six (6) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township forty-one (41) North, Range five (5) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section five (5), said township; thence easterly to the southeast corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township forty-two (42) North, Range five (5) West; thence northerly to the north-east cor- ner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), Township forty-two (42) North, Range four (4) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section one (1), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township forty-two (42) North. Range three (3) West, the place of beginning;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The San Juan Forest Reserve.", "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 3d clay of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3070", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["The San Juan Forest Reserve, Colo.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Post, p. 3308.", "Forest reserve, Colorado.", "Description.", "San Juan Forest Reserve—Continued.", "San Juan Forest Reserve—Continued.", "San Juan Forest Reserve—Continued.", "San Juan Forest Reserve—Continued.", "San Juan Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Name."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the San Juan Forest Reserve on partly timbered public lands in southwestern Colorado, excepting lands already lawfully claimed.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "San Juan Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-06-03", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "San Juan National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "origin", "state": "Colorado", "since": "1905-06-03", "source": "research entry", "story": 55}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-329", "type": "executive_order", "number": "329", "tr_sequence": 217, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-06-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Albert C. Muhse as Special Agent in Bureau of Corporations Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_329", "revid": 1844079, "printed_source": "1905 CSR  88"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Albert C. Muhse may be appointed special agent of the Bureau of Corporations, Department of Commerce and Labor, at a salary of $2,000 per annum, without examination under the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR  88)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, June 3, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Albert C. Muhse to be appointed a special agent of the Bureau of Corporations, at $2,000 a year, without a civil-service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Albert C. Muhse"], "significance": 1, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-06-03", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-568", "type": "proclamation", "number": "568", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-06-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Modifying the Boundaries of the Battlement Mesa Forest Reserve, Colorado", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 568, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-568"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3076, "last_page": 3079, "cite": "34 Stat. 3076–3079", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3076.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-06-05", "table_title": "Modifying boundaries of the Battlement Mesa Forest Reserve, Colorado."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Battlement Mesa Forest Reserve, in the State of Colorado, was established by proclamation dated December twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, under and by virtue of section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, which provides, “ That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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”, that “ the President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”, under which provision the boundary lines of the said forest reserve were changed and the area thereof reduced by proclamation dated May sixteenth, nineteen hundred and four;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by further releasing and excluding lands from the said forest reserve, and by including therein additional lands which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid act of Congress approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do hereby make known and proclaim that the boundary lines of the aforesaid Battlement Mesa Forest Reserve are hereby further modified so as to read as follows:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Section three (3), Township nine (9) South, Range ninety-seven (97) West, Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian, Colorado; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township eight (8) South, Range ninety-six (96) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), Township eight (8) South, Range ninety-five (95) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Township seven (7) South, Range ninety-five (95) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township seven (7) South, Range ninety-four (94) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), Township seven (7) South, Range ninety-three (93) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section three (3), Township eight (8) South, Range ninety-three (93) West; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township eight (8) South, Range ninety-two (92) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township eight (8) South, Range ninety-one (91) West; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township eight (8) South, Range ninety (90) West; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Township nine (9) South, Range eighty-nine (89) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township; thence southerly, allowing for the proper offset on the Second (2nd) Correction Line South, to the south-east corner of Township twelve (12) South, Range eighty-nine (89) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township twelve (12) South, Range ninety-three (93) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township twelve (121 South, Range ninety-four (94) West; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-three (23), Township twelve (12) South, Range ninety-five (95) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the southwest corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the northeast quarter of Section ten (10), Township thirteen (13) South, Range ninety-five (-95) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township thirteen (13) South, Range ninety-seven (97) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township twelve (12) South, Range ninety-seven (97) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section five (5), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Township eleven (11) South, Range ninety-six (96) West; thence northerly to the northwest corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence easterly along the Second (2nd) Correction Line South to the south-east corner of Township ten (10) South, Range ninety-five (95) A Vest; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-one (31), Township ten (10) South, Range ninety-four (94) West; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence easterly to the southeast corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township ten (10) South, Range ninety-three (93) West; thence easterly to the southeast corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Township nine (9) South, Range ninety- three (93) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Township nine (9) South, Range ninety-five (95) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township\"; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township nine (9) South, Range ninety-six (96) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Township nine (9) South, Range ninety-seven (97) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township, the place of beginning; such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "The lands, hereby excluded from the reserve and restored to the public domain shall be open to settlement from the date hereof, but shall not be subject to entry, filing or selection until after ninety days notice by such publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlements upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 5th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of the [SEAL.] Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3076", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Battlement Mesa Forest Reserve, Colo.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 27, 1053; Vol. 33, p. 2359.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Vol. 33, p. 2359.", "Boundaries modified.", "Description.", "Battlement Mesa Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Lands excepted.", "Excluded lands restored to public domain.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Redrew the Battlement Mesa Forest Reserve in Colorado, releasing some lands back to the public domain and adding other partly timbered lands.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Battlement Mesa Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-06-05", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "proc-527", "relation": "modifies", "note": "Redrew the Battlement Mesa boundaries set on May 16, 1904.", "story": 55, "date": "1904-05-16", "title": "Modification of the Boundaries of the Battlement Mesa Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "527"}]}
{"id": "eo-330", "type": "executive_order", "number": "330", "tr_sequence": 218, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-06-08", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Five Employees in Isthmian Canal Service Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_330", "revid": 1844089, "printed_source": "1905 CSR  88"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The provisions of the civil service rules are waived to permit the following appointments in the Isthmian Canal Service:", "Silas W. Lupton as assistant purchasing and shipping agent at New Orleans, La., from March 1, 1905; Fred R. Parke, as assistant shipping agent at Washington, D. C., from March 27, 1905; E. S. Rockwell as auditing clerk in the general auditor's office at Washington, D. C.; Wm. K. West as accountant in the general auditor's office at Washington, D. C., by transfer from the Auditor's Office on the Isthmus of Panama; Paul C. Norris as clerk, Office of Administration, at Washington, D. C., by transfer from the engineering department on the Isthmus of Panama."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR  88)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, June 8, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Waived civil service rules for five Isthmian Canal Service appointments in New Orleans and Washington, D.C., two of them transfers from the Isthmus.", "categories": ["civil-service", "canal-zone"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Louisiana", "District of Columbia"], "people": ["Silas W. Lupton", "Fred R. Parke", "E. S. Rockwell", "Wm. K. West", "Paul C. Norris"], "significance": 1, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-06-08", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-569", "type": "proclamation", "number": "569", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-06-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing the Park Range Forest Reserve, Colorado", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 569, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-569"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3079, "last_page": 3083, "cite": "34 Stat. 3079–3083", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3079.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-06-12", "table_title": "Setting apart Park Range Forest Reserve, Colorado."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Colorado, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Colorado, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Section four (4), Township eleven (11) North, Range ninety (90) West, Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian, Colorado; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), Township eleven (11) North, Range eighty-nine (89) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-three (33), Township eleven (11) North, Range eighty-seven (87) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the northeast quarter of Section twenty-eight (28), Township eleven (11) North, Range eighty-eight (88) West; thence northerly to the northwest corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), Township eleven (11) North, Range eighty-nine (89) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section fourteen (14), said township: thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), Township eleven (11) North, Range eighty-eight (88) West: thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section seven (7), Township eleven (11) North, Range eighty-seven (87) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section nineteen (19), Township eleven (11) North, Range eighty-six (86) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section ten (10), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), Township eleven (11) North, Range eighty-five (85) West; thence southerly to the southeast corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section two (2), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the northwest corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-three (33), Township twelve (12) North, Range eighty-five (85) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-eight (28), said township: thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the southeast corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty (20), said township; thence northerly to the boundary line between the States of Colorado and Wyoming; thence easterly along said state boundary line to its intersection with the range line between Ranges eighty-four (84) and eighty-five (85) West; thence southerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section nineteen (19), Township twelve (12) North, Range eighty-four (84) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty (20), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), Township twelve (12) North, Range eighty-three (83) West; thence northerly to the boundary line between the States of Colorado and Wyoming; thence easterly along said state boundary line to its intersection with the section line between Sections twenty-two (22) and twenty-three (23), Township twelve (12) North, Range eighty-two (82) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township eleven (11) North, Range eighty-two (82) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township nine (9) North, Range eighty-two (82) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly along the Second (2nd) Correction Line North to the north-east corner of Section two (2), Township eight (8) North, Range eighty-two (82) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section ten (10), Township seven (7) North, Range eighty-two (82) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township six (6) North, Range eighty-two (82) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section one (1), Township five (5) North, Range eighty-two (82) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the southwest quarter of Section twelve (12), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence easterly along the First (1st) Correction Line North to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section three (3), Township four (4) North, Range eighty-two (82) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section ten (10), Township two (2) North, Range eighty-two (82) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section ; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township two (2) North, Range eighty-three (83) West; thence northerly along the section lines to the point of intersection with the First (1st) Correction Line North; thence westerly along said Correction Line to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township five (5) North, Range eighty-four (84) West; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), Township six (6) North. Range eighty-four (84) West; thence westerly to the southwest corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township seven (7) North, Range eighty-four (84) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section ; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township: thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section ; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence northerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the Second (2nd) Correction Line North to the north-east corner of Township nine (9) North, Range eighty-five (85) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township ten (10) North, Range eighty-five (85) West; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Township nine (9) North, Range eighty-six (86) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence southerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the Second (2nd) Correction Line North, to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), Township seven (7) North, Range eighty-seven (87) West; thence westerly to the south-west, corner of the south-east quarter of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section nine (9), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section ten (10), Township eight (8) North, Range eighty-seven (87) West; thence easterly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly, allowing for the proper offset on the Second (2nd) Correction Line North, to the north-west corner of the northeast quarter of Section thirty-four (34), Township nine (9) North, Range eighty-seven (87) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-nine (29), said township ; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty (20), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-four (34), Township ten (10) North, Range eighty-seven (87) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section fourteen (14), said township ; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section: thence westerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), Township nine (9) North, Range eighty-seven (87) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), Township nine (9) North, Range eighty-eight (88) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), Township nine (9) North, Range eighty-nine (89) West; thence westerly to the southwest corner of section seven (7), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township eleven (11) North, Range ninety (90) West; thence westerly to the southwest corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section four (4), said township, the place of beginning;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as the Park Range Forest Reserve.", "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 12th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3079", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Park Range Forest Reserve, Colo.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Post, p. 3285.", "Forest reserve, Colorado.", "Description.", "Park Range Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Park Range Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Park Range Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Name."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Park Range Forest Reserve in Colorado, reserving partly timbered public lands from settlement apart from lands already lawfully claimed.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Park Range Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-06-12", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Park Range was divided in 1908 between the Routt and Hayden national forests.", "source": "E.O.s 837, 839; Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "date": "1908", "story": 55}], "today": [{"name": "Routt National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Colorado", "source": "Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "story": 55}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-837", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Part of Park Range went to the new Routt National Forest.", "story": 55, "date": "1908-06-25", "title": "Routt National Forest, Colo., Created", "type": "executive_order", "number": "837"}, {"id": "eo-839", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Part of Park Range went to the new Hayden National Forest.", "story": 55, "date": "1908-06-25", "title": "Hayden National Forest, Colo., Created", "type": "executive_order", "number": "839"}]}
{"id": "proc-570", "type": "proclamation", "number": "570", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-06-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging the San Isabel Forest Reserve, Colorado", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 570, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-570"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3083, "last_page": 3087, "cite": "34 Stat. 3083–3087", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3083.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-06-12", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the San Isabel Forest Reserve, Colorado."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third,, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “ That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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”, that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Colorado, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber and it appeals that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore. Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid acts of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that The San Isabel Forest Reserve, in the State of Colorado, established by proclamation of April eleventh, nineteen hundred and two, is hereby so changed and enlarged as to include all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Colorado, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Section twenty-two (22) Township forty-nine (49) North, Range eight (8) East, New Mexico Principal Meridian, Colorado; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), Township forty-nine (49) North, Range nine (9) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence southerly, allowing for the proper offset on the Twelfth (12th) Correction Line North, to the south-west corner of Section one (1) Township forty-eight (48) North. Range nine (9) East; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Section eight (8), Township forty-eight (48) North, Range ten (10) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section two (2), Township forty-seven (47) North, Range ten (10) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section: thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section seventeen (17), Township forty-seven (47) North, Range eleven (11) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township forty-seven (47) North, Range twelve (12) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section ; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section four (4), Township forty-six (46) North, Range twelve (12) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section nine (9), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the southwest corner of Section thirty-five (35). said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section two (2), Township forty-five (45) North, Range twelve (12) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of fractional Section twelve (12), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section thirty (30), Township twenty-two (22) South, Range seventy-three (73) West, Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section four (4), Township twenty-three (23) South, Range seventy-three (73) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section nine (9), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the southeast quarter of said section ; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township twenty-four (24) South. Range seventy-three (73) West; thence southerly to the southwest corner of Section six (6), Township twenty-four (24) South, Range seventy-two (72) West; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the northwest quarter of Section twenty (20), said township: thence southerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), Township twenty-five (25) South, Range seventy-two (72) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), Township twenty-six (26) South, Range seventy-two (72) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section nine (9), Township twenty-seven (27) South, Range seventy-two (72) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section thirty-four (34), Township twenty-seven (27) South, Range seventy-one (71) West; thence southerly along the quarter-section lines to the point of intersection with the northern boundary of the Sangre de Christo Grant: thence in a general south-westerly direction along the boundary of said grant to the point of intersection with the section line between Sections fifteen (15) and sixteen (16), Township twenty-nine (29) South, Range seventy-three (73) West; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section nine (9), said township: thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence north- erly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), Township twenty-eight (28) South, Range seventy-three (73) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), Township twenty-seven (27) South, Range seventy-three (73) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), said township: thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township twenty-six (26) South, Range seventy-three (73) West; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section two (2), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township twenty-five (25) South, Range seventy-three (73) West; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly along the section lines, allowing for the proper offset, to the point of intersection with the eastern boundary of the Luis Maria Baca Grant Number 4; thence along the eastern and northern boundary of said grant to the south-west corner of Section eight (8), Township forty-three (43) North, Range twelve (12) East, New Mexico Principal Meridian; thence northerly to the north-east corner of fractional Section six (6), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township forty-four (44) North, Range eleven (11) East; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the southeast corner of Section four (4), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township forty-five (45) North, Range eleven (11) East; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the southeast quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section seven (7), Township forty-six (46) North, Range eleven (11) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section: thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section twelve (12), Township forty-six (46) North, Range ten (10) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the southwest quarter of Section one (1), said township; thence westerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section four (4), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section ; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-three (33). Township forty-seven (47) North, Range ten (10) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), Township forty-seven (47) North, Range nine (9) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section eleven (11), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the southeast corner of Section four (4), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the southwest corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township forty-eight (48) North, Range nine (9) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirteen (13), Township forty-eight (48) North, Range eight (8) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence northerly to the northwest corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence northerly, allowing for the proper offset on the Twelfth (12th) Correction Line North, to the north-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township forty-nine (49) North, Range eight (8) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section: thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township, the place of beginning; such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to affixed.", "Done at the City of Washington this 12th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and. of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3083", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["The San Isabel Forest Reserve, Colo.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Area extended.", "Vol. 32, p. 1988.", "Description.", "San Isabel Forest Reserve—Continued.", "San Isabel Forest Reserve—Continued.", "San Isabel Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the San Isabel Forest Reserve in Colorado, first proclaimed in 1902, to take in additional partly timbered public lands.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "San Isabel Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-06-12", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "proc-467", "relation": "enlarges", "note": "Enlarged the San Isabel Forest Reserve of April 11, 1902.", "story": 55, "date": "1902-04-11", "title": "Establishing the San Isabel Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "467"}]}
{"id": "proc-571", "type": "proclamation", "number": "571", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-06-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Modifying the Boundaries of the Washington Forest Reserve, Washington", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 571, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-571"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3088, "last_page": 3096, "cite": "34 Stat. 3088–3096", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3088.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-06-12", "table_title": "Modifying boundaries of Washington Forest Reserve, Washington."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, The Washington Forest Reserve, in the State of Washington, was established by proclamation dated February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, under and by virtue of section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, which provides, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timebr or underkrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof ”;", "And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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 ”, that “the President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”; under which provision, the boundary lines of the said forest reserve were changed and reduced by proclamation dated April third, nineteen hundred and one;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by further releasing and excluding certain lands from the said forest reserve, and by including therein certain additional lands which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do hereby make known and proclaim that the boundary lines of the aforesaid Washington Forest Reserve are hereby further modified so as to read as follows:", "Beginning at the point where the range line between Ranges six (6) and seven (7) East, Willamette Meridian, Washington, intersects the international boundary line between the United States of America and the British Possessions; thence easterly along said international boundary line to the point of intersection with the range line between Ranges twenty-four (24) and twenty-five (25) East; thence southerly, allowing for the proper offset on the Ninth (9th) Standard Parallel North, to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), Township thirty-six (36) North, Range twenty-four (24) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence westerly to the northwest corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township thirty-five (35) North, Range twenty-four (24) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section three (3), Township thirty-four (34) North, Range twenty-four (24) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of section eleven (11), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section four (1), Township thirty-three (33) North, Range twenty-four (24) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the northwest quarter of Section ten (10), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section twelve (12), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the northeast corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-nine (29), Township thirty-three (33) North, Range twenty-three (23) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence easterly to the southeast corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the southwest corner of Section four (4), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township thirty-four (34) North. Range twenty-three (23) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Township thirty-four (34) North, Range twenty-two (22) East; thence westerly to the southeast corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township thirty-five (35) North, Range twenty-two (22) East; thence northerly to the northeast corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Township thirty-five (35) North. Range twenty-one (21) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the northeast quarter of Section thirteen (13), Township thirty-five (35) North, Range twenty (20) East; thence westerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the southwest quarter of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section five (5), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the northwest quarter of Section nine (9), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the southeast corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township thirty-four (34) North, Range twenty (20) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township thirty-three (33) North, Range twenty-one (21) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of section twenty-four (24), said township; thence southerly, allowing for the proper offset on the Eighth (8th) Standard Parallel North, to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), Township thirty-two (32) North, Range twenty-one (21) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township thirty-one (31) North, Range twenty-one (21) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township thirty-one (31) North, Range twenty-two (22) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section two (2). Township thirty (30) North, Range twenty-two (22) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the northeast corner of the north-west quarter of Section twelve (12), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the southeast quarter of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty (30), Township thirty (30) North, Range twenty-three (23) East: thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township twenty-nine (29) North, Range twenty-three (23) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Township twenty-nine (29) North, Range twenty-two (22) East; thence westerly along the Seventh (7th) Standard Parallel North, allowing for proper offsets, to the south-west corner of Township twenty-nine (29) North, Range eight (8) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township thirty (30) North, Range eight (8) East; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the southeast corner of the south-west quarter of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the southwest quarter of Section eleven (11), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section three (3), said township ; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section five (5), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township thirty-one (31) North, Range eight (8) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township thirty-one (31) North, range seven (7) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Township thirty-two (32) North, Range seven (7) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township thirty-two (32) North, Range eight (8) East; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township thirty-two (32) North, Range nine (9) East; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the southwest quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township thirty-two (32) North, Range ten (10) East; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section four (4), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty-two (32), Township thirty-three (33) North, Range eleven (11) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty (30), said township; thence westerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the northeast corner of the south-west quarter of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the southwest quarter of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), Township thirty-three (33) North, Range ten (10) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section one (1), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section two (2), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township thirty-four (34) North, Range ten (10) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section one (1), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township thirty-four (34) North, Range eleven (11) East; thence easterly to the southeast corner of Township thirty-five (35) North, Range eleven (11) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section five (5), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-two (32), Township thirty-six (36) North, Range eleven (11) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the southwest quarter of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section one (1), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section two (2), said township; thence southerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section ten (10), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the southwest corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the northeast quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty (20), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence westerly to the northwest corner of the north-east quarter of Section thirty (30), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the southwest quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section one (1), Township thirty-five (35) North, Range ten (10) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twelve (12), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-two (22), said township ; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty (20), said township; thence northerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section eight (8), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section four (4), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the northwest corner of the north-east quarter of Section five (5), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence southerly to the southwest corner of the north-west quarter of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), Township thirty-five (35) North, Range nine (9) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section three (3), said township; thence northerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the northeast quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Township thirty-six (36) North, Range nine (9) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the southeast quarter of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section ten (10), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section eleven (11), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section eight (8), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section five (5), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the northeast corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section four (4), Township thirty-six (36) North, Range eight (8) East; thence southerly to the southeast corner of Section five (5), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section six (6), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section one (1), Township thirty-six (36) North, Range seven (7) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section eight (8), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township thirty-seven (37) North, Range seven (7) East; thence northerly to the northeast corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township thirty-seven (37) North, Range six (6) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section ten (10), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section three (3), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township thirty-eight (38) North, Range six (6) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township thirty-nine (39) North, Range six (6) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township ; thence northerly along the range line to the point of intersection with the international boundary line between the United States of America and the British Possessions, the place of beginning;", "And further beginning at the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township thirty-five (35) North, Range seven (7) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the northeast corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section two (2), Township thirty-four (34) North, Range eight (8) East; thence southerly to the smith-west corner of Section one (1), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township thirty-four (34) North, Range nine (9) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township thirty-three (33) North, Range nine (9) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township thirty-two (32) North, Range nine (9) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of the south-east quarter of Section one (1), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of the south-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the southwest corner of the south-east quarter of Section two (2), said township; thence northerly, allowing for the proper offset on the Eighth (8th) Standard Parallel North to the north-east corner of the southwest quarter of Section thirty-five (35), Township thirty-three (33) North, Range nine (9) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the northeast quarter of the north-east quarter of Section four (4), Township thirty-two (32) North, Range nine (9) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of the north-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section one (1), Township thirty-two (32) North, Range eight (8) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of the north-east quarter of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly to the southwest corner of the north-west quarter of the north-west quarter of Section six (6), said township; thence northerly, allowing for the proper offset on the Eighth (8th) Standard Parallel North, to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township thirty-four (34) North, Range seven (7) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township thirty-five (35) North, Range seven (7) East, the place of beginning;", "Such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of r record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "The land hereby excluded from the reserve and restored to the public domain shall be open to settlement from the date hereof, but shall not be subject to entry, filing or selection until after ninety days notice by such publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 12th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3088", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Washington Forest Reserve, Wash.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 29, p. 904; Vol. 32. p. 1969.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Post, p. 3297.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Vol. 32, p. 1969.", "Area further modified.", "Description.", "Washington Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Washington Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Washington Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Washington Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Washington Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Washington Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Washington Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Lands excepted.", "Excluded lands restored to public domain.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Redrew the boundaries of the Washington Forest Reserve, releasing some lands and adding other partly timbered lands in the state of Washington.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Washington Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Washington"}], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-06-12", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-572", "type": "proclamation", "number": "572", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-06-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing the Wet Mountains Forest Reserve, Colorado", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 572, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-572"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3096, "last_page": 3099, "cite": "34 Stat. 3096–3099", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3096.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-06-12", "table_title": "Setting apart the Wet Mountains Forest Reserve, Colorado."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Colorado, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Colorado, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), Township nineteen (19) South, Range seventy-one (71) West, Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian, Colorado; thence easterly to the northwest corner of Section nineteen (19), Township nineteen (19) South, Range seventy (70) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north- east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the northeast corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), Township twenty (20) South, Range seventy (70) West; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the northwest corner of Township twenty-one (21) South, Range sixty-nine (69) West; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section ; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty (30), Township twenty-one (21) South, Range sixty-eight (68) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section three (3), Township twenty-two (22) South, Range sixty-eight (68) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), Township twenty-three (23) South, Range sixty-eight (68) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), Township twenty-four (24) South, Range sixty-eight (68) West; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section ; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township twenty five (25) South, Range sixty-eight (68) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), Township twenty-six (26) South, Range sixty-eight (68) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section six (6), said township; thence westerly to the southwest corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township twenty-five (25) South, Range sixty-nine (69) West; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section eleven (11), Township twenty-five (25) South, Range seventy (70) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township twenty-five (25) South, Range seventy-one (71) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twelve (12), said township ; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Township twenty-four (24) South, Range seventy (70) West; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly to the northeast corner of Section twenty-seven (27), Township twenty-three (23) South, Range seventy (70) West; thence westerly to the southwest corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section one (1), said township; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Township twenty-two (22) South, Range sixty-nine (69) West; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), Township twenty-two (22) South, Range seventy (70) West; thence westerly to the southeast corner of Section three (3), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township twenty-one (21) South, Range seventy (70) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section six (6), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-six (36), Township twenty (20) South, Range seventy- one (71) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), Township nineteen (19) South, Range seventy-one (71) West; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section, the place of beginning;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Wet Mountains Forest Reserve.", "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 12th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3096", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["The Wet Mountains Forest Reserve, Colo.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Colorado.", "Description.", "Wet Mountains Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Wet Mountains Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Name."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart the Wet Mountains Forest Reserve on partly timbered public lands in Colorado, closed to settlement except for existing lawful claims.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Wet Mountains Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-06-12", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Pueblo Colorado Daily Chieftain reported that the proclamations had reached the Pueblo land office, gave the Wet Mountain reserve as 235,000 acres in Pueblo, Huerfano and Custer counties, and printed the preamble and land descriptions in full.", "source": "Colorado Daily Chieftain (Pueblo), June 28, 1905, p. 12", "date": "1905-06-28", "story": 55}], "legacy": [{"text": "Wet Mountains was combined with the San Isabel in 1908.", "source": "E.O. 908; Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "date": "1908-07-02", "story": 55}], "today": [{"name": "San Isabel National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Colorado", "source": "Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "story": 55}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-908", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Combined Wet Mountains with the San Isabel.", "story": 55, "date": "1908-07-02", "title": "55 Specified National Forests Consolidated and/or Renamed", "type": "executive_order", "number": "908"}]}
{"id": "proc-573", "type": "proclamation", "number": "573", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-06-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing the Cassia Forest Reserve, Idaho", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 573, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-573"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3099, "last_page": 3100, "cite": "34 Stat. 3099–3100", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3099.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-06-12", "table_title": "Setting apart the Cassia Forest Reserve, Idaho."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred, and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Idaho, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Idaho and particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Township thirteen (13) South, Range twenty-one (21) East, Boise Base and Meridian, Idaho; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section three (3), Township fourteen (14) South, Range twenty-one (21) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section three (3), Township fifteen (15) South, Range twenty-one (21) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section nine (9), Township sixteen (16) South, Range twenty-one (21) East; thence westerly to the southwest corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township sixteen (16) South, Range twenty (20) East; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence southerly to the boundary line between the States of Idaho and Nevada; thence westerly along said state boundary line to the southwest corner of fractional Section thirty-three (33), Township sixteen (16) South, Range eighteen (18) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township fourteen (14) South, Range seventeen (17) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township thirteen (13) South, Range seventeen (17) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence easterly along the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel South to the north-west corner of Township thirteen (13) South, Range twenty-one (21) East, the place of beginning; such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as the Cassia Forest Reserve.", "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 12th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3099", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Cassia Forest Reserve, Idaho.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Idaho.", "Description.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Name."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Cassia Forest Reserve in southern Idaho, reserving partly timbered public lands from settlement apart from lands already lawfully claimed.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Cassia Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Idaho"}], "states": ["Idaho"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-06-12", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Cassia was combined with the Raft River reserve to form the Minidoka in 1908, and the Minidoka joined the Sawtooth in 1953.", "source": "E.O. 908; Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "date": "1908-07-02", "story": 55}], "today": [{"name": "Sawtooth National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Idaho", "source": "Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "story": 55}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-908", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Combined Cassia with Raft River to form the Minidoka.", "story": 55, "date": "1908-07-02", "title": "55 Specified National Forests Consolidated and/or Renamed", "type": "executive_order", "number": "908"}]}
{"id": "eo-330-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "330-A", "tr_sequence": 219, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-06-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Approval of War Secretary Recommendation to Reserve Grass Island, Gray's Harbor, Washington, for Military Purposes", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_330-A", "revid": 2403718, "printed_source": "Published: [http://books.google.com/books?id=5DgtAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA3-PA69&output=html General Orders, No. 102], War Dept., June 29, 1905  "}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["This is the War Department's description of the order, not the actual order text.", "The President of the United States, by order dated June 12, 1905, reserved for purposes of the defense of Grays Harbor, Washington, all of Grass Island, unsurveyed, situate in said harbor in section 18, township 16 north, range 11 west, Willamette meridian, Washington.", "Theodore Roosevelt The White House, June 12, 1905. == Notes == Revoked by: Executive Order 432, March 28, 1906"], "source": "Wikisource (from Published: [http://books.google.com/books?id=5DgtAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA3-PA69&output=html General Orders, No. 102], War Dept., June 29, 1905  )", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved all of Grass Island in Grays Harbor, Washington, for the harbor's defense.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Grass Island", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Washington"}], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-06-12", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Grays Harbor defense reservation was given up nine months after it was made.", "source": "Executive Order 432", "date": "1906-03-28", "story": 114}]}, "related": [{"id": "uo-112", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 114, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-06-12", "title": "Grass Island Military Reservation, Wash., established.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}, {"id": "eo-432", "relation": "revoked_by", "note": "Abolished the Grass Island reservation on March 28, 1906.", "story": 114, "date": "1906-03-28", "title": "Abolishing Grass Island Military Reservation, Grays Harbor, Washington", "type": "executive_order", "number": "432"}]}
{"id": "eo-330-b", "type": "executive_order", "number": "330-B", "tr_sequence": 220, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-06-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amendment of Executive Order of March 26, 1901, Establishing Limits of Punishment for Enlisted Men of the Army", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_330-B", "revid": 12440736, "printed_source": "Published: [http://books.google.com/books?id=qJMYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA51 General Orders, No. 96], War Dept., June 19, 1905  "}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The Executive order, dated March 26, 1901, establishing limits of punishment for enlisted men of the Army, under an Act of Congress approved September 27, 1890, and which was published in General Orders, No. 42, Headquarters of the Army, Adjutant General's Office, March 26, 1901, is amended so as to prescribe as follows: __NOTOC__", "===.===", "In all cases of desertion the sentence may include dishonorable discharge and forfeiture of pay and allowances.", "Subject to the modifications authorized in section 3 of this article, the limit of the term of confinement (at hard labor) for desertion shall be as follows:", "In case of surrender— {| style=\"margin: 0em 0em 0em 2.0em;\" |-valign=\"top\" | (a) | When the deserter surrenders himself after an absence of not more than thirty days, one year. |-valign=\"top\" | (b) | When the surrender is made after an absence of more than thirty days, eighteen months. |}", "In case of apprehension— {| style=\"margin: 0em 0em 0em 2.0em;\" |-valign=\"top\" | (a) | When at the time of desertion the deserter shall not have been more than six months in the service, eighteen months. |-valign=\"top\" | (b) | When he shall have been more than six months in the service, two and one-half years. |}", "The foregoing limitations are subject to modification under the following conditions: {| style=\"margin: 0em 0em 0em 2.0em;\" |-valign=\"top\" | (a) | The punishment of a deserter may be increased by one year of confinement at hard labor in consideration of each previous conviction of desertion. |-valign=\"top\" | (b) | The punishment for desertion when joined in by two or more soldiers in the execution of a conspiracy, or for desertion in the presence of an outbreak of Indians or of any unlawful assemblage which the troops may be opposing, shall not exceed dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and confinement at hard labor for five years. |}", "===.===", "Except as herein otherwise indicated, punishments shall not exceed the limits prescribed in the following table:", "{|cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"4\" width=\"82%\" style=\"text-align:left; 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for noncommissioned officer, reduction and forfeiture of $20. |} |- |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| |- |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| |- |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| |- |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| |- |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| |- |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| |- |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| |- |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| |- |align=\"center\" style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid\"|Under 40th Article of War.||  |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |- |align=\"center\" style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid\"|Under 51st Article of War.||  |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |- |align=\"center\" valign=\"baseline\" style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid\"|Under 60th Article of War. | |- |align=\"center\" style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid\"|Under 62d Article of War.||  |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |- |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid\"| |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |- |align=\"center\" style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid\"|Under 62d Article of War—Continued.||  |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |- |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | rowspan=\"2\" valign=\"center\" | {| |\\left .\\begin{matrix}\\\\ \\\\ \\\\ \\end{matrix}\\right \\} | |} |- |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |}", "===.===", "The introduction and use of evidence of previous convictions is subject to the following regulations: {{PL-indent| Such evidence shall be limited, except as provided in section 5 of this article, to previous convictions by courts-martial of an offense or offenses within one year preceding the date of commission of any offense charged and during the current enlistment. These convictions must be proved by the records of previous trials and convictions, or by duly authenticated copies of such records, or by duly authenticated copies of the orders promulgating such trials and convictions. Charges forwarded to the authority competent to order a general court-martial, or submitted to a summary, garrison, or regimental court-martial, must be accompanied by the proper evidence of previous convictions.", "Whenever a soldier is convicted of an offense for which a discretionary punishment is authorized, the court will receive evidence of previous convictions (see section 1 of this article), if there be any. General, regimental, and garrison courts-martial will, after a finding of guilty, be opened for the purpose of ascertaining whether there is such evidence and, if so, of receiving it.", "Previous convictions in connection with inferior court offenses.—When a soldier is convicted of an offense the punishment for which under Article II of this order or the custom of the service does not exceed three months' confinement at hard labor and forfeiture of three months' pay, the punishment so authorized may, upon proof of previous convictions (see section 1 of this article) be increased one-half for each of such convictions up to the limit of three months' confinement at hard labor and forfeiture of three months' pay, and, for noncommissioned officer or first-class private, reduction in addition thereto. Upon proof of five or more of such convictions, if not less than five of them were followed by sentences, in each case, of not less, substitutions considered (see Article VII), than forfeiture of $10 or confinement at hard labor for 20 days, the limit of punishment shall be dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and confinement at hard labor for three months; but if dishonorable discharge be not adjudged, the limit shall be three months' confinement at hard labor and forfeiture of three months' pay, and, for a noncommissioned officer or first-class private, reduction in addition thereto.", "Previous convictions in connection with general court-martial offenses.—When the conviction is for an offense punishable under Article II of this order or the custom of the service with a greater punishment than three months' confinement at hard labor and forfeiture of three months' pay, such punishment shall not be increased by reason of previous convictions, except as hereinafter specified; but evidence of those described in section 1 of this article will be submitted to the court to aid it to determine upon the proper measure of punishment subject to the limit already authorized. Upon proof of five or more of such convictions, if not less than five of them were followed by sentences, in each case, of not less, substitutions considered (see Article VII), than forfeiture of $10 or confinement at hard labor for 20 days, the court may, if the authorized limit does not include dishonorable discharge, adjudge dishonorable discharge and forfeiture of all pay and allowances with the authorized confinement.", "On a conviction of desertion evidence of convictions of previous desertions may also be introduced, irrespective of the enlistment or of the period which may have elapsed since such conviction or convictions.", "When a noncommissioned officer is convicted of an offense not punishable with reduction, he may, upon proof of one previous conviction within the prescribed period (see section 1 of this article), be sentenced to reduction in addition to the punishment already authorized.", "First-class privates may be reduced to second-class privates in all cases where for like offenses on the part of noncommissioned officers their reduction in grade is now authorized..|-2.0|2.0}}", "=== . ===", "When a soldier shall, on one arraignment, be convicted of two or more offenses, none of which is punishable under Article II of this order or the custom of the service with dishonorable discharge, but the aggregate term of confinement for which, as specified in said article, may exceed six months dishonorable discharge with forfeiture of pay and allowances may be awarded in addition to the authorized confinement.", "=== . ===", "If, in any case where the limit of punishment is dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and confinement at hard labor for a stated number of months, dishonorable discharge be not adjudged, the limit of forfeiture shall be all pay due and to become due during the prescribed limit of confinement.", "=== . ===", "This order prescribes the maximum limit of punishment for the offenses named, and this limit is intended for those cases in which the severest punishment should be awarded. In other cases the punishment should be graded down according to the extenuating circumstances. Offenses not herein provided for remain punishable as authorized by the Articles of War and the custom of the service.", "=== . ===", "Substitutions for punishment named in Article II of this order are authorized at the discretion of the courts at the following rates:", "Two days' confinement at hard labor for one dollar forfeiture, or the reverse; one day's solitary confinement on bread and water diet for two days' confinement at hard labor or for one dollar forfeiture; provided that a noncommissioned officer not sentenced to reduction shall not be subject to confinement; and provided that solitary confinement shall not exceed fourteen days at one time, nor be repeated until fourteen days have elapsed, and shall not exceed eighty-four days in one year. Theodore Roosevelt The White House, June 12, 1905. == Notes == Amends: Executive Order of March 26, 1901 Amended by: Executive Order 980, September 5, 1908 See Related: Executive Order 1173, March 3, 1910 Executive Order 2043, September 5, 1914 Executive Order 2498, December 15, 1916 Executive Order 4773, November 29, 1927"], "source": "Wikisource (from Published: [http://books.google.com/books?id=qJMYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA51 General Orders, No. 96], War Dept., June 19, 1905  )", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Amended the 1901 order setting maximum punishments for Army enlisted men, laying out new confinement limits for desertion based on surrender or capture, time served, prior convictions and conspiracy.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-06-12", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-112", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 112, "date": "1905-06-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Grass Island Military Reservation, Wash., established.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 112, "page": "202", "citations": "(1916 MR 481)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Grass Island Military Reservation, Wash., established.", "reconciliation": "numbered_duplicate", "duplicate_of": "eo-330-a", "reconciliation_note": "**= EO 330-A** (June 12, 1905), \"Approval of War Secretary Recommendation to Reserve Grass Island, Gray's Harbor, Washington, for Military Purposes.\" Same date, same subject. It was abolished by EO 432 (Mar. 28, 1906).", "summary": null, "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": null, "places": [], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": null, "stories": [114], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-06-12", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Grays Harbor defense reservation was given up nine months after it was made.", "source": "Executive Order 432", "date": "1906-03-28", "story": 114}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-330-a", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The same order; Lord's unnumbered list carries this numbered document a second time.", "story": 114, "date": "1905-06-12", "title": "Approval of War Secretary Recommendation to Reserve Grass Island, Gray's Harbor, Washington, for Military Purposes", "type": "executive_order", "number": "330-A"}, {"id": "eo-432", "relation": "revoked_by", "note": "Abolished the Grass Island reservation on March 28, 1906.", "story": 114, "date": "1906-03-28", "title": "Abolishing Grass Island Military Reservation, Grays Harbor, Washington", "type": "executive_order", "number": "432"}]}
{"id": "proc-574", "type": "proclamation", "number": "574", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-06-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing the Cochetopa Forest Reserve, Colorado", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 574, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-574"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3101, "last_page": 3106, "cite": "34 Stat. 3101–3106", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3101.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-06-13", "table_title": "Setting apart the Cochetopah Forest Reserve, Colorado."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Colorado, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Colorado, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Township fifty (50) north, Range four (4) East, New Mexico Principal Meridian, Colorado; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section two (2), Township fifty (50) North, Range seven (7) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), Township forty-nine (49) North, Range seven (7) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence southerly along the section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the Twelfth (12th) Correction Line North, to the south-west corner of Section one (1), Township forty-eight (48) North, Range seven (7) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section seven (7), Township forty-eight (48) North, Range eight (8) East; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the southeast corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the northeast corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), Township forty-seven (47) North, Range eight (8) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section fourteen (14), Township forty-six (46) North. Range eight (8) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly to the northwest corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township forty-seven (47) North, Range seven (7) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section two (2), Township forty-six (46) North, Range seven (7) East; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section twelve (12), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section seven (7), Township forty-six (46) North, Range eight (8) East; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty (30), Township forty-six (46) North, Range nine (9) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section six (6), Township forty-five (45) North, Range nine (9) East; thence westerly to the northeast corner of Section eleven (11), Township forty-five (45) North, Range eight (8) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section three (3), Township forty-five (45) North, Range seven (7) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township forty-six (46) North, Range seven (7) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of-Section thirty (30), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twelve (12), Township forty-six (46) North, Range six (6) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section two (2), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section five (5), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township forty-six (46) North, Range five (5) East; thence northerly to the northwest corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19),. said township; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township forty-six (46) North, Range four (4) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), Township forty-five (45) North, Range four (4) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence westerly along the Eleventh (11th) Correction Line North to the north-west corner of Section four (4), Township forty-four (44) North, Range four (4) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the northwest corner of Township forty-four (44) North, Range five (5) East; thence easterly along the Eleventh (11th) Correction Line North to the north-east corner of Section six (6), Township forty-four (44) North, Range six (6) East; thence southerly to the northwest corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the southeast corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section one (1), Township forty-three (43) North, Range six (6) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the northwest corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), Township forty-two (42) North, Range five (5) East; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence westerly to the northwest corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), Township forty-one (41) North, Range four (4) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence southerly to the southwest corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly along the section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the Tenth (10th) Correction Line North, to the southeast corner of Section seven (7), Township forty (40) North, Range four (4) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township forty (40) North, Range three (3) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the northeast corner of the south-east quarter of Section twelve (12), Township forty (40) North, Range two (2) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section two (2), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly along the section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the Tenth (10th) Correction Line North, to the north-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township forty-one (41) North, Range two (2) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township forty-two (42) North, Range one (1) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township forty-two (42) North, Range one (1) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township forty-three (43) North, Range three (3) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township forty-four (44) North, Range three (3) West; thence easterly along the Eleventh (11th) Correction Line North to the north-east corner of Section five (5), Township forty-four (44) North, Range two (2) West; thence southerly to the southwest corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township ; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section-five (5), Township forty-four (44) North, Range one (1) West; thence northerly along the section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the Eleventh (11th) Correction Line North, to the north-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), Township forty-five (45) North, Range one (1) West; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), Township forty-six (46) North, Range one (1) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township; thence northerly along the New Mexico Principal Meridian to the north-west corner of Section seven (7), Township forty-seven (47) North, Range one (1) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), Township forty-six (46) North, Range one (1) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section eleven (11), Township forty-five (45) North, Range one (1) East; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), Township forty-five (45) North, Range two (2) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township forty-five (45) North, Range three (3) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), said township; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township forty-six (46) North, Range two (2) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence easterly to the southeast corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township forty-seven (47) North, Range two (2) East; thence westerly to the southwest corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of section nine (9), Township forty-seven (47) North, Range three (3) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township forty-eight (48) North, Range three (3) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township forty-eight (48) North, Range five (5) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly along the quarter-section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the Twelfth (12th) Correction Line North, to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section fifteen (15), Township forty-nine (49) North, Range five (5) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section: thence westerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty (20), said township ; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence southerly along the section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the Twelfth (12th) Correction Line North, to the south-east corner of Section eight (8), Township forty-eight (48) North, Range five (5) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the Twelfth (12th) Correction Line North, to the south-east corner of Section one (1). Township forty-nine (49) North, Range four (4) East; thence westerly to the southwest corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township fifty (50) North, Range four (4) East, the place of beginning;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Cochetopah Forest Reserve.", "3106 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 13th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3101", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["The Cochetopah Forest Reserve, Colo.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Colorado.", "Description.", "Cochetopah Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Cochetopah Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Cochetopah Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Cochetopah Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Land excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Name."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "title_notes": ["The proclamation itself names it \"The Cochetopah Forest Reserve\" (34 Stat. 3101); the spelling Cochetopa dates from 1908."], "summary": "Created the Cochetopah Forest Reserve on partly timbered public lands in Colorado, reserving them from settlement except for lands already lawfully claimed.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Cochetopah Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-06-13", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Cochetopah reserve was renamed Cochetopa in 1908.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1908", "story": 55}], "today": [{"name": "Cochetopa National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "abolished", "state": "Colorado", "note": "Divided among the Gunnison, Rio Grande and San Isabel in 1944.", "source": "Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "story": 55}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1944-07-01", "text": "The Cochetopa National Forest was divided among the Gunnison, Rio Grande and San Isabel national forests.", "source": "P.L.O. 258; Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "story": 55}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-575", "type": "proclamation", "number": "575", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-06-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing the Montezuma Forest Reserve, Colorado", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 575, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-575"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3106, "last_page": 3108, "cite": "34 Stat. 3106–3108", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3106.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-06-13", "table_title": "Setting apart the Montezuma Forest Reserve, Colorado."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America.", "A PROCLAMATION.", "WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, \"An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes\", \"That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof\";", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Colorado, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Colorado, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "[Detailed metes-and-bounds boundary description by township, range, and section — beginning at the north-west corner of Section fifteen (15), Township forty-two (42) North, Range thirteen (13) West, New Mexico Principal Meridian, Colorado — omitted here for length; reproduce verbatim from 34 Stat. 3106–3108 before publication.]", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Montezuma Forest Reserve.", "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 13th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth.", "T. ROOSEVELT", "By the President: FRANCIS B. LOOMIS, Acting Secretary of State."], "source": "34 Stat. 3106–3108 (GovInfo page images), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Seal restored; signature as printed (T. ROOSEVELT). Boundary description omitted; reproduce from the Statutes, not APP.", "story": 55}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Reserved partly timbered public lands in southwestern Colorado as the Montezuma Forest Reserve, closed to settlement apart from existing lawful claims.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Montezuma Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-06-13", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Montezuma National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "abolished", "state": "Colorado", "note": "Divided between the San Juan and Uncompahgre in 1947.", "source": "Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "story": 55}, {"name": "San Juan National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Colorado", "source": "Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "story": 55}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1947-07-01", "text": "The Montezuma National Forest was divided between the San Juan and Uncompahgre national forests.", "source": "P.L.O. 400; Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "story": 55}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-331", "type": "executive_order", "number": "331", "tr_sequence": 221, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-06-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of C. H. Chapman as Copyist in General Land Office Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_331", "revid": 1844092, "printed_source": "1905 CSR  89"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. C. H. Chapman, a civil war veteran, may be appointed as a copyist in the General Land Office, in view of his former service in the Census Office."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR  89)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, June 13, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed C. H. Chapman, a Civil War veteran, to be appointed a copyist in the General Land Office without regard to civil service rules, in view of his earlier service in the Census Office.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["C. H. Chapman"], "significance": 1, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-06-13", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-332", "type": "executive_order", "number": "332", "tr_sequence": 222, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-06-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Allow Promotions to Superintendent in Indian Service Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_332", "revid": 1844927, "printed_source": "1905 CSR  70"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Rule XI was amended by the addition of the following clause to section 2:", "(c) Any employee in the classified Indian Service may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, be promoted without examination to the position of superintendent of an Indian school upon a statement of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that the employee possesses the requisite business and executive qualifications to fill the position, and the Commission will on such statement issue the necessary certificate."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR  70)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, June 13, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Amended civil service Rule XI so classified Indian Service employees could be promoted without examination to superintendent of an Indian school, on the Commissioner of Indian Affairs' statement of their qualifications.", "categories": ["civil-service", "indian-lands"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-06-13", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-333", "type": "executive_order", "number": "333", "tr_sequence": 223, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-06-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Waiving Civil Service Rules and Navy Yard Regulations for Laborers at Naval Hospitals", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_333", "revid": 1844764, "printed_source": "1905 CSR  70"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The employment of laborers, skilled and unskilled, at the naval hospitals shall not be subject to the provisions of the civil service rules or navy-yard regulations, as the conditions surrounding such employment, including hours of labor, diversity of duties, and rates and manner of compensation, are such as to render the observance of such rules and regulations impracticable."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR  70)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, June 13, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Freed the hiring of skilled and unskilled laborers at naval hospitals from civil service rules and navy-yard regulations, citing hours, varied duties and pay arrangements that made those rules impracticable.", "categories": ["civil-service", "military-naval"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-06-13", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-334", "type": "executive_order", "number": "334", "tr_sequence": 224, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-06-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Except Certain Construction Workers from Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_334", "revid": 6916830, "printed_source": "1905 CSR  76"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Section I of Schedule A was amended by the addition of the following clause, to be numbered 12:", "Mechanics and skilled tradesmen or laborers, employed upon construction or repair work in the field services, under such restrictive conditions that, in the opinion of the Commission, they can not, as a class, be appointed from registers of eligibles."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR  76)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, June 13, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Amended Schedule A of the civil service rules to except mechanics, skilled tradesmen and laborers on field construction or repair work who, in the Commission's view, could not be appointed from registers of eligibles.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-06-13", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-576", "type": "proclamation", "number": "576", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-06-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing the Uncompahgre Forest Reserve, Colorado", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 576, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-576"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3109, "last_page": 3111, "cite": "34 Stat. 3109–3111", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3109.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-06-14", "table_title": "Setting apart the Uncompahgre Forest Reserve, Colorado."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Colorado, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Colorado, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of section eighteen, (18), Township fifteen (15) South, Range one hundred and two (102) West, Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian, Colorado; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section seven (7), Township fifteen (15) South, Range one hundred and one (101) West; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), Township fifteen (15) South, Range one hundred (100) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence easterly to the northeast corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township fifteen (15) South, Range ninety-nine (99) West; thence easterly along the Third (3rd) Correction Line South to the northeast corner of fractional Township fifty-one (51) North, Range fifteen (15) West, New Mexico Principal Meridian; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section seven (7), Township fifty (50) North, Range fourteen (14) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section seven (7), Township fifty (50) North, Range thirteen (13) West; thence southerly to the southwest corner of Section five (5), Township forty-nine (49) North, Range thirteen (13) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section eleven (11), Township forty-nine (49) North, Range twelve (12) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section two (2), Township forty-eight (48) North, Range twelve (12) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), Township forty-seven (47) North, Range eleven (11) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township forty-seven (47) North, Rango ten (10) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township forty-six (46) North, Range ten (10) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-three (23), Township forty-six (46) North, Range eleven (11) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the northwest corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence westerly to the southwest corner of Section seven (7), Township forty-six (46) North, Range twelve (12) West; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Township forty-seven (47) North, Range thirteen (13) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section ; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), said township; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Township forty-eight (48) North, Range fifteen (15) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eleven (11), Township forty-eight (48)-North, Range sixteen (16) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township forty-nine (49) North, Range sixteen (16) West; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section ; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township fifty (50) North, Range seventeen (17) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township ; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-two (22)., said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence westerly to the southwest corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), fractional Township fifty-one (51) North, Range eighteen (18) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence westerly to the southwest corner of the south-east quarter of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence northerly along the quarter-section lines to the point of intersection with the Third (3rd) Correction Line South, Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian; thence easterly along the said Correction Line to the south-west corner of Township fifteen (15) South, Range one hundred and two (102) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township, the place of beginning; such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys ;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Uncompahgre Forest Reserve.", "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 14th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3109", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["The Uncompahgre Forest Reserve, Colo.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Post, p. 3282.", "Forest reserve, Colorado.", "Description.", "Uncompahgre Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Name."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Uncompahgre Forest Reserve on partly timbered public lands in western Colorado, withdrawn from settlement except for lands already lawfully claimed.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Uncompahgre Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-06-14", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-335", "type": "executive_order", "number": "335", "tr_sequence": 225, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-06-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Mary T. Waggaman as Clerk in Bureau of Labor Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_335", "revid": 6916837, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Executive Order 335 of Theodore Roosevelt, president of the United States of America (1905). Executive Order 335 of Corazon Aquino, president of the Philippines (1988)."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Mary T. Waggaman to be appointed a clerk in the Bureau of Labor without regard to civil service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": ["Mary T. Waggaman"], "significance": 1, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-06-24", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-335-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "335-A", "tr_sequence": 226, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-06-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Designating Board of Consulting Engineers to Consider Plans for Canal Across Isthmus of Panama", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_335-A", "revid": 6916827, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that a Board of Consulting Engineers, consisting of:", "General George W. Davis, Mr. Alfred Noble, Mr. William Barclay Parsons, Mr. William H. Burr, General Henry L. Abbot, Mr. Frederic P. Stearns, Mr. Joseph Ripley, Mr. Hermann Schussler, Mr. Isham Randolph, Mr. Henry Hunter, nominated by the British Government, Herr Eugen Tincauzer, nominated by the German Government, M. Guérard, nominated by the French Government, M. Quellennec, consulting engineer, Suez Canal, and one engineer to be designated by the Government of the Netherlands,", "shall convene in the city of Washington, at the rooms of the Isthmian Canal Commission, on the first day of September, nineteen hundred and five, for the purpose of considering the various plans proposed to and by the Isthmian Canal Commission for the construction of a canal across the Isthmus of Panama between Cristobal and La Boca; and that the deliberations of the Board of Consulting Engineers shall continue as long as they may deem it necessary and wise before they make their report to the Commission.", "The Isthmian Canal Commission is directed to have all the proposed plans in such detailed form, with maps, surveys, and other documents sufficient to enable the Consulting Engineers to consider and decide the questions presented to them. Should it be deemed necessary by the members of the Consulting Board, they may visit the Isthmus before making their final report. If there is a difference of opinion between the members of the Consulting Board, minority reports are requested.", "General George W. Davis is hereby designated as Chairman of the Board of Consulting Engineers. Instructions more detailed will be given in time to be presented to the Board when it first convenes on the 1st of September.", "The Chairman is charged with the duty of communicating to the other members of the Board this order and the other details that may be necessary."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 24, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Named an international Board of Consulting Engineers, with General George W. Davis as chairman, to meet in Washington on September 1, 1905, and weigh plans for a canal across the Isthmus of Panama.", "categories": ["canal-zone", "foreign-affairs"], "action": "appoint", "places": [{"name": "Isthmus of Panama", "kind": "canal-zone"}], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": ["George W. Davis", "Alfred Noble", "William Barclay Parsons", "William H. Burr", "Henry L. Abbot", "Frederic P. Stearns", "Joseph Ripley", "Hermann Schussler", "Isham Randolph", "Henry Hunter", "Eugen Tincauzer", "Guérard", "Quellennec"], "significance": 4, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-06-24", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-336", "type": "executive_order", "number": "336", "tr_sequence": 227, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-06-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Permanent Appointment of James W. Plake as Copyist in Office of Indian Affairs Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_336", "revid": 1844935, "printed_source": "1905 CSR  89"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["James W. Plake, an Indian, may be permanently appointed as copyist in the Office of Indian Affairs."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR  89)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, June 30, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed James W. Plake, an Indian, to be permanently appointed a copyist in the Office of Indian Affairs.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["James W. Plake"], "significance": 1, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-06-30", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-577", "type": "proclamation", "number": "577", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-07-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Extending Foreign Copyright Protection to Norway", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 577, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-577"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3111, "last_page": 3112, "cite": "34 Stat. 3111–3112", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3111.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-07-01", "table_title": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America.", "A PROCLAMATION.", "Whereas it is provided by section 13 of the act of Congress of March 3, 1891, entitled \"An Act to amend title sixty, chapter three, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to copyrights,\" that said act \"shall only apply to a citizen or subject of a foreign state or nation when such foreign state or nation permits to citizens of the United States of America the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as its own citizens; or when such foreign state or nation is a party to an international agreement which provides for reciprocity in the granting of copyright, by the terms of which agreement the United States of America may, at its pleasure, become a party to such agreement\";", "And whereas it is also provided by said section that \"the existence of either of the conditions aforesaid shall be determined by the President of the United States by proclamation made from time to time as the purposes of this act may require\";", "And whereas satisfactory official assurances have been given that in Norway the law permits to citizens of the United States the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as to the citizens of that country:", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do declare and proclaim that the first of the conditions specified in section 13 of the act of March 3, 1891, is now fulfilled in respect to the subjects of Norway.", "In testimony 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 first day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and twenty-ninth.", "[SEAL.]", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:\nHERBERT H. D. PEIRCE\nActing Secretary of State."], "source": "34 Stat. 3111–3112 (GovInfo page images), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Margin cites the 1891 act at Vol. 26, p. 1110. Dating clause reads 'Independence of the United States of America', unlike Proc. 556.", "story": 61}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Herbert H. D. Peirce", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Extended U.S. copyright benefits to subjects of Norway, after official assurances that Norwegian law gave Americans copyright on substantially the same basis as its own citizens.", "categories": ["copyright", "foreign-affairs"], "action": "grant", "places": [{"name": "Norway", "kind": "country"}], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [61], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-01", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Bern copyright bureau's journal reprinted the proclamation with Norway's matching decree, noted that its text was identical to the proclamations for other countries, and treated the exchange as routine.", "source": "Le Droit d'Auteur, Sept. 15, 1905, p. 105", "date": "1905-09-15", "story": 61}, {"text": "A search of California papers from late June through August 1905 found no notice of the Norway proclamation.", "source": "California Digital Newspaper Collection", "date": "1905", "story": 61}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "diplomatic", "text": "The proclamation was one half of a matched pair: a Norwegian royal decree of May 25, 1905, extended Norway's copyright law to future American works from July 1, 1905, the date Roosevelt signed.", "source": "Le Droit d'Auteur, Sept. 15, 1905, p. 105", "date": "1905-07-01", "story": 61}], "legacy": [{"text": "Norway was later folded into collective copyright proclamations, including the multi-country proclamation of April 9, 1910.", "source": "36 Stat. 2685", "date": "1910-04-09", "story": 61}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1910-04-09", "text": "A multi-country copyright proclamation included Norway.", "source": "36 Stat. 2685", "story": 61}], "uncertain": ["Whether the proclamation drew notice in the Norwegian-language American press or the book-trade press has not been checked."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-510", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Copyright had been extended to Cuba by the same section-13 route in 1903.", "story": 61, "date": "1903-11-17", "title": "Extending Benefits of Copyright Law to Citizens of Cuba", "type": "proclamation", "number": "510"}, {"id": "proc-774", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 69, "inferred": true, "date": "1907-09-20", "title": "Extending Copyright Benefits to Citizens of Austria", "type": "proclamation", "number": "774"}]}
{"id": "proc-578", "type": "proclamation", "number": "578", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-07-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Announcing the Death of John Hay", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 578, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-578"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3112, "last_page": 3113, "cite": "34 Stat. 3112–3113", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3112.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-07-03", "table_title": "Announcing death of John Hay, Secretary of State."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["A PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.", "John Hay, Secretary of State of the United States, died on July 1st. His death, a crushing sorrow to his friends, is to the people of this country a national bereavement; and it is in addition a serious loss to all mankind, for to him it was given to stand as a leader in the effort to better world-conditions by striving to advance the cause of international peace and justice. He entered the public service as the trusted and intimate companion of Abraham Lincoln, and for well-nigh forty-five years he served his country with loyal devotion and high ability in many positions of honor and trust; and finally he crowned his life work by serving as Secretary of State with such farsighted reading of the future and such loyalty to lofty ideals as to confer lasting benefits not only upon our own country but upon all the nations of the earth.", "As a suitable expression of national mourning, I direct that the diplomatic representatives of the United States in all foreign countries display the flags over their embassies and legations at half-mast for ten days; that for a like period the flag of the United States be displayed at half-mast at all forts and military posts and at all naval stations and on all vessels of the United States.", "I further order that on the day of the funeral the executive departments in the City of Washington be closed and that on all public buildings throughout the United States the national flag be displayed at half-mast.", "Done at the City of Washington, this third day of July, A. D. 1905, and of the independence of the United States of America [SEAL.] the one hundred and twenty ninth.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:", "HERBERT H. D. PEIRCE", "Acting Secretary of State."], "source": "34 Stat. 3112–3113 (GovInfo Statutes at Large page images, vol. 34, pt. 3), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Seal restored. 'twenty ninth' unhyphenated as printed. No 'In witness whereof' clause in the original. APP adds a two-line heading, capitalizes 'Diplomatic' and 'Executive Departments', lowercases 'city', and restyles the dating clause; all follow the Statutes here. Countersigned Herbert H. D. Peirce, Acting Secretary of State.", "story": 57}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Herbert H. D. Peirce", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Announced the death of Secretary of State John Hay and ordered flags at half-mast for ten days at U.S. embassies, legations, forts, naval stations and vessels, with executive departments in Washington closed on the day of his funeral.", "categories": ["ceremonial"], "action": "announce", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["John Hay"], "significance": 3, "stories": [57], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-03", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Caucasian of Clinton, North Carolina, summarized the proclamation's orders on its front page, beside a report of King Edward VII's cabled sympathy.", "source": "The Caucasian (Clinton, N.C.), July 6, 1905, p. 1", "date": "1905-07-06", "story": 57}, {"text": "Hay's death was front-page news; the Raleigh Morning Post led with \"HAY'S BODY LAID TO REST,\" describing Roosevelt standing \"close to the open grave.\"", "source": "Raleigh Morning Post, July 6, 1905, p. 1", "date": "1905-07-06", "story": 57}, {"text": "The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, a Democratic daily, praised Hay as the country's first citizen and a patriot of the opposite party, while taking a jab at the administration's style.", "source": "Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, July 4, 1905, p. 4", "date": "1905-07-04", "story": 57}, {"text": "The same page reprinted a New Orleans States tribute ranking Hay a great diplomat and a statesman of high ability.", "source": "Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, July 4, 1905, p. 4", "date": "1905-07-04", "story": 57}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The proclamation followed a fixed precedent, Grover Cleveland's 1895 proclamation for Secretary of State Walter Q. Gresham, and nothing found suggests it drew controversy.", "source": "research entry; APP Proclamation 376", "date": "1905", "story": 57}, {"kind": "political", "text": "Roosevelt named Elihu Root, his former Secretary of War, to succeed Hay; Root entered on duty July 19, 1905.", "source": "U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian", "date": "1905-07-19", "story": 57}], "legacy": [{"text": "Hay is remembered chiefly for the Open Door policy toward China and for the treaties that made the Panama Canal legally possible; his name survives in the Hay–Pauncefote and Hay–Bunau-Varilla treaties.", "source": "research entry", "story": 57}, {"text": "Roosevelt's death proclamations did not share one fixed form; each borrowed from whatever precedent fit the case.", "source": "research entry", "story": 57}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-465", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Roosevelt's proclamation on the death of William McKinley, which set a day of mourning and prayer.", "story": 57, "date": "1901-09-14", "title": "Announcing the Death of William McKinley", "type": "proclamation", "number": "465"}, {"id": "proc-813", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Roosevelt's proclamation on the death of Grover Cleveland, which ordered flags at half-staff for thirty days.", "story": 57, "date": "1908-06-24", "title": "Announcing the Death of Ex-President Grover Cleveland", "type": "proclamation", "number": "813"}]}
{"id": "eo-337", "type": "executive_order", "number": "337", "tr_sequence": 228, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-07-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Charles W. Bell as Finance Clerk in Post-Office Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_337", "revid": 1844937, "printed_source": "1905 CSR  89"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The appointment of Charles W. Bell as finance clerk in the post-office at Lowell, Mass., is approved, in view of the fact that authority had been given by the Post-Office Department for the appointment of a finance clerk at that office prior to the transfer of the position to the competitive class."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR  89)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, July 3, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Approved Charles W. Bell's appointment as finance clerk at the Lowell, Massachusetts, post office, since it was authorized before the job became competitive.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [{"name": "Lowell", "kind": "town", "state": "Massachusetts"}], "states": ["Massachusetts"], "people": ["Charles W. Bell"], "significance": 1, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-03", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-337-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "337-A", "tr_sequence": 229, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-07-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Placing Administration of Navigation Aids for Tutuila and Other Samoan Islands Under Control of the Department of Commerce and Labor", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_337-A", "revid": 1845287, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby directed that the Department of Commerce and Labor take charge of and use the proper measures for establishing and maintaining lights and other aids to navigation in the waters of the island of Tutuila and other islands of the Samoan Islands east of longitude 171° west, and have estimates prepared by the Light-House Establishment and submitted to Congress for an appropriation to defray the expenses of the establishment and maintenance of these aids to navigation."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, July 3, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Put the Department of Commerce and Labor in charge of lights and other navigation aids for Tutuila and the other Samoan Islands east of longitude 171° west.", "categories": ["lighthouses", "insular-territories"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Tutuila", "kind": "island", "state": "American Samoa"}], "states": ["American Samoa"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-03", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-337-b", "type": "executive_order", "number": "337-B", "tr_sequence": 230, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-07-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Approving Acting War Secretary Recommendation of June 30, 1905 to Reserve Lands in Seward Alaska for Military Telegraph Purposes", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_337-B", "revid": 1918039, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 116, War Dept., July 10, 1905"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The following is the description from the Department of War's General Order No. 116 of 1905, not the actual order text, which was in the form of an approval of a recommendation from the Acting Secretary of War.", "The President of the United States, by order dated July 3, 1905, reserved for military purposes, subject to private rights, for the use of the Signal Corps, United States Army, in its operation and maintenance of the United States military telegraph lines in Alaska, the following-described public lands in Alaska, viz:", "Commencing one hundred feet east of Stone Monument No. 2, south of Adams street, Seward, Alaska, and extending north about twenty-seven hundred feet to a point one hundred feet east of Stone Monument No. 1 of the northeast corner of the Seward town site; thence east to the water line; thence southerly along the water line to a point directly east of Stone Monument No. 2; thence to the point of commencement hereinbefore described."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 116, War Dept., July 10, 1905)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved waterfront public land at Seward, Alaska, for the Army Signal Corps' military telegraph lines, subject to private rights.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Seward", "kind": "town", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-03", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-337-c", "type": "executive_order", "number": "337-C", "tr_sequence": 231, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-07-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Forbidding the Employment of Outside Influence for All Appointments, Transfers, Promotions Etc. of Officers of the Army and Navy", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_337-C", "revid": 6046690, "printed_source": "Published: [http://books.google.com/books?output=html&id=1_IEAAAAMAAJ&jtp=901 General Orders, No. 112], War Dept., July 13, 1905  "}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The Congress of the United States, by appropriate legislative enactments, has made the matter of assignments, transfers, and details in the army the subject of formal statutory regulations; Executive regulations in furtherance of these statutes have been adopted, the operation of which has been to place upon record in the War Department full and detailed information in respect to the character, capacity, military services, and general attainments of all officers composing the military establishment. The records so obtained fully set forth the relative merits of officers of all grades of rank in the several branches of the line and staff, and enable all vacancies which occur in the military service to be filled after a careful comparison of the records of those officers who are eligible under the law for particular assignments or details.", "A similar legislative policy exists in respect to the Navy, and the records of the Navy Department furnish evidence of the character, service, and ability of all officers of the Navy, founded upon the official reports of those officers whose duty it is to make them. These reports are sufficiently specific to enable the department to determine the particular duty which each officer is fitted to perform without the intervention of requests, claims, or influence from sources outside the Navy.", "It is therefore announced that in future appointments, details, transfers, and assignments in the Army and Navy, the Executive will be guided by the official records of the War and Navy Departments, respectively, to the exclusion of other sources of influence or information; but in case an officer has performed any special act of bravery or courage or rendered specially efficient service of which there is no record or only a partial record in the War or Navy Department, the testimony of any person who was an eyewitness of the same may be submitted for consideration.", "Should it be discovered that since the publication of this order an officer of the Army or Navy has sought recommendation or support from sources outside of those named above, this fact will debar him from obtaining the particular advancement, assignment, or detail which he has by such means attempted to secure, and the fact that he has sought such influence will be noted on his official record.", "Theodore Roosevelt The White House, July 7, 1905. == Notes == See Related: none available"], "source": "Wikisource (from Published: [http://books.google.com/books?output=html&id=1_IEAAAAMAAJ&jtp=901 General Orders, No. 112], War Dept., July 13, 1905  )", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Declared that Army and Navy appointments, transfers and assignments would rest on official department records, not outside influence. Officers who sought outside backing would be barred from the advancement they sought; eyewitness accounts of unrecorded bravery could still be submitted.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-07", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-338", "type": "executive_order", "number": "338", "tr_sequence": 232, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-07-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Permanent Appointment of Abram B. Frisbie as Watchman in Interior Department Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_338", "revid": 1844943, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 90"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Abram B. Frisbie may be permanently appointed to the position of watchman in the Interior Department, at the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, without examination under the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 90)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, July 10, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Abram B. Frisbie to be permanently appointed a watchman in the Interior Department, at the Secretary's discretion, without a civil-service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Abram B. Frisbie"], "significance": 1, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-10", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-339", "type": "executive_order", "number": "339", "tr_sequence": 233, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-07-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Regulations Governing the Employment of Unskilled Laborers in Federal Offices Outside Washington, D.C.", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Amended the regulations for hiring unskilled laborers in federal offices outside Washington, D.C.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-12", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "eo-285", "relation": "amends", "note": null, "story": 84, "inferred": true, "date": "1904-12-12", "title": "Regulations to Govern the Employment of Unskilled Laborers in the Federal Offices Outside of Washington, D. C.", "type": "executive_order", "number": "285"}]}
{"id": "eo-340", "type": "executive_order", "number": "340", "tr_sequence": 234, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-07-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Frank B. McCown as Clerk in Quartermaster's Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_340", "revid": 1845087, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 90"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Frank B. McCown may be reinstated as a clerk in the Quartermaster's Department at large, as requested by the Secretary of War."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 90)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, July 13, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Frank B. McCown to be reinstated as a clerk in the Quartermaster's Department at large, at the Secretary of War's request.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Frank B. McCown"], "significance": 1, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-13", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-341", "type": "executive_order", "number": "341", "tr_sequence": 235, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-07-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Employment of Allen Hazen as Engineer in Washington Filtration Plant for Seven Additional Months", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_341", "revid": 1850306, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 90"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The temporary employment of Mr. Allen Hazen as expert consulting engineer at $275 per month, in connection with the constructing and initial operation of the Washington filtration plant, may be continued for such period of seven months from August 31, 1905, as may be necessary for the initial operation of that plant."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 90)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, July 13, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Extended Allen Hazen's temporary job as consulting engineer on the Washington filtration plant, at $275 a month, for up to seven months from August 31, 1905.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": ["Allen Hazen"], "significance": 1, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-13", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-579", "type": "proclamation", "number": "579", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-07-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Diamond Mountain Forest Reserve, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": ["Corrected from “1905-07-15”. Statutes margin and dating clause read \"this 14th day of July\" (34 Stat. 3113)."], "citations": {"app": {"number": 579, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-579"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3113, "last_page": 3116, "cite": "34 Stat. 3113–3116", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3113.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-07-14", "table_title": "Setting apart the Diamond Mountain Forest Reserve, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of California, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of California, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Section thirty-one (31), Township thirty (30) North, Range ten (10) East, Mount Diablo Base and Meridian, California; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twelve (12), Township twenty-nine (29) North, Range ten (10) East; thence easterly to the northeast corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), Township twenty-eight (28) North, Range twelve (12) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township twenty-eight (28) North, Range thirteen (13) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty- five (35), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twelve (12), Township twenty-seventh (27) North, Range thirteen (13) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township twenty-seven (27) North, Range fourteen (14) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-west comer of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-three (33). said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly, allowing for the proper offset on the range line, to the north-east corner of Section five (5), Township twenty-six (26) North, Range fifteen (15) East; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-one (31), Township twenty-six (26) North, Range sixteen (16) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly along the Fifth (5th) Standard Parallel North to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township twenty-five (25) North, Range sixteen (16) East; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east comer of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence southerly to the north-west comer of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), Township twenty-four (24) North, Range seventeen (17) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), Township twenty-three (23) North, Range seventeen (17) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section ten (10), Township twenty-three (23) North, Range sixteen (16) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section seven (7), Township twenty-three (23) North, Range fifteen (15) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township twenty-four (24) North, Range fourteen (14) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township twenty-four (24) North, Range thirteen (13) East; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section nine (9), Township twenty-three (23) North, Range thirteen (13) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said sec- tion; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township twenty-three (23) North, Range twelve (12) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section eleven (11), Township twenty-two (22) North, Range twelve (12) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township twenty-three (23) North, Range twelve (12) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), Township twenty-three (23) North, Range eleven (11) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section two (2), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), Township twenty-four (24) North, Range eleven (11) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section five (5), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25),Township twenty-five (25) north, Range ten (10) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section five (5), said township; thence easterly along the Fifth (5th) Standard Parallel North to the southwest corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township twenty-six (26) North, Range ten (10) East; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly to the northwest corner of said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township twenty-seven (27) North, Range nine (9) East; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township twenty-seven (27) North, Range ten (10) East; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), Township twenty-eight (28) North, Range ten (10) East; thence westerly to the south- west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section four (4), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section seventeen (17), Township twenty-nine (29) North, Range ten (10) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-one (31), Township thirty (30) North, Range ten (10) East, the place of beginning; such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Diamond Mountain Forest Reserve.", "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 14th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3113", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["The Diamond Mountain Forest Reserve, Cal.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Post, p. 3241.", "Forest reserve, California.", "Description.", "Diamond Mountain Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Diamond Mountain Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Name."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Diamond Mountain Forest Reserve on partly timbered public lands in California, reserving it from settlement apart from lands already lawfully claimed.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Diamond Mountain Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-14", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "In 1908 Diamond Mountain went partly to the Plumas, and the rest into the Lassen.", "source": "E.O.s 905, 906; Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "date": "1908", "story": 55}], "today": [{"name": "Plumas National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "California", "source": "Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "story": 55}, {"name": "Lassen National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "California", "source": "Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "story": 55}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-905", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Part of Diamond Mountain went to the Plumas.", "story": 55, "date": "1908-07-02", "title": "Plumas National Forest, Calif., Modified", "type": "executive_order", "number": "905"}, {"id": "eo-906", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "The rest went into the new Lassen National Forest.", "story": 55, "date": "1908-07-02", "title": "Lassen National Forest, Calif., Created", "type": "executive_order", "number": "906"}]}
{"id": "proc-580", "type": "proclamation", "number": "580", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-07-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Adding Lands to the Uintah Forest Reserve, Utah", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 580, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-580"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3116, "last_page": 3119, "cite": "34 Stat. 3116–3119", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3116.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-07-14", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of Uintah Forest Reserve, Utah."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Uintah Forest Reserve, in the State of Utah, was established by proclamation dated February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, under and by virtue of section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, which provides, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, entitled, “An Act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and for other purposes”, that “before the opening of the Uintah Indian Reservation the President is hereby authorized to set apart and reserve as an addition to the Uintah Forest Reserve, subject to the laws, rules, and regulations governing forest reserves, and subject to the mineral rights granted by the Act of Congress of May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and two, such portion of the lands within the Uintah Indian Reservation as he considers necessary”;", "And whereas, it is considered necessary for the public good that certain lands in the Uintah Indian Reservation be set apart and reserved as an addition to the Uintah Forest Reserve;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, do hereby make known and proclaim that certain lands in the said Uintah Indian Reservation are hereby added to and made a part of the Uintah Forest Reserve, and that the boundary lines of the said forest reserve are, accordingly, so changed and extended as to read as follows:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Township one (1) South, Range seven (7) East, Salt Lake Meridian, Utah; thence easterly along the Base Line to the south-west corner of Township one (1) North, Range nine (9) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Township two (2) North, Range fourteen (14) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence easterly to the middle of the channel of the Green River; thence in a general south-easterly direction along the middle of the channel of said river to the range line between Ranges twenty-two (22) and twenty-three (23) East; thence southerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the Base Line, to the south-east corner of Township two (2) South, Range twenty-two (22) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Township three (3) South, Range nineteen (19) East; thence southerly to the eastern boundary of the Uintah Indian Reservation; thence north-westerly along said Indian reservation boundary to the section line between Sections twenty-one (21) and twenty-eight (28), Township two (2) North, Range one (1). East, Uintah Meridian; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township two (2) North, Range one (1) West; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), Township two (2) North, Range two (2) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township two (2) North, Range three (3) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Township one (1) North, Range six (6) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), Township one (1) North, Range nine (9) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence southerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the Base Line, to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township one (1) South, Range nine (9) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section sixteen (16), Township one (1) South, Range eight (8) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township two (2) South, Range ten (10) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Township two (2) South, Range eleven (11) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence northerly to the southeast corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of fractional Section four (4), Township two (2) South, Range twelve (12) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section three (3), Township three (3) South, Range twelve (12) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence southerly to the southeast corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence southerly to the southeast corner of Township four (4) South, Range twelve (12) West; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township four (4) South, Range eleven (11) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the southwest corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty (30), Township four (4) South, Range ten (10) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence easterly to the southwest corner of Township four (4) South, Range nine (9) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), Township five (5) South, Range eight (8) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township five (5) South, Range nine (9) West; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-nine (29), Township six (6) South, Range nine (9) West; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), Township six (6) South, Range eight (8) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence easterly to the eastern boundary of the Uintah Indian Reservation; thence in a general south-westerly and north-westerly direction along said Indian reservation boundary to the range line between Ranges six (6) and seven (7) East, Salt Lake Meridian; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township one (1) South, Range seven (7) East, the place of beginning; such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 14th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3116", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Uintah Forest Reserve, Utah.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 29, p. 895.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Post, pp. 3186, 3207, 3240.", "Vol. 33, p. 1070.", "Lands added to forest reserve from Uintah Indian Reservation.", "Description.", "Uintah Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Moved certain lands out of the Uintah Indian Reservation and into the Uintah Forest Reserve in Utah, redrawing the forest reserve's boundaries.", "categories": ["forests", "indian-lands"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Uintah Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}, {"name": "Uintah Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-14", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The forest addition took 1,010,000 acres of the Uintah Reservation, so a great part of the land the Utes lost went to the government rather than to settlers.", "source": "Annual Reports of the Department of the Interior, 1906: Indian Affairs, p. 465", "date": "1905", "story": 56}], "legacy": [{"text": "On July 1, 1908 the Uinta National Forest was divided, and part of it became the Ashley National Forest, headquartered at Vernal.", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Ashley National Forest; Forest History Society", "date": "1908-07-01", "story": 56}, {"text": "Much of the forest land withdrawn in 1905 remains in federal hands within the national forests on the south slope of the Uintas.", "source": "research entry", "story": 56}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1931", "text": "Congress compensated the Utes for 973,779 acres of the 1905 forest lands.", "source": "773 F.2d 1087 (majority opinion)", "story": 56}], "uncertain": ["Which present-day national forest holds which part of the 1905 addition has not been established."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-581", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The opening proclamation, signed the same day.", "story": 56, "date": "1905-07-14", "title": "Opening to Entry Lands on Uintah Indian Reservation, Utah", "type": "proclamation", "number": "581"}]}
{"id": "proc-581", "type": "proclamation", "number": "581", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-07-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Opening to Entry Lands on Uintah Indian Reservation, Utah", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 581, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-581"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3119, "last_page": 3122, "cite": "34 Stat. 3119–3122", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3119.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-07-14", "table_title": "Opening to entry lands on Uintah Indian Reservation, Utah."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,", "A PROCLAMATION.", "Whereas it was provided by the Act of Congress, approved May 27, A. D., 1902 (32 Stat., 263), among other things, that on October first, 1903, the unallotted lands in the Uintah Indian Reservation, in the State of Utah, \"shall be restored to the public domain: Provided, That persons entering any of said lands under the homestead laws shall pay therefor at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre\".", "And, whereas, the time for the opening of said unallotted lands was extended to October 1, 1904, by the Act of Congress approved March 3, 1903 (32 Stat., 998), and was extended to March 10, 1905, by the Act of Congress approved April 21, 1904 (33 Stat., 207), and was again extended to not later than September 1, 1905, by the Act of Congress, approved March 3, 1905 (33 Stat., 1069), which last named act provided, among other things:", "That the said unallotted lands, excepting such tracts as may have been set aside as national forest reserve, and such mineral lands as were disposed of by the Act of Congress of May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and two, shall be disposed of under the general provisions of the homestead and townsite laws of the United States, and shall be opened to settlement and entry by proclamation of the President, which proclamation shall prescribe the manner in which these lands may be settled upon, occupied, and entered by persons entitled to make entry thereof; and no person shall be permitted to settle upon, occupy, or enter any of said lands, except as prescribed in said proclamation, until after the expiration of sixty days from the time when the same are thereby opened to settlement and entry: Provided, That the rights of honorably discharged Union soldiers and sailors of the late civil and Spanish war or Philippine insurrection, as defined and described in sections twenty-three hundred and four and twenty-three hundred and five of the Revised Statutes, as amended by the Act of March first, nineteen hundred and one, shall not be abridged.", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by said Acts of Congress, do hereby declare and make known that all the unallotted lands in said reservation, excepting such as have at that time been reserved for military, forestry and other purposes, and such mineral lands as may have been disposed of under existing laws, will on and after the 28th day of August, 1905, in the manner hereinafter prescribed, and not otherwise, be opened to entry, settlement and disposition under the general provisions of the homestead and townsite laws of the United States; and it is further directed and prescribed that:", "[Registration, drawing, entry, payment, and townsite provisions omitted, 34 Stat. 3120–3122.]", "The Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe all needful rules and regulations necessary to carry into full effect the opening herein provided for.", "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 14th July, in the year of our Lord 1905, and of the Independence of the United States [SEAL.] the one hundred and thirtieth.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:", "ALVEY A. ADEE", "Acting Secretary of State."], "source": "34 Stat. 3119–3122 (GovInfo Statutes at Large page images), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Abridged: the operative provisions on 34 Stat. 3120–3122 (registration at Vernal, Price, Provo and Grand Junction; the Provo drawing; entry at Vernal; payment; townsites; the sixty-day period) are omitted and must be transcribed from the Statutes, not APP, before full publication. Seal restored. Dating clause as printed ('this 14th July', year in figures, no 'day of'). Statutes reads 'entitled' and 'founding' where APP reads 'titled' and 'rounding'; Statutes prints no quotation marks around the quoted 1905 act.", "story": 56}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Opening of Uinta Indian Reservation lands, Utah”. The proclamation reads \"Uintah\"; title from the Statutes list of proclamations (vol. 34)."], "summary": "Opened the unallotted lands of the Uintah Indian Reservation in Utah to settlement and entry under the homestead and townsite laws beginning August 28, 1905, setting out how applicants would register and apply.", "categories": ["indian-lands", "public-lands"], "action": "open", "places": [{"name": "Uintah Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [56], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-14", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Salt Lake Telegram ran front-page reports through the registration fortnight on crowds of homeseekers at the registration points.", "source": "Salt Lake Telegram, Aug. 7 and 12, 1905, p. 1", "date": "1905-08", "story": 56}, {"text": "The Salt Lake Tribune counted 18,858 names registered at the Provo office alone.", "source": "Salt Lake Tribune, Aug. 13, 1905, p. 1", "date": "1905-08-13", "story": 56}, {"text": "The Ogden Weekly Standard reported that the first name drawn at Provo was Ray Daniels of Provo, that about 2,000 names were drawn the first day, and that of the first two hundred, 80 were from Colorado and 9 from other states.", "source": "Ogden Weekly Standard, Aug. 18, 1905, p. 1", "date": "1905-08-18", "story": 56}, {"text": "Within days the local angle turned to luck: the Tribune reported from Mt. Pleasant that Sanpete County had \"fared poorly in the drawing.\"", "source": "Salt Lake Tribune, Aug. 21, 1905, p. 1", "date": "1905-08-21", "story": 56}, {"text": "The Utah newspaper reports found were written for prospective settlers; none of them reported Ute views.", "source": "Utah Digital Newspapers, 1905", "date": "1905", "story": 56}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "local", "text": "37,702 people registered for 6,277 claims of about 160 acres each, covering 1,004,286 acres.", "source": "Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, 1905, pp. 11–12", "date": "1905", "story": 56}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The drawing at Provo ran August 17–19, 1905, under General Land Office Commissioner W. A. Richards, with envelopes from all four registration points mixed in one revolving box.", "source": "Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, 1905, pp. 11–12; Ogden Weekly Standard, Aug. 18, 1905", "date": "1905-08-17", "story": 56}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Interior Department ruled that mineral location on the opened lands would wait out the sixty-day period.", "source": "Ogden Weekly Standard, Aug. 18, 1905", "date": "1905-08", "story": 56}, {"kind": "local", "text": "Entry was slow: 824 entries were made in the first four weeks, out of a possible 2,664.", "source": "Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, 1905, pp. 11–12", "date": "1905", "story": 56}, {"kind": "political", "text": "A Ute delegation went to Washington in 1905 and came back without relief.", "source": "Tom Rea, \"The Flight of the Utes,\" WyoHistory.org (2021)", "date": "1905", "story": 56}, {"kind": "local", "text": "In the spring of 1906 several hundred White River Utes, Red Cap among their leaders, left the reservation for the Sioux country. About a thousand cavalrymen met them on the Powder River that fall; they wintered at Fort Meade, South Dakota, and did not return until October 1908.", "source": "Tom Rea, \"The Flight of the Utes,\" WyoHistory.org (2021)", "date": "1906", "story": 56}], "legacy": [{"text": "In 1985 the Tenth Circuit, sitting en banc, held that the opening had not diminished the reservation.", "source": "Ute Indian Tribe v. Utah, 773 F.2d 1087 (10th Cir. 1985)", "date": "1985", "story": 56}, {"text": "The Utah Supreme Court reached the opposite conclusion in 1992.", "source": "State v. Perank (Utah 1992)", "date": "1992", "story": 56}, {"text": "The U.S. Supreme Court held that the 1902–1905 laws had diminished the Uintah Reservation, so that Myton, founded on opened land in 1905, is not Indian country. The ruling has shaped criminal and civil jurisdiction in the Uinta Basin, and the federal courts have returned to the boundary in later cases.", "source": "Hagen v. Utah, 510 U.S. 399 (1994)", "date": "1994", "story": 56}, {"text": "The 1948 Hill Creek Extension added about 510,000 acres to the reservation.", "source": "773 F.2d 1087 (dissent)", "date": "1948", "story": 56}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1931", "text": "Congress compensated the Utes for 973,779 acres of the 1905 forest lands.", "source": "773 F.2d 1087 (majority opinion)", "story": 56}, {"date": "1948", "text": "The Hill Creek Extension added about 510,000 acres to the reservation.", "source": "773 F.2d 1087 (dissent)", "story": 56}, {"date": "1994", "text": "Hagen v. Utah held that the reservation had been diminished by the opening.", "source": "510 U.S. 399", "story": 56}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-580", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Signed the same day; added reservation lands to the Uintah Forest Reserve before the opening.", "story": 56, "date": "1905-07-14", "title": "Adding Lands to the Uintah Forest Reserve, Utah", "type": "proclamation", "number": "580"}, {"id": "proc-588", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Raised the numbers heard each day at Vernal from fifty to 111.", "story": 56, "date": "1905-08-02", "title": "Modifying Provisions for Opening Lands to Entry on the Uintah Indian Reservation, Utah", "type": "proclamation", "number": "588"}, {"id": "proc-648", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Restored a further Uintah parcel to the public domain in 1906.", "story": 56, "date": "1906-09-01", "title": "Restoring Parcel of Land in Uintah Indian Reservation, Utah, to Public Domain", "type": "proclamation", "number": "648"}]}
{"id": "eo-341-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "341-A", "tr_sequence": 236, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-07-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Approving Acting War Secretary Recommendation to Remove 28 Acres from Fort Bayard Military Reservation, New Mexico, Erroneously Included in Private Patent", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_341-A", "revid": 2403825, "printed_source": "General Orders No. 145, War Dept., August 26, 1905"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The following is the description from the Department of War's General Order No. 145 of 1905, not the actual order text, which was in the form of an approval of a recommendation from the Acting Secretary of War. Apparently, the land was included in a private patent to Minnie A. Paeske, either previous to the original reservation, or by a later mistake of the Interior Department.", "The President of the United States, by Order dated July 15, 1905, placed under the control of the Secretary of the Interior, under the act of July 5, 1884 (23 Stat. L., 103), for disposition as specified in said act or as may be otherwise provided by law, the following-described lands:", "That portion of the military reservation of Fort Bayard, New Mexico, approximately twenty-eight (28) acres, which lies within the limits of the NW. ¼ of SE. ¼ and NE. ¼ of SW ¼ of section 10, township 17 south, range 13 west, New Mexico meridian."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders No. 145, War Dept., August 26, 1905)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Took about 28 acres out of the Fort Bayard military reservation in New Mexico and placed them under the Secretary of the Interior for disposal.", "categories": ["military-naval", "public-lands"], "action": "reduce", "places": [{"name": "Fort Bayard", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-15", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-341-b", "type": "executive_order", "number": "341-B", "tr_sequence": 237, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-07-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Extending Time and Compensation for Joseph L. Bristow, Special Panama Railroad Commissioner, to Complete Report", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_341-B", "revid": 1850299, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is ordered that Mr. Joseph L. Bristow, appointed Special Panama Railroad Commissioner by Executive Order dated January 13, be allowed until August 15, 1905, to complete the details in connection with his report, and will be paid his actual expenses and $15 per day up to that time. In addition he will be allowed an extra compensation of $2,500. The Isthmian Canal Commission is directed to provide the funds needed in the execution of this order."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, July 15, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Extending Time and Compensation for James L. Bristow, Special Panama Railroad Commissioner, to Complete Report”. The order names Joseph L. Bristow."], "summary": "Gave Special Panama Railroad Commissioner Joseph L. Bristow until August 15, 1905, to finish his report, with expenses, $15 a day, and an extra $2,500, paid by the Isthmian Canal Commission.", "categories": ["canal-zone"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": ["Joseph L. Bristow"], "significance": 2, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-15", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-341-c", "type": "executive_order", "number": "341-C", "tr_sequence": 238, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-07-19", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Modifying Boundaries of Fort Gibbon Military Reservation, Alaska", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_341-C", "revid": 1918037, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 129, War Dept., August 3, 1905"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The following is the description from the Department of War's General Order No. 129 of 1905, not the exact order text.", "The President of the United States by order dated July 19, 1905, modified the military reservation of Fort Gibbon, Alaska, declared by Executive Order, dated July 10, 1899 (General Orders, No. 142, Headquarters of the Army, August 5, 1899), by adding thereto a strip of land along the eastern boundary, approximately 100 yards in width, together with the island hereinafter designated as \"Bull Island\", and by excluding therefrom other lands, so that the reservation as thus modified will include all lands bounded and described as follows, viz:", "Beginning at a point marked by an iron plug set in a stone monument placed on the right bank of the Yukon River, about thirty (30) feet above low-water mark, said monument being 877½ feet from the flagstaff of Fort Gibbon on a bearing of S. 71° E. (magnetic), the magnetic bearing from said monument to the W. end of the island in the Yukon directly south of Fort Gibbon and the settlement of Tanana, known as \"Dog Island,\" being S. 49° 30′ W., and that to the E. end of said island being N. 88° 10′ E.; thence five (5) miles due north to a point marked by monument; thence due west ten (10) miles to a point marked by monument; thence due south to line of low-water mark of the Yukon River below the mouth of the Tozi River; thence along said line of low-water mark in an easterly direction, crossing Tozi River, to a point due south of the point of beginning; thence due north to the point of beginning. Also the island in the Yukon River known as \"Bull Island,\" situated between the SE. corner of the tract above described and the mouth of Bear Creek, the head of said island being approximately 8,800 feet W. of the SE. corner of said tract, and the island being approximately 8,000 feet in length and 900 feet in breadth. Magnetic variation 29° E.", "The said lands excluded from the reservation were by said Executive order of July 19, 1905, placed under the control of the Secretary of the Interior for disposition under the act of July 5, 1884 (23 Stat. L., 103), or as may be otherwise provided by law."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 129, War Dept., August 3, 1905)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Redrew the Fort Gibbon military reservation in Alaska, adding a strip along the east side and Bull Island in the Yukon River and turning excluded lands over to the Interior Department.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Fort Gibbon", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}, {"name": "Bull Island", "kind": "island", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-19", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-341-d", "type": "executive_order", "number": "341-D", "tr_sequence": 239, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-07-19", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Tucson, Arizona, Office of Gila Land District Transferred to Phoenix", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Moved the Gila Land District office from Tucson, Arizona, to Phoenix.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Gila Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Arizona"}, {"name": "Tucson", "kind": "town", "state": "Arizona"}, {"name": "Phoenix", "kind": "town", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-19", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-342", "type": "executive_order", "number": "342", "tr_sequence": 240, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-07-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Henry Summers as Clerk in New York Pension Agency Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_342", "revid": 1850307, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 90"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Henry Summers may be appointed clerk in the New York pension agency without examination under the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 90)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, July 20, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Henry Summers to be appointed a clerk in the New York pension agency without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["New York"], "people": ["Henry Summers"], "significance": 1, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-20", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-342-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "342-A", "tr_sequence": 241, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-07-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Land Office at Prescott Arizona, Arizona Land District, Abolished; Transferred to Phoenix", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": ["Corrected from “1904-07-20”. Year typo: the order falls in the 1905 run between EO 342 (1905-07-20) and EO 342-B (1905-07-21)."], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Abolished the land office at Prescott in the Arizona Land District and moved its business to Phoenix.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Prescott", "kind": "town", "state": "Arizona"}, {"name": "Phoenix", "kind": "town", "state": "Arizona"}, {"name": "Arizona Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [83, 85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-20", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-582", "type": "proclamation", "number": "582", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-07-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlargement of the Gila Forest Reserve, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 582, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-582"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3123, "last_page": 3126, "cite": "34 Stat. 3123–3126", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3123.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-07-21", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of Gila Forest Reserve, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as. public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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”, that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the Territory of New Mexico, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation.", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid acts of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that the Gila River Forest Reserve, in the Territory of New Mexico, established by proclamation of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, is hereby so changed and enlarged as to include all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the Territory of New Mexico, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the north-east corner of Township five (5) South. Range sixteen (16) West, New Mexico Principal Meridian, New Mexico; thence southerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the First (1st) Standard Parallel South, to the north-west corner of Township nine (9) South, Range fifteen (15) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township nine (9) South, Range twelve (12) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township eight (8) South, Range twelve (12) West; thence easterly to the northeast corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township eight (8) South, Range eleven (11) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section three (3), Township nine (9) South, Range eleven (11) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence westerly to the southwest corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Township nine (9) South, Range ten (10) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township eight (8) South, Range ten (10) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence northerly to the northwest corner of Section thirty (30), Township eight (8) South, Range nine (9) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township nine (9) South, Range nine (9) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township ten (10) South, Range nine (9) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly along the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel South to the north-east corner of Section six (6), Township eleven (11) South, Range eight (8) West; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty (20), Township twelve (12) South, Range eight (8) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section eight (8), Township thirteen (13) South, Range eight (8) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the southeast corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-one (31), Township fourteen (14) South, Range eight (8) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), Township fifteen (15) South. Range eight (8) West; thence easterly along the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel South to the north-east corner of Section five (5), Township sixteen (16) South, Range eight (8) West; thence southerly to the southeast corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35) Township seventeen (17) South, Range eight (8) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township seventeen (17) South, Range nine (9) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the southwest corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section one (1), Township seventeen (17) South, Range ten (10) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township sixteen (16) South, Range ten (10) West; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence northerly to the northwest corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twelve (12), Township sixteen (16) South, Range eleven (11) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly along the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel South to the north-west corner of said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section eighteen (18), Township seventeen (17) South, Range eleven (11) West; thence westerly to the southwest corner of Section fourteen (14), Township seventeen (17) South, Range twelve (12) West; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the eastern boundary of the Fort Bayard Military Reservation; thence northerly, westerly and southerly along the boundary of said Military Reservation to the south-east corner of Lot four (4), Section twenty-two (22), Township seventeen (17) South, Range thirteen (13) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twelve (12), Township seventeen (17) South, Range fourteen (14) West; thence northerly to the northwest corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), Township seventeen (17) South, Range fifteen (15) West; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township sixteen (16) South, Range sixteen (16) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence westerly to the southwest corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), said township; thence northerly, allowing for the proper offset on the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel South, to the northwest corner of Township fifteen (15) South, Range sixteen (16) West; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Township fifteen (15) South, Range nineteen (19) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the boundary line between New Mexico and Arizona; thence northerly along said boundary line to the north-west corner of Township five (5) South, Range twenty-one (21) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township five (5) South, Range sixteen (16) West, the place of beginning; such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "This reservation shall be known hereafter as the Gila Forest Reserve.", "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 21st day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3123", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Gila Forest Reserve, N. Mex.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26. p. 1103.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Area extended.", "Post, p. 3126.", "Description.", "Gila Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Gila Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "New name."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Gila River Forest Reserve in New Mexico Territory, first proclaimed in 1899, to take in more partly timbered public lands, and gave it a new name: the Gila Forest Reserve.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Gila Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-21", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "proc-781", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 24, "inferred": true, "date": "1907-11-16", "title": "Establishment of the Gila Cliff-Dwellings National Monument, New Mexico", "type": "proclamation", "number": "781"}]}
{"id": "proc-583", "type": "proclamation", "number": "583", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-07-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlargement of the Payson Forest Reserve, Utah", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 583, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-583"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3127, "last_page": 3129, "cite": "34 Stat. 3127–3129", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3127.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-07-21", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of Payson Forest Reserve, Utah."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Payson Forest Reserve, in the State of Utah, was established by proclamation dated August third, nineteen hundred and one, under and by virtue of section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, which provides, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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”, that “the President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”, under which provision the boundary lines of the said forest reserve were changed and the area thereof enlarged by proclamation dated November fifth, nineteen hundred and three;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by further adding to the said forest reserve certain lands lying and being situate in the State of Utah, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do hereby make known and proclaim that the aforesaid Payson Forest Reserve is hereby further enlarged to include the said addi- tional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are, accordingly, changed to read as follows:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Section five (5), Township ten (10) South, Range two (2) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township ten (10) South, Range three (3) East; thence southerly, allowing for the proper offset on the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel South, to the south-east corner of Section nine (9), Township twelve (12) South, Range three (3) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Township thirteen (13) South, Range two (2) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township, twelve (12) South, Range one (1) East; thence westerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of the north-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the northwest corner of the south-east quarter of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of the south-west quarter of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of the south-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section nine (9), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), Township eleven (11) South, Range one (1) East; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Township ten (10) South, Range two (2) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section five (5), said township, the place of beginning; And further beginning at the north-east corner of Section eight (8), Township thirteen (13) South, Range two (2) East, Salt Lake Meridian, Utah; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the northeast corner of Section thirty-four(34), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township fourteen (14) South, Range two (2) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section three (3), Township fifteen (15) South, Range two (2) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township fifteen (15) South, Range one (1) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section five (5), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the northeast quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-six (36), Township fourteen (14) South, Range one (1) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of the north-east quarter of Section thirty-six (36), Township thirteen (13) South, Range one (1) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section eight (8), Township thirteen (13) South, Range two (2) East, the place of beginning;", "Such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 21st day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3127", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Payson Forest Reserve, Utah.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 32, p. 1985; Vol. 33, p. 2322.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Vol. 33, p. 2322.", "Area further extended.", "Description.", "Payson Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Further enlarged the Payson Forest Reserve in Utah, adding partly timbered lands and redrawing its boundaries.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Payson Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-21", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "proc-509", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The Payson reserve's earlier enlargement of November 5, 1903.", "story": 55, "date": "1903-11-05", "title": "Enlargement of the Payson Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "509"}]}
{"id": "eo-342-b", "type": "executive_order", "number": "342-B", "tr_sequence": 242, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-07-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Approval of Acting Interior Sec'y's Recommendation of July 18 that Certain Utah Lands Be Added to Uintah Indian Reservation Despite Prior Application for State of Utah for Water Rights from Rock Creek", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Added certain Utah lands to the Uintah Indian Reservation on the Acting Interior Secretary's recommendation, despite an earlier application by the State of Utah for water rights from Rock Creek.", "categories": ["indian-lands", "water-reclamation"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Uintah Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-21", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "local", "text": "The order added lands to the Uintah Indian Reservation to protect the Utes' water rights on Rock Creek.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1905-07-21", "story": 85}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-343", "type": "executive_order", "number": "343", "tr_sequence": 243, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-07-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Permanent Appointment of Gertrude Weaver as Clerk in Signal Service Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_343", "revid": 1845107, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 90"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. Gertrude Weaver, now a temporary clerk, may be permanently appointed as a clerk in the Signal Service at large, without examination under the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 90)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, July 21, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed temporary clerk Gertrude Weaver to be permanently appointed a clerk in the Signal Service without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Gertrude Weaver"], "significance": 1, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-21", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-343-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "343-A", "tr_sequence": 244, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-07-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Approval of Acting Interior Sec'y's Recommendation of July 20 That Additional Lands Within the Uintah Indian Reservation, Utah, to Protect Water Rights of the Indians", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Added more lands within the Uintah Indian Reservation in Utah to protect the Indians' water rights, approving the Acting Interior Secretary's recommendation.", "categories": ["indian-lands", "water-reclamation"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Uintah Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-21", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "local", "text": "The order added further lands to the Uintah Indian Reservation to protect the Utes' water rights on Rock Creek.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1905-07-21", "story": 85}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-584", "type": "proclamation", "number": "584", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-07-22", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Short Pine Forest Reserve, South Dakota", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 584, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-584"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3129, "last_page": 3131, "cite": "34 Stat. 3129–3131", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3129.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-07-22", "table_title": "Setting apart the Short Pine Forest Reserve, South Dakota."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of South Dakota, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the pubic good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of South Dakota and particularly described as follows:", "In Township sixteen (16) North, Range two (2) East, the southwest quarter of the south-west quarter of Section two (2), the south half of the south-east quarter and the west half of Section three (3), Sections four (4) and five (5), the east half of the north-west quarter, the east half of the south-west quarter, and the east half of Section six (6),, the east half of the north-east quarter of Section seven (7), the north half of Section eight (8), Sections nine (9) and ten (10), the west half of the north-west quarter and the west half of the southwest quarter of Section eleven (11), the west half of the north-east quarter, the west half of the south-east quarter and the west half of Section fourteen (14), Section fifteen (15), the north half of the north-west quarter and the east half of Section sixteen (16), the north half of Section twenty-two (22) and the north-west quarter of Section twenty-three- (23); in Township seventeen (17) North, Range two (2) East, Sections eighteen (18) and nineteen (19), the south-west quarter of the south-east quarter, the west half of the north-west quarter, the south-east quarter of the south-west quarter and the west half of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-seven (27), Section twenty-eight (28), the south half of Section twenty-nine (29), Sections thirty (30), thirty-one (31), thirty-two (32) and thirty-three (33), and the north-east quarter and the west half of Section thirty-four (34);", "Also; in Township sixteen (16) North, Range three (3) East, Sections one (1), two (2) and three (3), the east half of the north-west quarter, the east half of the south-west quarter and the east half of Section ten (10), Sections eleven (11), twelve (12), thirteen (13) and fourteen (14), the east half of the north-west quarter and the northeast quarter of Section fifteen (15), the north half of Section twenty-three (23) and the north-west quarter of Section twenty-four (24); in Township seventeen (17) North, Range three (3) East, the west half of the south-east quarter and the south-west quarter of Section twenty-five (25) and the west half of the north-east quarter, the west half of the south-east quarter and the west half of Section thirty-six (36); in Township sixteen (16) North. Range four (4) East, the west half of Sections six (6) seven (7) and eighteen (18); all of the Black Hills Meridian, South Dakota;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as the Short Pine Forest Reserve.", "3131 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 22d day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3129", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Short Pine Forest Reserve, S. Dak.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103", "Forest reserve, South Dakota.", "Description.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Name."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set aside the Short Pine Forest Reserve on partly timbered public lands in South Dakota, closed to settlement except for lands already lawfully claimed.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Short Pine Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "South Dakota"}], "states": ["South Dakota"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-22", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Short Pine went into the Sioux National Forest in 1908 and then to the Custer in 1920.", "source": "E.O. 908; Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "date": "1908-07-02", "story": 55}], "today": [{"name": "Custer Gallatin National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "South Dakota", "source": "Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "story": 55}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-908", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Made Short Pine part of the Sioux National Forest.", "story": 55, "date": "1908-07-02", "title": "55 Specified National Forests Consolidated and/or Renamed", "type": "executive_order", "number": "908"}]}
{"id": "eo-343-b", "type": "executive_order", "number": "343-B", "tr_sequence": 245, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-07-22", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Approval of Acting War Secretary's Recommendation of July 21, 1905 Concerning Disposition of Fort Shaw Indian School Reservation, Montana", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": ["Wikisource dates this order 1905-06-22; the Wikipedia list gives 1905-07-22."], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_343-B", "revid": 1845301, "printed_source": null}}, "text": null, "summary": "Approved the Acting Secretary of War's recommendation on what to do with the Fort Shaw Indian School Reservation in Montana.", "categories": ["indian-lands", "public-lands"], "action": "other", "places": [{"name": "Fort Shaw Indian School Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-22", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-585", "type": "proclamation", "number": "585", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-07-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Garden City Forest Reserve, Kansas", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 585, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-585"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3131, "last_page": 3133, "cite": "34 Stat. 3131–3133", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3131.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-07-25", "table_title": "Setting apart the Garden City Forest Reserve, Kansas."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may. from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Kansas, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Kansas, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the north-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), Township twenty-four (24) South, Range thirty-three (33) West, Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian, Kansas; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twelve (12), Township twenty-five (25) South, Range thirty-three (33) West; thence easterly to the northeast corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section five (5), Township twenty-six (26) South, Range thirty-three (33) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township twenty-six (26) South, Range thirty-four (34) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township twenty-seven (27) South. Range thirty-three (33) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eight (8), Township twenty-seven (27) South, Range thirty-four (34) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section four (4), Township twenty-seven (27) South, Range thirty-six (36) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township twenty-six (26) South, Range thirty-six (36) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence easterly to the southwest corner of Section eighteen (18), Township twenty-six (26) South. Range thirty-five (35) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section five (5). said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section one (1), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township twenty-five (25) South, Range thirty-four (34) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the southwest corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the northeast corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence easterly to the northeast corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township twenty-four (24) South, Range thirty-three (33) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township, thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township, the place of beginning;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as the Garden City Forest Reserve.", "3133 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 25th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3131", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Garden City Forest Reserve, Kans.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Kansas.", "Description.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Name."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Garden City Forest Reserve in western Kansas, reserving public lands from settlement apart from lands already lawfully claimed.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Garden City Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Kansas"}], "states": ["Kansas"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-25", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Garden City was renamed the Kansas National Forest in 1908.", "source": "Proc. 808", "date": "1908-05-15", "story": 55}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-808", "relation": "renamed_by", "note": "Renamed the Garden City forest the Kansas National Forest.", "story": 55, "date": "1908-05-15", "title": "Changing Name of Garden City National Forest to Kansas National Forest, Kansas, and Enlarging", "type": "proclamation", "number": "808"}]}
{"id": "proc-586", "type": "proclamation", "number": "586", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-07-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlargement of the Sierra Forest Reserve, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 586, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-586"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3133, "last_page": 3139, "cite": "34 Stat. 3133–3139", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3133.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-07-25", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Sierra Forest Reserve, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, The Sierra Forest Reserve, in the State of California, was established by proclamation dated February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, under and by virtue of section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one. entitled. “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, which provides. “That the President of the United States may. from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or under-growth. whether of commercial value or not. as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof", "And whereas, the boundary lines of the said forest reserve were changed and enlarged by the Act of Congress, approved February seventh, nineteen hundred and five, entitled. ‘‘An Act To exclude from the Yosemite National Park. California, certain lands therein described, and to attach and include the said lands in the Sierra Forest Reserve”;", "And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled, “An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Gov eminent for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes ”, that “ The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”; which authority to change the boundary lines of forest reserves by Executive proclamation was extended, by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved February seventh, nineteen hundred and five, to the lands thereby included in and made a part of the Sierra Forest Reserve:", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by including within the said forest reserve certain additional lands in the State of California which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of theUnited States, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid acts of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that the boundary lines of the said Sierra Forest Reserve are hereby further changed so as to read as follows: Beginning at the north-west corner of Township two (2) North, Range nineteen (19) East, Mount Diablo Base and Meridian, California: thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), Township one (1) North, Range eighteen (18) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section: thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section five (5), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section: thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), Township one (1) North, Range seventeen (17) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section eleven (11), said township: thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section: thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township: thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section: thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence southerly, allowing for the proper offset on the Base Line, to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section seven (7), Township one (1) South, Range seventeen (17) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section: thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty (20), said township: thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly, allowing for the proper offset on the township line, to the south-west corner of Section ten (10), Township two (2) South, Range seventeen (17) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirteen, said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-one (31), Township three (3) South, Range eighteen (18) East; thence easterly to the north-east comer of said section: thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of said section: thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-five (25), said township: thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township four (4) South, Range nineteen (19) East: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township five (5) South, Range twenty (20) East: thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township six (6) South, Range twenty-one (21) East: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), Township seven (7) South, Range twenty-one (21) East: thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section eleven (11), said township: thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township: thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section: thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), Township eight (8) South, Range twenty-two (22) East: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township: thence westerly to the north-west corner of Township nine (9) South, Range twenty-three (23) East: thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township: thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township ten (10) South, Range twenty-four (24) East: thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township: thence easterly to the north-west corner of Section four (4), Township eleven (11) South, Range twenty-five (25) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section: thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section: thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), Township twelve (12) South, Range twenty-five (25) East: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township: thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township twelve (12) South, Range twenty-six (26) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), Township thirteen (13) South, Range twenty-six (26) East: thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section sixteen (16), said township: thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section: thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section: thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township: thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township: thence easterly along the township line to its intersection with the western boundary of the General Grant National Park; thence in a northerly, easterly, southerly and westerly direction along the boundary of said park to its intersection with the range line between Ranges twenty-seven (27) and twenty-eight (28) East: thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township fourteen (14) South, Range twenty-eight (28) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section three (3), Township fifteen (15) South, Range twenty-eight (28) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section fifteen (15), Township sixteen (16) South, Range twenty-eight (28) East: thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section: thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section: thence easterly along the section lines to the point of intersection with the western boundary of the Sequoia National Park: thence, in a northerly, easterly, southerly, easterly, southerly and westerly direction along the boundary of said park to the north-west corner of Township nineteen (19) South, Range thirty (30) East: thence southerly to the south-east corner of Town-ship twenty (20) South, Range twenty-nine (29) East: thence westerly to the north-west corner of Township twenty-one (21) South, Range thirty (30) East: thence southerly along the range line to its intersection with the northern boundary of the Tide River Indian Reservation; thence, in a general northeasterly, southerly and westerly direction along the boundary of said reservation to its intersection with the range line between Ranges twenty-nine (29) and thirty (30) East: thence southerly to the north-west corner of Township twenty-four (24) South, Range thirty (30) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township: thence westerly to the north-west corner of Township twenty-five (25) South, Range thirty-one (31) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Township twenty-six (26) South, Range thirty (30) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township twenty-eight (28) South, Range thirty (30) East: thence easterly to the north-west corner of Town-ship twenty-nine (29) South, Range thirty-one (31) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township twenty-nine (29) South, Range thirty-two (32) East: thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township: thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section: thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Town-ship twenty-nine (29) South, Range thirty-three (33) East: thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township: thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township twenty-nine (29) South, Range thirty-three and one-half (331/2) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township twenty-nine (29) South, Range thirty-four (34) East: thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section three (3), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Township twenty-eight (28) South, Range thirty-seven (37) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Township twenty-five (25) South, Range thirty--seven (37) East; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Town-ship twenty-four (24) South, Range thirty-seven (37) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said township: thence easterly to the south-east corner of Township twenty-three (23) South, Range thirty-seven (37) East: thence northerly to the north-east corner of Township twenty-one (21) South, Range thirty-seven (37) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township twenty (20) South, Range thirty-seven (37) East: thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said township: thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-six (36), Township nineteen (19) South, Range thirty-six (36) East: thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section thirty-five (35), said township: thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section fourteen (14), said township: thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section: thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township eighteen (18) South, Range thirty-six (36) East: thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section: thence northerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section twelve (12), said township: thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section: thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township seventeen (17) South, Range thirty-six (36) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section two (2), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), Town-ship sixteen (16) South, Range thirty-five (35) East: thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section: thence northerly to the north-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township fifteen (15) South, Range thirty-live (35) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Township fourteen (14) South, Range thirty-four (34) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township thirteen (13) South, Range thirty-four (34) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-four (34), said township: thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-seven (27), said township: thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of west lot one (1) in Section two (2), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said lot; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the west half of east lot six (6) in said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township twelve (12) South, Range thirty-four (34) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), Town-ship eleven (11) South, Range thirty-four (34) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township ten (10) South, Range thirty-three (33) East: thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section: thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township nine (9) South, Range thirty-three (33) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township eight (8) South, Range thirty-three (33) East: thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section seventeen (17), said township: thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section seven (7), said township: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), said township: thence northerly to the north-east corner of Township eight (8) South, Range thirty-two (32) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (3(5), Township seven (7) South, Range thirty-two (32) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section: thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-cast corner of Section thirteen (13), Township seven (7) South, Range thirty-one (31) East: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eleven (11), said township: thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), Town-ship six (6) South, Range thirty-one (31) East: thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Town-ship five (5) South, Range thirty-one (31) East; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township: thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township four (4) South, Range thirty-one (31) East: thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township: thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), said township: thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section five (5), Township four (4) South, Range thirty (30) East: thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township four (4) South, Range twenty-nine (29) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township: thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section seven-teen (17), said township: thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section seven (7), said township: thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section: thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township three (3) South, Range twenty--eight (28) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section: thence northerly to the north-east corner of said township: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township two (2) South, Range twenty-eight (28) East: thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section nine (9), said township: thence northerly to the north-east corner of section four (4), said township: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township one (1) South, Range twenty-six (26) East: thence northerly, allowing for the proper offset on the Base Line, to the north-east corner of Section seventeen (17), Township one (1) North, Range twenty-six (26) East: thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section: thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township two (2) North, Range twenty-five (25) East: thence northerly to the north-east corner of Township two (2) North, Range twenty-four (24) East: thence westerly along the. township line to its intersection with the eastern boundary of the Yosemite National Park: thence in a general south-easterly. southwesterly, westerly and northwesterly direction along the boundary of said park to its intersection with the township line between Townships two (2) and three (3) North; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Township two (2) North, Range nine-teen (19) East, the place of beginning: such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys.", "3139 Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law. and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 25th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [SEAL.] the independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3133", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; 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Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["The Sierra Forest Reserve, Cal.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 27. p. 1059.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Vol. 33, p. 702.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Area modified.", "Description.", "Sierra Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Sierra Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Sierra Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Sierra Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Added partly timbered California lands to the Sierra Forest Reserve, using boundary authority Congress extended earlier in 1905 when it moved lands out of Yosemite National Park and into the reserve.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Sierra Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-25", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-343-c", "type": "executive_order", "number": "343-C", "tr_sequence": 246, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-07-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Certain Described Lands on Revillagigedo Island, Alaska for Use as a Site for a Lighthouse Depot", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reserved land on Revillagigedo Island, Alaska, as a site for a lighthouse depot.", "categories": ["lighthouses", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Revillagigedo Island", "kind": "island", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-26", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-344", "type": "executive_order", "number": "344", "tr_sequence": 247, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-07-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Employment of Charles W. Spicer in Bureau of the Census Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_344", "revid": 1852864, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 91"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Charles W. Spicer may be employed in the Bureau of the Census, without examination, upon experimental work in developing tabulating machines as authorized in the latest act appropriating for executive, legislative, and judicial expenses."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 91)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, July 27, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Charles W. Spicer to be hired without examination in the Bureau of the Census for experimental work on tabulating machines.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Charles W. Spicer"], "significance": 1, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-27", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-344-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "344-A", "tr_sequence": 248, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-07-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Approving Acting War Secretary Recommendation of July 28, 1905, to Declare Conveyed Portion of Port Madison Indian Reservation as a Military Reservation", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_344-A", "revid": 1852973, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The following is the description from the Department of War's General Order No. 130 of 1905, not the actual order text, which was in the form of an approval of a recommendation from the Acting Secretary of War.", "The United States having acquired for fortification purposes, by conveyances from certain Indians, pursuant to agreement ratified by Congress on March 3, 1905 (33 Stat. L., 1078) (said conveyances being recorded in the auditor's office of Kitsap County, Washington, in Deed Book 43 at pages 764, 766, 768, and 769), the following-described lands, formerly constituting a portion of the Port Madison Indian Reservation on Agate Passage to Port Orchard, State of Washington, the same have, by order of the President, dated July 29, 1905, been declared a military reservation, viz:", "Lots 4 and 5 of section 21, and lots 1 and 2 of section 28, township 26 north, range 2 east, Willamette meridian; bounded and described by metes and bounds as follows:", "Beginning at a point on the westerly shore of Agate Passage, on line between sections twenty-eight (28) and twenty-nine (29), township twenty-six (26) north, range two (2) east of Willamette meridian; thence northerly on line between sections twenty-eight (28) and twenty-nine (29), in said township, two thousand three hundred and fifty-eight (2,358) feet, more or less, to the corner of sections twenty-eight (28), twenty-nine (29), twenty (20), and twenty-one (21), township twenty-six (26) north, range two (2) east; thence northerly on line between sections twenty (20) and twenty-one (21), in said township, one thousand three hundred and four and seventy-four one-hundredths (1.304.71) feet to the one-sixteenth () corner on line between sections twenty (20) and twenty-one (21); thence easterly through the center of the south half of section twenty-one (21), two thousand two hundred and thirty-one (2,231) feet, more or less, to the westerly shore of Agate Passage; thence southwesterly along the westerly shore line of Agate Passage to the place of beginning; containing seventy and fifty one-hundredths (70.51) acres, more or less."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Made lands the government bought from Indians on Agate Passage, once part of the Port Madison Indian Reservation in Washington, into a military reservation for fortifications.", "categories": ["military-naval", "indian-lands"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Port Madison Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "Washington"}, {"name": "Agate Passage", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Washington"}], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-29", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-344-b", "type": "executive_order", "number": "344-B", "tr_sequence": 249, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-07-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Certain Described Lands for the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico Belonging to the Pueblo of Santa Clara", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_344-B", "revid": 1845594, "printed_source": null}}, "text": null, "summary": "Reserved certain lands for the Pueblo Indians of the Pueblo of Santa Clara in New Mexico.", "categories": ["indian-lands"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Pueblo of Santa Clara", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-29", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "uo-113", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 114, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-07-29", "title": "Santa Clara Pueblo Indian Reservation, New Mexico Territory, enlarged, subject to valid existing rights.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "uo-113", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 113, "date": "1905-07-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Santa Clara Pueblo Indian Reservation, New Mexico Territory, enlarged, subject to valid existing rights.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 113, "page": "202", "citations": "III Kappler 687; I IR 127; (1905 CIA 496)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Santa Clara Pueblo Indian Reservation, New Mexico Territory, enlarged, subject to valid existing rights.", "reconciliation": "numbered_duplicate", "duplicate_of": "eo-344-b", "reconciliation_note": "**= EO 344-B** (July 29, 1905), \"Reserving Certain Described Lands for the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico Belonging to the Pueblo of Santa Clara.\" Same date, same subject.", "summary": null, "categories": ["indian-lands"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": null, "stories": [114], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-29", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-344-b", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The same order; Lord's unnumbered list carries this numbered document a second time.", "story": 114, "date": "1905-07-29", "title": "Reserving Certain Described Lands for the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico Belonging to the Pueblo of Santa Clara", "type": "executive_order", "number": "344-B"}]}
{"id": "proc-587", "type": "proclamation", "number": "587", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-07-31", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Lands for Town-Site Entries on the Uintah Indian Reservation, Utah", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 587, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-587"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3139, "last_page": 3140, "cite": "34 Stat. 3139–3140", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3139.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-07-31", "table_title": "Reserving lands for town-site entries on the Uintah Indian Reservation."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, on June 7, 1905, the Secretary of the Interior directed the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to cause to be selected, by the Uintah Allotment Commission, one or more tracts of land, suitable for townsite purposes, in the Uintah Indian Reservation Lands, State of Utah, to the end that the same might be reserved under the provisions of section 2380 of the Revised Statutes of the United States;", "And whereas, on July 6, 1905, the Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs reported that said commission had selected, as suitable for townsite purposes and as natural and prospective centers of population. certain described lands which he recommended be reserved under the provisions of said section 2380;", "And whereas, on July 7, and 27, 1905, the Department of the Interior approved said selection and recommendation so far as it related to the following described lands in the Uintah land district. Utah, and has requested that they be reserved for townsites to be created under existing statute, to-wit:", "Lots four, six, and seven, the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter, the. south half of the northwest quarter, the southwest quarter, and the west half of the southeast quarter of section twenty-five, lot two, the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter, and the east half of the southeast quarter of section twenty-six. in township three south of range two west of the Uintah special meridian:", "Also the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section thirty-six, in township three south of range five west, the north half, and the north half of the south half of section one. the east half of the northeast quarter, and the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section two, in township four south of range five west of the Uintah special meridian.", "And also the south half of the northeast quarter, the southeast quarter, and the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section seven, and the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section eighteen, in township three south of range two east of the Uintah special meridian;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by sections 2380 and 2381 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, do hereby declare and make known that said lands are hereby reserved as townsites, to be disposed of by the United States under the terms of the statutes applicable thereto.", "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 31st day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [SEAL.]the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3139", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Uintah Indian Reservation. Utah.", "Preamble.", "Ante, p. 3122.", "R. S., sec. 2380. p. 430.", "Lands designated for townsites.", "Townsites served.", "R. S., secs. 2380, 2381. p. 436."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Reservation of Certain Lands in the Uinta Indian Reservation, Utah for Townsites”. The proclamation reads \"Uintah\"; title from the Statutes list of proclamations (vol. 34)."], "summary": "Reserved tracts in the Uintah Indian Reservation lands of Utah, chosen by the Uintah Allotment Commission and approved by the Interior Department, as sites for future townsites.", "categories": ["indian-lands", "public-lands"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Uintah Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [56], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-31", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Salt Lake Telegram referred to \"the three [townsites] already located by the Government.\"", "source": "Salt Lake Telegram, Aug. 16, 1905, p. 1", "date": "1905-08-16", "story": 56}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "congress", "text": "In 1910 Congress voted $5,000 for \"straightening the Duchesne River within the limits of the town site of Duchesne, now Theodore,\" suggesting the federal townsite carried the name Duchesne while the town was called Theodore.", "source": "Indian appropriation act of April 4, 1910, 36 Stat. 285", "date": "1910-04-04", "story": 56}], "legacy": [{"text": "The three townsite blocks are the sites of today's Myton, Duchesne and Randlett. Duchesne was first called Dora, then Theodore after the President, and was renamed Duchesne when the neighboring town of Roosevelt took his surname.", "source": "BLM PLSS survey layer; Utah Division of State History, \"Duchesne\"", "story": 56}], "today": [{"name": "Myton, Utah", "kind": "other", "relation": "part", "state": "Utah", "note": "Town on one of the three townsite blocks reserved by this proclamation.", "source": "BLM PLSS survey layer (CadNSDI)", "story": 56}, {"name": "Duchesne, Utah", "kind": "other", "relation": "part", "state": "Utah", "note": "Town on one of the three townsite blocks reserved by this proclamation.", "source": "BLM PLSS survey layer (CadNSDI)", "story": 56}, {"name": "Randlett, Utah", "kind": "other", "relation": "part", "state": "Utah", "note": "Town on one of the three townsite blocks reserved by this proclamation.", "source": "BLM PLSS survey layer (CadNSDI)", "story": 56}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-590", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Added townsite lots next to these lands.", "story": 56, "date": "1905-08-14", "title": "Withdrawal of Lands from Uintah Indian Reservation, Utah, for Additional Townsites", "type": "proclamation", "number": "590"}]}
{"id": "eo-344-c", "type": "executive_order", "number": "344-C", "tr_sequence": 250, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-07-31", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Ashland and Eau Claire Land Districts, Wis., Abolished; Transferred to Wausau Land District", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Abolished the Ashland and Eau Claire land districts in Wisconsin and moved them into the Wausau Land District.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Ashland Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Wisconsin"}, {"name": "Eau Claire Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Wisconsin"}, {"name": "Wausau Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Wisconsin"}], "states": ["Wisconsin"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-31", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-349", "type": "executive_order", "number": "349", "tr_sequence": 260, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-07-31", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Thomas Harper as a Clerk in the Quartermaster's Department at Large Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Allowed Thomas Harper to be appointed a clerk in the Quartermaster's Department at large without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Thomas Harper"], "significance": 1, "stories": [85, 86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-07-31", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-588", "type": "proclamation", "number": "588", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-08-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Modifying Provisions for Opening Lands to Entry on the Uintah Indian Reservation, Utah", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 588, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-588"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3140, "last_page": 3141, "cite": "34 Stat. 3140–3141", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3140.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-08-02", "table_title": "Modifying provisions for opening lands to entry on the Uintah Indian Reservation, Utah."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it was declared in my proclamation of July 14, in the year of our Lord 1905, prescribing the manner in which certain lands within the Uintah Indian Reservation should be opened to settlement and entry under the homestead and townsite laws of the United States, among other things as follows: Commencing on Monday, August 28, 1905, at 9 o'clock a. m., the applications of those drawing numbers 1 to 50, inclusive, must be presented at the land office in the town of Vernal. Utah, in the land district in which said lands are situated, and will be considered in their numerical order (luring the first day, and the applications of those drawing numbers 51 to 100, inclusive, must be presented and will be considered in their numerical order during the second day, and so on at that rate until all of said lands subject to entry under the homestead law, and desired thereunder, have been entered. If any applicant fails to appear and present his application for entry when the number assigned to him by the drawing is reached, his right to enter will be passed until after the other applications assigned for that day have been disposed of. when he will be given another opportunity to make entry, failing in which he will be deemed to have abandoned his right to make entry under such drawing.", "And, whereas, there now appear to be ample reasons for a modification of said provision;", "Now therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by said act of Congress, and for the purpose of modifying the provision of said proclamation above quoted, do hereby declare and direct that said provision be modified to read as follows:", "Commencing on Monday, August 28, 1905, at 9 o’clock a. m., the applications of those drawing numbers 1 to 111, inclusive, must be presented at the land office in the town of Vernal, Utah, in the land district in which said lands are situated, and will be considered in their numerical order during the first day, and the applications of those drawing numbers 112 to 222, inclusive, must be presented and will be considered in their numerical order during the second day, and so on at that rate until all of said lands subject to entry under the homestead law, and desired thereunder, have been entered. If any applicant fails to appear and pre sent his application for entry when the number assigned to him by the drawing is reached, his right to enter will be passed until after the other applications assigned for that day have been disposed of, when he will be given another opportunity to make entry, failing in which he will be deemed to have aban doned his right to make entry under such drawing.", "3141 In witness whereof. I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3140", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Uintah Indian Reservation. Utah.", "Preamble.", "Ante, p. 3121.", "Modifying provisions tor drawings."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Modification of Opening of the Uinta Indian Reservation Lands, Utah”. The proclamation reads \"Uintah\"; title from the Statutes list of proclamations (vol. 34)."], "summary": "Changed the schedule for the Uintah Indian Reservation land opening so applicants holding drawing numbers 1 to 111, rather than 1 to 50, would be heard each day at the Vernal, Utah, land office starting August 28, 1905.", "categories": ["indian-lands", "public-lands"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Uintah Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "Utah"}, {"name": "Vernal", "kind": "town", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [56], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-08-02", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "More than doubling the numbers heard each day at Vernal fit the scale of the registration, which reached 37,702 applicants.", "source": "Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, 1905, pp. 11–12", "date": "1905", "story": 56}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-581", "relation": "modifies", "note": "Changed the daily pace of entries set by the opening proclamation.", "story": 56, "date": "1905-07-14", "title": "Opening to Entry Lands on Uintah Indian Reservation, Utah", "type": "proclamation", "number": "581"}]}
{"id": "proc-589", "type": "proclamation", "number": "589", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-08-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Lands for Reservoir Site, etc., on Uintah Indian Reservation, Utah", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 589, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-589"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3141, "last_page": 3143, "cite": "34 Stat. 3141–3143", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3141.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-08-03", "table_title": "Reserving lands for reservoir site, etc., on Uintah Indian Reservation, Utah."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by the act of Congress approved March 3, 1905, entitled, “An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and for other purposes”, that “Before the opening of the Uintah Indian Reservation, the President is hereby authorized to set apart and reserve any reservoir site or other lands necessary to conserve the water supply for the Indians or for general agricultural development, and may confirm such rights and water thereon as have already accrued”;", "And whereas, it is considered necessary to serve the purposes of the act referred to that certain lands in the Uintah Indian Reservation be withdrawn for the purposes indicated;", "Now therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, do hereby make known and proclaim that certain lands in the Uintah Indian Reservation are hereby withdrawn from disposal, for reservoir site necessary to conserve the water supply for the Indians, or for general agricultural development, the following described lands:", "3142 south half of north-east quarter, north-west quarter, south-east quarter, south-west quarter of Section three (3), all Sections four (4), live (5), six (6), seven (7), eight (8), and west half of Section nine (9), Township three (3) South, Range one (1) West; all Sections one (1), two (2), three (3), four (4) and five (5), east half of north-east quarter, south half of south-east quarter, and south-west quarter of Section six (6), north half of Section seven (7), north half of Section eight (8), all Sections nine (9), ten (10), eleven (11) and twelve (12), Township three (3) South, Range two (2) West; south half of section one (1) and all Section eighteen (18), Township three (3) South, Range three (3), West; all Sections three (3), four (4), five (5), six (6), seven (7), eight (8), nine (9), ten (10), Sections thirteen (13) to twenty-three (23), inclusive. Township three (3) South, Range four (4) West; west half of north-east quarter, north-west quarter, west half of south-east quarter, south-west quarter of Section seventeen (17), and all Sections eighteen (18) and nineteen (19), Township two (2) South, Range one (1) East; south-east quarter, south half of south-west quarter of Section twenty-three (23), south-east quarter and south half of south-west quarter of Section twenty-four (24), and all Sections twenty-five (25), twenty-six (26) and thirty-six (3G), Township three (3) South, Range one (1) East; all Sections twenty-nine (29), thirty-one (31) and thirty-two (32), south half of Section thirty (30) and west half of Section thirty-three (33), Township three (3) South, Range two (2) East; all Sections four (4), five (5) and nine (9), west half of Section ten (10), all Section fifteen (15), east half of Section sixteen (16), north half of Section twenty-two (22), north-west quarter, south-west quarter and south-east quarter of Section twenty-three (23), north-west quarter of Section twenty-five (25) and north-east quarter of Section twenty-six (26), Township four (4) South, Range two (2) east; all Sections twenty-five (25), twenty-six (26), twenty-seven (27), twenty-eight (28), South half of Section twenty-nine (29), south half of Section thirty (30), and all Sections thirty-one (31) to thirty-six (36), inclusive. Township two (2) South, Range two (2) West; all Uintah Special Meridian. reservoir: All Section eighteen (18), Township two (2) North, Range five (5) West; west half of north-west quarter, and north-west quarter of south-west quarter of Section six (6), east half of Section twelve (12), north-east quarter of Section thirteen (13), Township two (2) North, Range six (6) West; east half of Section one (1), Township two (2) North, Range seven (7) West: south-west quarter of Section thirty-one (31), Township three (3) North, Range six (6) West: all of Township two (2) South, Range eleven (11) West; all of Town-ship three (3) South, Range eleven (11) West; all of Township four (4) South, Range eleven (11) West; all of Township two (2) South, Range twelve (12) West: all of Township three (3) South, Range twelve (12) West; all of Township four (4) South, Range twelve (12) West; north-east quarter, east half of north-west quarter, east half of south-west quarter, north half of south-east quarter and south-east quarter of south-east quarter of Section twenty-one (21), Lots three (3) and four (4), Section twenty-two (22), Lots one (1) and two (2) of Section twenty-seven (27), east half of north-east quarter, south-west quarter of north-east quarter, and east half of north-west quarter of Section twenty-eight (28), Township two (2) South, Range one (1) East; all Uintah Special Meridian.", "Warning is expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this Proclamation.", "3143 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 3d day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3141", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Uintah Indian Reservation. Utah.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 33, p. 1070.", "Ante, p. 3119.", "Lands reserved for Indians.", "Agricultural lands.", "Reservoir site.", "Post, p. 3143.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Withdrawl of Lands From Uinta Indian Reservations, Utah, for Additional Townsites”. The proclamation reserves no townsites; the American Presidency Project caption copies No. 590's. Title from the Statutes list of proclamations (34 Stat. 3141)."], "summary": "Withdrew agricultural lands and a reservoir site on the Uintah Indian Reservation in Utah from disposal before the opening, to conserve the water supply for the Indians or for general agricultural development.", "categories": ["indian-lands", "water-reclamation"], "action": "other", "places": [{"name": "Uintah Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [56], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-08-03", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Salt Lake Telegram reported that the Interior Department had \"receded from the original order withdrawing 200,000 acres from the Uintah reservation for reclamation work.\"", "source": "Salt Lake Telegram, Aug. 16, 1905, p. 1", "date": "1905-08-16", "story": 56}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-591", "relation": "reduced_by", "note": "Cut the withdrawal back to the reservoir lands in ranges 11 and 12 west and restored the rest.", "story": 56, "date": "1905-08-14", "title": "Reducing Area of Lands Reserved for Reservoir Sites on Uintah Indian Reservation, Utah", "type": "proclamation", "number": "591"}]}
{"id": "eo-345", "type": "executive_order", "number": "345", "tr_sequence": 251, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-08-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Extending Time Limit for Completion of Work of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission to March 2, 1906", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Extended the deadline for the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission to finish its work to March 2, 1906.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs", "government-administration"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [85, 86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-08-03", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "eo-292", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 85, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-01-31", "title": "Extending Time Limit for Completion of Work of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission to September 2, 1905", "type": "executive_order", "number": "292"}]}
{"id": "eo-346", "type": "executive_order", "number": "346", "tr_sequence": 252, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-08-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Permanent Appointment of Ferdinand Schwarz as an Unclassified Laborer in Government Printing Office", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Allowed Ferdinand Schwarz to be appointed permanently as an unclassified laborer in the Government Printing Office.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Ferdinand Schwarz"], "significance": 1, "stories": [85, 86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-08-03", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-590", "type": "proclamation", "number": "590", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-08-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Withdrawal of Lands from Uintah Indian Reservation, Utah, for Additional Townsites", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 590, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-590"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3143, "last_page": 3143, "cite": "34 Stat. 3143", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3143.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-08-14", "table_title": "Reserving land for town-site entries on Uintah Indian Reservation, Utah."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is believed that the following described lands, to-wit:", "Lots three, five, and eight, of section twenty-five, and lot one of sec tion twenty-six, in township three south, of range two west of the Uintah special meridian; and also the southwest quarter of southwest quarter of section nineteen, the. northwest quarter of section twenty-nine, and the north half of section thirty, in township three south, of range one west of the Uintah special meridian, in the State of Utah, situate adjacent to other lands in said reservation which were reserved by my proclamation of July 31, in the year of our Lord 1905, are natural and prospective centers of population:", "Now therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the act of Congress, entitled “An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department and for fulfilling the treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred and six, and for other purposes,” approved March 3, 1905, and by sections 2380 and 2381 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, do hereby declare and make known that the lands above described are hereby reserved as town-sites. to be disposed of by the United States under the terms of the Statutes applicable thereto, in connection with other lands reserved for that purpose by my said proclamation of July 31, 1905.", "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 fourteenth day of August,[SEAL.] in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3143", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Uintah Indian Reservation. Utah.", "Preamble.", "Lands designated for townsites.", "Ante, p. 3139.", "Additional townsites reserved.", "Vol 33, p. 1069.", "R. S. secs. 2380, 2381. p. 436.", "Ante, p. 3139."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Withdrawl of Lands from Uinta Indian Reservations, Utah, for Additional Townsites”. Spelling; the proclamation reads \"Uintah\"."], "summary": "Set aside additional lots on the Uintah Indian Reservation in Utah as townsites, adding them to the town lands already reserved by a proclamation of July 31, 1905.", "categories": ["indian-lands", "public-lands"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Uintah Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [56], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-08-14", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "proc-587", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Reserved more townsite lots adjacent to the lands reserved by Proclamation 587.", "story": 56, "date": "1905-07-31", "title": "Reserving Lands for Town-Site Entries on the Uintah Indian Reservation, Utah", "type": "proclamation", "number": "587"}]}
{"id": "proc-591", "type": "proclamation", "number": "591", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-08-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reducing Area of Lands Reserved for Reservoir Sites on Uintah Indian Reservation, Utah", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 591, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-591"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3143, "last_page": 3144, "cite": "34 Stat. 3143–3144", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3143.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-08-14", "table_title": "Reducing area of lands reserved for reservoir sites on Uintah Indian Reservation, Utah."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it has been determined that only that portion of the lands reserved by my proclamation of August 3, 1905, hereinafter described, situated in the Uintah Indian Reservation, in the State of Utah, is required for reservoir sites and to conserve and protect the water supply, for the purposes specified in the act of Congress approved March 3, 1905 (33 Stat., 1070), to-wit:", "All of sections eighteen (18), nineteen (19), twenty-nine (29), thirty (30), thirty-one (31), and thirty-two (32), in Township two (2) South. Range eleven (11) West; all of Township three (3) South, Range eleven (11) West; all of sections one (1), to and including section twenty-four (24), and all of sections twenty-six to and including section thirty-two (32), in Township four (4) South. Range eleven (11) West; all of sections one (1), two (2), three (3), ten (10), eleven (11), twelve (12), thirteen (13), fourteen (14), fifteen (15), twenty-two (22), twenty-three (23), twenty-four (24), twenty-five (25), twenty-six (26), twenty-seven (27), thirty-four (34), thirty-five (35), and thirty-six (36), in Township two (2) South, Range twelve (12) West; and all of sections one (1), two (2), and twelve (12), in Township three (3) South. Range twelve (12) West; all in Uintah Special Meridian.", "Now therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by said act, do hereby make known and proclaim that all lands embraced in my said proclamation of August 3, 1905, saving and excepting those hereinbefore described, are hereby excluded and withdrawn from the effects of said proclamation and are hereby restored to the status they, occupied prior to their reservation for said purposes.", "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 fourteenth of August, in the [SEAL.] year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3143", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Uintah Indian Reservation. Utah.", "Preamble.", "Ante, p 3142.", "Vol. 33. p. 1070.", "Reservoir site reduced.", "Lands withdrawn from reservoir site restored to former status."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Reduction of Reservoir Site on Uinta Indian Reservation Lands, Utah”. The proclamation reads \"Uintah\"; title from the Statutes list of proclamations (vol. 34)."], "summary": "Shrank a reservoir site on the Uintah Indian Reservation in Utah to only the lands needed to protect the water supply, returning the rest to their earlier status.", "categories": ["water-reclamation", "indian-lands"], "action": "reduce", "places": [{"name": "Uintah Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [56], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-08-14", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Salt Lake Telegram reported that an amended order, \"with the President's approval,\" cut the withdrawal to about 114,000 acres, and counted the restored land as raising the homesteads in the drawing from 6,368 to 6,900.", "source": "Salt Lake Telegram, Aug. 16, 1905, p. 1", "date": "1905-08-16", "story": 56}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "congress", "text": "Congress confirmed the reclamation purpose in 1910, describing the reserved lands as \"withdrawn for irrigation works under the provisions of the reclamation Act … in connection with the reservoir for the Strawberry Valley project.\"", "source": "36 Stat. 285", "date": "1910-04-04", "story": 56}], "legacy": [{"text": "The reservoir lands that remained lie in the Strawberry Valley, the site of the Reclamation Service's Strawberry Valley Project.", "source": "research entry; MacKay, Utah Historical Quarterly 50 (1982)", "story": 56}], "today": [{"name": "Strawberry Valley Project", "kind": "other", "relation": "part", "state": "Utah", "note": "The reservoir lands kept by this proclamation lie in the Strawberry Valley, the project's site.", "source": "research entry", "story": 56}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1910-04-04", "text": "Congress extinguished the Utes' title to the Strawberry Valley reservoir lands, paying $1.25 an acre from the reclamation fund in five annual installments charged to the project's water users.", "source": "Indian appropriation act of April 4, 1910, ch. 140, 36 Stat. 285", "story": 56}], "uncertain": ["What part the Reclamation Service itself played in requesting the withdrawal is not documented.", "The 1910 act gives no acreage for the Strawberry Valley lands, and the 56,858.51-acre figure sometimes cited has no known source."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-589", "relation": "reduces", "note": "Kept only the reservoir lands of the August 3 withdrawal.", "story": 56, "date": "1905-08-03", "title": "Reserving Lands for Reservoir Site, etc., on Uintah Indian Reservation, Utah", "type": "proclamation", "number": "589"}]}
{"id": "eo-347", "type": "executive_order", "number": "347", "tr_sequence": 253, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-08-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Except Private Secretary to Purchasing Agent of Post Office Department from Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_347", "revid": 1845549, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 76"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Schedule A, Section V, paragraph 2 of the civil service rules is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following words:", "\"and one to the purchasing agent of the Post-Office Department.\"", "As amended, Schedule A, Section V, paragraph 2 will read:", "One private secretary or confidential clerk to the Assistant Attorney-General, and one to the purchasing agent of the Post-Office Department."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 76)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, August 16, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Excepted a private secretary or confidential clerk to the Post Office Department's purchasing agent from civil service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [85, 86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-08-16", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-347-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "347-A", "tr_sequence": 254, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-08-19", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Revoking Executive Order of December 9, 1852 Pertaining to Certain Described Lands in Michigan Reserved for Lighthouse Purposes", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Revoked an 1852 executive order that had reserved certain Michigan lands for lighthouse purposes.", "categories": ["lighthouses"], "action": "revoke", "places": [], "states": ["Michigan"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85, 86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-08-19", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-592", "type": "proclamation", "number": "592", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-08-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Holy Cross Forest Reserve, Colorado", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 592, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-592"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3144, "last_page": 3146, "cite": "34 Stat. 3144–3146", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3144.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-08-25", "table_title": "Setting apart the Holy Cross Forest Reserve, Colorado."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may. from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation. declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Colorado, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation:", "Now therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Colorado, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Section seventeen (17), Township two (2) South, Range eighty-two (82) West, Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian, Colorado: thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section ten (10), Township two (2) South, Range eighty-one (81) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township: thence easterly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said township: thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township three (3) South, Range eighty (80) West; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township five (5) South, Range seventy-nine (79) West; thence easterly along the First (1st) Correction Line South to the north-west corner of Township six (6) South, Range seventy-nine (79) West; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Township eight (8) South, Range eighty (80) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Township eight (8) South, Range eighty-one (81) West: thence southerly to the north-east corner of Township ten (10) South, Range eighty-two (82) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence southerly, allowing for the proper offset on the Second (2nd) Correction Line South, to the north-east corner of Township twelve (12) South, Range eighty-three (83) West: thence westerly along the township line to the north-west corner of Town-ship twelve (12) South, Range eighty-eight (88) West; thence northerly, allowing for the proper offset on the Second (2nd) Correction Line South, to the north-east corner of Township nine (9) South, Range eighty-nine (89) West: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section two (2), Township nine (9) South, Range eighty--seven (87) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township nine (9) South, Range eighty-six (86) West: thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section four (4), Township ten (10) South, Range eighty-six (86) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section ten (10), Township ten (10) South, Range eighty-five (85) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty (20), Township ten (10) South, Range eighty-four (84) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township nine (9) South, Range eighty-five (85) West: thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), said township; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Town-ship eight (8) South, Range eighty-six West; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), said township: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township seven (7) South, Range eighty-seven (87) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section one (1), said township: thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township six (6) South, Range eighty-six (86) West; thence easterly along the First (1st) Correction Line South to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township five (5) South, Range eighty-three (83) West thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), Township five (5) South, Range eighty-one (81) West; thence southerly to the. south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six, said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section one (1), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township four (4) South, Range eighty-two (82) West: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township: thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township three (3) South, Range eighty-two (82) West; thence easterly to the south-west corner of section fifteen (15), said township: thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township two (2) South, Range eighty-two (82) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section seventeen (17), said township, the place of beginning:", "Also, all Township three (3) South, Range eighty-four (84) West;", "Such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as the Holy Cross Forest Reserve.", "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 25th day of August, in the year or our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3144", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Holy Cross Forest Reserve, Colo.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Post, p. 3286.", "Forest reserve, Colorado.", "Description.", "Holy Cross Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Name."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Holy Cross Forest Reserve on public timberland in Colorado, reserving it from settlement under the 1891 forest reserve law.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Holy Cross Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-08-25", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "White River National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Colorado", "source": "Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "story": 55}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1945-01-01", "text": "The Holy Cross National Forest was transferred entire to the White River National Forest.", "source": "P.L.O. 263; Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "story": 55}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-347-b", "type": "executive_order", "number": "347-B", "tr_sequence": 255, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-08-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Santa Barbara Island, Calif., Reserved for Lighthouse Purposes", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reserved Santa Barbara Island, California, for lighthouse purposes.", "categories": ["lighthouses"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Santa Barbara Island", "kind": "island", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85, 86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-08-25", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-348", "type": "executive_order", "number": "348", "tr_sequence": 256, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-08-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of May R. Proctor for a Position in Government Printing Office Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_348", "revid": 1845563, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 91"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. May R. Proctor may be appointed in the Government Printing Office without examination.", "Theodore Roosevelt The White House, August 25, 1905."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 91)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Mrs. May R. Proctor to be appointed in the Government Printing Office without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["May R. Proctor"], "significance": 1, "stories": [85, 86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-08-25", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-348-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "348-A", "tr_sequence": 257, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-08-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Parcels of Reclaimed Harbor Land, Manila, Philippine Islands, for Military Purposes", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_348-A", "revid": 1852996, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The following is the description from the Department of War's General Order No. 184 of 1905, not the actual order text. The original was signed by Secretary of War William Howard Taft, not President Roosevelt.", "The President of the United States, by order dated August 29, 1905, reserved for military purposes, under section 12 of the act of Congress, approved July 1, 1902, entitled \"An act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes\" (32 Stat. L., 691-695), certain parcels of the newly-reclaimed harbor land, situated in the city of Manila, Philippine Islands, bounded and described as follows, viz:", "Parcel \"D.\"—Beginning at the intersection of the bulkhead line of the outlet to the inner basin with the bulkhead line of the outer harbor; said point being the vertex of a triangle, the northerly end of whose base, 1,046.55 feet long, is Point \"O,\" as shown on map hereinafter described, which point is marked by an iron pin in granite coping, west breakwater, near the center of the wall, 2 feet back of ¾-inch iron pipe, 15 feet high, in the prolongation of the bulkhead line at its intersection with the west breakwater; the southerly end of whose base is triangulation point \"C,\" an iron pin set in the top of granite coping, west breakwater, near the center of the wall, and about 15 feet north of second angle; the angle at point \"O\" being 50° 5′ 30″ and the side opposite 936.74 feet; the angle at point \"C\" being 70° 54′ 30″ and the side opposite 1,153.78 feet; thence southeasterly along the bulkhead line of the outer harbor a distance of about 460 feet; thence in a northerly direction about 273 feet to the intersection of the bulkhead lines at the southeast corner of the inner basin; thence extending along the bulkhead line of the inner basin in a northwesterly direction a distance of about 313.3 feet to its intersection with the easterly bulkhead line of the outlet to the inner basin; thence along the bulkhead line of the outlet to the inner basin a distance of about 100 feet to the point of beginning.", "Parcels \"A\" and \"C\" and included strip of land.—Beginning at a point which is 237 feet northerly and 160 feet easterly from the intersection of the bulkhead lines at the southeast corner of the inner basin; thence easterly along the north line of said parcel \"A,\" as shown on the map hereinafter designated, 308 feet, more or less, to the northeast corner of said parcel; thence southerly along the east line of said parcel \"A\" at right angles to the last described line 265 feet, more or less, to the southeast corner of said parcel \"A;\" thence southeasterly parallel to the main bulkhead line 380 feet; thence southwesterly perpendicular to the main bulkhead line 380 feet; thence northwesterly parallel to the main bulkhead line and 160 feet distant therefrom 495 feet more or less, to a point; thence northerly parallel to the easterly bulkhead line of the inner basin and 100 feet distant easterly therefrom 440 feet, more or less, to the place of beginning.", "Parcel \"B\" and adjacent tracts.—Beginning at a point which is 560 feet southeasterly along the main bulkhead line and 620 feet northeasterly at right angles to said main bulkhead line from the intersection of the main bulkhead line with the easterly bulkhead line of the inner basin extended; thence northwesterly parallel to the main bulkhead line about 350 feet to the intersection with the westerly side of the triangular tract as shown on the map hereinafter designated; thence northerly perpendicular to the Pasig River bank 235 feet, more or less, to the intersection with the prolongation of the northerly side of tract \"A;\" thence easterly parallel to the Pasig River bank about 520 feet; thence southerly at right angles to the last described line 235 feet, more or less, to the intersection with the southeasterly side of parcel \"B\" prolonged; thence southwesterly perpendicular to the main bulkhead line about 385 feet to the point of beginning.", "All of said parcels are shown on map, entitled \"Proposed Military Reservations, Manila Harbor, Office Chief Engineer Officer, Philippines Division, Manila, P. I., August 30, 1905.\""], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved parcels of newly reclaimed harbor land in Manila for military purposes.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Manila", "kind": "town", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [85, 86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-08-29", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-348-b", "type": "executive_order", "number": "348-B", "tr_sequence": 258, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-08-31", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Excusing Washington Navy Yard Employees From Work on Labor Day, September 4, 1905", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Excused Washington Navy Yard employees from work on Labor Day, September 4, 1905.", "categories": ["government-administration", "military-naval"], "action": "other", "places": [{"name": "Washington Navy Yard", "kind": "naval-reservation", "state": "District of Columbia"}], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [85, 86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-08-31", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-348-c", "type": "executive_order", "number": "348-C", "tr_sequence": 259, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-08-31", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Prescribing Compensation for Members of Advisory Board of Engineers for the Panama Canal", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_348-C", "revid": 5982973, "printed_source": "| notes    = See the Notes section for a list of Executive Orders affected by or related to the issuance of this Executive Order."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is ordered that each member of the advisory board of engineers upon plans of the Panama Canal shall be allowed $5,000, payable upon the completion of the report of the board. In addition thereto he shall, when on duty with the board, be allowed $15 per day for personal expenses from the date of leaving his home until his return thereto, including Sundays and Holidays. He shall also be allowed the actual cost of transportation incurred by him in travel on duty in connection with the board to include cost of ticket by railway or steamer, sleeper or parlor car accommodations, baggage transportation, cabs, and porterage.", "It is further ordered that the allowance of $5,000 to Gen. Davis and Gen. Abbott shall be increased by the amount of their retired pay for the time during which they are employed upon the work of the board, it being my intention that these members of the board shall receive the same compensation for this work as the other members, and this increase being made to provide for the usual reduction of retired officers' pay."], "source": "Wikisource (from | notes    = See the Notes section for a list of Executive Orders affected by or related to the issuance of this Executive Order.)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, August 31, 1905. == Notes == Amended by: Executive Order 373-A, November 25, 1905 Executive Order 412, February 19, 1906 See Related: Executive Order 335-A, June 24, 1905 Executive Order 418, February 26, 1906", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Set pay for each member of the advisory board of engineers on Panama Canal plans: $5,000 on completion of the report, $15 a day in expenses and travel costs, with Generals Davis and Abbott's allowance raised to offset their retired pay.", "categories": ["canal-zone"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": ["Gen. Davis", "Gen. Abbott"], "significance": 2, "stories": [85, 86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-08-31", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-350", "type": "executive_order", "number": "350", "tr_sequence": 261, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-09-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Philip Cowen as Inspector in the Immigration Service Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_350", "revid": 1845557, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 83"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Philip Cowen may be appointed immigrant inspector in the Immigration Service without examination under the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 83)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, September 5, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Philip Cowen to be appointed immigrant inspector in the Immigration Service without a civil service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Philip Cowen"], "significance": 1, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-09-05", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-351", "type": "executive_order", "number": "351", "tr_sequence": 262, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-09-08", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Prescribing Procedure for Removal of Officers and Employees Serving on the Isthmus of Panama", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_351", "revid": 1847194, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 101"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The procedure required by civil service Rule XII, clause 2, need not be observed in removals of officers or employees serving on the Isthmus of Panama. In such removals, however, the reasons therefor shall be made a part of the records of the office of administration, Isthmian Canal affairs, and the Civil Service Commission shall, upon request, be furnished with copies or the originals thereof."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 101)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, September 8, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Waived the usual civil service removal procedure for officers and employees on the Isthmus of Panama, while requiring the reasons for removal to be recorded and shared with the Civil Service Commission on request.", "categories": ["civil-service", "canal-zone"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-09-08", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-351-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "351-A", "tr_sequence": 263, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-09-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Certain Described Lands on Gravina and False Islands, Alaska for Light-house Purposes", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reserved land on Gravina and False islands in Alaska for lighthouse purposes.", "categories": ["lighthouses", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Gravina Island", "kind": "island", "state": "Alaska"}, {"name": "False Island", "kind": "island", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-09-16", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-351-b", "type": "executive_order", "number": "351-B", "tr_sequence": 264, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-09-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Altering Military Reservation at Fort San Pedro, Iloilo, Panay, Philippine Islands", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_351-B", "revid": 2403592, "printed_source": "General Orders No. 161, War Dept., September 30, 1905"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The following is the description from the Department of War's General Order No. 161 of September 30, 1905, not the actual order text, which took the form of an approval of a September 15, 1905 recommendation from the Acting Secretary of War.", "The President of the United States, by order dated September 18, 1905, modified the Executive Order of October 10, 1903, (General Orders, No. 43, War Department, October 27, 1903), reserving under section 12 of the act of Congress approved July 1, 1902, entitled \"An act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes\" (32 Stat. L., 691), the lands described therein for the purposes of a military reservation at Fort San Pedro, in the neighborhood of Iloilo, Panay, Philippine Islands, so as to reserve under said act of Congress all public lands, and those only, included within metes and bounds as follows, viz:", "Beginning at 1½-inch iron pipe bearing N. 65° 58′ 35″ W. at a distance of 394.59 meters from the northwest corner of Fort San Pedro, No. 22, Iloilo, Panay, P. I. (Station No. 1); thence N. 37° 32′ 40″ E. a distance of 554.14 meters to an iron pipe (Station No. 2); thence N. 84° 18′ 30″ E. 83.78 meters to an iron pipe (Station No. 3); thence N. 37° 32′ 40″ E. to the mean lower low-water line a distance of 113.35 meters, more or less (Station No. 4); thence following the meander line of mean lower low water of the Iloilo River southeastward and of the Straits of Iloilo southwestward and northwestward until it intersects a line passing through Station No. 1, and bearing therefrom S. 37° 32′ 40″ W. (Station No. 5); thence N. 37° 32′ 40″ E. a distance of 40.72 meters, more or less, to Station No. 1, the point of beginning. Bearings true. Magnetic declination about 1° 32′ east. The above tract contains 34.501 hectares, more or less, and is shown on a map marked \"Military Reservation, Fort San Pedro, No. 28, Iloilo, Panay, P. I. Surveyed by Detachment of Co. 'I,' 3d Batt. of Engrs., under 1st Lieut. W. P. Stokey, Corps of Engrs., April, 1905\""], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders No. 161, War Dept., September 30, 1905)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Redrew the military reservation at Fort San Pedro near Iloilo, Panay, amending a 1903 order so it covers only the public lands within the new bounds.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Fort San Pedro", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Panay", "kind": "island", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-09-18", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-352", "type": "executive_order", "number": "352", "tr_sequence": 265, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-09-19", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of John B. Goff and D. P. Wells as Assistant Forest Rangers in Forest Service Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_352", "revid": 1845576, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 91"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. John B. Goff and Mr. D. P. Wells may be appointed as assistant forest rangers, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, without examination under the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 91)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, September 19, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed John B. Goff and D. P. Wells to be appointed assistant forest rangers in the Forest Service without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["John B. Goff", "D. P. Wells"], "significance": 1, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-09-19", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-352-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "352-A", "tr_sequence": 266, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-09-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Prescribing Regulations for Presentation of the Congressional Medal of Honor", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_352-A", "revid": 1853074, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The presentation of a medal of honor to an officer or enlisted man in the military service, awarded under the joint resolution of Congress approved July 12, 1862, and the act of Congress approved March 3, 1863, will always be made with formal and impressive ceremonial.", "The recipient will, when practicable, be ordered to Washington, D. C., and the presentation will be made by the President, as Commander in Chief, or by such representative as the President may designate.", "When not practicable to have the presentation at Washington, the details of time, place, and ceremony will be prescribed by the Chief of Staff for each case.", "On campaign, the presentation will be made by the division or higher commander."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, September 20, 1905. == Notes == See Related: Executive Order 10765, April 24, 1958", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Required that the Medal of Honor be presented with formal ceremony, by the President or his representative in Washington when practicable; otherwise as the Chief of Staff directs, or by a division or higher commander on campaign.", "categories": ["military-naval", "ceremonial"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-09-20", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-352-b", "type": "executive_order", "number": "352-B", "tr_sequence": 267, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-09-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Approving Acting War Secretary Recommendation of September 18, 1905, to Reserve Lands at Safety Harbor and Old Woman, Alaska, for Military Telegraph Purposes", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_352-B", "revid": 1889996, "printed_source": "General Orders No. 161, War Dept., September 30, 1905"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The following is the description from the Department of War's General Order No. 161 of 1905, not the actual order text, which was in the form of an approval of a recommendation from the Acting Secretary of War.", "The President of the United States, by order dated September 21, 1905, reserved for the use of the Signal Corps, U. S. Army, in the matter of the operation of military cable and telegraph lines in Alaska, subject to private rights, all public lands at Safety Harbor and Old Woman, Alaska, included within boundaries described, respectively, as follows, viz:", "At Safety Harbor: Starting from an initial stake marked \"No. 1, N. E. cor. U. S. M. R.\" true west 1,017 feet to the bank of Port Safety Lagoon, mean low-water mark; also from initial stake No. 1, true south 600 feet to a stake marked \"No. 2, S. E. cor. U. S. M. R.;\" thence true west 1,118 feet to the bank of Port Safety Lagoon, mean low-water mark; thence north following the sinuosities of the bank of lagoon to the intersection of the west end of the north limit. Said plot consists of approximately 14.7 acres. From initial stake a Coast and Geodetic Survey tripod on the north bank of safety harbor has a bearing of N. 21° E.; the outermost visible point of Cape Nome bears S. 35° W. All true bearings. Variations 19° E.", "At Old Woman: Starting at a spruce stump, 4 feet over ground, as an initial stake, located on the north bank of the Unalaklik River, marked \"I. S. U. S. M. R.;\" thence true north 790 feet to a stake No. 2, 4 feet over ground, marked \"N. E. cor. U. S. M. R.;\" thence true west 1,000 feet to a stake No. 3, 4 feet over ground, marked \"N. W. cor. U. S. M. R.;\" thence true south 1,060 feet to a stake, 4 feet overground, marked \"No. 4, S. W. cor. U. S. M. R.;\" thence true east 1,000 feet, crossing the Unalaklik River, to a stake, 4 feet overground, marked \"No. 5, S. E. cor. U. S. M. R.;\" thence true north 270 feet to the initial stake. Said plot consists of approximately 24.34 acres. All true bearings."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders No. 161, War Dept., September 30, 1905)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved public lands at Safety Harbor and Old Woman, Alaska, for the Army Signal Corps' military cable and telegraph lines, subject to private rights.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Safety Harbor", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}, {"name": "Old Woman", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-09-21", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-353", "type": "executive_order", "number": "353", "tr_sequence": 268, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-09-22", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Mary E. Enright in Bureau of Engraving and Printing Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_353", "revid": 1845580, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 91"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. Mary E. Enright may be reinstated in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing without regard to the time limit of eligibility for reinstatement."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 91)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, September 22, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Mary E. Enright be reinstated in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing despite the time limit on eligibility for reinstatement.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "restore", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Mary E. Enright"], "significance": 1, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-09-22", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-593", "type": "proclamation", "number": "593", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-09-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Dixie Forest Reserve, Utah", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 593, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-593"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3147, "last_page": 3148, "cite": "34 Stat. 3147–3148", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3147.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-09-25", "table_title": "Setting apart the Dixie Forest Reserve, Utah."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Utah, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Utah, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the north-east corner of Section seventeen (17). Township thirty-eight (38) South. Range thirteen (13) West, Salt Lake Meridian, Utah; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence easterly to the northeast corner of Township thirty-nine (39) South, Range thirteen (13) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township forty (40) South. Range thirteen (13) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Township forty (40) South. Range fourteen (14) West; thence westerly along the Eighth (8th) Standard Parallel South, allowing for the proper offset, to the south-west corner of Township forty (40) South, Range sixteen (16) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence westerly to the boundary line between the States of Nevada and Utah; thence northerly along said state boundary line to the township line between Townships thirty-six (36) and thirty-seven (37) South; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township thirty-seven (37) South. Range nineteen (19) West; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township thirty-seven (37) South, Range eighteen (18) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township thirty-seven (37) South, Range sixteen (16) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township thirty-seven (37) South. Range fifteen (15) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township thirty-eight (38) South, Range fourteen (14) West; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18). Township thirty-eight (38) South. Range thirteen (13) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township, the place of beginning: such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as the Dixie Forest Reserve.", "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 25th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine [SEAL.] hundred and five, and [seal.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3147", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Dixie Forest Reserve, Utah.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Utah.", "Description.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Name."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Francis B. Loomis", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Dixie Forest Reserve on public timberland in Utah, setting it apart from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Dixie Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-09-25", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Dixie National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "origin", "state": "Utah", "since": "1905-09-25", "source": "research entry", "story": 55}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-354", "type": "executive_order", "number": "354", "tr_sequence": 269, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-09-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Transfer of W. E. Hall to Clerk in Treasury Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_354", "revid": 1845584, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 91"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. W. E. Hall may be transferred from the Isthmian Canal Service to a clerkship, Class D, Treasury Department, without regard to the limitations contained in civil service Rule X, requiring absolute appointment or service of six months next preceding the transfer."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 91)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, September 26, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Permitted W. E. Hall to move from the Isthmian Canal Service to a Class D clerkship in the Treasury Department, waiving civil service Rule X's six-month service requirement.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "transfer", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["W. E. Hall"], "significance": 1, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-09-26", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-594", "type": "proclamation", "number": "594", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-10-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlargement of the Madison Forest Reserve, Montana", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 594, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-594"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3148, "last_page": 3150, "cite": "34 Stat. 3148–3150", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3148.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-10-03", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Madison Forest Reserve, Montana."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, The Madison Forest Reserve, in the State of Montana, was established by proclamation dated August sixteenth, nineteen hundred and two, under and by virtue of section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled. “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, which provides, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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”, that “the President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve ”, under which provision the boundary lines of the said forest reserve were changed and the area thereof reduced by proclamation dated March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and five;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by including within the said forest reserve certain additional lands, within the State of Montana, which are in part covered with timber;", "3149 Now therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do hereby make known and proclaim that the boundary lines of the aforesaid Madison Forest Reserve are hereby so changed and enlarged as to read as follows:", "Beginning at the point where the western boundary of the Yellowstone National Park intersects the boundary line between the States of Montana and Idaho: thence in a general north-westerly and south-westerly direction along said state boundary line to its intersection with the range line between Ranges one (1) and two (2) East: thence northerly to the south-east corner of Township thirteen (13) South, Range one (1) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence northerly to the southeast corner of Township twelve (12) South, Range one (1) West; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Township twelve (12) South, Range six (6) West: thence northerly to the north-east corner of said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township twelve (12) South, Range five (5) West; thence northerly, allowing for the proper offset on the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel South, to the north-west corner of Township ten (10) South, Range four (4) West; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33). Township nine (9) South. Range four (4) West; thence northerly to the north-west, corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence northerly to the northwest corner of Section thirty (30), Township seven (7) South, Range three (3) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence southerly to the southeast corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly to the northwest corner of Township eight (8) South, Range one (1) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said township: thence easterly to the south-east corner of said township; thence southerly along the Principal Meridian to its intersection with the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel South; thence easterly along said parallel to its intersection with the western boundary of the Yellowstone National Park; thence southerly along the western boundary of said park to its intersection with the boundary line between the States of Montana and Idaho, the place of beginning;", "And further beginning at the north-west corner of Section twenty-six (26). Township one (1) South. Range three (3) West, Principal Meridian. Montana ; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence westerly to the north-west comer of Section three (3), Township two (2) South, Range three (3) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25),said township; thence southerly to the southwest corner of Township two (2) South. Range two (2) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section four (4). Township three (3) South. Range two (2) West: thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section nine (9). Township five (5) South, Range two (2) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section seven (7). Township five (5) South, Range three (3) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Township five (5) South, Range four (4) West: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34). Township four (4) South, Range four (4) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), said township; thence westerly to the southwest corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township three (3) South. Range five (5) West: thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence easterly to the southeast corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five, (35). Township two (2) South. Range five (5) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township two (2) South, Range four (4) West; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty (20), Township one (1) South, Range four (4) West: thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section eight (8). Township one (1) South, Range three (3) West: thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township: thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section, the place of beginning;", "Such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys:", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 3d day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and [seal.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3148", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Madison Forest Reserve. Mont.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 32. p. 2024.", "Ante, p. 2995.", "Vol. 20, p. 1103.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Ante. p. 2995.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Description.", "Madison Forest Reserve — Continued.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Madison Forest Reserve in Montana, adding public lands partly covered with timber and redrawing its boundaries.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Madison Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-10-03", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "proc-490", "relation": "enlarges", "note": "Enlarged the Madison reserve of August 16, 1902.", "story": 55, "date": "1902-08-16", "title": "Establishment of the Madison Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "490"}, {"id": "proc-541", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The March 1905 Madison boundary change.", "story": 55, "date": "1905-03-28", "title": "Modification of the Boundaries of the Madison Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "541"}]}
{"id": "proc-595", "type": "proclamation", "number": "595", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-10-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Big Belt Forest Reserve, Montana", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 595, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-595"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3151, "last_page": 3157, "cite": "34 Stat. 3151–3157", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3151.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-10-03", "table_title": "Setting apart the Big Belt Forest Reserve, Montana."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof“:", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Montana, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Montana, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the north-east corner of Section five (5). Township eight (8) North. Range five (5) East. Principal Meridian. Montana; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section sixteen (16), Township seven (7) North. Range five (5) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section three (3). Town-ship (6) North. Range five (5) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township: thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township six (6) North. Range four (4) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section three (3), Township five (5) North. Range four (4) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section two (2), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section eleven (11), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section seven (7). Township five (5) North. Range five (5) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section eight (8), said township: thence southerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section nine (9), said township: thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section ten (10), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township five (5) North. Range six (5) East: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section seventeen (17), said township: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township: thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence easterly to the south-east .corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirteen (13), said township: thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly, allowing for the offset on the First (1st) Standard Parallel North, to the south-east corner of Section two (2), Township four (4) North. Range six (6) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township: thence easterly to the south-east corner of said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township four (4) North. Range seven (7) East; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section nineteen (19), said township: thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty (20), said town-ship; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section four (4), Township three (3) North. Range seven (7) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section eight (8), said township: thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township three (3) North, Range six (6) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section two (2), Township two (2) North, Range six (6) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section one (1), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence southerly to the south-west Corner of Section seven (7), Township two (2) North, Range seven (7) East; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section seven-teen (17), said township; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section: thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section fourteen (14), said township: thence easterly to the south-west comer of Section twelve (12), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section: thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section eighteen (18), Township two (2) North. Range eight (8) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township two (2) North, Range seven (7) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), Township one (1) North. Range seven (7) East: thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence southerly to the south-west comer of Section eleven (11), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence southerly to the south-west comer of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section nineteen (19), Township one (1) North. Range eight (8) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township: thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), Township one (1) South. Range eight (8) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township: thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township one (1) South. Range seven (7) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence northerly to the north-cast corner of Section four (4), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33). Town-ship one (1) North. Range seven (7) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township: thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section: thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section five (5). Town-ship one (1) South. Range seven (7) East: thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), Township one (1) South. Range six (6) East: thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township one (1) North. Range six (6) East; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty (20), said town-ship: thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section: thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township two (2) North, Range six (6) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24). Township two (2) North. Range five. (5) East: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), Township three (3) North, Range five (5) East: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township four (4) North, Range six (6)East: thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section live (5),said town ship; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section six (6),said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township five(5) North, Range six (6) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25). Township five (5) North, Range five (5) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section: thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section: thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section five (5), Township four (4) North. Range five (5) East: thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section six (6), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section five (5). Township four (4) North, Range four (4) East: thence northerly, allowing for the offset on the First (1st) Standard Parallel North, to the north-east corner of Section nineteen (19), Township five (5) North, Range four (4) East: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township: thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12). Township five (5) North. Range three (3) East : thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section one (1), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section two (2), said township: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35). Township six (6) North. Range three (3) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township: thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), Township six (6) North, Range four (4) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township seven (7) North. Range four (4) East: thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township: thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township eight (8) North. Range four (4) East: thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12). Township eight (8) North. Range three (3) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section two (2), said township; thence northerly, allowing for the offset on the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel North, to the north-east corner of Section thirty-four (34). Township nine (9) North. Range three (3) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township: thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section thirteen (13), Township nine (9) North. Range two (2) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), Town-ship ten (10) North, Range two (2) East: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section thirteen (13), Township ten (10) North. Range one (1) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Township ten (10) North, Range one (1) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33). Township eleven (11) North. Range one (1) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said town-ship; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), Township eleven (11) North. Range two (2) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly along the township line to its intersection with the Missouri River; thence in a general northwesterly direction down the middle of the channel of said river to its intersection with the section line between Sections eleven (11) and twelve (12). Township twelve (12) North, Range three (3) West; thence northerly along the section lines to the intersection of the section line between Sections one (1) and two (2), said township, with the said river; thence in a general northeasterly direction down the middle of the channel of said river to its intersection with the range line be-tween Section eighteen (18), Township thirteen (13) North, Range two (2) West, and Section thirteen (13). Township thirteen (13) North, Range three (3) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township thirteen (13) North, Range two (2) West; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section five (5), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Township fourteen (14) North, Range two (2) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township fourteen (14) North, Range one (1) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section fourteen (14), Town-ship thirteen (13) North. Range one (1) West; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence northerly to the, north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Town-ship thirteen (13) North, Range one (1) East; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eight (8), said town-ship; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section seven (7), Township thirteen (13) North, Range two (2) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence southerly, allowing for the offset on the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel North, to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), Township twelve (12) North, Range two (2) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-four (24), said town-ship; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township: thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township eleven (11) North. Range three (3) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence southVOL XXXIV, PT 3——21 erly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township ten (10) North. Range four (4) East; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township nine (9) North, Range four (4) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said town-ship: thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), Township eight (8) North, Range five (5) East, the place of beginning:", "And further beginning at the south-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), Township twelve (12) North, Range four (4) East, Principal Meridian, Montana: thence westerly, allowing for the offset on the range line, to the south-west corner of Section twenty (20), Township twelve (12) North, Range three (3) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section five (5), said town-ship; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), township thirteen (13) North. Range three (3) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-six (2G), said township; thence easterly, allowing for the offset on the range line, to the north-east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), Township thirteen (13) North. Range four (4) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section three (3). Town-ship twelve (12) North. Range four (4) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township: thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township, the place of beginning;", "Such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as the Big Belt Forest Reserve.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF. I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.", "3157 Done at the City of Washington this 3d day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, [SEAL.]and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3151", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Big Belt Forest Reserve, Mont.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Post. p. 3283.", "Forest reserve, Montana.", "Description.", "Big Belt Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Big Belt Forest", "Reserve—Continued.", "Big Belt Forest Reserve —Continued.", "Big Belt Forest", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Name."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Big Belt Forest Reserve on public timberland in Montana and reserved it from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Big Belt Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-10-03", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Big Belt was divided in 1908 between the Gallatin and the Helena; its Gallatin share lies today in the Custer Gallatin.", "source": "E.O.s 879, 881; Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "date": "1908-07-01", "story": 55}], "today": [{"name": "Custer Gallatin National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Montana", "source": "Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "story": 55}, {"name": "Helena–Lewis and Clark National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Montana", "source": "Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "story": 55}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-879", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Part of Big Belt went to the Gallatin.", "story": 55, "date": "1908-07-01", "title": "Gallatin National Forest, Mont., Modified", "type": "executive_order", "number": "879"}, {"id": "eo-881", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Part of Big Belt went to the Helena.", "story": 55, "date": "1908-07-01", "title": "Helena National Forest, Mont., Modified", "type": "executive_order", "number": "881"}]}
{"id": "proc-596", "type": "proclamation", "number": "596", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-10-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Shasta Forest Reserve, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 596, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-596"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3157, "last_page": 3162, "cite": "34 Stat. 3157–3162", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3157.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-10-03", "table_title": "Setting apart the Shasta Forest Reserve, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”. “That the President of the United States may. from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof ”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of California, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of California, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Section three (3), Township forty-two (42) North, Range four (4) West. Mount Diablo Base and Meridian. California: thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township: thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6). Township forty-two (42) North, Range three (3) West: thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section three (3), said township: thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34). Township forty-three (43) North, Range three (3) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township: thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-three (23), Township forty-three (43) North, Range two (2) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-three (23). Township forty-three (43) North, Range one (1) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section: thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township forty-two (42) North, Range one (1) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township: thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section sixteen (16), said township: thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty- six (36), Township forty-two (42) North, Range one (1) West; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section eleven (11), Township forty-one (41) North, Range one (1) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section: thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirteen (13), Township forty-one (41) North, Range two (2) West; thence southerly, allowing for the offset on the Eighth (8th) Standard Parallel North, to the south-east corner of Section eleven (11). Township forty (40) North, Range two (2) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section seventeen (17), said township: thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19). Township forty (40) North, Range three (3) West: thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), Township forty (40) North, Range four (4) West: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section two (2), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township forty-one (41) North, Range four (4) West ; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3). Township forty-two (42) North, Range four (4) West, the place of beginning;", "And further beginning at the north-east corner of Section six (6), Township forty-one (41) North, Range five (5) West, Mount Diablo Base and Meridian. California; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section four (4). Township forty (40) North, Range five (5) West; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section sixteen (16), said township: thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section: thence southerly, allowing for the offset on the township line, to the south-west corner of Section twelve (12). Township thirty-nine (39) North, Range five (5) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section eighteen (18), Township thirty-nine (39) North, Range four (4) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section nine (9), Township thirty-eight (38) North, Range four (4) West: thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section seventeen (17), said township: thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township thirty-eight (38) North, Range five (5) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section two (2). Township thirty-seven (37) North, Range five (5) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section: thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section: thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24). Township thirty-seven (37) North, Range six (6) West ; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section two (2), Township thirty-six (36) North, Range six (6) West; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Section seven (7). Township thirty-six (36) North, Range five (5) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty (20), said township: thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), Township thirty-five (35) North, Range five (5) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township: thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township: thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township thirty-five (35) North, Range six (6) West: thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section: thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township thirty-five (35) North, Range seven (7) West: thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-five (35). Township thirty-four (34) North, Range seven (7) West; thence westerly to the. north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township thirty-four (34) North, Range eight (8) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township: thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36). Township thirty-four (34) North, Range nine (7) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36). Township thirty-four (34) North, Range ten (10) West: thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section nine (9).said township: thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township thirty-four (34) North, Range eleven (11) West; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section four (4), Township thirty-five (35) North, Range eleven (11) West; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township thirty-six (36) North, Range eleven (11) West: thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section ten (10), said township: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section seven (7), Township thirty-six (36) North, Range ten (10) West: thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), Township thirty-seven (37) North, Range ten (10) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township thirty-eight (38) North, Range ten (10) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Township thirty-nine (39) North, Range ten (10) West: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township forty (40) North, Range ten (10) West: thence northerly to the north-east corner of fractional Section five (5), said township: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township forty-one (41) North, Range ten (10) West: thence northerly to the north-west corner ofaid township: thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township: thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section: thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township forty (40) North, Range nine (9) West; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section: thence, southerly to the south-west corner of said section: thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section: thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township: thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township forty (40) North, Range eight (8) West: thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section: thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18). Township forty (40) North, Range seven (7) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section: thence northerly to the north-west corner of fractional Section five (5), said township: thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-one (31). Township forty-one (41) North, Range seven (7) West: thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section: thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township: thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township: thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section: thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section five (5). Township forty-one (41) North, Range six (6) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), Township forty-one (41) North, Range five (a) West, the place of beginning;", "And further beginning at the north-west corner of Section twenty-nine (29), Township thirty-nine (39) North, Range one (1) West, Mount Diablo Base and Meridian. California; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township: thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19). Township thirty-nine (39) North, Range one (1) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section eleven (11), fractional Township thirty-eight (38) North, Range one (1) East: thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township: thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township thirty- seven (37) North, Range one (1) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township thirty-eight (38) North, Range two (2) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section eight (8), fractional Township thirty-seven (37) North, Range two (2) East; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township: thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township: thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section one (1), Township thirty-six (36) North, Range two (2) East: thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section eleven (11), said township: thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section sixteen (16), said township: thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township: thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section: thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section: thence westerly, allowing for the offset on the range line, to the north-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township thirty-six (36) North, Range one (1) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township: thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-three (33). Township thirty-seven (37) North, Range one (1) East: thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section sixteen (16), said township: thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section: thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section fourteen (14). Township thirty-seven (37) North, Range one (1) West: thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section: thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township: thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3). Township thirty-six (36) North, Range one (1) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section nine (9), said township: thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly, allowing for the offset on the Seventh (7th) Standard Parallel North, to the north-west corner of Section nine (9), Township thirty-five (35) North, Range one (1) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section: thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section: thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section: thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section: thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section three (3), Township thirty-four (34) North, Range one (1) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section sixteen (16), said township: thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township thirty-four (34) North, Range two (2) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36). Township thirty-five (35) North, Range three (3) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section: thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence northerly to the south-west comer of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west comer of said section; thence northerly to the north-east comer of Section five (5), said township; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Township thirty-six (3(5) North, Range four (4) West: thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), said township; thence northerly to the north-west comer of Section thirty (30). Township thirty-seven (37) North, Range four (4) West: thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township thirty-eight (38) North, Range four (4) West; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6). Township thirty-eight (38) North, Range three (3) West; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), Township thirty-nine (39) North, Range one (1) West: thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township, the place of beginning;", "Such of the above-named comers as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as the Shasta Forest Reserve.", "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 3d day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [SEAL.]the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3157", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Shasta Forest Reserve. Cal.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Post, p. 3235.", "Forest reserve, California.", "Description.", "Shasta Forest Re-serve—Continued.", "Shasta Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Shasta Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Shasta Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Name."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Shasta Forest Reserve on public timberland in California, closing it to settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Shasta Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-10-03", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Shasta continued under its own name.", "source": "Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "story": 55}], "today": [{"name": "Shasta-Trinity National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "California", "note": "Trinity and Shasta are today joined as the Shasta-Trinity.", "source": "research entry", "story": 55}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-597", "type": "proclamation", "number": "597", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-10-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlargement and Name Change of Lake Tahoe Forest Reserve, California and Nevada to the Tahoe Forest Reserve", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 597, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-597"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3163, "last_page": 3165, "cite": "34 Stat. 3163–3165", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3163.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-10-03", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Tahoe Forest Reserve, California and Nevada."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Lake Tahoe Forest Reserve, in the State of California, was established by proclamation dated April thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, under and by virtue of section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes ”, which provides, “ That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”:", "And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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”, that “the President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter lie made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by including within the said forest reserve certain additional lands, within the States of California and Nevada, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do hereby make known and proclaim that the boundary lines of the aforesaid Lake Tahoe Forest Reserve are hereby so changed and enlarged as to read as follows:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Township seventeen (17) North, Range twelve (12) East. Mount Diablo Base and Meridian, California: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township seventeen (17) North, Range seventeen (17) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), Township seventeen (17) North, Range eighteen (18) East ; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section four (4), said township, in the State of Nevada; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township eighteen (18) North, Range eighteen (18) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), Township eighteen (18) North, Range nineteen (19) East: thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township seven-teen (17) North, Range nineteen (19) East: thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of east lot two (2) in Section six (6), Township sixteen (16) North, Range nineteen (19) East: thence southerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Township fifteen (15) North, Range eighteen (18) East; thence southerly to the southOctober 3, 1905. east corner of Section one (1), said township: thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section: thence westerly along the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel North to its intersection with the shore-line of Lake Tahoe; thence in a general northwesterly and southerly direction along said shore-line to the north-east corner of lot six (6) in Section twenty-two (22), Township thirteen (13) North, Range seventeen (17) East. Mount Diablo Base and Meridian, California; thence southeasterly in a direct line to the north-east corner of lot one (1) in said section; thence in a general southeasterly direction along said shore-line to the point where it is intersected by the range line between Ranges seventeen (17) and eighteen (18) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township twelve (12) North, Range eighteen (18) East: thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township: thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section: thence northerly to the north-east corner of lot fourteen (14) in Section three (3), said township: thence westerly to the south-west corner of lot three (3) in said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said lot; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township thirteen (13) North, Range eighteen (18) East; thence northerly along the section line to its intersection with the shore-line of Lake Tahoe; thence in a general northeasterly direction along said shore-line to the point where it is intersected by the boundary line between the States of California and Nevada; thence in a general southeasterly direction along said state-boundary line to its intersection with the township line between Townships twelve (12) and thirteen (13) North; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), Township twelve (12) North, Range nine-teen (19) East, Mount Diablo Base and Meridian. Nevada: thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence southerly along the section lines to the point of intersection with the boundary line between the States of California and Nevada; thence in a general southeasterly direction along said state-boundary line to its intersection with the section line between Sections twenty-six (26) and twenty-seven (27), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section fifteen (15), Township eleven (11) North, Range nineteen (19) East, Mount Diablo Base and Meridian, California; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township eleven (11) North, Range sixteen (1G) East; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Township twelve (12) North, Range fifteen (15) East: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township: thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nine (9), Township twelve (12) North, Range fourteen (14) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), Township thirteen (13) North, Range fourteen (14) East; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), Township thirteen (13) North, Range thirteen (13) East: thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section four (4), Township twelve (12) North, Range thirteen (13) East: thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section one (1), Township twelve (12) North, Range twelve (12) East: thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Township thirteen (13) North, Range eleven (11) East: thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township: thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section: thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section: thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section ten (10), said township: thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section: thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section five (5), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township fourteen (14) North, Range eleven (11) East: thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nine (9), said township: thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), Township fifteen (15) North, Range ten (10) East: thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section: thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section: thence northerly to the north-east corner of said township: thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township sixteen (16) North, Range eleven (11) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township: thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section: thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township: thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township seventeen (17) North, Range twelve (12) East, the place of beginning; .", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful tiling duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "This reservation shall be known hereafter as the Tahoe Forest Reserve.", "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 3d day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [seal.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3163", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Tahoe Forest Reserve. Cal. and Nev.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 31, p. 1953.", "Vol, 26, p. 1103.", "Post, p. 3232.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Description.", "Tahoe Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Tahoe Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Change of name."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Expanded the Lake Tahoe Forest Reserve with added timberland in California and Nevada and renamed it the Tahoe Forest Reserve.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Lake Tahoe Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}, {"name": "Tahoe Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Nevada"}], "states": ["California", "Nevada"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-10-03", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Today's Tahoe National Forest takes its name from this 1905 renaming of the older Lake Tahoe reserve.", "source": "research entry", "story": 55}], "today": [{"name": "Tahoe National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "renamed", "state": "California and Nevada", "note": "The proclamation enlarged the Lake Tahoe reserve and renamed it the Tahoe Forest Reserve.", "source": "research entry", "story": 55}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-652", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The Yuba reserve was combined with the Tahoe in 1906.", "story": 55, "date": "1906-09-17", "title": "Consolidating the Yuba Forest Reserve with the Tahoe Forest Reserve, California and Nevada", "type": "proclamation", "number": "652"}]}
{"id": "proc-598", "type": "proclamation", "number": "598", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-10-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Tonto Forest Reserve, Arizona", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 598, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-598"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3166, "last_page": 3168, "cite": "34 Stat. 3166–3168", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3166.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-10-03", "table_title": "Setting apart the Tonto Forest Reserve, Arizona."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, ”That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the Territory of Arizona, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the Territory of Arizona, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Township twelve (12) North, Range seven (7) East. Gila and Salt River Meridian, Arizona; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section nineteen (19), Township eleven and one-half (111) North, Range seven (7) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township eleven (11) North, Range seven (7) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township eleven (11) North, Range eight (8) East: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), Township ten (10) North, Range eight (8) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence easterly to the north-east comer of Section nine (9), said township: thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section four-teen (14), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township: thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the mirth-west corner of Township nine (9) North, Range eight (8) East: thence southerly, allowing for the proper offset on the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel North, to the south-west corner of Township eight (8) North, Range eight (8) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township seven (7) North, Range eight (8) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section three (3), Township six (6) North, Range eight (8) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township six (6) North, Range nine (9) East: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section four (4), Township five (5) North, Range nine (9) East: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township five (5) North, Range ten (10) East: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), Township four (4) North, Range ten (10) East: thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township: thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section three (3), Township three (3) North, Range ten (10) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section two (2), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section nine (9), Township three (3) North, Range eleven (11) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section three (3), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), Township four (4) North, Range eleven (11) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), said township; thence northerly, allowing for the proper offset on the First (1st) Standard Parallel North, to the north-west corner of Township six (6) North, Range eleven (11) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), Township six (6) North, Range twelve (12) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section ten (10), said township: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township six (6) North, Range thirteen (13) East: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), Township five (5) North, Range thirteen (13) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section five (5), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township five (5) North, Range fourteen (14) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), Township four (4) North, Range fourteen (14) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section ten (10), said township: thence easterly along the section lines to the point of intersection with the western boundary of the White Mountain or San Carlos Indian Reservation, or the prolongation thereof; thence in a general northerly direction along the boundary of said reservation to its intersection with the southern boundary of the Black Mesa Forest Reserve: thence in a general north-westerly direction along the boundary of said forest reserve and the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel North to the north-west corner of Township twelve (12) North, Range seven (7) East, the place of beginning: such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys:", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as the Tonto Forest Reserve.", "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 3d day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [seal.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3166", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Tonto Forest Reserve, Ariz.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26. p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Arizona.", "Description.", "Tonto Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Tonto Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Forest reserve, Arizona.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Name."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Tonto Forest Reserve on public timberland in the Territory of Arizona and reserved it from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Tonto Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-10-03", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Tonto National Forest traces directly to this 1905 reserve, and in 1908 it took in the Pinal Mountains reserve as well.", "source": "research entry; Proc. 795", "date": "1908-01-13", "story": 55}], "today": [{"name": "Tonto National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "origin", "state": "Arizona", "since": "1905-10-03", "source": "research entry", "story": 55}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-539", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Pinal Mountains, the other 1905 Arizona reserve, later joined the Tonto.", "story": 55, "date": "1905-03-20", "title": "Establishing the Pinal Mountains Forest Reserve, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "539"}, {"id": "proc-787", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 25, "inferred": true, "date": "1907-12-19", "title": "Establishment of the Tonto National Monument, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "787"}, {"id": "proc-795", "relation": "enlarged_by", "note": "Enlarged the Tonto and folded in the Pinal Mountains reserve.", "story": 55, "date": "1908-01-13", "title": "Enlarging Tonto National Forest, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "795"}]}
{"id": "proc-599", "type": "proclamation", "number": "599", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-10-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Hell Gate Forest Reserve, Montana", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 599, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-599"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3168, "last_page": 3174, "cite": "34 Stat. 3168–3174", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3168.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-10-03", "table_title": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled. “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof ”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the State of Montana, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Montana, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township thirteen (13) North, Range eighteen (18) West, Principal Meridian. Montana; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section: thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township twelve (12) North, Range eighteen (18) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township twelve (12) North, Range seventeen (17) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section three (3), Township eleven (11) North, Range seventeen (17) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section eighteen (18), Township eleven (11) North, Range sixteen (16) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly, allowing for the offset on the range line, to the north-east corner of Section twenty (20), Township eleven (11) North, Range fifteen (15) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-eight (28), Township eleven (11) North, Range fourteen (11) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section: thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section eight (8), Township ten (10) North, Range fourteen (14) West: thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section seventeen (17), said township: thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township ten (10) North, Range fifteen (15) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section eleven (11), Township nine (9) North, Range fifteen (15) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section eighteen (18), Township nine (9) North, Range fourteen (14) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said township: thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township nine (9) North, Range thirteen (13) West; thence southerly, allowing for the offset on the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel North, to the south-east corner of Section eight (8), Township eight (8) North, Range thirteen (13) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township eight (8) North, Range fourteen (14) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), Township seven (7) North, Range fourteen (14) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section one (1), Township seven (7) North, Range fifteen (15) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township eight (8) North, Range fifteen (15) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section six-teen (16), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nine (9), said township: thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Township seven (7) North, Range fifteen (15) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section one (1), Township seven (7) North, Range sixteen (16) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section two (2), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section five (5), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township: thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township six (6) North, Range sixteen (16) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township five (5) North, Range sixteen (16) West: thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the north- west corner of Section thirty-one (31), Township five (5) North, Range fifteen (15) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township five (5) North, Range fourteen (14) West: thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township six (6) North, Range fourteen (14) West: thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township: thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township six (6) North, Range thirteen (13) West; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), Township seven (7) North, Range thirteen (13) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-nine (29), Township eight (8) North, Range thirteen (13) West: thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section sixteen (10), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township nine (9) North, Range thirteen (13) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township nine (9) North, Range twelve (12) West; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section seventeen (17), Township nine (9) North, Range eleven (11) West: thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township eight (8) North, Range eleven (11) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section seven (7), Township eight (8) North, Range ten (10) West; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section: thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty (30), Township six (6) North, Range ten (10) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section: thence southerly to the south-east corner of Township six (6) North, Range eleven (11) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section one (1), Township five (5) North, Range eleven (11) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section two (2), said township: thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township: thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty (20), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), Township live (5) North, Range twelve (12) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), Township four (4) North, Range eleven (11) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section five (5), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township three (3) North, Range eleven (11) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section seven (7), Township three (3) North, Range ten (10) West: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township: thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township three (3) North, Range nine (9) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township two (2) North, Range nine (9) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section thirteen (13), Township two (2) North, Range ten (10) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eleven (11), Township two (2) North, Range eleven (11) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section fifteen (15), Township three (3) North, Range eleven (11) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township four (4) North, Range twelve (12) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township: thence southerly to the south-east corner of Township four (4) North, Range thirteen (13) West: thence westerly to the north-west corner of Township three (3) North, Range thirteen (13) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), Township three (3) North, Range fourteen (14) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township: thence westerly to the north-west corner of Township two (2) North, Range fourteen (14) West: thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), Township two (2) North, Range fifteen (15) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township two (2) North, Range sixteen (16) West: thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Township two (2) North, Range seventeen (17) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section four (4), Township one ( 1) North, Range seventeen (17) West: thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section five (5), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section seven (7), said township: thence southerly to the south-east corner of Township one (1) North, Range eighteen (18) West: thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), Township one (1) South. Range eighteen (18) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section ten (10), said township, thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Township one (1) South. Range nineteen (19) West: thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-two (32), Township one (1) North, Range nineteen (19) West: thence northerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section five (5), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township two (2) North, Range twenty (20) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township: thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township three (3) North, Range twenty (20) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section: thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township: thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly, allowing for the offset on the section line between Sections six (6) and seven (7), said township, to the north-west corner of Section seventeen (17), Township four (4) North, Range twenty (20) West: thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Township five (5) North, Range twenty (20) West: thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-one (31), Township five (5) North, Range nineteen (19) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section ; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township six (6) North, Range nineteen (l9) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), Township seven (7) North, Range nineteen (19) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), said township: thence easterly to the south-east corner of Township eight (8) North, Range nineteen (19) West; thence northerly, allowing for the offset on the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel North, to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township nine (9) North, Range eighteen (18) West: thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section five (5), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section: thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township ten (10) North, Range eighteen (18) West: thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), Township eleven (11) North, Range eighteen (18) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty (30), said township: thence northerly to the northeast corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township eleven (11) North, Range nineteen (19) West: thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twelve (12), said township: thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly, allowing for the offset on the township line, to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township twelve (12) North, Range eighteen (18) West: thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section nineteen (19), said township: thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), Township thirteen (13) North, Range eighteen (18) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township, the place of beginning; such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys:", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office. or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as the Hell Gate Forest Reserve.", "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 3d day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [seal.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3168", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; 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Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Hell Gate Forest Reserve, Mont.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Post, pp. 3213, 3230.", "Forest reserve, Montana.", "Description.", "Hell Gate Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Hell Gate Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Hell Gate Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Hell Gate Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Hell Gate Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Name."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Hell Gate Forest Reserve on public timberland in Montana, setting the land aside from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Hell Gate Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-10-03", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Hell Gate was divided in 1908 among the Beaverhead, Deerlodge, Missoula and Bitterroot forests.", "source": "E.O.s 877, 880, 882, 883; Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "date": "1908-07-01", "story": 55}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-877", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Part of Hell Gate went to the new Beaverhead.", "story": 55, "date": "1908-07-01", "title": "Beaverhead National Forest, Mont., Created", "type": "executive_order", "number": "877"}, {"id": "eo-880", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Part of Hell Gate went to the new Deerlodge.", "story": 55, "date": "1908-07-01", "title": "Deerlodge National Forest, Mont., Created", "type": "executive_order", "number": "880"}, {"id": "eo-882", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Part of Hell Gate went to the Missoula.", "story": 55, "date": "1908-07-01", "title": "Missoula National Forest, Mont., Enlarged", "type": "executive_order", "number": "882"}, {"id": "eo-883", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Part of Hell Gate went to the Bitterroot.", "story": 55, "date": "1908-07-01", "title": "Bitterroot National Forest, Mont., Enlarged", "type": "executive_order", "number": "883"}]}
{"id": "proc-600", "type": "proclamation", "number": "600", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-10-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Modifying the Boundaries of the Lincoln Forest Reserve, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 600, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-600"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3175, "last_page": 3177, "cite": "34 Stat. 3175–3177", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3175.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-10-03", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Lincoln Forest Reserve, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Lincoln Forest Reserve, in the Teritory of New Mexico, was established by proclamation dated July twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and two, under and by virtue of section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled. “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes ”, which provides, “ That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof ”;", "And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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”, that “the President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by releasing and excluding certain lands from the said forest reserve, and by including therein certain additional lands, in the Territory of New Mexico, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do hereby make known and proclaim that the boundary lines of the aforesaid Lincoln Forest Reserve are hereby so changed as to read as follows:", "Beginning at the north-west corner of Township ten (10) South, Range ten (10) East. New Mexico Principal Meridian, New Mexico; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township nine (9) South, Range ten (10) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township: thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner or Section seven (7), Township nine (9) South, Range eleven (11) East; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section six (6), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section five (5), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township eight (8) South, Range eleven (11) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), fractional Township eight (8) South, Range twelve (12) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township seven (7) South, Range eleven (11) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section fourteen (14), said township: thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section one (1), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of fractional Township seven (7) South, Range twelve (12) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section seven (7), Township seven (7) South, Range thirteen (13) East; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township seven (7) South, Range fourteen (14) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section six ((), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-three (28), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), Township seven (7) South, Range fifteen (15) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section seventeen (17), Township seven (7) South, Range sixteen (16) East: thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirteen (13), Township seven (7) South, Range seventeen (17) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township seven. (7) South, Range eighteen (18) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township eight (8) South, Range eighteen (18) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township: thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), Township nine (9) South, Range eighteen (18) East; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section: thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Township nine (9) South, Range seventeen (17) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township: thence westerly to the south-east corner of Township eight (8) South, Range fourteen (14) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township: thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty (30), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township nine (9) South, Range fourteen (14) East; thence easterly along the township line to the western boundary line of the abandoned Fort Stanton Military Reservation; thence in a general southeasterly and northeasterly direction along the boundary of said reservation as extended by Executive order dated November first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for the use of the United States Marine Hospital Service, to the north-west corner of lot two (2) in Section three (3), Township ten (10) South, Range fifteen (15) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township: thence southerly to the south-east corner of Township eleven (11) South, Range fifteen (15) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township eleven (11) South, Range thirteen (13) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township ten (10) South, Range ten (10) East; thence north- erly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township, the place of beginning;", "And further beginning at the north-east corner of Township thirteen (13) South, Range eleven (11) East: thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township thirteen (13) South, Range ten (10) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-nine (29), Township twelve (12) South, Range ten (10) East; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section ; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section two (2), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of lot three (3) in Section one (1), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of lot one (1) in said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township twelve (12) South, Range eleven (11) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township thirteen (13) South, Range eleven (11) East, the place of beginning;", "Such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "The lands hereby excluded from the reserve and restored to the public domain shall be open to settlement from the date hereof, but shall not be subject to entry, filing or selection until after ninety days notice by such publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 3d day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [seal.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3175", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Lincoln Forest Reserve, N. Mex.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 32. p. 2018.", "Vol. 26. p. 1103.", "Post, p. 3216.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Boundaries modified.", "Description.", "Lincoln Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Lincoln Forest Reserve—Continued.", "Lands excepted.", "Restored lands open to settlement.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Redrew the Lincoln Forest Reserve in the Territory of New Mexico, releasing some lands and adding others partly covered with timber; the released lands reopened to settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Lincoln Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-10-03", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "proc-486", "relation": "modifies", "note": "Redrew the Lincoln reserve of July 26, 1902.", "story": 55, "date": "1902-07-26", "title": "Establishment of the Lincoln Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "486"}]}
{"id": "proc-601", "type": "proclamation", "number": "601", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-10-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Portales Forest Reserve, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 601, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-601"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3178, "last_page": 3179, "cite": "34 Stat. 3178–3179", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3178.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-10-03", "table_title": "Setting apart the Portales Forest Reserve, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, ”An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may. from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof ”;", "And whereas, the public lands in the Territory of New Mexico, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the Territory of New Mexico, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:", "Beginning at the. north-west corner of Section four (4) Township two (2) North, Range thirty-two (32) East, New Mexico Principal Meridian, New Mexico; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Section one (1), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section seven (7), Township two (2) North, Range thirty-three (33) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township: thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section two (2), Township one (1) North, Range thirty-three (33) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township: thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section seventeen (17), Township one (1) North, Range thirty-five (35) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section nineteen (19), Township one (1) North, Range thirty-six (36) East: thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly along the section lines to the boundary line between the Territory of New Mexico and the State of Texas, as it now exists or may hereafter be established; thence southerly along said boundary line to the section line between Sections ten (10) and fifteen (15), Township two (2) South, Range thirty-seven (37) East, New Mexico Principal Meridian, New Mexico, or extension thereof; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section eight (8), Township Two (2) South, Range thirty-six (36) East: thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section: thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township one (1) South, Range thirty-five (35) East: thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township: thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nine (9), Township one (1) South, Range thirty-four (34) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section three (3), Township one (1) South, Range thirty-three (33) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section: thence westerly to the south-east corner of Township one (1) North, Range thirty-two (32) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township: thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section nine (9), said township: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township two (2) North, Range thirty-one (31) East: thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section fourteen (14), said township: thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township: thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section four (4), Township two (2) North, Range thirty-two (32) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section, the place of beginning;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "The reservation hereby established shall be known as the Portales Forest Reserve.", "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 3 day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and [seal.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3178", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Portales Forest Reserve. N. Mex.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, New Mexico.", "Description.", "Portales Forest Reserve — Continued.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Name."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Portales Forest Reserve on public land in the Territory of New Mexico and reserved it from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Portales Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-10-03", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Roosevelt revoked the Portales reserve on March 16, 1907, its lands being \"no longer required for experimental forest purposes.\"", "source": "Proc. 741", "date": "1907-03-16", "story": 55}], "today": [{"name": "Portales Forest Reserve", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "abolished", "state": "New Mexico", "note": "Revoked in 1907.", "source": "Proc. 741", "story": 55}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-741", "relation": "revoked_by", "note": "Revoked the Portales reserve.", "story": 55, "date": "1907-03-16", "title": "Revoking Establishment of Portales National Forest, New Mexico", "type": "proclamation", "number": "741"}]}
{"id": "proc-602", "type": "proclamation", "number": "602", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-10-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlargement of the Little Belt Forest Reserve, Montana", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 602, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-602"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3180, "last_page": 3182, "cite": "34 Stat. 3180–3182", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3180.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-10-03", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Little Belt Forest Reserve, Montana."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Little Belt Mountains Forest Reserve, in the State of Montana, was established by proclamation dated August sixteenth, nineteen hundred and two, under and by virtue of section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled. ”An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes which provides, “That the President of the United States may. from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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 ”, that “ the President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve ”;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, within the State of Montana, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do hereby make known and proclaim that the aforesaid Little Belt Mountains Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are, accordingly, changed to read as follows:", "Beginning at the north-east corner of Township fifteen (15) North, Range ten (10) East, Principal Meridian, Montana: thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township fifteen (15) North, Range eleven (11) East: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township fourteen (14) North, Range eleven (11) East: thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township thirteen (13) North, Range eleven (11) East; thence southerly, allowing for the offset on the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel North, to the south-west corner of Township twelve (12) North, Range twelve (12) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township eleven (11) North, Range thirteen (13) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Township ten (10) North, Range thirteen (13) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township ten (10) North, Range ten (10) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Township ten (10) North, Range nine (9) East: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township eleven (11) North, Range nine (9) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), said township: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Township twelve (12) North, Range nine (9) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Township twelve (12) North, Range eight (8) East: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township thirteen (13) North, Range eight (8) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township fifteen (15) North, Range eight (8) East: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township fifteen (15) North, Range ten (10) East, the place of beginning;", "And further beginning at the south-west corner of Section six (6), Township seven (7) North, Range eight (8) East. Principal Meridian Montana ; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township eight (8) North, Range seven (7) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence northerly, allowing for the offset on the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel North, to the north-west corner of Section twenty-six (26), Township nine (9) North, Range seven (7) East; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township: thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section seven (7), Township nine (9) North, Range eight (8) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section eight (8), said township: thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township nine (9) North, Range nine (9) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section ton (10), said township: thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section fourteen (14), said township: thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township: thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township nine (9) North, Range ten (10) East: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section two (2), Township eight (8) North, Range ten (10) East: thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section eleven (11), said township: thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section four (4), said township: thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), Township eight (8) North, Range nine (9) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township: thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), Township eight (8) North, Range eight (8) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township: thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township: thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section: thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), Township seven (7) North, Range eight (8) East: thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), said township, the place of beginning;", "Such of the above-named comers as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys:", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "This reservation shall be known hereafter as the Little Belt Forest Reserve.", "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 3d day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, [seal.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3180", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Little Belt Forest Reserve. Mont.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 32. p. 2022.", "Vol. 26. p. 1103.", "Post, pp. 3254, 3277.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Description.", "Little Belt Forest Reserve —Continued.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Change of name."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Added timbered public lands in Montana to the Little Belt Mountains Forest Reserve, redrew its boundaries and changed its name.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Little Belt Mountains Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-10-03", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Proclamation 602 enlarged the Little Belt Mountains reserve of 1902 and renamed it the Little Belt Forest Reserve.", "source": "34 Stat. 3180", "date": "1905-10-03", "story": 55}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-489", "relation": "enlarges", "note": "Enlarged the 1902 Little Belt Mountains reserve.", "story": 55, "date": "1902-08-16", "title": "Establishment of the Little Belt Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "489"}]}
{"id": "eo-355", "type": "executive_order", "number": "355", "tr_sequence": 270, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-10-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Miss Marjorie H. Young as Clerk in the United States Pension Agency Without Examination Under Civil-Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_355", "revid": 1845569, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 91"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Miss Marjorie H. Young may be retained and appointed as a clerk in the United States pension agency at Pittsburg, Pa., without examination under the civil service rules.", "Theodore Roosevelt The White House, October 6, 1905."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 91)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Marjorie H. Young to be kept on and appointed as a clerk in the U.S. pension agency at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, without a civil service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Marjorie H. Young"], "significance": 1, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-10-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-356", "type": "executive_order", "number": "356", "tr_sequence": 271, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-10-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Mrs. M. C. Miller to a Clerkship in the Classified Service Without Examination Under Civil-Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_356", "revid": 1845572, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 92"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. M. C. Miller may be appointed to a clerkship in the classified service without examination under the civil service rules.", "Theodore Roosevelt The White House, October 7, 1905."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 92)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Mrs. M. C. Miller to be appointed to a clerkship in the classified service without a civil service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["M. C. Miller"], "significance": 1, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-10-07", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-357", "type": "executive_order", "number": "357", "tr_sequence": 272, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-10-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Except Private Secretary to Director of the Geological Survey from Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_357", "revid": 1845615, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 76"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Section VI, enumerating positions in the Department of the Interior excepted from the requirement of examination, under Schedule A, Rule II, clause 3, is hereby amended by the addition of a clause as follows:", "One private secretary to the Director of the Geological Survey."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 76)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, October 10, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Excepted one private secretary to the Director of the Geological Survey from civil service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-10-10", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-357-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "357-A", "tr_sequence": 273, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-10-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Abolishing Western Land District, Office at Kingfisher, Oklahoma, and Transferring the Lands, Business, and Archives to Eastern Land District, Office at Guthrie, Oklahoma in Consolidation", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_357-A", "revid": 1845717, "printed_source": "| notes    ="}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["In accordance with the provisions of sections 2248 and 2252 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and by virtue of the authority therein given, it is hereby ordered that:", "The western land district in the Territory of Oklahoma, with office at Kingfisher, Okla., be discontinued, and the lands, business, and archives of said land district and office transferred to and consolidated with the eastern land district, with office at Guthrie, Okla.", "Theodore Roosevelt The White House, October 10, 1905."], "source": "Wikisource (from | notes    =)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Discontinued the western land district in Oklahoma Territory, with its office at Kingfisher, and merged its lands, business and records into the eastern district at Guthrie.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Kingfisher", "kind": "town", "state": "Oklahoma"}, {"name": "Guthrie", "kind": "town", "state": "Oklahoma"}], "states": ["Oklahoma"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-10-10", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-357-b", "type": "executive_order", "number": "357-B", "tr_sequence": 274, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-10-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Passage Key Reservation as a Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_357-B", "revid": 1903795, "printed_source": "  "}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that Passage Key, an island near the mouth of Tampa Bay, Florida, as shown on the General Land Office map of the State of Florida of date 1893, and situated in section 6, township 34 south, range 16 east, as the same appears upon the official plat of survey of said township approved March 17, 1877, be, and it is hereby reserved and set apart for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds. This reservation to be known as the Passage Key Reservation.", "Theodore Roosevelt", "The White House, October 10, 1905."], "source": "Laws Applicable to the United States Department of Agriculture (GPO, 1908), p. 188, and revised edition (GPO, 1913), p. 211; and Wikisource, 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Operative text agrees word for word in all three. The GPO printings give the date only in the heading ('Executive order, October 10, 1905') and end with the signature alone; the dateline 'The White House, October 10, 1905.' is Wikisource's, unsourced. Executive order: no seal, not in the Statutes at Large.", "story": 86}, "summary": "Set aside Passage Key, an island near the mouth of Tampa Bay, Florida, as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds under the Department of Agriculture, named the Passage Key Reservation.", "categories": ["wildlife"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Passage Key Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Florida"}], "states": ["Florida"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-10-10", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "At the Audubon association's annual meeting in New York, president William Dutcher reported four new bird reservations, the most important at Tampa Bay.", "source": "Los Angeles Herald, November 13, 1905", "date": "1905-11-13", "story": 86}, {"text": "The National Association of Audubon Societies printed the order in its 1905 annual report and counted it among four new reservations made by Roosevelt's executive order.", "source": "Bird-Lore 7 (1905), pp. 298–300", "date": "1905", "story": 86}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Biological Survey listed Passage Key as the sixth national bird reservation, at 36.37 acres, sheltering herons, laughing gulls and terns.", "source": "T. S. Palmer, Biological Survey Circular No. 87 (1912), p. 10", "date": "1912", "story": 86}], "legacy": [{"text": "The hurricane of 1921 took the island's freshwater lake and most of its vegetation; it has since shrunk to a small sandbar.", "source": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service", "date": "1921", "story": 86}, {"text": "The refuge has been closed to all public use since the 2005 hurricanes.", "source": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service", "date": "2005", "story": 86}], "today": [{"name": "Passage Key National Wildlife Refuge", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "origin", "state": "Florida", "since": "1905-10-10", "note": "Renamed a national wildlife refuge in 1940; now a small sandbar closed to the public.", "source": "Proclamation 2416; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service", "story": 86}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1940-07-25", "text": "Renamed Passage Key National Wildlife Refuge by Proclamation 2416.", "source": "Proclamation 2416", "story": 86}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-357-c", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Signed the same day with the same operative language for the Siskiwit Islands.", "story": 86, "date": "1905-10-10", "title": "Establishing Siskiwit Islands Reservation as a Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "type": "executive_order", "number": "357-C"}, {"id": "eo-357-d", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Signed the same day with the same operative language for the Huron Islands.", "story": 86, "date": "1905-10-10", "title": "Establishing Huron Islands Reservation as a Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "type": "executive_order", "number": "357-D"}]}
{"id": "eo-357-c", "type": "executive_order", "number": "357-C", "tr_sequence": 275, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-10-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Siskiwit Islands Reservation as a Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_357-C", "revid": 13021648, "printed_source": "  "}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that the unsurveyed islands of the Siskiwit or Menagerie group of islands, lying near the mouth of Siskiwit bay, on the south side of Isle Royal in Lake Superior, Michigan, as shown by the General Land Office map of the State of Michigan of date 1904, and situated in sections 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 33, 34 and 35, township 64 north, range 36 west, as the same appear in part upon the official plat of survey of said township, approved June 4, 1847, be and they are hereby reserved and set apart for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds. This reservation to be known as the Siskiwit Islands Reservation.", "Theodore Roosevelt The White House, October 10, 1905. == Notes == See Related: Isle Royale National Park, which incorporated the Siskiwit Islands Reservation in 1931"], "source": "Wikisource (from   )", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved the Siskiwit (Menagerie) islands off Isle Royal in Lake Superior, Michigan, as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds, to be called the Siskiwit Islands Reservation.", "categories": ["wildlife"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Siskiwit Islands Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Michigan"}], "states": ["Michigan"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-10-10", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Audubon association reported that \"two splendid bird reservations were secured\" in Michigan in 1905.", "source": "Bird-Lore 7 (1905), p. 329", "date": "1905", "story": 86}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Biological Survey listed Siskiwit as the fifth national bird reservation; with the Huron Islands it held the largest known breeding colonies of the herring gull on inland waters.", "source": "T. S. Palmer, Biological Survey Circular No. 87 (1912), p. 10", "date": "1912", "story": 86}], "legacy": [{"text": "Siskiwit is the one October 1905 reservation that did not survive as a refuge; its islands passed to the National Park Service and the Fish and Wildlife Service no longer carries it.", "source": "56 Stat. 138", "date": "1942-03-06", "story": 86}], "today": [{"name": "Isle Royale National Park", "kind": "national_park", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Michigan", "note": "The 1942 act abolished the bird reservation and made it part of the park.", "source": "Act of March 6, 1942, ch. 152, § 2, 56 Stat. 138", "story": 86}, {"name": "Siskiwit National Wildlife Refuge", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "abolished", "state": "Michigan", "note": "Name given by Proclamation 2416 in 1940; abolished in 1942.", "source": "Proclamation 2416; 56 Stat. 138", "story": 86}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1940-07-25", "text": "Renamed Siskiwit National Wildlife Refuge by Proclamation 2416.", "source": "Proclamation 2416", "story": 86}, {"date": "1942-03-06", "text": "Congress abolished the Siskiwit Islands Bird Reservation and made it part of Isle Royale National Park, leaving Menagerie Island under the Treasury for lighthouse purposes.", "source": "Act of March 6, 1942, ch. 152, §§ 2, 4, 56 Stat. 138", "story": 86}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-357-b", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Passage Key order of the same day.", "story": 86, "date": "1905-10-10", "title": "Establishing Passage Key Reservation as a Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "type": "executive_order", "number": "357-B"}, {"id": "eo-357-d", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Huron Islands order of the same day.", "story": 86, "date": "1905-10-10", "title": "Establishing Huron Islands Reservation as a Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "type": "executive_order", "number": "357-D"}]}
{"id": "eo-357-d", "type": "executive_order", "number": "357-D", "tr_sequence": 276, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-10-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Huron Islands Reservation as a Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_357-D", "revid": 1853079, "printed_source": "  "}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that the unsurveyed islands of the Huron islands group, lying near the south shore of Lake Superior, as shown by the General Land Office map of the State of Michigan of date 1904, and situated in Sections 26. 27, 34 and 35, township 53 north, range 29 west, as the same appear in part upon the official plat of survey of said township approved June 4, 1847, be, and they are hereby reserved and set apart for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds. This reservation to be known as the Huron Islands Reservation.", "Theodore Roosevelt The White House, October 10, 1905. == Notes == Revoked by: Executive Order 7795, January 21, 1938"], "source": "Wikisource (from   )", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved the Huron Islands near Lake Superior's south shore in Michigan as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds under the Department of Agriculture, named the Huron Islands Reservation.", "categories": ["wildlife"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Huron Islands Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Michigan"}], "states": ["Michigan"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-10-10", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Audubon association already had a warden guarding herring gulls on the Huron Islands in 1905, before the order was signed.", "source": "Bird-Lore 7 (1905), p. 330", "date": "1905", "story": 86}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Biological Survey listed the Huron Islands as the fourth national bird reservation.", "source": "T. S. Palmer, Biological Survey Circular No. 87 (1912), p. 10", "date": "1912", "story": 86}], "legacy": [{"text": "The refuge is now eight islands totaling 147 acres, all within the Huron Islands Wilderness, administered from Seney National Wildlife Refuge and closed to the public except Lighthouse Island.", "source": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service", "story": 86}], "today": [{"name": "Huron National Wildlife Refuge", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "origin", "state": "Michigan", "since": "1905-10-10", "note": "The 1905 order was revoked in 1938 and the refuge re-established under the Migratory Bird Conservation Act.", "source": "Executive Order 7795; Proclamation 2416; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service", "story": 86}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1938-01-21", "text": "Executive Order 7795 revoked the 1905 order and re-reserved the islands as the Huron Migratory Bird Refuge.", "source": "Executive Order 7795 (American Presidency Project)", "story": 86}, {"date": "1940-07-25", "text": "Renamed Huron National Wildlife Refuge by Proclamation 2416.", "source": "Proclamation 2416", "story": 86}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-357-b", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Passage Key order of the same day.", "story": 86, "date": "1905-10-10", "title": "Establishing Passage Key Reservation as a Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "type": "executive_order", "number": "357-B"}, {"id": "eo-357-c", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Siskiwit Islands order of the same day.", "story": 86, "date": "1905-10-10", "title": "Establishing Siskiwit Islands Reservation as a Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "type": "executive_order", "number": "357-C"}]}
{"id": "eo-358", "type": "executive_order", "number": "358", "tr_sequence": 277, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-10-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Dessie M. Bowers to Classified Service Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_358", "revid": 1845618, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 92"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Miss Dessie M. Bowers, of West Virginia, may be reinstated in the classified service in any Executive Department, without regard to the limitations of the civil service rules, in view of her former service in the Department of Commerce and Labor."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 92)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, October 11, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Dessie M. Bowers of West Virginia be reinstated in any executive department, in view of her earlier service in the Department of Commerce and Labor.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "restore", "places": [], "states": ["Virginia", "West Virginia"], "people": ["Dessie M. Bowers"], "significance": 1, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-10-11", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-603", "type": "proclamation", "number": "603", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-10-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of Jemez Forest Reserve, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 603, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-603"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3182, "last_page": 3183, "cite": "34 Stat. 3182–3183", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3182.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-10-12", "table_title": "Setting apart the Jemez Forest Reserve, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled. “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”:", "And whereas, the public lands, in the Territory of New Mexico, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the Territory of New Mexico, shown as the Jemez Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof:", "3183 Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 12th day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, [seal.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3182", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Jemez Forest Reserve, New Mexico.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Post, p. 3261.", "Forest reserve. New Mexico.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Jemez Forest Reserve on public lands in the Territory of New Mexico and reserved it from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Jemez Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-10-12", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Jemez was combined in part with the Taos reserve to establish the Carson National Forest in 1908.", "source": "E.O. 849; Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "date": "1908-06-26", "story": 55}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-849", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Part of the Jemez went into the new Carson National Forest.", "story": 55, "date": "1908-06-26", "title": "Jemez National Forest, N. Mex., Diminished", "type": "executive_order", "number": "849"}]}
{"id": "eo-359", "type": "executive_order", "number": "359", "tr_sequence": 278, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-10-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Forbidding Government Officers and Employees to Assist in Preparation for Civil Service Examinations", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_359", "revid": 2147878, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 101"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["No officer or employee of the government shall, directly or indirectly, instruct or be concerned in any manner in the instruction of any person, or classes of persons, with a view to their special preparation for the examination of the United States Civil Service Commission. The fact that any officer or employee is found so engaged shall be considered sufficient cause for his removal from the service. Theodore Roosevelt The White House, October 13, 1905. == Notes == Amended by: Executive Order 3088, May 17, 1919; Executive Order 3215, January 13, 1920 Superseded by: Executive Order 9367, August 4, 1943 See related: Executive Order 1277, December 23, 1910;"], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 101)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Barred federal officers and employees from coaching anyone for Civil Service Commission examinations, making such coaching grounds for removal.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-10-13", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-604", "type": "proclamation", "number": "604", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-10-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Prohibiting the Export of Arms, Ammunition and Munitions of War to the Dominican Republic", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 604, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-604"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3183, "last_page": 3183, "cite": "34 Stat. 3183", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3183.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-10-14", "table_title": "Prohibiting export of war material to Santo Domingo."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America.\nA Proclamation.", "Whereas by a Joint Resolution, approved April 22, 1898, entitled \"Joint Resolution to prohibit the export of coal or other material used in war from any sea-port of the United States\", the President is \"authorized, in his discretion, and with such limitations and exceptions as shall seem to him expedient, to prohibit the export of coal or other material used in war from any sea-port of the United States until otherwise ordered by the President or by Congress;\"", "Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, for good and sufficient reasons unto me appearing, and by virtue of the authority conferred upon me by the said Joint Resolution, do hereby declare and proclaim that the export of arms, ammunition and munitions of war of every kind, from any port in the United States or in Porto Rico to any port in the Dominican Republic, is prohibited, without limitation or exception, from and after the date of this my proclamation until otherwise ordered by the President or by Congress.", "And I do hereby enjoin all good citizens of the United States and of Porto Rico and all persons residing or being within the territory or jurisdiction thereof to be governed accordingly.", "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 14th day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirtieth.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT.", "By the President: ELIHU ROOT, Secretary of State."], "source": "34 Stat. 3183 (Statutes at Large), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Statutes text, not the American Presidency Project transcription: 'shall seem to him expedient' (APP misreads 'deem'; 'seem' is confirmed by the 1898 resolution, 30 Stat. 739, and FRUS 1905, p. 399); 'City of Washington'; [SEAL.] restored. Period spelling 'Porto Rico' kept. Statutes margin caption reads 'Santo Domingo'.", "story": 59}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Banned the export of arms, ammunition and munitions of war from any port in the United States or Porto Rico to the Dominican Republic until further order.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs"], "action": "regulate", "places": [{"name": "Dominican Republic", "kind": "country"}], "states": ["Puerto Rico"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [59], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-10-14", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "Asked whether the proclamation would be agreeable, President Carlos F. Morales and his foreign minister welcomed it, and the Dominican government accepted only after asking for definite assurances that its own arms purchases would be let through.", "source": "FRUS 1905, doc. 353, pp. 398–399", "date": "1905-10-14", "story": 59}, {"text": "Made public on October 17, the proclamation went out as a short Associated Press item, printed in the Stockton Mail as a measure to keep warlike supplies from the island's revolutionists, and picked up by six more California papers by October 26.", "source": "Stockton Mail, Oct. 17, 1905, p. 1; Fresno Bee, Oct. 17; San Francisco Call, Oct. 18; San Jose Mercury and Stockton Independent, Oct. 18; Riverside Enterprise, Oct. 19; Los Gatos Mail-News, Oct. 26, 1905", "date": "1905-10-17", "story": 59}, {"text": "A search of California papers from October 13 to November 10, 1905, found only news reports and no editorial comment on the embargo.", "source": "California Digital Newspaper Collection", "date": "1905", "story": 59}, {"text": "The Dominican finance minister was at first inclined to resent the U.S. Navy's refusal to hand seized cartridges over to his government, and Dominican port authorities insisted on their right to board arriving ships first.", "source": "FRUS 1905, doc. 353, pp. 400–401", "date": "1905", "story": 59}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "diplomatic", "text": "Although the proclamation barred exports without exception, Secretary of State Root told the American minister that any exception the Dominican government wanted would be made by special order, so in practice the embargo disarmed only the government's opponents.", "source": "FRUS 1905, doc. 353, pp. 398–399", "date": "1905-10-14", "story": 59}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The proclamation gave a legal footing to the U.S. Navy's searches of vessels on the Dominican coast, which had been under way since early September 1905.", "source": "FRUS 1905, doc. 353", "date": "1905", "story": 59}, {"kind": "diplomatic", "text": "When Dominican port officials objected to American naval boardings, Root asked the Dominican government to legalize the searches or have them stopped, and on November 16 it authorized U.S. naval officers to board American merchant vessels as soon as they anchored.", "source": "FRUS 1905, docs. 354–355", "date": "1905-11-16", "story": 59}, {"kind": "local", "text": "Governor Arias's anger over cartridges impounded at Monte Cristi set back efforts to organize a guard on the Haitian frontier, and the embargo did nothing about arms coming overland from Haiti.", "source": "FRUS 1905, doc. 353, pp. 400–401", "date": "1905", "story": 59}], "legacy": [{"text": "Within ten weeks the government the embargo was meant to protect had collapsed: Morales left the capital on December 24, 1905, and was reported fighting alongside revolutionists, and Vice President Ramón Cáceres succeeded him in January 1906.", "source": "FRUS 1905, docs. 358–371; FRUS 1906, pt. 1, doc. 484", "date": "1906-01-15", "story": 59}, {"text": "The proclamation was still in force in March 1912, when the Taft administration permitted particular exports notwithstanding it and pointed to the procedure as a likely model for Mexico.", "source": "FRUS 1912, doc. 982", "date": "1912-03", "story": 59}, {"text": "Congress's Joint Resolution of March 14, 1912, gave the President a standing power to bar arms exports to American countries in domestic turmoil, the purpose the 1905 embargo had served under the older war-material resolution.", "source": "37 Stat. 630", "date": "1912-03-14", "story": 59}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1912-03", "text": "A presidential order under Taft permitted particular exports to the Dominican Republic notwithstanding the 1905 proclamation.", "source": "FRUS 1912, doc. 982", "story": 59}, {"date": "1912-03-14", "text": "Congress rewrote the 1898 resolution the proclamation rested on, authorizing arms embargoes on American countries in domestic violence and attaching penalties for the first time.", "source": "Joint Resolution of March 14, 1912, 37 Stat. 630", "story": 59}], "uncertain": ["Whether newspapers outside California commented on the embargo is not known; only California papers have been searched."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-360", "type": "executive_order", "number": "360", "tr_sequence": 279, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-10-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Permanent Appointment of Dollie A. Slayton as Clerk in Bureau of the Census Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_360", "revid": 1845622, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 92"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Miss Dollie A. Slayton, of Montana, who is now serving in a temporary position in the Bureau of the Census as the result of certification, may be retained and appointed to a clerical position on the permanent roll of that Bureau."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 92)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, October 16, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Dollie A. Slayton of Montana, then in a temporary Census Bureau job, to be appointed to the Bureau's permanent clerical roll.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Montana"], "people": ["Dollie A. Slayton"], "significance": 1, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-10-16", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-361", "type": "executive_order", "number": "361", "tr_sequence": 280, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-10-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Julia P. Madeira as Bureau of the Census Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_361", "revid": 1845631, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 92"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Miss Julia P. Madeira, of West Virginia, having been employed in a classified position in the Bureau of the Census, at $900 per annum, and her name having been removed from the rolls without prejudice because of prolonged illness, may be reinstated in that Bureau and immediately transferred to the office of the assayer of the mint at Denver, Colo., notwithstanding the limitations contained in clause (a) of Rule IX and clause (a), section 8, of Rule X of the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 92)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, October 16, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Julia P. Madeira of West Virginia, dropped from the Census Bureau during a long illness, be reinstated and transferred to the assayer's office of the mint at Denver.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "restore", "places": [], "states": ["Colorado", "Virginia", "West Virginia"], "people": ["Julia P. Madeira"], "significance": 1, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-10-16", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-362", "type": "executive_order", "number": "362", "tr_sequence": 281, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-10-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Removal of Government Employees for Inefficiency or Incapability Without Trial", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_362", "revid": 5075846, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 71"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["When the President or head of an executive department is satisfied that an officer or employee in the classified service is inefficient or incapable, and that the public service will be materially improved by his removal, such removal will be made without hearing, but the cause of removal shall be stated in writing and filed. When misconduct is committed in the view and presence of the President or head of an executive department, removal may be made summarily and without notice."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 71)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, October 17, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed inefficient or incapable classified employees to be removed without a hearing, provided the cause was put in writing, and permitted summary removal for misconduct witnessed by the President or a department head.", "categories": ["civil-service", "government-administration"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-10-17", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Associated Press printed the order in full the day after it was approved, saying a Cabinet officer now had the power to remove employees summarily and without hearing, and tied it to a government chauffeur who had cut off the President's carriage.", "source": "San Jose Mercury, October 18, 1905", "date": "1905-10-18", "story": 86}, {"text": "The Alameda Daily Encinal ran an editorial under a mock death notice, \"The Funeral of Civil Service,\" while conceding a loafer had no better claim to a federal job for life than to a private one.", "source": "Alameda Daily Encinal, October 24, 1905, p. 2", "date": "1905-10-24", "story": 86}, {"text": "Good Government, the Civil Service Reform League's journal, said the order had drawn more attention than almost any earlier civil-service order, that press approval outweighed disapproval, and that it had caused \"a good deal of apprehension\" among federal employees in Washington.", "source": "Good Government, November 1905, p. 182", "date": "1905-11", "story": 86}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "political", "text": "The Reform League's committee on removals, chaired by Samuel H. Ordway, withheld judgment, asking that the new rule get a full trial, that reasons be filed with the Civil Service Commission and that employees usually be allowed to reply.", "source": "Good Government, December 1905 supplement, pp. 212–213", "date": "1905-12", "story": 86}], "legacy": [{"text": "The removal orders fed into the long working-out of federal job protections later shaped by the Lloyd–La Follette Act of 1912.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1912", "story": 86}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-371", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Rewrote Civil Service Rule XII on removals, folding in the same \"without hearing\" principle.", "story": 86, "date": "1905-11-17", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rule XII, Pertaining to Removal", "type": "executive_order", "number": "371"}]}
{"id": "eo-363", "type": "executive_order", "number": "363", "tr_sequence": 282, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-10-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Charles Denby as Chief Clerk of the State Department Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_363", "revid": 1845649, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 92"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Charles Denby may be appointed chief clerk of the State Department without examination under the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 92)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, October 24, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Charles Denby to be appointed chief clerk of the State Department without a civil service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Charles Denby"], "significance": 1, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-10-24", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-364", "type": "executive_order", "number": "364", "tr_sequence": 283, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-10-31", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Except Certain Temporary Workers in Bureau of Fisheries from Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_364", "revid": 12440738, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 76"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Schedule A, of positions excepted from examination under Rule II, clause 3, is amended as follows:", "All persons temporarily connected with the field operations of the Bureau of Fisheries, who are paid from lump appropriations for miscellaneous expenses. No person employed in a position, specifically provided for by statute at any station, shall be regarded as excepted from examination hereunder."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 76)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, October 31, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Exempted temporary field workers of the Bureau of Fisheries, paid from lump appropriations, from civil service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-10-31", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-365", "type": "executive_order", "number": "365", "tr_sequence": 284, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-10-31", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Examinations for Clerical Positions in the Office of the Recorder Of Deeds", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_365", "revid": 1845668, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 101"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is deemed desirable that competitive examinations shall be held for testing the qualification of applicants for appointment in a clerical capacity in the office of the Recorder of Deeds at Washington, such examinations to be confined to actual bona fide residents of the District of Columbia.", "The United States Civil Service Commission is therefore directed to render such assistance as may be practicable to the Recorder for the establishment and maintenance of a system of examinations to precede such appointments, to be open to all citizens of the District of Columbia qualified in respect to age, character, education, and experience; and for that purpose to conduct examinations upon the request of the Recorder under such regulations as may be agreed upon by him and the Commission."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 101)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, October 31, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Directed the Civil Service Commission to help set up competitive exams, open to District of Columbia residents, for clerical jobs in the Recorder of Deeds office in Washington.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-10-31", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-365-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "365-A", "tr_sequence": 285, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-10-31", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Grand Forks Land District, ND, Abolished; Transferred to Devils Lake Land District", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Grand Fork Land District, ND, Abolished; Transferred to Devils Lake Land District”. Spelling."], "summary": "Abolished the Grand Forks Land District in North Dakota and moved it into the Devils Lake Land District.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Grand Forks Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "North Dakota"}, {"name": "Devils Lake Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "North Dakota"}], "states": ["North Dakota"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-10-31", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-365-b", "type": "executive_order", "number": "365-B", "tr_sequence": 286, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-10-31", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Diminishment of Black Hills Forest Reserve, South Dakota - Form of Proclamation", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reduced the Black Hills Forest Reserve in South Dakota, issued in the form of a proclamation.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "reduce", "places": [{"name": "Black Hills Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "South Dakota"}], "states": ["South Dakota"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-10-31", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-366", "type": "executive_order", "number": "366", "tr_sequence": 287, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-11-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Edward McCauley as Chief of Redemption Division in Post Office Department Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_366", "revid": 1845680, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 93"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Edward McCauley may be appointed chief of the Redemption Division, office of the Third Assistant Postmaster-General, Post-Office Department, without examination, in view of his experience as chief clerk of the Census Bureau."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 93)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, October 31, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Edward McCauley to be appointed chief of the Post Office Department's Redemption Division without examination, given his experience as chief clerk of the Census Bureau.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Edward McCauley"], "significance": 1, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-11-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-605", "type": "proclamation", "number": "605", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-11-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Thanksgiving Day, 1905", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 605, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-605"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3184, "last_page": 3184, "cite": "34 Stat. 3184", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3184.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-11-02", "table_title": "Designating Thursday, November 30, 1905, as a day of general thanksgiving."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America.\nA PROCLAMATION.", "When nearly three centuries ago the first settlers came to the country which has now become this great republic, they fronted not only hardship and privation, but terrible risk to their lives. In those grim years the custom grew of setting apart one day in each year for a special service of thanksgiving to the Almighty for preserving the people through the changing seasons. The custom has now become national and hallowed by immemorial usage. We live in easier and more plentiful times than our forefathers, the men who with rugged strength faced the rugged days; and yet the dangers to national life are quite as great now as at any previous time in our history. It is eminently fitting that once a year our people should set apart a day for praise and thanksgiving to the Giver of Good, and, at the same time that they express their thankfulness for the abundant mercies received, should manfully acknowledge their shortcomings and pledge themselves solemnly and in good faith to strive to overcome them. During the past year we have been blessed with bountiful crops. Our business prosperity has been great. No other people has ever stood on as high a level of material well-being as ours now stands. We are not threatened by foes from without. The foes from whom we should pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.", "Therefore, I now set apart Thursday, the thirtieth day of this November, as a day of thanksgiving for the past and of prayer for the future, and on that day I ask that throughout the land the people gather in their homes and places of worship, and in rendering thanks unto the Most High for the manifold blessings of the past year, consecrate themselves to a life of cleanliness, honor and wisdom, so that this nation may do its allotted work on the earth in a manner worthy of those who founded it and of those who preserved it.", "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 2nd day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five\n[SEAL.] and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:\nELIHU ROOT\nSecretary of State."], "source": "34 Stat. 3184 (GovInfo page image), 2026-10-12; wording also checked against Morning Oregonian, Nov. 3, 1905, p. 3", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "APP misreads 'founded' as 'rounded' in the closing sentence; the Statutes and Oregonian read 'founded'. Also per Statutes: 'appetites and follies' (no serial comma), 'republic' lowercase, [SEAL.] restored. The faint comma after 'received' is a comma. 'Fronted' is the document's own word. The Statutes printing carries no number.", "story": 62}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Named Thursday, November 30, 1905, a national day of thanksgiving, giving thanks for bountiful crops and prosperity while urging Americans to own their shortcomings and strive to overcome them.", "categories": ["ceremonial"], "action": "announce", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [62], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-11-02", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The proclamation was a wire story the day it was signed; the Morning Oregonian printed the full text on page 3 without comment.", "source": "Morning Oregonian, Nov. 3, 1905, p. 3", "date": "1905-11-03", "story": 62}, {"text": "Its line about \"appetites and follies\" appears in 31 California papers in 1905, from the San Francisco Call and Los Angeles Herald to small weeklies through late November.", "source": "California Digital Newspaper Collection", "date": "1905-11", "story": 62}, {"text": "A San Jose Mercury editorial praised the proclamation as more than the usual formality and applied its warning against the nation's own failings to the year's graft and corruption.", "source": "San Jose Mercury, Nov. 4, 1905", "date": "1905-11-04", "story": 62}], "legacy": [{"text": "The last-Thursday date rested on custom until Franklin Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving a week earlier in 1939–1941 and Congress fixed it on the fourth Thursday in 1941.", "source": "55 Stat. 862", "date": "1941-12-26", "story": 62}, {"text": "The proclamation's closing words read \"those who founded it\" in the Statutes at Large; a widely used online transcription misprints \"rounded.\"", "source": "34 Stat. 3184; Morning Oregonian, Nov. 3, 1905, p. 3", "story": 62}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1941-12-26", "text": "A joint resolution fixed Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November.", "source": "55 Stat. 862", "story": 62}], "uncertain": ["The San Jose Mercury editorial is known only from rough newspaper OCR and should be read on the page image before it is quoted."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-466", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Roosevelt's first Thanksgiving proclamation, 1901, in the same annual series.", "story": 62, "date": "1901-11-02", "title": "Thanksgiving Day, 1901", "type": "proclamation", "number": "466"}]}
{"id": "eo-366-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "366-A", "tr_sequence": 288, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-11-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Certain Described Lands in California in Connection With Point Sal Lighthouse Reservation", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reserved additional California lands in connection with the Point Sal lighthouse reservation.", "categories": ["lighthouses"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Point Sal", "kind": "lighthouse", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-11-03", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-366-b", "type": "executive_order", "number": "366-B", "tr_sequence": 289, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-11-08", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Additional Compensation for Enlisted Men of the Navy Serving With Submarine Torpedo Boats", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_366-B", "revid": 1862163, "printed_source": "Published: [http://books.google.com/books?output=html&id=5PcuAAAAMAAJ&jtp=931 General Orders, No. 9], Navy Dept., November 9, 1905  "}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Besides the $5 per month extra pay allowed them for submarine service, enlisted men serving with submarine torpedo boats, and having been reported by their commanding officers to the Navy Department as qualified for submarine torpedo boat work, shall receive $1 additional pay for each day during any part of which they shall have been submerged in a submarine torpedo boat while under way: Provided, however, That such further additional pay shall not exceed $15 in any one calendar month.", "Theodore Roosevelt The White House, November 8, 1905. == Notes == See Related: none available"], "source": "Wikisource (from Published: [http://books.google.com/books?output=html&id=5PcuAAAAMAAJ&jtp=931 General Orders, No. 9], Navy Dept., November 9, 1905  )", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Gave qualified Navy enlisted men on submarine torpedo boats $1 extra for each day spent submerged under way, on top of their $5 monthly submarine pay, up to $15 a month.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-11-08", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-367", "type": "executive_order", "number": "367", "tr_sequence": 290, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-11-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Requiring Examination for Certain Consular Officers in All Consulates General, Consulates, Commercial Agencies, and Consular Agencies", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_367", "revid": 1846000, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["With a view to further increasing the efficiency of the Consular Service by extending the method now employed for ascertaining the qualifications possessed by candidates for appointment in that service:", "It is hereby ordered that the Executive Order of September 20, 1895, in regard to examinations for the Consular Service be and it is hereby amended and extended to include all consulates general, consulates, commercial agencies and consular agencies, the annual compensation of which is not less than $1,000. Said order therefore will read as amended as follows:—", "It being of great importance that the consular officers of the United States shall possess the proper qualifications for their respective positions to be ascertained either through a satisfactory record of previous actual service under the Department of State or through an appropriate examination:", "It is hereby ordered that any vacancy in a consulate general, consulate, commercial or consular agency now or hereafter existing the salary of which is not less than $1,000, or the compensation of which, if derived from official fees, exclusive of notarial and other unofficial receipts, does not fall below $1,000, shall be filled (a) by a transfer or promotion from some other position under the Department of State of a character tending to qualify the incumbent for the position to be filled; or (b) by appointment of a person not under the Department of State but having previously served thereunder to its satisfaction in a capacity tending to qualify him for the position to be filled; or (c) by the appointment of a person who, having furnished satisfactory evidence of character, responsibility, and capacity, and being thereupon selected by the President for examination, is found upon such examination to be qualified for the position.", "For the purposes of this order notarial and unofficial fees shall not be regarded, but the compensation of an office shall be ascertained, if the office is salaried, by reference to the last preceding appropriation act, and if the office is not salaried, by reference to the returns of official fees for the last preceding fiscal year.", "The examination hereinbefore provided for shall be by a Board of three persons designated by the Secretary of State who shall also prescribe the subjects to which such examinations shall relate and the general mode of conducting the same by the Board.", "A vacancy in a consulate will be filled at discretion only when a suitable appointment can not be made in any of the modes indicated in the second paragraph of this order."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, November 10th, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Extended examination requirements to every consulate general, consulate and commercial or consular agency paying at least $1,000 a year, filling vacancies by transfer, promotion, or examination of candidates the President selects.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs", "civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-11-10", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "A short wire item, \"Two Orders for Foreign Service,\" reported the consular orders but garbled the salary terms.", "source": "Fresno Evening Democrat, November 10, 1905", "date": "1905-11-10", "story": 86}, {"text": "One editor joked that consular appointees must now know two languages and have a good head for business.", "source": "Petaluma Daily Morning Courier, November 25, 1905, p. 2", "date": "1905-11-25", "story": 86}, {"text": "The Civil Service Reform League's consular committee, chaired by George McAneny, called the orders \"important\" and the administration's direction \"in the highest degree encouraging.\"", "source": "Good Government, December 1905 supplement, pp. 214–215", "date": "1905-12", "story": 86}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "congress", "text": "The Senate Foreign Relations Committee struck the examining board from Senator Lodge's consular bill to meet Democratic objections, so the Act of April 5, 1906 reorganized the service without any examination clause and selection by examination kept resting on this order.", "source": "Morning Oregonian, January 11, 1906, p. 4; 34 Stat. 99–102", "date": "1906-04-05", "story": 86}], "legacy": [{"text": "The consular orders and the 1906 act were steps toward the professional Foreign Service created by the Rogers Act of 1924.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1924", "story": 86}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-368", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Companion order of the same day for secretaries of embassy and legation.", "story": 86, "date": "1905-11-10", "title": "Appointment of Secretaries of Embassy and Legation", "type": "executive_order", "number": "368"}]}
{"id": "eo-368", "type": "executive_order", "number": "368", "tr_sequence": 291, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-11-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Appointment of Secretaries of Embassy and Legation", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_368", "revid": 1817391, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that vacancies in the office of Secretary of Embassy or Legation shall hereafter be filled", "(a) By transfer or promotion from some branch of the foreign service, or", "(b) By the appointment of a person who, having furnished satisfactory evidence of character, responsibility and capacity, and being thereupon selected by the President for examination, is found upon such examination to be qualified for the position."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, November 10th, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Ordered that vacancies for secretaries of embassy or legation be filled by transfer or promotion within the foreign service, or by examination of candidates the President selects.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs", "civil-service"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-11-10", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Civil Service Reform League's consular committee called the November 10 consular and diplomatic orders \"important.\"", "source": "Good Government, December 1905 supplement, pp. 214–215", "date": "1905-12", "story": 86}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-367", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Companion consular order of the same day.", "story": 86, "date": "1905-11-10", "title": "Requiring Examination for Certain Consular Officers in All Consulates General, Consulates, Commercial Agencies, and Consular Agencies", "type": "executive_order", "number": "367"}]}
{"id": "proc-606", "type": "proclamation", "number": "606", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-11-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Yuba Forest Reserve, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 606, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-606"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3184, "last_page": 3185, "cite": "34 Stat. 3184–3185", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3184.pdf", "statutes_date": "1905-11-11", "table_title": "Setting apart the Yuba Forest Reserve, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, ”An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the. United States may. from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands, in the State of California, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of California, shown as the Yuba Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 11th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3184", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Yuba Forest Reserve. Cal.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26. p. 1103.", "Post, p. 3232.", "Forest reserve, California.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Yuba Forest Reserve on public timberland in California and reserved it from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Yuba Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [55], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-11-11", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Yuba reserve was combined with the Tahoe on September 17, 1906.", "source": "Proc. 652; Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "date": "1906-09-17", "story": 55}], "today": [{"name": "Tahoe National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "California", "source": "Lovacono, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (USFS, 1959)", "story": 55}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-652", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Consolidated the Yuba reserve with the Tahoe.", "story": 55, "date": "1906-09-17", "title": "Consolidating the Yuba Forest Reserve with the Tahoe Forest Reserve, California and Nevada", "type": "proclamation", "number": "652"}]}
{"id": "eo-369", "type": "executive_order", "number": "369", "tr_sequence": 292, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-11-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Applying Civil Service Rules or Regulations Regarding Employment of Laborers to Workers at Indian Warehouses", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_369", "revid": 1852872, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 81"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["All appointments and employments, under whatever designation, for service in Indian warehouses shall be made in accordance with the provisions of the civil service rules or of the regulations governing the employment of laborers.", "All persons employed in Indian warehouses on the date of this order, except unskilled laborers, shall have all the rights which they would acquire if appointed to their positions upon examination under the civil service rules, except that they shall not be transferred without first passing the examination provided for by the Civil Service Commission."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 81)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, November 11, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Brought hiring at Indian warehouses under the civil service rules and laborer regulations, giving current employees other than unskilled laborers classified status but requiring an exam before any transfer.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-11-11", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-369-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "369-A", "tr_sequence": 293, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-11-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Breton Island Reservation, Louisiana", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_369-A", "revid": 1904204, "printed_source": "  "}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that Breton island, as shown by the General Land Office map of the State of Louisiana of date 1896, in Township 18 South, Range 20 East, St. Helena Meridian, when same shall be surveyed; and Old Harbor and Freemason islands, in Townships 14 and 15 South, Ranges 21 and 22 East, same Meridian, when surveyed, be, and they are hereby reserved and set apart for the use of the Department of Agriculture, as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds. This reservation to be known as ‘‘Breton Island Reservation.’’", "Theodore Roosevelt The White House, November 11, 1905. == Notes == Note: Some sources give the signing date for this Executive Order as October 4, 1904. (See Discussion) Revoked by: Executive Order 7983, October 4, 1938"], "source": "Wikisource (from   )", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original. This transcription appears to reproduce the October 4, 1904 Breton Island order (see the unnumbered order of that date); the 1912 Agriculture Department compilation prints it under that date, and the November 11, 1905 dateline here has no printed source."}, "title_notes": ["The second Breton Island order: the reservation was founded by the unnumbered order of October 4, 1904 (uo-098)."], "summary": "Set aside Breton Island and the Old Harbor and Freemason islands in Louisiana as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds, to be known as the Breton Island Reservation.", "categories": ["wildlife"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Breton Island Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Louisiana"}], "states": ["Louisiana"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [22, 86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-11-11", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "A second order reserved Freemason Islands, Old Harbor Islands and Breton Island as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds, the same three groups already in the 1904 reservation.", "source": "Lord, numbered-series list, entry 369-A", "date": "1905-11-11", "story": 22}], "legacy": [{"text": "Louisiana entered the November 1905 order as an exhibit in United States v. Louisiana.", "source": "United States v. Louisiana (No. 9 Original), printed record, Louisiana Exhibit 1482", "story": 22}], "today": [{"name": "Breton National Wildlife Refuge", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "part", "state": "Louisiana", "note": "The islands it covered remain part of the refuge.", "source": "EO 7983; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service", "story": 22}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1938-10-04", "text": "Revoked by name, together with the 1904 order, by Executive Order 7983.", "source": "EO 7983, 3 Fed. Reg. 2389", "story": 22}], "uncertain": ["Why this second order was issued for a reservation that already existed with the same islands is not known.", "No printed text of this order has been found; the text published with it online is the 1904 order's text, and its November 11, 1905 dateline has no known source."]}, "related": [{"id": "uo-098", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The October 4, 1904 order that created the reservation.", "story": 22, "date": "1904-10-04", "title": "Breton Island Reservation, St. Bernard and Plaquemines Parishes, La., established as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}, {"id": "eo-296-a", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 85, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-03-09", "title": "Creating Stump Lake Reservation, North Dakota, as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Birds", "type": "executive_order", "number": "296-A"}]}
{"id": "eo-369-b", "type": "executive_order", "number": "369-B", "tr_sequence": 294, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-11-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Approving Acting War Secretary Recommendation of November 13, 1905, to Reserve Lands Near Zamboanga, Mindanao, Philippine Islands, for Target Range", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_369-B", "revid": 2403864, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 196, War Dept., November 21, 1905"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The following is the description from the Department of War's General Order No. 196 of 1905, not the actual order text, which was in the form of an approval of a recommendation from the Acting Secretary of War.", "The President of the United States, by order dated November 14, 1905, pursuant to section 12 of the act of Congress approved July 1, 1902, entitled \"An act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes\" (32 Stat. L., 691), reserved for the purpose of a target range for the post of Zamboanga, Mindanao, Philippine Islands, all that part of the public land at the western or furthermost end of the \"Mesa,\" near Zamboanga, Mindanao, Philippine Islands, extending on both sides of the main road, and included within metes and bounds described as follows, viz:", "Beginning at the initial point which is the center of the cross-section of a four-inch cement sewer pipe, buried two-thirds of its length below the surface of the ground, the pipe being about one hundred and fifty meters south from the road; thence N. 51° 51′ E., a distance of one hundred and eighty-seven meters to a concrete monument marked \"U. S. B.,\" the top of which is about two feet above ground; thence N. 40° 49′ E., a distance of fifty-seven meters; thence N. 15° 23′ W., a distance of seventy-seven meters; thence N. 42° 23′ E., a distance of one hundred and one and five-tenths meters; thence N. 50° 54′ E., a distance of sixty-nine meters; thence N. 51° 31′ E., a distance of one hundred and fifty-eight meters; thence N. 51° 23′ E., a distance of twenty-four and five-tenths meters; thence N. 33° 11′ W., a distance of one hundred and ninety meters; thence N. 27° 25′ W., a distance of two hundred meters; thence N. 71° 34′ W., a distance of twenty-eight and five-tenths meters; thence N. 12° 51′ W., a distance of one hundred and thirty-four meters; thence S. 70° 57′ W., a distance of thirty-one meters; thence N. 39° 42′ W., a distance of twenty-two and five-tenths meters; thence S. 34° 31′ W., a distance of one hundred and three meters; thence S. 53° 56′ W., a distance of one hundred and four meters; thence S. 87° 22′ W., a distance of thirteen meters; thence S. 28° 2′ 18″ W., a distance of four hundred and twenty-six and five-tenths meters; thence S. 53° 43′ W., a distance of three hundred and twenty-eight meters; thence S. 53° 50′ W., a distance of one hundred and three meters; thence S. 19° W., a distance of fifty-four and five-tenths meters; thence S. 83° 13′ 30″ E., a distance of two hundred and twenty-eight meters; thence S. 78° 3′ 30″ E., a distance of two hundred and eight meters; thence S. 10° 54′ E., a distance of seventy and twenty-five one-hundredths meters; thence S. 89° 28′ E., a distance of one hundred and forty meters, to point of beginning. Area: 37.85 hectares. The bearings are magnetic; distances by stadia. The foregoing reservation is shown on a map marked \"Proposed Target Range. The Mesa. Zamboanga, P. I. Surveyed by Captain Charles Keller, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, July 1-11, 1905.\""], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 196, War Dept., November 21, 1905)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved public land at the western end of the Mesa near Zamboanga, Mindanao, as a target range for the Zamboanga post.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Zamboanga", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-11-14", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-370", "type": "executive_order", "number": "370", "tr_sequence": 295, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-11-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Appointments in the Isthmian Canal Service Without Examination in the Absence of Suitably Qualified Eligibles", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_370", "revid": 1852880, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 103"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["When, in the judgment of the Civil Service Commission, no register contains an eligible having the special qualifications asked for by the Isthmian Canal Commission for service on the Isthmus of Panama, the Civil Service Commission may allow a temporary appointment, which may be made permanent on certificate of the Isthmian Canal Commission that such action is required in the interests of good administration."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 103)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, November 15, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let the Civil Service Commission allow temporary Isthmian Canal Service appointments when no eligible with the needed skills is on its registers; these could become permanent on the Canal Commission's certificate.", "categories": ["civil-service", "canal-zone"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-11-15", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-371", "type": "executive_order", "number": "371", "tr_sequence": 296, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-11-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rule XII, Pertaining to Removal", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_371", "revid": 1846198, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 71  "}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Civil service rule No. 12 is hereby amended to read as follows, concerning removals: {|style=\"margin: 1em 2.0em 1em 2.0em;\" |-valign=\"top\" |nowrap|‘‘1. |In making removals or reductions, and in other punishment, penalties like in character shall be imposed for like offenses.", "|-valign=\"top\" |nowrap|‘‘2. |No person shall be removed from a competitive position except for such cause as will promote the efficiency of the service. When the President or head of an executive department is satisfied that an officer or employe in the classified service is inefficient or incapable and that the public service will be materially improved by his removal, such removal may be made without notice to such officer or employe, but the cause of removal shall be stated in writing and filed. When misconduct is committed in the view and presence of the President or head of an executive department, removal may be made summarily, and no statement of reasons need be filed.", "|-valign=\"top\" |nowrap|‘‘3. |Where a recommendation for removal or reduction in grade or compensation of an officer or employee is made to the head of an executive department by a bureau chief or other subordinate officer, the said head of the department may, in his discretion, require that the person sought to be removed be furnished with a statement in writing of the reason for such action, and be allowed a reasonable time for personally answering the same.", "|-valign=\"top\" |nowrap|‘‘4. |The civil service commission shall have no jurisdiction to investigate any removal unless it is alleged that the procedure required by section 2 of rule 12 has not been followed or that the removal was made for political or religious reasons.’’ |}"], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 71  )", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, November 17, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Rewrote civil service Rule XII on removals: like penalties for like offenses, removal only to promote efficiency, written causes, and limits on the Civil Service Commission's power to investigate removals.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-11-17", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "political", "text": "The Reform League's committee on removals was \"unconvinced as yet\" that the old requirement to tell an employee the reasons and let him answer was undesirable, but called for a full trial of the new rule.", "source": "Good Government, December 1905 supplement, pp. 212–213", "date": "1905-12", "story": 86}], "legacy": [{"text": "The removal rules fed into the long working-out of federal job protections later shaped by the Lloyd–La Follette Act of 1912.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1912", "story": 86}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-362", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Earlier order allowing removal for inefficiency without hearing.", "story": 86, "date": "1905-10-17", "title": "Authorizing Removal of Government Employees for Inefficiency or Incapability Without Trial", "type": "executive_order", "number": "362"}]}
{"id": "eo-372", "type": "executive_order", "number": "372", "tr_sequence": 297, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-11-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Positions Excepted from Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_372", "revid": 1876901, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 77"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Schedule A of the civil service rules is hereby amended by adding to Section II, Treasury Department, a new clause to be numbered 12, to read as follows:", "One examiner of tobacco and one examiner of tea in the Customs Service at the Port of Chicago."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 77)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, November 18, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Excepted one tobacco examiner and one tea examiner in the Customs Service at Chicago from civil service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["Illinois"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-11-18", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-372-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "372-A", "tr_sequence": 298, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-11-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Bent Land District, Colo., Abolished; Transferred to Valley Land District, Office at Pueblo", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Abolished the Bent Land District in Colorado and moved it into the Valley Land District, with its office at Pueblo.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Bent Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Colorado"}, {"name": "Valley Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-11-18", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-446", "relation": "revoked_by", "note": "Revoked in May 1906, keeping the Bent Land District open.", "story": 88, "date": "1906-05-16", "title": "Revoking Executive Order No. 372-A of November 18, 1905, Abolishing Bent Land District, Colorado, with Office at Lamar", "type": "executive_order", "number": "446"}]}
{"id": "eo-372-b", "type": "executive_order", "number": "372-B", "tr_sequence": 299, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-11-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Approved Acting Sec'y of War Recommendation of Nov. 20 to Diminish and Transfer Lands of St. Michael Military Reservation to Interior Dept.", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Shrank the St. Michael Military Reservation in Alaska and transferred the excluded lands to the Interior Department.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "reduce", "places": [{"name": "St. Michael Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-11-20", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-373", "type": "executive_order", "number": "373", "tr_sequence": 300, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-11-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of S. H. Alexander as Clerk in Post Office Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_373", "revid": 1850348, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 93"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. S. H. Alexander, of North Carolina, who is now serving as a classified laborer in the Post-Office Department, may be appointed to a clerical position on the permanent roll of that Department."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 93)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, November 23, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed S. H. Alexander of North Carolina, a classified laborer in the Post Office Department, to be appointed to a permanent clerical position.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["North Carolina"], "people": ["S. H. Alexander"], "significance": 1, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-11-23", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-373-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "373-A", "tr_sequence": 301, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-11-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Executive Order of August 31, 1905, Regarding Compensation for Members of Advisory Board of Engineers for the Panama Canal", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_373-A", "revid": 1850284, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that the word \"report\" in the third line of the executive order of August 31, 1905, providing for an allowance of $5,000 to each member of the Advisory Board of Engineers upon plans of the Panama Canal upon the completion of the report of the Board, be changed to \"work.\" This change is made in order to permit the foreign members of the Board to receive their allowance before returning to their homes prior to the engrossing and signing of the completed report.", "The amended order will read as follows:", "\"It is ordered that each member of the Advisory Board of Engineers upon plans of the Panama Canal shall be allowed $5,000 payable upon the completion of the work of the board. In addition thereto he shall when on duty with the Board be allowed $15 per day for personal expenses from the date of leaving his home until his return thereto including Sundays and Holidays. He shall also be allowed the actual cost of transportation incurred by him in travel on duty in connection with the Board to include cost of ticket by railway or steamer, sleeping or parlor car accommodations, baggage transfer, cabs and porterage.", "\"It is further ordered that the allowance of $5000 to General Davis and General Abbot shall be increased by the amount of their retired pay for the time during which they are employed upon the work of the Board, it being my intention that those members of the Board shall receive the same compensation for this work as the other members and this increase being made to provide for the usual deduction of retired officers' pay.\""], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, November 25, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Changed one word in the August 31, 1905, pay order for the Panama Canal's Advisory Board of Engineers, from \"report\" to \"work,\" so foreign members could be paid before heading home.", "categories": ["canal-zone"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-11-25", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-374", "type": "executive_order", "number": "374", "tr_sequence": 302, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-11-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Marie L. Eastwood in Bureau of the Census Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_374", "revid": 1846015, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 93"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. Marie L. Eastwood may be appointed to a permanent position in the Bureau of the Census, in view of her former satisfactory service therein."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 93)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, November 27, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Marie L. Eastwood to be appointed to a permanent position in the Bureau of the Census, in view of her earlier satisfactory service there.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Marie L. Eastwood"], "significance": 1, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-11-27", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-375", "type": "executive_order", "number": "375", "tr_sequence": 303, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-11-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Except Cooks from Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_375", "revid": 1846206, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 78"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Schedule A of the civil service rules is hereby amended by the addition to section 1 of a paragraph which will be numbered 13, and shall read as follows:", "Cooks, when in the opinion of the Commission it is not expedient to make appointment upon competitive examination."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 78)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, November 27, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Excepted cooks from civil service examination when the Commission judges competitive exams impractical.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-11-27", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-375-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "375-A", "tr_sequence": 304, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-11-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Certain Lands in California Reserved for Lighthouse Purposes (Revoked in Part by EO 5750)", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reserved certain lands in California for lighthouse purposes.", "categories": ["lighthouses"], "action": "establish", "places": [], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-11-27", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-375-b", "type": "executive_order", "number": "375-B", "tr_sequence": 305, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-11-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Approving War Secretary Recommendation of November 25, 1905, to Reserve Lands at Chilkat Inlet, Alaska, for Water Supply to Fort William H. Seward", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_375-B", "revid": 4712823, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 204, War Dept., December 6, 1905"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The following is the description from the Department of War's General Order No. 204 of 1905, not the actual order text, which was in the form of an approval of a recommendation from the Secretary of War.", "The President of the United States, by order dated November 27, 1905, reserved for military purposes, to wit, for the purpose of water supply to Fort William H. Seward, District of Alaska, all public lands on Chilkat Inlet, Alaska, included within metes and bounds as follows:", "Beginning at a point on the west shore of Chilkat Inlet marked by a hole drilled in the south end of a granite boulder, the exposed portion of which is approximately two feet wide and four feet long, which point bears south 44° 59′ west, 11,043 feet from the granite monument on the east shore of said inlet marking the northern boundary of the Fort Wm. H. Seward Military Reservation; running thence along the western shore of Chilkat Inlet, following the meanderings thereof to a point marked by a hole drilled in the south end of a detached rock approximately fifteen feet wide, thirty feet long, and sixteen feet high, which point bears north 51° 06′ 30″ west, 8,578.4 feet from the place of beginning; thence south 38° 03′ west, to the summit of the ridge determining the boundary line of the watershed tributary to the stream that flows into Chilkat Inlet about 3 miles northwesterly from Pyramid Harbor; thence following said boundary line in a westerly, southerly, easterly, and northerly direction to its intersection with a line bearing south 51° 15′ west, from the place of beginning; thence north 51° 15′ east, to the place of beginning.", "The above bearings are all referred to a line from corner No. 1 of the U. S. Military Reservation on the west shore of Chilkoot Inlet to the above-mentioned granite monument on the east shore of Chilkat Inlet, the bearing of which computed from the original description is south 69° 11′ 15″ west, and as a further tie the U. S. I. M. cor. No. 1 on Pyramid Island bears south 12° 59′ east from said monument."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 204, War Dept., December 6, 1905)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved public lands on Chilkat Inlet, Alaska, to supply water to Fort William H. Seward.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Chilkat Inlet", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-11-27", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-376", "type": "executive_order", "number": "376", "tr_sequence": 306, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-12-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Edna M. Peltz as Clerk in Pension Office Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_376", "revid": 1846032, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 93"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Miss Edna M. Peltz may be permanently appointed to a clerical position in the Pension Office without examination under the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 93)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, December 6, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Edna M. Peltz to be permanently appointed to a clerical position in the Pension Office without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Edna M. Peltz"], "significance": 1, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-12-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-376-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "376-A", "tr_sequence": 307, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-12-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Sidney Land District, Neb., Abolished; Transferred to Western Land District, Office at North Platte", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Abolished the Sidney Land District in Nebraska and moved it into the Western Land District at North Platte.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Sidney Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Nebraska"}, {"name": "North Platte", "kind": "town", "state": "Nebraska"}], "states": ["Nebraska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-12-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-377-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "377-A", "tr_sequence": 310, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-12-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Approving War Secretary Recommendation of December 6, 1905, to Reserve Lands at Keystone, Alaska, for Military Telegraph Purposes", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_377-A", "revid": 2403931, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 208, War Dept., December 22, 1905"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The following is the description from the Department of War's General Order No. 208 of 1905, not the actual order text, which was in the form of an approval of a recommendation from the Secretary of War.", "The President of the United States, by order dated December 7, 1905, reserved, for the purposes of a military telegraph, all public lands situated at Keystone, Alaska, approximately, in latitude 61° 10′ north, longitude 145° 10′ west, included within the following metes and bounds, viz:", "Beginning at station at SE. corner of reservation post No. one, being a cottonwood post, five inches in diameter, and marked U. S. M. R. post No. one on four squared sides; thence west two miles to No. two, being a cottonwood tree eight inches in diameter, marked U. S. M. R. post No. two; thence north one-half mile to No. three, being a spruce tree ten inches in diameter and marked U. S. M. R. post No. three; thence two miles east to No. four, being a spruce tree twelve inches in diameter marked U. S. M. R. post No. four; thence south to starting point."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 208, War Dept., December 22, 1905)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved public lands at Keystone, Alaska, for a military telegraph.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Keystone", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-12-07", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-377-b", "type": "executive_order", "number": "377-B", "tr_sequence": 311, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-12-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Isthmian Canal Commission to Hold Quarterly Session of January 1, 1906, in Washington, D. C.", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_377-B", "revid": 1850346, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The quarterly session of the Isthmian Canal Commission for the 1st of January next may be held at the office of the Commission in Washington, D. C., instead of at the office of the governor of the Canal Zone on the Isthmus of Panama, as provided in Executive order of April 1, 1905, in view of the necessity of the Commission for considering the report of the advisory board of engineers and the impossibility of leaving so soon for the Isthmus."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, December 7, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let the Isthmian Canal Commission hold its January 1, 1906, session in Washington instead of on the Isthmus so it could consider the advisory board of engineers' report.", "categories": ["canal-zone"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-12-07", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-377-half", "type": "executive_order", "number": "377½", "tr_sequence": 309, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-12-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Appointing Committee to Plan Inquiry of Government Office Sanitary Conditions for Prevention of Tuberculosis", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_377%C2%BD", "revid": 1850337, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis recently adopted the following resolution:", "\"Resolved, That in the interest of preventive medicine and the cause of industrial hygiene this association respectfully recommends to the Chief Executive of the nation the desirability of instituting an inquiry through the proper officers of the Government as to the sanitary conditions existing in all Government offices and workshops where a large number of persons are employed, especially with a view of recommending, if necessary, measures for the prevention of tuberculosis therein.\"", "In view of this resolution and in the interest of the Government service, I hereby appoint Surg. Gen. Robert M. O'Reilly, U. S. Army, Surg. Gen. P. M. Rixey, U. S. Navy, and Surg. Gen. Walter Wyman, of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, a committee to prepare and submit to the President for approval a plan for carrying out the intent of the above resolution, and the committee is hereby empowered to detail one or more persons from each of the Services named for the purpose of assisting in the formation of a plan for investigation and action."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, December 7, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Answering a National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis resolution, appointed the Army, Navy and Public Health surgeons general to plan an inquiry into sanitary conditions in government offices and workshops.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Robert M. O'Reilly", "P. M. Rixey", "Walter Wyman"], "significance": 3, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-12-07", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-421", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The February 1906 order that put the committee's tuberculosis rules into effect.", "story": 87, "date": "1906-02-28", "title": "Prescribing Rules for the Prevention of Tuberculosis Among Employees in Public Service", "type": "executive_order", "number": "421"}]}
{"id": "eo-378", "type": "executive_order", "number": "378", "tr_sequence": 312, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-12-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Make Treasury Department Assistant Assayer Subject to Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_378", "revid": 1846142, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 78"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Schedule A of classified positions excepted from examination under Rule II, clause 3, is hereby amended by inserting after the word \"coiner,\" in paragraph 8 of Section II, the word \"and,\" and striking out after the word \"refiner,\" the words \"one assistant assayer.\" As amended the paragraph will read:", "One private secretary or confidential clerk to the superintendent, one cashier, one deposit weigh clerk, one assistant coiner, and one assistant melter and refiner, in each mint or assay office."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 78)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, December 7, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Made the assistant assayer position in each mint or assay office subject to civil service examination, striking it from the list of excepted positions.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-12-07", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-377", "type": "executive_order", "number": "377", "tr_sequence": 308, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-12-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reappointment of Emily L. Genella in Bureau of Engraving and Printing Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_377", "revid": 1850347, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 93"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. Emily L. Genella may be reappointed in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing without reference to the year limit imposed by the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 93)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, December 9, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Emily L. Genella to be reappointed in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing despite the civil service year limit.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Emily L. Genella"], "significance": 1, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-12-09", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-379", "type": "executive_order", "number": "379", "tr_sequence": 313, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-12-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Howard H. Belden Upon Passing Noncompetitive Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_379", "revid": 1846084, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 93"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Howard H. Belden may be appointed in any of the Executive Departments upon his passing a satisfactory noncompetitive examination."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 93)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, December 11, 1905. == Notes == See Related: Executive Order 401, [http://books.google.com/books?output=html&id=OsE-AAAAIAAJ&q=401]", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Howard H. Belden to be appointed in any executive department after passing a noncompetitive examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Howard H. Belden"], "significance": 1, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-12-11", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-380", "type": "executive_order", "number": "380", "tr_sequence": 314, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-12-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Mary E. Owings to Position in Government Printing Office Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_380", "revid": 1846145, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 94"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. Mary E. Owings may be appointed to a position in the Government Printing Office without examination under the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 94)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, December 11, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Mary E. Owings to be appointed to a position in the Government Printing Office without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Mary E. Owings"], "significance": 1, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-12-11", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-381", "type": "executive_order", "number": "381", "tr_sequence": 315, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-12-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Classifying Thirteen Special Agents in the Bureau of the Census", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_381", "revid": 1846151, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 94"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The thirteen special agents in the Bureau of the Census, whose right to classification was the same as that of the employees who were classified by act of Congress, may be transferred to competitive positions in that office; or elsewhere subject to the limitations of the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 94)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, December 14, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Permitted thirteen special agents in the Bureau of the Census to transfer to competitive positions, putting them on the same footing as employees classified by act of Congress.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-12-14", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-382", "type": "executive_order", "number": "382", "tr_sequence": 316, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-12-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Transfer of Katherine S. Todd to Clerk in Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_382", "revid": 1846162, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 94"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Miss Katherine S. Todd may be transferred from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to the position of clerk in the office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue without regard to the restrictions of section 7 of civil service Rule X."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 94)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, December 14, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Katherine S. Todd transfer from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to a clerkship in the office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, waiving civil service Rule X restrictions.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "transfer", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Katherine S. Todd"], "significance": 1, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-12-14", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-383", "type": "executive_order", "number": "383", "tr_sequence": 317, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-12-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Except Certain Temporary Positions in Agriculture Department from Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_383", "revid": 6085676, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 78"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Schedule A, of the civil service rules, is hereby amended by the addition to Section VII of a paragraph, which shall be numbered 3, and shall read as follows:", "Guards, guides, cooks, packers, teamsters, choppers, and skilled laborers, employed temporarily during the season of danger from fires or when other special work requires additions to the regular reserve force. They shall serve only as long as absolutely required, and in no case more than six months in any one year. So far as the Commission may deem practicable, such appointments shall be made from the registers of eligibles for forest ranger."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 78)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, December 18, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Exempted seasonal Agriculture Department guards, guides, cooks, packers, teamsters, choppers and skilled laborers hired during fire season from examination, capping their service at six months a year.", "categories": ["civil-service", "forests"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-12-18", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-384", "type": "executive_order", "number": "384", "tr_sequence": 318, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-12-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Permanent Appointment of Anna F. McCormick as Clerk in Isthmian Canal Commission Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_384", "revid": 1850278, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 94"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Miss Anna F. McCormick may be permanently appointed to a position in the office of the Isthmian Canal Commission, where she is at present temporarily employed."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 94)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "T. Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, December 18, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Anna F. McCormick, temporarily employed by the Isthmian Canal Commission, to be appointed there permanently.", "categories": ["civil-service", "canal-zone"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Anna F. McCormick"], "significance": 1, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-12-18", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-385", "type": "executive_order", "number": "385", "tr_sequence": 319, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-12-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Richard H. Williams as Inspector of Hulls of Steam Vessels Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_385", "revid": 1846164, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 94"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Richard H. Williams may be reinstated as an inspector of hulls of steam vessels without regard to the limitation of one year prescribed by the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 94)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, December 18, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Richard H. Williams be reinstated as an inspector of hulls of steam vessels despite the one-year limit in the civil service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "restore", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Richard H. Williams"], "significance": 1, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-12-18", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-386", "type": "executive_order", "number": "386", "tr_sequence": 320, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-12-19", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Nevil Monroe Hopkins as Electrical Engineer in Navy Department After Noncompetitive Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_386", "revid": 1846172, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 95"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Nevil Monroe Hopkins may be appointed as electrical engineer in the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy Department, subject to noncompetitive examination by the Civil Service Commission."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 95)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, December 19, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Nevil Monroe Hopkins to be appointed electrical engineer in the Navy's Bureau of Yards and Docks after a noncompetitive examination.", "categories": ["civil-service", "military-naval"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Nevil Monroe Hopkins"], "significance": 1, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-12-19", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-387", "type": "executive_order", "number": "387", "tr_sequence": 321, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-12-19", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Positions Excepted from Apportionment", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_387", "revid": 1846189, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 71"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Civil Service Rule VII. section 2, is amended by striking out the word \"page\" and adding the words \"carpenter, cabinetmaker, painter, plumber, plumber's helper, electric wireman, electric lineman, and electrician's helper.\"", "As amended, section 2 of Rule VII will read as follows:", "Certification for appointment in the departments or independent offices at Washington shall be so made as to maintain, as nearly as the conditions of good administration will warrant, the apportionment of such appointments among the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia upon the basis of population: Provided, That appointments to the following-named positions shall not be so apportioned, viz: Plate printer, printer's assistant, skilled helper, and operative in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing; positions in the field service of the military staff departments and at Army headquarters, mail bag repair shop and mail lock repair shop. Government Printing Office. Pension Agency, and local offices in the District of Columbia; apprentice, student, gardener, engraver, carpenter, cabinetmaker, painter, plumber, plumber's helper, electric wireman, electric lineman, and electrician's helper."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 71)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "T. Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, December 19, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Added carpenters, cabinetmakers, painters, plumbers, electricians and related trades to the jobs exempt from the rule apportioning Washington appointments among the states by population, and dropped pages from the list.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["Washington", "District of Columbia"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-12-19", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-388", "type": "executive_order", "number": "388", "tr_sequence": 322, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-12-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Hattie R. McMullin to Position in Interior Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_388", "revid": 1854882, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 95"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. Hattie R. McMullin may be reinstated in a classified position in the Interior Department without regard to the fact that she has been separated from the classified service more than a year."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 95)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, December 23, 1905.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Authorizing Reinstatement of Hattie R. McMullin to Position in Interior Department After Without Regard to Civil Service Rules”. Garbled caption (\"After Without Regard\")."], "summary": "Let Hattie R. McMullin be reinstated in a classified Interior Department position even though she had been out of the service more than a year.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "restore", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Hattie R. McMullin"], "significance": 1, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-12-23", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-389", "type": "executive_order", "number": "389", "tr_sequence": 323, "lord_number": null, "date": "1905-12-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Mrs. Mary E. Griffin in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Without Regard to Civil-Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_389", "revid": 1854879, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. Mary E. Griffin may be reappointed in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing without reference to the year limit imposed by the civil-service rules.", "Theodore Roosevelt The White House, December 23, 1905."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Mrs. Mary E. Griffin to be reappointed in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing despite the civil service year limit.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Mary E. Griffin"], "significance": 1, "stories": [86], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1905-12-23", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-400", "type": "executive_order", "number": "400", "tr_sequence": 338, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-01", "date_precision": "month", "title": "Temporary appointment of Mrs. Charles (Florence E.) Broady", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Made a temporary appointment of Mrs. Charles (Florence E.) Broady.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Florence E. Broady"], "significance": 1, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": null, "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-401", "type": "executive_order", "number": "401", "tr_sequence": 339, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-01", "date_precision": "month", "title": "Appointment of Mr. Howard H. Belden", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Concerned the appointment of Howard H. Belden.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Howard H. Belden"], "significance": 1, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": null, "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-607", "type": "proclamation", "number": "607", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-01-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reciprocal Reduction of Duties with Switzerland", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 607, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-607"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3185, "last_page": 3186, "cite": "34 Stat. 3185–3186", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3185.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-01-01", "table_title": "Reciprocity with Switzerland."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America.", "A PROCLAMATION.", "Whereas the Government of Switzerland decreed the removal, on and after January 1, 1906, of all differential customs duties from the products of the soil and industry of the United States, and granted to the same the benefit of the Swiss conventional tariff rates, by which action in the judgment of the President reciprocal and equivlent [sic] concessions are established in favor of the said products of the United States:", "Now, therefore, be it known that I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority conferred by the third Section of the Tariff Act of the United States approved July 24, 1897, do hereby suspend during the continuance in force of the said concessions by the Government of Switzerland the imposition and collection of the duties imposed by the first Section of said Act upon the articles hereinafter specified, being the products of the soil and industry of Switzerland; and do declare in place thereof the following rates of duty provided in the third Section of said Act to be in force and effect from and after the date of this Proclamation, of which the officers and citizens of the United States will take due notice, namely:", "Upon argols, or crude tartar, or wine lees, crude, five per centum ad valorem.", "Upon brandies, or other spirits manufactured or distilled from grain or other materials, one dollar and seventy-five cents per proof gallon.", "Upon still wines, and vermuth, in casks, thirty-five cents per gallon; in bottles or jugs, per case of one dozen bottles or jugs containing each not more than one quart and more than one pint, or twenty-four bottles or jugs containing each not more than one pint, one dollar and twenty-five cents per case, and any excess beyond these quantities found in such bottles or jugs shall be subject to a duty of four cents per pint or fractional part thereof, but no separate or additional duty shall be assessed upon the bottles or jugs.", "Upon paintings in oil or water colors, pastels, pen and ink drawings, and statuary, fifteen per centum ad valorem.", "In testimony 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 first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirtieth.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President: ELIHU ROOT, Secretary of State."], "source": "34 Stat. 3185–3186 (Statutes at Large page images, GovInfo), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "\"equivlent [sic]\" as printed (the Statutes break \"equiv-\" at a line end); [SEAL.] restored; \"I have hereunto\" (not \"I nave\").", "story": 64}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Cut U.S. duties on Swiss argols, brandies, still wines and vermuth, and artworks, matching Switzerland's removal of differential duties on American goods.", "categories": ["trade-reciprocity", "foreign-affairs"], "action": "regulate", "places": [{"name": "Switzerland", "kind": "country"}], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [64], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-01-01", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "economic", "text": "Lower American duties on Swiss argols, brandies, still wines and vermuth, and paintings and statuary took effect the day the proclamation was signed, matching Switzerland's removal of all differential duties on American goods.", "source": "34 Stat. 3185–3186", "date": "1906-01-01", "story": 64}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-389-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "389-A", "tr_sequence": 324, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-01-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Stockton Land District, Calif., Abolished; Transferred to Sacramento Land District", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Abolished the Stockton Land District in California and moved it into the Sacramento Land District.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Stockton Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "California"}, {"name": "Sacramento Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-01-03", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-389-half", "type": "executive_order", "number": "389½", "tr_sequence": 325, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-01-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Creating the Jamestown Tercentennial Commission and Appointing Members Thereto", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_389%C2%BD", "revid": 1855729, "printed_source": "  "}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By virtue of the authority vested in me by the provisions of the act of Congress of March 3, 1905, entitled ‘‘An act to provide for celebrating the birth of the American nation, the first permanent settlement of English-speaking people on the Western Hemisphere, by the holding of an international naval, marine, and military celebration in the vicinity of Jamestown, on the waters of Hampton Roads, in the State of Virginia, to provide for a suitable and permanent commemoration of said event, and to authorize an appropriation in aid thereof, and for other purposes,’’ I hereby constitute a Commission to consist of Hon. Leslie M. Shaw, Secretary of the Treasury; Hon. William H. Taft, Secretary of War; and Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte, Secretary of the Navy, to be known as the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Commission, and for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of said act.", "Theodore Roosevelt The White House, January 5, 1906. == Notes == See Related: Proclamation 542, March 29, 1905"], "source": "Wikisource (from   )", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Created the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Commission, made up of the Secretaries of the Treasury, War and Navy, to carry out the 1905 act for a celebration near Jamestown on Hampton Roads.", "categories": ["ceremonial"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Jamestown", "kind": "town", "state": "Virginia"}], "states": ["Virginia"], "people": ["Leslie M. Shaw", "William H. Taft", "Charles J. Bonaparte"], "significance": 3, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-01-05", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The commission was the federal government's machinery behind the Jamestown Exposition at Norfolk, which Roosevelt opened in person on April 26, 1907, and which closed on November 30, 1907.", "source": "Daily Press (Newport News), December 1, 1907, p. 1", "date": "1907-11-30", "story": 87}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-542", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The 1905 proclamation of the Jamestown celebration.", "story": 87, "date": "1905-03-29", "title": "Celebration of the 300th Anniversary of the Founding of Jamestown, Virginia", "type": "proclamation", "number": "542"}]}
{"id": "eo-390", "type": "executive_order", "number": "390", "tr_sequence": 326, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-01-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Except from Examination Stitch Counters in the New York Customs District", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_390", "revid": 1854760, "printed_source": "  "}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Schedule A, section 4, of the civil-service rules, which now reads:", "‘‘4. One paymaster, in the New York customs district,’’", "is amended to read:", "‘‘4. In the New York customs district: One paymaster; stitch counters.’’", "Theodore Roosevelt The White House, January 6, 1906. == Notes == Amends: Executive Order 209, March 20, 1903"], "source": "Wikisource (from   )", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Exempted stitch counters in the New York customs district from civil service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["New York"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-01-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-391", "type": "executive_order", "number": "391", "tr_sequence": 327, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-01-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Permanent Appointment of Ralph Whitman as Draftsman in Isthmian Canal Commission Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": ["Wikisource dates this order 1906-01-08; the Wikipedia list gives 1906-01-09."], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_391", "revid": 1856316, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 96"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Ralph Whitman may be permanently appointed to the position of engineer draftsman in the office of the Isthmian Canal Commission, where he is at present temporarily employed."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 96)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, January 8, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Ralph Whitman, temporarily employed as an engineer draftsman with the Isthmian Canal Commission, to be appointed there permanently.", "categories": ["civil-service", "canal-zone"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Ralph Whitman"], "significance": 1, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-01-09", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-392", "type": "executive_order", "number": "392", "tr_sequence": 328, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-01-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of E. M. LeBoiteaux in Bureau of the Census After Noncompetitive Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_392", "revid": 1858220, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. E. M. Le Boiteaux may be employed in the Bureau of the Census upon experimental work in developing tabulating machinery, as authorized in the latest act appropriating for executive, legislative, and judicial expenses, subject to noncompetitive examination by the Civil Service Commission."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, January 10, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed E. M. LeBoiteaux to be hired at the Bureau of the Census for experimental work developing tabulating machinery, after a noncompetitive Civil Service Commission examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["E. M. LeBoiteaux"], "significance": 1, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-01-10", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-393", "type": "executive_order", "number": "393", "tr_sequence": 329, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-01-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Repealing Executive Order No. 370 of November 15, 1905, Regarding Appointments to Isthmian Canal Commission Positions", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_393", "revid": 1854763, "printed_source": "1905 CSR 103"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Executive Order of November 15, 1905, as to appointments to positions in the service of the Isthmian Canal Commission upon the Isthmus of Panama, is hereby repealed."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1905 CSR 103)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "T. Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, January 12, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Repealed the November 15, 1905, executive order governing appointments to Isthmian Canal Commission positions on the Isthmus of Panama.", "categories": ["civil-service", "canal-zone"], "action": "revoke", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-01-12", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-394", "type": "executive_order", "number": "394", "tr_sequence": 330, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-01-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Positions Excepted from Examination for Isthmian Canal Commission Personnel", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_394", "revid": 12437388, "printed_source": "  "}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Schedule A of the civil-service rules is hereby amended by striking out all of the present provisions of Section VIII and substituting therefor the following:", "{{c|.}}", "All officers and employees in the service of the Isthmian Canal Commission upon the Isthmus of Panama, except those who are to perform the duties of clerk, bookkeeper, stenographer, typewriter, surgeon, physician, trained nurse, or draftsman.", "No person appointed to the service on the Isthmus of Panama otherwise than through competitive examination or by transfer or promotion from a competitive position shall be transferred to a competitive position.", "Theodore Roosevelt The White House, January 12, 1906. == Notes == Supersedes: Executive Order 273, November 15, 1904 Executive Order 289, January 5, 1905 Amended by: Executive Order 946, October 3, 1908 Executive Order 967, November 9, 1908"], "source": "Wikisource (from   )", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Rewrote the civil service exceptions for the Isthmian Canal Commission, exempting all Isthmus jobs except clerks, bookkeepers, stenographers, typists, doctors, trained nurses and draftsmen, and barring noncompetitive appointees from transferring to competitive posts.", "categories": ["civil-service", "canal-zone"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-01-12", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "eo-273", "relation": "supersedes", "note": null, "story": 84, "inferred": true, "date": "1904-11-15", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Positions Excepted from Examination for Isthmian Canal Commission Personnel", "type": "executive_order", "number": "273"}]}
{"id": "eo-394-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "394-A", "tr_sequence": 331, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-01-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Certain Lands in Minnesota for Reservoir System at Mississippi River Headwaters", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_394-A", "revid": 2166830, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 17, War Dept., January 23, 1906"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["All of those lands in the State of Minnesota which are bounded and described as follows, so far as they are legally subject to reservation, are hereby withdrawn from sale or other form of disposition for the use of the War Department in connection with the construction, operation, and maintenance of a reservoir system at the headwaters of the Mississippi River, viz:", "An island in Aitkin Lake, section 17, township 50 north, range 23 west of the fourth principal meridian, bounded as follows:", "Beginning at a point on the south line of said section 17, 17,645 feet south and 1,605 feet west of the meander corner on the east line of said section; thence north 13° 30′ west, 450 feet; thence south 89° west, 205 feet; thence south 25° 30′ east, 470 feet to the south line of said section 17; thence east 100 feet to the point of beginning; containing two acres, more or less. The east line of said section 17 is used as a meridian in this description.", "An island in Pokegama Lake, section 21, township 54 north, range 25 west of the fourth principal meridian, bounded as follows:", "Beginning at a point 2,515 feet north and 365 feet west of the quarter corner on the east line of said section 21; thence west, 225 feet; thence south 63° 30′ west, 255 feet; thence south 29° east, 285 feet; thence northeasterly 480 feet to the point of beginning; containing two acres, more or less. The east line of said section 21 is used as a meridian for this description.", "An island in Pokegama Lake, section 22, township 54 north, range 25 west of the fourth principal meridian, bounded as follows:", "Beginning at a point 965 feet north and 700 feet west of the meander corner on the east line of lot 4, in said section 22; thence north 12° west, 150 feet; thence south 77° 30′ west, 220 feet; thence south 12° east, 155 feet; thence northeasterly 220 feet, more or less, to the point of beginning; containing seventy-six one-hundredths (0.76) of an acre, more or less. The east line of said section 22 is used as a meridian for this description.", "Two small islands in Leyton Lake, section 34, township 55 north, range 27 west of the fourth principal meridian, bounded as follows: {|style=\"margin: 0em 2.0em 0em 2.0em;\" |-valign=\"top\" |align=\"right\" nowrap|(a) |Beginning at a point on the east line of said section 34, 1,310 feet north of the southeast corner of said section; thence south 14° west, 120 feet; thence north 87° 30′ west., 580 feet; thence north 35° east, 300 feet; thence southeasterly 470 feet, to the point of beginning; containing 2.5 acres, more or less. |-valign=\"top\" |align=\"right\" nowrap|(b) |Beginning at a point on the south line of said section 34, 1,185 feet west of the southeast corner of said section; thence north 34° west, 390 feet; thence south 59° 40′ west, 205 feet; thence south 46° 30′ east, 330 feet to the south line of said section; thence east, on the said south line, to the point of beginning; containing 1.7 acres, more or less. |} The east line of said section 34 is used as a meridian for these descriptions.", "An island in Camp Lake, in the northeast quarter of section 5, township 137 north, range 27 west of the fifth principal meridian, bounded as follows:", "Beginning at a point 1,780 feet south and 1,210 feet east of the quarter corner on the north line of said section 5; thence north 69° 30′ east, 330 feet; thence north 5° 30′ west, 775 feet; thence south 63° 30′ west, 425 feet; thence south 19° west. 265 feet; thence south 27° east, 500 feet to the point of beginning; containing 8.3 acres, more or less. The center line of said section 5 is used as a meridian in this description.", "Unsurveyed lands which have formed in Mud Lake and the part of said lake now known as \"Goose Lake,\" since the original government surveys of townships 143 and 144 north, range 26 west of the fifth principal meridian, and lie southerly of Leech Lake River, as follows: {|style=\"margin: 0em 2.0em 0em 2.0em;\" |-valign=\"top\" |align=\"right\" nowrap|(a) |In sections 3, 4, 5, 8. 9. and 16 of township 143 north, range 26 west—those portions of said sections which are indicated in red on map marked \"Map No. 6. Pokegama Reservoir. Survey made under the direction of Major Frederic V. Abbot, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A. Map made under the direction of Major D. W. Lockwood, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A. Horace Dunaway, Surveyor, 1900.\" |-valign=\"top\" |align=\"right\" nowrap|(b) |In sections 32 and 34, township 144 north, range 26 west—those portions of said sections which are indicated in red on map marked \"Map No. 7. Pokegama Reservoir. Survey made under the direction of Major Frederic V. Abbot, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A. Map made under the direction of Major D. W. Lockwood, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A. Horace Dunaway, Surveyor, 1900.\" |}", "Unsurveyed land in the southwest corner of section 36, township 144 north, range 28 west of the fifth principal meridian, indicated in red on map marked \"Map No. 8. Leech Lake Reservoir. Survey made under the direction of Major Frederic V. Abbot, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A. Map made under the direction of Major D. W. Lockwood, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A. Horace Dunaway, Surveyor, 1900.\""], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 17, War Dept., January 23, 1906)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, January 13, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Withdrew Minnesota lands, including islands in Aitkin, Pokegama and Leyton lakes, from sale for the War Department's reservoir system at the headwaters of the Mississippi River.", "categories": ["water-reclamation"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Aitkin Lake", "kind": "other", "state": "Minnesota"}, {"name": "Pokegama Lake", "kind": "other", "state": "Minnesota"}, {"name": "Leyton Lake", "kind": "other", "state": "Minnesota"}], "states": ["Minnesota"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-01-13", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-608", "type": "proclamation", "number": "608", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-01-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Uintah Forest Reserve, Utah and Wyoming", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 608, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-608"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3186, "last_page": 3187, "cite": "34 Stat. 3186–3187", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3186.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-01-16", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Uintah Forest Reserve, Utah and Wyoming."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Uintah Forest Reserve, in the State of Utah, was established by proclamation dated February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and was subsequently enlarged by proclamation dated July fourteenth, nineteen hundred and five;", "And whereas, it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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”, that “the President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve ”;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by further enlarging the said forest reserve to include certain additional lands in the States of Utah and Wyoming, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid Act of Congress’, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do proclaim that the aforesaid Uintah Forest Reserve is hereby further enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are, accordingly, now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "3187 Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 16th day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, [seal.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3186", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Uintah Forest Reserve Utah and Wyo.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 29, p. 895.", "Ante, p. 3116.", "Post, pp. 3207, 3240.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Uintah Forest Reserve, adding lands in Utah and Wyoming and closing them to settlement, apart from valid existing entries.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Uintah Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah", "Wyoming"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-01-16", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Salt Lake land office received copies of the January Utah proclamations, which the Tribune reported were issued on the recommendation of the Department of Agriculture; they included an addition to the Uintah reserve north and south of the Uintah Indian reservation.", "source": "Salt Lake Tribune, Feb. 10, 1906, p. 10", "date": "1906-02-10", "story": 63}], "legacy": [{"text": "The 1906 proclamations record the reserve's change of name from Uintah to Uinta; the Forest Service record dates the change to January 16, 1906.", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "date": "1906-01-16", "story": 63}], "today": [{"name": "Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Utah", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-629", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "The May 29 proclamation cut land out of the same reserve, by then called the Uinta.", "story": 63, "date": "1906-05-29", "title": "Modifying Boundaries of the Uinta Forest Reserve, Utah", "type": "proclamation", "number": "629"}, {"id": "proc-663", "relation": "enlarged_by", "note": "Second enlargement of the same reserve, October 6, 1906.", "story": 63, "date": "1906-10-06", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Uinta Forest Reserve, Utah and Wyoming", "type": "proclamation", "number": "663"}]}
{"id": "eo-395", "type": "executive_order", "number": "395", "tr_sequence": 332, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-01-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Walter R. Brinckerhoff as Chief of Leprosy Hospital Station in Hawaii Subject to Noncompetitive Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": ["Wikisource dates this order 1906-01-15; the Wikipedia list gives 1906-01-16."], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_395", "revid": 1856334, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 96"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Dr. Walter R. Brinckerhoff may be appointed as chief or director of the hospital station and laboratory established under authority of an act approved March 3, 1905, making provision for the investigation of leprosy, with special reference to the care and treatment of lepers in Hawaii, subject to noncompetitive examination by the Civil Service Commission."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 96)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, January 15, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Dr. Walter R. Brinckerhoff to be appointed head of the leprosy hospital station and laboratory in Hawaii, subject to a noncompetitive examination.", "categories": ["civil-service", "insular-territories"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Hawaii"], "people": ["Walter R. Brinckerhoff"], "significance": 1, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-01-16", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-609", "type": "proclamation", "number": "609", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-01-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Sevier Forest Reserve, Utah", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 609, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-609"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3187, "last_page": 3188, "cite": "34 Stat. 3187–3188", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3187.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-01-17", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Sevier Forest Reserve, Utah."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Sevier Forest Reserve, in the State of Utah, was established by proclamation dated May twelfth, nineteen hundred and five;", "And whereas, it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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”, that “the President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve ”;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, within the State of Utah, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do proclaim that the aforesaid Sevier Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are, accordingly, now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "3188 Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 17th day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL.] six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3187", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Sevier Forest Reserve, Utah.", "Preamble.", "Ante, p. 3020.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Expanded the Sevier Forest Reserve in Utah, first set apart in May 1905, and reserved the added lands from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Sevier Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-01-17", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Salt Lake land office received copies of the January Utah proclamations, which the Tribune reported were issued on the recommendation of the Department of Agriculture; they included townships next to the Sevier reserve.", "source": "Salt Lake Tribune, Feb. 10, 1906, p. 10", "date": "1906-02-10", "story": 63}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-610", "type": "proclamation", "number": "610", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-01-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Manti Forest Reserve, Utah", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 610, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-610"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3188, "last_page": 3188, "cite": "34 Stat. 3188", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3188.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-01-18", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Manti Forest Reserve, Utah."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Manti Forest Reserve, in the State of Utah, was established by proclamation dated May twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and three;", "And whereas, it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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”, that “the President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may here-after be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, within the State of Utah, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do proclaim that the aforesaid Manti Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are, accordingly, now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 18th day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, [seal.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3188", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Manti Forest Reserve, Utah.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 33. p. 2308.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Extended the boundaries of the Manti Forest Reserve in Utah, established in 1903, closing the added lands to settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Manti Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-01-18", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "Sanpete and Nephi sheepmen quarreled that spring over grazing allotments inside the Manti reserve.", "source": "Salt Lake Herald, Mar. 26, 1906", "date": "1906-03-26", "story": 63}], "today": [{"name": "Manti-La Sal National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Utah", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-395-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "395-A", "tr_sequence": 333, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-01-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Lands at Diamond Head, Kupikipikio Point, and Punchbowl Hill, Hawaii, for Military Purposes", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_395-A", "revid": 1904831, "printed_source": "Published:  G.O. No. 21, War Dept., January 27, 1906"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["In accordance with the recommendation of the Secretary of War, all public lands at and near Diamond Head and at Kupikipikio Point and at Punchbowl Hill, in the Territory of Hawaii, included within metes and bounds, described as follows, are hereby temporarily withdrawn from sale, entry, or other disposition, for military purposes, until it can be determined by actual surveys what portions thereof will be required for permanent military reservations, viz:", "Diamond Head Reservation: Commencing at the southeast corner of this lot on the Waialae Nui boundary, at a stone marked with a cross; Diamond Head Trig. Station bears from this point north 81° 41′ west true, and running by true bearings as follows:", "N. 10° 19′ E., 2,174 feet along Waialae Nui; N. 57° 00′ W., 4,815 feet; S. 84° 39′ W., 1,545 feet along Lot 33; S. 30° 25′ E., 227 feet along Lot 34; S. 62° 55′ W., 1,027 feet along Lot 34; S. 41° 16′ W., 847 feet along Lot 35; S. 44' 36′ W., 940 feet along Lot 35; N. 64° 36′ W.. 415 feet along Lot 35; S. 32° 00′ W., 188 feet along Lot 25; S. 17° 42′ W., 284.5 feet along Lot 26; S. 1° 40′ W., 650 feet along Lots 27 and 28; S. 31° 03′ W., 613 feet along Lot 29; S. 17° 30′ E., 506 feet along Government land; S. 64° 13′ W., 330 feet along Government land; S. 55° 30′ E., 354 feet along Grant 3219; N. 66° 40 E., 152 feet along Government land; N. 82° 50′ E., 140.5 feet along Government land; N. 53° 00′ E., 141 feet along Government land; S. 64° 25′ E., 222 feet along Government land; S. 32° W., 269 feet along Government land; S. 33° 10′ W., 200 feet along Government land; S. 55° 30′ E., 808 feet along Grant 3219; N. 71° 17′ E., 22.5 feet along road; N. 87° 15′ E., 35.4 feet along road; S. 60° 00′ E., 40.5 feet along lower road; S. 81° 25′ E., 53 feet along lower road; S. 80° 30′ E., 148 feet; S. 00° 00′, 135 feet to beach; N. 88° 50′ E., 3,155.5 feet along beach; N. 14° 43′ W., 83 feet along Lot A; N. 75° 24′ E., 397 feet along Lot A; N. 81° 26′ E., 282.5 feet along Lot B; N. 15° 15′ W., 323 feet along Booth's land; N. 66° 30′ E., 113 feet along Booth's land; N. 40° 00′ E., 97.5 feet along Booth's land; N. 57° 10′ E., 114 feet along Booth's land; S. 25° 13′ E., 228 feet along Booth's land; N. 54° 39′ E., 323 feet along Lot E; N. 48° 10′ E., 212 feel along Lot F; N. 4° 17′ W., 97 feet along Peterson's land; N. 78° 40′ E., 110 feet along Peterson's lot; S. 4° 17′ E., 26.3 feet along Peterson's lot; N. 48° 10′ E., 29 feet along Lot F; S. 31° 49′ E., 328 feet along Lot F; S. 64° 57′ E., 213.2 feet along Lot G; N. 82° 49′ E., 338.2 feet along Grant 4674; N. 27° 22′ E., 196 feet along Lot H; S. 54° 16′ E., 525 feet along Lot H; S. 58° 41′ E., 381 feet along Lot I; N. 87° 18′ E., 439.5 feet along Lot I to point of beginning.", "Punchbowl Park Reservation: Beginning at a point at the east corner of Prospect and Alapai streets, at a distance of 268.75 feet northwest of a concrete post at the north corner of Prospect and Hackfeld streets, and running by true bearings:", "N. 20° 45′ W., 268.5 feet along Prospect street; N. 70° 55′ W., 72.6 feet along Prospect street; N. 00° 37′ E., 54 feet along Prospect street; N. 27° 4′ W., 101.3 feet along Government land; N. 80° 1′ W., 159.2 feet along Government land; N. 6° 23′ W., 244.4 feet along Government land; N. 38° 34′ W., 268.8 feet along Government land; N. 26° 16′ W., 336.9 feet along Government land; N. 24° 29′ E., 546.4 feet along Government land; N. 28° 21′ E., 437.5 feet along Government land; N. 32° 13′ E., 298.1 feet along Government land; N. 52° 55′ E., 362.2 feet along Government land; N. 71° 5′ E., 230.8 feet along Government land; N. 41° 56′ E., 180.2 feet along Punchbowl drive; S. 78° 58′ E., 840.3 feet along Punchbowl drive; S. 65° 50′ 30″ E., 488 feet along Punchbowl drive; S. 67° 6′ 30″ E., 185.3 feet along Punchbowl drive; N. 31° 20′ E., 272.6 feet along Punchbowl drive; S. 81° 20′ E., 355.6 feet along Punchbowl drive; S. 11° 25′ E., 433.7 feet along Punchbowl drive; S. 17° 11′ E., 335.3 feet along Punchbowl drive; S. 21° 22′ 30″ E., 394.6 feet along Punchbowl drive; S. 10° 40′ W., 375.1 feel along Punchbowl drive; S. 23° 39′ W., 509.1 feet along Punchbowl drive; S. 52° 6′ W., 765.1 feet along Government land; S. 49° 12′ W., 226.7 feet along US Navy land; N. 53° 52′ W., 194.7 feet crossing Magazine and Prospect streets to east corner of Grant 3769; N. 46° 17′ W., 150 feet along Grant 3769; S. 44° 40′ W., 81 feet along Grant 3769; S. 43° 43′ W., 86 feet along Grant 3501; S. 67° 24′ W., 143 feet along Grant 3637; S. 43° 30′ W., 185.7 feet along Grant 3655; N. 68° 48′ W., 763.95 feet along Grants 3556, 3655, 3505, 3666; S. 40° 10′ W., 211.5 feet along Grant 3677 to initial point. Area: 157.5 acres."], "source": "Wikisource (from Published:  G.O. No. 21, War Dept., January 27, 1906)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, January 18, 1906. == Notes == Amended by: − for Diamond Head (later renamed Fort Ruger): Executive Order 1106, July 1, 1909; Executive Order 1261, October 31, 1910; Executive Order 1377, June 26, 1911; Executive Order 1767, April 28, 1913; Executive Order 4686, July 11, 1927, Executive Order 4689, July 11, 1927; Executive Order 5266, January 24, 1930; Executive Order 6408, November 7, 1933; Executive Order 6468, November 29, 1933; Executive Order 10268, July 5, 1951; Executive Order 10453, May 18, 1953; Executive Order 10496, October 14, 1953; Executive Order 10648, December 8, 1955 − for Punchbowl Hill: Executive Order 1531, May 11, 1912; Executive Order 2253, October 6, 1915; Executive Order 5157, July 13, 1929; Executive Order 5265, January 24, 1930; Executive Order 5693, August 24, 1931 See Related: Not Fully Ascertained", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Temporarily withdrew public lands at Diamond Head, Kupikipikio Point and Punchbowl Hill in Hawaii for military use until surveys decide what permanent reservations are needed.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Diamond Head", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Hawaii"}, {"name": "Kupikipikio Point", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Hawaii"}, {"name": "Punchbowl Hill", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Hawaii"}], "states": ["Hawaii"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-01-18", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-397", "type": "executive_order", "number": "397", "tr_sequence": 335, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-01-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Directing Department Heads to Appoint a Committee to Oversee the Printing Requirements and Publications for Each Respective Department", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_397", "revid": 1858227, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that there shall be appointed by the head of each of the Executive Departments an advisory committee on the subject of printing and publication. The chairman shall be an Assistant Secretary, or other qualified official, and at least one member of the committee shall have had practical experience in editing and printing.", "It shall be the duty of such committee, under direction of the head of the Department, to see that unnecessary matter is excluded from reports and publications; to see that copy is carefully edited before rather than after going to the Printing Office; to do away with the publication of unnecessary tables, and to require that statistical matter be published in condensed and intelligible form; to supervise the preparation of blank forms; to require the frequent revision of mailing lists; to prevent duplication of printing by different bureaus; to exclude unnecessary illustrations from Department documents, and to prevent the printing of the maximum edition allowed by law, when a smaller edition will suffice; to recommend to the head of the Department, for inclusion in the recommendations contained in his annual reports, needed changes in the statutes governing Department publications.", "The following general principles shall hereafter govern the form of the annual reports of the various bureaus and offices of the Departments:", "Annual reports shall be confined to concise accounts of work done and expenditures incurred during the period covered, with recommendations relating to the future, including plans for work to be undertaken. Contributions to knowledge in the form of scientific treatises shall not be included in annual reports. Illustrations in annual reports shall be excluded, except (a) maps and diagrams indispensable to the understanding of the text; (b) views of monuments or important structures begun or erected; (c) views showing conditions in outlying possessions of the United States and relating to work done or recommendations made. Inserted material, written or compiled by persons not connected with the reporting office, and biographical and eulogistic matter relating to the past or present personnel of the office, shall be excluded. Reports of officers who do not report directly to the head of an Executive Department shall not be printed in the annual report of a Department, but where necessary shall be summarized in the reports of the officials to whom such officers do report. Tables shall be inserted only when verbal summaries and statements of totals are inadequate, and complete texts of laws and court decisions shall, except in cases of great importance, be excluded. Detailed descriptions and lists of methods, processes, purchases, bids, rejections, installations, repairs, specifications, and personnel employed shall be omitted except when required by their unusual importance or by statute."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, January 20, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Ordered every executive department to form an advisory committee on printing to cut unnecessary matter, tables and illustrations from reports, and set rules keeping annual reports to concise accounts of work and spending.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-01-20", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-611", "type": "proclamation", "number": "611", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-01-22", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Fish Lake Forest Reserve, Utah", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 611, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-611"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3189, "last_page": 3189, "cite": "34 Stat. 3189", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3189.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-01-22", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Fish Lake Forest Reserve, Utah."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Fish Lake Forest Reserve, in the State of Utah, was established by proclamation dated February tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and was subsequently enlarged by proclamation dated May second, nineteen hundred and four;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by further enlarging the said forest reserve to include certain additional lands, in the State of Utah, which are in part covered with timber:", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 pro-claim that the aforesaid Fish Lake Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are, accordingly, now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired : Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 22nd day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, [seal.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3189", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Fish Lake Forest Reserve, Utah.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 30, p. 1787.", "Vol. 33, p. 2341.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30. p. 36.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Fish Lake Forest Reserve in Utah to take in additional lands partly covered with timber.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Fish Lake Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-01-22", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Deseret Evening News reported the enlargement under the headline \"Fish Lake Forest Reserve Greatly Enlarged.\"", "source": "Deseret Evening News, Jan. 24, 1906", "date": "1906-01-24", "story": 63}], "today": [{"name": "Fishlake National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Utah", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-396", "type": "executive_order", "number": "396", "tr_sequence": 334, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-01-22", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Jeannette L. Cavanagh as Classified Laborer in Department of Agriculture Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_396", "revid": 1856386, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 96"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["This is the Civil Service Commission's description of the order, not the actual text, which took the form of an endorsement of a Senator's letter.", "By direction of the President the Commission allowed the reinstatement of Mrs. Jeannette L. Cavanagh to the position of classified laborer in the Department of Agriculture."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 96)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Mrs. Jeannette L. Cavanagh to be reinstated as a classified laborer in the Department of Agriculture, by an endorsement on a senator's letter.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Jeannette L. Cavanagh"], "significance": 1, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-01-22", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-398", "type": "executive_order", "number": "398", "tr_sequence": 336, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-01-22", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reappointment of William A. Barr in Post Office Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_398", "revid": 1856345, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 97"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["William A. Barr may be reappointed in the Post-Office Department without reference to the year limit imposed by the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 97)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, January 22, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Permitted William A. Barr to be reappointed in the Post-Office Department despite the civil-service rules' one-year limit.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["William A. Barr"], "significance": 1, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-01-22", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-399", "type": "executive_order", "number": "399", "tr_sequence": 337, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-01-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Prescribing Additional Responsibilities for the United States Board on Geographic Names", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_399", "revid": 1697179, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that there be added to the duties of the United States Board on Geographic Names, created by Executive order dated September 4, 1890, the duty of determining, changing, and fixing place names within the United States and insular possessions, and it is hereby directed that all names hereafter suggested for any place by any officer or employee of the Government shall be referred to said Board for its consideration and approval before publication.", "In these matters, as in all cases of disputed nomenclature, the decisions of the Board are to be accepted by the Departments of Government as the standard authority."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, January 23, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Gave the U.S. Board on Geographic Names the job of fixing place names in the United States and its insular possessions, requiring officials to submit new names for approval before publication.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-01-23", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The board, renamed the United States Geographic Board in 1906, was abolished in 1934; a departmental Board on Geographic Names carried on from 1935, and Congress put the board on a statutory footing in 1947.", "source": "Act of July 25, 1947, 61 Stat. 456", "date": "1947-07-25", "story": 87}], "today": [{"name": "U.S. Board on Geographic Names", "kind": "other", "relation": "renamed", "note": "Statutory board in the Interior Department, staffed by the Geological Survey.", "source": "61 Stat. 456", "story": 87}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-493", "relation": "renamed_by", "note": "Renamed the board the United States Geographic Board and added advisory powers over mapmaking.", "story": 87, "date": "1906-08-10", "title": "Changing Title of Board on Geographic Names to United States Geographic Board, and Adding Duties", "type": "executive_order", "number": "493"}]}
{"id": "proc-612", "type": "proclamation", "number": "612", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-01-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Beaver Forest Reserve, Utah", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 612, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-612"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3189, "last_page": 3190, "cite": "34 Stat. 3189–3190", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3189.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-01-24", "table_title": "Setting apart the Beaver Forest Reserve, Utah."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "3190 And whereas, the public lands, in the State of Utah, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation:", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Utah, shown as the Beaver Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof:", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date, hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful tiling duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 24th day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3189", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Beaver Forest Reserve, Utah.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Utah.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Beaver Forest Reserve on public lands in Utah, reserving them from entry or settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Beaver Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-01-24", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Salt Lake land office received copies of the January Utah proclamations, which the Tribune reported were issued on the recommendation of the Department of Agriculture; they included some 210,000 acres in Iron County for the new Beaver reserve.", "source": "Salt Lake Tribune, Feb. 10, 1906, p. 10", "date": "1906-02-10", "story": 63}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-613", "type": "proclamation", "number": "613", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-01-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the La Sal Forest Reserve, Utah and Colorado", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 613, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-613"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3190, "last_page": 3191, "cite": "34 Stat. 3190–3191", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3190.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-01-25", "table_title": "Setting apart the La Sal Forest Reserve, Utah and Colorado."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled. ”An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “that the President of the United States may. from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereon”;", "And whereas, the public lands, in the States of Utah and Colorado, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the States of Utah and Colorado, shown as the La Sal Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "3191 Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 25th day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and [seal.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3190", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["La Sal Forest Reserve, Utah, and Colo.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26. p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Utah and Colorado.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart the La Sal Forest Reserve on timbered public lands in Utah and Colorado, closing them to entry or settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "La Sal Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah", "Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-01-25", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Manti-La Sal National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Utah", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-402", "type": "executive_order", "number": "402", "tr_sequence": 340, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-01-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amendment to Executive Order No. 163 of January 31, 1902 to Include Independent Government Agencies", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_402", "revid": 1742775, "printed_source": "[http://www.gao.gov/decisions/appro/302911.htm#_ftn8 External Information about this EO]  "}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The Executive order of January 31, 1902, is hereby amended by adding \"or independent Government establishments\" after the words \"departments\" in the third and ninth lines.", "As amended the order will read as follows:", "\"All officers and employees of the United States of every description, serving in or under any of the Executive departments or independent Government establishments, and whether so serving in or out of Washington, are hereby forbidden, either directly or indirectly, individually or through associations, to solicit an increase of pay or to influence or attempt to influence in their own interest any other legislation whatever, either before Congress or its committees, or in any way save through the heada of the departments or independent Government establishments in or under which they serve, on penalty of dismissal from the Government service.\" Theodore Roosevelt The White House, January 25, 1906.", "== Notes == Amends: Executive Order 163, January 31, 1902 Superseded by: Executive Order 1514, April 8, 1912 See Related: Executive Order of July 14, 1886 Executive Order 1142, November 26, 1909 Lloyd – La Follette Act, 1912"], "source": "Wikisource (from [http://www.gao.gov/decisions/appro/302911.htm#_ftn8 External Information about this EO]  )", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Extended the 1902 order barring federal employees from lobbying Congress for pay raises or other legislation to cover workers in independent government establishments as well as executive departments.", "categories": ["government-administration", "civil-service"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-01-25", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "A search of California papers for January through March 1906 found no coverage of the amendment.", "source": "California Digital Newspaper Collection", "date": "1906", "story": 87}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "political", "text": "It widened a rule already resented by postal unions and other employee groups, part of a longer fight over federal workers' right to petition Congress.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1906", "story": 87}], "legacy": [{"text": "The fight over employees' right to petition Congress was settled by the Lloyd–La Follette Act of 1912 and reshaped by later law.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1912", "story": 87}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-163", "relation": "amends", "note": "Adds \"or independent Government establishments\" after \"departments\" in the 1902 gag order.", "story": 87, "date": "1902-01-31", "title": "Soliciting Increase in Pay or Influencing Legislation by Employees of the United States", "type": "executive_order", "number": "163"}]}
{"id": "eo-403", "type": "executive_order", "number": "403", "tr_sequence": 341, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-01-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Except Mounted Inspectors in the Customs Service from Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_403", "revid": 1854787, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 91"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Schedule A of the civil-service rules is hereby amended by adding under II, Treasury Department, a new clause to be numbered 13, to read as follows:", "\"13. Mounted inspectors in the customs service on the Mexican border.\""], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 91)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "T. Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, January 25, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Added mounted customs inspectors on the Mexican border to Schedule A, excepting them from civil-service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-01-25", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-405", "type": "executive_order", "number": "405", "tr_sequence": 345, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-01-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Mary H. Donnelly as Clerk in Office of Chief of Ordnance Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": ["Wikisource dates this order 1906-02-01; the Wikipedia list gives 1906-01-25."], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_405", "revid": 1856355, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 97"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Miss Mary H. Donnelly may be reinstated as a clerk in the office of the Chief of Ordnance without reference to the year limit contained in the reinstatement rule."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 97)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 1, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Mary H. Donnelly to be reinstated as a clerk in the Office of the Chief of Ordnance despite the year limit on reinstatement.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Mary H. Donnelly"], "significance": 1, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-01-25", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-404", "type": "executive_order", "number": "404", "tr_sequence": 342, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-01-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Charles S. Brown as Inspector in Government Printing Office Subject to Noncompetitive Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_404", "revid": 1856352, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 97"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Charles S. Brown may be appointed as an inspector in the Government Printing Office, subject to his passing a noncompetitive examination before the Civil Service Commission."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 97)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, January 26, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Charles S. Brown to be appointed an inspector in the Government Printing Office if he passes a noncompetitive examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Charles S. Brown"], "significance": 1, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-01-26", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-404-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "404-A", "tr_sequence": 343, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-01-31", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Transferring Certain Lands From Bismarck Land District, N. Dakota to Fargo Land District", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Shifted certain lands from the Bismarck Land District to the Fargo Land District in North Dakota.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Bismarck Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "North Dakota"}, {"name": "Fargo Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "North Dakota"}], "states": ["North Dakota"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-01-31", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-404-b", "type": "executive_order", "number": "404-B", "tr_sequence": 344, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-01-31", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Executive Order of May 21, 1887 to Modify Boundaries of Fort Washakie Military Reservation, Wyoming", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_404-B", "revid": 6965398, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 24, War Dept., February 3, 1906"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["A new survey having been made by First Lieut. James Huston, Tenth Cavalry, of the military reservation of Fort Washakie, Wyo., reserved by Executive order of May 21, 1887 (G. O. No. 37, Headquarters of the Army, A. G. O., May 26, 1887), as determined from the old corner monuments, except that corner II has been moved so as to exclude the part of the reservation encroached upon in the construction of buildings pertaining to the Indian school, the reservation as made by said Executive order of May 21, 1887, is hereby modified, in accordance with said new survey so as to include all lands, and those only, within metes and bounds described as follows:", "Commencing at a point 3,861 feet south 2° 30′ east of the flagstaff of Fort Washakie, Wyo., and running thence north 75° 30′ east, 11,890 feet to corner II; thence north 26° 15′ west, 7,060 feet to corner III; thence south 83° 15′ west, 13,125 feet to corner IV; thence south 23° 00′ west, 6,435 feet to corner V; thence north 87° 45′ east, 3,234 feet to corner VI; thence south 61° 30′ east, 4,450 feet to corner I, the place of beginning. All bearings are true.", "This modification is made subject to the proviso in said Executive order of May 21, 1887, that—", "The use and occupancy of the land in question be subject to such right, title, and interest as the Indians have in and to the same, and that it be vacated whenever the interest of the Indians shall require it, upon notice to that effect to the Secretary of War."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 24, War Dept., February 3, 1906)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "T. Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, January 31, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Redrew the Fort Washakie military reservation in Wyoming to match a new survey, leaving out land used for Indian school buildings and keeping the Indians' rights to the land.", "categories": ["military-naval", "indian-lands"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Fort Washakie", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Wyoming"}], "states": ["Wyoming"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-01-31", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-405-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "405-A", "tr_sequence": 346, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-02-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Abolishing Malagi (Malahi) Island Military Reservation, Laguna de Bay, Luzon, Philippine Islands", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_405-A", "revid": 2166867, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 28, War Dept., February 7, 1906"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The military reservation of Malagi (Malahi) Island, situated at the south end of Talim Island, in Laguna de Bay, Luzon, Philippine Islands, made by Executive Order of November 6, 1902 (G. O., No. 121, Headquarters of the Army, A. G. O., November 24, 1902), having become useless for military purposes, is hereby restored to the control of the government of the Philippine Islands to be administered for the benefit of the inhabitants thereof."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 28, War Dept., February 7, 1906)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 1, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Abolished the military reservation on Malagi (Malahi) Island in Laguna de Bay, Luzon, as useless, returning it to the Philippine government for the inhabitants' benefit.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "restore", "places": [{"name": "Malagi (Malahi) Island", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-02-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-405-b", "type": "executive_order", "number": "405-B", "tr_sequence": 347, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-02-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Lands and Waters Around Yes Lake, Yes Bay, and Back Bay, Alaska, for Salmon Hatchery", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_405-B", "revid": 3901798, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that the hereinafter described land and water areas in the District of Alaska be, and they are hereby, reserved and set apart as a site for a salmon hatchery, subject to the possessory rights of the natives and of persons claiming title through the Russian Government, also subject to the rights of natives to take fish from the waters and fuel from the forests included in the limits of the reservation hereby established, to wit:", "Yes Lake (otherwise known as Lake McDonald) and its catchment basin, its outlet, and a strip of land one-eighth of a mile wide along each shore thereof; Yes Bay, Back Bay, and a strip of land one-eighth of a mile wide along the shores thereof and a strip of land one-eighth of a mile wide on each side of the old Indian trail."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 1, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved Yes Lake (Lake McDonald), Yes Bay, Back Bay and strips of shoreline in Alaska as a salmon hatchery site, keeping Native rights to fish and gather fuel.", "categories": ["wildlife", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Yes Lake", "kind": "other", "state": "Alaska"}, {"name": "Yes Bay", "kind": "other", "state": "Alaska"}, {"name": "Back Bay", "kind": "other", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-02-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-406", "type": "executive_order", "number": "406", "tr_sequence": 348, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-02-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Charles H. Ingram as Clerk in War Department Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_406", "revid": 1856361, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 97"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Charles H. Ingram, who resigned his position in the Treasury Department on August 7, 1903, may be appointed to a clerical position in the War Department without examination under the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 97)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 3, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Charles H. Ingram, who had resigned from the Treasury Department in 1903, take a clerical job in the War Department without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Charles H. Ingram"], "significance": 1, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-02-03", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-407", "type": "executive_order", "number": "407", "tr_sequence": 349, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-02-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Extending Time Limit for Completion of Work of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission to September 2, 1906", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Gave the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission until September 2, 1906, to finish its work.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs", "government-administration"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-02-05", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-407-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "407-A", "tr_sequence": 350, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-02-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Certain Described Lands in Randlett, Utah, for the Protestant Episcopal Church, for Use and Benefit of Ute Indians", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_407-A", "revid": 1858239, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that block 77, in the town site of Randlett, Utah, as per plat approved by the Secretary of the Interior, December 2, 1905, under the provisions of sections 2380 and 2381, Revised Statutes, located in sec. 7, T. 3 S., R. 2 E., United States meridian, be withdrawn from sale or other disposition and temporarily set apart to the Protestant Episcopal Church for missionary and cemetery purposes for the benefit of the Ute Indians, so long as used therefor: Provided, however, That when no longer so used by the said church it shall continue in a state of public reservation for church and cemetery purposes for the Ute Indians."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 5, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Set aside block 77 in the Randlett, Utah, town site for the Protestant Episcopal Church to use for missionary and cemetery purposes benefiting the Ute Indians.", "categories": ["indian-lands"], "action": "grant", "places": [{"name": "Randlett", "kind": "town", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-02-05", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-408", "type": "executive_order", "number": "408", "tr_sequence": 351, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-02-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Clayton G. Coleman as Special Agent in General Land Office Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_408", "revid": 1856363, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 97"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Clayton G. Coleman may be reinstated to the position of special agent of the General Land Office without reference to the year limit imposed by the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 97)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 9, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Clayton G. Coleman to be reinstated as a special agent of the General Land Office despite the one-year limit in the civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Clayton G. Coleman"], "significance": 1, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-02-09", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-409", "type": "executive_order", "number": "409", "tr_sequence": 352, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-02-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Indian Key Reservation, Tampa Bay, Florida as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Birds", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_409", "revid": 1887504, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that Indian Key, an island in Tampa bay, Florida, containing ninety acres, and located in sections 10 and 15, township 32 south, range 16 east, as the same appears upon the official plat of survey of said township on file in the General Land Office, be, and it is hereby reserved and set apart for the use of the Department of Agriculture, as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds. This reservation to be known as Indian Key Reservation."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 10, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved Indian Key, a ninety-acre island in Tampa Bay, Florida, for the Department of Agriculture as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds.", "categories": ["wildlife"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Indian Key Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Florida"}], "states": ["Florida"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-02-10", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The reservation was signed without ceremony and passed unremarked in the national press.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1906", "story": 87}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "local", "text": "Its effect fell mainly on the local egg hunters and fishermen it shut out of the island.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1906", "story": 87}], "legacy": [{"text": "Indian Key is one of the fifty-one bird reservations Roosevelt created, the seed of the national wildlife refuge system.", "source": "National Park Service", "story": 87}], "today": [{"name": "Pinellas National Wildlife Refuge", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "part", "state": "Florida", "note": "Established in 1951; takes in Indian, Tarpon, Mule and Jackass Keys, closed to the public, managed within the Crystal River refuge complex.", "source": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service", "story": 87}, {"name": "Indian Key National Wildlife Refuge", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "abolished", "state": "Florida", "note": "Name given in 1940; the reservation orders were revoked in 1950.", "source": "Proclamation 2416; Public Land Order 650", "story": 87}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1921-06-25", "text": "President Harding enlarged the reservation to include all mangrove islands in sections 20, 27, 28, 33 and 34 by Executive Order 3502 (sometimes misprinted as 3052).", "source": "Executive Order 3502", "story": 87}, {"date": "1940-07-25", "text": "Renamed Indian Key National Wildlife Refuge by Proclamation 2416.", "source": "Proclamation 2416", "story": 87}, {"date": "1950-06-26", "text": "Interior Secretary Oscar L. Chapman revoked the 1906 and 1921 orders, about 191 acres, by Public Land Order 650.", "source": "Public Land Order 650, 15 Fed. Reg. 4193", "story": 87}], "uncertain": ["How title to Indian Key passed between the 1950 revocation and the 1951 Pinellas National Wildlife Refuge has not been traced.", "Whether Indian Key was part of the 1955 grant of submerged lands to Pinellas County is not settled; the Trustees' minutes for the grant mention Bush or Tarpon Key but not Indian Key.", "A 1964 county rededication of Indian Key and Bush Key as a bird sanctuary rests on a single secondary article."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-410", "type": "executive_order", "number": "410", "tr_sequence": 353, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-02-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of William M. Geddes as Clerk in Treasury Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_410", "revid": 1856365, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 98"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["William M. Geddes, special disbursing agent for the disbursement of the appropriations for the Government exhibits at several expositions, who has served practically continuously as such for many years, may be appointed to the position of fourth-class clerk in the classified service of the Treasury Department without compliance with the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 98)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 13, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Permitted William M. Geddes, longtime disbursing agent for government exhibits at expositions, to become a fourth-class clerk in the Treasury Department without meeting civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["William M. Geddes"], "significance": 1, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-02-13", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-411", "type": "executive_order", "number": "411", "tr_sequence": 354, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-02-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Promotion of Joseph Fought to Clerk in Treasury Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_411", "revid": 1858253, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 98"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Joseph Fought may be promoted from classified laborer to clerk in the Treasury Department in view of his former service as a clerk in the War Department and his gallant record as a soldier in the civil war."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 98)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 13, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Joseph Fought to be promoted from classified laborer to clerk in the Treasury Department, citing his earlier War Department clerkship and gallant Civil War service.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Joseph Fought"], "significance": 1, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-02-13", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-411-half", "type": "executive_order", "number": "411½", "tr_sequence": 355, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-02-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of John H. Smith as Laborer in Bureau of Engraving and Printing Without Regard to Laborer Regulations", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_411%C2%BD", "revid": 1856370, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 98"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. John H. Smith may be appointed a laborer in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Treasury Department, without compliance with the regulations governing the appointment of laborers in the Executive Departments at Washington, D. C."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 98)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 17, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed John H. Smith to be hired as a laborer in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing without following the usual laborer regulations.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Washington"], "people": ["John H. Smith"], "significance": 1, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-02-17", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-412", "type": "executive_order", "number": "412", "tr_sequence": 356, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-02-19", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Clarifying Executive Order No. 348-C of August 31, 1905, Regarding Compensation for Advisory Board of Engineers for the Panama Canal", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_412", "revid": 1865594, "printed_source": "| notes    = Amends Executive Order 348-C, August 31, 1905.  Also see Executive Order 373-A, November 25, 1905."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["In order to more clearly express the intention prompting the issuance of the original order fixing the compensation and allowances of the members of the Board of Consulting Engineers upon plans for the Panama Canal the Executive Order of August 31, 1905, is hereby amended to read as follows:", "\"It is hereby ordered that each member of the Advisory Board of Engineers upon plans for the Panama Canal shall be allowed $5000, payable upon the completion of the report of the Board. In addition thereto he shall receive $15 per day during the time he may be engaged upon the work of the Board, including Sundays and legal holidays, from the date of first leaving home to assemble as a Board until the date of arrival at home after the conclusion of his services on said Board.", "\"For the time, subsequent to final adjournment, required in closing the work of the Board, in completing its records, printing its report and appendix matter, and in distribution of the same, the Chairman is allowed the same per diem for 15 days additional.", "\"Each member shall also be allowed the actual cost of transportation incurred by him in necessary travel in connection with the work of the Board, to include cost of ticket by railway or steamer, sleeping or parlor car accommodations, baggage transfer, cabs and porterage.", "\"It is further ordered that the allowances to General Davis and General Abbot shall be increased by the amount of their retired pay for the time during which they are employed upon the work of the Board, it being my intention that those members shall receive the same compensation for this work as the other members and this increase being made to provide for the usual deduction of retired officers' pay.\""], "source": "Wikisource (from | notes    = Amends Executive Order 348-C, August 31, 1905.  Also see Executive Order 373-A, November 25, 1905.)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "White House, February 19, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Rewrote the 1905 order on pay for the Advisory Board of Engineers on Panama Canal plans: $5,000 each on completing the report, $15 a day while working, and travel costs.", "categories": ["canal-zone", "government-administration"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": ["General Davis", "General Abbot"], "significance": 2, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-02-19", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-413", "type": "executive_order", "number": "413", "tr_sequence": 357, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-02-19", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Boundaries of Bismarck and Fargo Land Districts, N. Dak., Redefined; Certain Lands, With Archives, Records, and Business Pertaining Thereto", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Redrew the boundary between the Bismarck and Fargo land districts in North Dakota, moving certain lands along with their records and business.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Bismarck Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "North Dakota"}, {"name": "Fargo Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "North Dakota"}], "states": ["North Dakota"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-02-19", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-414", "type": "executive_order", "number": "414", "tr_sequence": 358, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-02-22", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Mangum Land District, Okla., Abolished and Lands, Business, and Archives Transferred to the Lawton Land District", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Abolished the Mangum land district in Oklahoma and moved its lands, business and archives to the Lawton land district.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "revoke", "places": [{"name": "Mangum Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Oklahoma"}, {"name": "Lawton Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Oklahoma"}], "states": ["Oklahoma"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-02-22", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-614", "type": "proclamation", "number": "614", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-02-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Fruita Forest Reserve, Colorado", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 614, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-614"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3191, "last_page": 3192, "cite": "34 Stat. 3191–3192", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3191.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-02-24", "table_title": "Setting apart the Fruita Forest Reserve, Colorado."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands, in the State of Colorado, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation:", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Colorado, shown as the Fruita Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "3192 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 24th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred [seal.] and six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3191", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Fruita Fores Reserve, Colo.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Colorado.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Fruita Forest Reserve on public lands in Colorado and closed them to settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Fruita Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-02-24", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-415", "type": "executive_order", "number": "415", "tr_sequence": 359, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-02-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Nine Special Agents in Treasury Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_415", "revid": 1856374, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 98"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The following persons may be appointed to the position of special agent of the Treasury Department, without compliance with the civil-service rules, their fitness therefor having been demonstrated by service in the positions named: William E. Bainbridge, special employee; George H. Moritz, immigrant inspector; George E. Foulkes, special employee; Edwin R. Wakefield, special employee; Taliesin Evans, special employee; Lawrence B. Kemp, special employee; Charles E. Lewis, special employee; William F. Bunn, special employee; James O. Brsosinski, special operative, secret service."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 98)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 24, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed nine men who had proved themselves in other posts to be appointed special agents of the Treasury Department without meeting civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["William E. Bainbridge", "George H. Moritz", "George E. Foulkes", "Edwin R. Wakefield", "Taliesin Evans", "Lawrence B. Kemp", "Charles E. Lewis", "William F. Bunn", "James O. Brsosinski"], "significance": 1, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-02-24", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-416", "type": "executive_order", "number": "416", "tr_sequence": 360, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-02-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Prescribing Procedure for Appointment of Laborers Performing Work of Classified Nature", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_416", "revid": 1871222, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 92"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["No person shall hereafter be appointed to the position of laborer except upon certification under the civil-service rules, if the position requires, in connection with the usual duties of mere laborer, the performance of work of the grade done by classified employees. No person who is to perform manual labor merely, in cities where the labor regulations are in force, shall be appointed without the approval of the board of labor employment, subject to the supervision of the Civil Service Commission.", "Laborers now employed in such cities, whose principal duties are of the grade performed by classified employees, and who are efficiently and satisfactorily performing such duties, may, subject to tho approval of the Civil Service Commission, be regarded as classified upon such approval. No laborer thus classified shall receive increase of pay or be promoted or transferred without examination by the Commission.", "Heads of Departments shall report to the Commission the names and duties of each laborer in the offices affected by this order, stating specifically the kind of labor performed, whether his services have been efficient and satisfactory, and, where the laborer is assigned to more than one kind of work, approximately the length of time assigned to classified and unclassified work daily."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 92)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "T. Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 24, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Required laborers who do classified-grade work to be appointed through civil-service certification, and let such laborers already doing that work well be brought into the classified service.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-02-24", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-417", "type": "executive_order", "number": "417", "tr_sequence": 361, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-02-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Lands in Unalaklik, Alaska for Use of Army Signal Corps to Operate Military Cable and Telegraph Lines", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_417", "revid": 1859718, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 47, War Dept., March 5, 1906"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that all public lands at Unalaklik, Alaska, within limits described as follows, be withdrawn from sale or other disposition, and reserved and set apart for the use of the Signal Corps. U. S. Army, in the matter of the operation of military cable and telegraph lines in Alaska, viz:", "Starting from a stake marked \"I. S. U. S. M. R.\" true W. 220 feet to the bank of Norton Sound, mean low water mark; from initial stake true E. 516 feet to a stake on the bank of a slough, formed by the Unalaklik River, marked \"No. 2 S. E. cor. U. S. M. R.;\" thence northward, etc., following the sinuosities of the bank of the Unalaklik River and Norton Sound, at mean low water mark, to the intersection of the S. W. limit of the S. line where it touches low water mark, being triangular in form and containing approximately 6.26 acres. From initial stake the N. W. cor. of station bears N. 33° E. and S. E. cor. of Cache bears N. 39° E.", "All bearings are true: magnetic variation 20° 23′ E."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 47, War Dept., March 5, 1906)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "T. Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 24, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved public lands at Unalaklik, Alaska, for the Army Signal Corps to operate military cable and telegraph lines.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories", "public-lands"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Unalaklik", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-02-24", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-418", "type": "executive_order", "number": "418", "tr_sequence": 362, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-02-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Fixing the Compensation for Members of the Isthmian Canal Commission", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_418", "revid": 3463881, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The order of the Secretary of War of April 3, 1905, fixing the salaries of the members of the Isthmian Canal Commission is hereby revoked, and it is ordered as follows:", "That Theodore P. Shonts, Chairman of the Commission receive a salary of thirty thousand dollars per annum;", "That Charles E. Magoon, Commissioner, receive a salary of seventeen thousand five hundred dollars per annum;", "That Mordecai T. Endicott, Peter C. Hains, Oswald H. Ernst, and Benjamin M. Harrod, Commissioners, each receive as such, seven thousand five hundred dollars per annum;", "That the Chief Engineer of the Commission receive a salary of thirty thousand dollars per annum;", "That Theodore P. Shonts, Charles E. Magoon, and the Chief Engineer of the Commission be allowed the use of a furnished dwelling house on the Isthmus; that Commissioners Endicott, Hains, Ernst and Harrod be allowed and paid their actual and necessary expenses while in attendance at the regular or specially called meetings of the Commission held on the Isthmus, and also their actual traveling expenses to and from the meetings of the Commission on the Isthmus or at Washington as the case may be; and that Theodore P. Shonts, Charles E. Magoon, and the Chief Engineer of the Commission be allowed and paid their expenses of travel while on the business of the Commission."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 26, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Set new salaries for the Isthmian Canal Commission, including $30,000 a year for Chairman Theodore P. Shonts and the chief engineer, plus housing and travel allowances.", "categories": ["canal-zone", "government-administration"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": ["Theodore P. Shonts", "Charles E. Magoon", "Mordecai T. Endicott", "Peter C. Hains", "Oswald H. Ernst", "Benjamin M. Harrod"], "significance": 3, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-02-26", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-474", "relation": "revoked_by", "note": "Revoked by the June 30, 1906 compensation order.", "story": 89, "date": "1906-06-30", "title": "Fixing Compensation for Members of the Isthmian Canal Commission", "type": "executive_order", "number": "474"}]}
{"id": "proc-615", "type": "proclamation", "number": "615", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-02-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reciprocal Reduction of Duties with Germany", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 615, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-615"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3192, "last_page": 3192, "cite": "34 Stat. 3192", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3192.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-02-27", "table_title": "Reciprocity with Germany."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America.", "A PROCLAMATION.", "WHEREAS the Government of Germany has taken action, extending, on and after March 1, 1906, and until June 30, 1907, or until further notice, the benefit of the German conventional customs tariff to the products of the soil or industry of the United States, by which action in the judgment of the President reciprocal concessions are established in favor of the said products of the United States:", "NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority conferred by the third section of the Tariff Act of the United States, approved July 24, 1897, do hereby suspend, during the continuance in force of the said concessions by the Government of Germany, the imposition and collection of the duties imposed by the first section of said Act upon the articles hereinafter specified, being the products of the soil or industry of Germany; and do declare in place thereof the following rates of duty provided in the third section of said Act to be in force and effect on and after March 1, 1906, of which the officers and citizens of the United States will take due notice, namely:", "Upon argols, or crude tartar, or wine lees, crude, five per centum ad valorem.", "Upon brandies, or other spirits manufactured or distilled from grain or other materials, one dollar and seventy-five cents per proof gallon.", "Upon still wines, and vermuth, in casks, thirty-five cents per gallon; in bottles or jugs, per case of one dozen bottles or jugs containing each not more than one quart and more than one pint, or twenty-four bottles or jugs containing each not more than one pint, one dollar and twenty-five cents per case, and any excess beyond these quantities found in such bottles or jugs shall be subject to a duty of four cents per pint or fractional part thereof, but no separate or additional duty shall be assessed upon the bottles or jugs.", "Upon paintings in oil or water colors, pastels, pen and ink drawings, and statuary, fifteen per centum ad valorem.", "IN TESTIMONY 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 twenty-seventh day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand [SEAL.] nine hundred and six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirtieth.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President: ELIHU ROOT, Secretary of State."], "source": "34 Stat. 3192 (Statutes at Large page images, GovInfo), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "[SEAL.] restored; rates spelled out and full dating clause as printed in the Statutes; \"will take due notice\" and \"shall be subject\" as printed.", "story": 64}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Lowered U.S. duties on certain German goods, including crude tartar, brandies, still wines and artworks, in return for Germany granting American products its conventional tariff from March 1, 1906.", "categories": ["trade-reciprocity", "foreign-affairs"], "action": "regulate", "places": [{"name": "Germany", "kind": "country"}], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [64], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-02-27", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "Germany's notice ending the 1900 agreement was wire news well before the proclamation; a Nebraska weekly ran the Berlin dispatch under the head \"TREATY OF TRADE.\"", "source": "Loup City Northwestern, May 4, 1905, p. 4", "date": "1905-05-04", "story": 64}, {"text": "The proclamation itself ran as a brief Associated Press item in California papers, reported as news with no editorial comment found.", "source": "San Jose Mercury, March 1, 1906; San Diego Union, March 1, 1906", "date": "1906-03-01", "story": 64}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "diplomatic", "text": "The proclamation delivered the American half of a stopgap bargain: Germany gave American goods its lower treaty rates until June 30, 1907, and the United States kept its reduced section-3 duties after March 1, 1906.", "source": "FRUS 1906, pt. 1", "date": "1906-03-01", "story": 64}, {"kind": "economic", "text": "Without it, American goods would have paid Germany's higher general rates once its new tariff and European treaties took effect on March 1, 1906.", "source": "FRUS 1906, pt. 1", "date": "1906-03-01", "story": 64}], "legacy": [{"text": "The arrangement bought about sixteen months and was replaced by the U.S.–German commercial agreement that Roosevelt announced on June 1, 1907.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1907-06-01", "story": 64}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-762", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "The 1907 U.S.–German commercial agreement replaced this stopgap.", "story": 64, "date": "1907-06-01", "title": "Announcing Reciprocal Commercial Arrangement With the German Empire", "type": "proclamation", "number": "762"}]}
{"id": "eo-419", "type": "executive_order", "number": "419", "tr_sequence": 363, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-02-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Katherine Moynihan in Post Office Department Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_419", "revid": 1856379, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 99"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. Katherine Moynihan may be appointed to a position in the Post-Office Department without examination under the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 99)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 27, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Mrs. Katherine Moynihan be appointed to a Post-Office Department position without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Katherine Moynihan"], "significance": 1, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-02-27", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-420", "type": "executive_order", "number": "420", "tr_sequence": 364, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-02-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of James T. Peterson and Clarence W. Allen in Post Office Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_420", "revid": 13159540, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 99"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered, That James T. Peterson, formerly a clerk in the post-office at Mobile, Ala., and Clarence W. Allen, formerly a carrier at that office, be reinstated in the classified service without regard to the provision of civil-service Rule IX, limiting the period of eligibility for reinstatement to one year from the date of separation, it having been shown to the satisfaction of the Post-Office Department that these employees were unjustly removed from their positions."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 99)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 27, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reinstated James T. Peterson and Clarence W. Allen at the Mobile, Alabama, post office, after the department found they had been unjustly removed.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Alabama"], "people": ["James T. Peterson", "Clarence W. Allen"], "significance": 1, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-02-27", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-421", "type": "executive_order", "number": "421", "tr_sequence": 365, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-02-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Prescribing Rules for the Prevention of Tuberculosis Among Employees in Public Service", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_421", "revid": 1861957, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["In accordance with the report and recommendations of the committee appointed by Executive order of December 7, 1905, to prepare a plan for the prevention of tuberculosis in the Government offices and workshops, I hereby promulgate the following order, with the object of eliminating and preventing tuberculosis among employees of the public service:", "It shall be the duty of the head of each of the Executive Departments in Washington to cause to be printed and transmitted to all of the Federal buildings under his control the rules prepared by said committee to prevent the spread of tuberculosis in the buildings, and to require their display by the custodian in such manner and in such number as is necessary to carry out the intent of the rules.", "It is hereby required of each Department to ascertain the names of any persons in the service in said Department afflicted with tuberculosis and to present to them the printed, rules prescribed by said committee for their observance.", "The nonobservance of said rules shall, in the discretion of the head of the Department, be considered a just cause for separation from the service.", "Whenever there is doubt with regard to any person in the Government service as to whether said person is afflicted with pulmonary tuberculosis, an order shall be issued for said person to present himself (or herself) at one of the Government laboratories for examination and to present the Department from the director or other authorized officer of the said laboratory a certificate showing the result of said examination. If a Government laboratory is not accessible, the laboratory investigation shall be made at Government expense.", "The Surgeon-General of the Army, the Surgeon-General of the Navy, and the Surgeon-General of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service are hereby directed to cause a thorough sanitary inspection of the public buildings and workshops under their respective Departments; and they are authorized to detail from their respective medical services a sanitary board, or boards, for this purpose. The inspection of the public buildings and workshops other than those under the War and Navy Departments shall be conducted under the Surgeon-General of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service. The sanitary board, or boards, thus appointed shall report upon—", "First. Insanitary conditions immediately remediable. Second. Insanitary conditions requiring structural changes.", "The said board when entering upon its duties in any Department shall report to the executive head of said building or workshop, who shall, on the request of the board, give such assistance as may be required.", "The sanitary board, or boards, will make reports to the Surgeon-General of their respective services, who shall bring these reports before the committee appointed by Executive order of December 7, 1905, and said committee shall transmit a full report, with recommendations, to the President.", "These duties to be additional to, and not taking precedence of, the regular duties of the members of the committee."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 28, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Put a committee's tuberculosis-prevention rules into force across federal offices and workshops, requiring posted rules, examinations of employees suspected of having the disease, and sanitary inspections of public buildings.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [87], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-02-28", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "An Associated Press dispatch headed \"Crusade Against Consumption\" reported the order briefly and neutrally; no protest over its naming and dismissal rules has been found.", "source": "San Jose Mercury-News, March 9, 1906, p. 3", "date": "1906-03-09", "story": 87}], "legacy": [{"text": "The order is an early marker in the federal government's history as an occupational-health authority.", "source": "research entry", "story": 87}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-377-half", "relation": "implements", "note": "Puts into effect the plan of the committee appointed by the order of December 7, 1905.", "story": 87, "date": "1905-12-07", "title": "Appointing Committee to Plan Inquiry of Government Office Sanitary Conditions for Prevention of Tuberculosis", "type": "executive_order", "number": "377½"}]}
{"id": "eo-422", "type": "executive_order", "number": "422", "tr_sequence": 366, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-03-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Consular Regulations, Paragraph 678, Pertaining to Invoices for Exports to the United States", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_422", "revid": 1882185, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Paragraph 678 of the Consular Regulations is hereby stricken out and the following paragraph substituted:", "Purchased goods, where certified—", "Invoices of merchandise purchased for export to the United States must be produced for certification to the consul of the district at which the merchandise was purchased, or in the district in which it was manufactured, but as a rule a consular officer shall not require the personal attendance at his office of the shipper, purchaser, manufacturer, owner, or his agent, for the purpose of making declarations to invoices, but he shall certify invoices sent to him through the mails or by messenger. To conform to the statute which requires that merchandise shall be invoiced at the market value or wholesale price of such merchandise as bought and sold in usual wholesale quantities at the time of exportation to the United States, in the principal markets of the country whence imported, consuls will certify to invoices, the additional cost of transportation from the place of manufacture to the place of shipment whenever the invoice is presented to be consulated in a country other than the one from which the merchandise is being directly exported to the United States."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 1, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Rewrote a consular regulation so consuls certify invoices for U.S.-bound goods sent by mail or messenger, without requiring shippers to appear in person.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-03-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-423", "type": "executive_order", "number": "423", "tr_sequence": 367, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-03-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Consular Regulations, Paragraph 680, Pertaining to Verification of Invoices", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_423", "revid": 1861939, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Paragraph 680 of the Consular Regulations is hereby stricken out and the following paragraph substituted:", "Invoice and declaration to be verified—", "When the invoice and declaration are received by the consul, it is his duty to examine carefully each item and satisfy himself that it is true and correct. In aid of this examination it shall be the duty of such consular officer to confer with official chambers of commerce and other trade organizations in his district, and he shall report any and all written communications from such commercial bodies and trade organizations that may be submitted to him in writing, together with all schedules of prices furnished him officially for that purpose; and the consul is authorized, in his discretion, to call for the bills of sale of merchandise purchased for export to the United States; to inquire into the cost of production of merchandise not obtained by purchase; to demand samples; and, if the conditions require it, to examine the entire consignment. Whenever an invoice is offered for certification which covers consolidated shipments consisting of the productions of different manufacturers, the consul may demand the submission of the manufacturers' bills relating thereto. Even when the merchandise has been purchased for export and the invoice sets out truly the price paid, the consul should ascertain whether the price represents the market value of the goods."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 1, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Rewrote a consular regulation directing consuls to check each invoice item, consult chambers of commerce, and, when needed, demand bills of sale, samples or inspection of whole shipments.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-03-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-424", "type": "executive_order", "number": "424", "tr_sequence": 368, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-03-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Robert Lee Gray as Assistant Messenger in Department of Justice Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_424", "revid": 1856883, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 99"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Robert Lee Gray may be appointed as assistant messenger in the Department of Justice without examination under the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 99)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 1, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Robert Lee Gray to be appointed assistant messenger in the Department of Justice without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Robert Lee Gray"], "significance": 1, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-03-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-425", "type": "executive_order", "number": "425", "tr_sequence": 369, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-03-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Coila B. Ashby as Clerk in Interior Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_425", "revid": 1856885, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 99"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. Coila B. Ashby may be reinstated as clerk in the Interior Department without regard to the year limitation of the reinstatement rule."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 99)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 1, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Permitted Mrs. Coila B. Ashby to be reinstated as a clerk in the Interior Department despite the reinstatement rule's one-year limit.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Coila B. Ashby"], "significance": 1, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-03-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-426", "type": "executive_order", "number": "426", "tr_sequence": 370, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-03-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Modifying Boundaries of Fort Egbert Military Reservation, Alaska", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_426", "revid": 1859435, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 54, War Dept., March 16, 1906"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that the Military Reservation of Fort Egbert, Alaska, as declared and modified by previous Executive Orders, be further modified by including additional public lands and by excluding a portion of the reservation which has become useless for military purposes, so that the reservation shall include all public lands, and those only, within limits described as follows:", "Commencing at the intersection of the left (northerly) bank of Mission Creek with the left (westerly) bank of the Yukon River; thence along (up) said creek to its intersection with a due north and south line located two (2) miles due west from an iron bolt set in a rock marked \"U. S. I. M.,\" about sixteen (16) chains up Mission Creek, on its left or north bank, from its confluence with the Yukon River (see Survey No. 353, U. S. Surveyor General of Alaska); thence due south two and seven hundred and eighteen thousandths (2.718) miles; thence due east to intersection with prolongation southward of western boundary line of town site of Eagle; thence along said prolongation and said western boundary of town site of Eagle, bearing N. 21° 57′ W., following said western boundary three hundred and twenty (320) rods, to corner No. 3 of town site of Eagle; thence along northern boundary of said town site, middle line of \"C\" street, to left bank of the Yukon River; thence northward, along the left (westerly) bank of said river, to point of beginning.", "Within the foregoing limits is situated the property of Carl M. Johansen, as defined in survey made by the U. S. Deputy Surveyor, and designated as \"Amended Survey No. 350.\"", "The portion of the reservation herein relinquished is placed under the control of the Secretary of the Interior, under act of Congress approved July 5, 1884, entitled \"An act to provide for the disposal of abandoned and useless military reservations\" (1 Sup. Rev. Stats., 453), for disposition under said act, or as may be otherwise provided by law."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 54, War Dept., March 16, 1906)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 3, 1906. == Notes == See Related: Executive Order of June 13, 1899 Executive Order of March 31, 1900 Executive Order of July 23, 1900 Executive Order of January 25, 1904", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reshaped the Fort Egbert Military Reservation in Alaska, adding public lands and handing a no-longer-useful portion to the Interior Department for disposal.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Fort Egbert", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-03-03", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-616", "type": "proclamation", "number": "616", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-03-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Gallatin Forest Reserve, Montana", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 616, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-616"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3193, "last_page": 3193, "cite": "34 Stat. 3193", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3193.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-03-07", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Gallatin Forest Reserve, Montana."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, The Gallatin Forest Reserves, in the State of Montana, were established by proclamation dated February tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine:", "And whereas, it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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,” that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”:", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the said forest reserves certain lands, within the State of Montana, which are in part covered with timber:", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Montana, shown as the Gallatin Forest Reserve, on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 7th day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL.] six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3193", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Gallatin Forest Reserve, Montana.", "Vol. 30, p. 1788.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Forest reserve, Montana, enlarged.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Gallatin Forest Reserve in Montana and reserved the added lands from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Gallatin Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-03-07", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Though styled an enlargement, the proclamation set apart lands under the 1897 act alone and folded the separate Gallatin reserves of 1899 into a single Gallatin Forest Reserve.", "source": "34 Stat. 3186–3263", "date": "1906-03-07", "story": 63}], "today": [{"name": "Custer Gallatin National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Montana", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-427", "type": "executive_order", "number": "427", "tr_sequence": 371, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-03-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Admission of J. F. Moreno to Examination for Classified Position Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_427", "revid": 1856887, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 99"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. J. F. Moreno, a British subject, may be admitted to examination for appointment in the classified service. The requirement of United States citizenship is waived in view of the fact that for twelve years he was a clerk in the Diplomatic and Consular services and is now temporarily employed as a stenographer under the War Department and intends to apply for naturalization."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 99)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 9, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Waived the citizenship requirement so J. F. Moreno, a British subject with twelve years in the diplomatic and consular services, could take a civil-service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["J. F. Moreno"], "significance": 1, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-03-09", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-617", "type": "proclamation", "number": "617", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-03-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the North Platte Forest Reserve, Nebraska", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 617, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-617"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3193, "last_page": 3194, "cite": "34 Stat. 3193–3194", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3193.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-03-10", "table_title": "Setting apart the North Platte Forest Reserve, Nebraska."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America.", "A PROCLAMATION.", "WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, \"An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,\" \"That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof\";", "And whereas, the public lands, in the State of Nebraska, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Nebraska, shown as the North Platte Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 10th day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL.] six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:", "ELIHU ROOT", "Secretary of State.", "[The diagram forming part of the proclamation, a township map of the reserve, is printed in the Statutes and is not reproduced here.]"], "source": "34 Stat. 3193–3194 (Statutes at Large page images), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "[SEAL.] restored in the dating clause. The Statutes print no title or number. The township diagram forming part of the proclamation is printed in the Statutes and not reproduced. All seventy-one 1906 forest proclamations share this form.", "story": 63}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the North Platte Forest Reserve on public lands in Nebraska, closing them to entry and settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "North Platte Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Nebraska"}], "states": ["Nebraska"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-03-10", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "North Platte became part of the Nebraska National Forest in July 1908.", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "date": "1908-07", "story": 63}], "today": [{"name": "Nebraska National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Nebraska", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-428", "type": "executive_order", "number": "428", "tr_sequence": 372, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-03-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Lands on Batan and Cacraray Islands, Philippine Islands, for Military Purposes", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_428", "revid": 4713022, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 60, War Dept., March 23, 1906"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Pursuant to section 12 of the act of Congress, approved July 1, 1902, entitled \"An act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes\" (32 Stat L., 691), the following reservations in the Philippine Islands are hereby made for military purposes, viz:", "In Batan Island, lying off the coast of Luzon, at longitude 124° east, and between 13° 10′ and 13° 20′ north latitude—all public lands within that portion of said Batan Island included within metes and bounds described as follows:", "Beginning at a point on the north bank of the Caracaran River, where it debouches into Caracaran Bay, said point being marked by a squared stake bearing the letters \"U. S.\" thereon; thence running north 18° 10′ west to the high-water line of Gaba Bay; thence due north to low-water line of Gaba Bay; thence following the meander line of low water in a northerly direction, then westerly, then southerly, then easterly to the intersection of said meander line with a southerly prolongation of the line first mentioned herein; thence north 18° 10′ west, to point of beginning.", "The said reservation includes all that portion of Batan Island which lies west of the shortest straight line from the head of Caracaran Bay to the head of Gaba Bay; being an area of twenty five (25) square miles, more or less.", "In the Island of Cacraray, Albay Province, all public lands in said Island of Cacraray included within metes and bounds described as follows:", "Starting at the intersection, which will hereafter be designated as the point of beginning, of the center line of a small stream flowing into Coal Harbor, on the eastern coast of Cacraray Island, approximately 3,140 feet northerly along the shore from Cacraray Point, with the low-water line of Coal Harbor; thence northwesterly along the meander line at low water to a point which is the intersection of said meander line with a due east and west line which is distant from the point of beginning 3,000 feet measured due north of said point of beginning, thence due west along said east and west line for a distance of 1,730 feet; thence due south for a distance of 4,500 feet; thence due east to low-tide mark on the shore of Coal Harbor; thence in a northwesterly direction following the meander line of low water to the point of beginning. All bearings magnetic. Variation of compass 55′ east in 1903. Approximate area, 550 acres."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 60, War Dept., March 23, 1906)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 10th, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved public lands on Batan Island and Cacraray Island in the Philippines for military purposes, including the western part of Batan, about 25 square miles.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories", "public-lands"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Batan Island", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Cacraray Island", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-03-10", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-618", "type": "proclamation", "number": "618", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-03-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Blue Mountains Forest Reserve, Oregon", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 618, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-618"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3194, "last_page": 3195, "cite": "34 Stat. 3194–3195", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3194.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-03-15", "table_title": "Setting apart the Blue Mountains Forest Reserve, Oregon."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled. ”An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”; under which provision. The Baker City Forest Reserve, in the State of Oregon, was established by proclamation of February fifth, nineteen hundred and four:", "And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled, “An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Gov- ernment for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and nineyeight, and for other purposes,” that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”;", "And whereas, the public lands, in the State of Oregon, which are hereinafter indicated, and which include the greater portion of The Baker City Forest Reserve, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation:", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Oregon, shown as the Blue Mountains Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made.", "And whereas, it appears desirable that the entire area hereby reserved should be known by one name, the title, “ The Baker City Forest Reserve ”, is hereby abolished, and the reservation established by this proclamation shall be known as the Blue Mountains Forest Reserve.", "The lands heretofore within The Baker City Forest Reserve which are not hereby included within the Blue Mountains Forest Reserve but are restored to the public domain shall be open to settlement from the date hereof, but shall not be subject to entry, filing, or selection until after ninety days notice by such publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 15th day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL.] six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3194", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Blue Mountains Forest Reserve, Oregon.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 20, p. 1103.", "Post, p. 3302.", "Vol. 33, p. 2331.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Forest reserve, Oregon.", "Lands excepted.", "Baker City Forest Reserve abolished and this reserve substituted.", "Lands restored to public domain.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Blue Mountains Forest Reserve in Oregon, absorbing most of the Baker City Forest Reserve, which it replaced; lands left out were restored to the public domain.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Blue Mountains Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}, {"name": "Baker City Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}], "states": ["Oregon"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-03-15", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Sunday Oregonian put the reserve at 3,600,000 acres and described the Mays trial as drawing attention from all parts of the country.", "source": "Sunday Oregonian, Aug. 26, 1906, p. 8", "date": "1906-08-26", "story": 63}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The proclamation took in the greater part of the Baker City Forest Reserve, abolished that name, and restored the rest of Baker City to the public domain.", "source": "34 Stat. 3186–3263", "date": "1906-03-15", "story": 63}, {"kind": "court", "text": "The reserve's creation, after a temporary withdrawal in 1902, had been the object of the land-fraud conspiracy for which Franklin Pierce Mays, Willard N. Jones and George Sorenson stood trial in Portland in August 1906, charged with buying up about 200,000 acres of state school land inside the proposed boundaries to trade for lieu scrip.", "source": "Sunday Oregonian, Aug. 26, 1906, p. 8", "date": "1906-08", "story": 63}, {"kind": "economic", "text": "Pinchot overruled the Umatilla County Woolgrowers' association, which protested paying a grazing fee on the reserve's range and cited court decisions denying the Secretary of Agriculture power to tax its use.", "source": "Lexington Wheatfield (Lexington, Ore.), June 21, 1906, p. 7", "date": "1906-06", "story": 63}], "legacy": [{"text": "In 1908 the Blue Mountains reserve was divided among the Whitman, Malheur, Umatilla and Deschutes forests.", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "date": "1908", "story": 63}], "today": [{"name": "Malheur National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Oregon", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}, {"name": "Umatilla National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Oregon", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}, {"name": "Wallowa-Whitman National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Oregon", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}], "uncertain": ["The Oregon newspaper accounts of the Mays trial and the grazing-fee protest come from digitized text not yet checked against the printed pages."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-515", "relation": "supersedes", "note": null, "story": 49, "inferred": true, "date": "1904-02-05", "title": "Establishing the Baker City Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "515"}, {"id": "proc-791", "relation": "reduced_by", "note": null, "story": 71, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-01-09", "title": "Diminishing Blue Mountains National Forest, Oregon", "type": "proclamation", "number": "791"}]}
{"id": "eo-429", "type": "executive_order", "number": "429", "tr_sequence": 373, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-03-22", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Certain Described Lands in Alaska for Experimental Agricultural Station", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reserved certain lands in Alaska for an agricultural experiment station.", "categories": ["insular-territories", "public-lands"], "action": "establish", "places": [], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-03-22", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-430", "type": "executive_order", "number": "430", "tr_sequence": 374, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-03-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Defining Intention of Order Fixing Salaries and Allowances of Isthmian Canal Commissioners", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_430", "revid": 3463885, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["In order more clearly to express the intention of the Executive Order, dated The White House, February 26, 1906, fixing the salaries and allowances of the members of the Isthmian Canal Commission, it is hereby ordered that the Chairman of the Commission be allowed and paid his actual and necessary expenses while away from Washington on official business of the Commission, and the Governor of the Canal Zone and the Chief Engineer of the Commission be allowed and paid their actual and necessary expenses while away from the Isthmus of Panama on official business.", "This interpretation shall be effective as of the date of the original order, February 26, 1906, so amended."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 26, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Clarified that the Isthmian Canal Commission chairman, the Canal Zone governor and the chief engineer are paid actual expenses while traveling on commission business, effective February 26, 1906.", "categories": ["canal-zone", "government-administration"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-03-26", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-474", "relation": "revoked_by", "note": "Revoked by the June 30, 1906 compensation order.", "story": 89, "date": "1906-06-30", "title": "Fixing Compensation for Members of the Isthmian Canal Commission", "type": "executive_order", "number": "474"}]}
{"id": "eo-431", "type": "executive_order", "number": "431", "tr_sequence": 375, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-03-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Middle Islands at Rock Harbor, Michigan, for Lighthouse Purposes", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Set aside the Middle Islands at Rock Harbor, Michigan, for lighthouse purposes.", "categories": ["lighthouses"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Middle Islands", "kind": "island", "state": "Michigan"}], "states": ["Michigan"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-03-27", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-432", "type": "executive_order", "number": "432", "tr_sequence": 376, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-03-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Abolishing Grass Island Military Reservation, Grays Harbor, Washington", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_432", "revid": 2166894, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 65, War Dept., April 5, 1906"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The military reservation of Grass Island, unsurveyed, situate in section 18, township 16 north, range 11 west, Willamette meridian, in Grays Harbor, Washington, as reserved by Executive Order, dated June 12, 1905 (General Orders, No. 102, War Department, June 29, 1905), is hereby placed under the control of the Secretary of the Interior, under act of Congress, approved July 5, 1884 (23 Stats., 103), for disposition under said act or as may be otherwise provided by law, it appearing on further consideration that the said island will not be needed for defensive purposes."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 65, War Dept., April 5, 1906)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 28, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Gave up the Grass Island military reservation in Grays Harbor, Washington, placing the island under the Interior Department since it was not needed for defense.", "categories": ["military-naval", "public-lands"], "action": "revoke", "places": [{"name": "Grass Island", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Washington"}], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-03-28", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "eo-330-a", "relation": "revokes", "note": null, "story": 114, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-06-12", "title": "Approval of War Secretary Recommendation to Reserve Grass Island, Gray's Harbor, Washington, for Military Purposes", "type": "executive_order", "number": "330-A"}, {"id": "uo-112", "relation": "revokes", "note": null, "story": 114, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-06-12", "title": "Grass Island Military Reservation, Wash., established.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "eo-433", "type": "executive_order", "number": "433", "tr_sequence": 377, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-03-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Boundaries of Billings Land District, Montana, Redefined", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Redefined the boundaries of the Billings land district in Montana.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Billings Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-03-28", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-434", "type": "executive_order", "number": "434", "tr_sequence": 378, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-03-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Pyeng E. Yoon as Clerk in Post Office at Honolulu Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_434", "revid": 1856889, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 100"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The requirement of United States citizenship may be waived in the case of Mr. Pyeng E. Yoon, a subject of Korea, and he may be appointed to the position of clerk with a knowledge of Korean in the post-office at Honolulu, Hawaii, in view of the fact that no eligibles qualified under clause 1, Rule V, were secured as a result of a regularly announced examination by the Civil Service Commission."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 100)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 28, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Waived the citizenship rule so Pyeng E. Yoon, a Korean subject, could be a Korean-speaking clerk in the Honolulu post office after an examination found no eligible candidates.", "categories": ["civil-service", "insular-territories"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Hawaii"], "people": ["Pyeng E. Yoon"], "significance": 1, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-03-28", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-435", "type": "executive_order", "number": "435", "tr_sequence": 379, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-03-31", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Charles P. Galpin as Classified Laborer in Bureau of Pensions Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_435", "revid": 1856891, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 100"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Charles P. Galpin may be appointed to the position of classified laborer in the Bureau of Pensions without examination under the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 100)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 31, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Charles P. Galpin be appointed a classified laborer in the Bureau of Pensions without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Charles P. Galpin"], "significance": 1, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-03-31", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-436", "type": "executive_order", "number": "436", "tr_sequence": 380, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-04-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Joseph F. Laporte to Post Office Service Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_436", "revid": 1856893, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 100"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Joseph F. Laporte may be reinstated in the post-office service without regard to the time limit upon eligibility for reinstatement."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 100)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, April 4, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Joseph F. Laporte to be reinstated in the post-office service despite the time limit on reinstatement.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Joseph F. Laporte"], "significance": 1, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-04-04", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-437", "type": "executive_order", "number": "437", "tr_sequence": 381, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-04-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Employment of Jacob S. McClure in Classified Service", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_437", "revid": 1862086, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Jacob S. McCIure, a veteran of the Civil War, who was dropped from the position of laborer at the Topeka, Kans., pension agency when his position was abolished on June 30, 1905, may be reemployed in a classified position."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, April 5, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Jacob S. McClure, a Civil War veteran whose laborer job at the Topeka pension agency was abolished, be reemployed in a classified position.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Kansas"], "people": ["Jacob S. McClure"], "significance": 1, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-04-05", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-438", "type": "executive_order", "number": "438", "tr_sequence": 382, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-04-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Benjamin B. Cox to Post Office Service Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_438", "revid": 1856901, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 100"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Benjamin B. Cox may be reinstated in the post-office at Mobile, Ala., without regard to the provisions of civil service Rule IX."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 100)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, April 9, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Benjamin B. Cox to be reinstated at the Mobile, Alabama, post office without regard to civil-service Rule IX.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Alabama"], "people": ["Benjamin B. Cox"], "significance": 1, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-04-09", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-619", "type": "proclamation", "number": "619", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-04-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Helena Forest Reserve, Montana", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 619, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-619"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3196, "last_page": 3196, "cite": "34 Stat. 3196", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3196.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-04-12", "table_title": "Setting apart the Helena Forest Reserve, Montana."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes.” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof ”;", "And whereas, the public lands, in the State of Montana, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation:", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Montana, shown as the Helena Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 12th day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [seal.] six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3196", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Helena Forest Reserve, Mont.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Montana.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart the Helena Forest Reserve on public lands in Montana, closing them to entry and settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Helena Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-04-12", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Helena–Lewis and Clark National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Montana", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-439", "type": "executive_order", "number": "439", "tr_sequence": 383, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-04-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Lands in Mississippi as Target Range for Revenue Cutter Service", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_439", "revid": 6046675, "printed_source": "| notes    ="}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that sections 23 and 26, township 9 south, range 7 west, Mississippi, containing a total of 307.54 acres, be and they are hereby reserved as a target range for the Revenue-Cutter Service."], "source": "Wikisource (from | notes    =)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, April 12, 1906. == Notes == Revoked by: Public Land Order 1636, May 14, 1958 () (created Horn Island National Wildlife Refuge) See related: Executive Order of August 30, 1847 [https://books.google.com/books?id=Ni8tAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PA2 General Orders No. 58], War Department, November 13, 1895 Executive Order of September 3, 1900 Executive Order 5562, February 20, 1931", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved two sections of land in Mississippi, 307.54 acres in all, as a target range for the Revenue-Cutter Service.", "categories": ["military-naval", "public-lands"], "action": "establish", "places": [], "states": ["Mississippi"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-04-12", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The target range outlived the Revenue Cutter Service that asked for it; the ground became wildlife refuge land.", "source": "Public Land Order 1636, 23 Fed. Reg. 3388", "date": "1958-05-14", "story": 88}], "today": [{"name": "Horn Island National Wildlife Refuge", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "part", "state": "Mississippi", "note": "The 1958 revocation turned the range into refuge land.", "source": "Public Land Order 1636", "story": 88}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1958-05-14", "text": "Public Land Order 1636 revoked the reservation and made the land the Horn Island National Wildlife Refuge.", "source": "23 Fed. Reg. 3388", "story": 88}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-440", "type": "executive_order", "number": "440", "tr_sequence": 384, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-04-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Transfer of Harry H. Brewster to Finance Clerk in Post Office Service Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_440", "revid": 1856905, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 100"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Harry H. Brewster, money order and stamp clerk at the South St. Joseph, Mo., post-office, which is unclassified, may be transferred to the position of finance clerk in the St. Joseph, Mo., post-office, without reference to the requirements of the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 100)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, April 14, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Harry H. Brewster to move from the unclassified South St. Joseph post office to finance clerk at the St. Joseph, Missouri, post office without meeting civil-service requirements.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "transfer", "places": [], "states": ["Missouri"], "people": ["Harry H. Brewster"], "significance": 1, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-04-14", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-441", "type": "executive_order", "number": "441", "tr_sequence": 385, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-04-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Mary A. McDonald as Clerk in Department of the Interior Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_441", "revid": 1856907, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 101"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. Mary A. McDonald may be appointed to a position of clerk in the Department of the Interior without examination under the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 101)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, April 23, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Permitted Mrs. Mary A. McDonald to be appointed a clerk in the Department of the Interior without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Mary A. McDonald"], "significance": 1, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-04-23", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-620", "type": "proclamation", "number": "620", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-04-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Ashland Forest Reserve, Oregon", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 620, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-620"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3196, "last_page": 3197, "cite": "34 Stat. 3196–3197", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3196.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-04-24", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Ashland Forest Reserve, Oregon."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Ashland Forest Reserve, in the State of Oregon, was established by proclamation dated September twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three;", "And whereas, it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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,” that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, within the State of Oregon, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do proclaim that the aforesaid Ashland Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are, accordingly, now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof:", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 24th day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [seal.] six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3196", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Ashland Forest Reserve, Oregon.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 28, p. 1243.", "Post, p. 3298.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Forest reserve, Oregon, enlarged.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Ashland Forest Reserve in Oregon, first established in 1893, and reserved the added lands from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Ashland Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}], "states": ["Oregon"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-04-24", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "local", "text": "A Washington dispatch said the original Ashland reserve had been made at the request of the city's council and board of trade, and that the enlargement was meant to protect more fully the watershed that supplied the city.", "source": "Deseret Evening News, May 1, 1906, p. 12", "date": "1906-05-01", "story": 63}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-621", "type": "proclamation", "number": "621", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-04-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Vernon Forest Reserve, Utah", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 621, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-621"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3197, "last_page": 3198, "cite": "34 Stat. 3197–3198", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3197.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-04-24", "table_title": "Setting apart the Vernon Forest Reserve, Utah."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes.” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands, in the State of Utah, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would lie promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation:", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Utah, shown as the Vernon Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 24th day of April, [seal.] in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3197", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Vernon Forest Reserve, Utah.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Utah.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Vernon Forest Reserve on public lands in Utah.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Vernon Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-04-24", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Deseret Evening News reported the new reserve under the headline \"A New Forest Reserve in Utah.\"", "source": "Deseret Evening News, May 1, 1906, p. 12", "date": "1906-05-01", "story": 63}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "local", "text": "The Vernon reserve in Tooele County was reported to guard streams that settlers at the heads of the Rush valleys depended on for irrigation, where an examination had blamed overgrazing for their decline.", "source": "Deseret Evening News, May 1, 1906, p. 12", "date": "1906-05-01", "story": 63}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-442", "type": "executive_order", "number": "442", "tr_sequence": 386, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-04-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Abolishing the Office of Surveyor General for Florida", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Abolished the office of Surveyor General for Florida.", "categories": ["public-lands", "government-administration"], "action": "revoke", "places": [], "states": ["Florida"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-04-27", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Florida surveyor-general's office stayed abolished, one of many such offices wound down as the public-land survey was completed.", "source": "research entry", "story": 88}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-459", "relation": "amended_by", "note": "Pushed the effective date of abolition from June 30, 1906 to June 30, 1907.", "story": 88, "date": "1906-06-14", "title": "Amending Executive Order No. 442 of April 27, 1906, Abolishing the Office of Surveyor General for Florida, to Make the Effective Date of Such Abolition June 30, 1907 Instead of June 30, 1906", "type": "executive_order", "number": "459"}]}
{"id": "eo-443", "type": "executive_order", "number": "443", "tr_sequence": 387, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-04-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Land Office at San Francisco, Calif., Ordered Temporarily Removed to Oakland", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Land Office At San Francisco, Calif., Ordered Temporarily Removed to Oakland, the Building in Which It Was Housed Having Been Destroyed”. The clause about the building's destruction was added by the 1944 catalogers; the San Francisco Call of July 18, 1906 says the office's records burned."], "summary": "Temporarily moved the San Francisco land office to Oakland, California, after the 1906 earthquake and fire.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "San Francisco", "kind": "town", "state": "California"}, {"name": "Oakland", "kind": "town", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-04-28", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Interior Department's notice suspending all business of the San Francisco land office \"until further notice\" ran in the Santa Cruz Surf.", "source": "Surf (Santa Cruz), April 30, 1906, p. 8", "date": "1906-04-30", "story": 88}, {"text": "The San Francisco Call called the removal \"cause of annoyance to many people,\" since land seekers now had to make an extra trip to Oakland.", "source": "San Francisco Call, July 18, 1906", "date": "1906-07-18", "story": 88}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "local", "text": "San Francisco's commercial organizations planned a protest to the Interior Department and meant to ask the President to order the office back to the city.", "source": "San Jose Mercury-News, July 19, 1906, p. 1", "date": "1906-07-19", "story": 88}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The office was set up in the Oakland post office building; the General Land Office recorded the Oakland office as \"Established by Executive order dated April 28, 1906.\"", "source": "San Francisco Call, July 18, 1906; GLO Annual Report 1906, p. 137", "date": "1906", "story": 88}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1911-03-14", "text": "President Taft moved the land office for the San Francisco district from Oakland back to San Francisco by Executive Order 1317.", "source": "Executive Order 1317", "story": 88}], "uncertain": ["The order's exact wording is not known; no published printing reproduces it, and the signed original in Record Group 11 would settle it."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-444", "type": "executive_order", "number": "444", "tr_sequence": 388, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-05-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Permanent Appointment of George M. Shafer as Watchman in Department of the Interior Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_444", "revid": 1856909, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 101"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["George M. Shafer, a civil-war veteran, may be permanently appointed as a watchman in the Department of the Interior without reference to the requirements of the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 101)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, May 1, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed George M. Shafer, a Civil War veteran, to be permanently appointed a watchman in the Department of the Interior without meeting civil-service requirements.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["George M. Shafer"], "significance": 1, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-05-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-622", "type": "proclamation", "number": "622", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-05-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Ruby Mountains Forest Reserve, Nevada", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 622, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-622"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3198, "last_page": 3199, "cite": "34 Stat. 3198–3199", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3198.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-05-03", "table_title": "Setting apart the Ruby Mountains Forest Reserve, Nevada."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one,entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes ”, “ That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands, in the State of Nevada, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Nevada, shown as the Ruby Mountains Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made.", "3199 Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 3rd day of May, in [SEAL.] the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3198", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Ruby Mountains Forest Reserve, Nevada.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Nevada.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Ruby Mountains Forest Reserve on public lands in Nevada.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Ruby Mountains Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Nevada"}], "states": ["Nevada"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-05-03", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The reserve went into the Humboldt National Forest in July 1908.", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "date": "1908-07", "story": 63}], "today": [{"name": "Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Nevada", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-623", "type": "proclamation", "number": "623", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-05-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Weiser Forest Reserve, Idaho", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 623, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-623"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3199, "last_page": 3199, "cite": "34 Stat. 3199", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3199.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-05-10", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Weiser Forest Reserve, Idaho."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Weiser Forest Reserve, in the State of Idaho, was established by proclamation dated May twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and five;", "And whereas, it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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 ”, that ”The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such odification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, within the State of Idaho, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do proclaim that the aforesaid Weiser Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are, accordingly, now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 10th day of May [seal.] in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3199", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Weiser Forest Reserve, Idaho.", "Preamble.", "Ante, p. 3055.", "Post, p. 3294.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Forest reserve, Idaho, enlarged.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Weiser Forest Reserve in Idaho, established in May 1905, and closed the added lands to settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Weiser Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Idaho"}], "states": ["Idaho"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-05-10", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-445", "type": "executive_order", "number": "445", "tr_sequence": 389, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-05-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Certain Described Lands in Juneau, Alaska, for Educational Purposes", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reserved certain lands in Juneau, Alaska, for educational purposes.", "categories": ["insular-territories", "public-lands"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Juneau", "kind": "town", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-05-10", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-446", "type": "executive_order", "number": "446", "tr_sequence": 390, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-05-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Revoking Executive Order No. 372-A of November 18, 1905, Abolishing Bent Land District, Colorado, with Office at Lamar", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Revoked the November 1905 order abolishing the Bent land district in Colorado, keeping the district and its office at Lamar.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "restore", "places": [{"name": "Bent Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-05-16", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Lamar Register greeted the revocation under the head \"Land Office Remains,\" crediting Congressman Franklin E. Brooks with saving the district; the Springfield Herald ran the Associated Press version.", "source": "Lamar Register, May 23, 1906, p. 1; Springfield Herald, May 25, 1906", "date": "1906-05-23", "story": 88}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "local", "text": "The Washington report said the district was kept because entries at Lamar were running about 1,000 a year.", "source": "Lamar Register, May 23, 1906, p. 1", "date": "1906-05-23", "story": 88}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-372-a", "relation": "revokes", "note": "Revokes the November 18, 1905 order abolishing the Bent Land District.", "story": 88, "date": "1905-11-18", "title": "Bent Land District, Colo., Abolished; Transferred to Valley Land District, Office at Pueblo", "type": "executive_order", "number": "372-A"}]}
{"id": "eo-447", "type": "executive_order", "number": "447", "tr_sequence": 391, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-05-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Maj. Gen. F.C. Ainsworth, Military Sec'y, and Brig. Gen. J. Franklin Bell Designated to Act, In the Order Named, as War Sec'y During the Absence", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Designated Maj. Gen. F. C. Ainsworth and Brig. Gen. J. Franklin Bell, in that order, to act as Secretary of War during the Secretary's absence.", "categories": ["military-naval", "government-administration"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["F. C. Ainsworth", "J. Franklin Bell"], "significance": 2, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-05-18", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-624", "type": "proclamation", "number": "624", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-05-19", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Fillmore Forest Reserve, Utah", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 624, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-624"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3200, "last_page": 3200, "cite": "34 Stat. 3200", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3200.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-05-19", "table_title": "Setting apart the Fillmore Forest Reserve, Utah."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands, in the State of Utah, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Utah, shown as the Fillmore Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the land's reserved by this proclamation.", "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 19th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [seal.] six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3200", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Fillmore Forest Reserve, Utah.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Utah.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart the Fillmore Forest Reserve on public lands in Utah.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Fillmore Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-05-19", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-448", "type": "executive_order", "number": "448", "tr_sequence": 392, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-05-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Harry E. Burns as Fireman Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_448", "revid": 1856914, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 101"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Harry E. Burns may be appointed as fireman in any Department at Washington. Mr. Burns was honorably discharged with an excellent record as fireman in the United States Navy, where he showed himself to be a brave man. Mr. Burns has been twice certified under the civil service rules for the position of fireman outside of the District of Columbia."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 101)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, May 21, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Harry E. Burns, honorably discharged as a Navy fireman, to be appointed fireman in any department at Washington.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": ["Harry E. Burns"], "significance": 1, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-05-21", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-449", "type": "executive_order", "number": "449", "tr_sequence": 393, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-05-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Transferring Certain Specified Archives of the Department of State to the Library of Congress", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_449", "revid": 1852858, "printed_source": "  "}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The following Historical Archives in the Department of State:", "Spanish manuscripts of 1631, supposed to have been captured in the City of Mexico.", "The Orderly Books of Capt. Robert Walker and Sergeant Dolson, together with the Diary of Ebenezer Fitch and Paul Blancher.", "The Forton Prisoners manuscripts, 1777−1779", "A Journal of the Travels of Alexander Church, Richard Ramsey, and Zephaniah Halsey.", "The printed Books which are annotated by Sir Henry Clinton.", "Journal of the ship Hope, 1790−1792, 4 vols.", "The Whisky Insurrection in Pennsylvania, 1792−1796.", "House Tax Insurrection, 1799.", "Correspondence of Albert Gallatin as Secretary of the Treasury.", "Papers relating to the Burr Conspiracy.", "Log Book of the ship Lexington, 1807.", "The John Henry Papers.", "Jefferson Davis Papers,", "Are, by authority provided by the Act of Congress entitled ‘‘An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and for other purposes,’’ approved February 25, 1903, hereby ordered to be transferred from the Department of State to the possession and custody of the Library of Congress, to be there preserved and rendered accessible for historical and other legitimate uses under such rules and regulations as may from time to time be prescribed by the Librarian of Congress.", "The transfer here directed shall be made as promptly as shall be found conveniently practicable to the Department of State and the Library of Congress.", "Theodore Roosevelt The White House, May 23, 1906. == Notes == See Related: Executive Order 206, March 9, 1903"], "source": "Wikisource (from   )", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Transferred historical archives from the State Department to the Library of Congress, including Revolutionary-era orderly books, Albert Gallatin's Treasury correspondence, Burr Conspiracy papers and Jefferson Davis papers.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "transfer", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-05-23", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "A search of California papers for late May through July 1906 found no reaction to the transfer, for or against.", "source": "California Digital Newspaper Collection", "date": "1906", "story": 88}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The transfer was carried out within weeks; the Librarian of Congress reprinted the order in his annual report and stated, \"The transfer has been made.\"", "source": "Report of the Librarian of Congress, 1906, pp. 26–27", "date": "1906", "story": 88}], "legacy": [{"text": "The collections entered the Library of Congress's Manuscript Division, part of the long consolidation of federal historical records that reached institutional form with the National Archives in 1934.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1934", "story": 88}, {"text": "The 1903 transfer provision the order relied on was later codified as 2 U.S.C. § 148 and repealed in 1951.", "source": "32 Stat. 865; 65 Stat. 701", "date": "1951-10-31", "story": 88}], "uncertain": ["Where each of the thirteen collections sits today is not confirmed; some may have been broken up, merged or later moved to the National Archives."]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-206", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The 1903 transfer of the Revolutionary archives to the Library of Congress under the same law.", "story": 88, "date": "1903-03-09", "title": "Transferring Revolutionary Archives from the State Department to the Library of Congress", "type": "executive_order", "number": "206"}]}
{"id": "proc-625", "type": "proclamation", "number": "625", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-05-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Opening of the Ceded Portion of the Crow Indian Reservation, Montana", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 625, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-625"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3200, "last_page": 3204, "cite": "34 Stat. 3200–3204", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3200.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-05-24", "table_title": "Opening to entry lands on the Crow Indian Reservation, Montana."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, By an agreement between the Indians of the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana, on the one part, and Benjamin F. Barge, James H. McNeely, and Charles G. Hoyt, Commissioners on behalf of the United States, on the other part, amended and ratified by Act of Congress approved April twenty-seven, nineteen hundred and four (33 Stat., 352), said Indians ceded, granted, and relinquished to the United States all their right, title, and interest in and to the unallotted lands within the following boundaries, to wit: Beginning at the northeast corner of the said Crow Indian Reservation; thence running due south to a point lying due east of the northeast corner of the Fort Custer military reservation; thence running due west to the northwest corner of said Fort Custer military reservation: theme due south to the southwest corner of said Fort Custer military reservation; thence due west to the intersection of the line between sections ten and eleven, township two south, range twenty-eight east of the Principal Meridian of Montana; thence due north to the intersection of the Montana base line: thence due west to the intersection of the western boundary of the Crow Indian Reservation: thence in a northeasterly direction following the present boundary of said reservation to the point of beginning:", "AND, WHEREAS, Under the Act of Congress ratifying said agreement, among other things, it was provided:", "That the unallotted lands, except such lands as may have been withdrawn for reclamation under the act of June seventeen, nineteen hundred and two (32 Stat., 388), and such tracts as may have been reserved for thirty days after the date of opening as subject to the preference right of entry of the purchasers of the improvements of the former Indian claimants thereon, and except sections sixteen and thirty-six, or lands selected in lieu thereof, which are reserved for common school purposes and are granted to the State of Montana for such purposes, shall be disposed of under the homestead, townsite, and mineral land laws of the United States, and shall be opened to settlement and entry by proclamation of the President, which proclamation shall prescribe the manner in which the lands may be settled upon, occupied, and entered by persons entitled to make entry thereof; and no person shall be permitted to settle upon, occupy, or enter any of said lands, except as prescribed in such proclamation, until after the expiration of sixty days from the time when the same are open to settlement and entry: Provided, That as to the lands opened under such proclamation, all rights of honorably discharged Union soldiers and sailors of the late Civil and the Spanish war. or the Philippine insurrection, as defined and described in sections twenty-three hundred and four and twenty-three hundred and five of the Revised Statutes, as amended by the act of March first, nineteen hundred and one (31 Stat. 847), shall not be abridged;", "NOW, THEREFORE, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States, by virtue of the power vested in me by the said act of Congress, do hereby declare and make known that all of the unallotted lands in said reservation, except such as may at that time have been withdrawn for reclamation under said act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, and such lands as may have been reserved as subject to the preference right of entry of the purchasers of the improvements of the former Indian claimants thereon, and except sections sixteen and thirty-six, or lands selected in lieu thereof, which are reserved for common school purposes for the State of Montana, will, on and after the sixteenth day of July, nineteen hundred and six, in the manner hereinafter prescribed, and not otherwise, be opened to settlement, entry, and disposition under the general provisions of the homestead, townsite, and mineral land laws of the United States.", "And it is further provided that, commencing at 9 o’clock a. m. on Thursday, June 14, 1906, and ending at 6 o’clock p. m., Thursday, June 28. 1906, a registration will be held at Miles City and Billings, State of Montana, and Sheridan, State of Wyoming, for the purpose of ascertaining what persons desire to enter, settle upon, and acquire title to any of said ceded lands under the homestead law, and of ascertaining their qualifications so to do. To obtain registration each applicant will be required to show himself duly qualified to make homestead entry of these lands under existing laws, by written application to be made on a blank furnished only at the places herein designated for registration, by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and to give the registering officers such appropriate matters of description and identity as will protect the applicant and the government against any attempted impersonation. Registration can not be effected through the use of the mails or the employment of an agent, except that honorably discharged soldiers and sailors entitled to the benefits of section twenty-three hundred and four of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the act of Congress approved March first, nineteen hundred and one (31 Stat., 847), may present their applications for registration and due proofs of their qualifications through an agent of their own selection, having a duly executed power of attorney on a blank furnished by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, but no person will be permitted to act as agent for more than one such soldier or sailor. No person will be permitted to register more than once or in any other than his true name.", "Each applicant who shows himself duly qualified will be registered and given a nontransferable certificate to that effect, which will entitle him to go upon and examine the lands to be opened hereunder; but the only purpose for which he can go upon and examine said lands is that of enabling him later on, as herein provided, to understandingly select the lands for which he may make entry. No one will be permitted to make settlement upon any of said lands in advance of the opening herein provided for, and during the first sixty days following said opening no one but registered applicants will be permitted to make homestead settlement upon any of said lands, and then only in pursuance of a homestead entry duly allowed by the local land officers, or of a soldier's declaratory statement duly accepted by such officers.", "The order in which during the first sixty days following the opening, the registered applicants will be permitted to make homestead entry of the lands opened hereunder, will be determined by a drawing for the district publicly held at Billings. Montana, commencing at 9 o'clock a. in., Monday, July 2, 1906, and continuing for such period as may be necessary to complete the same. The drawing will be had under the supervision and immediate observance of a committee of three persons whose integrity is such as to make their control of the drawing a guaranty of fairness. The members of this committee will be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, who will prescribe suitable compensation for their services. Preparatory to this drawing the registration officers will, at the time of registering each applicant who shows himself duly qualified, make out a card, which must be signed by the applicant, and giving such a description of the applicant as will enable the local land officers to thereafter identify him. This card will be subsequently sealed in a separate envelope which will bear no other distinguishing label or mark than such as may be necessary to show that it is to go into the drawing. These envelopes will be carefully preserved and remain sealed until opened in the course of the drawing herein provided. When the registration is completed all of these sealed envelopes will be brought together at the place of the drawing and turned over to the committee in charge of the drawing, who, in such manner as in their judgment will be attended with entire fairness and equality of opportunity, shall proceed to draw out and open the separate envelopes and to give to each inclosed card a number in the order in which the envelope containing the same is drawn. The result of the drawing will be certified by the committee to the officers of the district and will determine the order in which the applicants may make homestead entry of said lands and settlement thereon.", "3203 Notice of the drawings, stating the name of each applicant and number assigned to him by the drawing, will be posted each day at the place of drawing, and each applicant will be notified of his number and of the day upon which he must make his entry by a postal card mailed to him at the address given by him at the time of registration.", "The result of each day’s drawing will also be given to the press to be published as a matter of news. Applications for homestead entry of said lands during the first sixty days following the opening can be made only by registered applicants and in the order established by the drawing.", "Commencing on Monday, July 16, 1906, at 9 o’clock a. m., the applications of those drawing numbers 1 to 125, inclusive, must be presented at the land office in Billings. Montana, in the land district in which said lands are situated, and will be considered in their numerical order during the first day, and the applications of those drawing numbers 126 to 250, inclusive, must be presented and will be considered in their numerical order during the second day, and so on at that rate until all of said lands subject to entry under the homestead law, and desired thereunder, have been entered. If any applicant fails to appear and present his application for entry when the, number assigned to him by the drawing is reached, his right to enter will be passed until after the other applications assigned for that day have been disposed of, when he will be given another opportunity to make entry, failing in which he will be deemed to have abandoned his right to make entry under such drawing.", "To obtain the allowance of a homestead entry, each applicant must personally present the certificate of registration theretofore issued to him. together with a regular application and the necessary accompanying proofs, together with the regular land office fees, but an honorably discharged soldier or sailor may file his declaratory statement through his agent, who can represent but one soldier or sailor as in the matter of registration.", "Persons who make homestead entry for any of the ceded lands will be required to pay four dollars per acre, payment in all eases to be made as follows: One dollar per acre at the time of entry, and the remainder to be paid in four equal, annual installments, the first installment to be paid at the end of the second year. Upon all entries the usual fee and commissions shall be paid, as provided for in the homestead laws on lands the price of which is one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre.", "In case any entryman fails to make the payments herein provided for, or any of them, promptly when due, all rights in and to the lands covered by his or her entry shall at once cease, and any payments theretofore made shall be forfeited, and the entry shall be held for cancellation and canceled, and the land embraced therein shall thereupon be subject to entry at the price and upon the terms above set forth. Lands entered under the town-site and mineral land laws shall be paid for in amount and manner as provided by said laws, but in no case at a less price than that fixed for such lands if entered under the homestead laws.", "The production of the certificate of registration will be dispensed with only upon satisfactory proof of its loss or destruction. If at the time of considering his regular application for entry it appears that an applicant is disqualified from making homestead entry of these lands, his application will be rejected, notwithstanding his prior registration.", "If any applicant shall register more than once hereunder, or in any other than his true name, or shall transfer his registration certificate, he will thereby lose all the benefits of the registration and drawing herein provided for, and will be precluded from entering or settling upon any of said lands during the first sixty days following said opening.", "Any person or persons desiring to found, or to suggest establishing, a town site upon any of the said lands, at any point, may, at any time before the opening herein provided for, file in the land office a written application to that effect, describing by legal subdivisions the lands intended to be affected, and stating fully and under oath the necessity or propriety of founding or establishing a town at that place. The local officers will forthwith transmit said petition to the Commissioner of the General Land Office with their recommendation in the premises. Such Commissioner, if he believes the public interests will be subserved thereby, will, if the Secretary of the Interior approve thereof, issue an order withdrawing the lands described in such petition, or any portion thereof, from homestead entry, and settlement and directing that the same be held for the time being for disposal under the townsite laws of the United States in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior may from time to time direct; and, if at any time after such withdrawal has been made it is determined that the lands so withdrawn are not needed for town site purposes they may be released from such withdrawal and then disposed of under the general provisions of the homestead laws in the manner prescribed herein.", "All persons are especially admonished that under the said act of Congress approved March 3, 1905, it is provided that no person shall be permitted to settle upon, occupy, or enter any of said lands, except in the manner prescribed in this proclamation, until after the expiration of sixty days from the time when the same are opened to settlement and entry, and the lands are not subject to mineral exploration or location during that period. After the expiration of said period of sixty days, but not before, as hereinbefore prescribed, any of said lands which are non-mineral, remaining undisposed of, may be settled upon, occupied, and entered under the general provisions of the homestead and townsite laws of the United States in like manner as if the manner of effecting such settlement, occupancy, and entry had not been prescribed herein in obedience to law, and such of said lands as are mineral will then be subject to the provisions of the mining laws.", "The Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe all needful rules and regulations necessary to carry into full effect the opening herein provided for.", "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 24th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [seal.] six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3200", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Crow Indian Reservation. Mont.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 33, p. 352.", "Lands ceded.", "Lands to be sold subject to homestead, town-site etc., laws.", "Vol. 32, p. 388.", "Proclamation opening lands to settlement.", "Proviso.", "Soldiers and sailors’ rights not affected.", "R. S., secs. 2304, 2305, p. 422.", "Vol. 31, p. 847.", "Ceded lands open to settlement.", "Open to entry July 16, 1906.", "Registration.", "R. S., sec. 2304 p. 422.", "Vol. 31. p. 847.", "Applicants.", "Drawings.", "Notice of drawings.", "How applications will be considered.", "Certificates of registration.", "Payments.", "Forfeiture.", "Rejection of application.", "Town sites.", "Disposal of remaining lands.", "Regulations."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Opened the ceded, unallotted lands of the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana to settlement and entry under the homestead, town-site and mineral land laws.", "categories": ["indian-lands", "public-lands"], "action": "open", "places": [{"name": "Crow Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [65], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-05-24", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The lottery drew 16,923 registrants at Miles City, Billings and Sheridan, and 6,500 drew the right to enter.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1906-07", "story": 65}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "local", "text": "Almost no one filed at the $4.00-an-acre price: 263 entries by the end of August, and after a year only 398 entries covering 56,320.75 acres, under six percent of the 969,656.58 acres opened.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1907", "story": 65}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1912", "text": "President Taft cut the floor price to $1.50 an acre and ordered an auction of the unsold land.", "source": "research entry", "story": 65}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-755", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 68, "inferred": true, "date": "1907-05-21", "title": "Opening Lands in the Huntley Project", "type": "proclamation", "number": "755"}]}
{"id": "eo-450", "type": "executive_order", "number": "450", "tr_sequence": 394, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-05-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of O. Louis Cleven to Bureau of the Census After Noncompetitive Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_450", "revid": 1856915, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 101"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. O. Louis Cleven may be appointed in the Bureau of the Census upon experimental work in developing tabulating machinery, subject to noncompetitive examination by the Civil Service Commission."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 101)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, May 24, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed O. Louis Cleven to be appointed in the Bureau of the Census for experimental work on tabulating machinery, subject to a noncompetitive examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["O. Louis Cleven"], "significance": 1, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-05-24", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-626", "type": "proclamation", "number": "626", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-05-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Inviting the Militia to Attend the Jamestown, Virginia Tercentennial Celebration", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 626, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-626"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3205, "last_page": 3205, "cite": "34 Stat. 3205", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3205.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-05-28", "table_title": "Inviting the militia to attend the Jamestown, Va., Ter-Centennial Celebration."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.", "A PROCLAMATION.", "Whereas, in pursuance of an Act of the Congress of the United States, approved March 3, 1905, entitled \"An Act To provide for celebrating the birth of the American nation, the first permanent settlement of English-speaking people on the Western Hemisphere, by the holding of an international naval, marine, and military celebration in the vicinity of Jamestown, on the waters of Hampton Roads, in the State of Virginia; to provide for a suitable and permanent commemoration of said event, and to authorize an appropriation in aid thereof, and for other purposes,\" a proclamation by the President of the United States was duly made and published on March 29, 1905, declaring that there shall be inaugurated on and near the waters of Hampton Roads, in the State of Virginia, an international naval, marine, and military celebration, beginning May 13 and ending not later than November 1, 1907, for the purpose of commemorating the events set forth in said Act; which said proclamation also invited all the nations of the earth to take part therein by sending their naval vessels to the said celebration, and by making such representations of their military organizations as may be practicable;", "And Whereas Section 3 of said Act authorizes the President   \"to have such portions of our Army and Navy assembled there during the said celebration as may be compatible with the public service. And the President is also authorized to invite participation in said celebration by the militia of the several States, but at their own expense.\";", "And Whereas accordingly in due season the necessary directions will be issued to the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy for the assembling, upon said occasion, of such portions of our Army and Navy as will fittingly represent these branches of the public service;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the authority vested in me by said Act and in the name of the Government of the United States, do hereby invite the Governors of the several States and Territories to participate, but at their own expense, in said celebration by sending such organizations of the militia as, in their judgment, will afford proper military representation. The historic nature of this celebration renders it peculiarly appropriate that the representation of the militia should be commensurate with the interest and pride of our people in their citizen-soldiery who have in the many ordeals of our Colonial and National life met their military obligations with superb self-sacrifice and devotion.", "IN TESTIMONY 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 28th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and of the Independence of the United States, the one hundred and thirtieth.", "[SEAL.]", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:", "ELIHU ROOT", "Secretary of State."], "source": "34 Stat. 3205 (GovInfo Statutes at Large page images, vol. 34, pt. 3), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Seal marker restored; 'citizen-soldiery' breaks at the hyphen and is kept as a compound; other line-end hyphens closed up. Marginal citations: 1905 act 'Vol. 33, p. 1046'; March 29, 1905 proclamation 'Ante, p. 2997'. Signature: Elihu Root, Secretary of State (italic title in the printing).", "story": 66}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Invited state and territorial governors to send militia, at their own expense, to the Jamestown tercentennial celebration on Hampton Roads, Virginia.", "categories": ["ceremonial", "military-naval"], "action": "announce", "places": [{"name": "Jamestown", "kind": "town", "state": "Virginia"}], "states": ["Virginia"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [66], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-05-28", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The invitation ran as a short news item; the Los Angeles Herald headed it \"VIRGINIA INVITES SOLDIERS.\"", "source": "Los Angeles Herald, May 30, 1906", "date": "1906-05-30", "story": 66}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Jamestown Exposition opened April 26, 1907, and lost heavily, but on December 16, 1907 the Great White Fleet sailed from Hampton Roads on its voyage around the world.", "source": "Naval History and Heritage Command", "date": "1907-12-16", "story": 66}, {"text": "After the United States entered the First World War, Congress voted to buy 474 acres of the exposition grounds at Sewell's Point, which became Naval Station Norfolk.", "source": "Naval History and Heritage Command", "date": "1917", "story": 66}], "today": [{"name": "Naval Station Norfolk", "kind": "military_installation", "relation": "part", "state": "Virginia", "note": "Built on 474 acres of the 1907 exposition grounds at Sewell's Point.", "source": "Naval History and Heritage Command", "story": 66}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1917", "text": "Congress authorized buying 474 acres of the exposition grounds, which became Naval Station Norfolk.", "source": "Naval History and Heritage Command", "story": 66}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-542", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The 1905 proclamation declaring the Jamestown celebration and inviting the world's navies.", "story": 66, "date": "1905-03-29", "title": "Celebration of the 300th Anniversary of the Founding of Jamestown, Virginia", "type": "proclamation", "number": "542"}]}
{"id": "proc-627", "type": "proclamation", "number": "627", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-05-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Bear River Forest Reserve, Idaho and Utah", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 627, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-627"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3206, "last_page": 3206, "cite": "34 Stat. 3206", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3206.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-05-28", "table_title": "Setting apart the Bear River Forest Reserve, Idaho and Utah."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled. “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof ”;", "And whereas, the public lands, in the States of Idaho and Utah, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all (he tracts of land, in the States of Idaho and Utah, shown as the Bear River Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which' any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired : Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "Whereas, a portion of the land shown as the Bear River Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof was reserved by proclamation of May twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and three, and designated as “The Logan Forest Reserve”;", "And whereas, it appears desirable that the several tracts hereby reserved should be known by one name, the title. “The Logan Forest Reserve” is hereby abolished, and the reservation established by this proclamation shall be known as the Bear River Forest Reserve.", "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 28th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [seal.] six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3206", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Bear River Forest Reserve, Idaho and Utah.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Idaho and Utah.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 33, p. 2307.", "Boar River Forest Reserve established in place of the Logan Forest Reserve."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Bear River Forest Reserve on public lands in Idaho and Utah, in place of the Logan Forest Reserve.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Bear River Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Idaho"}, {"name": "Logan Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Idaho", "Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-05-28", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The proclamation took in the whole Logan Forest Reserve of 1903 and abolished the Logan name.", "source": "34 Stat. 3206–3207", "date": "1906-05-28", "story": 63}], "legacy": [{"text": "Bear River passed to the Cache National Forest.", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}], "today": [{"name": "Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Utah", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-500", "relation": "supersedes", "note": null, "story": 42, "inferred": true, "date": "1903-05-29", "title": "Establishment of the Logan Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "500"}]}
{"id": "proc-628", "type": "proclamation", "number": "628", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-05-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Wichita Forest Reserve, Oklahoma", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 628, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-628"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3207, "last_page": 3207, "cite": "34 Stat. 3207", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3207.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-05-29", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Wichita Forest Reserve, Oklahoma."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Wichita Forest Reserve, in the Territory of Oklahoma, was established by proclamation dated July fourth, nineteen hundred and one;", "And whereas, it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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.” that “ The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, within the Territory of Oklahoma, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do proclaim that the aforesaid Wichita Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are, accordingly, now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 29th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL.] six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3207", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Wichita Forest Reserve, Okla.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 32. p. 1973.", "Vol. 30, p. 30.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Wichita Forest Reserve in Oklahoma Territory, established in 1901, and reserved the added lands from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Wichita Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oklahoma"}], "states": ["Oklahoma"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-05-29", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "proc-563", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The Wichita reserve had been made a game preserve by proclamation the year before.", "story": 63, "date": "1905-06-02", "title": "Redesignating the Wichita Forest Reserve, Oklahoma, as a Game Preserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "563"}]}
{"id": "proc-629", "type": "proclamation", "number": "629", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-05-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Modifying Boundaries of the Uinta Forest Reserve, Utah", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 629, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-629"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3207, "last_page": 3208, "cite": "34 Stat. 3207–3208", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3207.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-05-29", "table_title": "Modifying boundaries of the Uintah Forest Reserve, Utah."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Uinta Forest Reserve, in the State of Utah, was established by proclamation dated February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, under the name of the Uintah Forest Reserve, and was subsequently enlarged, by proclamations dated July fourteenth, nineteen hundred and five, and January sixteenth, nine- teen hundred and six, to include additional lands in the States of Utah and Wyoming;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by further changing the boundaries of the said forest reserve to release and exclude therefrom certain lands in the States of Utah and Wyoming;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 said lands are hereby released and excluded from the aforesaid Uinta Forest Reserve, and that the boundaries of the reserve are, accordingly, now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The lands hereby excluded from the reserve and restored to the public domain shall be open to settlement from the date hereof, but shall not be subject to entry, filing, or selection until after ninety days notice by such publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to lie affixed.", "Done at the City of Washington this 29th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, [seal.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3207", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Uinta Forest Reserve, Utah.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 29, p. 895.", "Ante. pp. 3116, 3186.", "Post, p. 3240.", "Boundaries modified.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Excluded lands open to settlement."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Modifying Boundaries of the Uintah Forest Reserve, Utah”. The proclamation calls it \"the Uinta Forest Reserve ... established ... under the name of the Uintah Forest Reserve\"."], "summary": "Trimmed the Uinta Forest Reserve, releasing certain lands in Utah and Wyoming and opening them to settlement, with entry allowed after ninety days' notice.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "reduce", "places": [{"name": "Uinta Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah", "Wyoming"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-05-29", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The proclamation only removed land from the reserve, releasing and excluding it and restoring it to the public domain.", "source": "34 Stat. 3186–3263", "date": "1906-05-29", "story": 63}], "today": [{"name": "Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Utah", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-608", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Same reserve, enlarged January 16, 1906, under the name Uintah.", "story": 63, "date": "1906-01-16", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Uintah Forest Reserve, Utah and Wyoming", "type": "proclamation", "number": "608"}]}
{"id": "eo-451", "type": "executive_order", "number": "451", "tr_sequence": 395, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-05-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Mrs. M. C. Kratz to Treasury Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_451", "revid": 1857255, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 101"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. M. C. Kratz may be reinstated in the Treasury Department, it appearing that she was removed through inadvertence."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 101)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, May 29, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Mrs. M. C. Kratz to be reinstated in the Treasury Department, since she had been removed through inadvertence.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["M. C. Kratz"], "significance": 1, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-05-29", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-452", "type": "executive_order", "number": "452", "tr_sequence": 396, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-05-31", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Clerks on Isthmus of Panama Earning Less than $75 Monthly Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_452", "revid": 1865589, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 92"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Appointments to clerical positions on the Isthmus of Panama paying less than $75 in gold per month may be made without examination under the civil-service rules.", "Transfers or promotions from one classified position to another on the Isthmus of Panama may be made without reference to the usual limitations, but shall be shown on the monthly report of changes in the service made to the Civil Service Commission. No transfer shall be made from the service on the Isthmus of Panama to the office of administration, Isthmian Canal affairs, except in accordance with the transfer rules and regulations at present in effect."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 92)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "T. Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, May 31, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Exempted clerical jobs on the Isthmus of Panama paying under $75 a month from civil-service examination and eased transfers and promotions among classified positions there.", "categories": ["civil-service", "canal-zone"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-05-31", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-630", "type": "proclamation", "number": "630", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-06-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Hell Gate Forest Reserve, Montana", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 630, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-630"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3213, "last_page": 3213, "cite": "34 Stat. 3213", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3213.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-06-02", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Hell Gate Forest Reserve, Montana."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Hell Gate Forest Reserve, in the State of Montana, was established by proclamation dated October third, nineteen hundred and five:", "And whereas, it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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.” that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve ”:", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, within the State of Montana, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do proclaim that the aforesaid Hell Gate Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are, accordingly, now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 2nd day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [seal.] six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3213", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Hell Gate Forest Reserve, Mont.", "Preamble.", "Ante, p. 3168.", "Post. p. 3230.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Hell Gate Forest Reserve in Montana, created in October 1905, closing the added lands to settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Hell Gate Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-06-02", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "proc-650", "relation": "enlarged_by", "note": "Second enlargement of the Hell Gate reserve, September 14, 1906.", "story": 63, "date": "1906-09-14", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Hell Gate Forest Reserve, Montana", "type": "proclamation", "number": "650"}]}
{"id": "proc-631", "type": "proclamation", "number": "631", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-06-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Opening of the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 631, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-631"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3208, "last_page": 3212, "cite": "34 Stat. 3208–3212", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3208.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-06-02", "table_title": "Opening to entry lands in the Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, Wyoming."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, By an agreement between the Shoshone and Arapahoe tribes of Indians, belonging to the Shoshone or Wind River reservation in the State of Wyoming, on the one part, and James McLaughlin, a United States Indian Inspector, on the other part, amended and ratified by act of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and five (33 Stat., 1016), the said Indian tribes ceded, granted, and relinquished to the United States all the right, title, and interest which they may have had to all of the unallotted lands embraced within said reservation, except the lands within and bounded by the following described lines:", "Beginning in the midchannel of the Big Wind River at a point where said stream crosses the western boundary of the said reservation; thence in a southeasterly direction following the midchannel of the Big Wind River to its conjunction with the Little Wind or Big Popo-Agie River, near the northeast corner of township one south, range four east; hence up the midchannel of the Big PopoAgie River in a southwesterly direction to the mouth of the North Fork of the said Big Popo-Agie River: thence up the midchannel of said North Fork of the Big PopoAgie River to its intersection with the southern boundary of the said reservation, near the southwest corner of section twenty-one, township two south, range one west: thence due west along the said southern boundary of the said reservation to the southwest corner of the same: thence north along the western boundary of said reservation to the place of beginning.", "3209 AND, WHEREAS, It was provided by said act of March three, nineteen hundred and five, that said unallotted lands ceded to the United States under said agreement should be disposed of under the provisions of the homestead, townsite, coal and mineral land laws of the United States, and should be opened to settlement and entry by proclamation of the President of the United States on June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and six, which proclamation shall prescribe the manner in which the lands shall be settled upon, occupied, and entered by persons permitted to make entry thereof, and no person shall be permitted to settle upon, occupy or enter said lands except as prescribed in said proclamation, until after the expiration of sixty days from the time when the same are open to settlement and entry; and the rights of honorably discharged soldiers and sailors of the late civil and Spanish wars, as defined and described in sections twenty-three hundred and four and twenty-three hundred and five of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the act of March one. nineteen hundred and one. shall not be abridged;", "AND, WHEREAS, The time for the opening of said unallotted lands was extended to the fifteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and six, unless the President shall determine that the same may be opened at an earlier date, by Public Resolution of Congress, approved March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and six (Public Resolution No. Twelve):", "NOW, THEREFORE, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the said Act and Resolution of Congress, do hereby declare and make known that all the unallotted lands in the ceded portion of said reservation, except such as may at that time have been reserved for carrying out the provisions of said amended treaty relative to the rights of Asmus Boysen, allowing him to locate in accordance with the Government surveys not to exceed six hundred and forty acres in the form of a square, of mineral or coal lands in said reservation, and to purchase the same, will, on and after the fifteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and six, in the manner hereinafter prescribed, and not otherwise, be opened to settlement, entry, and disposition under the general provisions of the homestead, townsite, coal, and mineral land laws of the United States.", "And it is further directed and provided that commencing at nine o’clock a. m., on Monday July 16, 1906, and ending at six o’clock p. m., Tuesday, July 31, 1906, a registration will be held at Lander, Shoshoni, and Thermopolis; also, at Worland, provided that the Big Horn Railroad, now in course of construction, shall be completed and doing a passenger traffic to that place on July 16, 1906, for the purpose of ascertaining the names and qualifications of all persons who desire to enter, settle upon, or acquire title to any of said ceded lands under the homestead laws.", "To obtain registration for the purpose of making a homestead entry of any of said ceded lands each applicant will be required to show himself duly qualified under the law to make such entry, and this showing must be made by the presentation of a sworn application for registration executed on a blank furnished by the Commissioner of the General Land Office which can be obtained only at the time and places of registration herein mentioned, and each person registering must give the registering officer such appropriate matters of description and identification as will protect the applicant and the Government against any attempted impersonation.", "Registration can not be affected through the use of the mails or the employment of an agent, excepting that honorably discharged soldiers and sailors entitled to the benefits of Section twenty-three hundred and four of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the Act of Congress approved March one, nineteen hundred and one (31 Stat., 847), may present their applications for registration for the purpose of making a homestead entry and make due proof of their qualifications through an agent of their own selection having a duly executed power of attorney on a blank furnished by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, but no person will be permitted to act as agent for more than one soldier or sailor. No person will be permitted to register more than once, nor will he be permitted to register in any other than his true name.", "Each applicant who shows himself duly qualified will be registered and given a non-transferable certificate to that effect, and each person holding such certificate will be entitled to go upon any ceded lands subject to entry hereunder and examine such lands, but the only purpose for which he can go upon and examine such lands is to enable him later on as herein provided, to understandingly select the lands for which he may make entry.", "The order in which during the first sixty days following the opening the registered applicants will be permitted to make homestead entry of lands opened hereunder will be determined by a drawing for the district, held at Lander, Wyoming, commencing at nine o'clock a. m., Saturday, August 4, 1906, and continuing for such period necessary to complete the same. The drawing will be had under the supervision and immediate observance of a committee of three persons whose integrity is such as to make their control of the drawing a guaranty of its fairness. The members of this committee will be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, who will prescribe suitable compensation for their services. Preparatory to this drawing the registration officers will, at the time of registering each applicant who shows himself duly qualified, make out a card which must be signed by the applicant, and give such a description of the applicant as will enable the local land officers to thereafter identify him. This card will be subsequently sealed in a separate envelope which will bear no other distinguishing label or mark than such as may be necessary to show that it is to go into the drawing. These envelopes will be carefully preserved and remain sealed until opened in the course of the drawing herein provided. When the registration is completed all of these sealed envelopes will be brought together at the place of drawing and turned over to the committee in charge of the drawing who, in such manner as in their judgment will be attended with entire fairness and equality of opportunity, shall proceed to draw out and open the separate envelopes and to give to each inclosed card a number in the order in which the envelope containing the same is drawn. The result of the drawing will be certified to the officers of the district and will determine the order in which the applicants may make homestead entry of said lands and settlement thereon.", "Notices of the drawing, stating the name of each applicant and the number assigned to him by the drawing, will be posted each day at the place of the drawing, and each applicant will be notified of his number and the day upon which he must make his entry, by a postal card mailed to him at the address given by him at the time of the registration. The result of each day's drawing will also be given to the press and published as a matter of news. Applications for homestead entry during the sixty days following the opening can be made only by registered applicants and in the order established by the drawing.", "Commencing August fifteenth, nineteen hundred and six, at nine o’clock a. am., the applications of those persons drawing numbers 1 to 100, inclusive, entitling them to make homestead entries, must be presented at the land office at Lander. Wyoming, in the land district in which the said lands are situated and will be considered in their numerical order during the first day. and the applications of (hose drawing numbers 101 to 200, inclusive, entitling them to make homestead entries, must be presented and will be considered in their numerical order during the second day, and so on, Sundays excluded, at the rate of 100 such applications per day until and including August twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and six : on and after August twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, such applications will be considered in like manner at the rate of 120 per day, Sundays excluded, until and including September sixth, nineteen hundred and six; on and after September seventh, nineteen hundred and six, such applications will be considered at the rate of 140 per day, Sundays excluded, until and including September eighteenth, nineteen hundred and six; on and after September nineteenth, nineteen hundred and six, such applications will be considered at the rate of 100 per day, Sundays excluded, until and including September twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six; and on and after October one, nine-teen hundred and six, such applications will be considered at the rate of 170 per day, Sundays excluded, until and including October thirteenth, nineteen hundred and six, the expiration of the sixty day period.", "If any applicant fails to appear and present his application to make a homestead entry, when the number assigned to him by the drawing is reached, his application to enter will be passed until after the other applications assigned to that day have been disposed of when he will, on that day be given another opportunity to make entry, and if he fails to do so he will be deemed to have abandoned his right to make entry under such drawing.", "To obtain the allowance of a homestead entry each applicant will personally present the certificate of registration theretofore issued to him. together with a regular homestead application and the necessary accompanying proofs, together with the regular land office fees, but an honorably discharged soldier or sailor may file his declaratory statement through his agent, who can represent but one soldier or sailor as in the matter of registration.", "The production of the certificate of registration will be dispensed with only upon satisfactory proof of its loss or destruction. If, at the time of considering the regular application to enter, it appears that the applicant is disqualified from making homestead entry on these lands his application will be rejected notwithstanding his prior registration. If any applicant shall register more than once here-under or in any other than his true name, or shall transfer his registration certificate, he will thereby lose all the benefits of the registration and drawing herein provided for and will be precluded from entering or settling upon any of said lands during the first sixty days following the opening.", "Persons who make homestead entries for any of the ceded lands within two years after the opening of the same to entry shall pay one dollar and fifty cents per acre for the lands embraced in their entries and for all of the ceded lands thereafter entered under the homestead laws the sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre shall be paid, payment in all cases to be made as follows:", "Fifty cents per acre at the time of making entry and twenty-five cents per acre each year thereafter until the price per acre hereinbefore provided shall have been fully paid. Upon all entries the usual fees and commissions shall be paid as provided for in the homestead laws on lands the price of which is one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre.", "3212 In case any entryman fails to make the payments hereinbefore provided for under homestead entries within the time stated, the right of said entryman to the lands covered by his or her entry shall be forfeited and the entry will be canceled.", "Any person or persons desiring to found, or to suggest establishing a townsite upon any of the said lands, at any point may, at any time before the opening herein provided for, file in the land office a written application to that effect, describing by legal subdivisions the lands intended to be affected, and stating fully and under oath the necessity or propriety of founding or establishing a town at that place. The local officers will forthwith transmit said petition to the Commissioner of the General Laud Office with their recommendations in the premises. Such Commissioner, if he believes the public interests will be subserved thereby will, if the Secretary of the Interior approve thereof, issue an order withdrawing the lands described in such petition, or any portion thereof, from homestead entry and settlement and directing that the same be held for the time being for disposal under the townsite laws of the United States in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior may from time to time direct: and, if at any time after such withdrawal has been made it is determined that the lands so withdrawn are not needed for townsite purposes, they may be released from such withdrawal and then disposed of under the general provisions of the homestead laws in the manner prescribed herein.", "The lands entered under the townsite, coal and mineral land laws shall be paid for in amount and manner provided by the laws under which they are entered, and unless entry and payment under mineral locations shall be made within three years from date of location all rights thereunder shall cease.", "All persons are especially admonished that under said act of Congress approved March three, nineteen hundred and five, it is provided that no person shall be permitted to settle upon, occupy, or enter any of said lands except in the manner prescribed in this proclamation until after the expiration of sixty days from the time when the same are opened to settlement and entry. After the expiration of said period of sixty days, but not before, as herein prescribed, any of said lands remaining undisposed of may be settled upon, occupied, entered, or located under the general provisions of the homestead, townsite, coal and mineral land laws of the United States in like manner as if the manner affecting such settlement, occupancy, entry, and location had not been prescribed herein in obedience to law.", "The Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe all needful rules and regulations necessary to carry into full effect the opening herein provided for.", "IN TESTIMONY 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 2nd day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, [seal.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3208", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Shoshone or Wind River Reservation. Wyo.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 33, p. 1016.", "Cession of unallotted lands in.", "Lands excepted.", "Opening of lands to entry.", "Vol. 33, p. 1021.", "Ante, p. 849.", "Date of opening.", "Time of opening extended to August 15, 1906.", "Ante, p. 825.", "Ceded lands open to settlement.", "Vol. 33, p 1020.", "Places of registration.", "Proviso.", "Big Horn Railroad.", "Applicants.", "Restrictions on registration.", "R. S., sec. 2304 p. 422.", "Vol. 31, p. 847.", "Certificate of registration.", "Drawings", "Notice.", "Applications.", "Post, p. 3222.", "Failure to present.", "Presentation of registration certificate.", "Entries.", "Price.", "Payments.", "Fees.", "Forfeiture.", "Townsites.", "Mineral locations.", "Entry of undisposed lands", "Vol. 33, p. 1016.", "Regulations."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Opened the unallotted lands ceded by the Shoshone and Arapahoe tribes on the Shoshone or Wind River Reservation in Wyoming to settlement under the homestead, townsite, coal and mineral land laws.", "categories": ["indian-lands", "public-lands"], "action": "open", "places": [{"name": "Shoshone or Wind River Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "Wyoming"}], "states": ["Wyoming"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [65], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-06-02", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Wind River lottery drew 10,559 registrants, and 7,240 drew the right to enter.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1906", "story": 65}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "local", "text": "After a year, 635 entries covering 94,383.31 acres had been filed, about six percent of the 1,472,844.15 acres opened.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1907", "story": 65}, {"kind": "local", "text": "Riverton was born of the opening, platted by the Wyoming Central Irrigation Company, its lots drawn by lottery, and opened August 15, 1906.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1906-08-15", "story": 65}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Tenth Circuit held in 2017 that the 1905 act behind this opening diminished the Wind River Reservation, so Riverton is not in Indian country; the Supreme Court declined review in 2018 and the EPA revised its approval in 2019.", "source": "Wyoming v. EPA, 875 F.3d 505 (10th Cir. 2017)", "date": "2017", "story": 65}, {"text": "Restorations of 1940, 1944 and 1953 helped carry the reservation back past 2.2 million acres.", "source": "research entry", "story": 65}], "today": [{"name": "Wind River Reservation", "kind": "indian_reservation", "relation": "part", "state": "Wyoming", "note": "Diminished by the 1905 cession, later partly restored.", "source": "research entry", "story": 65}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1939-07-27", "text": "Congress directed the undisposed-of ceded land restored to the tribes; the restorations were carried out in 1940 and 1944.", "source": "Act of July 27, 1939, 53 Stat. 1128", "story": 65}, {"date": "2013-12", "text": "The EPA approved the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes' Clean Air Act treatment-as-a-state application on the view that the 1905 act had not diminished the reservation.", "source": "Wyoming v. EPA, 875 F.3d 505 (10th Cir. 2017)", "story": 65}, {"date": "2017", "text": "The Tenth Circuit held that Congress diminished the reservation in 1905 and vacated the EPA order.", "source": "Wyoming v. EPA, 875 F.3d 505 (10th Cir. 2017)", "story": 65}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-640", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Directed entries on the opened lands to be made at Shoshoni from August 15 through October 3, 1906.", "story": 65, "date": "1906-07-20", "title": "Directing Entries on Shoshone Reservation, Wyoming, to be Made at Shoshoni, Wyoming", "type": "proclamation", "number": "640"}]}
{"id": "proc-632", "type": "proclamation", "number": "632", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-06-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Opening for Location Mineral Lands in the Uncompahgre Indian Reservation, Utah", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 632, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-632"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3214, "last_page": 3215, "cite": "34 Stat. 3214–3215", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3214.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-06-06", "table_title": "Opening for location mineral lands in the Uncompahgre Indian Reservation, Utah."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, by the act of Congress approved June 7, 1897 (30 Stats., 87) it was provided:", "The Secretary is hereby directed to allot agricultural lands in severalty to the Uncompahgre Ute Indians now located upon or belonging to the Uncompahgre Indians Reservation in the State of Utah, said allotments to lie upon the Uncompahgre and Uintah Reservations or elsewhere in said State. And all the lands of said Uncompahgre Reservation not theretofore allotted in severalty to said Uncompahgre Utes shall, on and after the first day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, be open for location and entry under all the land laws of the United States; excepting, however, therefrom all lands containing gilsonite, asphalt, elaterite, or other like substances.", "And the title to all of the said lands containing gilsonite, asphaltum, elaterite, or other like substances, is reserved to the United States.", "And whereas, it is provided by the act of Congress approved March 3, 1903 (32 Stats., 998), entitled “An Act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department,” etc., as follows:", "That in the lands within the former Uncompahgre Indian Reservation, in the Stale of Utah, containing gilsonite, asphaltum, elaterite, or other like substances, which were reserved from location and entry by provision in the Act of Congress entitled ‘An Act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes.' approved June seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, all discoveries and locations of any such mineral lands by qualified persons prior to January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, not previously discovered and located, who recorded notices of such discoveries and locations prior to January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, either in the State of Colorado, or in the office of the County recorder of Uintah County. Utah, shall have all the force and effect accorded by law to locations of mining claims upon the public domain. All such locations may hereafter be perfected, and patents shall be issued therefor upon compliance with the requirements of the mineral land laws, provided that the owners of such location shall relocate their respective claims and record the same in the office of the County recorder of Uintah County. Utah, within ninety days after the passage of this Act. All locations of any such mineral lands made and recorded on or subsequent to January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, are hereby declared to be null and void; and the remainder of the lands heretofore reserved as aforesaid because of the mineral substances contained in them, in so far as the same may be within even numbered sections, shall be sold and disposed of in tracts not exceeding forty acres, or a quarter of a quarter of a section, in such manner and upon such terms and with such restrictions as may be prescribed in a proclamation of the President of the United States issued for that purpose not less than one hundred and twenty days after the passage of this Act. and not less than ninety days before the time of sale or disposal, and the balance of said lands and also all the mineral therein are hereby specifically reserved for future action of Congress.", "Now, therefore, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power vested in me by law. do hereby declare and make known that the even-numbered sections of surveyed lands in said former Uncompahgre Indian Reservation in Utah, heretofore reserved by said Act of June 7, 1897, to the United States as containing deposits of gilsonite, asphaltum, elaterite or other like substances, saving and excepting such of said even numbered sections as may be appropriated and claimed under discoveries and locations made and recorded prior to January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and relocated and re-recorded as specified by said Act of March third, nineteen hundred and three (32 Stat., 998) and saving and excepting lands allotted to Indians, and all other lands legally reserved or appropriated, shall be offered for sale upon sealed bids at the Vernal, Utah, land office in tracts not exceeding forty acres in the aggregate, or the smallest legal subdivision approximating that area; and that the even numbered sections of said lands, now unsurveyed. after the date on which the township plat of survey thereof is officially filed in the local land office in the usual manner, as well as any of the lands offered at this sale remaining unsold may be advertised and sealed bids invited therefor upon the same terms at the same place and at such time as may be specified in a public notice duly given by direction of the Secretary of the Interior. Inasmuch as the government is unable to determine definitely those tracts in the surveyed even numbered sections principally valuable for deposits of gilsonite, asphaltum, elaterite or other like substances bids may be offered for any forty-acre tract or lot approximating that area subject to the regulations as to proof of character of the land, to be hereafter issued.", "The bids for the lands offered will be opened at the Vernal, Utah, land office on Saturday. September 15, 1906, commencing at one o'clock P. M., mountain standard time, and will continue from day to day until all bids have been examined.", "All bids to receive consideration must be filed in the district land office at Vernal, Utah, before 4:30 o'clock P. M. of the day preceding that set for the opening of the bids.", "The right is reserved to reject any and all bids.", "As an individual, or as a member of an association, the purchaser must be twenty-one years of age and a citizen of the United States or have declared his intention to become such citizen.", "Bids for said lands shall be in accordance with such form, and at such minimum price as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior who shall also prescribe all additional rules and regulations necessary to carry into full effect the sale herein provided for.", "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 6th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [seal.] six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3214", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Uncompahgre", "Indian Reservation. Utah.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 30, p. 87.", "Unallotted lands open for location, etc.", "Title to gilsonite, etc., lands reserved.", "Vol. 32, p 998.", "Mining lands located on, prior to January 1, 1891. valid.", "Vol. 30, p. 87.", "Patents to Issue on relocation, etc., of claims.", "Claims located after January 1, 1891, invalid.", "Sale of remainder of mineral lands.", "Restrictions.", "Sale of even-numbered mineral sections.", "Vol. 30, p. 87.", "Lands excepted.", "Vol. 32, p. 998.", "Bids at Vernal, Utah.", "Disposal of unsold lands.", "Opening blds.", "Filing bids.", "Rejection, etc.", "Age limit of purchaser.", "Regulations."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Uncompahgre Indian Reservation”. Statutes list of proclamations (34 Stat. 3214)."], "summary": "Dealt with gilsonite, asphaltum and elaterite lands in the former Uncompahgre Indian Reservation in Utah, upholding mining claims recorded before 1891 and providing for sale of the remaining mineral lands.", "categories": ["coal-minerals", "indian-lands"], "action": "regulate", "places": [{"name": "Uncompahgre Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [65], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-06-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-453", "type": "executive_order", "number": "453", "tr_sequence": 397, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-06-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Jesse F. Gates as Classified Laborer in Treasury Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_453", "revid": 1857258, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 102"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Jesse F. Gates may be reinstated as a classified laborer in the Treasury Department on account of his services in the Spanish war, in which he was severely wounded."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 102)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 6, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Jesse F. Gates, severely wounded in the Spanish war, to be reinstated as a classified laborer in the Treasury Department.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Jesse F. Gates"], "significance": 1, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-06-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-454", "type": "executive_order", "number": "454", "tr_sequence": 398, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-06-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Transferring Certain Described Lands in Oklahoma Known as the “Government Acre” from the Interior Dept. to the Treasury Dept. for Post Office and Other Government Purposes", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Transferred the \"Government Acre\" in Oklahoma from the Interior Department to the Treasury Department for a post office and other government purposes.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Government Acre", "kind": "other", "state": "Oklahoma"}], "states": ["Oklahoma"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-06-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-455", "type": "executive_order", "number": "455", "tr_sequence": 399, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-06-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Certain Described Lands Within the Salt Lake Forest Reserve, Utah, for Use as a Nursery Site", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reserved certain lands inside the Salt Lake Forest Reserve in Utah as a nursery site.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Salt Lake Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-06-06", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Salt Lake Herald announced the planting station under the head \"Uncle Sam to Plant Trees.\"", "source": "Salt Lake Herald, May 6, 1906, p. 32", "date": "1906-05-06", "story": 88}, {"text": "The Salt Lake Tribune placed the nursery on the north side of Big Cottonwood Canyon about four miles from Brighton, where trees would be grown and later transplanted onto the forest reserves.", "source": "Salt Lake Tribune, July 17, 1906, p. 12", "date": "1906-07-17", "story": 88}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-456", "type": "executive_order", "number": "456", "tr_sequence": 400, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-06-08", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Modifying Fort. St. Michael Military Reservation, Alaska", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_456", "revid": 2214356, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 114, War Dept., June 20, 1906"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The Executive Order of November 20, 1905, reducing the military reservation of Fort St. Michael, Alaska, is hereby amended to read as follows:", "It is hereby ordered that all the lands included within the limits of the military reservation of Fort St. Michael, Alaska, declared by Executive Order of October 20, 1897 (General Orders, No. 59, Headquarters of the Army, Adjutant General's Office, October 20, 1897), reduced by Executive Order of April 13, 1899 (General Orders, No. 77, Headquarters of the Army, Adjutant General's Office, April 20, 1899), and further reduced by Executive Order of October 27, 1900 (General Orders, No. 132, Headquarters of the Army, Adjutant General's Office, November 3, 1900), except the lands hereinafter described, which are to be retained for military purposes, be placed under the control of the Secretary of the Interior, under authority of the act of Congress, approved July 5, 1884 (23 Stat. L., 103), for disposition under said act or as may be otherwise provided by law—said transfer to take effect on November 1, 1907.", "The lands to be held in reservation for military purposes are bounded and described as follows:", "Post of Fort St. Michael: Beginning at a post of basaltic lava (one foot square, marked on the faces with the initials U. S. M. R., one letter on each face, and with the number one (I) cut in its top surface) set in a cement foundation, and projecting one foot above high water, on the shore of St. Michael Bay, at a point where SW. corner of N. C. Co.'s shops, distant about 447 feet, bears N. 54° 02′ East, and the flagstaff of Fort St. Michael bears N. 33° 34′ W. ; thence North 500 feet, more or less, to a similar post, having the number two (II) cut in its top surface; thence N. 26° E. to the north shore of St. Michael Island on a line running about 125 yards east of parapets on target range, to a similar post, having the number three (III) cut in its top surface, situated at high-water mark on the north shore of St. Michael Island; thence in a westerly direction 4,500 feet, more or less, along the north shore to a similar post having the number four (IV) cut in its top surface, located near the west end of high bluff; thence about S. 14° 30′ E. 3,750 feet, more or less, to a similar post having the number five (V) cut in its top surface; thence S. 14° 15′ W. 630 feet, more or less, to a similar post, having the number six (VI) cut in its top surface, placed on the south shore of St. Michael Island, at high-water mark, 12 feet E. of the east end of the Hotel Healy Annex; thence in an easterly direction, along the south shore, to point of beginning. All bearings are true.", "The northern boundary of the reservation is Norton Sound, the southern boundary is the Bay of St. Michael, and the reservation includes all land between high and low-water mark and all tidal lands lying between the eastern and western boundary lines extended.", "Quartermaster's Depot and Shipyard: Beginning at a post of lava (one foot square, marked on the faces with the initials U. S. M. R., one letter on each face, and having the number ten (X) cut in its top surface), situated 51 feet north of the Quartermaster's Depot on the beach, near high-water mark; thence N. 81° 30′ W. 718 feet, more or less, to a similar post having the number nine (IX) cut in its top surface; thence due South 778 feet, more or less, to a similar post, having the number eight (VIII) cut in its top surface; thence due East to the Bay of St. Michael, to a similar post, having the number seven (VII) cut in its top surface, on the beach near high-water mark; thence North, along the shore line, to the place of beginning. All bearings are true.", "The eastern boundary is the Bay of St. Michael, and the reservation includes all land between high and low-water mark and all tidal lands lying between the northern and southern boundary lines extended.", "Wireless Telegraph Station: Beginning at the NE. corner of Buttel's lot, which lies about 300 feet NE. of the A. E. Co.'s hotel building on the south shore of the eastern end of St. Michael Island, and is marked by a post of lava (one foot square, marked on the faces with the initials U. S. M. R., one letter on each face, and having the number eleven (XI) cut in its top surface) set on the beach, at high-water mark, projecting one foot above the beach; thence North across the island to the north shore of same and on a line passing through a similar post, having the number twelve (XII) cut in its top surface, set on top of the bank, just above high-water mark; thence following the north shore line, bearing eastwardly, to a point near high-water mark, 800 feet due east of the western boundary line, said point being marked by a similar post having the number fourteen (XIV) cut in its top surface; thence due South to the south shore to a similar post having the number thirteen (XIII) cut in its top surface; thence in a westerly direction, along the south shore, to the point of beginning.", "The northern boundary of the reservation is Norton Sound, the southern boundary is the Bay of St. Michael, and the reservation includes all land between high and low-water mark and all tidal lands lying between the eastern and western boundary lines extended. All bearings are true.", "Also a strip of land, fifty feet wide, along the pipe line extending from the reservation for Wireless Telegraph Station to the reservation for the post of Fort St. Michael; the center line of said strip being the center line of the said pipe line.", "Target Range (for collective fire): A rectangular tract, 5,275 feet by 900 feet, having for its longer axis the magnetic meridian through a point about 2,100 feet west of post No. IV (the NW. corner of the Post Reservation), which point is marked by a post of lava (one foot square, marked on the faces with the initials U. S. M. R., one letter on each face) bearing on the N. Wireless pole 90° E. of magnetic meridian and on the comb of the Quartermaster's Depot, 26° 42′ E. of magnetic meridian. This rectangular tract is marked at the NE. corner, on the beach, near high-water mark, by a similar post, having the number fifteen (XV) cut in its top surface; at the SE. corner by a similar post having the number sixteen (XVI) cut in its top surface; at the SW. corner by a similar post having the number seventeen (XVII) cut in its top surface; and at the NW. corner by a similar post having the number eighteen (XVIII) cut in its top surface.", "The northern boundary is Norton Sound, and the reservation includes all land between high and low-water mark and all tidal lands lying between the eastern and western boundary lines extended.", "Also a strip of land, fifty feet wide, for right of way from the reservation for target range to the post reservation—the center line to the beach being in a line bearing from the initial point of the target range 90° east of the magnetic meridian—said strip extending thence along the beach to the post reservation.", "Magnetic variation 21° 30′ 40″ E."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 114, War Dept., June 20, 1906)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 8, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Amended a 1905 order on Fort St. Michael, Alaska, so that all reservation land except a described military tract would pass to the Interior Department for disposal, effective November 1, 1907.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "reduce", "places": [{"name": "Fort St. Michael Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-06-08", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-457", "type": "executive_order", "number": "457", "tr_sequence": 401, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-06-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Officer in Charge of Public Buildings and Grounds Authorized to Employ A Copyist For Up to Three Months in Connection With the Inventory", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Let the officer in charge of Public Buildings and Grounds hire a copyist for up to three months to help with an inventory.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-06-13", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-458", "type": "executive_order", "number": "458", "tr_sequence": 402, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-06-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Civil Service Commission to Certify Non-Citizens for Appointment Under Certain Prescribed Conditions", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_458", "revid": 1856309, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 92"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The United States Civil Service Commission having reported that sufficient eligibles who are American citizens have not been secured through its duly announced examinations to fill vacancies in interpreter and other positions, it is ordered that hereafter when an examination has been duly announced to fill vacancies in positions in any branch of the service and there is a lack of eligibles who are American citizens, the Commission may, if it deems it advisable and for the best interest of the service, accept applications from persons who are not American citizens, provided that, if found eligible, they shall not be certified for appointment so long as persons are eligible who are American citizens; and provided further that, whenever an examination has been duly announced and no eligible is secured to fill a vacant position, the Commission may, in its discretion, certify for appointment the competitor or competitors who received the highest ratings in the examination, and the appointing officer shall make selection from such certification if he deems it advisable to fill the vacant position before awaiting the result of another examination."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 92)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "T. Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 13, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed the Civil Service Commission, when too few American citizens qualified for posts such as interpreter, to accept non-citizen applicants, certifying them only when no eligible citizens remained.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-06-13", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The authority to certify non-citizens when citizen eligibles ran short lasted forty-one years.", "source": "Executive Order 9830", "date": "1947", "story": 88}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1947", "text": "Revoked by Executive Order 9830.", "source": "Executive Order 9830", "story": 88}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-459", "type": "executive_order", "number": "459", "tr_sequence": 403, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-06-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Executive Order No. 442 of April 27, 1906, Abolishing the Office of Surveyor General for Florida, to Make the Effective Date of Such Abolition June 30, 1907 Instead of June 30, 1906", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Pushed back the abolition of the Surveyor General's office for Florida, ordered in April 1906, from June 30, 1906, to June 30, 1907.", "categories": ["public-lands", "government-administration"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["Florida"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-06-14", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-442", "relation": "amends", "note": "Makes the abolition effective June 30, 1907 instead of June 30, 1906.", "story": 88, "date": "1906-04-27", "title": "Abolishing the Office of Surveyor General for Florida", "type": "executive_order", "number": "442"}]}
{"id": "proc-633", "type": "proclamation", "number": "633", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-06-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Excluding Lands Reserved for Town Sites in the Hailey Land District, Idaho", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 633, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-633"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3215, "last_page": 3216, "cite": "34 Stat. 3215–3216", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3215.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-06-15", "table_title": "Excluding lands reserved for town sites in the Hailey land district, Idaho."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["A PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT.", "Whereas, on May 2, 1904, proclamation was issued (33 Stat., 2343) withdrawing certain tracts of land in the Hailey Land District, Idaho, as therein described, for disposition under the provisions of Sections 2380 and 2381 of the Revised Statutes of the United States;", "And whereas, it is deemed advisable that certain lands be eliminated from the provisions of said proclamation, to be utilized for town site purposes under the act approved April 16, 1906—Public 103;", "Now, therefore, I. Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, do hereby declare and make known that there shall be excluded from the lands described in the said proclamation of May 2, 1904, certain lands hereinafter described, but the said lands shall for a period of ten days from the date hereof remain reserved from settlement, entry or occupation under any of the public land laws, except that the Secretary of the Interior may during said period of ten days withdraw such tracts for disposition in accordance with the provisions of the said Act of April 16, 1906. The lands to be excluded from the operation of the said proclamation for town site purposes are as follows:", "In Township nine south, range twenty-four east, Boise Meridian, north half of the southeast quarter and south half of the northeast quarter of section one; southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of Section twenty; north half of the northeast quarter and northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of Section twenty nine.", "In Township ten south, range twenty-three east, Boise Meridian, northwest quarter of Section fifteen.", "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 15th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth.", "[SEAL.]", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:", "ROBERT BACON", "Acting Secretary of State."], "source": "34 Stat. 3215–3216 (GovInfo Statutes at Large page images, vol. 34, pt. 3), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Seal marker restored; the Statutes prints a period after 'I' in 'I. Theodore Roosevelt' (checked at 300 dpi), kept as printed. Land description is set in smaller type in the original. Countersigned Robert Bacon, Acting Secretary of State.", "story": 66}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Removed certain tracts from a 1904 land withdrawal in the Hailey Land District, Idaho, so they could be used for town sites under an April 1906 act.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Hailey Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Idaho"}], "states": ["Idaho"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [66], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-06-15", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "No newspaper notice of the proclamation itself has turned up, but the Salt Lake papers followed the town-lot sales it made possible.", "source": "Utah Digital Newspapers searches, 1906", "date": "1906", "story": 66}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "local", "text": "The General Land Office set public sales of town lots at Heyburn on August 20 and Rupert on August 27, 1906, with payment to the receiver of the Hailey land office.", "source": "Salt Lake Tribune, July 30, 1906, p. 7", "date": "1906-07-30", "story": 66}, {"kind": "local", "text": "The Heyburn sale fizzled: business lots appraised at $400 and $500 drew no bids, and the business men bought cheaper residence lots instead, shifting the town slightly from its planned position.", "source": "Salt Lake Tribune, August 24, 1906, p. 1; Deseret Evening News, August 25, 1906, p. 22", "date": "1906-08-20", "story": 66}], "legacy": [{"text": "Rupert, Heyburn and Acequia grew up as government towns of the Minidoka Project, their lot sales paying into the reclamation fund.", "source": "Bureau of Reclamation", "story": 66}], "today": [{"name": "Rupert, Idaho", "kind": "other", "relation": "origin", "state": "Idaho", "since": "1906-06-15", "note": "Town site cleared from the 1904 reservation in secs. 20 and 29, T. 9 S., R. 24 E.", "source": "research entry", "story": 66}, {"name": "Heyburn, Idaho", "kind": "other", "relation": "origin", "state": "Idaho", "since": "1906-06-15", "note": "Town site cleared in sec. 15, T. 10 S., R. 23 E.", "source": "research entry", "story": 66}, {"name": "Acequia, Idaho", "kind": "other", "relation": "origin", "state": "Idaho", "since": "1906-06-15", "note": "Town site cleared in sec. 1, T. 9 S., R. 24 E.", "source": "research entry", "story": 66}], "uncertain": ["How Idaho's own newspapers greeted the proclamation has not been checked."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-523", "relation": "modifies", "note": "Excluded 480 acres from the 1904 Hailey town-site reservation.", "story": 66, "date": "1904-05-02", "title": "Reserving Certain Lands Within the Hailey Land District", "type": "proclamation", "number": "523"}]}
{"id": "eo-460", "type": "executive_order", "number": "460", "tr_sequence": 404, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-06-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Transfer of Cressy L. Wilbur to Chief Statistician in Bureau of the Census Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_460", "revid": 1857260, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 102"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Dr. Cressy L. Wilbur, expert special agent of the Bureau of the Census, may be transferred to the position of chief statistician for vital statistics in the same Bureau."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 102)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 16, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Cleared the way for Dr. Cressy L. Wilbur, an expert special agent, to move up to chief statistician for vital statistics at the Bureau of the Census.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Cressy L. Wilbur"], "significance": 1, "stories": [88], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-06-16", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-461", "type": "executive_order", "number": "461", "tr_sequence": 405, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-06-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Remove Six Month Limitation on Temporary Forest Guards", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_461", "revid": 1854837, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 93"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Paragraph 3, section 7, of Schedule A, of civil service Rule II, is hereby amended by removing the six months limitation in regard to the temporary employment of forest guards.", "As amended, this paragraph will read as follows:", "{|style=\"margin: 1em 0em 1em 2.0em;\" |-valign=\"top\" |align=\"right\" nowrap|‘‘3. |Guards, guides, cooks, packers, teamsters, choppers, and skilled laborers employed temporarily during the season of danger from fires, or when other special work requires additions to the regular reserve force. They shall serve only as long as absolutely required and in no case more than six months in any one year, except in the case of forest guards, whose employment shall not be so limited. So far as the Commission may deem practicable, such appointments shall be made from the registers of eligibles for forest rangers.’’ |}"], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 93)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "T. Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 16, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Changed the civil-service rules so temporary forest guards, unlike other seasonal fire-season workers, were no longer limited to six months of work a year.", "categories": ["civil-service", "forests"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-06-16", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-462", "type": "executive_order", "number": "462", "tr_sequence": 406, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-06-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Ordering Four Hour Workdays on Saturdays During Summer for Washington Navy Yard Workers", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_462", "revid": 6046581, "printed_source": "| notes    ="}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that on Saturdays, including July, August and September, until further notice, four hours, exclusive of time for luncheon, shall constitute a day's work for skilled mechanics and laborers and employees in the classified service at the navy yard, Washington.", "Provided, that if any skilled mechanics, laborers or employees in the classified service shall work more than four hours on any Saturdays during the months aforesaid, he shall be paid for such extra work at the rate of 50 per cent more than his regular and normal compensation and no more."], "source": "Wikisource (from | notes    =)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 18, 1906. == Notes == See related: Executive Order 468, June 25, 1906", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Made Saturdays in July, August and September four-hour workdays for mechanics, laborers and classified employees at the Washington navy yard, with time-and-a-half for extra hours.", "categories": ["military-naval", "labor-business"], "action": "regulate", "places": [{"name": "Washington Navy Yard", "kind": "naval-reservation", "state": "District of Columbia"}], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-06-18", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-468", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "Subsumed a week later by the order covering all navy yards and naval stations.", "story": 89, "date": "1906-06-25", "title": "Ordering Four Hour Workdays on Saturdays During Summer for Navy Yard and Naval Station Workers", "type": "executive_order", "number": "468"}]}
{"id": "eo-463", "type": "executive_order", "number": "463", "tr_sequence": 407, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-06-19", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Certain Land Within the Belle Fourche Irrigation Project, S. Dak., for Agricultural Experimental Work", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reserved land within the Belle Fourche irrigation project in South Dakota for agricultural experiment work.", "categories": ["water-reclamation"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Belle Fourche Irrigation Project", "kind": "other", "state": "South Dakota"}], "states": ["South Dakota"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-06-19", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Reclamation Service reported a quarter-section on the Belle Fourche project set aside for an experimental farm, fenced and partly plowed, with experiments run by the Department of Agriculture; this is probably the land the order reserved.", "source": "Reclamation Service, Sixth Annual Report, 1906–1907, p. 212", "date": "1907", "story": 89}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Belle Fourche Experiment Farm, about two miles northwest of Newell, carried on cereal work from 1907.", "source": "U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bulletin 297 (1915)", "date": "1907", "story": 89}], "uncertain": ["The order's text and legal description have not been found; whether it reserved the NE ¼ of section 24, T. 9 N., R. 5 E. is probable but not proven.", "How South Dakota papers reported the reservation in 1906 has not been checked."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-464", "type": "executive_order", "number": "464", "tr_sequence": 408, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-06-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Make Certain Positions in Fifth Internal Revenue District of North Carolina Subject to Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_464", "revid": 1854838, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 93"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Schedule A of classified positions excepted from examination under Rule II, clause 3, is hereby amended by adding to paragraphs 5 and 6 of Subdivision II the following sentence:", "\"This exception from the requirement of examination shall not apply to the fifth internal revenue district of North Carolina.\"", "As amended, the paragraphs will read:", "{|style=\"margin: 1em 0em 1em 2.0em;\" |-valign=\"top\" |align=\"right\" nowrap|‘‘5. |All deputy collectors of internal revenue who are borne on the rolls as such, and the allowance for whose salaries is approved by the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, That no position designated as a clerkship under a collector of internal revenue, appointment to which is made by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall be discontinued for the purpose of substituting a deputy collectorship therefor, or for any purpose other than a bona fide reduction of force, and that before such reduction shall be made the reasons therefor shall be given in writing by the collector of the district, and shall be approved by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and the Secretary of the Treasury. This exception from the requirement of examination shall not apply to the fifth internal revenue district of North Carolina. |-valign=\"top\" |align=\"right\" nowrap|‘‘6. |Storekeepers and gaugers whose compensation does not exceed $3 per day when actually employed and whose aggregate compensation shall not exceed $500 per annum. This exception from the requirement of examination shall not apply to the fifth internal revenue district of North Carolina.’’ |}"], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 93)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 21, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Required civil-service examinations for certain internal revenue positions in North Carolina's fifth district that were exempt elsewhere.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["North Carolina"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-06-21", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-465", "type": "executive_order", "number": "465", "tr_sequence": 409, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-06-22", "date_precision": "day", "title": "All Unappropriated Public Lands in the Wausau Land District, Wisconsin, North of Township 33, Withdrawn from Entry, Settlement or Other Appropriation for 90 Days", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “All Unappropriated Public Lands in Wisconsin North of Township 33, Withdrawn from Entry, Settlement or Other Appropriation for 90 Days”. General Land Office instructions of July 7, 1906, Decisions Relating to the Public Lands, vol. 35, p. 11."], "summary": "Withdrew the unappropriated public lands in Wisconsin's Wausau land district north of Township 33 from entry, settlement or other claims for 90 days.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["Wisconsin"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-06-22", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "congress", "text": "The withdrawal held land while Congress passed the act of June 27, 1906, letting Wisconsin select up to twenty thousand acres of public land for forestry.", "source": "Decisions Relating to the Public Lands, vol. 35, p. 11", "date": "1906-06-27", "story": 89}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The land office had wired the Wausau register and receiver to stop allowing entries on June 21, a day before the order.", "source": "Decisions Relating to the Public Lands, vol. 35, p. 11", "date": "1906-06-21", "story": 89}], "legacy": [{"text": "The withdrawal lapsed on its own terms, but the twenty thousand acres it protected went to the State of Wisconsin for forestry.", "source": "research entry", "story": 89}], "uncertain": ["The order's exact wording is known only through the General Land Office's paraphrase.", "How Wisconsin papers reported the withdrawal in 1906 has not been checked."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-466", "type": "executive_order", "number": "466", "tr_sequence": 410, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-06-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Ordering Four Hour Workdays on Saturdays During Summer for Government Printing Office Workers", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_466", "revid": 1861013, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that on Saturdays during July, August and September, until further notice, four hours, exclusive of time for luncheon, shall constitute a day's work for skilled mechanics, laborers, and employees in the Classified Civil Service at the Government Printing Office, Washington: Provided, that if any skilled mechanic, laborer or employee in the Classified Civil Service shall work more than four hours on any Saturday during the months aforesaid, he shall be paid for such extra work at the rate of fifty per centum more than his regular and normal compensation and no more."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 23, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Set four-hour Saturdays for skilled mechanics, laborers and classified workers at the Government Printing Office in July, August and September, paying time-and-a-half for longer shifts.", "categories": ["government-administration", "labor-business"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-06-23", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-467", "type": "executive_order", "number": "467", "tr_sequence": 411, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-06-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Transfer of Everett J. Dallas to Competitive Position in Interior Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_467", "revid": 1857265, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 102"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Everett J. Dallas may be transferred from \"additional\" member of the board of pension appeals, a position excepted from examination in the office of the Secretary of the Interior, to a competitive position as a regular member of said board, for the reason that the number of \"additional\" members is to be reduced. Mr. Dallas has rendered efficient service since October 25, 1902, and is a civil-war veteran, who was employed from 1868 to 1885 in a position in the Post-Office Department, which is now classified."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 102)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 23, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Everett J. Dallas, a Civil War veteran, move from an \"additional\" seat on the board of pension appeals to a regular, competitive seat as the extra posts were cut.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "transfer", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Everett J. Dallas"], "significance": 1, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-06-23", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-467-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "467-A", "tr_sequence": 412, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-06-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Col. O. H. Ernst Ordered to Continue as Member of International Water Ways Commission", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Kept Col. O. H. Ernst on as a member of the International Waterways Commission.", "categories": ["government-administration", "foreign-affairs"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["O. H. Ernst"], "significance": 1, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-06-23", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-634", "type": "proclamation", "number": "634", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-06-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Lincoln Forest Reserve, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 634, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-634"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3216, "last_page": 3217, "cite": "34 Stat. 3216–3217", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3216.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-06-25", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Lincoln Forest Reserve, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Lincoln Forest Reserve, in the Territory of New Mexico, was established by proclamation dated July twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and two, and the boundaries thereof were subsequently modified by proclamation dated October third, nineteen hundred and five:", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by enlarging the said forest reserve to include certain additional lands, in the Territory of New Mexico, which tire in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 aforesaid Lincoln Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are, accordingly, now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof:", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "3217 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 25th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, [seal.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3216", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Lincoln Forest Reserve, N. Mex.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 32. p. 2018.", "Ante, p. 3175.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Lincoln Forest Reserve in New Mexico Territory to take in additional land partly covered with timber.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Lincoln Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-06-25", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-635", "type": "proclamation", "number": "635", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-06-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the San Luis Obispo Forest Reserve, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 635, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-635"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3217, "last_page": 3217, "cite": "34 Stat. 3217", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3217.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-06-25", "table_title": "Setting apart the San Luis Obispo Forest Reserve, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes.’’ ”That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands, in the State of California, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of California, shown as the San Luis Obispo Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 25th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [seal.] six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3217", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["San Luis Obispo Forest Reserve, Cal.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p 1103.", "Forest reserve, California.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the San Luis Obispo Forest Reserve on timbered public lands in California.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "San Luis Obispo Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-06-25", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Los Padres National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "California", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-636", "type": "proclamation", "number": "636", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-06-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Monterey Forest Reserve, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 636, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-636"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3218, "last_page": 3218, "cite": "34 Stat. 3218", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3218.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-06-25", "table_title": "Setting apart the Monterey Forest Reserve, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes.” ”That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof ”;", "And whereas, the public lands, in the State of California, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of California, shown as the Monterey Forest Re serve on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 2.5th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [seal.] six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3218", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Monterey Forest Reserve, Cal.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26. p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, California.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Monterey Forest Reserve from partly timbered public lands in California.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Monterey Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-06-25", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Monterey forest went into the Santa Barbara in 1919, which became the Los Padres in 1936.", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "date": "1919", "story": 63}], "today": [{"name": "Los Padres National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "California", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-468", "type": "executive_order", "number": "468", "tr_sequence": 413, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-06-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Ordering Four Hour Workdays on Saturdays During Summer for Navy Yard and Naval Station Workers", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": ["The 1944 catalog gives June 26, 1906; the order's signature line reads June 25."], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_468", "revid": 1861023, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that on Saturdays during July, August and September, until further notice, four hours, exclusive of time for luncheon, shall constitute a day's work for skilled mechanics and laborers, and employees in the classified civil service, at all navy yards and naval stations of the United States: Provided, that if any skilled mechanic or laborer shall work more than four hours on any Saturday during the months aforesaid, he shall be paid for such extra work at the rate of fifty per centum in addition to his regular and normal compensation and no more."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 25, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Extended summer four-hour Saturdays to skilled mechanics, laborers and classified employees at every U.S. navy yard and naval station, with time-and-a-half for extra hours.", "categories": ["military-naval", "labor-business"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-06-25", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-462", "relation": "supersedes", "note": "Extends the Washington Navy Yard's summer Saturday rule to all navy yards and naval stations.", "story": 89, "date": "1906-06-18", "title": "Ordering Four Hour Workdays on Saturdays During Summer for Washington Navy Yard Workers", "type": "executive_order", "number": "462"}]}
{"id": "eo-469", "type": "executive_order", "number": "469", "tr_sequence": 414, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-06-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Regulations Governing Consular Appointments and Promotions", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_469", "revid": 1904354, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, The Congress, by Section 1753 of the Revised Statutes of the United States has provided as follows:—", "\"The President is authorized to prescribe such regulations for the admission of persons into the civil service of the United States as may best promote the efficiency thereof, and ascertain the fitness of each candidate in respect to age, health, character, knowledge, and ability for the branch of service into which he seeks to enter; and for this purpose he may employ suitable persons to conduct such inquiries, and may prescribe their duties, and establish regulations for the conduct of persons who may receive appointments in the civil service.\"", "And, Whereas, the Congress has classified and graded the consuls-general and consuls of the United States by the act entitled \"An act to provide for the reorganization of the consular service of the United States,\" approved April 5, 1906, and has thereby made it practicable to extend to that branch of the civil service the aforesaid provisions of the Revised Statutes and the principles embodied in the Civil Service Act of January 16, 1883.", "Now, therefore, in the exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the Constitution and laws of the United States, the President makes the following regulations to govern the selection of consuls general and consuls in the civil service of the United States, subject always to the advice and consent of the Senate:—", "Vacancies in the office of consul-general and in the office of consul above class 8 shall be filled by promotion from the lower grades of the consular service, based upon ability and efficiency as shown in the service.", "Vacancies in the office of consul of class 8 and of consul of class 9 shall be filled:", "(a) By promotion on the basis of ability and efficiency as shown in the service, of consular clerks, and of vice consuls, deputy consuls, and consular agents who shall have been appointed to such offices upon examination.", "(b) By new appointments of candidates who have passed a satisfactory examination for appointment as consul as hereafter provided.", "Persons in the service of the Department of State with salaries of two thousand dollars or upwards shall be eligible for promotion, on the basis of ability and efficiency as shown in the service, to any grade of the consular service above class 8 of consuls.", "The Secretary of State, or such officer of the Department of State as the President shall designate, the Chief of the Consular Bureau, and the Chief Examiner of the Civil Service Commission, or some person whom said Commission shall designate, shall constitute a Board of Examiners for admission to the consular service.", "It shall be the duty of the Board of Examiners to formulate rules for and hold examinations of applicants for admission to the consular service.", "The scope and method of the examinations shall be determined by the Board of Examiners, but among the subjects shall be included at least one modern language other than English; the natural, industrial and commercial resources and the commerce of the United States, especially with reference to the possibilities of increasing and extending the trade of the United States with foreign countries; political economy; elements of international, commercial and maritime law.", "Examination papers shall be rated on a scale of 100, and no person rated at less than 80 shall be eligible for certification.", "No one shall be examined who is under twenty-one or over fifty years of age, or who is not a citizen of the United States, or who is not of good character and habits and physically and mentally qualified for the proper performance of consular work, or who has not been specially designated by the President for appointment to the consular service subject to examination.", "Whenever a vacancy shall occur in the eighth or ninth class of consuls which the President may deem it expedient to fill, the Secretary of State shall inform the Board of Examiners, who shall certify to him the list of those persons eligible for appointment, accompanying the certificate with a detailed report showing the qualifications, as revealed by examination, of the persons so certified. If it be desired to fill a vacancy in a consulate in a country in which the United States exercises extra-territorial jurisdiction, the Secretary of State shall so inform the Board of Examiners, who shall include in the list of names certified by it only such persons as have passed the examination provided for in this order, and who also have passed an examination in the fundamental principles of the common law, the rules of evidence and the trial of civil and criminal cases. The list of names which the Board of Examiners shall certify shall be sent to the President for his information.", "No promotion shall be made except for efficiency, as shown by the work that the officer has accomplished, the ability, promptness and diligence displayed by him in the performance of all his official duties, his conduct and his fitness for the consular service.", "It shall be the duty of the Board of Examiners to formulate rules for and hold examinations of persons designated for appointment as consular clerk, and of such persons designated for appointment as vice consul, deputy consul and consular agent, as shall desire to become eligible for promotion. The scope and method of such examination shall be determined by the Board of Examiners, but it shall include the same subjects hereinbefore prescribed for the examination of consuls. Any vice consul, deputy consul or consular agent now in the service, upon passing such an examination shall become eligible for promotion, as if appointed upon such examination.", "In designations for appointment subject to examination and in appointments after examination, due regard will be had to the rule, that as between candidates of equal merit, appointments should be so made as to secure proportional representation of all the States and Territories in the consular service; and neither in the designation for examination or certification or appointment will the political affiliations of the candidate be considered."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 27th, 1906. == Notes == Amended by: Executive Order 530, December 12, 1906 Executive Order 617, April 20, 1907 Executive Order 659, June 20, 1907 Act approved May 21, 1908 Executive Order 1145, December 8, 1909 Executive Order 3156, August 26, 1919 Executive Order 3476, May 31, 1921 See Related: Executive Order 367, November 10, 1905 Executive Order 1277, December 23, 1910", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Set merit rules for the newly reorganized consular service: top consular posts filled by promotion for ability and efficiency, and entry-level consul posts by promotion or by examination.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs", "civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-06-27", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Associated Press carried the order the day it was issued, under a head calling it a reorganization of the consular service \"on a Merit Basis and Divorced from Political Party Affiliations,\" and summarized the promotion rule, the 80 per cent passing mark and the age limits.", "source": "Fresno Evening Democrat, June 30, 1906, p. 6", "date": "1906-06-30", "story": 89}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The order put the consular service on a merit footing, carrying out the consular reorganization act of April 5, 1906, with a Board of Examiners and written examinations.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1906-06-27", "story": 89}], "legacy": [{"text": "Amended repeatedly and by the act of May 21, 1908, the consular merit system pointed toward the career Foreign Service built by the Rogers Act of 1924.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1924", "story": 89}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1908-05-21", "text": "Congress amended the consular arrangements by the act of May 21, 1908.", "source": "research entry", "story": 89}, {"text": "Later amended by Executive Orders 1145, 3156 and 3476.", "source": "research entry", "story": 89}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-495", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Amended the Consular Regulations as part of the same 1906 consular-reform package.", "story": 89, "date": "1906-08-13", "title": "Amending Consular Regulations", "type": "executive_order", "number": "495"}, {"id": "eo-496", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Set a new tariff of consular fees effective November 1, 1906, part of the same package.", "story": 89, "date": "1906-08-13", "title": "Prescribing Tariff of Consular Fees, Effective November 1, 1906", "type": "executive_order", "number": "496"}, {"id": "eo-530", "relation": "amended_by", "note": "Amended the consular appointment and promotion regulations of June 27, 1906.", "story": 89, "date": "1906-12-12", "title": "Amending Consular Service Regulation of June 27, 1906, Governing Appointment and Promotion in the Consular Service", "type": "executive_order", "number": "530"}, {"id": "eo-617", "relation": "amended_by", "note": "Amended the consular appointment and promotion regulations of June 27, 1906.", "story": 89, "date": "1907-04-20", "title": "Amending Consular Service Regulation of June 27, 1906, Governing Appointment and Promotion in the Consular Service", "type": "executive_order", "number": "617"}, {"id": "eo-659", "relation": "amended_by", "note": "Amended the order's rules on consular promotions.", "story": 89, "date": "1907-06-20", "title": "Amending Executive Order 469 Regarding Promotions in Consular Service", "type": "executive_order", "number": "659"}]}
{"id": "eo-470", "type": "executive_order", "number": "470", "tr_sequence": 415, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-06-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Ordering Four Hour Workdays on Saturdays During Summer for War Department and Army Headquarters Workers", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_470", "revid": 1861028, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that on Saturdays during July, August and September, until further notice, four hours, exclusive of time for luncheon, shall constitute a day's work for mechanics, laborers and other employees in the civil service at the manufacturing and supply arsenals and depots under the War Department, and in the offices of the division and department commanders and of the various staff officers at military divisions and department headquarters of the army in the United States."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 29, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Gave War Department arsenal, depot and Army headquarters workers four-hour Saturdays during July, August and September.", "categories": ["military-naval", "labor-business"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-06-29", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-471", "type": "executive_order", "number": "471", "tr_sequence": 416, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-06-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Temporary Appointment of Pension Examiner Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_471", "revid": 1854809, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 93"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["One special pension examiner may be appointed for a period of six months without reference to the civil service rules, in addition to the five heretofore excepted."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 93)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 29, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Permitted one more special pension examiner to be hired for six months outside the civil-service rules, on top of five already excepted.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 1, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-06-29", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-472", "type": "executive_order", "number": "472", "tr_sequence": 417, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-06-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Emma King to Bureau of Engraving and Printing Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_472", "revid": 1857272, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 102"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. Emma King, née Anderson, may be reinstated in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, notwithstanding more than one year has elapsed since her separation therefrom."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 102)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 29, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Mrs. Emma King (née Anderson) to return to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing even though more than a year had passed since she left.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "restore", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Emma King"], "significance": 1, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-06-29", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-472-half", "type": "executive_order", "number": "472½", "tr_sequence": 418, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-06-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of James K. Dawes as Clerk in Post Office at Philadelphia Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_472%C2%BD", "revid": 1859864, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that James K. Dawes be appointed a clerk at $1,200 per annum in the post office at Philadelphia, Pa., and that in his case the usual civil-service requirements as regards eligibility be waived."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 29, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Appointed James K. Dawes a clerk at $1,200 a year in the Philadelphia post office, waiving the usual civil-service eligibility rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [{"name": "Philadelphia", "kind": "town", "state": "Pennsylvania"}], "states": ["Pennsylvania"], "people": ["James K. Dawes"], "significance": 1, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-06-29", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-637", "type": "proclamation", "number": "637", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-06-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlargement of the Black Mesa Forest Reserve, Territory of Arizona", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 637, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-637"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3218, "last_page": 3219, "cite": "34 Stat. 3218–3219", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3218.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-06-30", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Black Mesa Forest Reserve, Arizona."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Black Mesa Forest Reserve, in the Territory of Arizona, was established by proclamation dated August seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight;", "And whereas, it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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,” that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve ”;", "And whereas, it appeals that the public good would be promoted by adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, within the Territory of Arizona, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that the aforesaid Black Mesa Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made.", "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 30th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [seal.] six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3218", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Black Mesa Forest Reserve Ariz.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 30, p. 1782.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Lands excepted."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Expanded the Black Mesa Forest Reserve in Arizona Territory by changing its boundaries to add land.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Black Mesa Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-06-30", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-473", "type": "executive_order", "number": "473", "tr_sequence": 419, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-06-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Transfer of Charles N. Twadell to Competitive Position in Bureau of Pensions Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_473", "revid": 1857274, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 102"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Charles N. Twadell may be transferred from a position of special examiner in the Bureau of Pensions, which is excepted from examination under Schedule A, to a similar position which is not excepted."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 102)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 30, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Moved Charles N. Twadell from an exam-exempt special examiner job in the Bureau of Pensions to a similar post under the regular rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "transfer", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Charles N. Twadell"], "significance": 1, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-06-30", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-474", "type": "executive_order", "number": "474", "tr_sequence": 420, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-06-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Fixing Compensation for Members of the Isthmian Canal Commission", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_474", "revid": 3463950, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered:", "That Theodore P. Shonts, Chairman of the Commission, receive a salary of $30,000 per annum.", "That John F. Stevens, Commissioner, receive no additional salary over that paid him as Chief Engineer.", "That Charles E. Magoon, Commissioner, receive a salary of $17,500 per annum.", "That Mordecai T. Endicott, Peter C. Hains, and Benjamin M. Harrod, Commissioners, each receive as such a salary of $7,500 per annum.", "That Theodore P. Shonts, Charles E. Magoon, and John F. Stevens be allowed the use of a furnished dwelling house on the Isthmus.", "That the Chairman of the Commission be allowed and paid his actual and necessary expenses while away from Washington, on official business of the Commission, and that the Governor of the Canal Zone and the Cliief Engineer of the Commission be allowed and paid their actual and necessary expenses while away from the Isthmus of Panama, on official business.", "That Commissioners Endicott, Hains, and Harrod be allowed and paid their actual and necessary expenses while in attendance at the regular or specially called meetings of the Commission, held on the Isthmus, and also their actual travehng expenses to and from the meetings of the Commission, on the Isthmus or at Washington, as the case may be.", "All orders in conffict herewith are revoked."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 30, 1906. (11.30 p. m.; after adjournment of Congress.)", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Fixed salaries for the Isthmian Canal Commission, from $30,000 for Chairman Theodore P. Shonts to $7,500 for three commissioners, and set rules for housing and travel expenses.", "categories": ["canal-zone", "government-administration"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": ["Theodore P. Shonts", "John F. Stevens", "Charles E. Magoon", "Mordecai T. Endicott", "Peter C. Hains", "Benjamin M. Harrod"], "significance": 3, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-06-30", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-418", "relation": "revokes", "note": "Revokes the February 1906 compensation order.", "story": 89, "date": "1906-02-26", "title": "Fixing the Compensation for Members of the Isthmian Canal Commission", "type": "executive_order", "number": "418"}, {"id": "eo-430", "relation": "revokes", "note": "Revokes the March 1906 order on commissioners' salaries.", "story": 89, "date": "1906-03-26", "title": "Defining Intention of Order Fixing Salaries and Allowances of Isthmian Canal Commissioners", "type": "executive_order", "number": "430"}]}
{"id": "eo-475", "type": "executive_order", "number": "475", "tr_sequence": 421, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-07-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Ordering Preference for Military Veterans for Appointment to Certain Positions in State, War, and Navy Department Building", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": ["The signature line and the 1944 catalog disagree between July 5 and July 6, 1906."], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_475", "revid": 1854819, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 93"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["In recognition of the fact that experience in the military and naval service peculiarly fits persons for appointment to certain positions in the State, War, and Navy Department building, the Civil Service Commission, upon request of the superintendent of that building, approved by the commission charged with the care of the building, will certify in their order, next after eligibles entitled to preference under section 1754, Revised Statutes, persons honorably discharged as water tenders, oilers, and firemen from the United States Navy for the position of fireman; persons honorably discharged as warrant machinists in the Navy for the position of chief engineer or assistant engineer; and persons honorably discharged as noncommissioned officers in the United States Army for the position of watchman."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 93)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, July 5, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Directed the Civil Service Commission to give honorably discharged Navy and military men preference for fireman, engineer and similar jobs in the State, War, and Navy Department building.", "categories": ["civil-service", "military-naval"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-07-05", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-476", "type": "executive_order", "number": "476", "tr_sequence": 422, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-07-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Ralph Modjeski as Consulting Engineer in Ordnance Department After Noncompetitive Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_476", "revid": 1857286, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 103"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Ralph Modjeski may be appointed as consulting engineer in the Ordnance Department at large, for duty at the Rock Island Arsenal, during the period of construction of the Rock Island bridge and viaduct, subject to noncompetitive examination by the Civil Service Commission."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 103)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, July 9, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Ralph Modjeski be appointed consulting engineer at Rock Island Arsenal, after a noncompetitive exam, while the Rock Island bridge and viaduct were built.", "categories": ["civil-service", "military-naval"], "action": "appoint", "places": [{"name": "Rock Island Arsenal", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Illinois"}], "states": ["Illinois"], "people": ["Ralph Modjeski"], "significance": 1, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-07-09", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-477", "type": "executive_order", "number": "477", "tr_sequence": 423, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-07-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Modifying Fort Bayard Military Reservation, New Mexico", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_477", "revid": 1859437, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 134, War Dept., July 24, 1906"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The military reservation of Fort Bayard, New Mexico, declared by Executive Order, dated April 19, 1869 (G. O. No. 19, Dept. of Mo., May 25, 1869), and modified by Executive Order of July 15, 1905 (G. O. No. 145, War Dept., Aug. 26, 1905), is hereby further modified, with a view to making the lines conform to those indicated on the plats of the General Land Office, and to include a strip of public land, about 80 links wide lying between the west boundary of the reservation and the section line to the west, so that the reservation as herein modified shall include all lands and those only within metes and bounds as follows, viz:", "Beginning at a point on the east line of range 13 west, New Mexico meridian, seven chains north of the south line of township 17 south; thence running west parallel to and seven chains north of said township line, three miles, more or less, to a point on the west line of section 34; thence north along the west line of sections 34, 27, 22, 15, and 10 to a point thirteen chains south of the north line of SW. ¼ of section 10; thence east to the west line of NE. ¼ of SW. ¼ of section 10; thence south to the southwest corner of same; thence east along south line of same and alone south line of NW. ¼ of SE. ¼ of section 10 to southeast corner of same; thence north along same to a point 13 chains south of north line SE. ¼ of section 10; thence east parallel to and 13 chains south of north line of said quarter section and of north line of south halves of sections 11 and 12 to the east line of range 13 west; thence continue east, on same course, 20.80 chains to the northeast corner of the reservation; thence south, parallel to said range line and 20.80 chains east therefrom, four and one-fourth miles, more or less, to a point seven chains north of township line; thence west to the point of beginning, containing, approximately, 8,840 acres.", "Any lands excluded from the reservation by the operation of this order are hereby placed under the control of the Secretary of the Interior, under Act of July 5, 1884 (23 Stat. L., 103), for disposition as specified therein or as may be otherwise provided by law."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 134, War Dept., July 24, 1906)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, July 14, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Redrew the boundaries of the Fort Bayard military reservation in New Mexico to match General Land Office plats, adding a narrow strip of public land on the west side.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Fort Bayard Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-07-14", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-478", "type": "executive_order", "number": "478", "tr_sequence": 424, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-07-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of William E. DeRiemer as Clerk in Smithsonian Institution Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_478", "revid": 1857290, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 103"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. William E. De Riemer, who has been employed almost continuously for seven years in connection with exposition work in which the National Museum has participated, may be appointed as a clerk at a compensation not exceeding $900 per annum in the Smithsonian Institution or its bureaus."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 103)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, July 14, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed William E. De Riemer, who had spent about seven years on National Museum exposition work, to be hired as a Smithsonian clerk at up to $900 a year.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["William E. De Riemer"], "significance": 1, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-07-14", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-479", "type": "executive_order", "number": "479", "tr_sequence": 425, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-07-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Smithsonian Institution Employees Working on International Catalogue of Scientific Literature Classified Under Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_479", "revid": 3851625, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 102"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The following-named employees of the Smithsonian Institution, engaged upon the work of preparing a classified index catalogue for incorporation in the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, are hereby included in the classified service, and persons to be paid from appropriations for this work shall hereafter be appointed in accordance with the provisions of the civil-service rules: Leonard C. Gunnell, chief assistant; Rose A. Palmer, classifier; Alice K. Coyle, cataloguer; Josephine A. McDevitt, clerk."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 102)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, July 14, 1906. Category:Smithsonian Institution", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Brought four Smithsonian employees working on the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature into the classified service, with future hires for that work made under civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Leonard C. Gunnell", "Rose A. Palmer", "Alice K. Coyle", "Josephine A. McDevitt"], "significance": 2, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-07-14", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-480", "type": "executive_order", "number": "480", "tr_sequence": 426, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-07-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Classifying Certain Laborers in the Bureau of Fisheries", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_480", "revid": 7594602, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 94"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Laborers appointed without examination to statutory positions in the field service of the Bureau of Fisheries, who have been assigned to fish-cultural duties, and whose names appear on the list furnished the Civil Service Commission, are hereby classified, and may be transferred and promoted in accordance with the civil service rules and regulations."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 94)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, July 17, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Classified Bureau of Fisheries field laborers doing fish-culture work, letting them be transferred and promoted under civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-07-17", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-481", "type": "executive_order", "number": "481", "tr_sequence": 427, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-07-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Permanent Appointment of Clerks on Isthmus of Panama Earning Less than $75 Monthly Erroneously Appointed under Executive Order No. 394 of January 12, 1906", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_481", "revid": 1865590, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 94"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Appointments to clerical positions on the Isthmus of Panama paying not more than $75 in gold a month may be made without examination under the civil-service rules.", "The employees named in the list agreed upon by the office of administration, Isthmian Canal affairs, and the Civil Service Commission, who were appointed either temporarily to meet the urgent needs of the service in the absence of available eligibles or were appointed immediately after the signing of the order of January 12, 1906, through a misapprehension of its provisions, may be permanently appointed."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 94)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, July 17, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed clerical jobs on the Isthmus of Panama paying $75 a month or less to be filled without examination, and let clerks hired by mistake under a January 1906 order become permanent.", "categories": ["civil-service", "canal-zone"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-07-17", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-638", "type": "proclamation", "number": "638", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-07-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Pinnacles Forest Reserve, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 638, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-638"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3219, "last_page": 3219, "cite": "34 Stat. 3219", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3219.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-07-18", "table_title": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, ”An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes”, ”That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands, in the State of California, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber and undergrowth, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of California, shown as the Pinnacles Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons rot to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 18th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and of [seal.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3219", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Pinnacles Forest Reserve. Cal.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, California.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart the Pinnacles Forest Reserve on public lands in California.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Pinnacles Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-07-18", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The San Francisco Call reported the reserve the day it was created and said Forestry Bureau officials hoped to see it made a national park, though it wrongly placed it in Santa Cruz County; the Santa Cruz Weekly Sentinel headed its item \"NEW FOREST RESERVE FOR SAN BENITO CO.\"", "source": "San Francisco Call, July 19, 1906; Santa Cruz Weekly Sentinel, July 21, 1906", "date": "1906-07-19", "story": 63}], "legacy": [{"text": "Pinnacles National Monument was carved from the reserve in 1908; the rest passed, through the Monterey and Santa Barbara forests, into the Los Padres.", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "date": "1908", "story": 63}], "today": [{"name": "Los Padres National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "California", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-796", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Pinnacles National Monument, 1908, was carved from this reserve.", "story": 63, "date": "1908-01-16", "title": "Setting Aside Pinnacles National Monument, California", "type": "proclamation", "number": "796"}]}
{"id": "proc-639", "type": "proclamation", "number": "639", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-07-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Heppner Forest Reserve, Oregon", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 639, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-639"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3221, "last_page": 3222, "cite": "34 Stat. 3221–3222", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3221.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-07-18", "table_title": "Setting apart the Pinnacles Forest Reserve, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands, in the State of Oregon, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled. “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes.” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof ”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public", "Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Oregon, shown as the Heppner Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law regarding the entry, filing, or settlement.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 18th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and of [seal.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3221", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Heppner Forest Reserve, Oreg.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Oregon.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Heppner Forest Reserve on partly timbered public lands in Oregon.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Heppner Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}], "states": ["Oregon"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-07-18", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-640", "type": "proclamation", "number": "640", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-07-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Directing Entries on Shoshone Reservation, Wyoming, to be Made at Shoshoni, Wyoming", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 640, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-640"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3222, "last_page": 3223, "cite": "34 Stat. 3222–3223", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3222.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-07-20", "table_title": "Directing entries on Shoshone Reservation, Wyo., to be made at Shoshoni, Wyo."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, by a proclamation issued the second day of June, A. D., 1906, pursuant to law. it was declared that certain portions of the lands within the Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, in the State of Wyoming, particularly described in said proclamation, should become subject to entry at the U. S. land office, located at Lander, in the Lander land district, in the State of Wyoming.", "3223 And whereas, for good and sufficient reasons now first made known to me, it appears that public interests and convenience require that all applications to make such entries which will be presented prior to October 4, A. D., 1906, should be received at the town of Shoshoni, in said land district, and not at Lander, as heretofore directed.", "Now, therefore, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power vested in me by law, do hereby direct, declare and make known that the land officers, for said district, will receive applications for entries at Shoshoni, in said district, beginning on the fifteenth day of August, A. D., 1906, and continuing up to and including the third day of October, Sundays excepted, and thereafter beginning October 4th, 1906, at Lander.", "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 20th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and of [seal.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3222", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Shoshone Reservation. Wyo.", "Preamble.", "Ante, p. 3208.", "Applications for entries to be made at Shoshoni. Wyo., up to October 3, 1906.", "Ante, p. 3210."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Ordered that applications to enter newly opened Shoshone (Wind River) Reservation lands be filed at Shoshoni, Wyoming, instead of Lander, through October 3, 1906.", "categories": ["indian-lands", "public-lands"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Shoshone Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "Wyoming"}, {"name": "Shoshoni", "kind": "town", "state": "Wyoming"}], "states": ["Wyoming"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [65], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-07-20", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Entries on the Shoshone lands were taken at the Shoshoni land office from August 15 through October 3, 1906, then returned to Lander.", "source": "34 Stat. 3222", "date": "1906-08-15", "story": 65}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-631", "relation": "modifies", "note": "Moved the filing office for the Wind River opening for seven weeks.", "story": 65, "date": "1906-06-02", "title": "Opening of the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming", "type": "proclamation", "number": "631"}]}
{"id": "eo-482", "type": "executive_order", "number": "482", "tr_sequence": 428, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-07-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Michael J. Holland as Clerk in Marine Corps Headquarters Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_482", "revid": 1857662, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 103"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Michael J. Holland, an enlisted man in the Marine Corps, may be appointed clerk at its headquarters."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 103)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, July 20, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Michael J. Holland, an enlisted Marine, be appointed a clerk at Marine Corps headquarters.", "categories": ["civil-service", "military-naval"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Michael J. Holland"], "significance": 1, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-07-20", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-483", "type": "executive_order", "number": "483", "tr_sequence": 429, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-07-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Removing Lands from Malabang Military Reservation, Mindanao, Philippine Islands, for Use by Town of Malabang", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_483", "revid": 6041720, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 138, War Dept., July 30, 1906"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The military reservation at Malabang, in the island of Mindanao, Philippine Islands, made by Executive Order, dated May 29, 1903, and amended by order of December 22, 1904 (G. O., No. 193, War Department, December 23, 1904), is modified so as to exclude therefrom the following-described premises for the town of Malabang, which town has been organized as a municipality, viz:", "Beginning at the intersection of the west boundary of the reservation with the north bank of the Malabang River; thence following the north bank of said river southeasterly, a distance of 1,068 yards, more or less, to a stake marked \"1;\" thence due east 220 yards, more or less, to a stake on the east bank marked \"2;\" thence southeasterly, following the east bank of said river, a distance of 445 yards, more or less, to a stake marked \"3;\" thence due east a distance of about 400 yards, to a stake marked \"4;\" thence due north a distance of 1,155 yards, more or less, to a stake on the north bank of the river marked \"5;\" thence N. 80° 00′ W., a distance of about 585 yards, to a stake marked \"6;\" thence due southwest a distance of about 145 yards to a stake marked \"7;\" thence due northwest to intersection with west boundary of reservation; thence due south along same, to place of beginning.", "The bearings are true: variation of needle approximately 1° 15′ E., and about stationary."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 138, War Dept., July 30, 1906)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, July 21, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Cut land out of the Malabang military reservation on Mindanao, Philippine Islands, for the newly organized municipality of Malabang.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "reduce", "places": [{"name": "Malabang Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Malabang", "kind": "town", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-07-21", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-114", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 114, "date": "1906-07-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Trust period on certain Oklahoma lands allotted to Sac, Fox and Iowa Indians extended ten years.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 114, "page": "202", "citations": "(I CFR 118, 275; VI CFR 1158)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Trust period on certain Oklahoma lands allotted to Sac, Fox and Iowa Indians extended ten years.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "Distinct from the numbered series. The two 1906 Sac and Fox entries (nos. 114–115) share a subject line but carry different dates.", "summary": "Extended by ten years the trust period on certain Oklahoma lands allotted to Sac and Fox and Iowa Indians.", "categories": ["indian-lands"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["Oklahoma"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [114], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-07-23", "impact": {"uncertain": ["Which of the two 1906 trust-period orders covered the Sac and Fox allotments and which the Iowa; the published indexes give both the same subject line."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-484", "type": "executive_order", "number": "484", "tr_sequence": 430, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-07-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Ordering Four Hour Workdays on Saturdays During Summer for Engineer Department at Large Workers of the War Department", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_484", "revid": 1861030, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that on Saturdays during July, August and September, until further notice, four hours, exclusive of time for luncheon, shall constitute a day's work for mechanics, laborers and other employees in the service of the Engineer Department at Large of the War Department."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, July 24, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Set four-hour Saturdays in July, August and September for mechanics, laborers and other workers in the War Department's Engineer Department at Large.", "categories": ["military-naval", "labor-business"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-07-24", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-485", "type": "executive_order", "number": "485", "tr_sequence": 431, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-07-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Granting Saturday Half Holidays in July, August and September to Workers at Office of Public Buildings and Grounds", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_485", "revid": 1861032, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Hereafter all employees of the Office of Public Buildings and Grounds, except the Park Police, shall be entitled to the usual half holiday on Saturday during the months of July, August and September, for which all the annual employees shall be paid. The temporary employees shall be paid for the half holidays in each month provided they have worked continuously during that month since their employment or have been laid off through no fault of their own."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, July 24, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Ordering Four Hour Workdays on Saturdays During Summer for Workers at Office of Public Buildings and Grounds”. The order grants \"the usual half holiday on Saturday during the months of July, August and September\"; it does not set four-hour workdays."], "summary": "Granted Office of Public Buildings and Grounds employees, except the Park Police, paid Saturday half-holidays in July, August and September, with conditions for temporary workers.", "categories": ["government-administration", "labor-business"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-07-24", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-486", "type": "executive_order", "number": "486", "tr_sequence": 432, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-07-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Elizabeth Stack as Clerk in Pension Office Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_486", "revid": 1857670, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 104"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Miss Elizabeth Stack may be appointed to a clerical position in the Pension Office without examination under the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 104)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, July 26, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Permitted Miss Elizabeth Stack to be appointed to a clerical job in the Pension Office without a civil-service exam.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Elizabeth Stack"], "significance": 1, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-07-26", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-487", "type": "executive_order", "number": "487", "tr_sequence": 433, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-07-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Certain Described Lands in California, Previously Reserved for Military Purposes, for Naval Purposes", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Turned certain California lands, previously reserved for military use, over to naval purposes.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "transfer", "places": [], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-07-28", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-488", "type": "executive_order", "number": "488", "tr_sequence": 434, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-07-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Tony Verrosso as Unclassified Laborer Without Regard to Laborer Regulations", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_488", "revid": 1857668, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 104"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Tony Verrosso, a veteran of the war with Spain, and eligible under the labor regulations, may be appointed an unclassified laborer, without regard to the order of certification prescribed by the regulations."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 104)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, July 30, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Tony Verrosso, a Spanish-American War veteran, be hired as an unclassified laborer out of the usual certification order.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Tony Verrosso"], "significance": 1, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-07-30", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-489", "type": "executive_order", "number": "489", "tr_sequence": 435, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-07-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Permanent Appointment of Florence E. Broady in Government Printing Office Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_489", "revid": 1857674, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 104"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. Florence E. Broady may be permanently appointed to a position in the Government Printing Office without examination under the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 104)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, July 30, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Mrs. Florence E. Broady a permanent Government Printing Office appointment without a civil-service exam.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Florence E. Broady"], "significance": 1, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-07-30", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-490", "type": "executive_order", "number": "490", "tr_sequence": 436, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-08-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Portion of El Reno Land District, Oklahoma, Transferred to Lawton Land District", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Moved part of the El Reno Land District in Oklahoma into the Lawton Land District.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "El Reno Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Oklahoma"}, {"name": "Lawton Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Oklahoma"}], "states": ["Oklahoma"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-08-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-491", "type": "executive_order", "number": "491", "tr_sequence": 437, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-08-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Julia Lynah McCoy in Treasury Department Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_491", "revid": 1857678, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 104"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. Julia Lynah McCoy may be appointed to a position in the Treasury Department without examination under the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 104)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, August 6, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Authorized Mrs. Julia Lynah McCoy's appointment to a Treasury Department position without a civil-service exam.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Julia Lynah McCoy"], "significance": 1, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-08-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-641", "type": "proclamation", "number": "641", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-08-08", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Modifying Boundaries of Grand Canyon Forest Reserve, Arizona", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 641, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-641"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3223, "last_page": 3224, "cite": "34 Stat. 3223–3224", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3223.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-08-08", "table_title": "Modifying boundaries of Grand Canyon Forest Reserve, Arizona."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Grand Canyon Forest Reserve, in the Territory of Arizona, was established by proclamation dated February twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, under the name of the Grand Canon Forest Reserve, and was enlarged, by proclamation dated May sixth, nineteen hundred and five, to include additional lands in the Territory of Arizona;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by further adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, in the Territory of Arizona, which are in part covered with timber, and by excluding therefrom certain lands;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 aforesaid Grand Canyon Forest Reserve are hereby further changed, and that they are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "The lands hereby excluded from the reserve and restored to the public domain shall be open to settlement from the date hereof, but shall not be subject to entry, filing, or selection until after ninety days’ notice by such publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.", "3224 Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 8th day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and [seal.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3223", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Grand Canyon Forest Reserve. Ariz.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 27, p. 1064.", "Ante, p. 3000.", "Post, p. 3263.", "Boundaries changed.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Lands excepted.", "Restored lands open to settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Redrew the Grand Canyon Forest Reserve in Arizona Territory, adding some timbered land, dropping other tracts and restoring those to settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Grand Canyon Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-08-08", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The proclamation both added and excluded land, and noted that the reserve had been established in 1893 as the Grand Canon Forest Reserve.", "source": "34 Stat. 3186–3263", "date": "1906-08-08", "story": 63}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-694", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The Grand Canyon game preserve was proclaimed within this forest reserve on November 28, 1906.", "story": 63, "date": "1906-11-28", "title": "Setting Aside Game Preserve in Grand Canyon Forest Reserve, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "694"}]}
{"id": "eo-492", "type": "executive_order", "number": "492", "tr_sequence": 438, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-08-08", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Extending Time Limit for Completion of Work of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission to January 1, 1907", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_492", "revid": 1858293, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By authority of the sixteenth section of the act of Congress approved March 2, 1901, entitled \"An act to carry into effect the stipulations of article 7 of the treaty between the United States and Spain, concluded on the 10th day of December, 1898,\" the period of two years from the date of the approval of said act (during which the powers and jurisdiction granted to the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission duly appointed under the first section of said act of Congress to examine and adjudicate all claims of citizens of the United States against Spain which the United States agreed to adjudicate and settle by the seventh article of said treaty were, according to said act, to be in force and continue) is hereby extended to January 1, 1907, and for no longer time, it being the judgment of the President that such extension is necessary to enable the Commission to wind up its work."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, August 8, 1906. == Notes == Supersedes: Executive Order 407, February 5, 1906 Superseded by: Executive Order 516, October 6, 1906", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Extended the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission's authority to January 1, 1907, and no longer, so it could finish judging U.S. citizens' claims against Spain.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs", "government-administration"], "action": "other", "places": [{"name": "Spain", "kind": "country"}], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-08-08", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-642", "type": "proclamation", "number": "642", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-08-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Crazy Mountains Forest Reserve, Montana", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 642, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-642"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3224, "last_page": 3224, "cite": "34 Stat. 3224", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3224.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-08-10", "table_title": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the. State of Montana, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would he promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled. “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly’or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Montana, shown as the Crazy Mountains Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 10th day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, [seal.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3224", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Crazy Mountains Forest Reserve, Mont.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Montana.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart the Crazy Mountains Forest Reserve on partly timbered public lands in Montana.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Crazy Mountains Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-08-10", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-493", "type": "executive_order", "number": "493", "tr_sequence": 439, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-08-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Changing Title of Board on Geographic Names to United States Geographic Board, and Adding Duties", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_493", "revid": 1817535, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The official title of the United States Board on Geographic Names is changed to United States Geographic Board.", "In addition to its present duties, advisory powers are hereby granted to this Board concerning the preparation of maps compiled, or to be compiled, in the various bureaus and offices of the Government, with a special view to the avoidance of unnecessary duplications of work; and for the unification and improvement of the scales of maps, of the symbols and conventions used upon them, and of the methods of representing relief. Hereafter, all such projects as are of importance shall be submitted to this Board for advice before being undertaken.", "Theodore Roosevelt", "The White House, August 10, 1906."], "source": "Fifth Report of the United States Geographic Board, 1890 to 1920 (GPO, 1921), pp. 5–6, 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "The Fifth Report capitalizes \"Board\" in the second paragraph where the Wikisource transcription lowercases it; it prints the order with no number and no caption (the number 493 and the catalog title are later editorial additions).", "story": 89}, "summary": "Renamed the Board on Geographic Names the United States Geographic Board and gave it advisory power over federal mapmaking, including avoiding duplicate work and standardizing scales and symbols.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-08-10", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The renaming stirred no recorded controversy; a search of California papers for August through October 1906 found no coverage.", "source": "California Digital Newspaper Collection", "date": "1906", "story": 89}], "legacy": [{"text": "The board was abolished in 1934 rather than reconstituted; the modern U.S. Board on Geographic Names was created by Congress in 1947 and extended to foreign names.", "source": "Executive Order 6680; Public Law 80-242, 61 Stat. 456", "date": "1947-07-25", "story": 89}, {"text": "The advisory power over federal mapmaking passed in 1919 to a newly created Board of Surveys and Maps, set up for the same purpose of coordinating map-making agencies and avoiding duplicated work.", "source": "Executive Order 3206", "date": "1919-12-30", "story": 89}], "today": [{"name": "United States Geographic Board", "kind": "other", "relation": "abolished", "note": "Abolished in 1934; functions moved to the Interior Department.", "source": "Executive Order 6680", "story": 89}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1919-12-30", "text": "Executive Order 3206 rescinded the 1906 advisory powers over mapmaking and transferred them to the new Board of Surveys and Maps, later the Federal Board of Surveys and Maps.", "source": "Executive Order 3206", "story": 89}, {"date": "1934-04-17", "text": "Executive Order 6680 abolished the United States Geographic Board, moving its functions, staff, records and funds to the Interior Department and revoking the 1890 founding order.", "source": "Executive Order 6680; 47 Stat. 1517", "story": 89}, {"date": "1947-07-25", "text": "Congress created the United States Board on Geographic Names by statute.", "source": "Public Law 80-242, 61 Stat. 456; 43 U.S.C. § 364", "story": 89}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-399", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "January 1906 order giving the Board on Geographic Names added duties.", "story": 89, "date": "1906-01-23", "title": "Prescribing Additional Responsibilities for the United States Board on Geographic Names", "type": "executive_order", "number": "399"}]}
{"id": "proc-643", "type": "proclamation", "number": "643", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-08-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Kootenai Forest Reserve, Montana", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 643, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-643"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3225, "last_page": 3225, "cite": "34 Stat. 3225", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3225.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-08-13", "table_title": "Setting apart the Kootenai Forest Reserve, Montana."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Montana, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof ”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Montana, shown as the Kootenai Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 13th day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, [seal.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3225", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Kootenai Forest Reserve. Mont.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Montana.", "Post, p. 3253.", "Lands excepted."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Kootenai Forest Reserve on timbered public lands in Montana.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Kootenai Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-08-13", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Kootenai National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Montana", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-677", "relation": "enlarged_by", "note": "Enlarged November 5, 1906, less than three months after creation.", "story": 63, "date": "1906-11-05", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Kootenai Forest Reserve, Montana and Idaho", "type": "proclamation", "number": "677"}]}
{"id": "eo-494", "type": "executive_order", "number": "494", "tr_sequence": 440, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-08-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Headquarters of Coeur d'Alene Indian Agency Moved to Tekoa", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Moved the headquarters of the Coeur d'Alene Indian Agency to Tekoa.", "categories": ["indian-lands"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Coeur d'Alene Indian Agency", "kind": "other"}, {"name": "Tekoa", "kind": "town"}], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-08-13", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-495", "type": "executive_order", "number": "495", "tr_sequence": 441, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-08-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Consular Regulations", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Amended the regulations governing the U.S. consular service.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-08-13", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-469", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Part of the 1906 consular-reform package.", "story": 89, "date": "1906-06-27", "title": "Regulations Governing Consular Appointments and Promotions", "type": "executive_order", "number": "469"}]}
{"id": "eo-496", "type": "executive_order", "number": "496", "tr_sequence": 442, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-08-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Prescribing Tariff of Consular Fees, Effective November 1, 1906", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_496", "revid": 14929215, "printed_source": "State Department Circular, August 30, 1906"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The following is a description by the Department of State of the fees prescribed in the order, not the actual order text.", "TARIFF OF UNITED STATES CONSULAR FEES [Revised to take effect November 1, 1906.]", "Following is the tariff of fees prescribed by the President, under the act for the reorganization of the consular service, to be charged by consular officers of the United States. All consular charges must be in strict accordance with and be collected in gold or its equivalent, and no fee or compensation will be collected for any service not covered by this tariff. American vessels and seamen are exempted by law from the payment of consular fees. Foreign-built vessels, unregistered, owned by American citizens, are not exempt from the payment of the prescribed fees.", "{|cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"90%\" style=\"border-top: 1px solid; border-bottom: 1px solid;\" |- |align=\"center\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid; border-right: 1px solid;\"|Nature of service.||style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid;\" align=\"center\"|Fee. |- |align=\"center\" style=\"border-right: 1px solid\" |Miscellaneous services.|| |- |align=\"center\" style=\"border-right: 1px solid\" |Services to vessels and seamen.|| {{:Executive Order 496/TblRow|If it exceed two hundred words, for every additional one hundred words|.50}} |- |align=\"center\" style=\"border-right: 1px solid\" |Notarial and other services|| {{:Executive Order 496/TblRow|For each additional 100 words or fraction thereof|.50}} {{:Executive Order 496/TblRow|The foregoing fee shall cover the administration of the oath and all services of the consul as commissioner, but shall not include services of clerk, stenographer or typewriter, which shall be additional at the rate prescribed herein for copying.| }} {{:Executive Order 496/TblRow|For the first hundred words or fraction|.50}} {{:Executive Order 496/TblRow|For every additional hundred words or less|.25}} {{:Executive Order 496/TblRow|In connection with any service rendered outside of the consular office at the request of private individuals, the exact amount of the expenses actually and necessarily incurred by the person rendering the service shall be collected from the persons for whom the service is performed in addition to the fee or fees prescribed therefor and a note of the amount shall be made on the margin of the fee book and fee return opposite the entry of the service and fee; but no amount in excess of the fee or fees prescribed and such actual and necessary expenses shall be charged or accepted.| }} |}"], "source": "Wikisource (from State Department Circular, August 30, 1906)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Set a new tariff of fees for U.S. consular services, effective November 1, 1906, payable in gold, with American vessels and seamen exempt by law.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs", "trade-reciprocity"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-08-13", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-469", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Part of the 1906 consular-reform package.", "story": 89, "date": "1906-06-27", "title": "Regulations Governing Consular Appointments and Promotions", "type": "executive_order", "number": "469"}]}
{"id": "eo-497", "type": "executive_order", "number": "497", "tr_sequence": 443, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-08-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of W. M. Johnson as Clerk in Immigration Service Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_497", "revid": 1857685, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 104"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. W. M. Johnson may be appointed in the Immigration Service without examination under the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 104)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, August 14, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let W. M. Johnson be appointed in the Immigration Service without a civil-service exam.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["W. M. Johnson"], "significance": 1, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-08-14", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-498", "type": "executive_order", "number": "498", "tr_sequence": 444, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-08-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of E. J. Mooklar as Clerk in Naval Station at Tutuila, Samoa Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_498", "revid": 1857683, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 104"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. E. J. Mooklar may be reinstated as clerk to the commandant of the naval station at Tutuila, Samoa, without regard to the provisions of the civil service rules limiting eligibility for reinstatement to a period of one year from the date of separation."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 104)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, August 14, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed E. J. Mooklar to be reinstated as clerk to the commandant of the naval station at Tutuila, Samoa, despite the one-year reinstatement limit.", "categories": ["civil-service", "insular-territories", "military-naval"], "action": "restore", "places": [{"name": "Tutuila", "kind": "island", "state": "American Samoa"}], "states": ["American Samoa"], "people": ["E. J. Mooklar"], "significance": 1, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-08-14", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-644", "type": "proclamation", "number": "644", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-08-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Wasatch Forest Reserve, Utah", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 644, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-644"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3225, "last_page": 3226, "cite": "34 Stat. 3225–3226", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3225.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-08-16", "table_title": "Setting apart the Wasatch Forest Reserve, Utah."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Utah, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,”; “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Utah, shown as the Wasatch Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 16th day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and [seal.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3225", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Wasatch Forest", "Reserve, Utah. Preamble.", "Vol. 26. p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Utah.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Wasatch Forest Reserve on partly timbered public lands in Utah.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Wasatch Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-08-16", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Utah", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-499", "type": "executive_order", "number": "499", "tr_sequence": 445, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-08-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Everett Spring in Bureau of the Census Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_499", "revid": 1857687, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 104"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Everett Spring may be appointed to a classified position in the Bureau of the Census without examination under the civil service rules, on account of his former satisfactory service as a clerk in the temporary census office and as a local special agent in the manufacturing census of 1905."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 104)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, August 17, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Everett Spring join the Bureau of the Census without an exam, based on his earlier work as a census clerk and local special agent.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Everett Spring"], "significance": 1, "stories": [89], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-08-17", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-645", "type": "proclamation", "number": "645", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-08-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Goose Lake Forest Reserve, Oregon", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 645, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-645"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3226, "last_page": 3227, "cite": "34 Stat. 3226–3227", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3226.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-08-21", "table_title": "Setting apart the Goose Lake Forest Reserve, Oregon."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “ That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not. as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "And whereas, the public lands, in the State of Oregon, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be, promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Oregon, shown as the Goose Lake Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 21 day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, [SEAL.]and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3226", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Goose Lake Forest Reserve, Oreg.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Oregon.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart the Goose Lake Forest Reserve on public lands in Oregon.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Goose Lake Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}], "states": ["Oregon"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-08-21", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Goose Lake was combined with the Fremont in July 1908.", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "date": "1908-07", "story": 63}], "today": [{"name": "Fremont-Winema National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Oregon", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-646", "type": "proclamation", "number": "646", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-08-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Asking Aid to Valparaiso Earthquake Sufferers", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 646, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-646"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3227, "last_page": 3227, "cite": "34 Stat. 3227", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3227.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-08-25", "table_title": "Asking aid to Valparaiso earthquake sufferers."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.", "A PROCLAMATION.", "Whereas, a dreadful calamity has befallen our sister republic of Chile in the destruction by earthquake of Valparaiso and other localities;", "And whereas, we of this nation at this moment see the city of San Francisco struggling upwards from the ruins in which a like catastrophe overwhelmed her last spring;", "And whereas, we keep keenly in mind the thankful appreciation we felt for the way in which the peoples of Europe, Asia, and the Americas came forward with generous offers of assistance;", "Now therefore, in this time of woe of our sister republic I ask that our people out of their abundance now strive to do to another as others last spring did to us. The National Red Cross Association has already taken measures to collect any subscriptions that may be offered for this purpose, and I trust that there will be a generous response.", "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 25 day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first.", "[SEAL.]", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:", "ALVEY A. ADEE", "Acting Secretary of State."], "source": "34 Stat. 3227 (GovInfo Statutes at Large page images, vol. 34, pt. 3), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Seal marker restored; Statutes reads 'Chile in the destruction' (APP's 'Chile m' is an OCR artifact). FRUS 1906, pt. 1, doc. 147 agrees in substance but restyles the dating clause as 'this twenty-fifth day of August.' Countersigned Alvey A. Adee, Acting Secretary of State.", "story": 66}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Called on Americans to help the earthquake victims of Valparaiso, Chile, recalling the world's help to San Francisco that spring, and pointed donors to the National Red Cross.", "categories": ["ceremonial", "foreign-affairs"], "action": "announce", "places": [{"name": "Valparaiso", "kind": "town"}, {"name": "Chile", "kind": "country"}], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [66], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-08-25", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The appeal went out as a wire story datelined Oyster Bay; the Sunday Oregonian printed it beside the relief news from Chile.", "source": "Sunday Oregonian, August 26, 1906, p. 3", "date": "1906-08-26", "story": 66}, {"text": "The Chilean government thanked the United States for its sympathy.", "source": "FRUS 1906, pt. 1, docs. 142, 144", "date": "1906-08", "story": 66}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "diplomatic", "text": "The Red Cross money was modest: about $12,350 by the end of 1906, against $15,000 from San Francisco and $5,000 from Los Angeles given directly to the Chilean government.", "source": "FRUS 1906, pt. 1, docs. 148–149", "date": "1906-12-31", "story": 66}, {"kind": "diplomatic", "text": "With no Red Cross society in Chile, Minister John Hicks paid the money out himself in small sums with a Santiago charity leader, giving preference to Americans and their descendants.", "source": "FRUS 1906, pt. 1, docs. 148–149", "date": "1906-12-31", "story": 66}], "legacy": [{"text": "The appeal is a modest early chapter in American international disaster relief through the Red Cross, and shows how improvised that work still was.", "source": "research entry", "story": 66}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-647", "type": "proclamation", "number": "647", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-08-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reciprocity with Spain", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 647, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-647"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3227, "last_page": 3228, "cite": "34 Stat. 3227–3228", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3227.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-08-27", "table_title": "Reciprocity with Spain."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America.", "A PROCLAMATION.", "WHEREAS, the Government of Spain has, by Royal Decree taking effect September 1, 1906, extended to the products and manufactures of the United States the rates of duty now fixed in the second or minimum column of the Spanish tariff and has made applicable to the United States every decrease of duty accorded by Spain by law and in the commercial pacts now made, or which in future shall be made, with other nations (exception being made only of the special advantages conceded to Portugal), by which action, in the judgment of the President, reciprocal and equivalent concessions are established in favor of the said products and manufactures of the United States;", "NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority conferred by the third section of the Tariff Act of the United States, approved July 24, 1897, do hereby suspend, during the continuance in force of the said concessions by the Government of Spain, the imposition and collection of the duties imposed by the first section of said Act upon the articles hereinafter specified, being the products of the soil or industry of Spain; and do declare in place thereof the following rates of duties provided in the third section of said Act to be in force and effect on and after September 1, 1906, of which the officers and citizens of the United States will take due notice, namely:", "Upon argols, or crude Tartar, or wine lees, crude, five per centum ad valorem.", "Upon brandies, or other spirits manufactured or distilled from grain or other materials, one dollar and seventy-five cents per proof gallon.", "Upon still wines, and vermuth, in casks, thirty-five cents per gallon; in bottles or jugs, per case of one dozen bottles or jugs containing each not more than one quart and more than one pint, or twenty-four bottles or jugs containing each not more than one pint, one dollar and twenty-five cents per case, and any excess beyond these quantities found in such bottles or jugs shall be subject to a duty of four cents per pint or fractional part thereof, but no separate or additional duty shall be assessed upon the bottles or jugs.", "Upon paintings in oil or water colors, pastels pen and ink drawings, and statuary, fifteen per centum ad valorem.", "IN TESTIMONY 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 27 day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-first.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President; ALVEY A. ADEE, Acting Secretary of State."], "source": "34 Stat. 3227–3228 (Statutes at Large page images, GovInfo), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Spellings and punctuation as printed: \"crude Tartar,\" \"rates of duties,\" \"pastels pen and ink\" (no comma), \"this 27 day of August,\" semicolon after \"By the President\"; [SEAL.] in dating clause.", "story": 64}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Lowered U.S. duties on certain Spanish products after Spain gave American goods its minimum tariff rates starting September 1, 1906.", "categories": ["trade-reciprocity"], "action": "grant", "places": [{"name": "Spain", "kind": "country"}], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [64], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-08-27", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Chico Record reported the proclamation under \"SPANISH RECIPROCITY TREATY\" as a short State Department item.", "source": "Chico Record, August 30, 1906", "date": "1906-08-30", "story": 64}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "economic", "text": "The reduced American rates took effect September 1, 1906, the same day a Spanish Royal Decree gave American goods the minimum column of Spain's tariff.", "source": "34 Stat. 3227–3228", "date": "1906-09-01", "story": 64}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-850", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "A second section-3 proclamation for Spain followed in 1909.", "story": 64, "date": "1909-02-20", "title": "Reciprocity with Spain", "type": "proclamation", "number": "850"}]}
{"id": "uo-115", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 115, "date": "1906-08-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Trust period on certain Oklahoma lands allotted to Sac, Fox and Iowa Indians extended ten years.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 115, "page": "202", "citations": "(I CFR 118, 275; VI CFR 1158)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Trust period on certain Oklahoma lands allotted to Sac, Fox and Iowa Indians extended ten years.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "Distinct from the numbered series. See no. 114.", "summary": "Extended for ten years the trust period on certain Oklahoma lands allotted to Sac and Fox and Iowa Indians.", "categories": ["indian-lands"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["Oklahoma"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [114], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-08-28", "impact": {"uncertain": ["Which of the two 1906 trust-period orders covered the Sac and Fox allotments and which the Iowa; the published indexes give both the same subject line."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-500", "type": "executive_order", "number": "500", "tr_sequence": 446, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-08-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Washington Navy Yard Employees Excused from Work on Labor Day, Sept. 3", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Excused Washington Navy Yard employees from work on Labor Day, September 3, 1906.", "categories": ["military-naval", "labor-business"], "action": "other", "places": [{"name": "Washington Navy Yard", "kind": "naval-reservation", "state": "District of Columbia"}], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-08-29", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-648", "type": "proclamation", "number": "648", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-09-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Restoring Parcel of Land in Uintah Indian Reservation, Utah, to Public Domain", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 648, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-648"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3228, "last_page": 3229, "cite": "34 Stat. 3228–3229", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3228.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-09-01", "table_title": "Restoring parcel of land in Uintah Indian Reservation, Utah, to public domain."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Secretary of the Interior, on July 11, 1905, under the authority of the act of June 19, 1902 (32 Stats., 744) amended by the act of March 3. 1903 (32 Stats., 982, 998), and March 3, 1905 (33 Stats., 1048. 1069), reserved certain lands in the former Uintah Indian Reservation in Utah, including Lots 2 and 13 in Sec. 10, T. 2 S., R. 1 E., containing 8.80 acres, for the Uintah Indian Grazing Reserve: and whereas, the President of the United States in his proclamation of July 14, 1905, opening the lands in the said Uintah Reservation to settlement and entry, excepted from such opening the lands included in said grazing reserve: and whereas one David Eskelson was, on September 26, 1905, erroneously allowed to include in his homestead entry No. 806, the said Lots 2 and 13, on which lots he has placed valuable improvements, and which, by virtue of their small area and being entirely segregated from the balance of the grazing reserve by the claims of the Raven Mining Company, are of no value as a part of said reserve:", "Now, therefore, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested, do hereby declare and make known that the lots numbered 2 and 13 of Township 2 S., of Range 1 E., Uintah Special Meridian, in Utah, are hereby restored to the public domain.", "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, the 1st day of September in the [SEAL.] year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3228", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Uintah Indian Reservation. Utah.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 32, p. 744.", "Vol. 32, p. 998.", "Vol. 33, p. 1069.", "Ante, p. 3119.", "David Eskelson claim.", "Land restored to public domain."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Opening of Certain Uinta Indian Reservation Grazing Site Lands”. The American Presidency Project caption (\"Opening of Certain Uinta Indian Reservation Grazing Site Lands\") misdescribes it; title from the Statutes list (34 Stat. 3228)."], "summary": "Restored two small lots in the former Uintah Indian Reservation, Utah, to the public domain after they were mistakenly included in David Eskelson's homestead.", "categories": ["indian-lands", "public-lands"], "action": "restore", "places": [{"name": "Uintah Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": ["David Eskelson"], "significance": 3, "stories": [65], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-09-01", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The order restored 8.80 acres to the public domain to cover David Eskelson's homestead entry, which had been erroneously allowed to include two lots of the grazing reserve.", "source": "34 Stat. 3228", "date": "1906-09-01", "story": 65}], "legacy": [{"text": "The tribes still held their jointly owned 250,000-acre grazing reserve in 1909, when the government withdrew 56,000 acres of it for the Strawberry Valley reclamation project.", "source": "Utah History Encyclopedia, \"Uintah-Ouray Indian Reservation\"", "date": "1909", "story": 65}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-581", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The 1905 Uintah opening; the grazing reserve was not opened with those lands.", "story": 65, "date": "1905-07-14", "title": "Opening to Entry Lands on Uintah Indian Reservation, Utah", "type": "proclamation", "number": "581"}]}
{"id": "proc-649", "type": "proclamation", "number": "649", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-09-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Stanislaus Forest Reserve, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 649, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-649"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3229, "last_page": 3230, "cite": "34 Stat. 3229–3230", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3229.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-09-07", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Stanislaus Forest Reserve, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Stanislaus Forest Reserve, in the State of California, was established by proclamation dated February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven; and the boundary lines thereof were subsequently changed and the area reduced by the Act of Congress, approved February seventh, nineteen hundred and live, entitled, “An Act To exclude from the Yosemite National Park, California, certain lands therein described, and to attach and include the said lands in the Sierra Forest Reserve”;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the said Stanislaus Forest Reserve certain lands in the State of California which are in part covered with timber;", "And whereas, it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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,” that ”The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do proclaim that the Stanislaus Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 7th day of September, [SEAL.] in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3229", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Stanislaus Forest Reserve, Cal.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 29. p. 898.", "Vol. 33, p. 702.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Added partly timbered land in California to the Stanislaus Forest Reserve.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Stanislaus Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-09-07", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Amador Ledger-Dispatch listed, township by township, the county land added to the reserve, dating the proclamation September 6.", "source": "Amador Ledger-Dispatch, Oct. 12, 1906", "date": "1906-10-12", "story": 63}], "today": [{"name": "Stanislaus National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "California", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-501", "type": "executive_order", "number": "501", "tr_sequence": 447, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-09-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Alice A. Masters as Clerk in Bureau of the Census Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_501", "revid": 1857689, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 105"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Miss Alice A. Masters may be appointed as a clerk in the Census Bureau without examination under the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 105)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, September 7, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Permitted Miss Alice A. Masters to be appointed a Census Bureau clerk without a civil-service exam.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Alice A. Masters"], "significance": 1, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-09-07", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-650", "type": "proclamation", "number": "650", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-09-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Hell Gate Forest Reserve, Montana", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 650, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-650"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3230, "last_page": 3230, "cite": "34 Stat. 3230", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3230.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-09-14", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Hell Gate Forest Reserve, Montana."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Hell Gate Forest Reserve, in the State of Montana, was established by proclamation dated October third, nineteen hundred and five, and was subsequently enlarged by proclamation dated June second, nineteen hundred and six;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by further enlarging the said forest reserve to include certain additional lands, in the State of Montana, which are in part covered with timber:", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 aforesaid Hell Gate Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 14th day of September, in the [SEAL.] year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and of the Independence of the, United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3230", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Hell Gate Forest Reserve, Mont.", "Preamble.", "Ante, pp. 3168, 3213.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 30.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Further enlarged the Hell Gate Forest Reserve in Montana with additional partly timbered land.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Hell Gate Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-09-14", "impact": {"uncertain": ["Beginning with this proclamation the Statutes print the seal clause as \"affixt,\" following the Government Printing Office's adoption of simplified spelling; whether the signed original reads the same is not known."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-630", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "First 1906 enlargement of the same reserve, June 2.", "story": 63, "date": "1906-06-02", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Hell Gate Forest Reserve, Montana", "type": "proclamation", "number": "630"}]}
{"id": "eo-502", "type": "executive_order", "number": "502", "tr_sequence": 448, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-09-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Removing Lands from Fort Robinson Military Reservation, Nebraska", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_502", "revid": 1859450, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 165, War Dept., October 1, 1906"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that that portion of the military reservation of Fort Robinson, Nebraska, as declared by Executive Order of November 14, 1876, enlarged by Executive Order of June 28, 1879, and reduced by Executive Order of September 19, 1896, which is included within the limits hereinafter described, be placed under the control of the Secretary of the Interior, under authority of the act of Congress, approved July 5, 1884 (23 Stat. L., 103), for disposition under said act or as may be otherwise provided by law; the same having become useless for military purposes and having been erroneously included in patents issued to private parties, viz:", "Beginning at a point on the northwest boundary of the Fort Robinson Military Reservation, where the north boundary of township 31 north, of range 53 west of the 6th P. M., Nebraska, of public land surveys, intersects the said reservation boundary 14.80 chains N. 89° 44′ E. of the northwest corner of section 2 of said township and range near post No. 27; thence from said point S. 45° 15′ E. 80.16 chains to post No. 23; thence N. 1° 45′ E. 35.15 chains to the intersection of the north boundary of the reservation at post No. 22, the said post being 21.45 chains south and 5.82 chains west of the northeast corner of section 2, said township and range; thence following the crest of Soldier's Grove Bluffs to the place of beginning."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 165, War Dept., October 1, 1906)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, September 14th, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Handed part of the Fort Robinson military reservation, Nebraska, to the Interior Department for disposal, since it was useless for military purposes and had been mistakenly included in private patents.", "categories": ["military-naval", "public-lands"], "action": "reduce", "places": [{"name": "Fort Robinson Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Nebraska"}], "states": ["Nebraska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-09-14", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-655", "type": "proclamation", "number": "655", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-09-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reciprocity with Bulgaria", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 655, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-655"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3231, "last_page": 3231, "cite": "34 Stat. 3231", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3231.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-09-15", "table_title": "Reciprocity with Bulgaria."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America.", "A PROCLAMATION.", "WHEREAS the Government of the Principality of Bulgaria has taken action, extending, on and after June 5, 1906, and until further notice, to the products of the soil or industry of the United States, the benefit of the Bulgarian conventional customs tariff rates, the same being the lowest rates applied by Bulgaria to the like products of any other country, by which action in the judgment of the President reciprocal and equivalent concessions are established in favor of the said products of the United States:", "Now, Therefore, be it known that I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority conferred by the third section of the Tariff Act of the United States, approved July 24, 1897, do hereby suspend, during the continuance in force of the said concessions by the Government of the Principality of Bulgaria, the imposition and collection of the duties imposed by the first section of said Act upon the Articles hereinafter specified, being the products of the soil or industry of Bulgaria; and do declare in place thereof the following rates of duty provided in the third section of said Act to be in force and effect on and after September 30, 1906, of which the officers and citizens of the United States will take due notice, namely:", "Upon argols, or crude tartar, or wine lees, crude, five per centum ad valorem.", "Upon brandies, or other spirits manufactured or distilled from grain or other materials, one dollar and seventy-five cents per proof gallon.", "Upon still wines, and vermuth, in casks, thirty-five cents per gallon; in bottles or jugs, per case of one dozen bottles or jugs containing each not more than one quart and more than one pint, or twenty-four bottles or jugs containing each not more than one pint, one dollar and twenty-five cents per case, and any excess beyond these quantities found in such bottles or jugs shall be subject to a duty of four cents per pint or fractional part thereof, but no separate or additional duty shall be assessed upon the bottles or jugs.", "Upon paintings in oil or water colors, pastels, pen and ink drawings, and statuary, fifteen per centum ad valorem.", "IN TESTIMONY 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 fifteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-first.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President: ROBERT BACON, Acting Secretary of State."], "source": "34 Stat. 3231 (Statutes at Large page images, GovInfo), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "[SEAL.] in dating clause; \"Articles\" capitalized as printed.", "story": 64}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Reduced U.S. duties on certain Bulgarian goods after Bulgaria granted American products its lowest conventional tariff rates.", "categories": ["trade-reciprocity"], "action": "grant", "places": [{"name": "Bulgaria", "kind": "country"}], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [64], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-09-15", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "economic", "text": "The reduced American rates on Bulgarian goods took effect September 30, 1906, answering Bulgaria's grant of its lowest conventional rates from June 5.", "source": "34 Stat. 3231", "date": "1906-09-30", "story": 64}], "uncertain": ["How the press treated this proclamation has not been searched."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-651", "type": "proclamation", "number": "651", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-09-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Fremont Forest Reserve, Oregon", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 651, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-651"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3231, "last_page": 3232, "cite": "34 Stat. 3231–3232", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3231.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-09-17", "table_title": "Setting apart the Fremont Forest Reserve, Oregon."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands, in the State of Oregon, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "3232 And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “ That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Oregon, shown as the Fremont Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 17th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and [seal.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3231", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Fremont Forest Reserve. Oreg.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Oregon.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart the Fremont Forest Reserve on partly timbered public lands in Oregon.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Fremont Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}], "states": ["Oregon"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-09-17", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Fremont-Winema National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Oregon", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-817", "relation": "modified_by", "note": null, "story": 114, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-06-13", "title": "Fremont National Forest, Oregon, Modified", "type": "executive_order", "number": "817"}, {"id": "uo-125", "relation": "modified_by", "note": null, "story": 114, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-06-13", "title": "Fremont National Forest, Oreg., reorganized and boundaries defined.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "proc-652", "type": "proclamation", "number": "652", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-09-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Consolidating the Yuba Forest Reserve with the Tahoe Forest Reserve, California and Nevada", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 652, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-652"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3232, "last_page": 3233, "cite": "34 Stat. 3232–3233", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3232.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-09-17", "table_title": "Consolidating the Yuba Forest Reserve with the Tahoe Forest Reserve, California and Nevada."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Tahoe Forest Reserve, in the States of California and Nevada, and the Yuba Forest Reserve, in the State of California, have been heretofore established by proclamations, under the provisions of the acts of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “ An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” and June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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”;", "And whereas, it appears desirable that the area embraced in said forest reserves, with certain additions thereto, in the State of California, should be included in one reserve and be distinguished by one name; and it appears that the public lands in the States of California and Nevada, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and that the public good would be promoted by setting apart the same as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid acts of Congress, do proclaim that the proclamations heretofore issued respecting said forest reserves are hereby superseded, and the Tahoe", "Tahoe Forest Reserve established in place of the Tahoe and Yuba forest reserves.", "3233 Forest Reserve is hereby established in place thereof, with boundaries as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 17th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, [seal.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3232", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Tahoe Forest Reserve, Cal. and Nev.", "Preamble.", "Ante, pp. 3163, 3184.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Tahoe Forest Reserve established in place of the Tahoe and Yuba forest reserves.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Combined the Tahoe and Yuba forest reserves, with added land, into a single Tahoe Forest Reserve in California and Nevada.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Tahoe Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}, {"name": "Yuba Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California", "Nevada"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-09-17", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Sacramento Daily Union noted that Governor Pardee had received a copy of the consolidation proclamation.", "source": "Sacramento Daily Union, Sept. 30, 1906", "date": "1906-09-30", "story": 63}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Tahoe and Yuba proclamations were superseded and a single, enlarged Tahoe Forest Reserve established in their place; Yuba had existed for less than a year.", "source": "34 Stat. 3186–3263", "date": "1906-09-17", "story": 63}], "today": [{"name": "Tahoe National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "California and Nevada", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-597", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 55, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-10-03", "title": "Enlargement and Name Change of Lake Tahoe Forest Reserve, California and Nevada to the Tahoe Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "597"}, {"id": "proc-606", "relation": "supersedes", "note": "Superseded the Yuba Forest Reserve proclamation of November 11, 1905.", "story": 63, "date": "1905-11-11", "title": "Establishment of the Yuba Forest Reserve, California", "type": "proclamation", "number": "606"}]}
{"id": "eo-503", "type": "executive_order", "number": "503", "tr_sequence": 449, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-09-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Extra Compensation for Enlisted Men in Marine Corps Detailed as Messmen", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_503", "revid": 1862174, "printed_source": "General Order No. 46, Navy Dept., May 8, 1907"}}, "text": null, "summary": "Authorized extra pay for enlisted Marines detailed as messmen.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-09-18", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-653", "type": "proclamation", "number": "653", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-09-19", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Opening to Settlement Certain Lands in the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indian Reservations", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 653, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-653"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3233, "last_page": 3234, "cite": "34 Stat. 3233–3234", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3233.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-09-19", "table_title": "Opening to settlement common lands of Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indians in Oklahoma."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.", "A PROCLAMATION.", "Whereas, Section two of the Act of June 5, 1906, (34 Stats., 213), directed that the four hundred and eighty thousand acres of grazing lands heretofore selected and set apart by the Secretary of the Interior in the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indian Reservations, in the Territory of Oklahoma, for the use in common of certain Indian tribes, pursuant to Article three of Section six of the Act of Congress, approved June 6, 1900, entitled, \"An Act to ratify and confirm an agreement with the Indians of the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, in Idaho;\" and the twenty-five thousand acres of land heretofore set apart by the Secretary of the Interior as a wood reservation in said Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indian Reservations, \"shall be opened to settlement by proclamation of the President of the United States within six months from the passage of this Act, and be disposed of upon sealed bids or at public auction, at the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, to the highest bidder under the provisions of the homestead laws of the United States, and under the rules and regulations adopted by the Secretary of the Interior\";", "And, whereas, by Section six of said Act of June 5, 1906, it was declared that certain portions of said four hundred and eighty thousand acres of land should be allotted to certain Indians described therein; and by the Act of June 28, 1906 (34 Stats., 550), it was further declared that certain other portions of said four hundred and eighty thousand acres of land should be sold to certain lessees thereof:", "And, whereas, under the Act approved March 20, 1906 (34 Stats., 80), authorizing the establishment of townsites and the sale of lots within said four hundred and eighty thousand acres of land, the Secretary of the Interior was authorized to set aside and reserve such lands as he may deem necessary for the establishment of townsites;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the said Act of Congress, approved June 5, 1906, do hereby declare and make known that all of said four hundred and eighty thousand acres of land, except such portions thereof as may be allotted, sold or reserved in the manner prescribed in said Acts of Congress, and all of said twenty-five thousand acres of land will be opened to settlement and disposition, under the provisions of said Act of June 5, 1906, and under the rules and regulations adopted by the Secretary of the Interior, at such time and in such manner as the said Secretary of the Interior may fix and prescribe.", "In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at this City of Washington this 19th day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first.", "[SEAL.]", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:", "ALVEY A. ADEE", "Acting Secretary of State."], "source": "34 Stat. 3233–3234 (GovInfo Statutes at Large page images, vol. 34, pt. 3), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Seal marker restored; Statutes spellings 'affixt' and 'Done at this City of Washington' kept as printed; line-end hyphens closed up. Statutes marginal note cites the 1900 act's Article three at 'Vol. 31, p. 677.' Signature block: 'By the President:' then 'ALVEY A. ADEE' and 'Acting Secretary of State.' (italic in the printing).", "story": 65}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Opened to settlement the 480,000 acres of grazing land and the wood reserve in the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache reservations, Oklahoma Territory, except tracts allotted, sold or set aside for town sites.", "categories": ["indian-lands", "public-lands"], "action": "open", "places": [{"name": "Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indian Reservations", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "Oklahoma"}], "states": ["Oklahoma"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [65], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-09-19", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "Over six days in December 1906, 7,621 sealed bids came in at the Lawton land office, totaling $2,286,300.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1906-12", "story": 65}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Interior set a floor of $800 a quarter section, $5.00 an acre, and opened and awarded the bids beginning March 15, 1907.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1907-03-15", "story": 65}], "legacy": [{"text": "It is often called the last of the great Oklahoma land openings, though it was a sealed-bid sale, not a run.", "source": "research entry", "story": 65}, {"text": "Oklahoma's Court of Criminal Appeals held in 2021 that Congress disestablished the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache reservation in the Act of June 6, 1900.", "source": "Martinez v. State, 2021 OK CR 40", "date": "2021", "story": 65}], "uncertain": ["How much of the Big Pasture and wood reserve was actually sold is not known; only the bid totals are on record."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-504", "type": "executive_order", "number": "504", "tr_sequence": 450, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-09-19", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Requiring Executive Departments to Report Instances of Supervised Contractors Working in Excess of Eight Hours in a Day", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_504", "revid": 1859557, "printed_source": "Circular, No. 49, War Dept., September 26, 1906"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["All Departments of the Government under the supervision of which public works are being constructed are hereby directed to notify the representatives stationed at such public works to report at once to their respective Departments all cases in which contractors or subcontractors on works now under construction have required or permitted laborers or mechanics in their employ to work over eight hours in any one calendar day.", "All Government representatives in charge of construction of public works are further directed that it is part of their duty to report to their respective Departments each and every case in which laborers or mechanics are required or permitted to work over eight hours a day on the works under supervision of such Government representatives. Wherever reports showing work in excess of eight hours a day are received by any Department they are to be referred to the Department of Justice for appropriate action.", "All Departments of the Government under the supervision of which public works are being constructed by contract are further directed to have their respective legal officers prepare and forward to the President a list of such statutes and Executive Orders as have a direct bearing on contracts for the construction of public works, and with which bidders on such works should be made acquainted."], "source": "Wikisource (from Circular, No. 49, War Dept., September 26, 1906)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, September 19, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Told federal departments overseeing public works to report every case of contractors working laborers or mechanics more than eight hours in a day.", "categories": ["labor-business", "government-administration"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-09-19", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The eight-hour reporting order was welcomed by labor and unremarked elsewhere.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1906", "story": 90}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-654", "type": "proclamation", "number": "654", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-09-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Lolo Forest Reserve, Montana", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 654, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-654"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3234, "last_page": 3234, "cite": "34 Stat. 3234", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3234.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-09-20", "table_title": "Setting apart the Lolo Forest Reserve, Montana."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Montana, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes.” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Montana, shown as the Lolo Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 20th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [seal.] six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3234", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Lolo Forest Reserve, Mont.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve. Montana.", "Post, p. 3260.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Lolo Forest Reserve on partly timbered public lands in Montana.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Lolo Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-09-20", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Lolo National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Montana", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-689", "relation": "enlarged_by", "note": "Enlarged November 6, 1906, less than two months after creation.", "story": 63, "date": "1906-11-06", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Lolo Forest Reserve, Montana", "type": "proclamation", "number": "689"}]}
{"id": "eo-505", "type": "executive_order", "number": "505", "tr_sequence": 451, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-09-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Transfer of Julius H. Hammond, Clerk in General Land Office, to Competitive Service", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_505", "revid": 1857691, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 105"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Julius H. Hammond, of Colorado, depositary acting for the Commissioner as receiver of public moneys and also as confidential clerk, General Land Office, Interior Department, may be transferred with his position to the competitive, classified service."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 105)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, September 20, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Moved Julius H. Hammond, a General Land Office depositary and confidential clerk, into the competitive classified service along with his position.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "transfer", "places": [], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": ["Julius H. Hammond"], "significance": 1, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-09-20", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-506", "type": "executive_order", "number": "506", "tr_sequence": 452, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-09-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Isthmian Canal Commission to Hold Next Quarterly Session on November 15, 1906, Instead of October 1, 1906, on the Isthmus of Panama", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_506", "revid": 1862675, "printed_source": "  "}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The quarterly session of the Isthminn Canal Commission which under the Executive order of April 1, 1905, would ordinarily be held on the 1st day of October next may be held at the office of the Governor of the Canal Zone, on the Isthmus of Panama, on the 15th day of November, 1906, instead of on the date above mentioned.", "Theodore Roosevelt The White House, September 20, 1906. == Notes == See Related: Executive Order 317-A, April 1, 1905; Executive Order 335-A, June 24, 1905; Executive Order 377-B, December 7, 1905"], "source": "Wikisource (from   )", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Rescheduled the Isthmian Canal Commission's quarterly session from October 1 to November 15, 1906, at the Canal Zone governor's office in Panama.", "categories": ["canal-zone"], "action": "convene", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-09-20", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-656", "type": "proclamation", "number": "656", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-09-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Shasta Forest Reserve, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 656, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-656"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3235, "last_page": 3235, "cite": "34 Stat. 3235", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3235.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-09-24", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Shasta Forest Reserve, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Shasta Forest Reserve, in the State of California, was established by proclamation dated October third, nineteen hundred and five;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, within the State of California, which are in part covered with timber;", "And whereas, it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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,” that “ The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve ”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that the aforesaid Shasta Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 24th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and [seal.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3235", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Shasta Forest Reserve. Cal.", "Preamble.", "Ante, p. 3157.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Shasta Forest Reserve in California with additional partly timbered land.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Shasta Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-09-24", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Shasta lands passed partly to the Klamath and Trinity forests in 1908.", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "date": "1908", "story": 63}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-657", "type": "proclamation", "number": "657", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-09-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Long Pine Forest Reserve, Montana", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 657, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-657"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3235, "last_page": 3236, "cite": "34 Stat. 3235–3236", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3235.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-09-24", "table_title": "Setting apart the Long Pine Forest Reserve, Montana."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Public lands in the State of Montana, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Montana, shown as the Long Pine Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to lie affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 24 day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, [seal.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3235", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Long Pine Forest Reserve, Mont.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Montana.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart the Long Pine Forest Reserve on partly timbered public lands in Montana.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Long Pine Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-09-24", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The reserve went into the Sioux National Forest in July 1908, later part of the Custer Gallatin.", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "date": "1908-07", "story": 63}], "today": [{"name": "Custer Gallatin National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Montana", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-658", "type": "proclamation", "number": "658", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-09-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Aside Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 658, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-658"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3236, "last_page": 3237, "cite": "34 Stat. 3236–3237", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3236.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-09-24", "table_title": "Setting aside Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America.", "A PROCLAMATION.", "Whereas, It is provided by section two of the Act of Congress approved June 8, 1906, entitled, \"An Act for the preservation of American Antiquities,\" \"That the President of the United States is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to declare by public proclamation historic land marks, 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 object to be protected;\"", "And, whereas, the lofty and isolated rock in the State of Wyoming, known as the \"Devils Tower,\" situated upon the public lands owned and controlled by the United States is such an extraordinary example of the effect of erosion in the higher mountains as to be a natural wonder and an object of historic and great scientific interest and it appears that the public good would be promoted by reserving this tower as a National monument with as much land as may be necessary for the proper protection thereof:", "Now, therefore, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section two of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby set aside as the Devils Tower National Monument, the lofty and isolated rock situated in Crook County, Wyoming, more particularly located and described as follows, towit:", "Section seven, and the north half of the northeast quarter, the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter and lot number one of section eighteen, in township fifty-three north, range sixty-five; the east half of section twelve and the north half of the northeast quarter of section thirteen in township fifty-three north, range sixty-six, all west of the Sixth Principal Meridian, as shown upon the map hereto attached and made a part of this proclamation.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate injure or destroy any feature of the natural tower hereby declared to be a National monument or to locate or settle upon any of the lands reserved and made a part of said monument by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington, this 24th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:", "Alvey A. Adee, Acting Secretary of State."], "source": "34 Stat. 3236 (GovInfo page images), 2026-08-21", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Restores \"as to be\" (dropped in the Wikisource transcription). Archaic spellings as printed: \"affixt,\" \"towit,\" \"land marks\"; no apostrophe in \"Devils Tower.\" The attached General Land Office map reads \"Containing 1152.91 acres.\"", "story": 2}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Declared Devils Tower in Crook County, Wyoming, a national monument under the new Antiquities Act, calling the lofty, isolated rock \"a natural wonder\" and warning against injuring it.", "categories": ["monuments"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Devils Tower National Monument", "kind": "monument", "state": "Wyoming"}], "states": ["Wyoming"], "people": [], "significance": 5, "stories": [2], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-09-24", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "Locally the designation drew little fight, since the tower sat on federal land no one was contesting.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1906", "story": 2}, {"text": "In the 1906 campaign Cheyenne's Democratic paper charged that Wyoming's Republican congressman, Frank Mondell, had opposed Roosevelt on every major measure and kept up his opposition after Congress adjourned; the Mondell-backing Wyoming Tribune answered four days later.", "source": "Cheyenne Daily Leader, October 20, 1906, p. 4; Wyoming Tribune, October 24, 1906, p. 4", "date": "1906-10-20", "story": 2}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "political", "text": "Mondell had already protested the late-July 1906 withdrawal of 109 Wyoming townships, more than two and a half million acres by his count, as coal land, at least ten days before the Devils Tower proclamation.", "source": "Laramie Republican, September 14, 1906, p. 2; Sheridan Post, September 21, 1906", "date": "1906-09-14", "story": 2}, {"kind": "political", "text": "As the first use of the Antiquities Act, and for a natural wonder rather than a ruin, it signaled the broad reading of the law that would soon carry the Grand Canyon.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1906-09-24", "story": 2}], "legacy": [{"text": "Devils Tower remains the founding unit of the national monument system, and the power first used here has been used by presidents of both parties ever since.", "source": "research entry", "story": 2}, {"text": "The tower is still sacred to many tribes; the National Park Service names the Arapaho, Crow, Cheyenne, Shoshone and Lakota among more than twenty.", "source": "National Park Service", "story": 2}, {"text": "Under the 1995 Climbing Management Plan the Park Service asks visitors to voluntarily refrain from climbing on the tower or scrambling inside the Tower Trail loop throughout June, a request it reports has sharply reduced June climbing.", "source": "National Park Service, Climbing Management Plan (February 1995; 2006 update)", "date": "1995-02", "story": 2}], "today": [{"name": "Devils Tower National Monument", "kind": "national_monument", "relation": "origin", "state": "Wyoming", "since": "1906-09-24", "note": "Now 1,347 acres, about 194 more than the 1,152.91 reserved in 1906.", "source": "National Park Service", "story": 2}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1995-02", "text": "The National Park Service adopted a Climbing Management Plan with a voluntary June closure, worked out with climbers and American Indian representatives.", "source": "National Park Service", "story": 2}, {"date": "1996-12", "text": "The Interior Secretary withdrew the plan's June ban on commercial guiding after a court had preliminarily enjoined it in June 1996.", "source": "research entry", "story": 2}, {"date": "1999-04-26", "text": "The Tenth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of climbers' challenge to the voluntary June closure, holding they lacked standing.", "source": "Bear Lodge Multiple Use Association v. Babbitt, 175 F.3d 814 (10th Cir. 1999)", "story": 2}, {"date": "2000", "text": "The Supreme Court declined to review the Bear Lodge case.", "source": "529 U.S. 1037 (2000)", "story": 2}], "uncertain": ["The Cheyenne Daily Leader editorial of October 20, 1906 was read from OCR text; the page image has not been checked.", "The date of the Wyoming coal-land withdrawal order reads July 26 in one newspaper and July 28 in another.", "The Supreme Court's denial of review in the Bear Lodge case is cited from secondary literature; the docket entry has not been checked."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-716", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 10, "inferred": true, "date": "1907-03-01", "title": "Establishing the Bear Lodge Forest Reserve, Wyoming", "type": "proclamation", "number": "716"}, {"id": "proc-794", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Grand Canyon National Monument carried the same broad reading of the Antiquities Act.", "story": 2, "date": "1908-01-11", "title": "Setting Aside Grand Canyon National Monument, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "794"}]}
{"id": "proc-659", "type": "proclamation", "number": "659", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-09-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Opening to Settlement Lands Within the Walker River Indian Reservation", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 659, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-659"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3237, "last_page": 3238, "cite": "34 Stat. 3237–3238", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3237.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-09-26", "table_title": "Opening to entry lands on Walker River Indian Reservation, Nev."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, allotments of lands in the Walker River Indian Reservation in the State, of Nevada have been made to, approved and accepted by the Pah Ute Indians of that Reservation pursuant to the requirements of the Act of Congress approved May 27, 1902 (32 U. S. Statutes at Large, 260);", "And, whereas, other portions of the lands in said Reservation have been selected, set apart and reserved for the use of said Indians in common for the grazing of live-stock pursuant to the requirements of the Joint Resolution of Congress No. 32, approved June 19, 1902 (32 U. S. Statutes at Large, 744), and other timbered portions thereof have been set apart for the use of said Indians in common pursuant to the requirements of the Act of Congress approved June 21, 1906 (34 U. S. Statutes at Large, 358), and other portions thereof have been reserved and set apart for agency, school, cemetery and church purposes under the general provisions of law;", "And, whereas, by said Act of May 27, 1902, it was provided that after the Indians had consented thereto the President shall, by proclamation, open the lands relinquished by the Indians to settlement, to be disposed of under existing laws;", "And, whereas, by an agreement entered into by said Indians they have ceded and relinquished to the United States all their right and claim in and to all the lands in said Reservation which have not been allotted, selected, set apart and reserved, as above set forth;", "Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by said Act of Congress and by virtue of said agreement, do hereby declare, proclaim and make known that all of the lands within the Walker River Indian Reservation in the State of Nevada which have not. been allotted, set apart and reserved as above set out, will, at the hour of twelve o’clock noon, Pacific Standard Time, on Monday the twenty-ninth day of October, A. D., nineteen hundred and six, and not before, be opened to settlement, and then and thereafter be subject to disposal under the existing laws of the United States.", "In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 26th day of September in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and six and of the [seal.] Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3237", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Walker River Indian Reservation, Nev.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 32, p. 260.", "Vol. 32, p. 744.", "Ante, p. 358.", "Vol. 32, p. 260.", "Opening of ceded lands to settlement. October 29, 1906."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Opened unallotted, unreserved lands of the Walker River Indian Reservation in Nevada, ceded by the Pah Ute Indians, to settlement at noon on October 29, 1906.", "categories": ["indian-lands", "public-lands"], "action": "open", "places": [{"name": "Walker River Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "Nevada"}], "states": ["Nevada"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [65], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-09-26", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "An act of 1936 let the Secretary of the Interior restore public-domain land to the Walker River Reservation, and part of the 1906 lands came back.", "source": "Act of June 22, 1936, ch. 698, 49 Stat. 1806", "date": "1936-06-22", "story": 65}], "today": [{"name": "Walker River Reservation", "kind": "indian_reservation", "relation": "part", "state": "Nevada", "note": "Northern Paiute reservation along the lower Walker River north of Walker Lake.", "source": "research entry", "story": 65}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1936-06-22", "text": "Congress authorized restoring public-domain land to the reservation.", "source": "49 Stat. 1806", "story": 65}], "uncertain": ["How many acres the October 29, 1906 opening threw open is not known."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-507", "type": "executive_order", "number": "507", "tr_sequence": 453, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-09-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Joseph Tyssowski in Interior Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_507", "revid": 1857693, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 105"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By reason of his special knowledge of the public land laws and his long practice therein, Joseph Tyssowski may be reinstated in the classified service of the Interior Department, notwithstanding the time limit."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 105)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, September 26, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Joseph Tyssowski, valued for his knowledge of public land law, to be reinstated in the Interior Department despite the time limit.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "restore", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Joseph Tyssowski"], "significance": 1, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-09-26", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-508", "type": "executive_order", "number": "508", "tr_sequence": 454, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-09-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Except Private Secretary in Customs Office at Port of New York from Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_508", "revid": 1854845, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 94"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Schedule A of the civil-service rules is hereby amended by adding to Section II, Treasury Department, paragraph 2, the following:", "One private secretary in the office of the naval officer of customs at the port of New York."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 94)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, September 29, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Exempted one private secretary in the naval officer of customs' office at the port of New York from civil-service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["New York"], "people": [], "significance": 1, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-09-29", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-509", "type": "executive_order", "number": "509", "tr_sequence": 455, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-10-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Prizes for Excellence in Gunnery Exercises and Target Practice for Men of Marine Corps", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_509", "revid": 1862166, "printed_source": "General Order No. 28, Navy Dept., October 20, 1906"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Prizes for excellence in gunnery exercises and target practice, both afloat and ashore, in all competitions occurring subsequently to June 30, 1906, shall be awarded and paid to enlisted men of the Marine Corps in like manner, and in the same amounts, and under the same conditions as to enlisted men of the Navy."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Order No. 28, Navy Dept., October 20, 1906)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, October 1, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Extended Navy prizes for excellence in gunnery and target practice, afloat and ashore, to enlisted Marines on the same terms, for competitions after June 30, 1906.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-10-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-510", "type": "executive_order", "number": "510", "tr_sequence": 456, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-10-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Approving Removal of Office of Surveyor General of Alaska from Sitka to Juneau", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Approved moving the Surveyor General of Alaska's office from Sitka to Juneau.", "categories": ["insular-territories", "public-lands"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Sitka", "kind": "town", "state": "Alaska"}, {"name": "Juneau", "kind": "town", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-10-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-660", "type": "proclamation", "number": "660", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-10-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Santa Barbara Forest Reserve, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 660, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-660"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3238, "last_page": 3238, "cite": "34 Stat. 3238", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3238.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-10-03", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Santa Barbara Forest Reserve, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, The Santa Barbara Forest Reserve, in the State of California, was established by proclamation dated December twenty-second, nineteen hundred and three, consolidating The Pine Mountain and Zaca Lake Forest Reserve and The Santa Ynez Forest Re-serve, and including an additional tract of land;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by enlarging the said Santa Barbara Forest Reserve to embrace certain additional lands, in the State of California, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 pro-claim that the aforesaid Santa Barbara Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 3d day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, [seal.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3238", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Santa Barbara Forest Reserve, Cal.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 33, p. 2327.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30. p. 36.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Expanded the Santa Barbara Forest Reserve in California to take in additional partly timbered land.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Santa Barbara Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-10-03", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Santa Barbara forest, which absorbed the Monterey in 1919, became the Los Padres in 1936.", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "date": "1936", "story": 63}], "today": [{"name": "Los Padres National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "California", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-511", "type": "executive_order", "number": "511", "tr_sequence": 457, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-10-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Excusing United States Spanish War Veterans Federal Employees in Washington from Work for Spanish War Veterans' Parade", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_511", "revid": 6033851, "printed_source": "| notes    ="}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that the members of the United Spanish War Veterans employed in the several executive departments, the government printing office and the navy yard and station at Washington, D. C., be excused from duty on October 9, 1906, to enable them to participate in the parade of the organization arranged for that day."], "source": "Wikisource (from | notes    =)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, October 3, 1906. == Notes == See related: Executive Order 514, October 5, 1906", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Gave members of the United Spanish War Veterans working in Washington's federal departments, printing office and navy yard the day off October 9, 1906, to march in the group's parade.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-10-03", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-512", "type": "executive_order", "number": "512", "tr_sequence": 458, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-10-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Removing Lands from Fort San Pedro Military Reservation, Iloilo, Panay, Philippine Islands, for Lighthouse Purposes", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_512", "revid": 1859484, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 173, War Dept., October 12, 1906"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The military reservation at Fort San Pedro, in the neighborhood of Iloilo, Panay, Philippine Islands, as reserved by Executive Order of October 10, 1903 (G. O., No. 43, War Department, October 27, 1903), and modified by Executive Order of September 18, 1905 (G. O., No. 161, War Department, September 30, 1905), is further modified so as to exclude therefrom the parcel of land reserved for light-house purposes by order of the Civil Governor of the Philippine Islands, dated July 28, 1903 (Executive Order, No. 60, Manila, July 28, 1903), and erroneously included therein, viz:", "The reservation for Iloilo port light, entrance to Iloilo River, Island of Panay, Province of Iloilo, described as an area on the right bank of the Iloilo River at its junction with the sea surrounding the present lighthouse structures and inclosed by metes and bounds as follows:", "Beginning at a point on the shore line of Iloilo Strait thirty-one meters southward from a point on said shore line opposite the center of the present light; thence westerly on a line parallel to the longer side of the light-keeper's dwelling thirty-six meters; thence northerly on a line parallel to the shorter side of the light-keeper's dwelling forty-six meters; thence due east thirty meters, more or less, to the shore line; thence along said shore line to the point of beginning."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 173, War Dept., October 12, 1906)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, October 3, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Carved the Iloilo port light site, mistakenly included in the Fort San Pedro military reservation on Panay, Philippine Islands, out of that reservation.", "categories": ["military-naval", "lighthouses", "insular-territories"], "action": "reduce", "places": [{"name": "Fort San Pedro Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Iloilo Port Light", "kind": "lighthouse", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-10-03", "impact": {"uncertain": ["What became of the parcel taken from Fort San Pedro at Iloilo for lighthouse purposes has not been traced."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-661", "type": "proclamation", "number": "661", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-10-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Siskiyou Forest Reserve, Oregon", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 661, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-661"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3239, "last_page": 3239, "cite": "34 Stat. 3239", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3239.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-10-05", "table_title": "Setting apart the Siskiyou Forest Reserve, Oregon."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Oregon, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “ That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Oregon, shown as the Siskiyou Forest Re-serve on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 5th day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, [seal.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3239", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Siskiyou Forest Reserve, Oreg.", "Preamble.", "Post, p. 3280.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve Oregon.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Siskiyou Forest Reserve on partly timbered public lands in Oregon.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Siskiyou Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}], "states": ["Oregon"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-10-05", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Rogue River–Siskiyou National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Oregon", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-662", "type": "proclamation", "number": "662", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-10-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Mount Taylor Forest Reserve, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 662, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-662"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3239, "last_page": 3240, "cite": "34 Stat. 3239–3240", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3239.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-10-05", "table_title": "Setting apart the Mount Taylor Forest Reserve, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public hinds in the Territory of New Mexico, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled. “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes.” “That the President of the United States may. from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof ”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the Territory of New Mexico, shown as the Mount Taylor Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 5th day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and [seal.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3239", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Mount Taylor Forest Reserve, N. Mex.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, New Mexico.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart the Mount Taylor Forest Reserve on partly timbered public lands in New Mexico Territory.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Mount Taylor Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-10-05", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "proc-803", "relation": "modified_by", "note": null, "story": 71, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-04-16", "title": "Modifying Manzano National Forest, New Mexico", "type": "proclamation", "number": "803"}]}
{"id": "eo-513", "type": "executive_order", "number": "513", "tr_sequence": 459, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-10-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Retention of Joe Osscar as Engineer in Leech Lake Indian Agency Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_513", "revid": 1858174, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 105"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Joe Osscar may be retained as engineer at the Leech Lake Indian Agency, Minn., without examination under the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 105)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, October 5, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Joe Osscar stay on as engineer at the Leech Lake Indian Agency in Minnesota without a civil-service exam.", "categories": ["civil-service", "indian-lands"], "action": "appoint", "places": [{"name": "Leech Lake Indian Agency", "kind": "other", "state": "Minnesota"}], "states": ["Minnesota"], "people": ["Joe Osscar"], "significance": 1, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-10-05", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-514", "type": "executive_order", "number": "514", "tr_sequence": 460, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-10-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Excusing Members of the Grand Army of the Republic Employed in Executive Departments at Washington from Duty for Spanish War Veterans' Parade", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Excused members of the Grand Army of the Republic working in the executive departments at Washington from duty for the Spanish War Veterans' parade.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-10-05", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-663", "type": "proclamation", "number": "663", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-10-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Uinta Forest Reserve, Utah and Wyoming", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 663, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-663"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3240, "last_page": 3241, "cite": "34 Stat. 3240–3241", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3240.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-10-06", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Uinta Forest Reserve, Utah and Wyoming."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Uinta Forest Reserve, in the State of Utah, was established by proclamation dated February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, under the name of the Uintah Forest Reserve, and the boundaries thereof were subsequently changed by proclamations dated July fourteenth, nineteen hundred and five, January sixteenth, nineteen hundred and six, and May twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, to include additional lands in the States of Utah and Wyoming, and also to exclude from the reserve certain lands in said States;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by further adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, in the State of Utah, which are in part covered with timber:", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 aforesaid Uinta Forest Reserve is hereby further enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "3241 Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 6th day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and of [seal.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3240", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Uinta Forest Reserve, Utah and Wyo.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 29, p. 895.", "Ante, pp. 3110, 3186. 3207.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Added more partly timbered land in Utah to the Uinta Forest Reserve, which spans Utah and Wyoming.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Uinta Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah", "Wyoming"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-10-06", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Utah", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-608", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Same reserve, first enlarged January 16, 1906, under the name Uintah.", "story": 63, "date": "1906-01-16", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Uintah Forest Reserve, Utah and Wyoming", "type": "proclamation", "number": "608"}]}
{"id": "eo-515", "type": "executive_order", "number": "515", "tr_sequence": 461, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-10-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Including Portion of Fort Grant Military Reservation, Arizona, in Mt. Graham Forest Reserve", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_515", "revid": 3869069, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 177, War Dept., October 17, 1906"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that all that part of the military reservation of Fort Grant, Arizona, as declared by Executive Order of April 17, 1876, which lies northerly and easterly of the following-described lines, shall become a part of the Mt. Graham Forest Reserve, to be protected and administered as forest-reserve land, but that the same shall remain subject to the unhampered use of the War Department for military purposes, and to insure such use, the land shall not be subject to any form of appropriation or disposal under the land laws of the United States, viz:", "Beginning at the northeast corner of section 5, township 9 south, range 23 east, in Graham County, Arizona; thence east along the boundary of the said forest reserve, to the west boundary of the military reservation; thence S. 7° 28′ E., along the last-mentioned boundary, to the south line of section 9, same township and range; thence east to a point two miles east of the southeast corner of section 8 of same township and range; thence south one mile; thence east two miles; thence south one mile; thence east one mile; thence south one mile; thence east one mile; thence south to the east boundary of the reservation."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 177, War Dept., October 17, 1906)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, October 6, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Made part of the Fort Grant military reservation in Arizona part of the Mt. Graham Forest Reserve, while keeping it open to unhampered War Department use and closed to land-law claims.", "categories": ["forests", "military-naval"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Fort Grant Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Arizona"}, {"name": "Mt. Graham Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-10-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-516", "type": "executive_order", "number": "516", "tr_sequence": 462, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-10-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Extending Time Limit for Completion of Work of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission Until March 2, 1907", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_516", "revid": 1859638, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By authority of the sixteenth section of the act of Congress approved March 2, 1901, entitled \"An act to carry into effect the stipulations of article 7 of the treaty between the United States and Spain, concluded on the 10th day of December, 1898,\" the period of two years from the date of the approval of said act (during which the powers and jurisdiction granted to the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission duly appointed under the first section of said act of Congress to examine and adjudicate all claims of citizens of the United States against Spain which the United States agreed to adjudicate and settle by the seventh article of said treaty were, according to said act, to be in force and continue) is hereby extended to March 2, 1907, instead of January 1, as provided for in the Executive order of August 9, 1906, and for no longer time, it being the judgment of the President that such extension is necessary to enable the Commission to complete its work."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, October 6, 1906. == Notes == Supersedes: Executive Order 492, August 8, 1906 Superseded by: Executive Order 557, February 2, 1907", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Extended the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission's powers to examine and settle U.S. citizens' claims against Spain until March 2, 1907.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs", "government-administration"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-10-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-664", "type": "proclamation", "number": "664", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-10-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Diamond Mountain Forest Reserve, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 664, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-664"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3241, "last_page": 3241, "cite": "34 Stat. 3241", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3241.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-10-15", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Diamond Mountain Forest Reserve,’California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Diamond Mountain Forest Reserve, in the State of California, was established by proclamation dated July fourteenth, nineteen hundred and five;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, within the State of California, which are in part covered with timber;", "And whereas, it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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,” that “ The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve ”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the said act of Congress, do proclaim that the aforesaid Diamond Mountain Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 15th day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and [seal.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3241", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Diamond Mountain Forest Reserve, Cal.", "Preamble.", "Ante, p. 3113.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Diamond Mountain Forest Reserve, first proclaimed July 14, 1905, by adding partly timbered lands in California and reserving them from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Diamond Mountain Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-10-15", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-517", "type": "executive_order", "number": "517", "tr_sequence": 463, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-10-19", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Prescribing Regulations Governing the Presentation of the Medal of Honor to Navy Enlisted Men and Officers", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_517", "revid": 1862212, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The presentation of a Medal of Honor to any enlisted man in the Naval Service, as awarded by section 1407 of the Revised Statutes and the act of March 3, 1901, and also to officers whenever the same may be authorized by law, will always be made with formal and impressive ceremonial.", "The recipient will, when practicable, be ordered to Washington, D. C., and the presentation will be made by the President as Commander-in-Chief, or by such representative as the President may designate.", "When not practicable to have the presentation at Washington, the details of time, place, and ceremony will be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy for each case.", "In time of war the presentation will be made by the commander-in-chief of the fleet, or the squadron or division commander."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, October 19, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Set the ceremony for presenting the Medal of Honor to Navy enlisted men and officers, with recipients ordered to Washington, when practicable, to receive it from the President or his representative.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-10-19", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-665", "type": "proclamation", "number": "665", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-10-22", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Thanksgiving Day, 1906", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 665, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-665"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3242, "last_page": 3242, "cite": "34 Stat. 3242", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3242.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-10-22", "table_title": "Designating Thursday, November 29, 1906, as a day of general thanksgiving."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.", "A PROCLAMATION.", "THE time of year has come when, in accordance with the wise custom of our forefathers, it becomes my duty to set aside a special day of thanksgiving and praise to the Almighty because of the blessings we have received, and of prayer that these blessings may be continued. Yet another year of widespread well-being has past. Never before in our history or in the history of any other nation has a people enjoyed more abounding material prosperity than is ours; a prosperity so great that it should arouse in us no spirit of reckless pride, and least of all a spirit of heedless disregard of our responsibilities; but rather a sober sense of our many blessings, and a resolute purpose, under Providence, not to forfeit them by any action of our own.", "Material well-being, indispensable tho it is, can never be anything but the foundation of true national greatness and happiness. If we build nothing upon this foundation, then our national life will be as meaningless and empty as a house where only the foundation has been laid. Upon our material well-being must be built a superstructure of individual and national life lived in accordance with the laws of the highest morality, or else our prosperity itself will in the long run turn out a curse instead of a blessing. We should be both reverently thankful for what we have received, and earnestly bent upon turning it into a means of grace and not of destruction.", "Accordingly I hereby set apart Thursday, the twenty-ninth day of November, next, as a day of thanksgiving and supplication, on which the people shall meet in their homes or their churches, devoutly acknowledge all that has been given them, and to pray that they may in addition receive the power to use these gifts aright.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 22d day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first.", "[SEAL.]", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:", "ELIHU ROOT", "Secretary of State."], "source": "34 Stat. 3242 (GovInfo Statutes at Large page images, vol. 34, pt. 3), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Seal marker and countersignature (Elihu Root, Secretary of State) restored; simplified spellings 'past', 'tho', 'affixt' kept as printed. The Statutes reads 'devoutly acknowledge'; the signed typescript at Houghton Library (MS Am 1454.50 (146); TR Center record o285172) reads 'devoutly to acknowledge', and the dropped 'to' is a printer's omission, so quotations of that sentence should follow the signed original. The typescript confirms 'so great ... arouse', 'as meaningless', 'life lived', and 'affixt'.", "story": 66}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Proclaimed Thursday, November 29, 1906, a day of national thanksgiving and prayer for the year's blessings.", "categories": ["ceremonial"], "action": "announce", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [66], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-10-22", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The proclamation was widely reprinted: fifteen items in fourteen California papers between October 23 and November 30, 1906.", "source": "California Digital Newspaper Collection searches; Fresno Evening Democrat, October 23, 1906", "date": "1906-10-23", "story": 66}, {"text": "The Associated Press text normalized the simplified spellings, and no California paper that fall remarked on the spellings in this proclamation.", "source": "Fresno Evening Democrat, October 23, 1906", "date": "1906-10", "story": 66}], "legacy": [{"text": "It is one link in the unbroken chain of yearly presidential Thanksgiving proclamations since Lincoln's of October 3, 1863.", "source": "research entry", "story": 66}, {"text": "It survives as a specimen of the simplified-spelling experiment, which Roosevelt abandoned after the House voted against it in December 1906.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1906-12", "story": 66}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1941-12-26", "text": "A joint resolution fixed Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November; under that rule the 1906 holiday would have fallen on November 22.", "source": "55 Stat. 862", "story": 66}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-776", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 70, "inferred": true, "date": "1907-10-25", "title": "Thanksgiving Day, 1907", "type": "proclamation", "number": "776"}]}
{"id": "eo-518", "type": "executive_order", "number": "518", "tr_sequence": 464, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-10-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Administration of Provisional Government of Cuba through the Bureau of Insular Affairs", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_518", "revid": 1712887, "printed_source": "[http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA530&id=mWZZAAAAIAAJ#v=onepage&q=&f=true External Information about this EO]  "}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that the temporary administration of the government of the Republic of Cuba in virtue of the requirements of Article three of the Treaty of May twenty-second, one thousand nine hundred and three, shall be conducted in Havana by the Provisional Governor subject to the supervision of the Secretary of War; and all business in relation thereto in this country will be transacted in the Bureau of Insular Affairs of the War Department, where it will be made a matter of official record.", "Theodore Roosevelt", "The White House, October 23, 1906."], "source": "Laws Relating to Insular and Military Affairs (U.S. Congressional Serial Set vol. 6527, 1914), p. 530 (page image), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Wikisource's \"It Is hereby ordered\" corrected to \"It is,\" agreeing with the page image and with the Evening Star printing of October 29, 1906.", "story": 90}, "summary": "Directed that Cuba's temporary government be run in Havana by the Provisional Governor under the Secretary of War, with related business in the United States handled by the War Department's Bureau of Insular Affairs.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs", "government-administration"], "action": "regulate", "places": [{"name": "Cuba", "kind": "country"}], "states": ["Cuba"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-10-23", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Washington Evening Star printed the order's operative text in full on its front page under the head \"RELATIONS WITH CUBA,\" six days after it was signed.", "source": "Evening Star (Washington), October 29, 1906, p. 1", "date": "1906-10-29", "story": 90}, {"text": "The intervention it administered was argued over in the press and watched abroad; critics saw overreach under the Platt Amendment, while defenders pointed to Estrada Palma's request and Roosevelt's stated plan to leave.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1906", "story": 90}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The order placed the provisional government, already run by Governor Charles E. Magoon since October 13, under the Secretary of War, with all related business handled and recorded in the Bureau of Insular Affairs.", "source": "National Archives, Guide to Federal Records, RG 199", "date": "1906-10-23", "story": 90}, {"kind": "diplomatic", "text": "The provisional government was abolished on January 28, 1909, on the installation of the elected president, José Miguel Gómez.", "source": "National Archives, Guide to Federal Records, RG 199", "date": "1909-01-28", "story": 90}, {"kind": "diplomatic", "text": "The Army of Cuban Pacification was disbanded by general order on April 1, 1909, and the last American soldiers sailed from Havana that morning.", "source": "Herald and News (Newberry, S.C.), April 6, 1909, p. 7", "date": "1909-04-01", "story": 90}], "legacy": [{"text": "The occupation was one of several U.S. interventions the Platt Amendment allowed before the amendment was abrogated in 1934.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1934", "story": 90}, {"text": "Magoon's administration remains contested in Cuban memory, remembered by many for patronage and graft even as it built roads and reorganized the government.", "source": "research entry", "story": 90}], "today": [{"name": "Bureau of Insular Affairs", "kind": "other", "relation": "abolished", "note": "Abolished by Reorganization Plan No. II of 1939; functions moved to the Interior Department's Division of Territories and Island Possessions.", "source": "Reorganization Plan No. II of 1939", "story": 90}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1934-05-29", "text": "Executive Order 6726 moved Puerto Rico out of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, effective March 2, 1935.", "source": "Executive Order 6726", "story": 90}, {"date": "1939-07-01", "text": "Reorganization Plan No. II of 1939 abolished the Bureau of Insular Affairs and transferred its functions to the Interior Department.", "source": "Reorganization Plan No. II of 1939", "story": 90}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-519", "type": "executive_order", "number": "519", "tr_sequence": 465, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-10-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Abandoned Portion of New Fort Lyon Military Reservation, Bent County, Colorado, and Buildings Thereon, for the Navy Department for Sanitarium Purposes", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Set aside the abandoned part of the New Fort Lyon Military Reservation in Bent County, Colorado, and its buildings for the Navy Department to use as a sanitarium.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "New Fort Lyon Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-10-25", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-520", "type": "executive_order", "number": "520", "tr_sequence": 466, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-10-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Lands Near Valdez, Alaska, as Target Range for Fort Liscum", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_520", "revid": 2166929, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 186, War Dept., November 12, 1906"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The following-described tract of public land, lying on the glacial flats of Valdez Glacier and the mountain side to the west, and situated north of the town of Valdez, in the Territory of Alaska, is hereby reserved from sale or other disposition, subject to private rights, if any there be, and set apart for a target range for the use of the troops of Fort Liscum, Alaska, viz:", "That tract of land included within metes and bounds as follows:", "Beginning at Corner No. 1, which is a stone post set in the ground and marked \"U. S. M. R. Cor. 1,\" and situated about 75 feet from the base of the mountain on the west side of the glacier moraine and about 1 mile from the base of said glacier; thence S. 48° 49′ W. a distance of 6,100 feet to Corner No. 2, which is a stone post set in the ground and marked \"U. S. M. R. Cor. 2;\" thence due west a distance of 5,347 feet to Corner No. 3; said corner being a stone post set in the ground and marked \"S. 245 Cor. 3;\" said monument being the northwest corner of a tract surveyed by A. Judson Adams, of Valdez, Alaska; this course being the southern boundary of the proposed reservation, and is a prolongation of the northern boundary of claim marked \"S. 245;\" thence north, following the eastern boundaries of claims marked \"S. 457\" and \"S. 244,\" also surveyed by said Adams, and the continuation of said boundaries up the side of the mountain to its crest, a distance of approximately 9,280 feet from Corner No. 3, to Corner No. 4; thence following the crest of the mountain in a generally easterly direction to top of the first peak west of Valdez Glacier, from which point Corner No. 1 bears S. 33° 00′ E; thence S. 33° 00′ E. down the side of the mountain to the place of beginning; said tract containing 1,700 acres, more or less. The bearings are true."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 186, War Dept., November 12, 1906)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, October 26, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved a tract on the glacial flats of Valdez Glacier, north of the town of Valdez, Alaska, as a target range for the troops of Fort Liscum.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Fort Liscum", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}, {"name": "Valdez", "kind": "town", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-10-26", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-521", "type": "executive_order", "number": "521", "tr_sequence": 467, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-10-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Promotion of Paul A. Hines Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_521", "revid": 1858176, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 105"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Paul A. Hines, a clerk in the office of the Secretary of Agriculture, may be promoted as a clerk without examination under the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 105)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, October 30, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Paul A. Hines, a clerk in the office of the Secretary of Agriculture, to be promoted without a civil-service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Paul A. Hines"], "significance": 1, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-10-30", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-666", "type": "proclamation", "number": "666", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Sierra Madre Forest Reserve, Wyoming", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 666, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-666"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3242, "last_page": 3243, "cite": "34 Stat. 3242–3243", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3242.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-11-05", "table_title": "Setting apart the Sierra Madre Forest Reserve, Wyoming."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State, of Wyoming, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation:", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “ That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by pub- lic proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Wyoming, shown as the Sierra Madre Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 5th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, [seal.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3242", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Sierra Madre Forest Reserve, Wyo.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Wyoming.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Sierra Madre Forest Reserve in Wyoming, reserving the described timbered public lands from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Sierra Madre Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Wyoming"}], "states": ["Wyoming"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-05", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-667", "type": "proclamation", "number": "667", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Gallinas Forest Reserve, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 667, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-667"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3243, "last_page": 3244, "cite": "34 Stat. 3243–3244", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3243.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-11-05", "table_title": "Setting apart the Gallinas Forest Reserve, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the Territory of New Mexico, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled. “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “That the President of the United States may. from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the Territory of New Mexico, shown as the Gallinas Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "3244 Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 5th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, [seal.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3243", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Gallinas Forest Reserve. N. Mex.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, New Mexico.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Gallinas Forest Reserve in New Mexico Territory, reserving the described timbered public lands from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Gallinas Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-05", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Gallinas went into the Lincoln forest in July 1908.", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "date": "1908-07", "story": 63}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-668", "type": "proclamation", "number": "668", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Chiricahua Forest Reserve, Arizona", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 668, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-668"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3244, "last_page": 3244, "cite": "34 Stat. 3244", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3244.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-11-05", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Chiricahua Forest Reserve, Arizona."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Chiricahua Forest Reserve, in the Territory of Arizona, was established by proclamation dated July thirtieth, nine-teen hundred and two;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, within the Territory of Arizona, which are in part covered with timber;", "And whereas, it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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,” that ”The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may here-after be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve ”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the said act of Congress, do proclaim that the aforesaid Chiricahua Forest Re-serve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 5th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and [seal.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3244", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Chiricahua Forest Reserve, Ariz.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 32, p. 2019.", "Vol. 30, p. 36,", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Chiricahua Forest Reserve, first proclaimed July 30, 1902, by adding partly timbered lands in Arizona Territory and reserving them from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Chiricahua Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-05", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-669", "type": "proclamation", "number": "669", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Magdalena Forest Reserve, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 669, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-669"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3245, "last_page": 3245, "cite": "34 Stat. 3245", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3245.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-11-05", "table_title": "Setting apart the Ekalaka Forest Reserve, Montana."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the Territory of New Mexico, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “ That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the Territory of New Mexico, shown as the Magdalena Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lauds withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 5th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, [seal.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3245", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Magdalena Forest Reserve, N. Mex.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26. p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, New Mexico.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart the Magdalena Forest Reserve in New Mexico Territory, reserving the described timbered public lands from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Magdalena Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-05", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-670", "type": "proclamation", "number": "670", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the San Mateo Forest Reserve, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 670, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-670"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3250, "last_page": 3250, "cite": "34 Stat. 3250", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3250.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-11-05", "table_title": "Setting apart the Salmon River Forest Reserve Idaho."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the Territory of New Mexico, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes’,” “ That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the Territory of New Mexico, shown as the San Mateo Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 5th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, [seal.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3250", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["San Mateo Forest Reserve. N. Mex.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve. New Mexico.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the San Mateo Forest Reserve in New Mexico Territory, reserving the described timbered public lands from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "San Mateo Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-05", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "San Mateo went into the Magdalena forest in July 1908.", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "date": "1908-07", "story": 63}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-671", "type": "proclamation", "number": "671", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Peloncillo Forest Preserve, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 671, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-671"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3249, "last_page": 3249, "cite": "34 Stat. 3249", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3249.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-11-05", "table_title": "Setting apart the San Mateo Forest Reserve, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the Territory of New Mexico, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled. “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” ‘‘That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the Territory of New Mexico, shown as the Peloncillo Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 5th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, [seal.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3249", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Peloncillo Forest Reserve, N. Mex.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26. p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, New Mexico.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Peloncillo Forest Reserve in New Mexico Territory, reserving the described timbered public lands from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Peloncillo Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-05", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Peloncillo went into the Chiricahua forest in July 1908.", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "date": "1908-07", "story": 63}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-672", "type": "proclamation", "number": "672", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Lemhi Forest Reserve, Idaho", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 672, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-672"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3248, "last_page": 3248, "cite": "34 Stat. 3248", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3248.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-11-05", "table_title": "Setting apart the Peloncillo Forest Preserve, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Idaho, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, ”An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “ That the President of the United States may. from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof;”", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Idaho, shown as the Lemhi Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 5th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, [seal.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3248", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Lemhi Forest Reserve. Idaho.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26. p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Idaho.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart the Lemhi Forest Reserve in Idaho, reserving the described timbered public lands from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Lemhi Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Idaho"}], "states": ["Idaho"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-05", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-673", "type": "proclamation", "number": "673", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Raft River Forest Reserve, Idaho and Utah", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 673, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-673"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3248, "last_page": 3247, "cite": "34 Stat. 3248–3247", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3248.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-11-05", "table_title": "Setting apart the Lemhi Forest Reserve, Idaho."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the States of Idaho and Utah, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes.” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the States of Idaho and Utah, shown as the Raft River Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 5th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and [seal.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3248", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Raft River Forest Reserve, Idaho and Utah.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Idaho and Utah.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Raft River Forest Reserve, spanning Idaho and Utah, and reserved the described timbered public lands from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Raft River Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Idaho"}, {"name": "Raft River Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Idaho", "Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-05", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-674", "type": "proclamation", "number": "674", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Snowy Mountains Forest Reserve, Montana", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 674, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-674"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3247, "last_page": 3247, "cite": "34 Stat. 3247", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3247.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-11-05", "table_title": "Setting apart the Raft River Forest Reserve, Idaho and Utah."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Montana, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled. “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes.” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Montana, shown as the Snowy Mountains Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This, proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 5th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and [seal.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3247", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Snowy Mountains Forest Reserve, Mont.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Montana.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Snowy Mountains Forest Reserve in Montana, reserving the described timbered public lands from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Snowy Mountains Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-05", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-675", "type": "proclamation", "number": "675", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Ekalaka Forest Reserve, Montana", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 675, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-675"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3246, "last_page": 3246, "cite": "34 Stat. 3246", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3246.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-11-05", "table_title": "Setting apart the Snowy Mountains Forest Reserve, Montana."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Montana, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled ”An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof;”", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Montana, shown as the Ekalaka Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 5th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and [seal.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3246", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Ekalaka Forest Reserve, Mont.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Montana.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart the Ekalaka Forest Reserve in Montana, reserving the described timbered public lands from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Ekalaka Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-05", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The reserve went into the Sioux National Forest in July 1908, later part of the Custer Gallatin.", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "date": "1908-07", "story": 63}], "today": [{"name": "Custer Gallatin National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Montana", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-676", "type": "proclamation", "number": "676", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Big Hole Forest Reserve, Montana", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 676, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-676"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3253, "last_page": 3254, "cite": "34 Stat. 3253–3254", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3253.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-11-05", "table_title": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public hinds in the State of Montana, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” ”That the President of the United States may. from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not. as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation. declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Montana, shown as the Big Hole Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, 1 have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.", "Done at the City of Washington this 5th day of November, in the [SEAL.] year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3253", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Big Hole Forest Reserve. Mont.", "Preamble.", "Post, p. 3281.", "Vol. 26. p. 1103.", "Forest reserve. Montana.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Big Hole Forest Reserve in Montana, reserving the described timbered public lands from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Big Hole Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-05", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-677", "type": "proclamation", "number": "677", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Kootenai Forest Reserve, Montana and Idaho", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 677, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-677"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3254, "last_page": 3253, "cite": "34 Stat. 3254–3253", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3254.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-11-05", "table_title": "Setting apart the Big Hole Forest Reserve, Montana."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Kootenai Forest Reserve, in the State of Montana, was established by proclamation dated August thirteenth, nineteen hundred and six;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, within the State of Idaho, which are in part covered with timber;", "And whereas, it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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,” that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the said act of Congress, do proclaim that the aforesaid Kootenai Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 5th day of November, in the [SEAL.] year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3254", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Kootenai Forest Reserve, Mont. and Idaho.", "Preamble.", "Ante, p. 3225.", "Vol. 30. p. 30.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Kootenai Forest Reserve in Montana, proclaimed August 13, 1906, by adding partly timbered lands across the line in Idaho.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Kootenai Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}, {"name": "Kootenai Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Idaho"}], "states": ["Montana", "Idaho"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-05", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Kootenai National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Montana", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-643", "relation": "enlarges", "note": "Enlarged the Kootenai reserve created August 13, 1906.", "story": 63, "date": "1906-08-13", "title": "Setting Apart the Kootenai Forest Reserve, Montana", "type": "proclamation", "number": "643"}]}
{"id": "proc-678", "type": "proclamation", "number": "678", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Charleston Forest Reserve, Nevada", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 678, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-678"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3253, "last_page": 3253, "cite": "34 Stat. 3253", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3253.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-11-05", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Kootenai Forest Reserve, Montana and Idaho."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Nevada, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “ An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” ”That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Nevada, shown as the Charleston Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved. at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 5th day of November, in [SEAL.] the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3253", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Charleston Forest Reserve, Nev.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 20, p. 1106.", "Forest reserve, Nevada.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Charleston Forest Reserve in Nevada, reserving the described timbered public lands from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Charleston Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Nevada"}], "states": ["Nevada"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-05", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-679", "type": "proclamation", "number": "679", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Independence Forest Reserve, Nevada", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 679, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-679"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3252, "last_page": 3252, "cite": "34 Stat. 3252", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3252.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-11-05", "table_title": "Setting apart the Charleston Forest Reserve, Nevada."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Nevada, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, ‘‘An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” ” That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Nevada, shown as the Independence Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 5th day of November, in [SEAL.] the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3252", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Independence Forest Reserve, Nev.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Nevada.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart the Independence Forest Reserve in Nevada, reserving the described timbered public lands from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Independence Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Nevada"}], "states": ["Nevada"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-05", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The reserve went into the Humboldt National Forest in July 1908.", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "date": "1908-07", "story": 63}], "today": [{"name": "Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Nevada", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-680", "type": "proclamation", "number": "680", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Baboquivari Forest Reserve, Arizona", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 680, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-680"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3251, "last_page": 3251, "cite": "34 Stat. 3251", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3251.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-11-05", "table_title": "Setting apart the Independence Forest Reserve, Nevada."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the Territory of Arizona, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes.’’ “That the President of the United States may. from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not. as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Pub-lie Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the Territory of Arizona, shown as the Baboquivari Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 5th day of November, in the [SEAL.] year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3251", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Baboquivari Forest Reserve, Ariz.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Arizona.", "Lands excepted", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Baboquivari Forest Reserve in Arizona Territory, reserving the described timbered public lands from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Baboquivari Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-05", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-681", "type": "proclamation", "number": "681", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Salmon River Forest Reserve, Idaho", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 681, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-681"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3251, "last_page": 3250, "cite": "34 Stat. 3251–3250", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3251.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-11-05", "table_title": "Setting apart the Baboquivari Forest Reserve, Arizona."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Idaho, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, ‘‘An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” ‘‘That the President of the United States may. from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservation and the limits thereof; ”", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Idaho, shown as the Salmon River Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 5th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and [seal.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3251", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Salmon River Forest Reserve, Idaho.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26. p. 1103.", "Forest reserve. Idaho.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Salmon River Forest Reserve in Idaho, reserving the described timbered public lands from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Salmon River Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Idaho"}], "states": ["Idaho"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-05", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-522", "type": "executive_order", "number": "522", "tr_sequence": 468, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Abolishing Marshall Land District, Minnesota, with Office at St. Cloud, and Lands and Business Transferred to Duluth Land District", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Abolished the Marshall Land District in Minnesota, whose office was at St. Cloud, and moved its lands and business to the Duluth Land District.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Marshall Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Minnesota"}, {"name": "Duluth Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Minnesota"}], "states": ["Minnesota"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-05", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-523", "type": "executive_order", "number": "523", "tr_sequence": 469, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Albert M. West as Scientific Assistant in Department of Agriculture Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_523", "revid": 1858178, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 105"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Albert M. West, of Massachusetts, may be reinstated to the position of scientific assistant in the Department of Agriculture without regard to the one year limitation of civil service Rule IX, as it appears that the qualifications which he possesses are of an unusual and expert character."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 105)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, November 5, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Permitted Albert M. West of Massachusetts to be reinstated as a scientific assistant in the Department of Agriculture despite the one-year limit of civil-service Rule IX, citing his unusual, expert qualifications.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "restore", "places": [], "states": ["Massachusetts"], "people": ["Albert M. West"], "significance": 1, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-05", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-682", "type": "proclamation", "number": "682", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Huachuca Forest Reserve, Arizona", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 682, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-682"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3255, "last_page": 3256, "cite": "34 Stat. 3255–3256", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3255.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-11-06", "table_title": "Setting apart the Huachuca Forest Reserve, Arizona."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the Territory of Arizona, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled. “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation. declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the Territory of Arizona, shown as the Huachuca Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropria- tion, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 6th day of November, in the [SEAL.] year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3255", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Huachuca Forest Reserve, Arz.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26. p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Arizona.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart the Huachuca Forest Reserve in Arizona Territory, reserving the described timbered public lands from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Huachuca Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-683", "type": "proclamation", "number": "683", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Coeur d'Alene Forest Reserve, Idaho", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 683, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-683"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3256, "last_page": 3256, "cite": "34 Stat. 3256", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3256.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-11-06", "table_title": "Setting apart the Cœur d’Alene Forest Reserve, Idaho."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Idaho, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation:", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes.” “That the President of the United States may. from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation. declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof;”", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Idaho, shown as the Cœur d’Alene Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 6th day of November, in the [SEAL.] year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six. and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3256", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Cœur D ‘Alène Forest Reserve, Idaho.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 20, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve. Idaho.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Coeur d'Alene Forest Reserve in Idaho, reserving the described timbered public lands from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Coeur d'Alene Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Idaho"}], "states": ["Idaho"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-06", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Idaho Panhandle National Forests", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Idaho", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-684", "type": "proclamation", "number": "684", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Priest River Forest Reserve, Idaho and Washington", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 684, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-684"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3257, "last_page": 3257, "cite": "34 Stat. 3257", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3257.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-11-06", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Priest River Forest Reserve, Idaho and Washington."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Priest River Forest Reserve, in the States of Idaho and Washington, was established by proclamation dated February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, within the State of Idaho, which are in part covered with timber;", "And whereas, it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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,” that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”:", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the said act of Congress do proclaim that the aforesaid Priest River Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 6th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3257", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Priest River Forest Reserve, Idaho and Wash.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 29, p. 903.", "Post, p. 3309.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Added partly timbered lands in Idaho to the Priest River Forest Reserve of Idaho and Washington, first proclaimed February 22, 1897.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Priest River Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Idaho"}], "states": ["Idaho", "Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-685", "type": "proclamation", "number": "685", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Manzano Forest Reserve, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 685, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-685"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3257, "last_page": 3258, "cite": "34 Stat. 3257–3258", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3257.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-11-06", "table_title": "Setting apart the Manzano Forest Reserve, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the Territory of New Mexico, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act lo repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “That the President of the United States may, from time to lime set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the Territory of New Mexico, shown as the Manzano Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 6th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3257", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Manzano Forest Reserve, N. Mex.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, New Mexico.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Manzano Forest Reserve in New Mexico Territory, reserving the described timbered public lands from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Manzano Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-06", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Manzano was renamed the Cibola in 1931.", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "date": "1931", "story": 63}], "today": [{"name": "Cibola National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "renamed", "state": "New Mexico", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-686", "type": "proclamation", "number": "686", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Pryor Mountains Forest Reserve, Montana", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 686, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-686"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3258, "last_page": 3259, "cite": "34 Stat. 3258–3259", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3258.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-11-06", "table_title": "Setting apart the Pryor Mountains Forest Reserve, Montana."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Montana, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Montana, shown as the Pryor Mountains Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than national reclamation or forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 6th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3258", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Pryor Mountains Forest Reserve, Mont.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Montana.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart the Pryor Mountains Forest Reserve in Montana, reserving the described timbered public lands from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Pryor Mountains Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-687", "type": "proclamation", "number": "687", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Missoula Forest Reserve, Montana", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 687, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-687"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3259, "last_page": 3259, "cite": "34 Stat. 3259", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3259.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-11-06", "table_title": "Setting apart the Missoula Forest Reserve, Montana."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Montana, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Montana, shown as the Missoula Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 6th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3259", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Missoula Forest Reserve, Mont.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Montana.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Missoula Forest Reserve in Montana, reserving the described timbered public lands from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Missoula Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-688", "type": "proclamation", "number": "688", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Modifying Boundaries of the Little Belt Forest Reserve, Montana", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 688, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-688"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3254, "last_page": 3255, "cite": "34 Stat. 3254–3255", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3254.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-11-06", "table_title": "Modifying boundaries of the Little Belt Forest Reserve, Montana."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Little Belt Forest Reserve, in the State of Montana, was established by proclamation dated August sixteenth, nineteen hundred and two, and was enlarged, by proclamation dated October third, nineteen hundred and five, to include additional lands in the State of Montana;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by further adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, in the State of Montana, which are in part covered with timber, and by excluding therefrom certain lands;", "3255 Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 aforesaid Little Belt Forest Reserve are hereby further changed, and that they are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "The lands hereby excluded from the reserve and restored to the public domain shall be open to settlement from the date hereof, but shall not be subject to entry, filing, or selection until after ninety days notice by such publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 6th day of November, in the [SEAL.] year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six. and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3254", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Little Belt Forest Reserve, Mont.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 32. p. 2022.", "Ante, p. 3180.", "Post, p. 3277.", "Boundaries changed.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Lands excepted.", "Excluded lands opened to settlement.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Redrew the Little Belt Forest Reserve in Montana, adding partly timbered lands and excluding others; the excluded lands returned to the public domain and opened to settlement.", "categories": ["forests", "public-lands"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Little Belt Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-06", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The proclamation both added land to the reserve and excluded some.", "source": "34 Stat. 3186–3263", "date": "1906-11-06", "story": 63}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-689", "type": "proclamation", "number": "689", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Lolo Forest Reserve, Montana", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 689, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-689"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3260, "last_page": 3260, "cite": "34 Stat. 3260", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3260.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-11-06", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Lolo Forest Reserve, Montana."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Lolo Forest Reserve, in the State of Montana, was established by proclamation dated September twentieth, nineteen hundred and six;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, within the State of Montana, which are in part covered with timber;", "And whereas, it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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,” that “The President is Hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the said act of Congress, do proclaim that the aforesaid Lolo Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 6th clay of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3260", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Lolo Forest Reserve, Mont.", "Preamble.", "Ante, p. 3234.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Lolo Forest Reserve, first proclaimed September 20, 1906, by adding partly timbered lands in Montana and reserving them from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Lolo Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-06", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Lolo National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Montana", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-654", "relation": "enlarges", "note": "Enlarged the Lolo reserve created September 20, 1906.", "story": 63, "date": "1906-09-20", "title": "Setting Apart the Lolo Forest Reserve, Montana", "type": "proclamation", "number": "654"}]}
{"id": "proc-690", "type": "proclamation", "number": "690", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Sawtooth Forest Reserve, Idaho", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 690, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-690"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3260, "last_page": 3261, "cite": "34 Stat. 3260–3261", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3260.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-11-06", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Sawtooth Forest Reserve, Idaho."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Sawtooth Forest Reserve, in the State of Idaho, was established by proclamation dated May twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and five;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, within the State of Idaho, which are in part covered with timber;", "And whereas, it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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,” that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve;”", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the said act of Congress, do proclaim that the aforesaid Sawtooth Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 6th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3260", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Sawtooth Forest Reserve, Idaho.", "Preamble.", "Ante, p. 3058.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Sawtooth Forest Reserve, first proclaimed May 29, 1905, by adding partly timbered lands in Idaho and reserving them from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Sawtooth Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Idaho"}], "states": ["Idaho"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-691", "type": "proclamation", "number": "691", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Jemez Forest Reserve, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 691, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-691"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3261, "last_page": 3262, "cite": "34 Stat. 3261–3262", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3261.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-11-07", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Jemez Forest Reserve, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Jemez Forest Reserve, in the Territory of New Mexico, was established by proclamation dated October twelfth, nineteen hundred and five;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, within the Territory of New Mexico, which are in part covered with timber;", "And whereas, it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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,” that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve;”", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the said act of Congress, do proclaim that the aforesaid Jemez Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington, this 7th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3261", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Jemez Forest Reserve, N. Mex.", "Preamble.", "Ante, p. 3182.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Jemez Forest Reserve, first proclaimed October 12, 1905, by adding partly timbered lands in New Mexico Territory and reserving them from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Jemez Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-07", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Part of the Jemez went into the Carson forest in 1908.", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "date": "1908", "story": 63}], "today": [{"name": "Carson National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "New Mexico", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-692", "type": "proclamation", "number": "692", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Taos Forest Reserve, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 692, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-692"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3262, "last_page": 3262, "cite": "34 Stat. 3262", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3262.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-11-07", "table_title": "Setting apart the Taos Forest Reserve, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the Territory of New Mexico, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the Territory of New Mexico, shown as the Taos Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 7th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United Sates the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3262", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Taos Forest Reserve, N. Mex.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, New Mexico.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Taos Forest Reserve in New Mexico Territory, reserving the described timbered public lands from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Taos Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-07", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Taos went into the Carson forest in 1908.", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "date": "1908", "story": 63}], "today": [{"name": "Carson National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "New Mexico", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Chronologic Record (FS-612)", "story": 63}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-693", "type": "proclamation", "number": "693", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Tumacacori Forest Reserve, Arizona", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 693, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-693"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3263, "last_page": 3263, "cite": "34 Stat. 3263", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3263.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-11-07", "table_title": "Setting apart the Tumacacori Forest Reserve, Arizona."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the Territory of Arizona, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the Territory of Arizona, shown as the Tumacacori Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 7th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six. and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3263", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Tumacacori Forest Reserve, Ariz.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26. p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Arizona.", "Lands excepted.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Tumacacori Forest Reserve in Arizona Territory, reserving the described timbered public lands from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Tumacacori Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [63], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-07", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-524", "type": "executive_order", "number": "524", "tr_sequence": 470, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Make Deputy Collectors in Internal Revenue Service Subject to Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_524", "revid": 1854868, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 94"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Schedule A of the civil service rules is hereby amended by striking out paragraph 5 under Section II, Treasury Department.", "The paragraph stricken out reads:", "{|style=\"margin: 1em 0em 1em 2.0em;\" |-valign=\"top\" |align=\"right\" nowrap|‘‘5. |All deputy collectors of internal revenue who are borne on the rolls as such, and the allowance for whose salaries is approved by the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, That no position designated as a clerkship under a collector of internal revenue, appointment to which is made by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall be discontinued for the purpose of substituting a deputy collectorship therefor or for any reason other than a bona fide reduction of force, and that before such reduction shall be made the reasons therefor shall be given in writing by the collector of the district, and shall be approved by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and the Secretary of the Treasury. This exception from the requirement of examination shall not apply to the fifth internal-revenue district of North Carolina.\" |}"], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 94)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, November 7, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Struck deputy collectors of internal revenue from the civil-service list of positions excepted from examination, bringing them under the examination requirement.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["North Carolina"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-07", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-527", "type": "executive_order", "number": "527", "tr_sequence": 473, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending the Organization and Duties of the Isthmian Canal Commission", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_527", "revid": 12438074, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The Executive order of April 1, 1905, is hereby changed as follows:", "The Commission will hold quarterly sessions the first week in February, May, August, and November, of each year, on the Isthmus of Panama, and will continue each session as long as public business may require. Further notice of such meetings shall not be necessary to their regularity. The Commission may hold special sessions at the call of the Chairman. Four members shall constitute a quorum and the action of such majority shall be the action of the Commission.", "The Commission, under the supervision of the Secretary of War and subject to the approval of the President, is charged with the general duty of the adoption of plans for the construction and maintenance of the canal and with the execution of the work of the same; for the purchase and delivery of supplies, machinery, and necessary plant; the employment of the necessary officers, employees, and laborers, and with the fixing of their salaries and wages; with the operations of the Panama Railroad Company and steamship lines as common carriers; with the utilization of the Panama Railroad as means of constructing the canal; with the government and sanitation of the Canal Zone and with all matters of sanitation in the cities of Panama and Colon and the harbors thereof; with the making of all contracts for the construction of the canal or any of its needful accessories; and with all other matters incident and necessary to the building of a waterway across the Isthmus of Panama, as provided by the act of Congress, June 28, 1902.", "The Executive Committee, as provided for in my Executive order of April 1, 1905, is hereby abolished.", "In order to promote the greatest harmony between the heads of departments and to secure results by the most direct methods the following organization shall be created:", "The organization shall consist of the Chairman and the following heads of departments: Chief Engineer, General Counsel, Chief Sanitary Officer, General Purchasing Officer, General Auditor, Disbursing Officer, and Manager of Labor and Quarters. The duties of each shall be as follows:", "The Chairman shall have charge of all departments incident and necessary to the construction of the canal or any of its accessories. He shall appoint the heads of the various departments, subject to the approval of the Commission. The head of each department shall report to and receive his instructions from the Chairman. He shall have charge of the operations of the Panama Railroad and Steamship Lines. He shall perform such other duties as may be assigned to him from time to time by the Secretary of War.", "A minute of every transaction of the Chairman shall be made, and one copy of the minutes shall be forwarded to the Secretary of War and another copy transmitted for the consideration of the Commission at its next meeting.", "The Chief Engineer shall have charge of:", "All engineering work relating to the canal and its accessories. All construction work on the Isthmus of Panama. The operation of the Panama Railroad so far as same relates to canal construction work. The custody of all the supplies and plant of the Commission upon the Isthmus. In the absence of the Chairman from the Isthmus the Chief Engineer shall act for him in all matters requiring prompt attention, such action to be reported to the Chairman for his action, but the action of the Chief Engineer shall be in full force and effect until disapproved by the Chairman.", "The General Counsel shall have charge of:", "All legal matters pertaining to the Commission, whether in the United States or on the Isthmus of Panama. The administration of civil government within the Canal Zone, and shall exercise, through a local administrator, the authority heretofore vested in the Governor of the Canal Zone.", "The Chief Sanitary Officer shall have charge of:", "All matters of sanitation within the Canal Zone, and also in the cities of Panama and Colon, and the harbors, etc., so far as authorized by the treaty, executive orders, and decrees of December 3, 1904 between the United States and Panama, relating thereto. The custody of all medical supplies needed for sanitary purposes.", "The General Purchasing Officer shall have charge of the purchase and delivery of all supplies, machinery, and necessary plant.", "The General Auditor shall have charge of the general bookkeeping, of property accounts, of statistics, of administrative audit of the Commission, and of the accounting, bookkeeping, and audit of the Government of the Canal Zone.", "The Disbursing Officer shall have charge of time keeping, of preparation of pay rolls and vouchers, and of payment of same.", "The Manager of Labor and Quarters shall have charge of the employment of all necessary labor secured from the West India Islands or Central and South American countries; of the general personal records of all employees: of all quarters, and shall assign same to all employees of the Commission or of its contractors; and of the operation of all Commission hotels and mess houses.", "All officers and employees shall be appointed, and their salaries shall be fixed, by the head of the department in which they are engaged. Their appointment and salaries shall be subject to the approval either of the Commission or, if the Commission is not in session, of the Chairman.", "The employment of laborers where the contract of employment is made in the United States shall be negotiated and concluded by the Chairman of the Commission. Where the employment of laborers is effected upon the Isthmus or outside of the United States it shall be conducted under the supervision of the Chief Engineer, subject to the approval of the Chairman.", "Contracts for the purchase of supplies involving an estimated expenditure exceeding $10,000 shall only be made after due public advertisement in newspapers of general circulation, and shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder, except in the case of emergency, when, with the approval of the Secretary of War, advertising may be dispensed with. In the making of contracts for supplies or construction involving an estimated expenditure of more than $1,000 and less than $10,000 competitive bids should be secured by invitation or advertisement whenever practicable.", "The head of each department shall make a report upon the work and operation of his department to the Isthmian Canal Commission from time to time and us often as may be required by the Chairman of the Commission.", "The Chairman of the Commission will make a report to the Secretary of War, setting forth the results accomplished by each department of the work at least annually and as often as he may deem advisable or the Secretary may require.", "The Secretary of War will make to the President a report at least annually, and as often as he may deem advisable or the President may require.", "All Executive orders relating to the subject of the Panama Canal, excepting so far as they may be inconsistent with the present order, remain in force."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "Effective this date, November 17, 1906. T.R.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reorganized the Isthmian Canal Commission: set quarterly sessions on the Isthmus, a four-member quorum, and its duties for building the canal, abolished its Executive Committee, and created an organization of the Chairman and department heads.", "categories": ["canal-zone", "government-administration"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-17", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-317-a", "relation": "modifies", "note": "Amends the April 1, 1905 order on the organization and duties of the Isthmian Canal Commission.", "story": 90, "date": "1905-04-01", "title": "Reorganization of the Isthmian Canal Commission", "type": "executive_order", "number": "317-A"}]}
{"id": "eo-525", "type": "executive_order", "number": "525", "tr_sequence": 471, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Portion of Cape Hinchinbrook, Hinchinbrook Island, Alaska, for Lighthouse Purposes", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reserved part of Cape Hinchinbrook on Hinchinbrook Island, Alaska, for lighthouse purposes.", "categories": ["lighthouses", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Cape Hinchinbrook", "kind": "lighthouse", "state": "Alaska"}, {"name": "Hinchinbrook Island", "kind": "island", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-27", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Cape Hinchinbrook's first light was activated on November 15, 1910; a replacement tower was ready in spring 1934 and the station was fully automated in 1974.", "source": "Lighthouse Friends, Cape Hinchinbrook", "date": "1910-11-15", "story": 90}], "today": [{"name": "Cape Hinchinbrook Lighthouse", "kind": "lighthouse", "relation": "origin", "state": "Alaska", "since": "1906-11-27", "note": "Owned by the Coast Guard.", "source": "Lighthouse Friends, Cape Hinchinbrook", "story": 90}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-533", "type": "executive_order", "number": "533", "tr_sequence": 479, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Ordering Pay Increases for Navy Men Serving More than One Enlistment and Instructors of Apprentice Seamen", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_533", "revid": 1862161, "printed_source": "General Order No. 34, Navy Dept., November 28, 1906"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["To provide adequate compensation for trained men, the pay now prescribed by Executive order for each rating in the Navy is hereby increased $5 per month during the second period of service and a further sum of $3 per month during each and every subsequent period of service: Provided, That only enlisted men who are citizens of the United States, and whose second and subsequent periods of service each follow next after service in the Navy that was terminated by reason of expiration of enlistment, shall receive the benefits of the increased pay named herein: Provided further, That in the cases of men who are or were finally discharged from the Navy by reason of expiration of enlistment, the first enlistment on or after the date of this order shall be considered the second period of service which shall carry with it the increased pay provided by this order; except that men discharged on recommendations of boards of medical survey, shall, if they reenter the service, be given credit for any previous periods of service in the Navy which were terminated by reason of expiration of enlistment.", "Chief petty officers detailed as instructors of apprentice seamen at naval stations who qualify as instructors by examination shall receive hereafter in addition to their pay the sum of $10 per month while so detailed, such pay to be considered extra pay for special duty.", "Apprentice seamen detailed as apprentice chief petty officers, apprentice petty officers, first, second, or third class, in connection with the instruction of apprentice seamen at naval stations, shall receive hereafter in addition to their pay the sum of $2.50, $2, $1.50, and $1 each per month, respectively, while so detailed, such pay to be considered extra pay for special duty."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Order No. 34, Navy Dept., November 28, 1906)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, November 27, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Raised Navy pay $5 a month for men in their second enlistment and $3 more for each later one, and added special-duty pay for petty officers and apprentices who instruct apprentice seamen.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-27", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-694", "type": "proclamation", "number": "694", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Aside Game Preserve in Grand Canyon Forest Reserve, Arizona", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 694, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-694"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3263, "last_page": 3264, "cite": "34 Stat. 3263–3264", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3263.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-11-28", "table_title": "Setting aside game preserve in Grand Canyon Forest Reserve, Arizona."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by the act of Congress, approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act For the protection of wild animals in the Grand Canyon Forest Reserve,” “That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to designate such areas in the Grand Canyon Forest Reserve as should, in his opinion, be set aside for the protection of game animals and be recognized as a breeding place therefor. “Sec. 2. That when such areas have been designated as provided in section one of this Act, hunting, trapping, killing, or capturing of game animals upon the lands of the United States within the limits of said areas shall be unlawful, except under such regulations as may be prescribed from time to time by the Secretary of Agriculture; and any person violating such regulations or the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction in any United States court of competent jurisdiction, be fined in a sum not exceding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year, or shall suffer both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. “Sec. 3. That it is the purpose of this Act to protect from trespass the public lands of the United States and the game animals which may be thereon, and not to interfere with the operation of the local game laws as affecting private, State, or Territorial lands”;", "And whereas, for the purpose of giving this Act effect, it appears desirable that a part of the Grand Canyon Forest Reserve be declared a Game Preserve;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that all those lands within the Grand Canyon Forest Reserve, lying north and west of the Colorado River, in the Territory of Arizona, are designated and set aside for the protection of game animals, and shall be recognized as a breeding place therefor, and that the hunting, trapping, killing, or capturing of game animals upon the lands of the United States within the limits of said area is unlawful, except under such regulations as may be prescribed from time to time by the Secretary of Agriculture.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 28th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3263", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Game Preserve, Grand Canyon Forest Reserve, Ariz.", "Preamble.", "Ante, pp. 607, 3009, 3223.", "Grand Canyon Forest Reserve, Arizona.", "Part of, set apart as a game preserve."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Designated the Grand Canyon Forest Reserve lands north and west of the Colorado River in Arizona Territory as a game preserve and breeding ground, making hunting or trapping game there unlawful except under Agriculture Department rules.", "categories": ["wildlife", "forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Grand Canyon Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}, {"name": "Grand Canyon Game Preserve", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [31], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-28", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The proclamation drew little notice; because Congress had authorized it by name, it set off none of the lock-up arguments that met the forest reserves.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1906", "story": 31}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Hunting, trapping, killing or capturing game on federal land north and west of the Colorado River became unlawful except under the Secretary of Agriculture's regulations.", "source": "34 Stat. 3263", "date": "1906-11-28", "story": 31}, {"kind": "economic", "text": "Grazing continued on the plateau, and cattle there rose from about 9,000 head in 1906 to more than 15,000 by 1913.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1913", "story": 31}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "Government hunters trapped or shot 781 mountain lions, 30 wolves, 4,889 coyotes and 554 bobcats on the plateau between 1906 and 1931.", "source": "Rasmussen, Ecological Monographs 11 (1941), p. 236", "story": 31}, {"kind": "local", "text": "Cattle and sheep operators on the plateau spent years contesting how much forage the growing deer herd left for livestock.", "source": "research entry", "story": 31}], "legacy": [{"text": "From 1906 to 1939, 816 mountain lions, 30 wolves, 7,388 coyotes and 863 bobcats were removed from the plateau.", "source": "Rasmussen, Ecological Monographs 11 (1941), p. 236", "date": "1939", "story": 31}, {"text": "The Kaibab deer irruption and crash became a standard textbook example of what happens when predators are removed, and Aldo Leopold named the pattern the \"Kaibab-Sequence.\"", "source": "Leopold, Sowls and Spencer, Journal of Wildlife Management 11 (1947)", "date": "1947", "story": 31}, {"text": "Graeme Caughley showed the herd estimates were badly inconsistent, with 1924 figures ranging from 30,000 to 100,000.", "source": "Caughley, Ecology 51 (1970), p. 56", "date": "1970", "story": 31}, {"text": "Binkley and colleagues found converging evidence, including aspen age structure, for a real deer irruption in the late 1910s and 1920s shaped by drought, grazing and fire suppression as well as predator removal.", "source": "Binkley et al. (2006)", "date": "2006", "story": 31}, {"text": "The preserve was never abolished; its provisions survive at 16 U.S.C. §§ 683–687 and the Forest Service still administers it.", "source": "16 U.S.C. §§ 683–687", "story": 31}], "today": [{"name": "Grand Canyon Game Preserve", "kind": "other", "relation": "origin", "state": "Arizona", "since": "1906-11-28", "note": "A designated area of the Kaibab National Forest, closed to locatable mineral entry.", "source": "Kaibab National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan (2014)", "story": 31}, {"name": "Kaibab National Forest, North Kaibab Ranger District", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Arizona", "note": "Holds most of the plateau.", "source": "research entry", "story": 31}, {"name": "Grand Canyon National Park", "kind": "national_park", "relation": "part", "state": "Arizona", "note": "The park took part of the preserve in 1919 and covers the plateau's southern end.", "source": "research entry", "story": 31}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1909-06-03", "text": "Proclamation 875 diminished the preserve, leaving it at 1,492,928 acres.", "source": "36 Stat. 2496", "story": 31}, {"date": "1919", "text": "Congress carved Grand Canyon National Park partly out of the preserve.", "source": "research entry", "story": 31}, {"date": "1931-10-06", "text": "President Hoover's Proclamation 1971 diminished the preserve again.", "source": "47 Stat. 2483", "story": 31}, {"date": "1939", "text": "Reorganization Plan No. II moved the Wichita preserve to Interior but left the Grand Canyon preserve with Agriculture.", "source": "16 U.S.C. §§ 683–687, codifiers' note", "story": 31}, {"date": "2014-02", "text": "The Kaibab forest plan lists the preserve as a designated area with the desired condition that it provides quality habitat for game animals.", "source": "Kaibab NF Land and Resource Management Plan (2014)", "story": 31}], "uncertain": ["The preserve's size at creation is not known; the proclamation gives no acreage and the 1906 Yearbook figure of 2,267,300 acres cannot be right."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-563", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The Wichita game preserve rested on a 1905 act that the 1906 Grand Canyon act copied almost word for word.", "story": 31, "date": "1905-06-02", "title": "Redesignating the Wichita Forest Reserve, Oklahoma, as a Game Preserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "563"}, {"id": "proc-641", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 63, "inferred": true, "date": "1906-08-08", "title": "Modifying Boundaries of Grand Canyon Forest Reserve, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "641"}, {"id": "proc-794", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 3, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-01-11", "title": "Setting Aside Grand Canyon National Monument, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "794"}, {"id": "proc-814", "relation": "enlarged_by", "note": "Added ground south of the canyon, with a diagram.", "story": 31, "date": "1908-06-23", "title": "Enlarging the Grand Canyon National Game Preserve, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "814"}, {"id": "eo-909", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 101, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-07-02", "title": "Kaibab National Forest, Arizona", "type": "executive_order", "number": "909"}]}
{"id": "eo-534", "type": "executive_order", "number": "534", "tr_sequence": 480, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-11-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Prescribing Rules Governing Peacetime Purchase of Discharge from the Navy", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_534", "revid": 1862198, "printed_source": "General Order No. 35, Navy Dept., December 5, 1906"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["In time of peace any enlisted man of the Navy, serving in his first enlistment, who is not undergoing punishment or under charges, and is not in debt to the Government, may after one year from the date of his enlistment in the Navy, apply for the privilege of purchasing his discharge. An enlisted man wishing this privilege will make application to the Navy Department through official channels, giving his reasons in full for desiring his discharge; and will state that he waives all claims for transportation at Government expense to his home or the place of his enlistment, if discharged as requested. In general, no reasons will be considered as sufficient to warrant discharge unless it can be shown conclusively that these reasons did not exist prior to enlistment.", "Upon the receipt of an application made as prescribed herein, and fulfilling the condition given, the Navy Department may direct the discharge requested at its discretion; the price of discharge to be the price of outfit furnished on enlistment plus two months' pay of the rating the applicant is holding at the time of actual discharge if in the second year of his enlistment, or one month's pay if in the third year of his enlistment. After the third year of enlistment the price of discharge will be the price of outfit furnished on enlistment.", "When an enlisted man of the Navy makes application for discharge by purchase on account of dependency of near relative, and shows in connection therewith that a state of destitution exists, that he has to the extent of his opportunities and ability made contribution to the support of such relative, but that these contributions have proved insufficient to relieve the destitution, the Navy Department may, in its discretion, remit such part of the purchase price of discharge (other than the price of outfit furnished on enlistment) as may seem proper and necessary by reason of the inability of the enlisted man to pay the full amount."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Order No. 35, Navy Dept., December 5, 1906)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, November 30, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Set rules letting Navy enlisted men in their first enlistment buy their discharge in peacetime after one year, with the price tied to outfit cost and months served, and relief for men supporting destitute relatives.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-11-30", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-526", "type": "executive_order", "number": "526", "tr_sequence": 472, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-12-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Theodore C. M. Schindler as Special Agent in Bureau of Corporations Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_526", "revid": 1858181, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 106"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Theodore C. M. Schindler may be appointed special agent in the Bureau of Corporations without examination under the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 106)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, December 6, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Theodore C. M. Schindler be appointed a special agent in the Bureau of Corporations without a civil-service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Theodore C. M. Schindler"], "significance": 1, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-12-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-695", "type": "proclamation", "number": "695", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-12-08", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Aside El Morro National Monument, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 695, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-695"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3264, "last_page": 3265, "cite": "34 Stat. 3264–3265", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3264.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-12-08", "table_title": "Setting aside El Morro National Monument, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, it is provided by section two of the Act of Congress, approved June 8, 1906, entitled, “An act for the preservation of American antiquities”, “That the President of the United States is hereby 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 rocks known as El Morro and Inscription Rock in the Territory of New Mexico, situated upon public lands owned by the United States, are of the greatest historical value and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting aside said rocks as a national monument with as much land as may be necessary for the proper protection thereof;", "3265 Now, therefore, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section two of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby set aside as the El Morro National Monument the rocks aforesaid and for the proper protection thereof do hereby reserve from settlement, entry or other disposal, all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the Territory of New Mexico, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows, to wit:", "The south half of the north-east quarter and the north half of the south-east quarter of section six, township nine north, range fourteen west, New Mexico Meridian, as shown upon the map hereto attached and made a part of this proclamation.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to appropriate, excavate, injure or destroy said monument or to 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 to be affixed.", "Done at the City of Washington this 8th day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3264", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["El Morro National Monument, N. Mex.", "Preamble.", "Ante, p. 225.", "National monument, New Mexico.", "Description.", "Reserved from settlement, etc."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Proclaimed El Morro National Monument in New Mexico Territory, protecting the rocks known as El Morro and Inscription Rock, judged \"of the greatest historical value,\" and warning against injuring them or settling the land.", "categories": ["monuments"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "El Morro National Monument", "kind": "monument", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 5, "stories": [8], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-12-08", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "El Morro's first local notice came two months late, under the name \"Inscription Rock.\"", "source": "Santa Fe New Mexican, February 13, 1907", "date": "1907-02-13", "story": 8}, {"text": "New Mexico papers approved of the new monuments and used them as precedent to lobby for more.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1907", "story": 8}], "legacy": [{"text": "In 1917 the Interior Department reported most of the Spanish inscriptions still as plain and legible as the day they were carved.", "source": "Interior, General Information Regarding the National Monuments (1917), p. 18", "date": "1917", "story": 8}], "today": [{"name": "El Morro National Monument", "kind": "national_monument", "relation": "origin", "state": "New Mexico", "since": "1906-12-08", "note": "1,278.72 acres today.", "source": "NPS Land Resources Division, listing of acreage, June 30, 2026", "story": 8}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-696", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Proclaimed the same day.", "story": 8, "date": "1906-12-08", "title": "Setting Aside Montezuma Castle National Monument, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "696"}, {"id": "proc-697", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Proclaimed the same day.", "story": 8, "date": "1906-12-08", "title": "Setting Aside Petrified Forest National Monument, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "697"}]}
{"id": "proc-696", "type": "proclamation", "number": "696", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-12-08", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Aside Montezuma Castle National Monument, Arizona", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 696, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-696"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3265, "last_page": 3266, "cite": "34 Stat. 3265–3266", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3265.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-12-08", "table_title": "Setting aside Montezuma Castle National Monument, Arizona."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, it is provided by section two of the Act of Congress, approved June 8, 1906, entitled, “An act for the preservation of American antiquities,” “That the President of the United States is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to declare by public proclamation historic land marks, 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 prehistoric structure known as Montezuma’s Castle in the Territory of Arizona, situated upon public lands owned by the United States, is of the greatest ethnological value and scientific interest and it appears that the public good would be promoted by reserving this ruin as a national monument with as much land as may be necessary for the proper protection thereof;", "Now, therefore, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section two of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby set aside as the Montezuma Castle National Monument the prehistoric structure aforesaid and for the proper protection thereof do hereby reserve from settlement, entry or other disposal, all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being in the Territory of Arizona, and within, what will be when surveyed, the tracts particularly described as follows, to wit:", "The northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section sixteen, the north half of the northeast quarter and northeast quarter of northwest quarter of section seventeen, township fourteen north, range five east, Gila and Salt River Meridian, as shown upon the map hereto attached and made a part of this proclamation.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to appropriate, excavate, injure or destroy said monument or to settle upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and cause the seal of the United States to be affixed.", "Done at the city of Washington this 8th day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3265", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Montezuma Castle National Monument, Ariz.", "Preamble.", "Ante, p. 225.", "National monument, Ariz.", "Description.", "Reserved from settlement, etc."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Proclaimed Montezuma Castle National Monument in Arizona Territory, reserving the prehistoric structure known as Montezuma's Castle and surrounding land for its protection.", "categories": ["monuments"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Montezuma Castle National Monument", "kind": "monument", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 5, "stories": [8], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-12-08", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The proclamation appears to have gone unreported in the Arizona press entirely.", "source": "Chronicling America, Arizona titles, 1906–1908", "story": 8}], "today": [{"name": "Montezuma Castle National Monument", "kind": "national_monument", "relation": "origin", "state": "Arizona", "since": "1906-12-08", "note": "1,015.52 acres today, in two detached pieces: the Castle and Montezuma Well.", "source": "NPS Land Resources Division, listing of acreage, June 30, 2026", "story": 8}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1937", "text": "Proclamation 2226 added 360 acres.", "source": "Proc. 2226", "story": 8}, {"date": "1943-10-19", "text": "An act of Congress added Montezuma Well, purchased in 1947.", "source": "Act of October 19, 1943", "story": 8}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-695", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Proclaimed the same day.", "story": 8, "date": "1906-12-08", "title": "Setting Aside El Morro National Monument, New Mexico", "type": "proclamation", "number": "695"}, {"id": "proc-697", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Proclaimed the same day.", "story": 8, "date": "1906-12-08", "title": "Setting Aside Petrified Forest National Monument, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "697"}]}
{"id": "proc-697", "type": "proclamation", "number": "697", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-12-08", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Aside Petrified Forest National Monument, Arizona", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 697, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-697"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3266, "last_page": 3267, "cite": "34 Stat. 3266–3267", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3266.pdf", "statutes_date": "1906-12-08", "table_title": "Setting aside Petrified Forest National Monument, Arizona."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, it is provided by section two of the Act of Congress, approved June 8, 1906, entitled, “An Act for the preservation of American Antiquities,” “That the President of the United States is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to declare by public proclamation historic land marks, 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 object to be protected;”", "And, whereas, the mineralized remains of Mesozoic forests, commonly known as the “Petrified Forest,” in the Territory of Arizona, situated upon the public lands owned and controlled by the United States, are of the greatest scientific interest and value and it appears that the public good would be promoted by reserving these deposits of fossilized wood as a National monument with as much land as may be necessary for the proper protection thereof;", "Now, therefore, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section two of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby set aside as the Petrified Forest National Monument, subject to any valid and existing rights, the deposits of mineralized forest remains situated in Gila and Apache counties, Arizona, more particularly located and described as follows, to wit:", "Sections 1 to 18 inclusive in township 16 north, range 23; sections 20 to 29 inclusive and sections 31 to 36 inclusive in township 17 north, range 23; sections 1 to 12 inclusive and section 18 in township 16 north, range 24; sections 2 to 11 inclusive and sections 14 to 36 inclusive in township 17 north, range 24; sections 5, 6, 7 and 8, in township 16 north, range 25; and sections 19, 20, 29, 30, 31 and 32 in township 17 north, range 25, all east of the Gila and Salt River Meridian as shown upon the map hereto attached and made a part of this proclamation.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, excavate, injure or destroy any of the mineralized forest remains hereby declared to be a National monument or to locate or settle upon any of the lands reserved and made a part of said monument by this proclamation.", "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 8th day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six [SEAL.] and the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3266", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Petrified Forest National Monuinent, Ariz.", "Preamble.", "Ante, p. 225.", "National monument, Arizona.", "Description.", "Reserved from settlement, etc."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created Petrified Forest National Monument to protect the fossilized wood of the \"Petrified Forest\" in Gila and Apache counties, Arizona Territory, warning against excavating, injuring or destroying the deposits.", "categories": ["monuments"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Petrified Forest National Monument", "kind": "monument", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 5, "stories": [8], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-12-08", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "Three months after the withdrawal, a Holbrook paper reported approvingly that Adamana outfitters had hauled about one hundred eastern tourists to and from the petrified forest.", "source": "Holbrook Argus, March 1907", "date": "1907-03", "story": 8}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Taft cut the monument to about 25,626 acres, finding after a geological survey that it reserved far more land than the Antiquities Act's limit allowed.", "source": "Proc. 1167, 37 Stat. 1716", "date": "1911-07-31", "story": 8}, {"kind": "local", "text": "The Arizona Republican credited the reduction to the reports of the experts; no settler or business pressure is recorded, and Arizona was then asking for better access to the monument.", "source": "Arizona Republican, September 4, 1911", "date": "1911-09-04", "story": 8}], "legacy": [{"text": "Congress authorized converting the monument to a national park, with land title as the trigger.", "source": "Pub. L. 85-358, 72 Stat. 69", "date": "1958-03-28", "story": 8}, {"text": "Petrified Forest National Park was established and the national monument disestablished at the same moment.", "source": "27 Fed. Reg. 10984", "date": "1962-12-09", "story": 8}, {"text": "The Petrified Forest National Park Expansion Act authorized a boundary of roughly 125,000 acres on a willing-seller basis.", "source": "Pub. L. 108-430", "date": "2004-12-03", "story": 8}], "today": [{"name": "Petrified Forest National Park", "kind": "national_park", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Arizona", "note": "221,390.21 acres today, 147,154.45 of them federal.", "source": "NPS Land Resources Division, listing of acreage, June 30, 2026", "story": 8}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1911-07-31", "text": "Proclamation 1167 reduced the monument to 40.04 square miles, about 25,626 acres.", "source": "37 Stat. 1716", "story": 8}, {"date": "1958-03-28", "text": "Congress authorized establishment of Petrified Forest National Park.", "source": "Pub. L. 85-358, 72 Stat. 69", "story": 8}, {"date": "1962-12-09", "text": "The national park was established and the monument disestablished.", "source": "27 Fed. Reg. 10984", "story": 8}, {"date": "2004-12-03", "text": "The Petrified Forest National Park Expansion Act authorized a larger boundary of about 125,000 acres.", "source": "Pub. L. 108-430", "story": 8}], "uncertain": ["The proclamation map's 60,776.02 acres is about 3,176 acres more than the listed sections total at 640 acres each, and the reason is not known."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-695", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Proclaimed the same day.", "story": 8, "date": "1906-12-08", "title": "Setting Aside El Morro National Monument, New Mexico", "type": "proclamation", "number": "695"}, {"id": "proc-696", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Proclaimed the same day.", "story": 8, "date": "1906-12-08", "title": "Setting Aside Montezuma Castle National Monument, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "696"}]}
{"id": "eo-528", "type": "executive_order", "number": "528", "tr_sequence": 474, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-12-08", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of William W. Gillespie as Deputy Collector in Customs Service Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_528", "revid": 1858183, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 106"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. William W. Gillespie may be appointed as deputy collector in the Customs Service at Stamford, Conn., without examination."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 106)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, December 8, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed William W. Gillespie to be appointed deputy collector in the Customs Service at Stamford, Connecticut, without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["William W. Gillespie"], "significance": 1, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-12-08", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-529", "type": "executive_order", "number": "529", "tr_sequence": 475, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-12-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Island Known as “Rock of Ages” in Lake Superior, Michigan for Lighthouse Purposes", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reserved the island called Rock of Ages in Lake Superior, Michigan, for lighthouse purposes.", "categories": ["lighthouses"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Rock of Ages", "kind": "island", "state": "Michigan"}], "states": ["Michigan"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-12-10", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The reservation preceded the working light by about two years: Rock of Ages light began operating in 1908, received its Fresnel lens in 1910 and was automated in 1978.", "source": "U.S. Lighthouse Society archive", "date": "1908", "story": 90}], "today": [{"name": "Rock of Ages Lighthouse", "kind": "lighthouse", "relation": "origin", "state": "Michigan", "since": "1906-12-10", "note": "Still an active aid to navigation, inside Isle Royale National Park and closed to the public.", "source": "U.S. Lighthouse Society archive", "story": 90}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-536", "type": "executive_order", "number": "536", "tr_sequence": 482, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-12-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Alfred W. Brown in Customs Service Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_536", "revid": 1858185, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 106"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Alfred W. Brown, formerly appraiser of merchandise at the port of Boston, Mass., may be reinstated in the classified Customs Service at that port without compliance with the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 106)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, December 11, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Permitted Alfred W. Brown, former appraiser of merchandise at the port of Boston, to be reinstated in the classified Customs Service there without meeting civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "restore", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Alfred W. Brown"], "significance": 1, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-12-11", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-530", "type": "executive_order", "number": "530", "tr_sequence": 476, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-12-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Consular Service Regulation of June 27, 1906, Governing Appointment and Promotion in the Consular Service", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_530", "revid": 1862116, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Let student interpreters be included under paragraph 2 sub-division (a) and under paragraph 11, on the same footing as vice consuls, deputy consuls and consular agents."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, December 12, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Amended the June 27, 1906, Consular Service regulation so student interpreters are treated like vice consuls, deputy consuls and consular agents for appointment and promotion.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs", "civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-12-12", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-469", "relation": "amends", "note": "Amends the consular appointment and promotion regulations of June 27, 1906.", "story": 89, "date": "1906-06-27", "title": "Regulations Governing Consular Appointments and Promotions", "type": "executive_order", "number": "469"}]}
{"id": "eo-531", "type": "executive_order", "number": "531", "tr_sequence": 477, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-12-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Permanent Appointment of Three Watchmen in Department of the Interior Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_531", "revid": 1858189, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 106"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Philip M. Earle and Isaac Pearson, of the District of Columbia, and George F. Miller, of New York, veterans of the civil war, who have served satisfactorily as watchmen in the Department of the Interior, under temporary appointment, may be permanently appointed watchmen without reference to the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 106)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, December 14, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let three Civil War veterans serving as temporary watchmen in the Interior Department — Philip M. Earle, Isaac Pearson and George F. Miller — be appointed permanently without regard to civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["New York", "District of Columbia"], "people": ["Philip M. Earle", "Isaac Pearson", "George F. Miller"], "significance": 1, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-12-14", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-532", "type": "executive_order", "number": "532", "tr_sequence": 478, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-12-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Transfer of Kate S. Jones to Clerk in Department of the Interior Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_532", "revid": 1858193, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 106"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. Kate Jones, of Tennessee, may be transferred from classified laborer with clerical duties in the Patent Office, Department of the Interior, to clerk in the Knoxville pension agency under the same Department without examination."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 106)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, December 14, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Kate Jones of Tennessee to move from classified laborer in the Patent Office to clerk at the Knoxville pension agency without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "transfer", "places": [], "states": ["Tennessee"], "people": ["Kate S. Jones"], "significance": 1, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-12-14", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-535", "type": "executive_order", "number": "535", "tr_sequence": 481, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-12-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Removing Lands from Fort Davis Military Reservation, Texas", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_535", "revid": 1859544, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 205, War Dept., December 27, 1906"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The tract of about 300 acres of land, situated in the County of Presidio, Texas, which was acquired for the military reservation of Fort Davis, Texas, by deed from Daniel Murphy and wife, dated May 24, 1883, recorded In Book No. 2, page 311, et seq., of the deed records of said county, having become useless for military purposes, the same is hereby placed under the control of the Secretary of the Interior, under act of Congress, approved July 5, 1884, entitled \"An act to provide for the disposal of abandoned and useless military reservations\" (23 Stat. L., 103), for disposition under said act or as may be otherwise provided by law."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 205, War Dept., December 27, 1906)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, December 17, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Turned about 300 acres of the Fort Davis Military Reservation in Presidio County, Texas, no longer useful for military purposes, over to the Secretary of the Interior.", "categories": ["military-naval", "public-lands"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Fort Davis Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Texas"}], "states": ["Texas"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-12-17", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-537", "type": "executive_order", "number": "537", "tr_sequence": 483, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-12-19", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Certain Described Lands in New Mexico for the Use and Benefit of the Indians of the Jemez Pueblo", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_537", "revid": 1858244, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that the following-described lands in New Mexico, namely: T. 16 N., R. 1 E., Jemez meridian, excepting any tract or tracts the title to which has passed out of the United States Government or to which valid legal rights have attached, be, and the same are, hereby withdrawn from sale and settlement and set apart as a reservation for the use and benefit of the Indians of the Jemez Pueblo."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, December 19, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Withdrew public lands in township 16 north, range 1 east, New Mexico, from sale and settlement and set them apart for the Indians of the Jemez Pueblo.", "categories": ["indian-lands"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Jemez Pueblo", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-12-19", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "No instrument revoking the reservation is known; the Interior Department's 1934 statistics show Jemez with 17,501 acres of original area plus 17,500 acquired since, and no reductions.", "source": "U.S. Department of the Interior, basic Indian land statistics (1934)", "date": "1934", "story": 90}, {"text": "The Pueblo of Jemez describes its holdings today as more than 89,000 acres, including the Spanish grant, the executive-order additions and later acquisitions.", "source": "Pueblo of Jemez", "story": 90}], "today": [{"name": "Pueblo of Jemez lands", "kind": "indian_reservation", "relation": "part", "state": "New Mexico", "note": "Executive-order additions form part of the Pueblo's present holdings; no revocation is known.", "source": "Pueblo of Jemez; 1934 Interior land statistics", "story": 90}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1911-09-01", "text": "Executive Order 1406 corrected the survey reference from the \"Jemez meridian\" to the New Mexico principal meridian.", "source": "Executive Order 1406", "story": 90}, {"date": "1915-10-04", "text": "Executive Order 2250 reserved further lands for the Jemez Pueblo.", "source": "Executive Order 2250", "story": 90}], "uncertain": ["No modern record confirming the tract's status has been checked; the BLM New Mexico master title plat for T. 16 N., R. 1 E. would show it."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-538", "type": "executive_order", "number": "538", "tr_sequence": 484, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-12-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Tariff of Consular Fees to Exempt Affidavit Fees for Owners of Sealskin Garments Entering from Canada", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_538", "revid": 1895250, "printed_source": "State Department Circular, December 22, 1906"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The following is a description by the Department of State of the change defined in the order, not the actual order text.", "Fee No. 31 of Tariff of Fees amended by Executive order of December 21, 1906, by addition of the following words:", "\"No fee for the affidavit of temporary stay of owner of sealskin garment entering the United States from Canada.\""], "source": "Wikisource (from State Department Circular, December 22, 1906)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Amended the consular fee schedule so owners of sealskin garments entering the United States from Canada pay no fee for an affidavit of temporary stay.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs", "trade-reciprocity"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Canada", "kind": "country"}], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-12-21", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-539", "type": "executive_order", "number": "539", "tr_sequence": 485, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-12-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Transfer of William A. Woodruff to Clerk in Treasury Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_539", "revid": 1858195, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 106"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. William A. Woodruff, now a hospital attendant in the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of the United States at Ellis Island, New York, may be transferred to a clerical position in the Treasury Department at Washington, D. C, without compliance with the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 106)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, December 24, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed William A. Woodruff, a hospital attendant at Ellis Island, to transfer to a Treasury Department clerical job in Washington without meeting civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "transfer", "places": [], "states": ["New York", "Washington"], "people": ["William A. Woodruff"], "significance": 1, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-12-24", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-540", "type": "executive_order", "number": "540", "tr_sequence": 486, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-12-31", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Transfer of W. B. Johnson to Clerk in Department of the Interior Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_540", "revid": 1858197, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 106"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. W. B. Johnson may be transferred without examination from the position of compositor in the Government Printing Office to the position of clerk in the Land Service of the Department of the Interior."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 106)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, December 31, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let W. B. Johnson, a Government Printing Office compositor, transfer without examination to clerk in the Interior Department's Land Service.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "transfer", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["W. B. Johnson"], "significance": 1, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-12-31", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-541", "type": "executive_order", "number": "541", "tr_sequence": 487, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-12-31", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Transfer of Joseph J. Harvey to Subclerical Position in Civil Service", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_541", "revid": 1862094, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Joseph J. Harvey, a messenger in the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, may be transferred or appointed to any other subclerical position in the executive civil service."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, December 31, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Joseph J. Harvey, a messenger at the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, to be transferred or appointed to any other subclerical civil-service position.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "transfer", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Joseph J. Harvey"], "significance": 1, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-12-31", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-542", "type": "executive_order", "number": "542", "tr_sequence": 488, "lord_number": null, "date": "1906-12-31", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Transfer of Henry G. Balkam to Clerk in Bureau of the Census Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_542", "revid": 1858199, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 107"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The status of Henry G. Balkam may be changed from skilled laborer to clerk in the Bureau of the Census, in view of the value of his services and of the prospective reduction in the laborer force."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 107)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, December 31, 1906.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Changed Henry G. Balkam's status from skilled laborer to clerk in the Bureau of the Census, citing his valuable service and a coming cut in the laborer force.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "transfer", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Henry G. Balkam"], "significance": 1, "stories": [90], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1906-12-31", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-543", "type": "executive_order", "number": "543", "tr_sequence": 489, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-01-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Revoking the Military Reservation of Camp Hartshorne in the Philippine Islands", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_543", "revid": 1865634, "printed_source": "[http://books.google.com/books?id=HTgtAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA3-PA7-IA2 General Orders, No. 8, War Dept., January 15, 1907] [http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA526&id=mWZZAAAAIAAJ]  "}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["{| style=\"margin: 0em 0em 0em 0em;\" | width=2%| |The Military Reservation of Camp Hartshorne at Laguan, Island of Laguan. Samar, Philippine Islands, made by Executive Order of July 31, 1903 (General Orders No. 4, War Department. August 22, 1903), having become useless for military purposes, is hereby restored to the control of the government of the Philippine Islands to be administered for the benefit of the inhabitants thereof.", "Theodore Roosevelt The White House, January 4, 1907. | width=2%| |}", "== Notes == See Related: Executive Order dated July 31, 1903"], "source": "Wikisource (from [http://books.google.com/books?id=HTgtAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA3-PA7-IA2 General Orders, No. 8, War Dept., January 15, 1907] [http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA526&id=mWZZAAAAIAAJ]  )", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Revoked the Camp Hartshorne military reservation on Laguan Island, Samar, Philippines, returning the land to the Philippine government for the benefit of its inhabitants.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "revoke", "places": [{"name": "Camp Hartshorne", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Laguan", "kind": "island", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [91], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-01-04", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-549", "type": "executive_order", "number": "549", "tr_sequence": 495, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-01-08", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Prescribing Official Manner of Designating Vessels of the United States Navy", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_549", "revid": 1865625, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["In order that there shall be uniformity in the matter of designating naval vessels, it is hereby directed that the official designation of vessels of war, and other vessels of the Navy of the United States, shall be the name of such vessel, preceded by the words, United States Ship, or the letters U.S.S., and by no other words or letters."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, January 8, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Standardized naval vessel names: each Navy ship is officially designated by its name preceded only by \"United States Ship\" or \"U.S.S.\"", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [91], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-01-08", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The order gave the Navy one official form for naming its vessels: the ship's name preceded by \"United States Ship\" or \"U.S.S.\" and nothing else, replacing a mix of forms by type, rig or function.", "source": "Executive Order 549; Naval Historical Center, \"USN Ship Naming\" (1997)", "date": "1907-01-08", "story": 91}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Naval History and Heritage Command credits this order with establishing the present usage, and the \"USS\" before every commissioned American warship traces to it.", "source": "Naval History and Heritage Command, account of ship naming", "story": 91}], "today": [{"name": "\"USS\" ship prefix of the U.S. Navy", "kind": "other", "relation": "origin", "state": "United States", "since": "1907-01-08", "note": "The Navy cites EO 549 as the order that established the present usage.", "source": "Naval History and Heritage Command", "story": 91}]}, "related": [{"id": "uo-116", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 114, "inferred": true, "date": "1907-01-08", "title": "All Navy vessels to be officially designated by name preceded by \"United States Ship\" or \"U.S.S.\" and no other words/letters.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "uo-116", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 116, "date": "1907-01-08", "date_precision": "day", "title": "All Navy vessels to be officially designated by name preceded by \"United States Ship\" or \"U.S.S.\" and no other words/letters.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 116, "page": "203", "citations": "(1907 Doc. Cat. 1384)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "All Navy vessels to be officially designated by name preceded by \"United States Ship\" or \"U.S.S.\" and no other words/letters.", "reconciliation": "numbered_duplicate", "duplicate_of": "eo-549", "reconciliation_note": "**= EO 549** (Jan. 8, 1907). Same date, same operative text (research entries #91, #110).", "summary": null, "categories": ["indian-lands", "military-naval"], "action": null, "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": null, "stories": [114], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-01-08", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-549", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Word for word the same order, same day.", "story": 114, "date": "1907-01-08", "title": "Prescribing Official Manner of Designating Vessels of the United States Navy", "type": "executive_order", "number": "549"}]}
{"id": "eo-547", "type": "executive_order", "number": "547", "tr_sequence": 493, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-01-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Elza Eugene Phelps as Customs Inspector Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_547", "revid": 1858202, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 107"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The Secretary of the Treasury may appoint Elza Eugene Phelps an inspector of customs for quasi-confidential duty in connection with the transfer of merchandise via the Tehuantepec National Railway across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in the Republic of Mexico, without compliance with the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 107)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, January 11, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Elza Eugene Phelps to be appointed a customs inspector for confidential duty on merchandise moving over the Tehuantepec National Railway in Mexico, without meeting civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Elza Eugene Phelps"], "significance": 1, "stories": [91], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-01-11", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-544", "type": "executive_order", "number": "544", "tr_sequence": 490, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-01-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Promotion of Marshall M. Pool to Clerk in United States Army Office Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_544", "revid": 1858206, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 107"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Marshall M. Pool may be promoted to a clerical position in the office of the purchasing commissary, United States Army, at Kansas City, Mo., without examination."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 107)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, January 12, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Permitted Marshall M. Pool to be promoted without examination to a clerical job in the Army purchasing commissary's office at Kansas City, Missouri.", "categories": ["civil-service", "military-naval"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Missouri", "Kansas"], "people": ["Marshall M. Pool"], "significance": 1, "stories": [91], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-01-12", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-545", "type": "executive_order", "number": "545", "tr_sequence": 491, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-01-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of David Robinson as Immigrant Inspector Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_545", "revid": 1858204, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 107"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. David Robinson may be reinstated to the position of immigrant inspector, on the ground of his efficiency and familiarity with immigration matters."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 107)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, January 12, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let David Robinson be reinstated as an immigrant inspector, citing his efficiency and familiarity with immigration matters.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "restore", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["David Robinson"], "significance": 1, "stories": [91], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-01-12", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-117", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 117, "date": "1907-01-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Certain Hawaii lands at Waimānalo, Oahu, reserved for lighthouse purposes at the Makapuʻu Light Station.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 117, "page": "203", "citations": "(1907 Doc. Cat. 1384)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Certain Hawaii lands at Waimānalo, Oahu, reserved for lighthouse purposes at the Makapuʻu Light Station.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Reserved land at Waimānalo, Oahu, Hawaii, for lighthouse purposes at the Makapuʻu Light Station.", "categories": ["lighthouses", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Makapuʻu Light Station", "kind": "lighthouse", "state": "Hawaii"}, {"name": "Waimānalo", "kind": "town", "state": "Hawaii"}], "states": ["Hawaii"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [114], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-01-12", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-698", "type": "proclamation", "number": "698", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-01-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Caribou Forest Reserve, Idaho and Wyoming", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 698, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-698"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3267, "last_page": 3268, "cite": "34 Stat. 3267–3268", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3267.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-01-15", "table_title": "Setting apart the Caribou Forest Reserve, Idaho and Wyoming."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the States of Idaho and Wyoming, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the States of Idaho and Wyoming, shown as the Caribou Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "3268 Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this 15th day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven,, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hunhundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3267", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Caribou Forest Reserve, Idaho and Wyo.", "Forest Reserve, Idaho and Wyoming.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Caribou Forest Reserve in Idaho and Wyoming, reserving the described timbered public lands from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Caribou Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Idaho"}, {"name": "Caribou Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Wyoming"}], "states": ["Idaho", "Wyoming"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-01-15", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "proc-505", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 42, "inferred": true, "date": "1903-09-05", "title": "Establishment of the Pocatello Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "505"}]}
{"id": "eo-546", "type": "executive_order", "number": "546", "tr_sequence": 492, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-01-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Identical to Executive Order 548", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_546", "revid": 14067357, "printed_source": null}}, "text": null, "summary": "Duplicates Executive Order 548, which authorized the Governor of Tutuila to issue certificates of protection to qualifying merchant vessels.", "categories": ["insular-territories"], "action": "regulate", "places": [{"name": "Tutuila", "kind": "island", "state": "American Samoa"}], "states": ["American Samoa"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [91], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-01-15", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-548", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Identical order carried under a second number.", "story": 91, "date": "1907-01-15", "title": "Authorizing Issuance of Certificates of Protection by Governor of American Samoa", "type": "executive_order", "number": "548"}]}
{"id": "eo-548", "type": "executive_order", "number": "548", "tr_sequence": 494, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-01-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Issuance of Certificates of Protection by Governor of American Samoa", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_548", "revid": 12690948, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The Governor of Tutuila is hereby authorized to issue to merchant vessels entitled thereto, under the conditions and limitations hereinafter set forth, certificates of protection entitling the vessels to which they are given to the protection and flag of the United States on the high seas and in all ports, provided such vessels are owned by: {|style=\"margin: 1em 1em 1em 1em;\" |-valign=\"top\" |align=\"right\" nowrap|(a) |A citizen of the United States residing in Tutuila or Manua; |-valign=\"top\" |align=\"right\" nowrap|(b) |A native inhabitant of Tutuila or Manua who has taken the oath of allegiance to the United States; |-valign=\"top\" |align=\"right\" nowrap|(c) |A resident of Tutuila or Manua before the acquisition of the islands by the United States, upon abjuring his allegiance to the country of which he was a citizen or subject and taking the oath of allegiance to the United States. |}", "Such certificates of protection shall entitle the vessels holding them to the privileges, and subject them to the disabilities, prescribed in Article XX of the Consular Regulations of 1896 for American or foreign built vessels transferred abroad to citizens of the United States.", "The form and manner of the issuance of certificates of protection provided for in this order shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, January 15, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "title_notes": ["The order says \"the Governor of Tutuila\"; \"American Samoa\" is a later catalogers' term."], "summary": "Empowered the Governor of Tutuila to issue certificates of protection, giving U.S. flag protection to merchant vessels owned by American citizens or by Tutuila and Manua residents who swore allegiance to the United States.", "categories": ["insular-territories"], "action": "regulate", "places": [{"name": "Tutuila", "kind": "island", "state": "American Samoa"}, {"name": "Manua", "kind": "island", "state": "American Samoa"}], "states": ["American Samoa"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [91], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-01-15", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Governor of Tutuila could now issue certificates of protection that served as ship's papers for Samoan-owned vessels that could not be documented as United States vessels.", "source": "Executive Order 548", "date": "1907-01-15", "story": 91}], "legacy": [{"text": "The certificates concerned ships, not persons; people born in American Samoa remain U.S. nationals but not citizens, a status courts upheld in Tuaua (2015) and Fitisemanu (2021).", "source": "8 U.S.C. §§ 1101(a)(29), 1408; Tuaua v. United States, 788 F.3d 300 (D.C. Cir. 2015); Fitisemanu v. United States (10th Cir. 2021)", "story": 91}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-546", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The same order filed under a second number; the 1944 catalog marks EO 548 identical with EO 546.", "story": 91, "date": "1907-01-15", "title": "Identical to Executive Order 548", "type": "executive_order", "number": "546"}]}
{"id": "eo-550", "type": "executive_order", "number": "550", "tr_sequence": 496, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-01-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Building in Sitka, Alaska, Formerly Used as Governor's Residence Reserved as Naval Hospital", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reserved the building in Sitka, Alaska, formerly the governor's residence, for use as a naval hospital.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Sitka", "kind": "town", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [91], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-01-16", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-551", "type": "executive_order", "number": "551", "tr_sequence": 497, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-01-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Addition to the Fort Lincoln Military Reservation, Burleigh County, North Dakota", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_551", "revid": 1865638, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 18, War Dept., January 26, 1907"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that lots two (2), three (3), and four (4) of section ten (10), township 137 north, range 80 west of 5th principal meridian, situated in Burleigh County, North Dakota, aggregating about 32.50 acres, be reserved from sale and set apart for military purposes as an addition to the military reservation of Fort Lincoln, North Dakota."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 18, War Dept., January 26, 1907)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, January 17, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Added about 32.5 acres in Burleigh County, North Dakota, to the Fort Lincoln Military Reservation, reserving the lots from sale for military purposes.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Fort Lincoln Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "North Dakota"}], "states": ["North Dakota"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [91], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-01-17", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-552", "type": "executive_order", "number": "552", "tr_sequence": 498, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-01-19", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Regulations for Army and Navy General Hospital, Hot Springs, Ark., Amended", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Amended the regulations for the Army and Navy General Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [{"name": "Hot Springs", "kind": "town", "state": "Arkansas"}], "states": ["Arkansas"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [91], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-01-19", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-574", "relation": "amended_by", "note": "EO 574 amended the Hot Springs hospital regulations again and commuted the ration at thirty cents.", "story": 91, "date": "1907-03-01", "title": "Amending Regulations for the Army and Navy General Hospital, Hot Springs, Arkansas, Regarding Rations and Subsistence", "type": "executive_order", "number": "574"}]}
{"id": "eo-553", "type": "executive_order", "number": "553", "tr_sequence": 499, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-01-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Addition to the Camp John Hay Military Reservation, Luzon, Philippine Islands", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_553", "revid": 1865646, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 22, War Dept., January 30, 1907"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The military reservation of Camp John Hay, at Baguio, Benguet, on the Island of Luzon, Philippine Islands, as reserved by Executive Order of October 10, 1903 (G. O., No. 48, War Department, November 3, 1903), under authority of section 12, Act of Congress of July 1, 1902 (32 Stat. L., 691), is hereby enlarged so as to include all public lands within metes and bounds as follows, viz:", "Beginning at a stone monument 20 feet East from center of the old Benguet Road and near point at which road to Camp John Hay leaves said Benguet Road; thence N. 55° E. 527 feet to a stone monument; thence N. 9° W. 729 feet to a stone monument; thence N. 71° 3′ E. 2,324.3 feet to a stone monument; thence N. 59° E. 623 feet to a stone monument; thence S. 45° 19′ E. 1,369.6 feet to a stake; thence N. 89° 43′ E. 680 feet to a stake; thence S. 58° 22′ E. 1,165 feet to a stake; thence S. 60° 57′ W. 444 feet to a stone monument; thence S. 52° E. 3,200 feet to a stake; thence S. 21° 54′ W. 5,965 feet to a stake; thence S. 32° 8′ E. 3,550 feet to a stake set 3½ feet from a dead tree and on a line from said dead tree to the \"Worcester Ranch\" Triangulation Station, Civil Government Survey; thence along said last-described line N. 81° 37′ W. 4,100 feet to a stake 20 feet East from center of the old Benguet Road; thence following sinuosities of said road, 20 feet East from center, to a stake N. 2° 47′ W. 2,048 feet, and 20 feet East from center of a bridge at which a pack-train trail leaves said road; thence following said pack-train trail, 3 feet West from center, to a stake N. 15° 21′ W. 525.5 feet; thence N. 67° 24′ W. 600 feet to a stake; thence N. 13° 7′ W. 1,017.5 feet to a stake 20 feet East from center of old Benguet Road; thence following sinuosities of said road, 20 feet East from center of same, to a stake N. 17° 33′ E. 780.5 feet; thence following the road, 20 feet East from center of same, to a stone monument N. 8° 48′ W. 1,494 feet; thence following road, at 20 feet East from center, to a stone monument at point of beginning N. 33° 51′ 15″ W. 4,343.5 feet.", "All bearings are true, and the distances are approximate. Area, 1,433 acres, more or less."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 22, War Dept., January 30, 1907)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, January 23, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Enlarged the Camp John Hay Military Reservation at Baguio, Benguet, on Luzon in the Philippines, to take in additional public lands.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Camp John Hay", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [91], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-01-23", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "uo-073", "relation": "enlarges", "note": null, "story": 112, "inferred": true, "date": "1903-10-10", "title": "Baguio (later Camp John Hay) Military Reservation, Benguet Province, Luzon, P. I., 535.63 acres, established.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "proc-x-1907-01-24", "type": "proclamation", "number": null, "date": "1907-01-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reciprocity with Portugal", "title_source": "Statutes at Large, list of proclamations", "date_notes": [], "numbering_note": "Printed in the Statutes at Large as a proclamation signed by Roosevelt, but not among the American Presidency Project's numbered Proclamations 465–871. Unverified: needs checking against the State Department's proclamation register.", "citations": {"statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3268, "last_page": 3268, "cite": "34 Stat. 3268", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3268.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-01-24"}}, "signed_as": null, "countersigned_by": null, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas His Most Faithful Majesty the King of Portugal and of the Algarves and the United States of America have concluded on November 19, 1902, an Additional and Amendatory Agreement to the Commercial Agreement of May 22, 1899, between the same High Contracting Parties, entered into in accordance with the provisions of Section 3 of the Tariff Act of the United States approved July 24, 1897, which Additional and Amendatory Agreement is in the English and Portugese texts, word for word as follows: Contracting parties.", "Plenipotentiaries.", "His Most Faithful Majesty, the Viscount de Alte, His Majesty’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Washington;", "Who, after having communicated each to the other their respective, full powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed upon the following additional and amendatory Articles to be taken as part of the said Agreement:", "Provisions extended to Porto Rico.", "3269sions of the said Agreement shall apply also to the Island of Porto Rico. Article II. This Additional and AmendatoryRatifications.", "Done in duplicate in EnglishSignatures.", "Contracting parties.", "Plenipotentiaries.", "Sua Magestade El-Rei de Portugal e dos Algarves, o Visconde de Alte, Sen Enviado Extraordinario e Ministro Plenipotenciario em Washington;", "Os quaes, depois de se terem communicado seus respectivos Plenos Poderes, que foram achados em boa e devida forma, convieram nos seguintes artigos addicionaes, que serão consideration parte integrante do dito Accordo Commercial:", "Provisions extended to Porto Rico.", "3269tornar extensivas á Ilha de Porto Rico as estipulações do referido Accordo Commercial Artigo II. O presente Accordo AddicionalRatifications.", "Feito em duplicado nas linguasSignatures."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3268", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization; not proofread.", "marginal_notes": ["Reciprocity with Portugal.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 31, p. 1974.", "Proclamation."]}, "summary": "Proclaimed an additional agreement with Portugal, concluded November 19, 1902, extending the two nations' 1899 commercial reciprocity agreement to Porto Rico.", "categories": ["trade-reciprocity", "foreign-affairs"], "action": "announce", "places": [{"name": "Portugal", "kind": "country"}], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-01-24", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-699", "type": "proclamation", "number": "699", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-01-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Cascade Range Forest Reserve, Oregon", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 699, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-699"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3268, "last_page": 3270, "cite": "34 Stat. 3268–3270", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3268.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-01-25", "table_title": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, the Cascade Range Forest Reserve, in the State of Oregon, was established by proclamation dated September twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and the boundaries thereof have been subsequently changed to include additional lands in the State of Oregon, and also to exclude from the reserve certain lands in said State;", "And whereas it appears that the public good would be promoted by further adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, in the State of Oregon, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 aforesaid Cascade Range Forest Reserve is hereby further enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 25th day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one dred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3268", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Cascade Range Forest Reserve, Oreg.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 28, p. 1240; Vol. 32, p. 1972.", "Post, p. 3300.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Expanded the Cascade Range Forest Reserve in Oregon, first proclaimed September 28, 1893, adding more partly timbered lands and reserving them from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Cascade Range Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}], "states": ["Oregon"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-01-25", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-554", "type": "executive_order", "number": "554", "tr_sequence": 500, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-01-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Federal Employee Members of Grand Army of the Republic Excused from Duty at Noon, Jan 26, 1907, for Funeral of Russell A. Alger", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "title_notes": ["The order covered Grand Army members employed in the executive departments at Washington."], "summary": "Excused federal employees who belong to the Grand Army of the Republic from duty at noon on January 26, 1907, to attend the funeral of Russell A. Alger.", "categories": ["ceremonial", "government-administration"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Russell A. Alger"], "significance": 2, "stories": [91], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-01-25", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Washington Evening Star reported the President's instruction excusing Grand Army members for the Alger funeral on the day it was given.", "source": "Evening Star (Washington), January 25, 1907", "date": "1907-01-25", "story": 91}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "political", "text": "Alger's funeral was held at his Washington home on January 26, and the Senate adjourned to attend.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1907-01-26", "story": 91}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-554-half", "type": "executive_order", "number": "554½", "tr_sequence": 501, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-01-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Frank P. Nantz as Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_554%C2%BD", "revid": 5085317, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Under the provisions of the act of Congress approved June 29, 1906, entitled \"An act to provide means for the sale of internal-revenue stamps in the island of Porto Rico,\" Mr. Frank P. Nantz may be appointed a deputy collector of internal revenue, to be stationed at San Juan, P. R., without compliance with the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, January 29, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Frank P. Nantz to be appointed deputy collector of internal revenue at San Juan, Porto Rico, without meeting civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service", "insular-territories"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Puerto Rico"], "people": ["Frank P. Nantz"], "significance": 1, "stories": [91], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-01-29", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-555", "type": "executive_order", "number": "555", "tr_sequence": 502, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-01-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of James Campbell as Deputy Surveyor of Customs Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_555", "revid": 1876711, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 107"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["James Campbell, assistant appraiser of merchandise at the port of Baltimore, Md., may be appointed to the position of deputy surveyor of customs at that port without compliance with the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 107)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, January 30, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let James Campbell, assistant appraiser of merchandise at Baltimore, be appointed deputy surveyor of customs at that port without meeting civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["James Campbell"], "significance": 1, "stories": [91], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-01-30", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-556", "type": "executive_order", "number": "556", "tr_sequence": 503, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-01-31", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Isthmian Canal Commission to Hold the Quarterly Session Scheduled for the First Week in February, 1907, in Washington, D.C., Instead of on the Isthmus of Panama", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Moved the Isthmian Canal Commission's February 1907 quarterly session from the Isthmus of Panama to Washington, D.C.", "categories": ["canal-zone", "government-administration"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [91], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-01-31", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-700", "type": "proclamation", "number": "700", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-02-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Ouray Forest Reserve, Colorado", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 700, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-700"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3271, "last_page": 3271, "cite": "34 Stat. 3271", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3271.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-02-02", "table_title": "Setting apart the Ouray Forest Reserve, Colorado."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Colorado, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Colorado, shown as the Ouray Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 2nd day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3271", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Ouray Forest Reserve, Colo.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1106.", "Forest Reserve, Colorado.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Ouray Forest Reserve in Colorado, reserving the described timbered public lands from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Ouray Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-02-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-557", "type": "executive_order", "number": "557", "tr_sequence": 504, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-02-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Extending Time Limit for Completion of Work of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission to September 2, 1907", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_557", "revid": 1839647, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By authority of the sixteenth section of the act of Congress approved March second, 1901, entitled \"An act to carry into effect the stipulations of article seven of the treaty between the United States and Spain, concluded on the tenth day of December, 1898,\" the period of two years from the date of the approval of said act (during which the powers and jurisdiction granted to the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, duly appointed under the first section of said act of Congress to examine and adjudicate all claims of citizens of the United States against Spain which the United States agreed to adjudicate and settle by the seventh article of said treaty, were, according to said act, to be in force and continue) is hereby extended for and during six months from and after the second day of March, 1907, and for no longer time, it being the judgment of the President that such time is necessary to enable the Commission to complete its work."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 2, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Extended the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission's powers to examine and settle U.S. citizens' claims against Spain until September 2, 1907.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs", "government-administration"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [91], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-02-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-558", "type": "executive_order", "number": "558", "tr_sequence": 505, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-02-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Prescribing Rules Governing Peacetime Purchase of Discharge from the Marine Corps", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_558", "revid": 1875748, "printed_source": "General Order No. 41, Navy Dept., February 9, 1907"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["In time of peace any enlisted man of the Marine Corps, serving in his first enlistment, who is not undergoing punishment or under charges, and who is not in debt to the Government, may after one year from the date of his enlistment in the Marine Corps apply for the privilege of purchasing his discharge.", "An enlisted man wishing this privilege will make application to the Commandant of the Marine Corps through official channels, giving his reasons in full for desiring his discharge. In general, no reasons will be considered as sufficient to warrant discharge unless it can be shown conclusively that these reasons did not exist prior to enlistment.", "Upon the receipt of an application made as prescribed herein, and fulfilling the conditions given, the Commandant of the Marine Corps may direct the discharge requested at his discretion. The price of purchase will consist of the travel allowances due on discharge, which will be retained by the United States in all cases, and in addition thereto the following:", "{|width=\"100%\" |- |After one year's service.............................................................................||align=\"right\"|$120 |- |After two years' service.............................................................................||align=\"right\"|100 |- |After three years' service...........................................................................||align=\"right\"|90 |}", "When an enlisted man of the Marine Corps makes application for discharge by purchase on account of dependency of a near relative, and shows in connection therewith that a state of destitution exists, that he has to the extent of his opportunities and ability made contributions to the support of such relative, but that these contributions have proved insufficient to relieve the destitution, the Commandant of the Marine Corps may, in his discretion, remit such part of the purchase price of discharge as may seem proper and necessary by reason of the inability of the enlisted man to pay the full amount."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Order No. 41, Navy Dept., February 9, 1907)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 4, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Set rules letting Marine Corps enlisted men in their first enlistment buy their discharge in peacetime after one year, at $120, $100 or $90 depending on service, with relief for men supporting destitute relatives.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [91], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-02-04", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-701", "type": "proclamation", "number": "701", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-02-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Monticello Forest Reserve, Utah", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 701, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-701"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3272, "last_page": 3272, "cite": "34 Stat. 3272", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3272.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-02-06", "table_title": "Setting apart the Monticello Forest Reserve, Utah."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Utah, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one. entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virture of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Utah, shown as the Monticello Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 6th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3272", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Monticello Forest Reserve, Utah.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest Reserve, Utah.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Monticello Forest Reserve in Utah, reserving the described timbered public lands from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Monticello Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-02-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-702", "type": "proclamation", "number": "702", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-02-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Stony Creek Forest Reserve, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 702, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-702"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3273, "last_page": 3273, "cite": "34 Stat. 3273", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3273.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-02-06", "table_title": "Setting apart the Stony Creek Forest Reserve, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of California, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits threof”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of California, shown as the Stony Creek Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 6th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3273", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Stony Creek Forest Reserve, Cal.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Cal.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart the Stony Creek Forest Reserve in California, reserving the described timbered public lands from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Stony Creek Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-02-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-703", "type": "proclamation", "number": "703", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-02-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Glenwood Forest Reserve, Utah", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 703, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-703"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3275, "last_page": 3275, "cite": "34 Stat. 3275", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3275.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-02-06", "table_title": "Setting apart the Glenwood Forest Reserve, Utah."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lauds in the State of Utah, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Utah, shown as the Glenwood Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof:", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 6th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3275", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Glenwood Forest Reserve, Utah.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest Reserve, Utah.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Glenwood Forest Reserve in Utah, reserving the described timbered public lands from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Glenwood Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-02-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-704", "type": "proclamation", "number": "704", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-02-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Big Burros Forest Reserve, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 704, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-704"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3274, "last_page": 3274, "cite": "34 Stat. 3274", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3274.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-02-06", "table_title": "Setting apart the Big Burros Forest Reserve, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the Territory of New Mexico, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limit thereof”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the Territory of New Mexico, shown as the Big Burros Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 6th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3274", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Big Burros Forest Reserve, N. Mex.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, New Mexico.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Big Burros Forest Reserve in New Mexico Territory, reserving the described timbered public lands from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Big Burros Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-02-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-559", "type": "executive_order", "number": "559", "tr_sequence": 506, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-02-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Norman Oswell Cully as Messenger at Naval Academy Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_559", "revid": 1873377, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 114"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Norman Oswell Cully may be appointed as messenger to the superintendent of the Naval Academy without examination under the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 114)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 6, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Norman Oswell Cully to be appointed messenger to the superintendent of the Naval Academy without a civil-service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Norman Oswell Cully"], "significance": 1, "stories": [91], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-02-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-560", "type": "executive_order", "number": "560", "tr_sequence": 507, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-02-08", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Elizabeth M. Leech as Clerk Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_560", "revid": 1873382, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 114"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Miss Elizabeth M. Leech may be appointed to a clerical position in the classified civil service without compliance with the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 114)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 8, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Permitted Elizabeth M. Leech to be appointed to a clerical position in the classified civil service without meeting civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Elizabeth M. Leech"], "significance": 1, "stories": [91], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-02-08", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-561", "type": "executive_order", "number": "561", "tr_sequence": 508, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-02-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Viti Rocks, or Islands, in Bellingham Bay, Washington, for Lighthouse Purposes", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reserved the Viti Rocks, or islands, in Bellingham Bay, Washington, for lighthouse purposes.", "categories": ["lighthouses"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Viti Rocks", "kind": "island", "state": "Washington"}], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [91], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-02-12", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "San Juan Islands National Wildlife Refuge", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "part", "state": "Washington", "note": "Viti Rocks, off the south end of Lummi Island, are now part of the refuge.", "source": "research entry", "story": 91}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-562", "type": "executive_order", "number": "562", "tr_sequence": 509, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-02-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Mrs. George H. Hildreth as Clerk in Bureau of Pensions Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_562", "revid": 1873401, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 115"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. George H. Hildreth may be appointed to a clerical position in the Bureau of Pensions without examination under the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 115)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 13, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Mrs. George H. Hildreth be appointed to a clerical position in the Bureau of Pensions without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Mrs. George H. Hildreth"], "significance": 1, "stories": [91], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-02-13", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-705", "type": "proclamation", "number": "705", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-02-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the San Jacinto Forest Reserve, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 705, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-705"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3276, "last_page": 3277, "cite": "34 Stat. 3276–3277", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3276.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-02-14", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the San Jacinto Forest Reserve, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the San Jacinto Forest Reserve, in the State of California, was established by proclamation dated February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and was subsequently reduced in area by Executive order dated October seventeenth, nineteen hundred and one;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, within the State of California, which are in part covered with timber;", "And whereas, it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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,” that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the said act of Congress, do proclaim that the aforesaid San Jacinto Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation; and provided further, that nothing herein shall operate to interfere with or terminate the right of the Interior Department, under existing laws, to allot to individual Indians any of the land hereby reserved which may be determined by the Secretary of Agriculture to be chiefly valuable for agricultural purposes.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.", "3277 Done at the City of Washington this 14th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL.] seven, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3276", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["San Jacinto Forest Reserve, Cal.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 29, p. 893.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the San Jacinto Forest Reserve, first proclaimed February 22, 1897, by adding partly timbered lands in California and reserving them from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "San Jacinto Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-02-14", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-706", "type": "proclamation", "number": "706", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-02-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Excluding Lands from the Little Belt Forest Reserve, Montana", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 706, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-706"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3277, "last_page": 3277, "cite": "34 Stat. 3277", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3277.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-02-15", "table_title": "Excluding lands from the Little Belt Forest Reserve, Montana."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by excluding certain lands from the Little Belt Forest Reserve, in the State of Montana, established by proclamation issued August sixteenth, nineteen hundred and two;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 aforesaid Little Belt Forest Reserve are hereby changed to exclude therefrom the said lands, and that the boundaries are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "The lands hereby excluded from the reserve and restored to the public domain shall be open to settlement from the date hereof, but shall not be subject to entry, filing, or selection until after ninety day’s notice by such publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.", "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 15th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL.] seven, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3277", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Little Belt Forest Reserve, Mont.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 32, p. 2022.", "Ante, pp. 3180, 3254.", "Boundaries modified.", "Vol. 30, p. 30.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Excluded lands restored to public domain."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Cut lands out of the Little Belt Forest Reserve in Montana and restored them to the public domain.", "categories": ["forests", "public-lands"], "action": "reduce", "places": [{"name": "Little Belt Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-02-15", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-563", "type": "executive_order", "number": "563", "tr_sequence": 510, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-02-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Mazie R. Fountaine as Clerk in Treasury Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_563", "revid": 1873386, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 114"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Miss Mazie R. Fountaine, formerly a clerk in the Smithsonian Institution, may be reinstated as a clerk in the Treasury Department without compliance with the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 114)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 15, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Mazie R. Fountaine, a former Smithsonian Institution clerk, to be reinstated as a Treasury Department clerk without meeting civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "restore", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Mazie R. Fountaine"], "significance": 1, "stories": [91], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-02-15", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-564", "type": "executive_order", "number": "564", "tr_sequence": 511, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-02-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Mrs. George H. Hildreth as Clerk in Classified Service Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_564", "revid": 1873407, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 115"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. George H. Hildreth may be appointed to a clerical position in the classified service without examination under the civil-service rules.", "The Executive order of February 13, permitting Mrs. Hildreth's appointment in the Bureau of Pensions is revoked."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 115)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 16, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Broadened Mrs. George H. Hildreth's exemption so she may take any clerical position in the classified service without examination, revoking the February 13 order limited to the Bureau of Pensions.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Mrs. George H. Hildreth"], "significance": 1, "stories": [91], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-02-16", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-565", "type": "executive_order", "number": "565", "tr_sequence": 512, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-02-19", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of W. H. Teepe as Clerk in Post Office Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_565", "revid": 1873409, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 115"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. W. H. Teepe, of Maryland, who is now serving as a tabulator in connection with the weighing of mails in the Post-Office Department, may be appointed to a clerical position on the permanent roll of that Department."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 115)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 19, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Cleared W. H. Teepe, a tabulator on the Post Office Department's mail-weighing work, for a permanent clerical job in the Department without the usual civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Maryland"], "people": ["W. H. Teepe"], "significance": 1, "stories": [91], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-02-19", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-566", "type": "executive_order", "number": "566", "tr_sequence": 513, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-02-19", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Robert L. Slagle as Clerk in Post Office Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_566", "revid": 1875730, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 115"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Robert L. Slagle, of Tennessee, who is now serving as an assistant messenger in the Post-Office Department, may be appointed to a clerical position on the permanent roll of that Department."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 115)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 19, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Robert L. Slagle, an assistant messenger in the Post Office Department, move up to a permanent clerical position there without the usual civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Tennessee"], "people": ["Robert L. Slagle"], "significance": 1, "stories": [91], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-02-19", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-567", "type": "executive_order", "number": "567", "tr_sequence": 514, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-02-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of James H. Adams in Classified Service Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_567", "revid": 1875742, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 116"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. James H. Adams, who was appointed in the classified service of the Treasury Department through examination and served with slight interruptions from December 12, 1892, to February 23, 1904, may be reinstated in the classified service without regard to the provisions of the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 116)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 20, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed James H. Adams, who served in the Treasury Department's classified service from 1892 to 1904, to be reinstated without regard to the civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "restore", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["James H. Adams"], "significance": 1, "stories": [91], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-02-20", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-568", "type": "executive_order", "number": "568", "tr_sequence": 515, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-02-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Gilman B. Howe as Clerk in Bureau of the Census Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_568", "revid": 1875749, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 116"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Gilman B. Howe may be appointed as clerk in the Bureau of the Census without compliance with the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 116)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 20, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Permitted Gilman B. Howe to be appointed a clerk in the Bureau of the Census without meeting the civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Gilman B. Howe"], "significance": 1, "stories": [91], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-02-20", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-569", "type": "executive_order", "number": "569", "tr_sequence": 516, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-02-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Abolishing Watertown Land District, S. Dakota, and Transferring Lands, Business, and Archives to the Aberdeen Land District", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Abolished the Watertown land district in South Dakota, sending its lands, business and records to the Aberdeen land district.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Watertown Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "South Dakota"}, {"name": "Aberdeen Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "South Dakota"}], "states": ["South Dakota"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [91], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-02-20", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-570", "type": "executive_order", "number": "570", "tr_sequence": 517, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-02-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Certain Described Lands at Haines, Alaska, for Educational Purposes", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reserved certain described lands at Haines, Alaska, for educational purposes.", "categories": ["insular-territories", "public-lands"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Haines", "kind": "town", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [91], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-02-21", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-571", "type": "executive_order", "number": "571", "tr_sequence": 518, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-02-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Transfer of John E. Kidwell, Accountant in Isthmian Canal Service, to Classified Clerical Position in United States", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_571", "revid": 1875760, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 116"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. John E. Kidwell, accountant (pay clerk), at $2,200 per annum, in the Isthmian Service, may be transferred to a classified clerical position in the United States."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 116)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 21, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed John E. Kidwell, an accountant (pay clerk) in the Isthmian Canal service, to transfer to a classified clerical position in the United States.", "categories": ["civil-service", "canal-zone"], "action": "transfer", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["John E. Kidwell"], "significance": 1, "stories": [91], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-02-21", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-572", "type": "executive_order", "number": "572", "tr_sequence": 519, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-02-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Frank O'Neill as Stock Examiner in Department of Agriculture Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_572", "revid": 1875755, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 116"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Frank O'Neill may be reinstated to the position of stock examiner in the Department of Agriculture without regard to the one-year limitation of civil-service Rule IX."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 116)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 21, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Frank O'Neill return as a stock examiner in the Department of Agriculture, waiving the civil-service rule's one-year limit on reinstatement.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "restore", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Frank O'Neill"], "significance": 1, "stories": [91], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-02-21", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-573", "type": "executive_order", "number": "573", "tr_sequence": 520, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-02-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Certain Described Lands at Cape Fanshaw, Alaska, for a Military Cable Station", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_573", "revid": 1866851, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 49, War Dept., March 9, 1907"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that all public lands situated at Cape Fanshaw, Alaska, at the junction of Frederick Sound and Fanshaw Bay, nearly due east of Sitka, Alaska, which are included within metes and bounds described as follows, be, and hereby are, reserved from sale or other disposition and set apart as a military reservation in connection with the protection and maintenance of a cable station thereon, viz:", "\"Commencing at the extreme westerly point of Cape Fanshaw at the top of a rock known and charted as Astronomical Station, following the shore line past Canoe Point in a northeast and easterly direction to a stone monument on the north shore, approximately one and three-eighths (1) miles east and one-half (½) mile north of the point of commencement; thence due south to a stone monument on the opposite south shore; thence following the shore westerly to the point of commencement at Astronomical Station at the extremity of Cape Fanshaw.\""], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 49, War Dept., March 9, 1907)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 26, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Set apart public lands at Cape Fanshaw, Alaska, where Frederick Sound meets Fanshaw Bay, as a military reservation to protect and maintain a cable station.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Cape Fanshaw", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [91], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-02-26", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-707", "type": "proclamation", "number": "707", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Toiyabe Forest Reserve, Nevada", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 707, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-707"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3278, "last_page": 3278, "cite": "34 Stat. 3278", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3278.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-03-01", "table_title": "Setting apart the Toiyabe Forest Reserve, Nevada."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Nevada, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Nevada, shown as the Toiyabe Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 1st day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3278", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Toiyabe Forest Reserve, Nev.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Nevada.", "Land excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Toiyabe Forest Reserve in Nevada, setting aside public lands partly covered with timber and reserving them from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Toiyabe Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Nevada"}], "states": ["Nevada"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [9, 67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-708", "type": "proclamation", "number": "708", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Wenaha Forest Reserve, Oregon and Washington", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 708, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-708"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3279, "last_page": 3279, "cite": "34 Stat. 3279", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3279.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-03-01", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Wenaha Forest Reserve, Oregon and Washington."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Wenaha Forest Reserve, in the States of Oregon and Washington, was established by proclamation dated May twelfth, nineteen hundred and five;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, within the State of Oregon, which are in part covered with timber;", "And whereas, it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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,” that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the said act of Congress do proclaim that the aforesaid Wenaha Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 1st of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3279", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Wenaha Forest Reserve, Oreg, and Wash.", "Preamble.", "Ante, p. 3010.", "Vol. 30, p. 30.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Wenaha Forest Reserve, which straddles Oregon and Washington, by adding timbered lands on the Oregon side.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Wenaha Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}], "states": ["Oregon", "Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [9, 67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-709", "type": "proclamation", "number": "709", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Siskiyou Forest Reserve, Oregon", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 709, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-709"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3280, "last_page": 3280, "cite": "34 Stat. 3280", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3280.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-03-01", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Siskiyou Forest Reserve, Oregon."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Siskiyou Forest Reserve, in the State of Oregon, was established by proclamation dated October fifth, nineteen hundred and six;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, within the State of Oregon, which are in part covered with timber;", "And whereas, it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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,” that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the said act of Congress do proclaim that the aforesaid Siskiyou Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 1st day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3280", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Siskiyou Forest Reserve, Oreg.", "Preamble.", "Ante, p. 3239.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Added timbered lands in Oregon to the Siskiyou Forest Reserve, created just months earlier in October 1906.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Siskiyou Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}], "states": ["Oregon"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [9, 67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-710", "type": "proclamation", "number": "710", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Big Hole Forest Reserve, Montana and Idaho", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 710, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-710"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3281, "last_page": 3281, "cite": "34 Stat. 3281", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3281.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-03-01", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Big Hole Forest Reserve, Montana and Idaho."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Big Hole Forest Reserve, in the State of Montana, was established by proclamation dated November fifth, nineteen hundred nd six;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, within the State of Idaho, which are in part covered with timber;", "And whereas, it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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,” that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the said act of Congress do proclaim that the-aforesaid Big Hole Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 1st day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3281", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Big Hole Forest Reserve, Mont, and Idaho.", "Preamble.", "Ante, p. 3254.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Stretched the Big Hole Forest Reserve of Montana across the state line, adding timbered lands in Idaho.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Big Hole Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana", "Idaho"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [9, 67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-711", "type": "proclamation", "number": "711", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Uncompahgre Forest Reserve, Colorado", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 711, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-711"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3282, "last_page": 3282, "cite": "34 Stat. 3282", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3282.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-03-01", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Uncompahgre Forest Reserve, Colorado."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Uncompahgre Forest Reserve, in the State of Colorado, was established by proclamation dated June fourteenth, nineteen hundred and five;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, within the State of Colorado, which are in part covered with timber;", "And whereas, it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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,” that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve;”", "Now, therefore, I. Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the said act of Congress, do proclaim that the aforesaid Uncompahgre Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 1st day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3282", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Uncompahgre Forest Reserve, Colo.", "Preamble.", "Ante, p. 3109.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Uncompahgre Forest Reserve in Colorado with additional lands partly covered with timber.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Uncompahgre Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [9, 67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-712", "type": "proclamation", "number": "712", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Modifying Boundaries of the Big Belt Forest Reserve, Montana", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 712, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-712"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3283, "last_page": 3283, "cite": "34 Stat. 3283", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3283.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-03-01", "table_title": "Modifying boundaries of the Big Belt Forest Reserve, Montana."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Big Belt Forest Reserve, in the State of Montana, was established by proclamation dated October third, nineteen hundred and five;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, within the State of Montana, which are in part covered with timber, and by excluding therefrom certain lands;", "And whereas, it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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,” that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve;”", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the said act of Congress, do proclaim that the boundaries of the aforesaid Big Belt Forest Reserve are hereby further changed, and that they are now as shown on a diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "The lands which are not embraced within any other withdrawal, reservation, or appropriation and which are hereby excluded from the reserve and restored to the public domain shall be open to settlement from the date hereof, but shall not be subject to entry, filing, or selection until after ninety days’ notice by such publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 1st day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3283", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Big Belt Forest Reserve, Mont.", "Preamble.", "Ante, p. 3151.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Boundaries modified.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Restored lands open to settlement.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Redrew the Big Belt Forest Reserve in Montana, adding timbered lands and cutting out others, which were restored and opened to settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Big Belt Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [9, 67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-713", "type": "proclamation", "number": "713", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Imnaha Forest Reserve, Oregon, in Place of the Wallowa and Chesnimnus Forest Reserves", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 713, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-713"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3284, "last_page": 3284, "cite": "34 Stat. 3284", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3284.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-03-01", "table_title": "Establishing Imnaha Forest Reserve, Oregon, in place of the Wallowa and Chesnimnus Forest reserves."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Wallowa Forest Reserve and the Chesnimnus Forest Reserve, in the State of Oregon, have been heretofore established by proclamations, under the provisions of the act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes;”", "And whereas, it appears desirable that the area embraced in said forest reserves, with certain additions thereto, in the State of Oregon, should be included in one reserve and be distinguished by one name; and it appears that the public lands in the State of Oregon, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and that the public good would be promoted by setting apart the same as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 proclamations heretofore issued respecting said forest reserves are hereby superseded, and the Imnaha Forest Reserve is hereby established in place thereof, with boundaries as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired, and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 1st day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3284", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Imnaha Forest Reserve, Oreg.", "Preamble.", "Ante, pp. 3004, 3022.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Imnaha Forest Reserve, Oreg., established in place of the Wallowa and Chesnimnus forest reserves.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": null, "countersigned_by": null, "summary": "Combined Oregon's Wallowa and Chesnimnus forest reserves, plus added lands, into one new reserve: the Imnaha Forest Reserve.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Imnaha Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}, {"name": "Wallowa Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}, {"name": "Chesnimnus Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}], "states": ["Oregon"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [9, 67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-01", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "proc-546", "relation": "supersedes", "note": "Imnaha was established in place of the Wallowa reserve.", "story": 67, "date": "1905-05-06", "title": "Establishment of the Wallowa Forest Reserve, Oregon", "type": "proclamation", "number": "546"}, {"id": "proc-551", "relation": "supersedes", "note": "Imnaha was established in place of the Chesnimnus reserve.", "story": 67, "date": "1905-05-12", "title": "Establishment of the Chesnimnus Forest Reserve, Oregon", "type": "proclamation", "number": "551"}]}
{"id": "proc-714", "type": "proclamation", "number": "714", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Modifying Boundaries of the Park Range Forest Reserve, Colorado", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 714, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-714"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3285, "last_page": 3285, "cite": "34 Stat. 3285", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3285.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-03-01", "table_title": "Modifying boundaries of the Park Range Forest Reserve, Colorado."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Park Range Forest Reserve, in the State of Colorado, was established by proclamation dated June twelfth, nineteen hundred and five;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, within the State of Colorado, which are in part covered with timber, and by excluding therefrom certain lands;", "And whereas, it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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,” that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve;”", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the said act of Congress, do proclaim that the boundaries of the aforesaid Park Range Forest Reserve are hereby further changed, and that they are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "The lands which are not embraced in any other withdrawal, reservation, or appropriation and which are hereby excluded from the reserve and restored to the public domain shall be open to settlement from the date hereof, but shall not be subject to entry, filing, or selection until after ninety days’ notice by such publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 1st day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3285", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Park Range Forest Reserve, Colo.", "Preamble.", "Ante, p. 3079.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Boundaries modified.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Restored lands open to settlement.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Changed the boundaries of the Park Range Forest Reserve in Colorado, adding timbered lands and excluding others, which were opened to settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Park Range Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [9, 67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-715", "type": "proclamation", "number": "715", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Holy Cross Forest Reserve, Colorado", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 715, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-715"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3286, "last_page": 3286, "cite": "34 Stat. 3286", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3286.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-03-01", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Holy Cross Forest Reserve, Colorado."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Holy Cross Forest Reserve, in the State of Colorado, was established by proclamation dated August twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and five;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, within the State of Colorado, which are in part covered with timber;", "And whereas, it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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”, that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the said act of Congress, do proclaim that the aforesaid Holy Cross Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof:", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 1st day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3286", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Holy Cross Forest Reserve, Colo.", "Preamble.", "Ante, p. 3144.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Holy Cross Forest Reserve in Colorado with additional lands partly covered with timber.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Holy Cross Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [9, 67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-716", "type": "proclamation", "number": "716", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing the Bear Lodge Forest Reserve, Wyoming", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 716, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-716"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3287, "last_page": 3287, "cite": "34 Stat. 3287", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3287.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-03-01", "table_title": "Establishing the Bear Lodge Forest Reserve, Wyoming."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America", "A Proclamation", "WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Wyoming, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, \"An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,\" \"That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory, having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof\";", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Wyoming, shown as the Bear Lodge Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 1st day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first.", "[SEAL.]", "Theodore Roosevelt", "By the President: Elihu Root Secretary of State."], "source": "34 Stat. 3287 (Statutes at Large text), 2026-08-21", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Proviso restored verbatim; [SEAL.] restored; capitalization corrected to the Statutes forms. Roosevelt's and Root's names are set in small caps in the original, with no comma after Root. GPO marginal side-notes and the bound diagram (facing p. 3287) are not reproduced.", "story": 10}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Bear Lodge Forest Reserve in Wyoming, setting apart timbered public lands and reserving them from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Bear Lodge Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Wyoming"}], "states": ["Wyoming"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [10], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-01", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "Washington's Evening Star listed the Bear Lodge reserve among the forest reserves created or enlarged \"in the last day or two.\"", "source": "Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), March 4, 1907", "date": "1907-03-04", "story": 10}, {"text": "When the county thought the reserve had been cancelled, the Crook County Monitor's editorial page said most local people would \"rejoice at the decision of the department.\"", "source": "Crook County Monitor (Sundance, Wyo.), March 22, 1907", "date": "1907-03-22", "story": 10}, {"text": "After the reserve was confirmed, the Monitor reported disappointment among people from the Bear Lodge country and said the idea of a forest reserve was not popular with some nearby ranchers.", "source": "Crook County Monitor (Sundance, Wyo.), April 1907", "date": "1907-04", "story": 10}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "political", "text": "Representative Frank W. Mondell wrote that the reserve had been created hurriedly before the ban took effect, and that the Forestry Bureau had meant to leave two townships open but forgot in the rush.", "source": "Mondell letter of March 7, 1907, in Crook County Monitor, March 15, 1907", "date": "1907-03-15", "story": 10}, {"kind": "local", "text": "The Monitor reported that the Interior Secretary had revoked a January 4, 1906 withdrawal and restored the land to settlement, and for about two weeks the county believed the reserve was gone.", "source": "Crook County Monitor, March 22 and 29, 1907", "date": "1907-03-22", "story": 10}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Forester answered Mondell that the Bear Lodge National Forest had not been abandoned and that he did not favor abandoning its northern part.", "source": "Crook County Monitor, April 19, 1907", "date": "1907-04-19", "story": 10}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "G. C. Smith was put in charge of the reserve and moved his family to the Paulson ranch.", "source": "Crook County Monitor, April 1907", "date": "1907-04", "story": 10}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Forest Service's grazing chief announced free grazing for established users through the 1907 season.", "source": "Crook County Monitor, May 10, 1907", "date": "1907-05-10", "story": 10}, {"kind": "congress", "text": "Three days after it was created, the reserve became the Bear Lodge National Forest by operation of law, when Congress renamed all forest reserves national forests.", "source": "Act of March 4, 1907, 34 Stat. 1269", "date": "1907-03-04", "story": 10}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Bear Lodge name lives on in the Bearlodge Ranger District of the Black Hills National Forest, headquartered at Sundance, Wyoming.", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Federal Register notices", "story": 10}, {"text": "The surrounding landscape remains sacred to Northern Plains tribes.", "source": "research entry", "story": 10}], "today": [{"name": "Black Hills National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Wyoming", "note": "Bear Lodge became part of Sundance National Forest in 1908, and Sundance's land went to the Black Hills National Forest in 1915; the Bearlodge Ranger District carries the old name.", "source": "Executive Order 850 (1908); Executive Order 2161 (1915)", "story": 10}, {"name": "Sundance National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "abolished", "state": "Wyoming", "note": "Formed in 1908 from Bear Lodge and part of the Black Hills National Forest; dissolved in 1915.", "source": "Executive Order 850 (1908); Executive Order 2161 (1915)", "story": 10}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1907-03-04", "text": "Renamed a national forest by the Act of March 4, 1907, which declared that forest reserves \"shall be known hereafter as national forests.\"", "source": "34 Stat. 1269", "story": 10}, {"date": "1915-04-06", "text": "Executive Order 2161 dissolved the Sundance National Forest, effective July 1, 1915, and transferred its land to the Black Hills National Forest.", "source": "Executive Order 2161", "story": 10}], "uncertain": ["The 136,784-acre figure at establishment rests on a single family of Forest Service compilations; the 1907 Report of the Forester or the General Land Office's 1907 report would confirm it.", "The number 716 comes from the State Department's later numbering; the Statutes at Large printing carries no number, and no independent confirmation has been found."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-658", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The reserve took its name from Bear Lodge, the tower Roosevelt made Devils Tower National Monument in 1906; the tower lies a few miles west, outside the reserve.", "story": 10, "date": "1906-09-24", "title": "Setting Aside Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming", "type": "proclamation", "number": "658"}, {"id": "eo-850", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "Combined Bear Lodge with part of the Black Hills National Forest to form the Sundance National Forest, effective July 1, 1908.", "story": 10, "date": "1908-06-26", "title": "Sundance National Forest, Wyo., Created", "type": "executive_order", "number": "850"}]}
{"id": "proc-717", "type": "proclamation", "number": "717", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing the Colville Forest Reserve, Washington", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 717, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-717"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3288, "last_page": 3288, "cite": "34 Stat. 3288", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3288.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-03-01", "table_title": "Establishing the Colville Forest Reserve, Washington."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Washington, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Washington, shown as the Colville Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation; and provided further, that nothing herein shall operate to interfere with or terminate the right of the Department of the Interior, under existing laws, to allot to individual Indians any of the land hereby reserved.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 1st day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3288", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Colville Forest Reserve, Wash.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Washington.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Allotments to Indians.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Colville Forest Reserve in Washington on timbered public lands, with margin notes addressing allotments to Indians.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Colville Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Washington"}], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [9, 67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-718", "type": "proclamation", "number": "718", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing the Las Animas Forest Reserve, Colorado and New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 718, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-718"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3289, "last_page": 3289, "cite": "34 Stat. 3289", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3289.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-03-01", "table_title": "Establishing the Las Animas Forest Reserve, Colorado and New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Colorado and the Territory of New Mexico, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof;”", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Colorado and the Territory of New Mexico, shown as the Las Animas Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WFIEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.", "Done at the City of Washington this 1st day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3289", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Las Animas Forest Reserve, Colo, and N. Mex.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Colorado and New Mexico.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Las Animas Forest Reserve on timbered public lands spanning Colorado and the Territory of New Mexico.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Las Animas Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado", "New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [9, 67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-574", "type": "executive_order", "number": "574", "tr_sequence": 521, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Regulations for the Army and Navy General Hospital, Hot Springs, Arkansas, Regarding Rations and Subsistence", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_574", "revid": 1866853, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 53, War Dept., March 15, 1907"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The Executive Order of January 19, 1907, providing for certain amendments to the Rules and Regulations prescribed for the government of the Army and Navy General Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, is hereby amended to read as follows:", "Under authority of Act of Congress approved June 30, 1882 (22 Stat. L., 121), which prescribes that the Army and Navy General Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, \"shall be subject to such rules, regulations, and restrictions as shall be provided by the President of the United States,\" the following amendments are hereby made to the rules and regulations prescribed for the government of said hospital by Executive Order of August 25, 1892, as amended by later orders, viz:", "(1) The ration of enlisted men of the Army on the active list while under treatment and the ration of the members of the nurse corps (female) while on duty in the hospital shall be commuted at the rate of 30 cents per ration to be paid to the surgeon in charge by the post commissary or such officer of the Subsistence Department as may be designated, conformably to the regulations governing the subsistence of patients and nurses at other Army hospitals.", "(2) Since there is no issuing commissary at this post, and rations in kind can not in any case be economically issued, the ration of the enlisted men of the Army on duty at this hospital shall be commuted at the rate of 30 cents per ration, to be paid to the men by the commissary upon their individual receipts conformably to the regulations governing such payments in other Army cases.", "(3) The subsistence of enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps on the active list under treatment in this hospital in pursuance of orders shall be paid for to the surgeon in charge at the rate of 30 cents per day by the proper officer of the Navy Department, upon monthly statements of amounts due certified by the Surgeon General of the Army to the Surgeon General of the Navy through the prescribed channels."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 53, War Dept., March 15, 1907)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 1, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Rewrote ration rules at the Army and Navy General Hospital in Hot Springs, Arkansas, paying 30 cents per ration for soldiers, nurses, sailors and Marines instead of issuing food in kind.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [{"name": "Army and Navy General Hospital", "kind": "other", "state": "Arkansas"}], "states": ["Arkansas"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [91], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-01", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-552", "relation": "amends", "note": "Further amended the Hot Springs hospital rations and subsistence rules.", "story": 91, "date": "1907-01-19", "title": "Regulations for Army and Navy General Hospital, Hot Springs, Ark., Amended", "type": "executive_order", "number": "552"}]}
{"id": "proc-719", "type": "proclamation", "number": "719", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing the Little Rockies Forest Reserve, Montana", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 719, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-719"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3290, "last_page": 3290, "cite": "34 Stat. 3290", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3290.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-03-02", "table_title": "Establishing the Little Rockies Forest Reserve, Montana."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America", "A PROCLAMATION", "WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Montana, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, \"An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,\" \"That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof\";", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Montana, shown as the Little Rockies Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 2d day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President: ELIHU ROOT Secretary of State."], "source": "34 Stat. 3290 (GovInfo USLM text checked against the page image), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Statutes form: capitalization of WHEREAS / And whereas / Now, therefore / IN WITNESS WHEREOF as printed; full exceptions proviso; [SEAL.] in the dating clause. The Statutes print no title and no metes-and-bounds description; the boundary is carried by a diagram, not reproduced.", "story": 67}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Little Rockies Forest Reserve in Montana, setting apart public lands partly covered with timber.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Little Rockies Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [9, 67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-720", "type": "proclamation", "number": "720", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Modifying Boundaries of the Yellowstone Forest Reserve, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 720, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-720"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3291, "last_page": 3291, "cite": "34 Stat. 3291", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3291.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-03-02", "table_title": "Modifying boundaries of the Yellowstone Forest Reserve, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Yellowstone Forest Reserve, in the State of Wyoming, was established by proclamation dated March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, under the name of the Yellowstone Park Timberland Reserve, and the boundaries thereof have been subsequently changed to include additional lands in the States of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, and also to exclude from the reserve certain lands in the States of Wyoming and Montana;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by further adding to the said forest reserve certain lands in the States of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, which are in part covered with timber, and by excluding therefrom certain lands in the States of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 aforesaid Yellowstone Forest Reserve is hereby further enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "The lands excluded from the reserve not otherwise withdrawn or reserved are hereby restored to the public domain, and shall be open to settlement from the date hereof, but shall not be subject to entry, filing, or selection until after ninety day’s notice by such publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.", "Done at the City of Washington this 2d day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3291", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Yellowstone Forest Reserve, Wyo., Mont., and Idaho.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26. p. 1565.", "Vol. 27, p. 989.", "Vol. 32, pp. 1999, 2006, 2030.", "Vol. 33, p. 2344.", "Ante, p. 3049.", "Boundaries modified.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Restored lands open to settlement.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Redrew the Yellowstone Forest Reserve, adding timbered lands in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho and excluding others, which were opened to settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Yellowstone Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Wyoming"}], "states": ["Wyoming", "Montana", "Idaho"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [9, 67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-721", "type": "proclamation", "number": "721", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Port Neuf Forest Reserve, Idaho", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 721, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-721"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3292, "last_page": 3292, "cite": "34 Stat. 3292", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3292.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-03-02", "table_title": "Setting apart the Port Neuf Forest Reserve, Idaho."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Idaho, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Idaho, shown as the Port Neuf Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 2d day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3292", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Port Neuf Forest Reserve, Idaho.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Idaho.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart the Port Neuf Forest Reserve in Idaho on public lands partly covered with timber.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Port Neuf Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Idaho"}], "states": ["Idaho"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [9, 67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-722", "type": "proclamation", "number": "722", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Palouse Forest Reserve, Idaho", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 722, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-722"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3293, "last_page": 3293, "cite": "34 Stat. 3293", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3293.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-03-02", "table_title": "Setting apart the Palouse Forest Reserve, Idaho."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Idaho, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Idaho, shown as the Palouse Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 2d day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3293", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Palouse Forest Reserve, Idaho.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Idaho.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart the Palouse Forest Reserve in Idaho, reserving timbered public lands from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Palouse Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Idaho"}], "states": ["Idaho"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [9, 67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-723", "type": "proclamation", "number": "723", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Modifying Boundaries of the Weiser Forest Reserve, Idaho", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 723, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-723"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3294, "last_page": 3294, "cite": "34 Stat. 3294", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3294.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-03-02", "table_title": "Modifying boundaries of the Weiser Forest Reserve, Idaho."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Weiser Forest Reserve, in the State of Idaho, was established by proclamation dated May twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and five, and was subsequently enlarged by proclamation dated May tenth, nineteen hundred and six;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by further adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, in the State of Idaho, which are in part covered with timber, and by excluding therefrom certain lands;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 aforesaid Weiser Forest Reserve are hereby further changed, and that they are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "The lands which are not embraced in any other withdrawal, reservation, or appropriation and which are hereby excluded from the reserve and restored to the public domain shall be open to settlement from the date hereof, but shall not be subject to entry, filing, or selection until after ninety days’ notice by such publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 2d day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3294", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Weiser Forest Reserve, Idaho.", "Preamble.", "Ante, pp. 3055, 3199.", "Boundaries modified.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Restored lands open to settlement.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Adjusted the Weiser Forest Reserve in Idaho again, adding timbered lands and excluding others, which were reopened to settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Weiser Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Idaho"}], "states": ["Idaho"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [9, 67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-724", "type": "proclamation", "number": "724", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Cabinet Forest Reserve, Montana and Idaho", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 724, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-724"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3295, "last_page": 3295, "cite": "34 Stat. 3295", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3295.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-03-02", "table_title": "Setting apart the Cabinet Forest Reserve, Montana and Idaho."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the States of Montana and Idaho, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the States of Montana and Idaho, shown as the Cabinet Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 2d day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3295", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Cabinet Forest Reserve, Mont, and Idaho.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest Reserve, Montana and Idaho.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart the Cabinet Forest Reserve on timbered public lands in Montana and Idaho.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Cabinet Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana", "Idaho"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [9, 67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-725", "type": "proclamation", "number": "725", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Rainier Forest Reserve, Washington", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 725, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-725"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3296, "last_page": 3296, "cite": "34 Stat. 3296", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3296.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-03-02", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Rainier Forest Reserve, Washington."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, The Mt. Rainier Forest Reserve, in the State of Washington, was established by proclamation dated February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, within the State of Washington, which are in part covered with timber;", "And whereas, it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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,” that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the said act of Congress, do proclaim that the aforesaid Mt. Rainier Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "This reservation shall be known hereafter as the Rainier Forest Reserve.", "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 2d day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3296", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Rainier Forest Reserve, Wash.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 29, p. 896.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Name changed."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Mt. Rainier Forest Reserve in Washington with more timbered land and, per the margin notes, changed its name to the Rainier Forest Reserve.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Mt. Rainier Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Washington"}], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [9, 67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-726", "type": "proclamation", "number": "726", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Modifying Boundaries of the Washington Forest Reserve, Washington", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 726, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-726"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3297, "last_page": 3297, "cite": "34 Stat. 3297", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3297.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-03-02", "table_title": "Modifying boundaries of the Washington Forest Reserve, Washington."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, The Washington Forest Reserve, in the State of Washington, was established by proclamation dated February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and the boundaries thereof were subsequently changed by proclamations dated April third, nineteen hundred and one, and June twelfth, nineteen hundred and five;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by further excluding lands from the said forest reserve, and by including therein certain additional lands, in the State of Washington, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 aforesaid Washington Forest Reserve are hereby further changed, and that they are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "The lands which are not embraced in any other withdrawal, reservation, or appropriation and which are hereby excluded from the reserve and restored to the public domain shall be open to settlement from the date hereof, but shall not be subject to entry, filing, or selection until after ninety days’ notice by such publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 2d day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3297", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Washington Forest Reserve, Wash.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 29, p. 904.", "Vol. 32, p. 1969.", "Ante, p. 3088.", "Boundaries modified.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Restored lands open to settlement.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Modified the Washington Forest Reserve, excluding some lands and adding new timbered tracts in Washington; excluded lands were opened to settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Washington Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Washington"}], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [9, 67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-727", "type": "proclamation", "number": "727", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Ashland Forest Reserve, Oregon", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 727, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-727"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3298, "last_page": 3298, "cite": "34 Stat. 3298", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3298.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-03-02", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Ashland Forest Reserve, Oregon."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Ashland Forest Reserve, in the State of Oregon, was established by proclamation dated September twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and was subsequently enlarged by proclamation dated April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and six;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by further enlarging the said forest reserve to include certain additional lands, in the State of Oregon, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 aforesaid Ashland Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are now as shown on the diagram forming a part thereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 2d day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3298", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Ashland Forest Reserve, Oreg.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 28, p. 1243.", "Ante, p. 3196.", "Boundaries further enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Further enlarged the Ashland Forest Reserve in Oregon with additional lands partly covered with timber.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Ashland Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}], "states": ["Oregon"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [9, 67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-728", "type": "proclamation", "number": "728", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Coquille Forest Reserve, Oregon", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 728, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-728"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3299, "last_page": 3299, "cite": "34 Stat. 3299", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3299.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-03-02", "table_title": "Setting apart the Coquille Forest Reserve, Oregon."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Oregon, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land in the State of Oregon, shown as the Coquille Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 2d day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3299", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Coquille Forest Reserve, Oreg.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest Reserve, Oregon.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart the Coquille Forest Reserve in Oregon on public lands partly covered with timber.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Coquille Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}], "states": ["Oregon"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [9, 67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-729", "type": "proclamation", "number": "729", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Cascade Forest Reserve, Oregon", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 729, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-729"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3300, "last_page": 3300, "cite": "34 Stat. 3300", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3300.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-03-02", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Cascade Forest Reserve, Oregon."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Cascade Forest Reserve, in the State of Oregon, was established by proclamation dated September twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, under the name of The Cascade Range Forest Reserve, and the boundaries thereof have been subsequently changed to include additional lands in the State of Oregon, and also to exclude from the reserve certain lands;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by further adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, in the State of Oregon, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 aforesaid Cascade Forest Reserve is hereby further enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 2d day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3300", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Cascade Forest Reserve, Oreg.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 28, p. 1240.", "Vol. 32, p. 1972.", "Ante, p. 3270.", "Boundaries further enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Added more timbered Oregon land to the Cascade Forest Reserve, first created in 1893 as the Cascade Range Forest Reserve.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Cascade Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}], "states": ["Oregon"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [9, 67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-730", "type": "proclamation", "number": "730", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Umpqua Forest Reserve, Oregon", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 730, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-730"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3301, "last_page": 3301, "cite": "34 Stat. 3301", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3301.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-03-02", "table_title": "Setting apart the Umpqua Fcrest Reserve, Oregon."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Oregon, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forest, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Oregon, shown as the Umpqua Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 2d day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3301", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Umpqua Forest Reserve, Oreg.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Oregon.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart the Umpqua Forest Reserve in Oregon, reserving timbered public lands from settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Umpqua Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}], "states": ["Oregon"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [9, 67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-731", "type": "proclamation", "number": "731", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Blue Mountains Forest Reserve, Oregon, and Incorporating Therewith the Maury Mountain Forest Reserve", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 731, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-731"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3302, "last_page": 3302, "cite": "34 Stat. 3302", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3302.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-03-02", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Blue Mountains Forest Reserve, Oregon, and incorporating therewith the Maury Mountain Forest Reserve."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Blue Mountains Forest Reserve and the Maury Mountain Forest Reserve, in the State of Oregon, have been heretofore established by proclamations, under the provisions of the act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes;”", "And whereas, it appears desirable that the areas embraced in said forest reserves, with certain additions thereto, in the State of Oregon, should be included in one reserve and be distinguished by one name; and it appears that the public lands in the State of Oregon, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and that the public good would be promoted by setting apart the same as a public reservation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 proclamations heretofore issued respecting said forest reserves are hereby superseded, and the Blue Mountains Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include all of the said lands, with boundaries as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 2d day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3302", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Blue Mountains Forest Reserve, Oreg.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 33, p. 2331.", "Ante, pp. 3194, 3066.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Consolidation of the Maury Mountain Forest Reserve with the Blue Mountains Forest Reserve, Oreg.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Enlarging Boundaries of the Blue Mountains Forest Reserve, Oregon, and Incorporating Therewith the Maury”. Title was cut off; completed from the Statutes list (34 Stat. 3302)."], "summary": "Folded Oregon's Maury Mountain Forest Reserve into the Blue Mountains Forest Reserve and enlarged the combined reserve with additional lands.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Blue Mountains Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}, {"name": "Maury Mountain Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}], "states": ["Oregon"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [9, 67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-02", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "proc-565", "relation": "supersedes", "note": "The enlarged Blue Mountains reserve absorbed the Maury Mountain reserve.", "story": 67, "date": "1905-06-02", "title": "Establishing the Maury Mountain Forest Reserve, Oregon", "type": "proclamation", "number": "565"}]}
{"id": "proc-732", "type": "proclamation", "number": "732", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Medicine Bow Forest Reserve, Colorado and Wyoming", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 732, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-732"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3303, "last_page": 3303, "cite": "34 Stat. 3303", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3303.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-03-02", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Medicine Bow Forest Reserve, Colorado and Wyoming."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Medicine Bow Forest Reserve, in the State of Wyoming, was established by proclamation dated May twenty-second, nineteen hundred and two, and the boundaries thereof have been subsequently changed to include additional lands in the States of Wyoming and Colorado, and also to exclude from the reserve certain lands;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by further adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, in the States of Colorado and Wyoming, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, entitled, “An Act Making appropriation 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 aforesaid Medicine Bow Forest Reserve is hereby further enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of hind unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 2d day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3303", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Medicine Bow Forest Reserve, Colo, and Wyo.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 32, pp. 2003, 2015.", "Ante, p. 3039.", "Boundaries further enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Further enlarged the Medicine Bow Forest Reserve with timbered lands in Colorado and Wyoming.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Medicine Bow Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Wyoming"}], "states": ["Colorado", "Wyoming"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [9, 67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-733", "type": "proclamation", "number": "733", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Lewis and Clark Forest Reserve, Montana", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 733, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-733"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3304, "last_page": 3304, "cite": "34 Stat. 3304", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3304.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-03-02", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Lewis and Clark Forest Reserve, Montana."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Lewis and Clark Forest Reserve, in the State of Montana, was established by proclamation dated February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, under the name of the Lewis and Clarke Forest Reserve, and the boundaries thereof were subsequently changed by proclamation dated June ninth, nineteen hundred and three, to include additional lands, and also to exclude from the reserve certain lands;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by further adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, in the State of Montana, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 aforesaid Lewis and Clark Forest Reserve is hereby further enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 2d day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3304", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Lewis and Clark Forest Reserve, Mont.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 29. p. 907.", "Vol. 33, p. 2311.", "Boundaries further enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Added more timbered Montana land to the Lewis and Clark Forest Reserve, established in 1897.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Lewis and Clark Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [9, 67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-02", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "proc-501", "relation": "modifies", "note": null, "story": 42, "inferred": true, "date": "1903-06-09", "title": "Establishing the Lewis and Clark Forest Reserve in Montana", "type": "proclamation", "number": "501"}]}
{"id": "proc-734", "type": "proclamation", "number": "734", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Otter Forest Reserve, Montana", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 734, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-734"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3304, "last_page": 3305, "cite": "34 Stat. 3304–3305", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3304.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-03-02", "table_title": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Montana, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Montana, shown as the Otter Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 2d day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3304", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Otter Forest Reserve, Mont.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Montana.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart the Otter Forest Reserve in Montana on public lands partly covered with timber.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Otter Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [9, 67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-735", "type": "proclamation", "number": "735", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Olympic Forest Reserve, Washington", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 735, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-735"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3306, "last_page": 3306, "cite": "34 Stat. 3306", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3306.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-03-02", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Olympic Forest Reserve, Washington."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Olympic Forest Reserve, in the State of Washington, was established by proclamation dated February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and the boundaries thereof have been subsequently changed to exclude therefrom certain lands and also to include additional lands in the State of Washington;", "And whereas it appears that the public good would be promoted by further adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, in the State of Washington, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 aforesaid Olympic Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 2d day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3306", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Olympic Forest Reserve, Wash.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 29, p. 901.", "Vol. 31, p. 1962.", "Vol. 32, p. 1981.", "Boundaries further enlarged.", "Vol. 36, p. 36.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Further enlarged the Olympic Forest Reserve in Washington with additional lands partly covered with timber.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Olympic Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Washington"}], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [9, 67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-736", "type": "proclamation", "number": "736", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Montezuma Forest Reserve, Colorado", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 736, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-736"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3307, "last_page": 3307, "cite": "34 Stat. 3307", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3307.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-03-02", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Montezuma Forest Reserve, Colorado."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Montezuma Forest Reserve, in the State of Colorado, was established by proclamation dated June thirteenth, nineteen hundred and five;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, within the State of Colorado, which are in part covered with timber;", "And whereas, it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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,” that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the said act of Congress, do proclaim that the aforesaid Montezuma Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate and such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 2d day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3307", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Montezuma Forest Reserve, Colo.", "Preamble.", "Ante, p. 3106.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Montezuma Forest Reserve in Colorado with additional timbered lands.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Montezuma Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [9, 67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-737", "type": "proclamation", "number": "737", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the San Juan Forest Reserve, Colorado", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 737, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-737"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3308, "last_page": 3308, "cite": "34 Stat. 3308", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3308.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-03-02", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the San Juan Forest Reserve, Colorado."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the San Juan Forest Reserve, in the State of Colorado, was established by proclamation dated June third, nineteen hundred and five;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, within the State of Colorado, which are in part covered with timber;", "And whereas, it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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,” that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the said act of Congress, do proclaim that the aforesaid San Juan Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 2d day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3308", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["San Juan Forest Reserve, Colo.", "Preamble.", "Ante, p. 3070.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the San Juan Forest Reserve in Colorado, created in 1905, with more lands partly covered with timber.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "San Juan Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [9, 67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-738", "type": "proclamation", "number": "738", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of the Priest River Forest Reserve, Idaho and Washington", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 738, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-738"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3309, "last_page": 3309, "cite": "34 Stat. 3309", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3309.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-03-02", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of the Priest River Forest Reserve, Idaho and Washington."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Priest River Forest Reserve, in the States of Idaho and Washington, was established by proclamation dated February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and the boundaries thereof were subsequently enlarged by proclamation dated November sixth, nineteen hundred and six;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by further adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, in the States of Idaho and Washington, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 aforesaid Priest River Forest Reserve are hereby further enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that they are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 2d day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3309", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Priest River Forest Reserve, Idaho and Wash.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 29, p. 903.", "Ante, p. 3257.", "Boundaries further enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Further enlarged the Priest River Forest Reserve with timbered lands in Idaho and Washington.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Priest River Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Idaho"}], "states": ["Idaho", "Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [9, 67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-739", "type": "proclamation", "number": "739", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Tillamook Forest Reserve, Oregon", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 739, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-739"}, "statutes": {"volume": 34, "page": 3310, "last_page": 3310, "cite": "34 Stat. 3310", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-34/pdf/STATUTE-34-Pg3310.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-03-02", "table_title": "Setting apart the Tillamook Forest Reserve, Oregon."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Oregon, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation;", "And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof”;", "Now, therefore, I. Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Oregon, shown as the Tillamook Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry or filing, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.", "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 2d day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 34 Stat. 3310", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Tillamook Forest Reserve, Oreg.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Forest reserve, Oregon.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart the Tillamook Forest Reserve in Oregon on public lands partly covered with timber.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Tillamook Forest Reserve", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}], "states": ["Oregon"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [9, 67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-575", "type": "executive_order", "number": "575", "tr_sequence": 522, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Lands at Cape Spencer, Alaska, Reserved for Lighthouse Purposes", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_575", "revid": 11665246, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["EXECUTIVE ORDER (EO 575)", "It is hereby ordered that the hereinafter described lands at Cape Spencer, District or Alaska, be, and they are hereby, re- served and set apart for light-house purposes, viz: All that portion of the head land or which Cape Spencer, (Entrance to Cross Sound, Alaska), forms the southerly extremity lying south of the parallel 58 degrees 14 minutes north latitude, together with all outlying islands and including all land on both sides of the inlet known as Dick's Arm and south of said parallel. (Signed) Theodore Roosevelt", "THE WHITE HOUSE, March 2d, 1907."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Lands at Camp Spencer, Alaska, Reserved for Lighthouse Purposes”. \"Camp\" is a slip in the Wikipedia/Wikisource list; the 1944 catalog and Alaska v. United States read Cape Spencer."], "summary": "Reserved the southern tip of the Cape Spencer headland at the entrance to Cross Sound, Alaska, with nearby islands and land around Dick's Arm, for lighthouse purposes.", "categories": ["lighthouses", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Cape Spencer", "kind": "lighthouse", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [91], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-576", "type": "executive_order", "number": "576", "tr_sequence": 523, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Coal Land Withdrawals Included by Proclamation Within Forest Reserves Not to be Excluded from Operation of Said Proclamation", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Directed that coal-land withdrawals included within forest reserves by proclamation are not to be excluded from the operation of those proclamations.", "categories": ["coal-minerals", "forests"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [91], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-02", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Coal-withdrawn land inside the new forest-reserve boundaries went into the reserves while the coal withdrawals stayed in force, so both rules applied to the same ground.", "source": "Lord (1944) catalog title; 34 Stat. 3290–91", "date": "1907-03-02", "story": 91}], "legacy": [{"text": "The order fed into the larger mineral-withdrawal program that Congress later ratified in the Pickett Act of 1910 and the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920.", "source": "research entry", "story": 91}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1910", "text": "The Pickett Act was one of the laws by which Congress ratified the mineral-withdrawal program this order belonged to.", "source": "research entry", "story": 91}, {"date": "1920", "text": "The Mineral Leasing Act completed Congress's ratification of the mineral-withdrawal program.", "source": "research entry", "story": 91}], "uncertain": ["The operative text of Executive Order 576 has not been found in any published source; only its catalog title is known."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-577", "type": "executive_order", "number": "577", "tr_sequence": 534, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Lillie L. Wright as Clerk in Patent Office Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_577", "revid": 1875970, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 116"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. Lillie L. Wright, formerly a clerk in the Patent Office, may be reinstated without regard to the length of time she has been separated from the service."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 116)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 4, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Lillie L. Wright, a former Patent Office clerk, to be reinstated no matter how long she had been out of the service.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "restore", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Lillie L. Wright"], "significance": 1, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-04", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-577-half", "type": "executive_order", "number": "577½", "tr_sequence": 535, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Appointing John F. Stevens as Chairman and George W. Goethals as Members of Isthmian Canal Commission", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_577%C2%BD", "revid": 1881646, "printed_source": null}}, "text": null, "summary": "Named John F. Stevens chairman of the Isthmian Canal Commission and George W. Goethals a member.", "categories": ["canal-zone", "civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [{"name": "Isthmian Canal Commission", "kind": "other"}], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": ["John F. Stevens", "George W. Goethals"], "significance": 3, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-04", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The New-York Tribune called Stevens's chairmanship a temporary one until Goethals took charge on the Isthmus.", "source": "New-York Tribune, March 5, 1907", "date": "1907-03-05", "story": 92}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The change of command was reported as a major shakeup and a gamble, with critics doubting the Army could finish what Stevens had not stayed to complete.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1907", "story": 92}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-595", "relation": "amended_by", "note": "Gave Goethals a furnished dwelling on the Isthmus and travel expenses.", "story": 92, "date": "1907-03-18", "title": "Amending Executive Order No. 577½ of March 4, 1907, Prescribing Additional Compensation for Isthmian Canal Commissioner George W. Goethals", "type": "executive_order", "number": "595"}, {"id": "eo-606", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Made Goethals chairman in place of Stevens.", "story": 92, "date": "1907-04-01", "title": "Appointing George W. Goethals, U.S. Army, as Chairman of Isthmian Canal Commission", "type": "executive_order", "number": "606"}]}
{"id": "eo-578", "type": "executive_order", "number": "578", "tr_sequence": 536, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of George W. Pitts as Clerk in Treasury Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": ["Wikisource dates this order 1907-03-04; the Wikipedia list gives 1907-03-05."], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_578", "revid": 1875969, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 116"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["George W. Pitts may be appointed a clerk in the Treasury Department without compliance with the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 116)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 4, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed George W. Pitts to be appointed a Treasury Department clerk without meeting the civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["George W. Pitts"], "significance": 1, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-05", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-579", "type": "executive_order", "number": "579", "tr_sequence": 537, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Forbidding Publication of Law Opinions by Subordinates in Dept of Justice Without Approval of Attorney General", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Barred subordinates in the Department of Justice from publishing legal opinions without the Attorney General's approval.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-05", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-580", "type": "executive_order", "number": "580", "tr_sequence": 538, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of James G. Massey as Clerk in Department of the Interior Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_580", "revid": 1875968, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 117"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["James G. Massey, of Maryland, may be appointed to a clerical position in the Department of the Interior without reference to civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 117)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 5, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let James G. Massey be appointed to a clerical position in the Department of the Interior without reference to civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Maryland"], "people": ["James G. Massey"], "significance": 1, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-05", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-581", "type": "executive_order", "number": "581", "tr_sequence": 539, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of John C. Eversman, Sr. to Competitive Position in Pension Office Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_581", "revid": 1875966, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 117"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. John C. Eversman, sr., a special examiner in the Pension Office, may be appointed or transferred to a competitive position in that office."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 117)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 7, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed John C. Eversman, Sr., a special examiner in the Pension Office, to be appointed or transferred to a competitive position there.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["John C. Eversman, Sr."], "significance": 1, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-07", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-582", "type": "executive_order", "number": "582", "tr_sequence": 540, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-08", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement and Transfer of P. J. Hughes to Clerk in War Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_582", "revid": 1875965, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 117"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. P. J. Hughes, who was separated from the Isthmian Canal Service on account of ill health and whose case is regarded by the Isthmian Canal Commission as particularly meritorious and deserving, may be reinstated and transferred as a clerk to the War Department or one of its field branches."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 117)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 8, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let P. J. Hughes, who left the Isthmian Canal service because of ill health, be reinstated and transferred as a clerk to the War Department.", "categories": ["civil-service", "canal-zone"], "action": "restore", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["P. J. Hughes"], "significance": 1, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-08", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-583", "type": "executive_order", "number": "583", "tr_sequence": 541, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-08", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of C. F. House as Clerk in Naval Training Station, North Chicago, Illinois, Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_583", "revid": 1875964, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 117"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. C. F. House may be appointed as clerk at $1,000 per annum, Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, North Chicago, Ill., without compliance with the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 117)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 8, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed C. F. House to be hired as a $1,000-a-year clerk at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in North Chicago, Illinois, without civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service", "military-naval"], "action": "appoint", "places": [{"name": "Naval Training Station, Great Lakes", "kind": "naval-reservation", "state": "Illinois"}], "states": ["Illinois"], "people": ["C. F. House"], "significance": 1, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-08", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-740", "type": "proclamation", "number": "740", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Aside Chaco Canyon National Monument, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 740, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-740"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2119, "last_page": 2120, "cite": "35 Stat. 2119–2120", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2119.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-03-11", "table_title": "Setting aside Chaco Canyon National Monument, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it is provided by section two of the Act of Congress, approved June 8, 1906, entitled, “An act for the preservation of American Antiquities”, “That the President of the United States is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to declare by public proclamation historic land marks, 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 extensive prehistoric communal or pueblo ruins in San Juan and McKinley Counties, Territory of New Mexico, principally embraced within the Chaco Canyon and generally known as the Chaco Canyon ruins, situated upon the public lands owned and controlled by-the United States, are of extraordinary interest because of their number and their great size and because of the innumerable and valuable relics of a prehistoric people which they contain, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by reserving these prehistoric remains as a National Monument with as much land as may be necessary for the proper protection thereof.", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section two of the aforesaid act of Congress, do hereby set aside as the Chaco Canyon National Monument, subject to any valid and existing rights, the prehistoric ruins and burial grounds situated in San Juan County, New Mexico, more particularly located and described as follows, to wit:", "Sections 7 and 8 and sections 16 to 29, inclusive, township 21 north, range 10; sections 1, 2, 3 and 4, sections 8 to 14 inclusive, and sections 17, 19, 20 and 30 in township 21 north, range 11; the south half of section 12 in township 20 north, range 8; the south east quarter of section 32 in township 21 north, range 12; the south east quarter of section 28 in township 17 north, range 12; the south east quarter of section 17 in township 17 north, range 10, all west of the New Mexico Principal Meridian, New Mexico, as shown upon the map hereto attached and made a part of this proclamation.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons, not to appropriate, excavate, injure or destroy any of the prehistoric ruins or remains hereby declared to be a National Monument or to locate or settle upon any of the lands reserved and made a part of said monument by this proclamation.", "2119 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 11th day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven [SEAL.] and the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2119", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Chaco Canyon National Monument, N. Mex.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34, p. 225.", "National Monument, New Mexico.", "Boundaries.", "Reserved from settlement, etc."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Proclaimed Chaco Canyon National Monument in New Mexico, protecting its prehistoric pueblo ruins and burial grounds, described as being of extraordinary interest for their number, size and relics.", "categories": ["monuments"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Chaco Canyon National Monument", "kind": "monument", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 5, "stories": [5], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-11", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "No news story reporting the proclamation, and no objection to it, turns up in any of the twenty-one New Mexico newspapers digitized for 1907.", "source": "Chronicling America, New Mexico titles, 1907", "date": "1907", "story": 5}, {"text": "Five days after the signing, the Santa Fe New Mexican mentioned the new monument only in passing, counting \"Inscription Rock and Pueblo Bonito\" as New Mexico's two monuments while arguing for a third at the Palace of the Governors.", "source": "Santa Fe New Mexican, March 16, 1907", "date": "1907-03-16", "story": 5}, {"text": "A syndicated feature on the new monuments, written before the signing, still described Chaco as pending two months later.", "source": "Hopkinsville Kentuckian, May 16, 1907", "date": "1907-05-16", "story": 5}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "local", "text": "Five Navajo allotments taken up inside the monument boundary in May 1909 were rescinded once the overlap was found; four were cancelled, and Welo's was not.", "source": "Brugge, A History of the Chaco Navajos (1980)", "date": "1909", "story": 5}, {"kind": "local", "text": "Near Pueblo Pintado, De-neth-tso and his son Ush-ke-yazzie had to make replacement selections after a survey mismatch left their hogans and corrals outside their allotments.", "source": "Brugge, A History of the Chaco Navajos (1980)", "date": "1909", "story": 5}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The General Land Office's chief clerk repeated the proclamation's county error without comment, placing the monument in San Juan County alone.", "source": "Frank Bond, General Land Office, 1911", "date": "1911", "story": 5}, {"kind": "local", "text": "A remnant of Richard Wetherill's homestead was patented in October 1912.", "source": "BLM General Land Office serial-register record", "date": "1912-10-05", "story": 5}], "legacy": [{"text": "Coolidge's 1928 proclamation added four parcels totaling 880 acres, after survey plats showed some ruins fell outside the boundary, and quietly corrected the county to San Juan and McKinley.", "source": "Proc. 1826, 45 Stat. 2937", "date": "1928-01-10", "story": 5}, {"text": "Navajo residents were moved out of the monument in 1934.", "source": "Brugge, A History of the Chaco Navajos (1980)", "date": "1934", "story": 5}, {"text": "Completion of the boundary fence ended grazing inside the monument.", "source": "Brugge, A History of the Chaco Navajos (1980)", "date": "1947-11", "story": 5}, {"text": "With the removal of Navajo people living at Tomasito's old homesite in the South Gap, Navajo residence within the monument ended.", "source": "Brugge, A History of the Chaco Navajos (1980)", "date": "1948-05", "story": 5}, {"text": "Congress abolished the monument and established Chaco Culture National Historical Park in its place, with some 4,000 recorded archeological sites.", "source": "Pub. L. 96-550, Title V, 94 Stat. 3227; Chaco Culture NHP Foundation Document (2015)", "date": "1980-12-19", "story": 5}, {"text": "UNESCO inscribed Chaco on the World Heritage List at the Committee's eleventh session in Paris, under cultural criterion (iii); the property, renamed \"Chaco Culture\" in 2006, also takes in Aztec Ruins and several BLM-managed Chacoan sites.", "source": "UNESCO World Heritage Committee, 11th session (1987); decision 30 COM 8B.19 (2006)", "date": "1987", "story": 5}], "today": [{"name": "Chaco Culture National Historical Park", "kind": "national_park", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "New Mexico", "note": "The monument was abolished and the park established in its place in 1980; about 33,960 acres today.", "source": "Pub. L. 96-550, 94 Stat. 3227; NPS Land Resources Division", "story": 5}, {"name": "Chaco Culture World Heritage property", "kind": "other", "relation": "part", "state": "New Mexico", "note": "The park is one part of a broader World Heritage property that also includes Aztec Ruins National Monument and BLM-managed Chacoan sites.", "source": "UNESCO World Heritage Committee", "story": 5}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1928-01-10", "text": "Proclamation 1826 added four parcels (880 acres) and described the monument as lying in San Juan and McKinley counties.", "source": "45 Stat. 2937", "story": 5}, {"date": "1980-12-19", "text": "Congress abolished the monument, established Chaco Culture National Historical Park, and designated thirty-three outlying archeological protection sites.", "source": "Pub. L. 96-550, Title V, 94 Stat. 3227", "story": 5}, {"date": "1995", "text": "The Chacoan Outliers Protection Act raised the outlying protection sites to thirty-nine, about 14,372 acres.", "source": "research entry", "story": 5}], "uncertain": ["How much of Wetherill's homestead was patented in 1912, and to whom, is unresolved: one account gives 12.98 acres to his son Roger, the BLM land record 112.98 acres to Richard Wetherill.", "Exactly when particular Navajo families left the monument, and under what conditions, is vague in the available documentation."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-584", "type": "executive_order", "number": "584", "tr_sequence": 542, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Designating F. C. Ainsworth and J. Franklin Bell as Acting Sec'y of War", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Designated F. C. Ainsworth and J. Franklin Bell to serve as Acting Secretary of War.", "categories": ["government-administration", "military-naval"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["F. C. Ainsworth", "J. Franklin Bell"], "significance": 2, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-11", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-118", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 118, "date": "1907-03-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Regulations for executing and recording deeds in the Canal Zone (eff. Apr. 15, 1907) promulgated.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 118, "page": "203", "citations": "(EO 1295)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Regulations for executing and recording deeds in the Canal Zone (eff. Apr. 15, 1907) promulgated.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Issued regulations for executing and recording deeds in the Canal Zone, effective April 15, 1907.", "categories": ["canal-zone"], "action": "regulate", "places": [{"name": "Canal Zone", "kind": "canal-zone"}], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [114], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-12", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-586", "type": "executive_order", "number": "586", "tr_sequence": 544, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Dividing Canal Zone in Panama into Four Administrative Districts, and Reorganizing Municipal Offices Within", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_586", "revid": 3465023, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Under authority vested in me by law, it is ordered:", "The Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama, shall be divided into four administrative districts, to be known as Ancon, Emperador, Gorgona, and Cristobal. The districts of Ancon and Emperador shall be coextensive with the present municipal districts of Ancon and Emperador. The district of Gorgona shall be composed of the present municipal district of Gorgona and that portion of the municipal district of Buenavista lying south and east of a straight line passing through the Center of the Panama Railroad Company's Bridge No. 38 over the Agujeta River and intersecting the boundaries of the Canal Zone with an inclination of 40 degrees east of the magnetic meridian. The district of Cristobal shall be composed of the present municipal district of Cristobal and that portion of the municipal district of Buenavista lying north and west of a straight line passing through the center of the Panama Railroad Company's Bridge No. 38 over the Agujeta River and intersecting the boundaries of the Canal Zone with an inclination of 40 degrees east of the magnetic meridian.", "In each district there shall be appointed a tax collector, who shall discharge the duties of the present municipal Treasurer and Board of Assessors. He shall be charged with the collection of license taxes, the assessment and collection of all ad valorem taxes, the preparation of head lists for work upon public improvements and the issuance of citations and collection of commutation taxes thereunder, the keeping of the civil register, the collection of rents from public and municipal property, the execution of leases thereof under direction of the Collector of Revenues, and in the proper case, with the approval of the Chief Executive of the Canal Zone, the execution of deeds therefor. He shall also represent the municipality in all necessary litigation affecting municipal property within his district, and shall from time to time discharge such other duties of a public nature as may be assigned to him by the duly authorized authorities of the Canal Zone. He shall keep books or rolls showing all assessments made, taxes and rents due, and collections made, and shall give such bond as may be required of him. He shall report to the Collector of Revenues and deposit all funds as he may be required with the Treasurer of the Canal Zone.", "The existing regulations concerning the assessment and collection of taxes and the enforcement of the tax liens shall be followed and applied by the tax collector as far as the same are not inconsistent with the terms of this order. Unpaid taxes of every character shall constitute a personal claim against the person against whom they are levied, and taxes upon real property shall, in addition, until paid constitute a lien upon the realty. With respect to ad valorem taxes or other taxes levied by assessment, an appeal shall be allowed to the Circuit Judge for the district following a procedure to be prescribed by the Circuit Judges by the owner or occupant in all cases where the assessment may be thought to be unduly high, and by the Collector of Revenues in all cases where it may be thought to be unduly low, when compared with assessments made upon similar property similarly situated elsewhere in the Zone. For the purpose of equalizing assessments in the several districts, the three Circuit Judges shall once a year sit as a Board of Equalization.", "There shall be appointed in each district a district judge, who shall exercise all the authority now exercised by the municipal judges and shall discharge such other duties as may from time to time be imposed upon him by law or Executive order. There shall also be appointed for the whole Zone a fifth district judge, to be known as the Senior District Judge, who shall sit wherever required of him, and who shall once a month preside at and keep minutes of a conference of all the district judges at which matters of common interest pertaining to their office shall be discussed. Any district judge may temporarily be assigned to sit in any other district. Fines and fees shall be accounted for to the Collector of Revenues and paid in to the Treasurer of the Canal Zone.", "Public works and improvements in the several districts shall be under the charge and direction of a Superintendent of Public Works, appointed for the whole Zone, who shall also have charge and direction of slaughterhouse and market inspectors, and shall discharge such other duties of a public character relative to the various districts as may be assigned to him.", "Accounts shall be kept by the Collector of Revenues with each district, and public improvements shall be distributed among the several districts, with due regard to the revenue derived from each district. Rents derived from municipal property shall in all cases be expended upon public improvements or schools within the district from which it is collected.", "Ordinances regulating police, sanitation, and taxation, and any other matters now regulated by ordinance may be enacted, and existing ordinances may be repealed by the Isthmian Canal Commission, with the approval of the Secretary of War. They may be made operative throughout the Zone, or confined to any particular district.", "The municipal councils and all other municipal offices now existing under the laws of the Canal Zone are abolished.", "The district officers herein provided for shall be appointed and their salaries fixed by the Chief Executive of the Canal Zone, subject to approval of the Commission.", "The rules and regulations of the Isthmian Canal Commission, compiled under the title of \"Laws of the Canal Zone,\" in so far as they are inconsistent with this order, are modified and repealed.", "Effective April 15, 1907."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 13, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Split the Canal Zone into four administrative districts (Ancon, Emperador, Gorgona and Cristobal), each with a tax collector taking over municipal treasury and assessment duties.", "categories": ["canal-zone"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Canal Zone", "kind": "canal-zone"}, {"name": "Ancon", "kind": "town"}, {"name": "Emperador", "kind": "town"}, {"name": "Gorgona", "kind": "town"}, {"name": "Cristobal", "kind": "town"}], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-13", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "local", "text": "Every existing municipal council and office in the Canal Zone was abolished, and the four new districts took effect April 15, 1907.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1907-04-15", "story": 92}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Canal Zone government created in these weeks lasted, in changing form, until the 1977 Torrijos–Carter treaties began the handover of the Zone to Panama.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1977", "story": 92}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-587", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Companion order amending the Zone's penal code and criminal procedure.", "story": 92, "date": "1907-03-13", "title": "Amending Penal Code and Code of Criminal Procedure of the Canal Zone Regarding Punishments", "type": "executive_order", "number": "587"}]}
{"id": "eo-587", "type": "executive_order", "number": "587", "tr_sequence": 545, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Penal Code and Code of Criminal Procedure of the Canal Zone Regarding Punishments", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_587", "revid": 1867350, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Under authority vested in me by law, it is ordered:", "Section 179 of the Penal Code of the Canal Zone is amended so as to read as follows:", "\"Section 179. An assault is punishable by fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars, or by imprisonment in jail not exceeding thirty days.\"", "Section 181 of the Penal Code of the Canal Zone is amended so as to read as follows:", "\"Section 181. A battery is punishable by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or by imprisonment in jail not exceeding thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.\"", "Section 209 of the Penal Code of the Canal Zone is amended to read as follows:", "\"Section 209. Every parent of any child, or husband of any wife, lawfully chargeable with the support or maintenance of any child or wife, who abandons or wilfully omits, without lawful excuse, to furnish food, shelter, or medical attendance to such child or wife, is guilty of a misdemeanor.\"", "Section 342 of the Penal Code of the Canal Zone is amended to read as follows:", "\"Section 342. Grand larceny is larceny committed in either of the cases: \"1. When the property taken is of the value of ten dollars and upwards. \"2. When the property is taken from the person of another. \"3. When the property taken is a horse, mare, gelding, cow, steer, bull, calf, mule, jack, or jenny. \"4. When the property taken is the property of the United States, Isthmian Canal Commission, or Government of the Canal Zone.\"", "Section 368 of the Penal Code of the Canal Zone is amended so as to read as follows:", "\"Section 368. Every person guilty of embezzlement is punishable in the manner prescribed for feloniously stealing property of the value of that embezzled; and where the property embezzled is an evidence of debt, or right of action, the sum due upon it or evidenced to be paid by it shall be taken as its value: Provided, That if the embezzlement or defalcation be of the property or public funds of the United States, Isthmian Canal Commission, or of the Government of the Canal Zone, or of any municipality, city, or village of the Canal Zone, the offence is a felony and shall be punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not more than ten years, and the person so convicted shall be ineligible thereafter to any office or employment of honor, trust, or profit with the United States, Isthmian Canal Commission, or Government of the Canal Zone.\"", "Section 16 of the Code of Criminal Procedure is amended to read as follows:", "\"Section 16. District judges shall have original jurisdiction in all cases of misdemeanor, wherein the fine that may be imposed may not exceed one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in jail may not exceed thirty days, or both. They shall have jurisdiction of the circuit court in cases of violation of Zone or District ordinances.\""], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 13, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Amended the Canal Zone's Penal Code, revising punishments for assault, battery, failure to support a wife or child, grand larceny and embezzlement of public funds.", "categories": ["canal-zone"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [{"name": "Canal Zone", "kind": "canal-zone"}], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-13", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "eo-586", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 92, "inferred": true, "date": "1907-03-13", "title": "Dividing Canal Zone in Panama into Four Administrative Districts, and Reorganizing Municipal Offices Within", "type": "executive_order", "number": "586"}]}
{"id": "eo-588", "type": "executive_order", "number": "588", "tr_sequence": 546, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Ministers and Judges to Perform Marriage Ceremonies in Canal Zone", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_588", "revid": 3464511, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Under authority vested in me by law, it is ordered:", "That marriages in the Canal Zone may be celebrated by any Minister of the Gospel in regular standing in the Church or Society to which he belongs, by the Judge of any Court of Record, or by any Municipal or District Judge."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 13, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed ministers in regular standing, judges of courts of record and municipal or district judges to perform marriages in the Canal Zone.", "categories": ["canal-zone"], "action": "regulate", "places": [{"name": "Canal Zone", "kind": "canal-zone"}], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-13", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-647", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "Replaced by the May 31, 1907 order on marriages in the Canal Zone.", "story": 92, "date": "1907-05-31", "title": "Providing for Celebration of Marriages in the Canal Zone", "type": "executive_order", "number": "647"}]}
{"id": "eo-585", "type": "executive_order", "number": "585", "tr_sequence": 543, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Classification of Employees in New Free-Delivery Post Offices", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_585", "revid": 1855735, "printed_source": "1906 CSR 95"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Section 7 of civil-service Rule II is hereby amended to read as follows:", "\"On the date of the establishment of the free-delivery system in any post-office these rules shall apply to its officers and employees in the same manner as they apply to those in existing free-delivery offices, and the Postmaster-General shall promptly notify the Commission of all orders for such establishment: Provided, however, That without the express consent of the Commission no officer or employee in any such post-office shall be classified under the terms of this section if he has been appointed within less than sixty days of the establishment of the free-delivery system therein: And provided further, That appointments in such office after an eligible register has been established shall be made by regular selection from the register.\""], "source": "Wikisource (from 1906 CSR 95)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 14, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Changed civil-service Rule II so post offices newly given free delivery come under the rules, but staff appointed within 60 days of the change aren't classified without Commission consent.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-14", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-589", "type": "executive_order", "number": "589", "tr_sequence": 547, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Regulating the Entrance of Japanese or Korean Laborers into U.S. Territories", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_589", "revid": 3464269, "printed_source": "[http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA530&id=mWZZAAAAIAAJ#v=onepage&q=&f=true External Information about this EO]  "}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, by the act entitled \"An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States,\" approved February 20, 1907, whenever the President is satisfied that passports issued by any foreign government to its citizens to go to any country other than the United States or to any insular possession of the United States or to the Canal Zone, are being used for the purpose of enabling the holders to come to the continental territory of the United States to the detriment of labor conditions therein, it is made the duty of the President to refuse to permit such citizens of the country issuing such passports to enter the continental territory of the United States from such country or from such insular possession or from the Canal Zone;", "And Whereas, upon sufficient evidence produced before me by the Department of Commerce and Labor, I am satisfied that passports issued by the Government of Japan to citizens of that country or Korea and who are laborers, skilled or unskilled, to go to Mexico, to Canada and to Hawaii, are being used for the purpose of enabling the holders thereof to come to the continental territory of the United States to the detriment of labor conditions therein;", "I hereby order that such citizens of Japan or Korea, to-wit: Japanese or Korean laborers, skilled and unskilled, who have received passports to go to Mexico, Canada or Hawaii, and come therefrom, be refused permission to enter the continental territory of the United States.", "It is further ordered that the Secretary of Commerce and Labor be, and he hereby is, directed to take, thru the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, such measures and to make and enforce such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry this order into effect.", "Theodore Roosevelt", "The White House, *March 14, 1907*."], "source": "Executive Orders Relating to the Isthmian Canal Commission, March 1904 to June 12, 1911 (GPO, 1911), p. 99 (matches the Wikisource transcription word for word), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "\"thru\" (simplified spelling) and \"to-wit\" are original. The recital (\"skilled or unskilled\"; \"to Mexico, to Canada and to Hawaii\") and the ordering clause (\"skilled and unskilled\"; \"to Mexico, Canada or Hawaii\") differ in the original; set as printed. The order carries no number and no title in either 1907-era printing.", "story": 92}, "title_notes": ["The order bars entry to the \"continental territory of the United States\"; it has no title in either 1907 printing."], "summary": "Barred Japanese and Korean laborers holding passports to Mexico, Canada or Hawaii from entering the continental United States from those places, and told the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to enforce it.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs", "labor-business"], "action": "regulate", "places": [{"name": "Japan", "kind": "country"}, {"name": "Korea", "kind": "country"}, {"name": "Mexico", "kind": "country"}, {"name": "Canada", "kind": "country"}], "states": ["Hawaii"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-14", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "Californians and organized labor on the Pacific Coast wanted Japanese laborers barred outright and thought the arrangement too soft.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1907", "story": 92}, {"text": "Japan resented any restriction at all, and the affair fed periodic \"war scare\" talk about the two navies.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1907", "story": 92}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "diplomatic", "text": "The order was the American enforcement half of the Gentlemen's Agreement: Japan stopped issuing passports to laborers bound for the mainland, and the United States passed no openly discriminatory exclusion law.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1907", "story": 92}, {"kind": "local", "text": "The day before the order, San Francisco's school board repealed its segregation order for Japanese children only, keeping Chinese and Korean pupils segregated.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1907-03-13", "story": 92}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Secretary of Commerce and Labor was directed to enforce the bar through the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization.", "source": "Executive Order 589", "date": "1907-03-14", "story": 92}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Gentlemen's Agreement governed Japanese immigration until the Immigration Act of 1924 replaced it with outright exclusion, souring U.S.–Japan relations for a generation.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1924", "story": 92}, {"text": "The episode is now read as a case study in managing racial politics and great-power diplomacy at once, and in the human cost borne by the immigrants caught between them.", "source": "research entry", "story": 92}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1917-02-05", "text": "The Immigration Act of 1917 repealed the 1907 act the order rested on, effective May 1, 1917, but re-enacted the passport power in section 3, so the order stood without a break.", "source": "39 Stat. 897–98", "story": 92}, {"date": "1948-10-18", "text": "Truman's Executive Order 10009 revoked the order in part, lifting the bar for those who had entered Hawaii on such passports; the Mexico and Canada parts stood.", "source": "Executive Order 10009", "story": 92}, {"date": "1952-06-27", "text": "The Immigration and Nationality Act repealed the 1917 act.", "source": "66 Stat. 163, 279", "story": 92}, {"date": "1924", "text": "The Immigration Act of 1924 ended the Gentlemen's Agreement with outright exclusion.", "source": "research entry", "story": 92}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-590", "type": "executive_order", "number": "590", "tr_sequence": 548, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of R. H. Mitchell as Watchman in Department of the Interior Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_590", "revid": 1875962, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 118"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. R. H. Mitchell may be appointed as a watchman without examination in the Department of the Interior."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 118)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 15, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed R. H. Mitchell to be appointed a watchman in the Department of the Interior without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["R. H. Mitchell"], "significance": 1, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-15", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-591", "type": "executive_order", "number": "591", "tr_sequence": 549, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Dr. A. Brown in Department of Agriculture Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_591", "revid": 1875961, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 118"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Dr. A. Brown may be appointed in the Department of Agriculture without examination on account of his special ability along the line of work in execution of the pure-food and drugs law."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 118)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 15, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Dr. A. Brown join the Department of Agriculture without examination, citing his special ability for work under the pure-food and drugs law.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["A. Brown"], "significance": 1, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-15", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-592", "type": "executive_order", "number": "592", "tr_sequence": 550, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Portions of Great Falls Land District, Montana, Transferred to Glasgow Land District", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Moved parts of the Great Falls land district in Montana into the Glasgow land district.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Great Falls Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Montana"}, {"name": "Glasgow Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-15", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-741", "type": "proclamation", "number": "741", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Revoking Establishment of Portales National Forest, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 741, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-741"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2120, "last_page": 2120, "cite": "35 Stat. 2120", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2120.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-03-16", "table_title": "Revoking establishment of Portales National Forest, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands within the Portales National Forest, in the Territory of New Mexico, are no longer required for experimental forest purposes;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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 (Volume 30 Statutes at Large, page 36), do hereby revoke my proclamation dated the third day of October, nineteen hundred and five, which established the Portales National Forest, and do proclaim that the lands embraced within the said National Forest are hereby restored to the public domain.", "The lands which are hereby released from reservation shall be open to settlement from the date hereof, but shall not be subject to entry, filing, or selection until after ninety days’ notice by such publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.", "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 16th day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, [SEAL.] and of the Independece of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2120", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Portales National Forest, N. Mex.", "Preamble.", "Restored to public domain.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Vol. 34, p. 3178.", "Lands restored open to settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Revoked the Portales National Forest in New Mexico, no longer needed for experimental forest purposes, and returned its lands to the public domain, open to settlement.", "categories": ["forests", "public-lands"], "action": "revoke", "places": [{"name": "Portales National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-16", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The proclamation revoked the Portales reserve, saying the land was no longer required for experimental forest purposes, and restored it to the public domain, open to settlement at once and to entry after ninety days' notice.", "source": "35 Stat. 2120–2170", "date": "1907-03-16", "story": 67}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-601", "relation": "revokes", "note": "Revoked the Portales Forest Reserve created October 3, 1905.", "story": 67, "date": "1905-10-03", "title": "Establishment of the Portales Forest Reserve, New Mexico", "type": "proclamation", "number": "601"}]}
{"id": "eo-593", "type": "executive_order", "number": "593", "tr_sequence": 551, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Appointing New Members of the Isthmian Canal Commission and Fixing their Compensation", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_593", "revid": 3464443, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Major William L. Sibert, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., Major David Du B. Gaillard, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., and Civil Engineer Harry H. Rousseau, U. S. N., are hereby appointed members of the Isthmian Canal Commission vice Benjamin Harrod, General Peter C. Hains, U. S. A., and Rear-Admiral Mordecai T. Endicott, U. S. N., resigned.", "Major Sibert will receive compensation at the rate of $14,000. per annum, including his pay as Major in the Corps of Engineers.", "Major Gaillard will receive compensation at the rate of $14,000. per annum, including his pay as Major in the Corps of Engineers.", "Civil Engineer Rousseau will receive compensation at the rate of $14,000. per annum, including his pay as an officer of the Navy.", "Major William L. Sibert, Major David Du B. Gaillard, and Civil Engineer Harry H. Rousseau will each be allowed the use of a furnished dwelling house on the Isthmus and will be allowed and paid their actual and necessary expenses while away from the Isthmus of Panama on official business."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 16, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Appointed Maj. William L. Sibert, Maj. David Du B. Gaillard and Civil Engineer Harry H. Rousseau to the Isthmian Canal Commission at $14,000 a year, replacing three members who resigned.", "categories": ["canal-zone", "civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [{"name": "Isthmian Canal Commission", "kind": "other"}], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": ["William L. Sibert", "David Du B. Gaillard", "Harry H. Rousseau"], "significance": 3, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-16", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-606", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Part of the same reconstitution of the Canal Commission.", "story": 92, "date": "1907-04-01", "title": "Appointing George W. Goethals, U.S. Army, as Chairman of Isthmian Canal Commission", "type": "executive_order", "number": "606"}]}
{"id": "eo-594", "type": "executive_order", "number": "594", "tr_sequence": 552, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Charles P. Galpin as Clerk in Pension Office Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_594", "revid": 1875960, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 118"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Charles P. Galpin, a messenger in the Pension Office, may be appointed to a clerical position in that office without examination."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 118)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 18, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Charles P. Galpin, a Pension Office messenger, to be appointed to a clerical position there without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Charles P. Galpin"], "significance": 1, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-18", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-595", "type": "executive_order", "number": "595", "tr_sequence": 553, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Executive Order No. 577½ of March 4, 1907, Prescribing Additional Compensation for Isthmian Canal Commissioner George W. Goethals", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_595", "revid": 3464454, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The Order of March 4th is hereby amended so as to provide for Lieutenant-Colonel George W. Goethals, U. S. A., the use of a furnished dwelling house on the Isthmus of Panama, and he will be allowed and paid his actual and necessary expenses while away from the Isthmus on official business."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 18, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Amended the March 4 order to give Isthmian Canal Commissioner George W. Goethals a furnished house on the Isthmus and expenses for official travel away from it.", "categories": ["canal-zone"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": ["George W. Goethals"], "significance": 2, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-18", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-577-half", "relation": "amends", "note": "Added a furnished dwelling and travel expenses for Goethals.", "story": 92, "date": "1907-03-04", "title": "Appointing John F. Stevens as Chairman and George W. Goethals as Members of Isthmian Canal Commission", "type": "executive_order", "number": "577½"}]}
{"id": "eo-596", "type": "executive_order", "number": "596", "tr_sequence": 554, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-19", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Frederick M. Kerby as Clerk in Department of the Interior Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_596", "revid": 1875957, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 118"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Frederick M. Kerby, of the District of Columbia, may be appointed to a clerical position in the Department of the Interior, without reference to civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 118)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 19, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Frederick M. Kerby be appointed to a clerical position in the Department of the Interior without reference to civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": ["Frederick M. Kerby"], "significance": 1, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-19", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-597", "type": "executive_order", "number": "597", "tr_sequence": 555, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-19", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Harlan Updegraff as Alaskan Assistant in Bureau of Education Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_597", "revid": 1875955, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 119"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Harlan Updegraff, of Iowa, may be appointed Alaskan assistant under the Bureau of Education without reference to civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 119)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 19, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Permitted Harlan Updegraff to be appointed Alaskan assistant in the Bureau of Education without reference to civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service", "insular-territories"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": ["Harlan Updegraff"], "significance": 1, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-19", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-119", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 119, "date": "1907-03-22", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Code of Civil Procedure for the Canal Zone promulgated.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 119, "page": "203", "citations": "McGuigan 64"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Code of Civil Procedure for the Canal Zone promulgated.", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "summary": "Put a Code of Civil Procedure into effect for the Canal Zone.", "categories": ["canal-zone"], "action": "regulate", "places": [{"name": "Canal Zone", "kind": "canal-zone"}], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [114], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-22", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-598", "type": "executive_order", "number": "598", "tr_sequence": 556, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Mahlon Pursel as Clerk in War Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_598", "revid": 1875954, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 119"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Mahlon Pursel may be reinstated as a clerk in the Adjutant-General's Office, War Department, without reference to the time limit of eligibility for reinstatement under the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 119)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 23, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Mahlon Pursel to be reinstated as a clerk in the War Department's Adjutant-General's Office despite the civil-service time limit on reinstatement.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "restore", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Mahlon Pursel"], "significance": 1, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-23", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-599", "type": "executive_order", "number": "599", "tr_sequence": 557, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of F. T. Quinlan as Inspector of Furs in Quartermaster's Department in Philadelphia Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_599", "revid": 1875953, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 119"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. F. T. Quinlan may be reinstated as an inspector of furs in the quartermaster's department at Philadelphia, Pa."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 119)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 25, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed F. T. Quinlan to be reinstated as an inspector of furs in the quartermaster's department at Philadelphia.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "restore", "places": [], "states": ["Pennsylvania"], "people": ["F. T. Quinlan"], "significance": 1, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-25", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-600", "type": "executive_order", "number": "600", "tr_sequence": 558, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Transfer of W. P. Armstrong, Law Clerk in Isthmian Canal Commission, Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_600", "revid": 1875952, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 119"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. W. P. Armstrong, law clerk at $2,400 per annum in the Isthmian Canal Commission may be transferred to any other competitive position at a salary not exceeding $2,500 per annum without reference to the limitations of the transfer rule."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 119)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 26, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let W. P. Armstrong, a law clerk with the Isthmian Canal Commission, transfer to another competitive position paying up to $2,500 a year, waiving transfer-rule limits.", "categories": ["civil-service", "canal-zone"], "action": "transfer", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["W. P. Armstrong"], "significance": 1, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-26", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-601", "type": "executive_order", "number": "601", "tr_sequence": 559, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Theresa S. Aubright as Clerk in Classified Service Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_601", "revid": 1875951, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 119"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. Theresa S. Aubright may be appointed to a clerical position in the classified civil service without examination."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 119)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 26, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Theresa S. Aubright to be appointed to a clerical position in the classified civil service without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Theresa S. Aubright"], "significance": 1, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-26", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-602", "type": "executive_order", "number": "602", "tr_sequence": 560, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Call for Election of Delegates in Philippine Island", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_602", "revid": 1712925, "printed_source": "[http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA530&id=mWZZAAAAIAAJ#v=onepage&q=&f=true External Information about this EO]  "}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["{| style=\"margin: 0em 0em 0em 0em;\" | width=2%| |Whereas; By the sixth section of the Act of Congress approved July 1. 1902, entitled ‘‘An Act Temporarily to provide for the administration of affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes,’’ it was provided:", "‘‘That whenever the existing insurrection In the Philippine Islands shall have ceased and a condition of general and complete peace shall have been established therein and the fact shall be certified to the President by the Philippine Commission, the President, upon being satisfied thereof, shall order a census of the Philippine Islands to be taken by said Philippine Commission", "That two years after the completion and publication of the census, in case such condition of general and complete peace with recognition of the authority of the United States shall have continued in the territory of said islands not inhabited by Moros or other non-Christian tribes and such facts shall have been certified to the President by the Philippine Commission, the President upon being satisfied thereof shall direct said Commission to call, and the Commission shall call, a general election for the choice of delegates to a popular assembly of the people of said territory in the Philippine Islands, which shall be known as the Philippine Assembly. After said assembly shall have convened and organized, all tie legislative power heretofore conferred on the Philippine Commission in all that part of said islands not inhabited by Moros or other nonChristian tribes shall be vested in a legislature consisting of two houses—the Philippine Commission and the Philippine Assembly. Said assembly shall consist of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred members to be apportioned by said Commission among the provinces as nearly as practicable according to population; Provided, That no province shall have less than one member; And provided Further, That provinces entitled by population to more than one member may be divided into such convenient districts as the said Commission may deem best.’’ and", "Whereas; On September 11, 1902, the Philippine Commission certified to me that the insurrection in the Philippine Islands had ceased and that a condition of general and complete peace had been established therein, and", "Whereas; In pursuance of the provisions of the law above quoted and upon the foregoing due certification, and being satisfied of the facts therein stated, on the 25th day of September, 1902, I ordered a census of the Philippine Islands to be taken by the Philippine Commission, and", "Whereas; The census so ordered was taken, and announcement of its completion and publication made to the people of the Philippine Islands on March 28. 1905, and", "Whereas; The Philippine Commission has now certified to me the following resolutions:", "‘‘Whereas; The census of the Philippine Islands was completed and published on the 27th day of March, 1905. which said completion and publication of said census was on the 2Sth day of March. 1905, duly published and proclaimed to the people by the Governor General of the Philippine Islands with the announcement that the President of the United States of America would direct the Philippine Commission to call a general election for the choice of delegates to a popular assembly, provided that a condition of general and complete peace with recognition of the authority of the United States should be certified by the Philippine Commission to have continued in the territory of the Philippine Islands for a period of two years after said completion and publication of said census, and", "Whereas; Since the completion and publication of said census there have been no serious disturbances of the public order save and except those caused by the noted outlaws and bandit chieftains Felizardo and Montalon and their followers in the provinces of Cavite and Batangas, and those caused in the provinces of Samar and I/eyte by the non-Christian and fanatic pulajanes resident in the mountain districts of said provinces and the barrios contiguous thereto, and", "Whereas; The overwhelming majority of the people of said provinces of Cavite, Batangas, Samar and Leyte. have not taken part in said disturbances and have not aided nor abetted the lawless acts of said bandits and pulajane.s, and", "Whereas, The great mass and body of the Filipino people have during said period of two years continued to be law abiding, peaceful, and loyal to the United States, and have continued to recognize and do now recognize the authority and sovereignty of the United States in the territory of said Philippine Islands;", "Now, Therefore, Be It resolved by the Philippine Commission In formal sion duly assembled, that it, said Philippine Commission, do certify, and it does hereby certify to the President of the United States that for a period of two years after the completion and publication of the census a condition of general and complete pence with recognition of the authority of the United States has continued to exist and now exists in the territory of said Philippine Islands not inhabited by Moros or other non-Christian tribes: be it further resolved by said Philippine Commission that the President of the United States be requested and is hereby requested to direct said Philippine Commission to call a general election for the choice of delegates to a popular assembly of the people of said territory in the Philippine Islands, which assembly shall be known as the Philippine Assembly.’’", "Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, in pursuance of the provisions of the law above cited, and being satisfied of th« facts certified to me by the Philippine Commission, do hereby direct said Philippine Commission to call a general election for the choice of delegates to a popular assembly of the people of the territory of the Philippine Islands not inhabited by Moros or other non-Christian tribes, which shall be known as the Philippine Assembly.", "Theodore Roosevelt The White House, March 28, 1907. | width=2%| |}", "== Notes == See Related: None Available"], "source": "Wikisource (from [http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA530&id=mWZZAAAAIAAJ#v=onepage&q=&f=true External Information about this EO]  )", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Called the general election of delegates to the Philippine Assembly, the popular assembly that would share legislative power with the Philippine Commission under the 1902 act of Congress.", "categories": ["insular-territories"], "action": "announce", "places": [], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-28", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The election order drew notice as a genuine, if limited, extension of self-government.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1907", "story": 92}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "political", "text": "The general election for the Philippine Assembly was held July 30, 1907, in provinces not inhabited by Moros or other non-Christian peoples.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1907-07-30", "story": 92}, {"kind": "political", "text": "The first Assembly of eighty delegates opened at the Grand Opera House in Manila on October 16, 1907, called to order by Secretary of War Taft, with Sergio Osmeña as Speaker and Manuel Quezon as majority floor leader.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1907-10-16", "story": 92}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Assembly was a milestone on the road to Philippine independence in 1946 and the launching point for the careers of Osmeña and Quezon.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1946", "story": 92}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-603", "type": "executive_order", "number": "603", "tr_sequence": 561, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Private Secretary to Commissioner of the General Land Office Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_603", "revid": 1875950, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 120"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["One clerk or examiner for duty as private secretary to the Commissioner of the General Land Office may be appointed without reference to civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 120)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 29, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed one clerk or examiner to be appointed as private secretary to the Commissioner of the General Land Office without reference to civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 1, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-29", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-604", "type": "executive_order", "number": "604", "tr_sequence": 562, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of James Bronson Reynolds as Chinese Inspector in Immigration Service Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_604", "revid": 1876614, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 120"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. James Bronson Reynolds may be appointed a Chinese inspector in the Immigration Service of the Department of Commerce and Labor without examination under the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 120)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 30, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed James Bronson Reynolds to be appointed a Chinese inspector in the Immigration Service without civil-service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["James Bronson Reynolds"], "significance": 1, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-30", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-605", "type": "executive_order", "number": "605", "tr_sequence": 563, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-03-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Grande Island Military Reservation, Luzon, Philippine Islands", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_605", "revid": 1866868, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 81, War Dept., April 9, 1907"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The military reservation at Grande Island, in the Island of Luzon, Philippine Islands, made by Executive Order, dated May 1, 1905 (G. O., No. 73, War Department, Washington, May 19, 1905), is modified so as to add thereto, and include therein, all attached, adjacent and outlying rocks, shoals, and islands within one mile of the low-water line of Grande Island proper; subject, however, to such private rights therein as may exist."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 81, War Dept., April 9, 1907)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 30, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Enlarged the Grande Island military reservation off Luzon in the Philippines to take in all rocks, shoals and islands within one mile of the island's low-water line.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Grande Island", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-03-30", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-606", "type": "executive_order", "number": "606", "tr_sequence": 564, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-04-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Appointing George W. Goethals, U.S. Army, as Chairman of Isthmian Canal Commission", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_606", "revid": 3574563, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Lieutenant-Colonel George W. Goethals, U. S. A., is hereby appointed chairman of the Isthmian Canal Commission effective this date, vice John F. Stevens, resigned.", "Chairman Goethals will receive the same compensation that was fixed in the Executive Order of March 4, 1907, appointing him a member of the Isthmian Canal Commission."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, April 1, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Made Lt. Col. George W. Goethals chairman of the Isthmian Canal Commission, succeeding John F. Stevens, who resigned.", "categories": ["canal-zone", "civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [{"name": "Isthmian Canal Commission", "kind": "other"}], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": ["George W. Goethals"], "significance": 3, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-04-01", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The reorganized Isthmian Canal Commission, with Goethals as chairman, assumed its duties on April 1, 1907.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1907-04-01", "story": 92}], "legacy": [{"text": "Goethals finished the Panama Canal in 1914, and the Army-engineer command this order installed is remembered as the decision that got the canal built.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1914", "story": 92}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-577-half", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Stevens's brief chairmanship, which this order ended.", "story": 92, "date": "1907-03-04", "title": "Appointing John F. Stevens as Chairman and George W. Goethals as Members of Isthmian Canal Commission", "type": "executive_order", "number": "577½"}, {"id": "eo-593", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 92, "inferred": true, "date": "1907-03-16", "title": "Appointing New Members of the Isthmian Canal Commission and Fixing their Compensation", "type": "executive_order", "number": "593"}, {"id": "eo-607", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Blackburn appointed to the Commission the same day.", "story": 92, "date": "1907-04-01", "title": "Appointing Joseph C. S. Blackburn as Member of the Isthmian Canal Commission", "type": "executive_order", "number": "607"}]}
{"id": "eo-607", "type": "executive_order", "number": "607", "tr_sequence": 565, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-04-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Appointing Joseph C. S. Blackburn as Member of the Isthmian Canal Commission", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_607", "revid": 3464565, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Joseph C. S. Blackburn is hereby appointed a member of the Isthmian Canal Commission with compensation at the rate of $14,000 per annum, effective this date.", "Commissioner Blackburn will be allowed the use of a furnished dwelling house on the Isthmus of Panama and will be allowed and paid his actual and necessary expenses while away from the Isthmus on official business."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, April 1, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Appointed Joseph C. S. Blackburn to the Isthmian Canal Commission at $14,000 a year, with a furnished house on the Isthmus and travel expenses.", "categories": ["canal-zone", "civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [{"name": "Isthmian Canal Commission", "kind": "other"}], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": ["Joseph C. S. Blackburn"], "significance": 2, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-04-01", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-606", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Signed the same day as Goethals's appointment as chairman.", "story": 92, "date": "1907-04-01", "title": "Appointing George W. Goethals, U.S. Army, as Chairman of Isthmian Canal Commission", "type": "executive_order", "number": "606"}]}
{"id": "eo-608", "type": "executive_order", "number": "608", "tr_sequence": 566, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-04-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Transfer of Jake T. Patrick to Competitive Position in Internal Revenue Service Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_608", "revid": 1876616, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 120"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Jake T. Patrick, a storekeeper-gauger, excepted from examination, in the eighth Kentucky district, Internal-Revenue Service, may be transferred to a competitive position in that district."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 120)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, April 3, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Jake T. Patrick, a storekeeper-gauger in Kentucky's eighth internal-revenue district, transfer to a competitive position in that district.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "transfer", "places": [], "states": ["Kentucky"], "people": ["Jake T. Patrick"], "significance": 1, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-04-03", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-609", "type": "executive_order", "number": "609", "tr_sequence": 567, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-04-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Ordering Four Hour Workdays on Saturdays During Summer for Certain War Department Employees", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_609", "revid": 1866890, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 82, War Dept., April 10, 1907"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that on Saturdays during July, August, and September, until further notice, four hours exclusive of time for luncheon shall constitute a day's work for mechanics, laborers, and other employees in the civil service at the manufacturing and supply arsenals and depots under the War Department, and in the offices of the division and department commanders and of the various staff officers at military, division, and department headquarters of the Army, and in the Engineer Department at Large, in the United States."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 82, War Dept., April 10, 1907)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, April 4, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Made four hours a full Saturday's work in July, August and September for civilian mechanics, laborers and other employees at War Department arsenals, depots and Army headquarters offices.", "categories": ["labor-business", "military-naval"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-04-04", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-742", "type": "proclamation", "number": "742", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-04-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Big Burros National Forest, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 742, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-742"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2120, "last_page": 2121, "cite": "35 Stat. 2120–2121", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2120.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-04-06", "table_title": "Enlarging Big Burros National Forest, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Big Burros National Forest certain lands, within the Territory of New Mexico, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Big Burros National Forest is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the aforesaid National Forest are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby established which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which has been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 6th day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2120", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Big Burros National Forest, N. Mex.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34, p. 3274.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Post, p. 2190.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Big Burros National Forest in the Territory of New Mexico with additional lands partly covered with timber.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Big Burros National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-04-06", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "From this proclamation on, most forest proclamations warned that the land was closed to settlement unless and until the Secretary of Agriculture listed it and opened it under the Forest Homestead Act of June 11, 1906.", "source": "35 Stat. 2120–2170", "date": "1907-04-06", "story": 67}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-610", "type": "executive_order", "number": "610", "tr_sequence": 568, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-04-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Instructions to Diplomatic Officers and Consular Regulations Relating to Expatriation, Citizenship, Naturalization, and Passports", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_610", "revid": 1867981, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that the instructions to the diplomatic officers of the United States and the regulations prescribed for the use of the consular service of the United States be amended in the following particulars, the numbers of the paragraphs amended being the same in both the instructions and the regulations.", "Paragraph 138 shall read as follows:", "Children of Citizens Born Abroad.—All children born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States whose fathers were at the time of their birth citizens thereof are citizens of the United States; but the rights of citizenship do not descend to children whose fathers never resided in the United States. All children who are, in accordance with this paragraph, born citizens of the United States, and who continue to reside outside of the United States, are required in order to receive the protection of this government, upon reaching the age of eighteen years to record at an American Consulate their intention to become residents and remain citizens, and upon reaching their majority are further required to take the oath of allegiance to the United States.—R. S. Sec. 1993; Act of March 2, 1907, Sec. 6.", "Paragraph 141 shall read as follows:", "Wife of Citizen.—Any white woman or woman of African nativity or descent or Indian woman married to a citizen of the United States is a citizen thereof; and it is immaterial whether the husband became a citizen before or after marriage. Any woman who acquires American citizenship by marriage shall be assumed to have retained it after the termination of the marital relation by death or absolute divorce if she continues to reside in the United States, unless she makes formal renunciation thereof before a court having jurisdiction to naturalize aliens; or, if she resides abroad, she may retain American citizenship by registering as an American citizen before a United States Consul within one year after the termination of the marital relation.—R. S. Sec. 1994; 25 Stat. L. 392; Act of March 2, 1907, Sec. 4.", "After paragraph 141, a new paragraph shall be added as follows:", "An American Woman Who Marries a Foreigner.—An American woman who marries a foreigner takes the nationality of her husband. At the termination of the marital relation, by death or absolute divorce, she may resume her American citizenship, if abroad, by registering as an American citizen within one year with a consul of the United States, or by returning to reside in the United States, or, if residing in the United States at the termination of the marital relation, by continuing to reside therein.—Act of March 2, 1907, Sec. 4.", "Paragraph 142 shall read as follows:", "Children of Naturalized Citizens.—The naturalization or resumption of American citizenship of the parents confers American citizenship upon the minor children and such citizenship shall begin at the time such minor children begin to reside permanently in the United States.—Act of March 2, 1907, Sec. 5.", "Paragraph 143 shall read as follows:", "Declaration of Intention.—The declaration of intention to become a citizen of the United States does not make one a citizen, and the certificate of a court that such declaration has been made is not evidence of citizenship; but when any alien who has declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States dies before he is actually naturalized his widow and minor children may, by complying with the other provisions of the naturalization laws, be admitted to citizenship without making the declaration of intention.—Act of June 29, 1906, Sec. 4, Par. 6.", "Paragraph 144 shall read as follows:", "Expatriation.—An American citizen shall be deemed to have expatriated himself when he has been naturalized in any foreign state in conformity with its laws, or when he has taken an oath of allegiance to any foreign state. When any naturalized citizen shall have resided for two years in the foreign state from which he came, or for five years in any other foreign state, it shall be presumed that he has ceased to be an American citizen, and his place of general abode shall be deemed his place of residence during the said years: Provided, That such presumption may be overcome on the presentation of satisfactory evidence to a diplomatic or consular officer of the United States, under such rules and regulations as the Department of State may prescribe.", "An American citizen shall not be allowed to expatriate himself when this country is at war.—Act of March 2,1907, Sec. 2.", "After paragraph 144, add the following three paragraphs:", "Registration to Resume or Retain Citizenship.—When an American woman has married a foreigner and he dies or they are absolutely divorced, in order to resume her rights as an American citizen, she must register with an American consulate within one year after the termination of the marital relation. Whenever any foreign woman has acquired American citizenship through her marriage, upon the death of her husband or upon their absolute divorce she must, if she is abroad and desires to retain her American citizenship, register as an American citizen before a United States consul within one year after the termination of the marital relation. All minor children, born of American parents outside of the United States, must, in order to receive the protection of this government, at the age of eighteen years, record at an American consulate their intention to become residents and remain citizens of the United States.—Act of March 2, 1907, Sections 3, 4, and 6.", "Oath of Allegiance.—Every child born without the United States of American parents and resident abroad is required, in order to conserve his American citizenship, to take the oath of allegiance to the United States before an American consul, upon attaining his majority.—Act of March 2, 1907, Sec. 6.", "Duplicates of Evidence of Citizenship.—Diplomatic and consular officers are required to file with the Department of State duplicates of any evidence, registration, or other acts, taken before them in conservation or resumption of citizenship and the right to protection.—Act of March 2, 1907, Sec. 7.", "Paragraph 149 shall read as follows:", "To Whom Issued.—No passport shall be granted or issued to or verified for any persons other than citizens of the United States or loyal residents of the insular possessions of the United States by diplomatic or consular officers. In his discretion the Secretary of State may issue passports to those who have made the declaration of intention to become citizens of the United States, but such passports are not permitted to be issued by diplomatic and consular officers.—Section 4076, R. S.; Act of June 14, 1902; Act of March 2, 1907, Sec. 1.", "Paragraph 150 shall read as follows:", "When Passports May be Issued.—Passports can not be issued by diplomatic or consular officers, if the applicant has time to apply to the Department of State and await its reply. Where inconvenience or hardship would result to a person entitled to receive a passport unless he received it at once, a diplomatic officer, or a consular officer who shall have received authority to do so from the Secretary of State, may issue to such person an emergency passport, good for a period not to exceed six months from the date of issuance, and to be used for a purpose which shall be stated in the passport.", "This paragraph shall become effective July 1, 1907.", "Paragraph 151 shall read as follows:", "Applications.—Persons entitled to receive passports who desire to secure them when they are abroad may make applications therefor to the Department of State through a diplomatic or consular officer. Native citizens thus applying must make an affidavit with respect to birth, take the oath of allegiance, and furnish identification by a creditable person, all in duplicate and according to Form No. _____. Naturalized citizens must comply with the same requirements, using Form No. _____; and, if claiming citizenship through naturalization of husband or parent, using Form No. _____. A naturalized citizen must also exhibit his certificate of naturalization or that of the husband or parent through whom citizenship is claimed, or a duly certified copy of the court record thereof. Further evidence of the applicant's citizenship may be required, if deemed necessary. A loyal resident of an insular possession of the United States in addition to the information now required in the case of a citizen of the United States must state that he owes allegiance to the United States and does not acknowledge allegiance to any other government, and must submit an affidavit from at least two credible witnesses having good means of knowledge in substantiation of his statements of birth, residence and loyalty. The identity of an applicant for a passport should always be established when the application is taken.", "This paragraph shall become effective July 1, 1907.", "Paragraph 152 shall read as follows:", "Expiration of Passports.—A passport issued by the Department is good for a period of two years, when it expires; but it may be renewed for a further period of two years by a diplomatic officer or by a consular officer who has received authority for the purpose from the Secretary of State. It is permissible to renew passports only once.", "This paragraph shall become effective July 1, 1907.", "Paragraph 153 shall read as follows:", "Old Passport in Lieu of Naturalization Certificate.—An American citizen who is abroad and who holds a passport which has expired after renewal may apply through a diplomatic officer or a consular officer for a new passport, and the old passport will be accepted as prima facie evidence that the citizenship of the applicant was properly proved when the old passport was granted, and a naturalized citizen need not, therefore, be required to produce again the certificate of naturalization through which he acquired his citizenship. The old passport should be retained and sent to the Department of State with the application. If there is any doubt surrounding the case, however, the applicant should be required to produce the same evidence that would be required of him if he were making his first application for a passport.", "Paragraph 154 shall be struck out.", "Paragraph 159 shall read as follows:", "Fees.—An official fee equivalent to one dollar in the gold coin of the United States must be collected for each passport issued.", "Paragraph 160 shall read as follows:", "Visa.—A diplomatic officer or a consular officer, including a consular agent, may visa or verify regularly issued passports by endorsing thereon the word \"Good\" in the language of the country and affixing to the endorsement his official signature and seal. A diplomatic officer should visa a passport only when there is no American consulate established in the city where the mission is situated, or when the consular officer is absent, or the government of the country refuses to acknowledge the validity of the consular visa. Whenever a passport without signature is presented to be visaed the holder should be required to sign it before it is visaed by a diplomatic or consular officer. An official fee equivalent to one dollar in the gold coin of the United States should be collected for each passport visaed. No visa shall be attached to a passport after its validity has expired.", "Paragraph 163 shall read as follows:", "Return of Passports.—As soon as an emergency passport is issued by a diplomatic or consular officer he shall transmit to the Department of State a duplicate of the application and a statement of the proof accepted by him for the issuance of the passport and of the reason why the issuance of the passport was necessary. Whenever an application for a passport is made to the Department of State through a diplomatic or consular officer he shall transmit a duplicate of the application and of the accompanying proof of the right to receive a passport to the Department of State, but he need not, unless otherwise instructed, transmit a certificate of naturalization.", "This paragraph shall become effective July 1, 1907.", "Add, as a separate paragraph, after paragraph 169:", "When Protection Should be Denied.—Any one who has expatriated himself is not entitled to intervention on the part of any diplomatic or consular officer of the United States. (See Paragraph 144.)", "After paragraph 170 add:", "Reports of Fraudulent Naturalization.—When any alien who has secured naturalization of the United States shall proceed abroad within five years after his naturalization and shall take up his permanent residence in any foreign country within five years after the date of his naturalization, it shall be deemed prima facie evidence that he did not intend in good faith to become a citizen of the United States when he applied for naturalization, and in the absence of countervailing evidence it shall be sufficient in the proper proceedings to authorize the cancellation of his certificate of citizenship as fraudulent. Diplomatic and consular officers shall furnish the Department of State, to be transmitted to the Department of Justice, the names of those within their jurisdictions, respectively, who are subject to the provisions of this requirement, and such statements from diplomatic and consular officers shall be certified to by such officers under their official seal, and are under the law admissible in evidence in all courts to cancel certificates of naturalization.—Act of June 29, 1906, Sec. 15."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, April 6th, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Rewrote diplomatic and consular rules on citizenship and passports, covering children of citizens born abroad, wives of citizens, and American women who marry foreigners.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-04-06", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The order carried the Expatriation Act of March 2, 1907, into consular practice, including the rule that an American woman who married a foreigner took her husband's nationality.", "source": "Expatriation Act of March 2, 1907", "date": "1907-04-06", "story": 92}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1922", "text": "The Cable Act began undoing, in stages, the rule that marriage to a foreigner stripped an American woman of her nationality.", "source": "research entry", "story": 92}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-611", "type": "executive_order", "number": "611", "tr_sequence": 569, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-04-08", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Consular Regulations, Paragraph 172, Regarding Registration of American Citizens Abroad", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_611", "revid": 1868027, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that paragraph 172 of the regulations prescribed for the use of the consular service of the United States be so amended as to read as follows:", "Registration of American Citizens.—Principal consular officers should keep at their offices a register of all American citizens residing in their several districts, and will therefore make it known that such a register is kept and invite all resident Americans to cause their names to be entered therein. The same general principles govern applications for registry which govern applications for passports. (Paragraph 151.)", "The register should show the date of registration, the full name of the person registered, the date and place of his birth, the place of his last domicile in the United States, the date of his arrival in the foreign country where he is residing and his place of residence therein, the reasons for his foreign residence, whether or not he is married and if married the name of his wife, her place of birth and residence, and if he has children the name, date, and place of birth and residence of each. The nature of the proof accepted to establish his citizenship should also appear, and his signature should be inscribed in the register.", "Consuls may issue certificates of the registration prescribed above for use with the authorities of the place where the person registered is residing. Each certificate shall set forth the facts contained in the register and shall be good for use for one year only and shall be in a form prescribed by the Secretary of State (Form No. _____.). When a certificate expires a new one may be issued, the old one being destroyed, if it is clearly shown that the residence abroad has not assumed a permanent character. Persons who hold passports which have not expired shall not be furnished with certificates of registration, and it is strictly forbidden to furnish them to be used for traveling in the place of passports. Returns of all registrations made and of all certificates of registration issued shall be made to the embassy or legation in the country in which the consulate is situated and to the Secretary of State at intervals and under regulations to be prescribed by him. No fee will be charged for registration nor for any service connected therewith, nor for certificates of registration.", "This paragraph shall go into effect July 1, 1907."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, April 8, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Updated consular regulations so consulates keep, and publicize, a register of American citizens living in their districts.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-04-08", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-612", "type": "executive_order", "number": "612", "tr_sequence": 570, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-04-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Redefining Boundaries of Camp Downes Military Reservation, Ormoc, Leyte, Philippine Islands", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_612", "revid": 1866933, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 93, War Dept., April 18, 1907"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["A survey having been made of the military reservation of Camp Downes, at Ormoc, Leyte, Philippine Islands, as declared by Executive Order of September 1, 1903 (G. O., No. 34, War Department, October 18, 1903), by Lieutenant Thomas H. Jackson, Corps of Engineers, from which it appears that the metes and bounds of said reservation, as given in the order making the same, are erroneous; it is hereby ordered that the said Executive Order of September 1, 1903, so far as it relates to this reservation, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to reserve, subject to private rights, all public lands, and those only, included within metes and bounds as follows, viz:", "Beginning at a point on beach at the northwest corner of the reservation and running thence N. 62° 36′ E. 80 feet to a monument; thence, on same course, 88 feet 10 inches, to a monument (Corner 2); thence S. 54° 13′ E., 287 feet 8 inches, to Corner 3; thence N. 74° 55′ E., 187 feet, 4 inches, to Corner 4; thence N. 18° 30′ E., 59 feet, 3 inches, to Corner 5; thence N. 43 11′ E., 495 feet, 6 inches, to Corner 6; thence N. 44° 40′ E., 309 feet, to Corner 7; thence N. 66° 35′ E., 1,006 feet, 8 inches, to Corner 8; thence S. 28° 53′ E., 1,685 feet, to Corner 9: thence S. 38° 52′ W., 694 feet, to Corner 10; thence S. 33° 3′ E., 332 feet, 5.5 inches, to Corner 11; thence S. 21° 27′ W., 443 feet, to Corner 12; thence S. 42° 44′ W., 234 feet, 2 inches, to Corner 13; thence S. 15° 14′ W., 161 feet, to Corner 14; thence S. 53° 48′ W., 423 feet, 6.5 inches, to Corner 15; thence S. 43° 00′ W., 211 feet, 2.5 inches, to a monument; thence, on same course, 150 feet, to a point on beach (southwest corner of the reservation); thence northwesterly, following the line of the beach and including the land along the beach to low-water mark, to the point of beginning; containing, approximately, 119.8 acres. The bearings are true; magnetic variation 1° E. All corners, except those on beach, are marked by concrete monuments."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 93, War Dept., April 18, 1907)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, April 9, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Corrected the boundaries of the Camp Downes military reservation at Ormoc, Leyte, in the Philippines after a survey found the original metes and bounds were wrong.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Camp Downes", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-04-09", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-613", "type": "executive_order", "number": "613", "tr_sequence": 571, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-04-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Spanish War Veterans in District of Columbia Excused from Duty Apr. 12 for Unveiling of Rough Riders Monument at Arlington", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": ["This date rests only on the 1944 catalog and has not been confirmed."], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Excused Spanish War veterans in the District of Columbia from duty on April 12 so they could attend the unveiling of the Rough Riders Monument at Arlington.", "categories": ["ceremonial"], "action": "other", "places": [{"name": "Rough Riders Monument", "kind": "other", "state": "Virginia"}], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-04-11", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Washington papers covered the Rough Riders Memorial dedication at length, with Roosevelt giving the address, but the order excusing government workers went unremarked.", "source": "Evening Star (Washington), April 1907", "date": "1907-04-12", "story": 92}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "local", "text": "The Spanish War veterans the order excused were marched off the field mid-program by their own department commander over a protocol slight.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1907-04-12", "story": 92}], "uncertain": ["The April 11, 1907 date rests only on the 1944 catalog; Washington newspapers of April 11–12, 1907 would show when the excusal was announced."]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-619", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "A similar excusal for Civil War societies at the McClellan statue unveiling.", "story": 92, "date": "1907-04-25", "title": "Excusing Members of Certain Civil War Societies in Washington from Work for Unveiling of George McClellan Statue", "type": "executive_order", "number": "619"}]}
{"id": "eo-614", "type": "executive_order", "number": "614", "tr_sequence": 572, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-04-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Promotion of John H. McTeer to Clerk in Treasury Department After Examination Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_614", "revid": 1876619, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 120"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. John H. McTeer, now a skilled laborer in the Treasury Department, may be promoted to clerk grade upon passing the clerk examination, which may be taken before the expiration of the required two years' service in a subclerical grade."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 120)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, April 12, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed John H. McTeer, a skilled laborer in the Treasury Department, to be promoted to clerk after passing the exam before completing two years in a subclerical grade.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["John H. McTeer"], "significance": 1, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-04-12", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-743", "type": "proclamation", "number": "743", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-04-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart Toquima National Forest, Nevada", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 743, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-743"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2121, "last_page": 2122, "cite": "35 Stat. 2121–2122", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2121.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-04-15", "table_title": "Setting apart Toquima National Forest, Nevada."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Nevada, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by utilizing said lands as a National Forest;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from settlement or entry and set apart as a public reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Nevada, shown as the Toquima National Forest on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "2122 Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby established which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which has been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 loth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2121", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Toquima National Forest, Nev.", "Preamble.", "Post, p. 2228.", "National Forest, Nevada.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt.", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart the Toquima National Forest in Nevada on public lands partly covered with timber, \"for the use and benefit of the people.\"", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Toquima National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Nevada"}], "states": ["Nevada"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-04-15", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-744", "type": "proclamation", "number": "744", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-04-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Gallinas National Forest, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 744, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-744"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2122, "last_page": 2123, "cite": "35 Stat. 2122–2123", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2122.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-04-15", "table_title": "Enlarging Gallinas National Forest, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Gallinas National Forest certain lands, within the Territory of New Mexico, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Gallinas National Forest is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the aforesaid National Forest are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby enlarged which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 15th day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2122", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Gallinas National Forest, N. Mex.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34, p. 3243.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Post, p. 2238.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Gallinas National Forest in the Territory of New Mexico with additional timbered lands.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Gallinas National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-04-15", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-745", "type": "proclamation", "number": "745", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-04-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart Monitor National Forest, Nevada", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 745, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-745"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2123, "last_page": 2124, "cite": "35 Stat. 2123–2124", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2123.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-04-15", "table_title": "Setting apart Monitor National Forest, Nevada."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Nevada, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by utilizing said lands as a National Forest;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from settlement or entry and set apart as a public reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Nevada, shown as the Monitor National Forest on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby established which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which has been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 15th day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2123", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Monitor National Forest, Nev.", "Preamble.", "Post, p. 2228.", "National forest, Nevada.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart the Monitor National Forest in Nevada, reserving timbered public lands from settlement or entry.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Monitor National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Nevada"}], "states": ["Nevada"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-04-15", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-615", "type": "executive_order", "number": "615", "tr_sequence": 573, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-04-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Limitations on Transfer", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_615", "revid": 3464488, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Section 8, clause (a), of Rule X, is hereby amended to read as follows:", "\"(a) He must have received absolute appointment and have actually served in the classified service at least six months next preceding the transfer; and if from one Executive Department to another at Washington, he must have served at least three years in the Department from which the transfer is proposed; if to or from the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Civil Service Commission, the Isthmian Canal Commission, the Government Printing Office, the Smithsonian Institution, or any other independent bureau, commission, or office at Washington, he must have served at least three years in the bureau, commission, office, or Department from which transfer is proposed; but when, in its judgment, the interests of the service so require the Civil Service Commission may waive the three year limitation in cases of transfers to or from such independent bureaus, offices, or commissions at Washington.\""], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, April 15, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Rewrote the civil-service transfer rule: transfers require six months' classified service, and moves between Washington departments or independent offices require three years, which the Commission may waive.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-04-15", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-616", "type": "executive_order", "number": "616", "tr_sequence": 574, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-04-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Gunnison Land District, Colorado, Abolished; Transferred to Montrose Land District", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Abolished the Gunnison land district in Colorado and transferred its business to the Montrose land district.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Gunnison Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Colorado"}, {"name": "Montrose Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-04-16", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-746", "type": "proclamation", "number": "746", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-04-19", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart Guadalupe National Forest, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 746, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-746"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2124, "last_page": 2125, "cite": "35 Stat. 2124–2125", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2124.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-04-19", "table_title": "Setting apart Guadalupe National Forest, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the Territory of New Mexico, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by utilizing said lands as a National Forest;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from settlement or entry and set apart as a public reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the Territory of New Mexico, shown as the Guadalupe National Forest on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby established which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which has been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural land within forest reserves.”", "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 19th day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2124", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Guadalupe National Forest, N. Mex.", "Preamble.", "Post, p. 2239.", "National forest, New Mexico.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Guadalupe National Forest in the Territory of New Mexico on public lands partly covered with timber.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Guadalupe National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-04-19", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-747", "type": "proclamation", "number": "747", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-04-19", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Stony Creek National Forest, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 747, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-747"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2125, "last_page": 2126, "cite": "35 Stat. 2125–2126", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2125.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-04-19", "table_title": "Enlarging Stony Creek National Forest, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Stony Creek National Forest certain lands, within the State of California, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Stony Creek National Forest is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the aforesaid National Forest are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby established which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which has been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 19th day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2125", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Stony Creek National Forest, Cal.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34, p. 3273.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Post, pp. 2234, 2243.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Added more partly timbered land in California to the Stony Creek National Forest and redrew its boundaries.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Stony Creek National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-04-19", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-617", "type": "executive_order", "number": "617", "tr_sequence": 575, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-04-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Consular Service Regulation of June 27, 1906, Governing Appointment and Promotion in the Consular Service", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_617", "revid": 1882175, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Section 2 (a) of the order of June 27, 1906, in regard to appointments and promotions in the consular service, is hereby amended to read as follows:", "Section 2 (a). By promotion on the basis of ability and efficiency as shown in the service, of consular clerks and of vice consuls, deputy consuls, consular agents, student interpreters and interpreters in the consular or diplomatic service, who shall have been appointed to such offices upon examination."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, April 20, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Rewrote a section of the 1906 consular service order so consular clerks, vice consuls, interpreters and similar officers appointed by examination could be promoted on ability and efficiency.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs", "civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-04-20", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-469", "relation": "amends", "note": "Amends the consular appointment and promotion regulations of June 27, 1906.", "story": 89, "date": "1906-06-27", "title": "Regulations Governing Consular Appointments and Promotions", "type": "executive_order", "number": "469"}]}
{"id": "eo-618", "type": "executive_order", "number": "618", "tr_sequence": 576, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-04-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Permanent Appointment of Charles L. Murphy as Skilled Laborer in Bureau of Fisheries Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_618", "revid": 1882178, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Charles L. Murphy may be permanently appointed as skilled laborer at the central station of the Bureau of Fisheries, by reason of his experience and of the fact that there are no other eligibles having the requisite qualifications for the position."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, April 20, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Charles L. Murphy be permanently appointed a skilled laborer at the Bureau of Fisheries' central station, since no other eligibles had his qualifications.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Charles L. Murphy"], "significance": 1, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-04-20", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-748", "type": "proclamation", "number": "748", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-04-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Modifying Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 748, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-748"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2126, "last_page": 2127, "cite": "35 Stat. 2126–2127", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2126.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-04-24", "table_title": "Modifying Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Lincoln National Forest certain lands, within the Territory of New Mexico, which are in part covered with timber, and by excluding therefrom certain lands;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Lincoln National Forest are hereby changed and that they are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby enlarged which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 24th day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2126", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Lincoln National Forest, N. Mex.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 32, p. 2018.", "Vol. 34, pp. 3175, 3216.", "Boundaries modified.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Post, pp. 2127, 2181, 2238.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Redrew the Lincoln National Forest in New Mexico Territory, adding some partly timbered lands and cutting others out.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Lincoln National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-04-24", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "proc-749", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 67, "inferred": true, "date": "1907-04-24", "title": "Setting Apart Sacramento National Forest, New Mexico", "type": "proclamation", "number": "749"}, {"id": "proc-801", "relation": "modified_by", "note": null, "story": 107, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-03-03", "title": "Diminishing Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico", "type": "proclamation", "number": "801"}]}
{"id": "proc-749", "type": "proclamation", "number": "749", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-04-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart Sacramento National Forest, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 749, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-749"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2127, "last_page": 2128, "cite": "35 Stat. 2127–2128", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2127.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-04-24", "table_title": "Setting apart Sacramento National Forest, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the Territory of New Mexico, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by utilizing said lands as a National Forest, and by including therein a portion of the area heretofore embraced in the Lincoln National Forest;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” and by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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 there are hereby reserved from settlement or entry and set apart as a public reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the Territory of New Mexico, shown as the Sacramento National Forest on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby established which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which has been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 24th day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2127", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Sacramento National Forest, N. Mex.", "Preamble.", "Ante, p. 2126.", "Post, p. 2239.", "National forest, New Mexico.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Sacramento National Forest from partly timbered public lands in New Mexico Territory, including part of the area once in the Lincoln National Forest.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Sacramento National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}, {"name": "Lincoln National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-04-24", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "proc-748", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Signed the same day; the new Sacramento forest took in part of the Lincoln, and so cites both the 1891 and 1897 acts.", "story": 67, "date": "1907-04-24", "title": "Modifying Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico", "type": "proclamation", "number": "748"}]}
{"id": "proc-750", "type": "proclamation", "number": "750", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-04-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Beaver National Forest, Utah", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 750, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-750"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2128, "last_page": 2129, "cite": "35 Stat. 2128–2129", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2128.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-04-25", "table_title": "Enlarging Beaver National Forest, Utah."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Beaver National Forest certain lands, within the State of Utah, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Beaver National Forest is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the aforesaid National Forest are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or with- drawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby established which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which has been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled. “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 25th day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2128", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Beaver National Forest, Utah.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34, p. 3189.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Beaver National Forest in Utah with additional lands partly covered with timber.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Beaver National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-04-25", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-751", "type": "proclamation", "number": "751", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-04-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Manti National Forest, Utah", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 751, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-751"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2129, "last_page": 2130, "cite": "35 Stat. 2129–2130", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2129.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-04-25", "table_title": "Enlarging Manti National Forest, Utah."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Manti National Forest certain lands, within the State of Utah, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Manti National Forest is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the aforesaid National Forest are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record, in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby established which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which has been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 25th day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2129", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Manti National Forest, Utah.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 33, p. 2308.", "Vol. 34, p. 3188.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Expanded Utah's Manti National Forest to take in more partly timbered land.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Manti National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-04-25", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-619", "type": "executive_order", "number": "619", "tr_sequence": 577, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-04-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Excusing Members of Certain Civil War Societies in Washington from Work for Unveiling of George McClellan Statue", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_619", "revid": 6033994, "printed_source": "| notes    ="}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that the members of the societies of the armies of the Potomac, Tennessee, Cumberland and Ohio, the members of the Grand Army of the Republic, Sons of Veterans and Loyal Legion employed in the District of Columbia in or under the several executive departments and independent government establishments who desire to attend the corps meetings of the above-named societies and the unveiling of the statue of Maj. Gen. George Brinton McClellan Thursday, May 2, 1907, be excused from duty on that day."], "source": "Wikisource (from | notes    =)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, April 25, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Excused federal workers in Washington who belonged to Civil War veterans' societies from duty on May 2, 1907, so they could attend the unveiling of the Gen. George B. McClellan statue.", "categories": ["ceremonial", "government-administration"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-04-25", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-613", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The Rough Riders Memorial excusal thirteen days earlier.", "story": 92, "date": "1907-04-11", "title": "Spanish War Veterans in District of Columbia Excused from Duty Apr. 12 for Unveiling of Rough Riders Monument at Arlington", "type": "executive_order", "number": "613"}]}
{"id": "eo-620", "type": "executive_order", "number": "620", "tr_sequence": 578, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-04-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Frederick L. Dunlap as Associate Chemist in Department of Agriculture Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_620", "revid": 1876627, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 121"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Frederick L. Dunlap, of the State of Michigan, may be appointed to the position of associate chemist and member of the food and drug inspection in the classified service of the Department of Agriculture without examination and certification by the Civil Service Commission."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 121)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, April 25, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Frederick L. Dunlap of Michigan to be appointed associate chemist and member of the food and drug inspection in the Department of Agriculture without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Michigan"], "people": ["Frederick L. Dunlap"], "significance": 1, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-04-25", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-620-half", "type": "executive_order", "number": "620½", "tr_sequence": 579, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-04-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Appointing Huntington Wilson as acting Secretary of State", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Named Huntington Wilson acting Secretary of State.", "categories": ["government-administration", "foreign-affairs"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Huntington Wilson"], "significance": 1, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-04-25", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-752", "type": "proclamation", "number": "752", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-04-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Fish Lake National Forest, Utah", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 752, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-752"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2130, "last_page": 2131, "cite": "35 Stat. 2130–2131", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2130.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-04-29", "table_title": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Fish Lake National Forest certain lands, within the State of Utah, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Fish Lake National Forest is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the aforesaid National Forest are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby enlarged which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal: and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 29th day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2130", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Fish Lake National Forest, Utah.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 30, p. 1787.", "Vol. 33, p. 2341.", "Vol. 34, p. 3189.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Added partly timbered lands in Utah to the Fish Lake National Forest.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Fish Lake National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-04-29", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-621", "type": "executive_order", "number": "621", "tr_sequence": 580, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-04-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Permanent Appointment of Harrison L. Deam as Watchman in Department of the Interior Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_621", "revid": 1876628, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 121"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Harrison L. Deam, a veteran of the civil war, who has served satisfactorily as a watchman in the Department of the Interior under temporary appointment, may be permanently appointed a watchman without reference to the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 121)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, April 29, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Civil War veteran Harrison L. Deam, a temporary watchman at the Interior Department, be appointed permanently without regard to civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Harrison L. Deam"], "significance": 1, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-04-29", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-622", "type": "executive_order", "number": "622", "tr_sequence": 581, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-04-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of James D. Rowan, Jr. and Charles L. Gooch as Gardeners and William Grant as Laboratory Helper in Department of Agriculture After Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_622", "revid": 1876637, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 121"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. James D. Rowan, jr., of the State of Iowa, and Mr. Charles L. Gooch, of the District of Columbia, now student assistants in the Bureau of Plant Industry in the Department of Agriculture, may each be appointed a gardener in the Department of Agriculture upon passing a noncompetitive examination by the Civil Service Commission for gardener.", "Mr. William Grant, of the State of Iowa, now a student assistant in the office of public roads in the Department of Agriculture, may be appointed a laboratory helper in the Department of Agriculture upon passing a noncompetitive examination by the Civil Service Commission for laboratory helper in the Department of Agriculture."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 121)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, April 30, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed three Agriculture Department student assistants to be appointed after noncompetitive exams: James D. Rowan Jr. and Charles L. Gooch as gardeners, and William Grant as a laboratory helper.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Iowa", "District of Columbia"], "people": ["James D. Rowan, Jr.", "Charles L. Gooch", "William Grant"], "significance": 1, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-04-30", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-623", "type": "executive_order", "number": "623", "tr_sequence": 582, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-04-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Elsie E. Lower as Clerk and Artist in Department of Agriculture Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_623", "revid": 1876632, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 121"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Miss Elsie E. Lower, of the State of Pennsylvania, a student assistant in the Department of Agriculture, may be appointed a clerk and artist in the classified service of the Department of Agriculture without examination and certification by the Civil Service Commission."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 121)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, April 30, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Elsie E. Lower of Pennsylvania, an Agriculture Department student assistant, to be appointed clerk and artist without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Pennsylvania"], "people": ["Elsie E. Lower"], "significance": 1, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-04-30", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-624", "type": "executive_order", "number": "624", "tr_sequence": 583, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-04-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Nathaniel C. Murray as Assistant Statistician in Department of Agriculture Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_624", "revid": 1876631, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 121"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Nathaniel C. Murray, now a special field agent in the Bureau of Statistics in the Department of Agriculture, may be appointed assistant statistician in the classified service in the Department of Agriculture without compliance with the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 121)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, April 30, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Nathaniel C. Murray, a special field agent in the Agriculture Department's Bureau of Statistics, be appointed assistant statistician without meeting civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Nathaniel C. Murray"], "significance": 1, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-04-30", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-625", "type": "executive_order", "number": "625", "tr_sequence": 584, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-05-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Abolition of Florida Surveyor General's Office Postponed to June 30, 1908", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Postponed the abolition of the Florida surveyor general's office to June 30, 1908.", "categories": ["public-lands", "government-administration"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": ["Florida"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-05-04", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-626", "type": "executive_order", "number": "626", "tr_sequence": 585, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-05-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Lands in Alaska Reserved for Educational Purposes Pending Survey by General Land Office", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reserved lands in Alaska for educational purposes until the General Land Office could survey them.", "categories": ["public-lands", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [92], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-05-04", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-753", "type": "proclamation", "number": "753", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-05-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Aside Cinder Cone National Monument, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 753, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-753"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2131, "last_page": 2132, "cite": "35 Stat. 2131–2132", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2131.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-05-06", "table_title": "Setting aside Cinder Cone National Monument, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America", "A PROCLAMATION", "WHEREAS, the elevation in the State of California, within the Lassen Peak National Forest, known as \"Cinder Cone\", and the adjacent area embracing a lava field and Snag Lake and Lake Bidwell, comprising chiefly public lands, are of great scientific interest, as illustrations of volcanic activity which are of special importance in tracing the history of the volcanic phenomena of that vicinity;", "And whereas, it is provided by section two of the Act of Congress, approved June eighth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, \"An Act For the preservation of American antiquities,\" \"That the President of the United States is hereby 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;\"", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section two of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from appropriation and use of all kinds under all of the public land laws, subject to all prior valid adverse claims, and set apart as a National Monument, all the tracts of land, in the State of California, shown as the Cinder Cone National Monument on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The reservation made by this proclamation is not intended to prevent the use of the lands for forest purposes under the proclamation establishing the Lassen Peak National Forest, but so far as the two reservations are consistent they are equally effective. In all respects in which they may be inconsistent the National Monument hereby established shall be the dominant reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure or destroy any feature of this National Monument or 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 to be affixed.", "Done at the City of Washington this 6th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:", "Robert Bacon, Acting Secretary of State."], "source": "35 Stat. 2131–2132 (GovInfo Statutes at Large page images), 2026-08-22", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Signature block printed as 'By the President:' followed by 'Robert Bacon, Acting Secretary of State.' (italic in the printing); the proclamation's boundary diagram is not reproduced. Plural 'are of great scientific interest' is as printed. Attestation and signature sit at the top of p. 2132.", "story": 23}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created Cinder Cone National Monument in California, protecting the Cinder Cone, its lava field, Snag Lake and Lake Bidwell as examples of volcanic activity of great scientific interest.", "categories": ["monuments"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Cinder Cone National Monument", "kind": "monument", "state": "California"}, {"name": "Lassen Peak National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 5, "stories": [23], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-05-06", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Weekly People's Cause printed the full text of the Cinder Cone proclamation on its front page.", "source": "Weekly People's Cause, June 8, 1907, p. 1", "date": "1907-06-08", "story": 23}, {"text": "The Stockton Independent, reprinting the Oakland Tribune, wrongly guessed that the proclamation meant a cinder hill at the base of Mount Shasta in Siskiyou County.", "source": "Stockton Independent, June 14, 1907", "date": "1907-06-14", "story": 23}], "legacy": [{"text": "Current USGS work dates Cinder Cone's eruptions to about 1650, restoring J. S. Diller's 1891 conclusion after R. H. Finch revived an 1851 date in 1937.", "source": "USGS Fact Sheet 023-00, How Old is \"Cinder Cone\"?", "story": 23}], "today": [{"name": "Lassen Volcanic National Park", "kind": "national_park", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "California", "note": "The 1916 park act drew its boundary around the monument without mentioning it.", "source": "Act of August 9, 1916, ch. 302, 39 Stat. 442", "story": 23}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1916-08-09", "text": "Congress created Lassen Volcanic National Park, absorbing the monument.", "source": "39 Stat. 442", "story": 23}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-564", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Established the Lassen Peak Forest Reserve, out of which the monument was carved.", "story": 23, "date": "1905-06-02", "title": "Establishing the Lassen Peak Forest Reserve, California", "type": "proclamation", "number": "564"}, {"id": "proc-754", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Signed the same day in nearly identical words, creating Lassen Peak National Monument.", "story": 23, "date": "1907-05-06", "title": "Setting Aside Lassen Peak National Monument, California", "type": "proclamation", "number": "754"}]}
{"id": "proc-754", "type": "proclamation", "number": "754", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-05-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Aside Lassen Peak National Monument, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 754, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-754"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2132, "last_page": 2132, "cite": "35 Stat. 2132", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2132.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-05-06", "table_title": "Setting aside Lassen Peak National Monument, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America.", "A PROCLAMATION.", "WHEREAS, Lassen Peak, which is situated upon public land in the State of California, within the Lassen Peak National Forest, marks the southern terminus of the long line of extinct volcanoes in the Cascade Range from which one of the greatest volcanic fields in the world extends, and is of special importance in tracing the history of the volcanic phenomena of that vicinity;", "And whereas, it is provided by section two of the Act of Congress, approved June eighth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, \"An Act For the preservation of American antiquities,\" \"That the President of the United States is hereby 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;\"", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section two of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from appropriation and use of all kinds under all of the public land laws, subject to all prior valid adverse claims, and set apart as a National Monument, all the tracts of land, in the State of California, shown as the Lassen Peak National Monument on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The reservation made by this proclamation is not intended to prevent the use of the lands for forest purposes under the proclamation establishing the Lassen Peak National Forest, but so far as the two reservations are consistent they are equally effective. In all respects in which they may be inconsistent the National Monument hereby established shall be the dominant reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure or destroy any feature of this National Monument or 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 to be affixed.", "Done at the City of Washington this 6th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:", "Robert Bacon, Acting Secretary of State."], "source": "35 Stat. 2132 (GovInfo Statutes at Large page images), 2026-08-22", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Signature block printed as 'By the President:' followed by 'Robert Bacon, Acting Secretary of State.' (italic in the printing); the proclamation's boundary diagram is not reproduced.", "story": 23}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set aside Lassen Peak in California as a national monument, citing its place at the southern end of the Cascade Range's line of extinct volcanoes.", "categories": ["monuments"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Lassen Peak National Monument", "kind": "monument", "state": "California"}, {"name": "Lassen Peak National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 5, "stories": [23], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-05-06", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Sacramento Daily Union and the Marysville Daily Appeal, reading the boundary map, placed the Lassen Peak monument in sections 34 and 35, T. 31 N., R. 4 E.", "source": "Sacramento Daily Union, May 29, 1907, p. 16; Marysville Daily Appeal, May 31, 1907, p. 7", "date": "1907-05", "story": 23}], "legacy": [{"text": "Lassen Peak began erupting on May 30, 1914; explosions on May 19 and May 22, 1915 created the Devastated Area and dropped ash as far as Elko, Nevada.", "source": "USGS; National Park Service", "date": "1914-05-30", "story": 23}, {"text": "Benjamin Franklin Loomis's photographs of the eruptions brought national attention and supported the campaign for a national park.", "source": "National Park Service; USGS", "story": 23}, {"text": "The USGS ranks the Lassen volcanic center 11th of 161 U.S. volcanoes by threat and monitors it continuously.", "source": "USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2018-5140, Table 2", "date": "2018", "story": 23}], "today": [{"name": "Lassen Volcanic National Park", "kind": "national_park", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "California", "note": "The park boundary takes in sections 34 and 35, where the monument lay.", "source": "Act of August 9, 1916, ch. 302, 39 Stat. 442", "story": 23}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1916-08-09", "text": "Congress created Lassen Volcanic National Park, absorbing the monument.", "source": "39 Stat. 442", "story": 23}], "uncertain": ["How far the May 1915 flows ran down Lost Creek is not settled; USGS publications give conflicting distances."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-564", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Established the Lassen Peak Forest Reserve, out of which the monument was carved.", "story": 23, "date": "1905-06-02", "title": "Establishing the Lassen Peak Forest Reserve, California", "type": "proclamation", "number": "564"}, {"id": "proc-753", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Signed the same day in nearly identical words, creating Cinder Cone National Monument.", "story": 23, "date": "1907-05-06", "title": "Setting Aside Cinder Cone National Monument, California", "type": "proclamation", "number": "753"}]}
{"id": "eo-627", "type": "executive_order", "number": "627", "tr_sequence": 586, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-05-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Claude I. Parker as Librarian or Clerk in General Land Office Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_627", "revid": 1876644, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 122"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Claude I. Parker, of Louisiana, may be appointed librarian for the law library or to a clerical position in the General Land Office."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 122)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, May 6, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Claude I. Parker of Louisiana to be appointed law librarian or to a clerical post in the General Land Office without regard to civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Louisiana"], "people": ["Claude I. Parker"], "significance": 1, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-05-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-628", "type": "executive_order", "number": "628", "tr_sequence": 587, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-05-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Lands in Washington Allotted to Indians Snain-Chucks and Paul Restored to Public Domain", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Returned to the public domain lands in Washington that had been allotted to the Indians Snain-Chucks and Paul.", "categories": ["indian-lands", "public-lands"], "action": "restore", "places": [], "states": ["Washington"], "people": ["Snain-Chucks", "Paul"], "significance": 2, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-05-07", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-629", "type": "executive_order", "number": "629", "tr_sequence": 588, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-05-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Employment of James Powers in Bureau of the Census Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_629", "revid": 1876646, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 122"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. James Powers may be employed in the Bureau of the Census upon experimental work in developing tabulating machinery, as authorized by the act of February 3, 1905, appropriating for executive, legislative, and judicial expenses, without examination under the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 122)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, May 7, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let James Powers be employed by the Census Bureau on experimental work developing tabulating machinery, without a civil-service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["James Powers"], "significance": 1, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-05-07", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-630", "type": "executive_order", "number": "630", "tr_sequence": 589, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-05-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Specifying Salaries of Immigration Commission Members Jeremiah W. Jenks, William R. Wheeler, and Charles P. Neill", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_630", "revid": 1889968, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The salaries of Jeremiah W. Jenks and William R. Wheeler, as members of the Immigration Commission provided for in the act of February 20, 1907, shall be $7,500 per annum, and such expenses as are provided for in the act creating the commission. The salary of Charles P. Neill, as a member of the aforesaid commission, shall be $7,500 per annum, including his pay as Commissioner of Labor, and such expenses as are provided for in the act creating the commission. The salaries and expenses shall begin with the date of their appointment, April 1, 1907."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, May 7, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Set the pay of Immigration Commission members Jeremiah W. Jenks and William R. Wheeler at $7,500 a year, and Charles P. Neill's at $7,500 including his pay as Commissioner of Labor, dating from April 1, 1907.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Jeremiah W. Jenks", "William R. Wheeler", "Charles P. Neill"], "significance": 1, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-05-07", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Jenks, Wheeler and Neill, the President's three appointees to the Immigration Commission, were paid $7,500 a year from April 1, Neill's figure including his pay as Commissioner of Labor.", "source": "Executive Order 630", "date": "1907-05-07", "story": 93}], "legacy": [{"text": "Chaired by Senator William P. Dillingham, the commission presented its abstracts and recommendations on December 5, 1910, and its forty-one volumes, with a 1911 imprint, shaped the restrictive immigration laws of the 1920s.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1910-12-05", "story": 93}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-631", "type": "executive_order", "number": "631", "tr_sequence": 590, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-05-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Classification of 33 Laborers Performing Partially Unclassified Work in Customs House in Boston, and Prescribing Procedure for Similar Situations", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_631", "revid": 1873259, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 111"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["As it appears from an investigation by the Treasury Department that it is not possible to arrange the work in the customs service at Boston so that any portion of the laborers' force may be wholly employed in either classified or unclassified duties, it is ordered, in accordance with the recommendation of the Treasury Department, that the 33 laborers constituting the laborers' force of the collector's office be classified with their positions and be subject to the civil-service rules.", "Whenever similar conditions are found to exist in any portion of the service the laborers therein may be similarly classified by the head of the Department, with the approval of the Civil Service Commission."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 111)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, May 10, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Brought the 33 laborers in the Boston collector's office into the classified civil service, and let department heads do the same wherever laborers split time between classified and unclassified work.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "regulate", "places": [{"name": "Boston", "kind": "town", "state": "Massachusetts"}], "states": ["Massachusetts"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-05-10", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-632", "type": "executive_order", "number": "632", "tr_sequence": 591, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-05-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Except Torpedo and Mine Planter Positions of War Department from Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_632", "revid": 1871072, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 106"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Section 7 of Subdivision III of Schedule A of the civil-service rules which reads \"all firemen employed on torpedo planters\" is hereby stricken out and the following substituted therein:", "All navigating positions on the torpedo and mine planters of the Quartermaster's Department at large."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 106)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, May 10, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Changed a civil-service exception so all navigating positions on the Army Quartermaster's torpedo and mine planters, not just firemen, were excepted from examination.", "categories": ["civil-service", "military-naval"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-05-10", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-632-half", "type": "executive_order", "number": "632½", "tr_sequence": 592, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-05-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Directing the Transfer of the Vessel Zafiro, from the Navy Department to the War Department", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Transferred the vessel Zafiro from the Navy Department to the War Department.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "transfer", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-05-10", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-633", "type": "executive_order", "number": "633", "tr_sequence": 593, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-05-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Communications and Reports Relative to Certain Territories and Possessions to be Transmitted through the Interior Department", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_633", "revid": 1960138, "printed_source": "[http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA532&id=mWZZAAAAIAAJ#v=onepage&q=&f=true External Source for this EO]  "}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that on and after June 1, 1907, all official communications or reports from and to executive officers of the territories and territorial possessions of the United States, viz: Arizona, Hawaii, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Porto Rico, Alaska, Indian Territory, Samoa, and Guam, and all official communications or reports relating to territorial matters from and to all executive officers of the United States stationed in such territories and territorial possessions, shall be transmitted through the Secretary of the Interior in such manner and under such regulations as he may prescribe.", "Theodore Roosevelt The White House, May 11, 1907. == Notes == Amended by: Executive Order 1077, May 25, 1909 Executive Order 1274, December 20, 1910 See Related: Executive Order 1081, June 2, 1909"], "source": "Wikisource (from [http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA532&id=mWZZAAAAIAAJ#v=onepage&q=&f=true External Source for this EO]  )", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Directed that from June 1, 1907, official communications to and from executive officers of Arizona, Hawaii, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Porto Rico, Alaska, Indian Territory, Samoa and Guam go through the Secretary of the Interior.", "categories": ["insular-territories", "government-administration"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": ["Arizona", "Hawaii", "New Mexico", "Oklahoma", "Puerto Rico", "Alaska", "American Samoa", "Guam"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-05-11", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-633-half", "type": "executive_order", "number": "633½", "tr_sequence": 594, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-05-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Interstate Commerce Commission to Appoint up to Fifteen Special Agents Before July 1, 1907, Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_633%C2%BD", "revid": 1869954, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 103"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The Interstate Commerce Commission is authorized to make not exceeding fifteen appointments prior to July 1, 1907, of persons to be employed as special agents or examiners, as provided for by section 20 of the act to regulate commerce, as amended on June 29, 1906. These special agents or examiners shall, after serving a probationary period of six months, be given a noncompetitive examination by the Civil Service Commission along lines suggested by the Interstate Commerce Commission, and upon satisfactorily passing such examination be taken into the competitive classified service. The eligible registers of the Commission shall be used when possible, and any eligible on these registers may be appointed under this authority. An examination will be promptly announced, from which appointments shall be made in accordance with the civil-service rules. This authority shall cease on July 1, 1907, and appointments thereafter shall be made from the registers of the Civil Service Commission."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 103)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, May 11, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to appoint up to fifteen special agents or examiners before July 1, 1907, who could join the classified service after six months' probation and a noncompetitive exam.", "categories": ["civil-service", "labor-business"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-05-11", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Interstate Commerce Commission could hire up to fifteen special agents before July 1 outside the civil-service rules, a sign of how fast the Hepburn Act had enlarged its work.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1907-05-11", "story": 93}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-634", "type": "executive_order", "number": "634", "tr_sequence": 595, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-05-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Permanent Appointment of John D. Torrey as Draftsman in Coast and Geodetic Survey Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_634", "revid": 1876660, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 122"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. John D. Torrey, who is serving temporarily as a topographic draftsman at $1,500 per annum in the Coast and Geodetic Survey and who served for twenty years in the Navy Department, may be permanently appointed without reference to the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 122)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, May 13, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let John D. Torrey, a temporary topographic draftsman in the Coast and Geodetic Survey with twenty years of Navy Department service, be appointed permanently without regard to civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["John D. Torrey"], "significance": 1, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-05-13", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-635", "type": "executive_order", "number": "635", "tr_sequence": 596, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-05-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Boundaries of Nome and Fairbanks Land Districts, Alaska, Redefined; Juneau Land District Created", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Redrew the boundaries of the Nome and Fairbanks land districts in Alaska and created a new Juneau land district.", "categories": ["public-lands", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Nome Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Alaska"}, {"name": "Fairbanks Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Alaska"}, {"name": "Juneau Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-05-14", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-636", "type": "executive_order", "number": "636", "tr_sequence": 597, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-05-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Rescinding Transfer Prescribed by Executive Order No. 372-B of November 20, 1905, as Amended, of Certain Lands Comprising Fort St. Michael Military Reservation, Alaska", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_636", "revid": 1859206, "printed_source": "Published: [http://books.google.com/books?id=HTgtAAAAIAAJ&2&pg=RA16-PA113&output=html General Orders, No. 118], War Dept., May 24, 1907  "}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The Executive Order of November 20, 1905, as amended by Executive Order of June 8, 1906 (General Orders, No. 114, War Department, June 20, 1906), providing for the transfer to the Interior Department, under the act of July 5, 1884 (28 Stat. L., 103), to take effect on November 1, 1907, of all the lands comprised within the military reservation of Fort St. Michael, Alaska, except the limited areas therein described as to be held in reservation for military purposes, is hereby rescinded, and the lands affected thereby will be continued in reservation for military purposes. Theodore Roosevelt The White House, May 16, 1907.", "== Notes == Revokes: Executive Order 372-B, November 20, 1905 Executive Order 456, June 8, 1906"], "source": "Wikisource (from Published: [http://books.google.com/books?id=HTgtAAAAIAAJ&2&pg=RA16-PA113&output=html General Orders, No. 118], War Dept., May 24, 1907  )", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Canceled the planned transfer of Fort St. Michael Military Reservation lands in Alaska to the Interior Department, keeping them reserved for military purposes.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "revoke", "places": [{"name": "Fort St. Michael Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-05-16", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-755", "type": "proclamation", "number": "755", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-05-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Opening Lands in the Huntley Project", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 755, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-755"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2133, "last_page": 2134, "cite": "35 Stat. 2133–2134", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2133.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-05-21", "table_title": "Opening to entry lands on Huntley Irrigation project, Crow Indian Reservation, Montana."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.", "A PROCLAMATION.", "WHEREAS, pursuant to the act of April 27, 1904 (33 Stat., 352), entitled \"An act to ratify and amend an agreement with the Indians of the Crow Reservation in Montana, and making appropriations to carry the same into effect,\" certain of the unallotted lands of the ceded Crow Indian Reservation in Montana, have been withdrawn for disposition under the Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat., 388), were for that reason excepted from the Proclamation of May 24, 1906, opening the remaining portion of the ceded lands of said reservation to settlement and entry, and have been subdivided and platted as farm units in the Huntley Project;", "And Whereas, it now becomes necessary to open the lands in the said Huntley Project for disposition under the said Reclamation Act;", "And Whereas, the great demand for these lands because of their enhanced value by reason of the construction of irrigation works makes it necessary to prescribe an orderly manner in which said lands may be settled upon, occupied, and entered, by persons entitled to make entry thereof;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, in furtherance of the provisions of said act of April 27, 1904, do hereby declare and make known that the lands shown upon the approved farm unit plats of said Huntley Project will, on and after the 22nd day of July, 1907, be opened to settlement, entry, and disposition under the provisions of the Reclamation Act, and the act of April 27, 1904, in the manner hereinafter prescribed and not otherwise.", "Any qualified person desiring to make entry of any of these lands, shall execute in person within the limits of the Billings, Montana, land district, an affidavit showing his qualifications to enter and means of identifying him (forms of such affidavits to be furnished by the officers of the land department). The affidavit must be presented in a sealed envelope, in person or by ordinary and not registered mail, at the district land office located at Billings, Montana, before 4:30 p. m., June 25, 1907. Thereafter at 9 a. m., on June 26, 1907, there shall be taken or drawn, impartially, from the envelopes so filed, such number as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of the Proclamation, and the order of drawing such envelopes shall determine the order in which applicants shall be permitted to make entry of these lands.", "Those successful as a result of the drawing must present formal application to enter a specific farm unit within the time fixed and assigned for making such application; show present qualifications; file a water right application; make the required payments under the Reclamation Act and the act of April 27, 1904; and otherwise comply with the law.", "Any person filing more than one affidavit, or in other than his true name, shall be denied any privilege he might otherwise have secured under this drawing, except that any honorably discharged soldier or sailor entitled to the benefits of section 2304 of the Revised Statutes of the United States as amended by the act of March 1, 1901 (31 Stat., 847), may be represented by an agent of his own selection for the purpose of executing the affidavit herein required, due authority therefor being shown, but no person will be permitted to act as agent for more than one such soldier or sailor.", "Envelopes showing on the outside distinctive marks of any character shall be eliminated from the drawing.", "The plan herein provided for governing the manner of opening these lands shall have operation and control the order in which all entries of the lands are allowed until August 23, 1907, upon which date any portion of the lands then remaining undisposed of will be subject to settlement, occupation, and entry under the provisions of the Reclamation Act in like manner as if no special preliminary plan had been provided for.", "All persons are especially admonished from attempting to settle upon, occupy, or improve any of these lands prior to August 23, 1907, except those making entry in accordance with the terms of this Proclamation.", "The Secretary of the Interior shall make and publish such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper to carry into full force and effect the manner of settlement, occupation and entry as herein provided for.", "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 21st day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first.", "[SEAL.]", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President: ELIHU ROOT Secretary of State."], "source": "35 Stat. 2133–2134 (page images), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Seal restored. Corrects APP readings \"these hands\" (for \"these lands\") and \"shall determined\" (for \"shall determine\"). Countersigned by Secretary of State Elihu Root.", "story": 68}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Opened Huntley Project farm units on ceded Crow Reservation land in Montana to settlement under the Reclamation Act from July 22, 1907, with applicants chosen by drawing at the Billings land office.", "categories": ["water-reclamation", "indian-lands", "public-lands"], "action": "open", "places": [{"name": "Huntley Project", "kind": "other", "state": "Montana"}, {"name": "Crow Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [68], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-05-21", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Billings drawing was national wire news, described as another of the government's famous land lotteries, with landseekers arriving from all over the country.", "source": "Riverside Enterprise, June 27, 1907", "date": "1907-06-26", "story": 68}, {"text": "A Kansas City Star piece warned readers the farms were not free: a unit of forty-seven and a half acres would cost more than $1,550 in installments.", "source": "Hanford Daily Journal, July 19, 1907", "date": "1907-07-19", "story": 68}, {"text": "Two days into the filing period, a Billings dispatch counted only about twenty entries out of a possible 400.", "source": "Santa Barbara Morning Press, July 25, 1907", "date": "1907-07-24", "story": 68}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Billings land office received 5,491 applications before the June 25 deadline, many from Billings residents who only wanted to see what number they would draw.", "source": "Timothy A. Dick, Huntley Project (Bureau of Reclamation, 1996), p. 16", "date": "1907-06-25", "story": 68}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "Of the first 1,000 names drawn, only 76 completed filing.", "source": "Timothy A. Dick, Huntley Project (1996), p. 16", "date": "1907", "story": 68}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "By mid-1908, 238 of the project's 585 farm units, covering 10,675.60 acres, had been entered.", "source": "Reclamation Service, Seventh Annual Report (1907–08), p. 105", "date": "1908", "story": 68}, {"kind": "congress", "text": "Congress gave the July 1907 entrymen until May 15, 1908 to establish residence.", "source": "Act of March 16, 1908, ch. 89, 35 Stat. 44", "date": "1908-03-16", "story": 68}], "legacy": [{"text": "Only 4,100 acres were irrigated in the 1908 season, and the project went on to drainage trouble and the farm collapse after 1918.", "source": "Timothy A. Dick, Huntley Project (1996)", "date": "1908", "story": 68}, {"text": "The irrigators organized the Huntley Irrigation District in 1921 and took over operation of the works.", "source": "Timothy A. Dick, Huntley Project (1996)", "date": "1921", "story": 68}], "today": [{"name": "Huntley Project", "kind": "other", "relation": "part", "state": "Montana", "note": "Federal reclamation project east of Billings, run by the Huntley Irrigation District; can water about 30,000 acres.", "source": "Bureau of Reclamation, Huntley Project page", "story": 68}], "uncertain": ["How many names were drawn is unclear: wire stories said 1,500, the Reclamation Service's report says 1,000."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-625", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The Huntley tracts were held back from this 1906 opening of the ceded Crow lands because they had been withdrawn for reclamation.", "story": 68, "date": "1906-05-24", "title": "Opening of the Ceded Portion of the Crow Indian Reservation, Montana", "type": "proclamation", "number": "625"}]}
{"id": "eo-637", "type": "executive_order", "number": "637", "tr_sequence": 598, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-05-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Further Certain Lands of Gila National Forest, New Mexico, to Protect Water Supply of Fort Bayard", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_637", "revid": 1909745, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 120, War Dept., June 3, 1907"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that sections 35 and 30 of township 16 south, range 13 west, and the north half of the northeast quarter of section 1, the north half of the northwest quarter of section 2, the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section 11, and the north half of the northwest quarter of section 12 of township 17 south, range 13 west, all lying north of the military reservation of Fort Bayard, New Mexico, and within the limits of the Gila National Forest as established by Proclamation of the President of July 21, 1905, be further withdrawn from sale or other disposition for military purposes to protect the water supply of Fort Bayard: Provided, That this withdrawal for use by the War Department shall not revoke the withdrawal of the land as apart of the Gila National Forest made by the Proclamation of July 21, 1905, but both withdrawals shall stand together, the withdrawal for the War Department being the dominant one, and whenever the use of the land as a National Forest does not interfere with the protection of the water supply of Fort Bayard, such use shall not be interfered with, but the lands shall not be subject to appropriation under any of the public land laws: And provided, further, That this order of withdrawal shall become operative as to section 36 of township 16 south, range 13 west, only in the event of the selection by the Territory of New Mexico, or by the State to be created to include said Territory, of other lands in lieu of said section 36."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 120, War Dept., June 3, 1907)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, May 23, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Withdrew more tracts inside the Gila National Forest, north of Fort Bayard, New Mexico, for military purposes to protect the fort's water supply.", "categories": ["military-naval", "forests", "water-reclamation"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Fort Bayard", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "New Mexico"}, {"name": "Gila National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-05-23", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-638", "type": "executive_order", "number": "638", "tr_sequence": 599, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-05-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Maude Ward Rockwood as Clerk in War Department Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_638", "revid": 1876664, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 123"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. Maude Ward Rockwood may be appointed to a clerical position in the classified service of the War Department without examination under the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 123)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, May 24, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Maude Ward Rockwood to be appointed to a War Department clerical position without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Maude Ward Rockwood"], "significance": 1, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-05-24", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-756", "type": "proclamation", "number": "756", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-05-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart Inyo National Forest, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 756, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-756"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2134, "last_page": 2135, "cite": "35 Stat. 2134–2135", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2134.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-05-25", "table_title": "Setting apart Inyo National Forest, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of California, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by utilizing said lands as a National Forest;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from settlement or entry and set apart as a public reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of California, shown as the Inyo National Forest on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entry man, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby established which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 25th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2134", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Inyo National Forest, Cal.", "Preamble.", "National forest, California.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Post, p. 2235.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Inyo National Forest on partly timbered public lands in California.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Inyo National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-05-25", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "California papers printed the Inyo as a short Washington announcement, without comment, from late May through June.", "source": "Santa Cruz Surf, May 31, 1907; San Bernardino Sun, June 19, 1907; San Pedro Daily News, June 20, 1907", "date": "1907-05", "story": 67}, {"text": "The San Pedro Daily News presented the new forest as aid to Los Angeles's water supply and noted that it held the watershed of the Long Valley reclamation reservoir.", "source": "San Pedro Daily News, June 20, 1907", "date": "1907-06-20", "story": 67}], "uncertain": ["Who asked for the Inyo forest is not known; the Forest Service case files in National Archives Record Group 95 would settle it."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-757", "type": "proclamation", "number": "757", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-05-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart Dragoon National Forest, Arizona", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 757, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-757"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2135, "last_page": 2136, "cite": "35 Stat. 2135–2136", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2135.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-05-25", "table_title": "Setting apart Dragoon National Forest, Arizona."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the Territory of Arizona, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by utilizing said lands as a National Forest;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from settlement or entry and set apart as a public reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the Territory of Arizona, shown as the Dragoon National Forest on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands, which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby established which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these excep- tions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filings, which may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 25th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2135", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Dragoon National Forest, Ariz.", "Preamble.", "National forest, Arizona.", "Vol. 26, p. 1106.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Dragoon National Forest from partly timbered public lands in Arizona Territory.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Dragoon National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-05-25", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-758", "type": "proclamation", "number": "758", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-05-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart as Public Lands a Strip of Land on the Mexican Frontier", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 758, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-758"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2136, "last_page": 2137, "cite": "35 Stat. 2136–2137", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2136.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-05-27", "table_title": "Setting apart as public lands a strip of land on the Mexican Frontier."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America.", "A PROCLAMATION.", "WHEREAS, it is necessary for the public welfare that a strip of land lying along the boundary line between the United States and the Republic of Mexico be reserved from the operation of the public land laws and kept free from obstruction as a protection against the smuggling of goods between the United States and said Republic;", "Now, therefore, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States, do hereby declare, proclaim and make known that there are hereby reserved from entry, settlement or other form of appropriation under the public land laws and set apart as a public reservation, all public lands within sixty feet of the international boundary between the United States and the Republic of Mexico, within the State of California and the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico; and where any river or stream forms any part of said international boundary line, this reservation shall be construed and taken as extending to and including all public lands belonging to the United States which lie within sixty feet of the margin of such river or stream.", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing, selection or rights of way duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for customs purposes is repugnant; PROVIDED, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; PROVIDED FURTHER, that the said strips, tracts, or parcels of land, reserved as aforesaid, may be used for public highways but for no other purpose whatever, so long as the reservation of same under this proclamation shall continue 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 27th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President: ELIHU ROOT Secretary of State."], "source": "35 Stat. 2136–2137 (page image), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Countersigned by Elihu Root; [SEAL.] as printed at the start of the dating clause's second line. Line-end hyphens in the Statutes setting (\"appro-priation,\" \"ex-ceptions\") closed up. Marginal sidenotes not reproduced.", "story": 70}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "title_notes": ["The strip was set apart \"as a public reservation\" (35 Stat. 2136), not as public lands."], "summary": "Reserved all public land within sixty feet of the Mexican border in California, Arizona and New Mexico, keeping it free of obstruction to guard against smuggling; the strip could be used only for public highways.", "categories": ["public-lands", "foreign-affairs"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Mexico", "kind": "country"}], "states": ["California", "Arizona", "New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [70], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-05-27", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Associated Press reported the strip as an anti-smuggling measure, and the story ran in the Los Angeles Herald as \"President to End Smuggling\" and in the Santa Barbara Morning Press, Riverside Enterprise and San Bernardino Sun.", "source": "Los Angeles Herald, May 31, 1907", "date": "1907-05-31", "story": 70}, {"text": "A shorter syndicated item, \"Hopes to Prevent Smuggling,\" reached small California weeklies.", "source": "King City Rustler, June 7, 1907", "date": "1907-06-07", "story": 70}, {"text": "\"Strikes Blow at Smugglers\" told readers smuggling had become less profitable for the bands working the border, and quoted a secret service official from near Nogales that the good effects were already noticeable.", "source": "San Pedro Daily News, June 25, 1907; Long Beach Telegram, June 24, 1907", "date": "1907-06", "story": 70}, {"text": "No objection to the strip, from border merchants or anyone else, turned up in the California papers searched.", "source": "California Digital Newspaper Collection, May 27–July 15, 1907", "date": "1907", "story": 70}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Federal officers in Los Angeles received official instructions from Washington on the proclamation.", "source": "San Pedro Daily News, June 25, 1907", "date": "1907-06", "story": 70}, {"kind": "local", "text": "The press warned that buildings straddling the line on public land, used as smugglers' storehouses, would have to be removed.", "source": "San Pedro Daily News, June 25, 1907", "date": "1907-06", "story": 70}], "legacy": [{"text": "The strip became known as the \"Roosevelt Reservation,\" and Congress recognized it when it extended the Papago Indian Reservation in 1937.", "source": "Act of July 28, 1937, ch. 527, 50 Stat. 536", "date": "1937-07-28", "story": 70}, {"text": "Because the strip is already federal land, it has figured prominently in border-barrier construction since 2019.", "source": "research entry", "story": 70}, {"text": "A federal judge found in 2026 that the Roosevelt Reservation likely exists along the Tohono O'odham Nation's border, in a preliminary ruling that rejected the Nation's argument that its land was never public land in 1907.", "source": "Tohono O'odham Nation v. Mullin, No. 26-2127 (D.D.C.)", "date": "2026-08-14", "story": 70}], "today": [{"name": "Roosevelt Reservation", "kind": "other", "relation": "origin", "state": "California, Arizona, New Mexico", "since": "1907-05-27", "note": "The sixty-foot federal strip along the Mexican border; parts have been transferred to military jurisdiction for limited terms.", "source": "research entry", "story": 70}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1937-07-28", "text": "Congress extended the Papago Indian Reservation while expressly preserving the 1907 sixty-foot strip.", "source": "50 Stat. 536", "story": 70}, {"date": "2019-09", "text": "Interior announced the transfer of about 560 acres of the reservation to the Army for three years, for some 70 miles of wall, in Yuma County, the El Paso area and San Diego County.", "source": "ABC News, September 18, 2019", "story": 70}, {"date": "2025-04-11", "text": "A presidential memorandum directed that the Defense Department be given jurisdiction over federal border lands, including the Roosevelt Reservation; in New Mexico a National Defense Area about 170 miles long followed.", "source": "Presidential memorandum of April 11, 2025", "story": 70}, {"date": "2025-12-10", "text": "Interior announced the transfer of roughly 760 acres in San Diego and Imperial Counties to the Navy for three years.", "source": "Interior Department announcement, December 10, 2025", "story": 70}, {"date": "2026-08-14", "text": "A federal district court denied the Tohono O'odham Nation a preliminary injunction against wall construction along about 62 miles of its border, finding the reservation likely exists there.", "source": "Tohono O'odham Nation v. Mullin, No. 26-2127 (D.D.C.)", "story": 70}], "uncertain": ["Which department asked for the proclamation is not known; Interior's Lands and Railroads Division letters (NARA RG 48) or the General Land Office file (RG 49) would settle it.", "How the strip was received in Arizona and New Mexico papers has not been tested.", "No published total of how much of the strip is now under military jurisdiction has been found."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-810", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "A matching sixty-foot strip along the Canadian border, reserved a year later.", "story": 70, "date": "1908-06-15", "title": "Setting Apart as Public Lands a Strip of Land on the Canadian Frontier", "type": "proclamation", "number": "810"}]}
{"id": "proc-759", "type": "proclamation", "number": "759", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-05-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Modifying Diamond Mountain National Forest, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 759, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-759"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2137, "last_page": 2138, "cite": "35 Stat. 2137–2138", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2137.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-05-27", "table_title": "Modifying Diamond Mountain National Forest, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Diamond Mountain National Forest certain lands, within the State of California, which are in part covered with timber, and by excluding therefrom certain lands;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Diamond Mountain National Forest are hereby changed and that they are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land, Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby enlarged which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 27th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2137", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Diamond Mountain National Forest, Cal.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34, pp. 3113, 3241.", "Boundaries modified.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Post, pp. 2138, 2246.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Redrew California's Diamond Mountain National Forest, adding some partly timbered lands and excluding others.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Diamond Mountain National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-05-27", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-760", "type": "proclamation", "number": "760", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-05-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Plumas National Forest, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 760, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-760"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2138, "last_page": 2139, "cite": "35 Stat. 2138–2139", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2138.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-05-27", "table_title": "Enlarging Plumas National Forest, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Plumas National Forest certain lands, within the State of California, which are in part covered with timber, and by also including therein a portion of the area heretofore embraced in the Diamond Mountain National Forest;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Plumas National Forest is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the aforesaid National Forest are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby enlarged which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 27th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2138", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Plumas National Forest, Cal.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34, p. 2992.", "Ante, p. 2137.", "Post, pp. 2246, 2249.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Plumas National Forest in California with new partly timbered lands plus part of the Diamond Mountain National Forest.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Plumas National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}, {"name": "Diamond Mountain National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-05-27", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-761", "type": "proclamation", "number": "761", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-05-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Santa Rita National Forest, Arizona", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 761, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-761"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2139, "last_page": 2140, "cite": "35 Stat. 2139–2140", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2139.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-05-27", "table_title": "Enlarging Santa Rita National Forest, Arizona."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Santa Rita National Forest certain lands, within the Territory of Arizona, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Santa Rita National Forest is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the aforesaid National Forest are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby enlarged which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 27th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2139", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Santa Rita National Forest, Ariz.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 32, p. 1989.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Added partly timbered lands in Arizona Territory to the Santa Rita National Forest.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Santa Rita National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-05-27", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-639", "type": "executive_order", "number": "639", "tr_sequence": 600, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-05-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Clifford Rose as Private Secretary to the Public Printer Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_639", "revid": 1876672, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 123"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Clifford Rose may be appointed as private secretary to the Public Printer without examination under the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 123)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, May 28, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Clifford Rose to be appointed private secretary to the Public Printer without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Clifford Rose"], "significance": 1, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-05-28", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-640", "type": "executive_order", "number": "640", "tr_sequence": 601, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-05-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of William Phillips and Percival S. Heintzleman as Clerks in Department of State Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_640", "revid": 1876668, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 123"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. William Phillips, of Massachusetts, may be appointed a clerk of the $900 class in the Department of State without examination under civil-service rules.", "Mr. Percival S. Heintzleman, of Pennsylvania, may be appointed a clerk of class 3 in the Department of State without examination under civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 123)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, May 28, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let the State Department appoint William Phillips of Massachusetts and Percival S. Heintzleman of Pennsylvania as clerks without civil-service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Massachusetts", "Pennsylvania"], "people": ["William Phillips", "Percival S. Heintzleman"], "significance": 1, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-05-28", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-647", "type": "executive_order", "number": "647", "tr_sequence": 608, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-05-31", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Providing for Celebration of Marriages in the Canal Zone", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_647", "revid": 3464521, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Under authority vested in me by law it is ordered:", "All marriages heretofore celebrated in the Canal Zone, by a minister of any religious society or denomination authorized by the forms and usages of his society or denomination to perform marriages, or by any judicial officer of the Canal Zone, shall be valid, anything contained in the laws of the Republic of Panama heretofore extended to the Canal Zone to the contrary notwithstanding.", "Any judicial officer of the Canal Zone or minister of any religious society or denomination in good standing shall be authorized to celebrate marriages within the Canal Zone; provided that the contracting parties shall first have procured a marriage license of the circuit clerk of the circuit in which the marriage is to be performed. But no such license shall be issued unless the clerk is satisfied from the oaths of the parties and by other available evidence that the man to be married is not less than seventeen and the woman not less than fourteen years of age, and that no legal impediment to the marriage is known to exist.", "The judicial officer or minister performing the marriage ceremony shall certify that fact upon and return the marriage license to the circuit clerk issuing the same, for registration. The circuit clerk shall be entitled to collect a fee of two dollars, gold, for issuing and recording the return of each marriage certificate.", "Any judicial officer or minister within the Canal Zone violating the provisions of this order shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.", "Effective June 1, 1907."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, May 31, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Validated past marriages performed in the Canal Zone by ministers or judicial officers, and authorized them to perform marriages there for couples holding a marriage license.", "categories": ["canal-zone"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-05-31", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "eo-588", "relation": "supersedes", "note": null, "story": 92, "inferred": true, "date": "1907-03-13", "title": "Authorizing Ministers and Judges to Perform Marriage Ceremonies in Canal Zone", "type": "executive_order", "number": "588"}]}
{"id": "proc-762", "type": "proclamation", "number": "762", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-06-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Announcing Reciprocal Commercial Arrangement With the German Empire", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 762, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-762"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2140, "last_page": 2141, "cite": "35 Stat. 2140–2141", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2140.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-06-01", "table_title": "Announcing reciprocal commercial arrangement with the German Empire."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America.", "A PROCLAMATION.", "Whereas the German Government has entered into a Commercial Agreement with the United States in conformity with the provisions of the third section of the Tariff Act of the United States approved July 24, 1897, by which Agreement in the judgment of the President reciprocal and equivalent concessions are secured in favor of the products of the United States;", "Therefore, be it known that I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority conferred by said Act of Congress, do hereby suspend during the continuance in force of said Agreement the imposition and collection of the duties imposed by the first Section of said Act upon the articles hereinafter specified, being the products of the soil and industry of Germany; and do declare in place thereof the rates of duty provided in the third section of said Act to be in force and effect from and after July 1, 1907, as follows:", "Argols, or crude tartar, or wine lees, crude, five per centum ad valorem.", "Brandies, or other spirits manufactured or distilled from grain or other materials, one dollar and seventy-five cents per proof gallon.", "Champagne and all other sparkling wines, in bottles containing not more than one quart and more than one pint, six dollars per dozen; containing not more than one pint each and more than one-half pint, three dollars per dozen; containing one-half pint each or less, one dollar and fifty cents per dozen; in bottles or other vessels containing more than one quart each, in addition to six dollars per dozen bottles on the quantities in excess of one quart, at the rate of one dollar and ninety cents per gallon.", "Still wines, and vermuth, in casks, thirty-five cents per gallon; in bottles or jugs, per case of one dozen bottles or jugs containing each not more than one quart and more than one pint, or twenty-four bottles or jugs containing each not more than one pint, one dollar and twenty-five cents per case, and any excess beyond these quantities found in such bottles or jugs shall be subject to a duty of four cents per pint or fractional part thereof, but no separate or additional duty shall be assessed upon the bottles or jugs.", "Paintings in oil or water colors, pastels, pen and ink drawings, and statuary, fifteen per centum ad valorem.", "IN TESTIMONY 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 first day of June, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of the Independence [SEAL.] of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President: ELIHU ROOT, Secretary of State."], "source": "35 Stat. 2140–2141 (GovInfo page images), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Styling as printed: \"Whereas\" in lower case, \"Therefore\" with no \"Now,\" capital in \"first Section\" against \"third section,\" and \"A. D.\" The seal stands in the margin beside the line beginning \"ence of the United States\" (the word \"Independence\" broken across the line). Italics not preserved.", "story": 69}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Announced a commercial agreement with Germany and, from July 1, 1907, lowered duties on listed German products such as argols, brandies, champagne, still wines and paintings.", "categories": ["trade-reciprocity", "foreign-affairs"], "action": "announce", "places": [{"name": "Germany", "kind": "country"}], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [69], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-06-01", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "A wire summary of the State Department's statement said about forty American articles would get Germany's minimum rates, regretted that the German government would not extend them to all American products, and headlined the deal as averting a tariff war.", "source": "San Diego Union and Daily Bee, June 2, 1907", "date": "1907-06-02", "story": 69}, {"text": "Protectionist manufacturers, led largely by the American Protective Tariff association, planned a campaign against the agreement, with resolutions of protest and pressure on Congress.", "source": "Santa Barbara Morning Press, July 9, 1907 (citing the Journal of Commerce)", "date": "1907-07-09", "story": 69}, {"text": "Not everyone objected: New York merchants were reported to approve the agreement.", "source": "Santa Barbara Morning Press, July 21, 1907", "date": "1907-07-21", "story": 69}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Roosevelt amended the Consular Regulations on the same day to carry out the customs-procedure promises made to Germany.", "source": "FRUS 1907, pt. 1, doc. 340", "date": "1907-06-01", "story": 69}, {"kind": "diplomatic", "text": "France's chargé d'affaires protested that the agreement listed champagne among German products, warning that it would favor frauds as to indications of origin.", "source": "FRUS 1907, pt. 1, doc. 376", "date": "1907-07-07", "story": 69}, {"kind": "diplomatic", "text": "Root replied that the wording followed the Dingley Act, and passed on the Secretary of Agriculture's view that the name champagne belonged only to wine from the Champagne district of France.", "source": "FRUS 1907, pt. 1, doc. 377", "date": "1907-09-24", "story": 69}, {"kind": "economic", "text": "German sparkling wines paid the reduced rate from July 1, 1907; French champagne did not get it until January 1908.", "source": "35 Stat. 2140; Proc. 797", "date": "1907-07-01", "story": 69}, {"kind": "diplomatic", "text": "The State Department took up applying the agreement's customs-procedure concessions to Austria-Hungary, France, Great Britain, Italy, and Switzerland.", "source": "FRUS 1907, pt. 1", "date": "1907", "story": 69}], "legacy": [{"text": "Broad reciprocal-trade authority did not return until the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1934.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1934", "story": 69}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1909-08-05", "text": "The Payne-Aldrich Tariff directed the President to give notice ending every section-3 agreement, including this one.", "source": "36 Stat. 82–83", "story": 69}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-615", "relation": "supersedes", "note": "Replaced the 1906 stopgap arrangement, which ran only until June 30, 1907.", "story": 69, "date": "1906-02-27", "title": "Reciprocal Reduction of Duties with Germany", "type": "proclamation", "number": "615"}, {"id": "proc-797", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The French agreement that gave French champagne the reduced rate in 1908.", "story": 69, "date": "1908-01-28", "title": "Announcing Reciprocal Commercial Arrangement with France", "type": "proclamation", "number": "797"}]}
{"id": "proc-763", "type": "proclamation", "number": "763", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-06-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Diminishing Pryor Mountains National Forest, Montana", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 763, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-763"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2141, "last_page": 2142, "cite": "35 Stat. 2141–2142", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2141.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-06-01", "table_title": "Diminishing Pryor Mountains National Forest, Montana."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by excluding certain lands from the Pryor Mountains National Forest in the State of Montana, established by proclamation issued November sixth, nineteen hundred and six;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 aforesaid Pryor Mountains National Forest are hereby changed to exclude therefrom the said lands, and that the boundaries are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby established which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "The lands hereby excluded from the Pryor Mountains National Forest which are not embraced in any other withdrawal, reservation, or appropriation, shall be restored to the public domain and become subject to settlement under the general provisions of the homestead laws on such date and after such notice by publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, but shall not become subject to entry, filing, selection, or other form of appropriation until the expiration of thirty days from the date so fixed, and no person will be permitted to gain or exercise any right whatever under any set- tlement or occupation begun prior to such date, and all such settlement and occupation are hereby forbidden.", "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 1st day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2141", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Pryor Mountains National Forest, Mont.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34, p. 3258.", "Boundaries modified.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Lands restored to public domain."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Cut certain lands out of the Pryor Mountains National Forest in Montana and restored them to the public domain.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "reduce", "places": [{"name": "Pryor Mountains National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-06-01", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "congress", "text": "Although Montana was a Fulton state, this proclamation was allowed after March 4 because it only cut land out, and the proviso barred only creation and additions.", "source": "34 Stat. 1271", "date": "1907-06-01", "story": 67}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-641", "type": "executive_order", "number": "641", "tr_sequence": 602, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-06-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Consular Regulations of 1896 Regarding Invoices of Merchandise", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_641", "revid": 1895294, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The Consular Regulations of 1896 are hereby amended as follows:", "The practice in regard to \"personal appearance before consul,\" \"original bills,\" \"declaration of name of ship,\" shall be made uniform in the sense—", "That the personal appearance before the consular officer shall be demanded only in exceptional cases, where special reasons require a personal explanation. That the original bills are only to be requested in cases where invoices presented to the consular officer for authentication include goods of various kinds that have been purchased from different manufacturers at places more or less remote from the consulate and that these bills shall be returned after inspection by the consular officer. That the declaration of the name of the ship in the invoice shall be dispensed with whenever the exporter at the time the invoice is presented for authentication is unable to name the ship.", "Paragraph 678 of such regulations, as amended March 1, 1906, is further amended by striking out the words:", "\"Whenever the invoice is presented to be consulated in a country other than the one from which the merchandise is being directly exported to the United States.\"", "And by inserting after the first sentence the following clause:", "\"As place, in which the merchandise was purchased, is to be considered the place where the contract was made, whenever this was done at the place where the exporter has his office.\"", "So that the entire paragraph shall read as follows:", "\"678. Invoices of merchandise purchased for export to the United States must be produced for certification to the consul of the district at which the merchandise was purchased, or in the district in which it was manufactured, but as a rule consular officers shall not require the personal attendance at his office of the shipper, purchaser, manufacturer, owner, or his agent, for the purpose of making declarations to invoices, but he shall certify invoices sent to him through the mails or by messenger. As place, in which the merchandise was purchased, is to be considered the place where the contract was made, whenever this was done at the place where the exporter has his office. To conform to the statute which requires that merchandise shall be invoiced at the market value or wholesale price of such merchandise as bought and sold in usual wholesale quantities at the time of exportation to the United States, in the principal markets of the country whence imported, consuls will certify to invoices, the additional cost of transportation from the place of manufacture to the place of shipment.\"", "Paragraph 681 of the Consular Regulations of 1896 relative to \"swearing to the invoice\" is hereby revoked.", "Paragraph 674 of the Consular Regulations of 1896 is amended so that the statements provided for in Section 8 of the Customs Administrative Act are not to be required by consular officers except upon the request of the appraiser of the port, after entry of the goods."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 1, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Amended the 1896 Consular Regulations on merchandise invoices, so shippers would appear in person before a consul or show original bills only in exceptional cases.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs", "trade-reciprocity"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-06-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-642", "type": "executive_order", "number": "642", "tr_sequence": 603, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-06-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Participation in Politics", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_642", "revid": 1889980, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Rule I of the Civil Service Rules is hereby amended to read as follows:", "No person in the Executive Civil Service shall use his official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with an election or affecting the result thereof.", "Persons who, by the provisions of these rules, are in the competitive classified service, while retaining the right to vote as they please, and to express privately their opinions on all political subjects, shall take no active part in political management or in political campaigns."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 3, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Rewrote Civil Service Rule I to bar federal employees from using official influence in elections and to bar competitive classified workers from active roles in political management or campaigns, while keeping their right to vote and speak privately.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [16, 93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-06-03", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "A short Associated Press dispatch datelined Washington, June 5, ran as inside-page filler; the New-York Tribune headed it \"WARNED BY PRESIDENT\" and noted the order did not cover postmasters, marshals and others outside the classified service.", "source": "New-York Tribune, June 6, 1907, p. 3", "date": "1907-06-06", "story": 16}, {"text": "The Wilmington Evening Journal ran the same wire story under the headline \"THE USUAL WARNING.\"", "source": "Wilmington Evening Journal, June 8, 1907", "date": "1907-06-08", "story": 16}, {"text": "No editorials, partisan attacks, employee-organization protests or congressional criticism of the order have been found; Congress was not in session until December 2, 1907.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1907", "story": 16}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The amendment came on the Civil Service Commission's recommendation, after numerous complaints from around the country, especially from North Carolina.", "source": "New-York Tribune, June 6, 1907, p. 3", "date": "1907-06", "story": 16}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Supreme Court cited Executive Order 642 and its consolidation in United Public Workers v. Mitchell when it upheld the Hatch Act.", "source": "United Public Workers v. Mitchell, 330 U.S. 75, 81 n.4 (1947)", "date": "1947", "story": 16}, {"text": "The Supreme Court named Executive Order 642 and built its historical argument on Rule I when it again upheld the Hatch Act, reversing a district court that had held the act unconstitutional.", "source": "U.S. Civil Service Commission v. National Association of Letter Carriers, 413 U.S. 548, 558–59 (1973)", "date": "1973", "story": 16}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1939-08-02", "text": "The Hatch Act, \"An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities,\" wrote Rule I's language into law in section 9(a) and extended it to nearly the whole executive branch.", "source": "53 Stat. 1147", "story": 16}, {"date": "1940-07-19", "text": "Amendments extended the restrictions to state and local officers paid with federal funds and defined the forbidden conduct by reference to the Civil Service Commission's determinations under the President's rules before July 19, 1940.", "source": "54 Stat. 767", "story": 16}, {"date": "1941-03-05", "text": "The civil-service rules dropped the word \"privately\" from the employee's right to express political opinions, as the Hatch Act already had.", "source": "research entry", "story": 16}, {"date": "1993", "text": "The Hatch Act Reform Amendments repealed the general ban and allowed most federal employees to take an active part in political management or campaigns, keeping the full restriction only for a list of further-restricted employees.", "source": "Pub. L. 103–94, 107 Stat. 1001; 5 U.S.C. §7323", "story": 16}], "uncertain": ["Whether a big-city daily editorialized on the rule is not known; the Chicago Tribune, Washington Post and Boston Globe for June 5–20, 1907 have not been searched."]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-193", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Roosevelt's 1902 order reaffirming the ban on soliciting political contributions from federal employees.", "story": 16, "date": "1902-10-18", "title": "Ordering Reaffirmation and Enforcement of Regulations Governing the Soliciting of Contributions for Political Purposes by and From Government Officers or Employees", "type": "executive_order", "number": "193"}, {"id": "eo-209", "relation": "amends", "note": "Amended Section 1 of Rule I of the civil-service rules prescribed by Executive Order 209; the rule's first sentence was already in that order.", "story": 16, "date": "1903-03-20", "title": "Prescribing Civil Service Rules in Lieu of Rules of May 6, 1896", "type": "executive_order", "number": "209"}, {"id": "eo-655", "relation": "amended_by", "note": "Executive Order 655 consolidated the amendment's two paragraphs into one without changing its wording.", "story": 16, "date": "1907-06-15", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Participation in Politics", "type": "executive_order", "number": "655"}]}
{"id": "eo-643", "type": "executive_order", "number": "643", "tr_sequence": 604, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-06-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Limitations on Transfer", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_643", "revid": 3464490, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 103"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Section 8, clause (a), of Rule X, is hereby amended to read as follows:", "(a) He must have received absolute appointment and have actually served in the Classified service at least six months next preceding the transfer; and if from one Executive Department to another at Washington, he must have served at least three years in the Department from which the transfer is proposed; if to or from the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Civil Service Commission, the Isthmian Canal Commission, the Government Printing Office, the Smithsonian Institution, or any other independent bureau, commission, or office at Washington, he must have served at least three years in the bureau, commission, office, or Department from which transfer is proposed; but when, in its judgment, the interests of the service so require, the Civil Service Commission may waive the three-year limitation in cases of transfers to or from such independent bureaus, offices, or commissions at Washington.", "The transfer of persons in the classified service in offices under the supervision of one of the nine Executive Departments, but established and located outside such Departments—as, for instance, employees and subordinates in post-offices, pension agencies, custom-houses, ordnance establishments, sub-treasuries, navy-yards, quartermasters' establishments, the field service of the Reclamation Service, and other services in like position—shall not be allowed where the person whose transfer is proposed has not served three years in the branch of the Executive Department from which his transfer is desired, unless the provisions of this section are waived by the Civil Service Commission in cases in which in its judgment the interests of the service so require. Transfers between the Executive Departments or independent bureaus, commissions, or offices, and the field services shall be subject to the regulation last mentioned."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 103)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 5, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Tightened the civil-service transfer rule, requiring six months' service before any transfer and three years in the old department or independent office for transfers among Washington offices.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-06-05", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-644", "type": "executive_order", "number": "644", "tr_sequence": 605, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-06-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Terence V. Powderly as Chief of Division of Information in Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_644", "revid": 1876681, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 124"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Terence V. Powderly, of Washington, D. C., may be appointed chief of the Division of Information, in the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, Department of Commerce and Labor, without examination under the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 124)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 5, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Terence V. Powderly of Washington, D.C., to be appointed chief of the Division of Information in the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": ["Terence V. Powderly"], "significance": 1, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-06-05", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-764", "type": "proclamation", "number": "764", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-06-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Magdalena National Forest, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 764, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-764"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2142, "last_page": 2143, "cite": "35 Stat. 2142–2143", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2142.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-06-06", "table_title": "Enlarging Magdalena National Forest, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Magdalena National Forest certain lands, within the Territory of New Mexico, which are in part covered with timber, and by excluding therefrom certain lands;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Magdalena National Forest are hereby changed and that they are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby enlarged which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "The lands hereby excluded from the Magdalena National Forest which are not embraced in any other withdrawal, reservation, or appropriation, shall be restored to the public domain and become subject to settlement under the general provisions of the homestead laws on such date and after such notice by publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, but shall not become subject to entry, filing, selection, or other form of appropriation until the expiration of thirty days from the date so fixed, and no person will be permitted to gain or exercise any right whatever under any settle- ment or occupation begun prior to such date, and all such settlement and occupation are hereby forbidden.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 6th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2142", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Magdalena National Forest, N. Mex.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34, p. 3245.", "Boundaries modified.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Post, p. 2230.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Lands restored to public domain.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "title_notes": ["The proclamation both added and excluded land; \"Modifying\" would describe it better."], "summary": "Redrew the Magdalena National Forest in New Mexico Territory, adding partly timbered lands and returning others to the public domain.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Magdalena National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-06-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-645", "type": "executive_order", "number": "645", "tr_sequence": 606, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-06-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Removing Lands Claimed by Manila Navigation Company from Mariveles Military Reservation, Bataan, Luzon, Philippine Islands", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_645", "revid": 1867290, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 135, War Dept., June 18, 1907"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The Executive Order of April 11, 1902 (General Orders, No. 38, Headquarters of the Army, Adjutant General's Office, April 17, 1902), as modified by Executive Order of March 14, 1904 (General Orders, No. 50, War Department, March 25, 1904), reserving for military purposes certain lands at the entrance to Manila Bay, Luzon, Philippine Islands, is further modified, so far as relates to the reservation on the north side of the entrance to Manila Bay, in the province of Bataan, Luzon (Mariveles Reservation), so as to exclude therefrom the lands claimed by the Manila Navigation Company, which lands are included within metes and bounds described as follows:", "The initial point is designated as Station \"O\" on map of survey of claim of the Manila Navigation Company, made April 10, 1907, by W. C. Bunnel, junior engineer, under the direction of Major John Millis, Corps of Engineers, and is marked by an iron pipe at the S. E. corner of the property, from which pipe Corregidor Island Light bears S. 57° 00′ E. (magnetic) and Monja Island S. 26° 57′ E. (magnetic); is located from Stone Monument, Station \"A\" of Mariveles Reservation, as described in G. O., No. 147, War Department, Washington, Sept. 8, 1904, by the following courses: From center of Monument S. 70° 16′ 30″ E. (true) 410.7 feet to a cross cut in large rock and marked \"B\" on rock and drawing, this cross being 17.2 feet south of the point of Monte Parca, with Corregidor Island Light bearing S. 56° 12′ 30″ E. (true) and Monja Island S. 26° 51′ 20″ E. (true); from point \"B\" N. 59° 14′ 30″ E. (true), 755.165 feet to above initial point.", "Beginning at Station \"O,\" said initial point; thence N. 8° 57′ 30″ E. (true), 66.768 feet to an iron pipe, Station 1; thence N. 14° 09′ 00″ W. (true), 148.629 feet to Station 2; thence N. 36° 22′ 00″ W. (true), 148.301 feet to Station 3; thence S. 80° 00′ 20″ W. (true), 264.284 feet to an iron pipe, Station 4; thence S. 18° 32′ 00″ W. (true), 633.101 feet to an iron pipe, Station 5; thence N. 61° 13′ 00″ E. (true), 656.15 feet to point of beginning."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 135, War Dept., June 18, 1907)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 7, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Removed lands claimed by the Manila Navigation Company from the Mariveles Military Reservation at the entrance to Manila Bay in Bataan, Luzon.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "reduce", "places": [{"name": "Mariveles Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-06-07", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-765", "type": "proclamation", "number": "765", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-06-08", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Disposal of Lands in the Former Devil's Lake Indian Reservation, North Dakota", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 765, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-765"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2143, "last_page": 2143, "cite": "35 Stat. 2143", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2143.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-06-08", "table_title": "Disposing of unsold ceded lands, Devils Lake Indian Reservation, North Dakota."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,", "A PROCLAMATION.", "Whereas, the Act of Congress approved April 27, 1904, (33 Stats., 319, 324) providing for the disposition of lands in the former Devil's Lake Indian Reservation in North Dakota, under the general provisions of the homestead and townsite laws of the United States, at the price of Four Dollars and Fifty Cents per acre, which lands were opened by Proclamation of June 2, 1904, (33 Stats., 2368, 2372), provides that when in the judgment of the President no more of the lands can be disposed of at the said price, he may by proclamation, sell the remaining lands under such laws, at such price and upon such terms as he may deem best for all interests concerned.", "And, Whereas, it appears that such tracts of said lands now remaining undisposed of, are small in acreage, or hilly and stony and cannot be disposed of at the price named;", "Now, therefore, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States, by virtue of the authority in me vested by said Act of April 27, 1904, do hereby declare and make known that such of said lands as are unreserved and undisposed of shall on and after date hereof be subject to disposition under the general provisions of the homestead, townsite laws and of Sec. 2455 R. S., as amended by Act of Congress, approved June 27, 1906, (34 Stats., 517), at the price of not less than Two Dollars and Fifty Cents per acre in cash payable at date of final proof upon entries made under the homestead and townsite laws and at time of sale under Sec. 2455, Amended. In addition, entrymen must pay the same fees and commissions now required by said laws where the price of land is One Dollar and Twenty Five Cents per acre.", "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 8th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first.", "[SEAL.]", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President: ELIHU ROOT Secretary of State."], "source": "35 Stat. 2143 (page image), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Seal restored; heading and capitals of \"Now, therefore\" and \"In witness whereof\" as printed (APP normalizes them). Countersigned by Secretary of State Elihu Root.", "story": 68}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Cut the price of unsold land in the former Devil's Lake Indian Reservation in North Dakota from $4.50 to at least $2.50 an acre, since the remaining tracts were small, hilly or stony.", "categories": ["indian-lands", "public-lands"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Devil's Lake Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "North Dakota"}], "states": ["North Dakota"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [68], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-06-08", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "A General Land Office circular signed by Acting Commissioner Fred Dennett sent the proclamation to the Devils Lake land office, announcing the remaining land open at not less than $2.50 an acre, cash, plus the usual fees.", "source": "35 L.D. 646–647", "date": "1907-06-28", "story": 68}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Interior Department ruled that land under entry on June 8, 1907 stayed at $4.50 an acre even if the entry was later cancelled.", "source": "Otto A. Kayser and William H. Meyer, cited in 39 L.D. 434–436", "date": "1908-10-31", "story": 68}], "legacy": [{"text": "A federal appeals court held that the 1904 act's cession language, standing alone, did not show a clear intent by Congress to disestablish the Devils Lake Reservation.", "source": "United States v. Grey Bear, 828 F.2d 1286 (8th Cir. 1987)", "date": "1987-09-14", "story": 68}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1910-12-29", "text": "In Clara F. Moran the Interior Department refused a refund, holding that the price cut reached only land unreserved and undisposed of on June 8, 1907.", "source": "39 L.D. 434–436", "story": 68}, {"date": "1987-09-14", "text": "The Eighth Circuit ruled in United States v. Grey Bear that the 1904 act alone did not disestablish the Devils Lake Reservation (later vacated in part on other grounds).", "source": "828 F.2d 1286; 836 F.2d 1088", "story": 68}], "uncertain": ["Who proposed the price cut, and how settlers and the local press received it, is not known.", "How many acres sold at the reduced price is not known; the Devils Lake land office's cash-sale abstracts (National Archives Record Group 49) would settle it."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-530", "relation": "modifies", "note": "Cut the $4.50-an-acre price set for the 1904 Devils Lake opening to $2.50 for land still unsold.", "story": 68, "date": "1904-06-02", "title": "Partial Opening of Lands of the Sisseton, Wahpeton and Cut-Head Bands of the Sioux Indian Tribe", "type": "proclamation", "number": "530"}]}
{"id": "eo-646", "type": "executive_order", "number": "646", "tr_sequence": 607, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-06-08", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Except Certain Clerks of Post Office Department from Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_646", "revid": 2387808, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 106"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Schedule A, of classified positions excepted from examination under Rule II, section 3, is hereby amended by the addition to Subdivision V, relating to the Post-Office Department, the following paragraphs:", "Clerks in charge of contract stations, appropriated for as such and so reported. Clerks in charge of stations, whose compensation does not exceed $500 per annum. Persons now employed or hereafter appointed within the limits of this exception may be promoted but may not be transferred or assigned to any other position which is competitive."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 106)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 8, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Excepted from civil-service examination Post Office clerks in charge of contract stations and of stations paying no more than $500 a year.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-06-08", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-648", "type": "executive_order", "number": "648", "tr_sequence": 609, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-06-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Permanent Appointment of Samuel H. Cunningham as Clerk in Bureau of Animal Industry Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_648", "revid": 1876686, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 124"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Samuel H. Cunningham, who is temporarily employed as a clerk in the Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture, as a result of examination, may be permanently appointed without reference to his standing on the eligible register."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 124)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 11, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Samuel H. Cunningham, a temporary clerk in the Bureau of Animal Industry, be appointed permanently regardless of his standing on the eligible register.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Samuel H. Cunningham"], "significance": 1, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-06-11", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-649", "type": "executive_order", "number": "649", "tr_sequence": 610, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-06-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Transfer of George S. Fox to Clerical Position in United States Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_649", "revid": 1876689, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 124"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. George S. Fox, bookkeeper at $1,500 per annum in the Isthmian service, may be transferred to a classified clerical position in the United States."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 124)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 11, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed George S. Fox, a bookkeeper in the Isthmian service, to be transferred to a classified clerical position in the United States.", "categories": ["civil-service", "canal-zone"], "action": "transfer", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["George S. Fox"], "significance": 1, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-06-11", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-650", "type": "executive_order", "number": "650", "tr_sequence": 611, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-06-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "George W. Woodruff Named Acting Interior Secretary", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Named George W. Woodruff acting Secretary of the Interior.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["George W. Woodruff"], "significance": 1, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-06-11", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-651", "type": "executive_order", "number": "651", "tr_sequence": 612, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-06-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing a Committee on Grades and Salaries in the Executive Departments", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_651", "revid": 1882223, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["A Committee on Grades and Salaries in the executive departments shall be formed as speedily as practicable, to consist of one competent employee named by the head of each department and independent establishment, who shall prepare clear and consistent tables of estimates for positions and salaries in conformity with the schedule and recommendations of the Committee on Department Methods of January 4, 1907.", "Officials will cooperate with this committee in arranging said estimates for presentation to Congress, in convenient form for comparison with the estimates prepared in the usual way required by law."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 11, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Created a Committee on Grades and Salaries, with one employee from each department and independent office, to prepare consistent salary estimates for Congress.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "establish", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-06-11", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "congress", "text": "The order carried out Keep Commission work, and Congress's resentment of such unauthorized commissions led to the Tawney amendment of March 4, 1909, barring money for commissions not authorized by law.", "source": "Act of March 4, 1909, ch. 299, § 9, 35 Stat. 1027", "date": "1909-03-04", "story": 93}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Committee on Grades and Salaries and the Keep Commission behind it fed, over decades, into the federal position-classification system.", "source": "research entry", "story": 93}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1909-03-04", "text": "The Tawney amendment barred appropriated money for any commission, council or board not authorized by law; it survives at 31 U.S.C. § 1346.", "source": "35 Stat. 1027; 31 U.S.C. § 1346", "story": 93}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-795", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The May 13, 1908 order that carried the work forward.", "story": 93, "date": "1908-05-13", "title": "Ordering Heads of Executive Departments to Arrange Salaries to Conform to Recommendations of Committee on Grades and Salaries", "type": "executive_order", "number": "795"}]}
{"id": "eo-652", "type": "executive_order", "number": "652", "tr_sequence": 613, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-06-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Mattie R. Tyler as Clerk in Post Office at Norfolk, Virginia, Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_652", "revid": 1876693, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 124"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered, That Miss Mattie R. Tyler be appointed a clerk at $800 per annum in the post-office at Norfolk, Va., and that in her case the usual civil-service requirements as regards eligibility be waived."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 124)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 11, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Ordered Mattie R. Tyler appointed a clerk at $800 a year in the Norfolk, Virginia, post office, waiving the usual civil-service eligibility rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [{"name": "Norfolk", "kind": "town", "state": "Virginia"}], "states": ["Virginia"], "people": ["Mattie R. Tyler"], "significance": 1, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-06-11", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-653", "type": "executive_order", "number": "653", "tr_sequence": 614, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-06-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Permitting Forest Service and Biological Survey Officers and Employees to Accept State and Territorial Appointments", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_653", "revid": 1895296, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, by an Executive Order of January 17, 1873, it was declared that \"persons holding any Federal civil office by appointment under the Constitution and the laws of the United States will be expected, while holding such office, not to accept or hold any office under any State or Territorial government, or under the charter or ordinances of any municipal corporation\";", "And whereas it is expedient that the Federal and State Governments should cooperate for the better enforcement of the laws with regard to the forests and the protection of fish and game;", "And whereas the Congress, in Acts passed June 30, 1906 (34 Stats., 669, 683) and March 4, 1907 (34 Stats., 1256, 1269), has directed that \"hereafter officials of the Forest Service designated by the Secretary of Agriculture shall, in all ways that are practicable, aid in the enforcement of the laws of the States or Territories with regard to stock, for the prevention and extinguishment of forest fires, and for the protection of fish and game\";", "And whereas it seems that such cooperation can, in many instances, be best effected by allowing officers and employees of the Forest Service and Biological Survey of the United States Department of Agriculture to accept certain State and Territorial appointments and certain State and Territorial officials to receive appointments in the said Forest Service and Biological Survey:", "Now, therefore, in consideration of the premises, I deem it proper to give public notice that hereafter State and Territorial foresters, and their technically trained assistants, unless prohibited by the laws of the State or Territory, may be allowed to serve as collaborators in the Federal Forest Service, and that officers and employees of the said Forest Service and Biological Survey may, with the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture, accept appointments to positions on State and Territorial forest commissions and boards and to such other State and Territorial positions as will empower them to enforce or assist in enforcing the local forest, stock, and game laws, provided the services to be rendered under such appointments do not interfere with the duties of their Federal employment."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 13, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Forest Service and Biological Survey employees to take state and territorial posts enforcing forest, stock and game laws, and let state foresters serve as Forest Service collaborators.", "categories": ["conservation-policy", "government-administration", "wildlife"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-06-13", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-654", "type": "executive_order", "number": "654", "tr_sequence": 615, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-06-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Prescribing Rules Governing the Granting and Issuing of Passports in the United States", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_654", "revid": 2221101, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By whom issued and refusal to issue.— No one but the Secretary of State may grant and issue passports in the United States (Revised Statutes, Sections 4075, 4078,) and he is empowered to refuse them in his discretion.", "Passports are not issued by American diplomatic and consular officers abroad, except in cases of emergency; and a citizen who is abroad and desires to procure a passport must apply therefor through the nearest diplomatic or consular officer to the Secretary of State.", "Applications for passports by persons in Porto Rico or the Philippines should be made to the Chief Executive of those Islands. The evidence required of such applicants is the same as that required of applicants in the United States.", "Fee.— By act of Congress approved March 23, 1888, a fee of one dollar is required to be collected for every citizen's passport. That amount in currency or postal money order should accompany each application made by a citizen of the United States. Orders should be made payable to the Disbursing Clerk of the Department of State. Drafts or checks will not be accepted.", "Applications.— A person who is entitled to receive a passport, if within the United States, must make a written application, in the form of an affidavit, to the Secretary of State. The application must be made by the person to whom the passport is to be issued and signed by him, as it is not competent for one person to apply for another.", "The affidavit must be attested by an officer authorized to administer oaths, and if he has an official seal it must be affixed. If he has no seal, his official character must be authenticated by certificate of the proper legal officer.", "If the applicant signs by mark, two attesting witnesses to his signature are required. The applicant is required to state the date and place of his birth, his occupation, the place of his permanent residence, to what country or countries he intends to travel and within what length of time he will return to the United States with the purpose of residing and performing the duties of citizenship.", "The applicant must take the oath of allegiance to the Government of the United States.", "The application must be accompanied by a description of the person applying, and should state the following particulars, viz: Age, _____; stature, _____ feet _____ inches (English measure); forehead, _____; eyes, _____; nose, _____; mouth, _____; chin, _____; hair, _____; complexion, _____; face, _____.", "The application must be accompanied by a certificate from at least one credible witness that the applicant is the person he represents himself to be, and that the facts stated in the affidavit are true to the best of the witness's knowledge and belief.", "Native citizens.— An application containing the information indicated by rule 3 will be sufficient evidence in the case of native citizens; but", "A person of the Chinese race, alleging birth in the United States, must accompany his application with supporting affidavits from at least two credible witnesses, preferably not of the Chinese race, having personal knowledge of the applicant's birth in the United States. The application and supporting affidavits should be in duplicate and should be accompanied by three photographs of the applicant and should state at what port he intends to reenter the United States.", "A person born abroad whose father was a native citizen of the United States.— In addition to the statements required by rule 3, his application must show that his father was born in the United States, resided therein, and was a citizen at the time of the applicant's birth. The Department may require that this affidavit be supported by that of one other citizen acquainted with the facts.", "Naturalized citizens.— In addition to the statements required by rule 3, a naturalized citizen must transmit his certificate of naturalization, or a duly certified copy of the court record thereof, with his application. It will be returned to him after inspection. He must state in his affidavit when and from what port he emigrated to this country, what ship he sailed in, where he has lived since his arrival in the United States, when and before what court he was naturalized, and that he is the identical person described in the certificate of naturalization. The signature to the application should conform in orthography to the applicant's name as written in his certificate of naturalization, or an explanation of the difference should be submitted.", "Woman's application.— If she is unmarried, in addition to the statements required by rule 3, she should state that she has never been married. If she is the wife or widow of a native citizen of the United States the fact should be made to appear in her application. If she is the wife or widow of a naturalized citizen, in addition to the statements required by rule 3, she must transmit for inspection her husband's certificate of naturalization, must state that she is the wife (or widow) of the person described therein, and must set forth the facts of his emigration, naturalization, and residence, as required in the rule governing the application of a naturalized citizen.", "(A married woman's citizenship follows that of her husband so far as her international status is concerned. It is essential, therefore, that a woman's marital relations be indicated in her application for a passport, and that in the case of a married woman her husband's citizenship be established.)", "The child of a naturalized citizen claiming citizenship through the naturalization of the parent.— In addition to the statements required by rule 3, the applicant must state that he or she is the son or daughter, as the case may be, of the person described in the certificate of naturalization, which must be submitted for inspection, and must set forth the facts of emigration, naturalization, and residence, as required in the rule governing the application of a naturalized citizen.", "A resident of an insular possession of the United States who owes allegiance to the United States.— In addition to the statements required by rule 3, he must state that he owes allegiance to the United States and that he does not acknowledge allegiance to any other government; and must submit affidavits from at least two credible witnesses having good means of knowledge in substantiation of his statements of birth, residence and loyalty.", "Expiration of passport.— A passport expires two years from the date of its issuance. A new one will be issued upon a new application, and, if the applicant be a naturalized citizen, the old passport will be accepted in lieu of a certificate of naturalization, if the application upon which it was issued is found to contain sufficient information as to the naturalization of the applicant.", "Wife, minor children, and servants.— When the applicant is accompanied by his wife, minor children, or servant who would be entitled to receive a passport, it will be sufficient to state the fact, giving the respective ages of the children and the allegiance of the servant, when one passport will suffice for all. For any other person in the party a separate passport will be required. A woman's passport may include her minor children and servant under the above-named conditions.", "(The term servant does not include a governess, tutor, pupil, companion, or person holding like rations to the applicant for a passport.)", "Titles.— Professional and other titles will not be inserted in passports.", "Blank forms of application.— They will be furnished by the Department to persons who desire to apply for passports, but are not furnished, except as samples, to those who make a business of procuring passports.", "Address.— Communications should be addressed to the Department of State, Bureau of Citizenship, and each communication should give the post-office address of the person to whom the answer is to be directed.", "Section 4075 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the act of Congress, approved June 14, 1902, providing that \"the Secretary of State may grant and issue passports, and cause passports to be granted, issued and verified in foreign countries by such diplomatic or consular officers of the United States, and by such chief or other executive officer of the insular possessions of the United States, and under such rules as the President shall designate and prescribe for and on behalf of the United States\", the foregoing rules are hereby prescribed for the granting and issuing of Passports in the United States.", "The Secretary of State is authorized to make regulations on the subject of issuing and granting passports additional to these rules and not inconsistent with them."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 13, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Set out the rules for passports: only the Secretary of State issues them, at a one-dollar fee, on a sworn written application stating the applicant's birth, residence and travel plans.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": ["Puerto Rico", "Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-06-13", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The order restated the passport rules in fourteen parts: only the Secretary of State could issue passports, applications were sworn affidavits with a one-dollar fee, and a passport lasted two years.", "source": "Executive Order 654 (Wikisource transcription)", "date": "1907-06-13", "story": 93}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "Applicants \"of the Chinese race\" claiming birth in the United States now had to file in duplicate, with three photographs, and name their port of reentry, on top of the two witnesses required since 1903.", "source": "Executive Order 654; Executive Order 235", "date": "1907-06-13", "story": 93}], "legacy": [{"text": "The extra burden on Chinese American applicants fell away only when the Magnuson Act repealed Chinese exclusion.", "source": "Magnuson Act of December 17, 1943", "date": "1943-12-17", "story": 93}, {"text": "The rule that a married woman's nationality followed her husband's was broken by the Cable Act of 1922, except for women who married aliens ineligible to citizenship, an exception removed in 1931, with full restoration only in 1940.", "source": "Cable Act of September 22, 1922", "date": "1922-09-22", "story": 93}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1914-08-14", "text": "Executive Order 2021 amended the rules governing the granting and issuing of passports.", "source": "Lord (1944) catalog", "story": 93}, {"date": "1914-11-13", "text": "An unnumbered executive order fully restated the passport rules, its first rule repeating this order's nearly word for word.", "source": "FRUS 1914 Supplement, doc. 1150", "story": 93}, {"date": "1922-09-22", "text": "The Cable Act ended the automatic link between a woman's citizenship and her husband's, with a proviso for marriages to aliens ineligible to citizenship.", "source": "Cable Act of September 22, 1922", "story": 93}, {"date": "1943-12-17", "text": "The Magnuson Act repealed Chinese exclusion.", "source": "Magnuson Act of December 17, 1943", "story": 93}], "uncertain": ["The text has not yet been collated against a 1907 printing such as the State Department's own passport circular.", "A departmental revision of the passport rules may have been issued in 1911, but no order or date has been found."]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-235", "relation": "supersedes", "note": "Replaced the passport rules of September 12, 1903.", "story": 93, "date": "1903-09-12", "title": "Rules Governing the Granting and Issuing of Passports in the United States", "type": "executive_order", "number": "235"}]}
{"id": "eo-655", "type": "executive_order", "number": "655", "tr_sequence": 616, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-06-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Participation in Politics", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_655", "revid": 1889982, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 104"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The amendment to civil-service Rule I, signed by the President June 3, 1907, is hereby amended to read as follows:", "Section 1 of Rule I of the civil-service rules is hereby amended to read as follows:", "No person in the Executive civil service shall use his official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with an election or affecting the result thereof. Persons who, by the provisions of these rules are in the competitive classified service, while retaining the right to vote as they please and to express privately their opinions on all political subjects, shall take no active part in political management or in political campaigns."], "source": "U.S. Civil Service Commission, Twenty-fourth Annual Report (H. Doc. No. 600, 60th Cong., 1st sess.), p. 104, page image (Internet Archive, unitedstatescon368offigoog), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Consolidated text of June 15, 1907, printed under the date line 'June 15, 1907. POLITICAL ACTIVITY.' Corroborated by Mitchell, 330 U.S. at 81 n.4, and Letter Carriers, 413 U.S. at 558-59. Signed original at NARA not collated.", "story": 16}, "summary": "Revised the June 3 amendment to Civil Service Rule I, restating the ban on using official influence in elections and on classified employees taking active part in political campaigns.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [16, 93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-06-15", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The June 15 amendment put enforcement of the rule under the Civil Service Commission, ending a period when department heads had applied it more strictly to the party out of power.", "source": "Civil Service Commission, Twenty-fourth Annual Report, pp. 8–9", "date": "1907-06-15", "story": 16}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "Several federal employees who chaired or served as secretaries of Republican and Roosevelt clubs resigned those posts.", "source": "San Francisco Call, July 7, 1907", "date": "1907-07-07", "story": 16}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Department of Commerce and Labor circulated the text to its employees and collected signed acknowledgments.", "source": "Washington Times, July 17, 1907", "date": "1907-07-17", "story": 16}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-642", "relation": "amends", "note": "Consolidated the June 3 amendment into a single paragraph without changing its wording.", "story": 16, "date": "1907-06-03", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Participation in Politics", "type": "executive_order", "number": "642"}]}
{"id": "eo-656", "type": "executive_order", "number": "656", "tr_sequence": 617, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-06-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Permanent Appointment of Mary A. Greenstreet as Clerk in War Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_656", "revid": 1876701, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 125"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. Mary A. Greenstreet, now serving under temporary appointment in the War Department by certification from the Civil Service Commission, may be selected from the clerk register of eligibles for permanent appointment."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 125)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 18, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Mary A. Greenstreet, a temporary War Department clerk, be selected from the clerk register for permanent appointment.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Mary A. Greenstreet"], "significance": 1, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-06-18", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-659", "type": "executive_order", "number": "659", "tr_sequence": 620, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-06-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Executive Order 469 Regarding Promotions in Consular Service", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Amended Executive Order 469 on promotions in the consular service.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs", "civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-06-20", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-469", "relation": "amends", "note": "Amends the June 1906 rules on consular promotions.", "story": 89, "date": "1906-06-27", "title": "Regulations Governing Consular Appointments and Promotions", "type": "executive_order", "number": "469"}]}
{"id": "eo-657", "type": "executive_order", "number": "657", "tr_sequence": 618, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-06-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Except Certain Quarantine Workers of Public Health Service from Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_657", "revid": 1876710, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 107"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Schedule A, Subdivision II, relating to the Treasury Department, paragraph 9, is hereby amended to read:", "Any persons employed in the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service as quarantine attendants at stations at which, in the opinion of the Commission, the establishment of registers is impracticable; and any person employed as quarantine attendant, or acting assistant surgeon, or sanitary inspector, on quarantine vessels, or in camps or stations established for quarantine purposes during epidemics of contagious diseases, for temporary duty in the United States or elsewhere in preventing the introduction or spread of contagious or infectious diseases."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 107)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 24, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Broadened a civil-service exception covering quarantine attendants, acting assistant surgeons and sanitary inspectors hired for quarantine duty during epidemics.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-06-24", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-658", "type": "executive_order", "number": "658", "tr_sequence": 619, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-06-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of John S. Drukker as Pressman in Bureau of Engraving and Printing Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_658", "revid": 1876703, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 125"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. John S. Drukker, formerly a temporary employee in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, may be reinstated as a pressman in the Bureau without reference to the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 125)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 24, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed John S. Drukker, a former temporary employee, to be reinstated as a pressman at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing without regard to civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "restore", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["John S. Drukker"], "significance": 1, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-06-24", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-660", "type": "executive_order", "number": "660", "tr_sequence": 621, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-06-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Granting Employees of the Quartermaster's Department at Honolulu, Hawaii, All Rights of Classified Personnel", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_660", "revid": 1873308, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 113"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["All positions in the civil service of the Quartermaster's Department at Honolulu, except those filled by persons employed merely as skilled or unskilled laborers, and by persons appointed by the President, will be treated as classified under the civil-service rules. The present occupants of these positions, who have been specially commended for retention by their chiefs with the approval of the Secretary of War, and whose names appear on the list furnished the United States Civil Service Commission, may be retained, and after three years, service in such positions shall be eligible for transfer to competitive positions in the United States, subject to the civil-service rules and regulations."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 113)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 26, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Classified most civil service positions of the Army Quartermaster's Department at Honolulu, letting approved current employees stay and become eligible for transfer after three years.", "categories": ["civil-service", "insular-territories", "military-naval"], "action": "regulate", "places": [{"name": "Honolulu", "kind": "town", "state": "Hawaii"}], "states": ["Hawaii"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-06-26", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-661", "type": "executive_order", "number": "661", "tr_sequence": 622, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-06-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Permitting Agriculture Department Officers and Employees to Accept State and Territorial Appointments", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_661", "revid": 1917595, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas by an Executive order of June 13, 1907, officers and employees of the Forest Service and Biological Survey in the Department of Agriculture were authorized to accept appointments to certain State and Territorial positions, and it appears that the work of that Department would be facilitated by an extension of the provisions thereof, I desire to give public notice that hereafter, with the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture, other officers and employees of that Department are authorized to hold State and Territorial positions, and State and Territorial officials, unless prohibited by law, may be permitted to receive appointments under the Department of Agriculture, when in either case the Secretary of Agriculture deems such employment necessary to secure a more efficient administration of the duties of his Department."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 26, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Extended the June 13 order so other Agriculture Department employees could hold state and territorial posts, and state officials could take Department appointments, with the Secretary's approval.", "categories": ["government-administration", "conservation-policy"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-06-26", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-663", "type": "executive_order", "number": "663", "tr_sequence": 624, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-07-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Transferring Purchase of Isthmian Canal Commission Supplies to Supervision of Chief of Engineers", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_663", "revid": 3464517, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Under authority vested in me by law it is ordered:", "On and after July 1, 1907, the purchase of materials and supplies for the Isthmian Canal Commission shall be transferred to the supervision of the Chief of Engineers of the Army, who shall maintain a Purchasing Department in the offices of the Isthmian Canal Commission in Washington.", "Officers of the United States shall draw no additional compensation for services rendered in connection with the Purchasing Department of the Isthmian Canal Commission."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, July 1, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Moved purchasing for the Isthmian Canal Commission under the Army's Chief of Engineers from July 1, 1907, with a Purchasing Department in the Commission's Washington offices.", "categories": ["canal-zone", "government-administration"], "action": "transfer", "places": [], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-07-01", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-664", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Part of the same reorganization of the Canal Commission's business offices.", "story": 93, "date": "1907-08-15", "title": "Reorganizing Accounting and Disbursing Offices and Procedures for the Isthmian Canal Commission", "type": "executive_order", "number": "664"}, {"id": "eo-665", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Part of the same reorganization.", "story": 93, "date": "1907-08-15", "title": "Reorganizing Washington Office of Isthmian Canal Commission", "type": "executive_order", "number": "665"}]}
{"id": "eo-662", "type": "executive_order", "number": "662", "tr_sequence": 623, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-07-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Transfer of Horace W. Mitchell to Clerk in Marine Corps Office Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_662", "revid": 1876716, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 125"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Horace W. Mitchell may be transferred from the excepted position of clerk at $1,400 per annum in the pay department, Marine Corps, Philippine Islands, to the position of clerk at $1,400 per annum in the office of the assistant paymaster, U. S. Marine Corps, Berkeley, Cal., a competitive classified position, without reference to the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 125)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, July 4, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Horace W. Mitchell to move from a Marine Corps pay clerkship in the Philippines to a classified clerk position in Berkeley, California, without regard to civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service", "military-naval"], "action": "transfer", "places": [], "states": ["Philippines", "California"], "people": ["Horace W. Mitchell"], "significance": 1, "stories": [93], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-07-04", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-766", "type": "proclamation", "number": "766", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-07-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Trabuco Canyon National Forest, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 766, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-766"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2144, "last_page": 2144, "cite": "35 Stat. 2144", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2144.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-07-06", "table_title": "Enlarging Trabuco Canyon National Forest, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Trabuco Canon National Forest, hereby changed to read Trabuco Canyon National Forest, certain lands, within the State of California, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Trabuco Canyon National Forest is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the aforesaid National Forest are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby enlarged which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement 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 to be affixed.", "Done at the City of Washington this 6th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second"], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2144", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Trabuco Canyon National Forest, Cal.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 27, p. 1066.", "Post, pp. 2145, 2217.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Trabuco Canyon National Forest in California with partly timbered lands and changed its name from Trabuco Canon.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Trabuco Canyon National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-07-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-767", "type": "proclamation", "number": "767", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-07-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Black Mesa National Forest, Arizona", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 767, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-767"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2146, "last_page": 2146, "cite": "35 Stat. 2146", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2146.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-07-12", "table_title": "Enlarging Black Mesa National Forest, Arizona."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Black Mesa National Forest certain lands, within the Territory of Arizona, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Black Mesa National Forest is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the aforesaid National Forest are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby enlarged which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves:” Provided, That lands heretofore restored to settlement or entry under the provisions of the foregoing act shall be excepted from the force and effect of this proclamation.", "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 12 day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2146", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Black Mesa National Forest, Ariz.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 30, p. 1782.", "Post, p. 2236.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Post, pp. 2196, 2219.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233.", "Lands excepted."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Added partly timbered lands in Arizona Territory to the Black Mesa National Forest.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Black Mesa National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-07-12", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-666", "type": "executive_order", "number": "666", "tr_sequence": 627, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-07-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Malate Barracks Military Reservation, Manila, Enlarged", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Enlarged the Malate Barracks Military Reservation in Manila.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Malate Barracks Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [93, 94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-07-15", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-667", "type": "executive_order", "number": "667", "tr_sequence": 628, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-07-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Employment of Aksel Hansen in Bureau of the Census Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_667", "revid": 1876724, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 126"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Aksel Hansen may be employed in the Bureau of the Census upon experimental work in developing tabulating machinery, as authorized by the act of February 3, 1905, appropriating for executive, legislative, and judicial expenses, without examination under the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 126)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, July 16, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Aksel Hansen be employed by the Census Bureau on experimental work developing tabulating machinery, without a civil-service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Aksel Hansen"], "significance": 1, "stories": [93, 94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-07-16", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-768", "type": "proclamation", "number": "768", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-07-19", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Santa Catalina National Forest, Arizona", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 768, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-768"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2147, "last_page": 2147, "cite": "35 Stat. 2147", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2147.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-07-19", "table_title": "Enlarging Santa Catalina National Forest, Arizona."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Santa Catalina National Forest certain lands, within the Territory of Arizona, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Santa Catalina National Forest is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the aforesaid National Forest are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby enlarged which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves:” Provided, that lands heretofore restored to settlement or entry under the provisions of the foregoing act shall be excepted from the force and effect of this proclamation.", "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 19th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2147", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Santa Catalina National Forest, Ariz.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 32. p. 2012.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233.", "Lands excepted."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Expanded the Santa Catalina National Forest in Arizona Territory to include more partly timbered land.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Santa Catalina National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-07-19", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-769", "type": "proclamation", "number": "769", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-07-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Diminishing Alexander Archipelago National Forest, Alaska", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 769, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-769"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2148, "last_page": 2149, "cite": "35 Stat. 2148–2149", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2148.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-07-20", "table_title": "Diminishing Alexander Archipelago National Forest, Alaska."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by excluding certain lands from the Alexander Archipelago National Forest, in the Territory of Alaska, established by proclamation issued August twentieth, nineteen hundred and two;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 area of the said National Forest is hereby changed, and that it now contains Chichago of Island and the adjacent islands to the seaward thereof, Kupreanof Island, Kuiu Island, Zarembo Island, and Prince of Wales Island and the adjacent islands to the seaward thereof, in Alaska, excepting all that portion of Kasaan Peninsula, forming a part of Prince of Wales Island, which lies southeast of a line beginning at a point on Kasaan Bay due west of the United States Location Monument Number 5, and running thence, north 44° 42’ east, 6,996 feet (approximately) to the most southwesterly point on the bay known as Lyman Anchorage: Provided, that this proclamation shall not be so construed as to deprive any person of any valid right possessed under the Treaty for the cession of the Russian possessions in North America to the United States, concluded at Washington on the thirtieth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, or acquired under any act of Congress relating to the Territory of Alaska;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the aforesaid National Forest which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "The lands hereby excluded from the aforesaid National Forest which are not embraced in any other withdrawal, reservation, or appropriation, shall be restored to the public domain and become subject to settlement, appropriation, and disposition under the provisions, conditions, and restrictions applicable to such lands on such date and after such notice by publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, and no person will be permitted to gain or exercise any right whatever under any settlement or occupation begun prior to such date and all such settlements and occupations are hereby forbidden.", "2149 Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves:” Provided, That lands heretofore restored to settlement or entry under the provisions of the foregoing act shall be excepted from the force and effect of this proclamation.", "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 20th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2148", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Alexander Archipelago National Forest, Alaska.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 32, p. 2025.", "Boundaries modified.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Post, p. 2226.", "Proviso.", "Valid rights not affected.", "Vol. 15, p. 539.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Lands restored to public domain.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233.", "Lands excepted."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Removed certain lands from the Alexander Archipelago National Forest in Alaska and returned them to the public domain, protecting existing valid rights.", "categories": ["forests", "insular-territories"], "action": "reduce", "places": [{"name": "Alexander Archipelago National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-07-20", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "proc-491", "relation": "reduces", "note": "Excluded land from the Alexander Archipelago reserve of 1902.", "story": 67, "date": "1902-08-20", "title": "Establishment of the Alexander Archipelago Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "491"}]}
{"id": "proc-770", "type": "proclamation", "number": "770", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-07-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart Chugach National Forest, Alaska", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 770, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-770"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2149, "last_page": 2150, "cite": "35 Stat. 2149–2150", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2149.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-07-23", "table_title": "Setting apart Chugach National Forest, Alaska."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the Territory of Alaska, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by utilizing said lands as a National Forest;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from settlement, entry, or sale, and set apart as a public reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the Territory of Alaska, shown as the Chugach National Forest on the diagram forming a part hereof, and further described as follows: All of the public land lying within a line beginning at the southern extremity of Cape Puget, Alaska, on the east coast of Kenai Peninsular; thence in a general northerly direction, following the coast line, to the western extremity of Portage Bay; thence northwesterly to the divide between Turnagain Arm and Portage Bay; thence in a general northerly direction along the divide between Knik Arm and Port Welles and in a general easterly direction along the main divide of the Chugach Mountains, continuing thence to a point on left bank of Copper River opposite the northern extremity of Cottonwood Island; thence southerly, down left bank of said Copper River, to its southern extremity; thence in a southwesterly direction to the southern extremity of Cape Cleare; thence in a northwesterly direction to the southern extremity of Cape Puget, the place of beginning, and embracing all islands within said described line;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation the several areas contained within boundaries formed by circles described with a radius of a mile, each, from the centers of the following named towns and settlements, to wit: Eyak, Orca, Tahtetlahk, Ellamar, Valdez, Fort Liscum, Einiklik, Chenaga, Nutchek and Latouche:", "2150 Provided, that this proclamation shall not be so construed as to deprive any person of any valid right possessed under the Treaty for the cession of the Russian possessions in North America to the United States, concluded at Washington on the thirtieth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, or acquired under any act of Congress relating to the Territory of Alaska;", "And further excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby established which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 23d day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2149", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Chugach National Forest, Alaska.", "Preamble.", "Post, pp. 2153, 2231.", "National forest Alaska.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Description.", "Lands excepted.", "Proviso.", "Valid rights not affected.", "Vol. 15, p. 539.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Chugach National Forest in Alaska, covering public land from Cape Puget along the Chugach Mountains to the Copper River and Cape Cleare, with islands, excepting circles around towns such as Valdez and Orca.", "categories": ["forests", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Chugach National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-07-23", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The San Francisco Call ran a special dispatch on the new Alaska forest, giving nearly five million acres and some two billion board feet of timber, and reported that lumbermen at Valdez expected good trade.", "source": "San Francisco Call, August 1, 1907", "date": "1907-08-01", "story": 67}], "uncertain": ["Who asked for the Chugach forest is not known; the Forest Service case files in National Archives Record Group 95 would settle it.", "How Alaska's own newspapers received the Chugach forest has not been checked."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-773", "relation": "reduced_by", "note": null, "story": 67, "inferred": true, "date": "1907-09-18", "title": "Diminishing Chugach National Forest, Alaska", "type": "proclamation", "number": "773"}]}
{"id": "eo-668", "type": "executive_order", "number": "668", "tr_sequence": 629, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-07-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Margaret F. Sterne as Clerk in Treasury Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_668", "revid": 1876741, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 126"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Miss Margaret F. Sterne may be appointed clerk in the Treasury Department without compliance with the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 126)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, July 25, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Margaret F. Sterne to be appointed a Treasury Department clerk without meeting civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Margaret F. Sterne"], "significance": 1, "stories": [93, 94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-07-25", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-669", "type": "executive_order", "number": "669", "tr_sequence": 630, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-07-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Alice V. Fought as Clerk in Treasury Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_669", "revid": 1876744, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 126"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Miss Alice V. Fought may be appointed a clerk in the Treasury Department without compliance with civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 126)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, July 25, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Alice V. Fought to be appointed a Treasury Department clerk without meeting civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Alice V. Fought"], "significance": 1, "stories": [93, 94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-07-25", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-669-half", "type": "executive_order", "number": "669½", "tr_sequence": 631, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-07-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Prescribing General Regulations Governing the Dominican Customs Receivership", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_669%C2%BD", "revid": 12438076, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, the Convention concluded on the 8th of February, 1907, between the United States of America and the Dominican Republic has been duly signed and ratified by the governments of said countries, the following regulations are hereby promulgated for the government of the customs receivership established thereunder:", "In accordance with the provisions of Article 4 of the Convention, the accounts of the General Receiver shall be rendered to the Contaduria General of the Dominican Republic, and to the State Department of the United States, and referred for examination and verification to the Bureau of Insular Affairs, which shall have immediate supervision and control of the receivership, pursuant and subject to such directions in regard thereto as shall be received from the President directly or through the Secretary of State.", "The President of the United States will appoint and fix the salaries of the General Receiver of Dominican Customs, of the Deputy General Receiver of Dominican Customs, as well as of all other customs employees under the receivership. In cases of emergency, provisional appointments and removals for cause may be made in the discretion of the General Receiver, subject to the approval of the President of the United States.", "The accountable bonds to be required by the receivership, except as herein otherwise provided, shall be fixed by the General Receiver, subject to the approval of the Chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs.", "Under the Bureau of Insular Affairs, the General Receiver shall have full charge and control of the Dominican customs receivership within the scope of the Convention of February 8, 1907, between the United States of America and Dominican Republic, and shall enforce and comply with the provisions thereof. He shall give bond in such form and amount as may be determined by the Chief of said Bureau.", "The Deputy General Receiver shall assist the General Receiver in the performance of his duties and in matters pertaining to the receivership, in such manner as the General Receiver shall direct, and in the absence or disability of the latter, the Deputy General Receiver, shall perform the duties of the General Receiver, and assume, without formal transfer, the corresponding accountability. The Deputy General Receiver shall give bond under the same conditions as the General Receiver.", "The General Receiver shall pay all necessary and authorized expenses of the receivership as they arise, within the limitations of the Convention. The allowance not exceeding five per cent \"for the expense of collecting the revenues,\" under Article I of the Convention, shall be considered as available only for the payment of the customs expense of the central office of the receivership, its special customs agents and the several customs houses of the Republic as authorized by the said General Receiver or other proper authority of the United States Government.", "All of the expenditures and disbursements of funds handled by the Receivership shall be covered by complete vouchers in duplicate; one copy of each such voucher shall be retained as a part of the permanent files of the central office of the receivership, and the other transmitted to the Dominican Government, together with the corresponding accountable returns.", "All books, records and accounts of the receivership shall be kept available and accessible for examination, inspection and audit at any time, by officers designated for that purpose, in accordance with the Convention, by either the Dominican or the United States Government. Such books, records and accounts shall constitute permanent archives of the central office of the receivership, and shall not be removed therefrom.", "The General Receiver, or in his absence, the Deputy General Receiver, shall submit the following reports to the Bureau of Insular Affairs, and to the Dominican Government: On the first of each month, or as soon thereafter as practicable, the Accountable Returns covering all transactions of the receivership during the preceding month. On the first of each month, or as soon thereafter as practicable, a consolidated report of the receipts and expenditures of the Dominican customs service during the preceding month, accompanied by the corresponding statement for each entry port of the Republic separately. For the six months ending June 30th and December 31st of each year, and as soon as practicable after those dates, statistical reports of the commerce of the Republic. At the end of each fiscal year of the receivership, starting from the date upon which the operations of the receivership begin under the Convention, and as soon thereafter as practicable, a general report of all transactions of the receivership during each such year, together with such collateral data and remarks as may be deemed pertinent thereto.", "The General Receiver shall prepare and promulgate from time to time such additional regulations as he may deem necessary for the proper conduct of the service under his direction. Copies of all such regulations and formal orders Issued, shall be transmitted, as soon as practicable after their issuance to the Bureau of Insular Affairs, and shall be subject to the approval of the Chief of that Bureau.", "When deemed necessary, and at least once in each fiscal year, a personal Inspection and examination of all accounts and records of the Receivership shall be made In Santo Domingo by a representative of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, who shall file with said Bureau a full report of his findings for such action as may be required.", "From and after August 1, 1907, upon which date these regulations shall become effective, and until such time as the provisions of the Convention, through the completion of the corresponding financial arrangement, become fully operative, the General Receiver shall, in his own name as such General Receiver, in a new account, continue to make the same disposition of the funds received by him as heretofore."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House July 25, 1907. == Notes == Superseded by: Executive Order 4353, December 5, 1925", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Issued rules for the Dominican customs receivership under the 1907 convention, placing it under the Bureau of Insular Affairs and having the President appoint and pay the General Receiver and staff.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs"], "action": "regulate", "places": [{"name": "Dominican Republic", "kind": "country"}], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [93, 94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-07-25", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "Critics north and south saw the Roosevelt Corollary as an assertion of hemispheric police power, but the enabling order itself passed without notice.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1907", "story": 94}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The regulations put the Dominican customs receivership under the Bureau of Insular Affairs and took effect August 1, 1907.", "source": "FRUS 1907; Wikisource", "date": "1907-08-01", "story": 94}, {"kind": "diplomatic", "text": "Signed the day the 1907 convention was proclaimed, the order was the domestic housekeeping that put it into operation, after the Senate had let the 1905 treaty die and Roosevelt had run the receivership by a modus vivendi.", "source": "Malloy, Treaties, vol. 1, p. 418", "date": "1907-07-25", "story": 94}], "legacy": [{"text": "The receivership remains a textbook example of the Roosevelt Corollary in operation, debated as a milestone of both hemispheric stability and U.S. intervention.", "source": "research entry", "story": 94}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1925", "text": "Executive Order 4353 superseded the 1907 receivership regulations.", "source": "Wikisource; FRUS 1907", "story": 94}, {"date": "1941-03-31", "text": "The receivership was abolished under the Trujillo–Hull Convention of September 24, 1940.", "source": "NARA, Record Group 139", "story": 94}, {"date": "1947-10-01", "text": "The 1940 convention terminated automatically after Trujillo proclaimed its end on July 18 and the bondholders were paid toward full redemption; an exchange of notes of August 9, 1951 recognized the termination.", "source": "FRUS 1947, vol. VIII, ch. 42; TIAS 2365", "story": 94}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-670", "type": "executive_order", "number": "670", "tr_sequence": 632, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-07-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of William S. Harris as Examiner in New York Office of Treasury Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_670", "revid": 1876747, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 126"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. William S. Harris may be reinstated as an examiner in the office of the appraiser of merchandise at New York, notwithstanding he has been separated therefrom for more than one year."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 126)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, July 26, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed William S. Harris to be reinstated as an examiner in the New York appraiser of merchandise's office, despite more than a year's separation.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "restore", "places": [{"name": "New York", "kind": "town", "state": "New York"}], "states": ["New York"], "people": ["William S. Harris"], "significance": 1, "stories": [93, 94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-07-26", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-671", "type": "executive_order", "number": "671", "tr_sequence": 633, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-07-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Harry T. Paterson as Junior Civil Engineer in Engineer Department at Large Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_671", "revid": 1876756, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 127"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Harry T. Paterson, who was appointed through competitive examination and served for several years in the Reclamation Service, may be appointed as a junior civil engineer in the Engineer Department at large without reference to the limitations respecting reinstatement and transfer."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 127)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, July 29, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Harry T. Paterson, a former Reclamation Service employee, be appointed junior civil engineer in the Engineer Department at large without the usual reinstatement and transfer limits.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Harry T. Paterson"], "significance": 1, "stories": [93, 94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-07-29", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-672", "type": "executive_order", "number": "672", "tr_sequence": 634, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-08-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Executive Order of September 21, 1905, to Correct the Boundaries of Reservation at Old Woman, Alaska", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_672", "revid": 5041594, "printed_source": "General Orders No. 175, War Dept., August 23, 1907"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The Executive Order of September 21, 1905 (G.O., No. 161, War Department, September 30, 1905), by which there were reserved for the use of the Signal Corps, U.S. Army, in the matter of the operation of military cable and telegraph lines in Alaska, certain public lands at Safety Harbor and Old Woman, Alaska, is hereby modified, so far as it relates to the reservation at Old Woman, so that said reservation, erroneously described in said order, shall comprise all public lands, and those only, included within metes and bounds as follows:", "Beginning at a spruce stump 4 feet high located on the northeast bank of a slough of the Old Woman River, marked \"I. S. U. S. M. R.\"; thence true east 790 feet to a stake 4 feet high; thence true north 1,000 feet to a stake 4 feet high; thence true west 1,060 feet to a stake 4 feet high, the northwest corner of the original reservation; thence continuing true west 400 feet, more or less, to a stake; thence true south 560 feet, more or less, to a stake; thence true east 400 feet, more or less, to a stake; thence true south 440 feet, more or less, to a stake 4 feet high, the southwest corner of the original reservation; thence true east 270 feet to point of beginning: containing 29.48 acres, more or less. The bearings are true; magnetic variation (1907) 19° 30′ east."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders No. 175, War Dept., August 23, 1907)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, August 1, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Corrected the boundaries of the Signal Corps reservation at Old Woman, Alaska, which had been described in error in a 1905 order.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Old Woman", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [93, 94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-08-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-673", "type": "executive_order", "number": "673", "tr_sequence": 635, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-08-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Revoking Executive Order of June 11, 1907, Regarding Transfer of George S. Fox to United States", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_673", "revid": 3464528, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 127"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The Executive Order of June 11, 1907, providing for the transfer of Mr. George S. Fox from the Isthmian Canal Service to the Federal classified service, is hereby revoked."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 127)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, August 3, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Revoked the June 11, 1907, order that had allowed George S. Fox to transfer from the Isthmian Canal service to the federal classified service.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "revoke", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["George S. Fox"], "significance": 1, "stories": [93, 94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-08-03", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-674", "type": "executive_order", "number": "674", "tr_sequence": 636, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-08-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Extending Time Limit for Completion of Work of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission to March 2, 1908", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Gave the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission until March 2, 1908, to finish its work.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs", "government-administration"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [93, 94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-08-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-675", "type": "executive_order", "number": "675", "tr_sequence": 637, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-08-08", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Tern Islands Reservation near Mississippi River Delta in Louisiana as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Birds", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_675", "revid": 12442297, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that all small islets, commonly called mud lumps, in or near the mouths of the Mississippi river, Louisiana, located within the area segregated and shown upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this order, are hereby reserved and set aside for the use of the Department of Agriculture, as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds. This reservation to be known as Tern Islands Reservation."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, August 8, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Set aside the mud-lump islets at the mouths of the Mississippi River in Louisiana as Tern Islands Reservation, a preserve and breeding ground for native birds.", "categories": ["wildlife"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Tern Islands Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Louisiana"}], "states": ["Louisiana"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [93, 94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-08-08", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The islets were reserved for the Department of Agriculture, whose Bureau of Biological Survey administered the growing chain of bird reservations.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1907-08-08", "story": 94}], "legacy": [{"text": "Tern Islands became a National Wildlife Refuge, but its shifting \"mud lumps\" were among the least permanent real estate in America, and the reservation was revoked in 1953.", "source": "Public Land Order 892, 18 Fed. Reg. 2342", "date": "1953-04-15", "story": 94}], "today": [{"name": "Tern Islands National Wildlife Refuge", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "abolished", "state": "Louisiana", "note": "Revoked by Public Land Order 892 in 1953.", "source": "Public Land Order 892, 18 Fed. Reg. 2342 (April 22, 1953)", "story": 94}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1953-04-15", "text": "Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay revoked the 1907 order outright by Public Land Order 892, under authority delegated by Executive Order 10355.", "source": "18 Fed. Reg. 2342 (April 22, 1953)", "story": 94}]}, "related": [{"id": "uo-054", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Pelican Island, the first bird reservation, which used the same device.", "story": 94, "date": "1903-03-13", "title": "Pelican Island Reservation, Fla., established as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}, {"id": "eo-682", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The Shell Keys bird reservation, created nine days later.", "story": 94, "date": "1907-08-17", "title": "Establishing Shell Keys Reservation as Reserve and Breeding Ground for Birds", "type": "executive_order", "number": "682"}]}
{"id": "eo-676", "type": "executive_order", "number": "676", "tr_sequence": 638, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-08-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Frank Huntington in Department of Agriculture Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_676", "revid": 1876782, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 127"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Frank Huntington may be appointed to a suitable position in the Department of Agriculture, in order that his long editorial experience in the handling of technical or scientific articles may be utilized."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 127)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, August 9, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Frank Huntington to be appointed to an Agriculture Department position, using his long experience editing technical and scientific articles, without regard to civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Frank Huntington"], "significance": 1, "stories": [93, 94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-08-09", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-677", "type": "executive_order", "number": "677", "tr_sequence": 639, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-08-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Excusing Federal Employees from Work on Labor Day", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_677", "revid": 3869043, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that all per diem employees and other day laborers in the Federal public service, wherever employed, whose employment extends through and beyond the first Monday in September, commonly known as Labor Day and set apart as a national holiday for certain branches of the public service by the act of June 28, A. D. 1894, be excused from work on said day, and the said day is declared to be a holiday for all purposes for said per diem employees and laborers."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, August 10, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Excused federal per diem employees and day laborers from work on Labor Day, making it a holiday for them for all purposes.", "categories": ["labor-business", "government-administration"], "action": "grant", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [93, 94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-08-10", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Per diem employees and day laborers in the federal service, wherever employed, got Labor Day off, as salaried and classified employees already did.", "source": "Executive Order 677; Act of June 28, 1894", "date": "1907-08-10", "story": 94}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-771", "type": "proclamation", "number": "771", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-08-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Opening of Lower Brule Indian Reservation Lands", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 771, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-771"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2150, "last_page": 2152, "cite": "35 Stat. 2150–2152", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2150.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-08-12", "table_title": "Opening to entry ceded lands, Lower Brule Indian Reservation, South Dakota."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.", "A PROCLAMATION.", "Whereas the Act of Congress, approved April 21, 1906 (34 Stat., 124), provided that all of the west half of Townships one hundred and six, one hundred and seven, one hundred and eight, one hundred and nine and one hundred and ten north, Range seventy-seven west of the fifth principal meridian, and Fractional Townships one hundred and six, one hundred and seven, one hundred and eight, one hundred and nine and one hundred and ten north, Range seventy-eight West of the fifth principal meridian, and Fractional Township one hundred and ten north, Range seventy-nine west fifth principal meridian except sections sixteen and thirty-six in each of said townships, and such parts of said lands as are held under allotments to Indians,", "shall be disposed of under the general provisions of the homestead laws of the United States, and shall be opened to settlement and entry at not less than their appraised value by proclamation of the President, which proclamation shall prescribe the manner in which these lands shall be settled upon, occupied and entered by persons entitled to make entry thereof, and no person shall be permitted to settle upon, occupy, or enter any of said lands, except as prescribed in such proclamation until after the expiration of sixty days from the time when the same are opened to settlement and entry.", "And whereas all of the lands subject to settlement, entry and sale under said act have been duly appraised as appears from a schedule thereof hereto attached,", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power and authority in me vested by said Act of Congress, do hereby prescribe and proclaim that all of said lands subject to sale and disposal under said act will be opened to settlement, entry and disposition under the general provisions of the homestead laws, and of the said Act of April 21, 1906, in the manner hereinafter prescribed and not otherwise.", "Any qualified person desiring to make entry of any of these lands shall execute in person within the limits of the Pierre, South Dakota, land district an affidavit showing his qualifications to enter and means of identifying him (forms of such affidavits to be furnish [sic] by the officers of the land department). The affidavit must be presented in a sealed envelope, in person or by ordinary and not registered mail, at the district land office located at Pierre, South Dakota, during office hours between 9 o'clock A. M. on October 7, 1907, and 4:30 o'clock P. M. on October 12, 1907. Thereafter at 9 A. M. on October 14, 1907, there shall be taken or drawn impartially from the envelopes so filed, such number as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of the Proclamation, and the order of drawing such envelopes shall determine the order in which applicants shall be permitted to make entry of these lands between October 20th, 1907, and December 20th, 1907.", "Those successful as a result of the drawing must present formal application to enter within the time fixed and assigned for making such application; show present qualifications; make the required payments under the act of April 21, 1906, and otherwise comply with the law.", "Any person filing more than one affidavit, or in other than his true name, shall be denied any privilege he might otherwise have secured under this drawing, except that any honorably discharged soldier or sailor entitled to the benefits of section 2304 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the act of March 1, 1901 (31 Stat., 847), may be represented by an agent of his own selection for the purpose of executing the affidavit herein required, due authority therefor being shown, but no person will be permitted to act as agent for more than one such soldier or sailor.", "Envelopes showing on the outside distinctive marks of any character shall be eliminated from the drawing.", "The plan herein provided for governing the manner of opening these lands shall have operation and control the order in which all entries of the lands are allowed until December 20, 1907, upon which date any portion of the lands then remaining undisposed of will be subject to settlement, occupation, and entry under the provisions of the homestead law and the act of April 21, 1906, in like manner as if no special preliminary plan had been provided for.", "All persons are especially admonished from attempting to settle upon, occupy, or improve any of these lands prior to December 20, 1907, except those making entry in accordance with the terms of this Proclamation.", "The Secretary of the Interior shall make and publish such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper to carry into full force and effect the manner of settlement, occupation, and entry as herein provided for.", "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 12th day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second.", "[SEAL.]", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President: ALVEY A. ADEE Acting Secretary of State."], "source": "35 Stat. 2150–2152 (page images, Internet Archive us_stat_35), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Seal restored; heading, punctuation and capitals as printed (APP normalizes them). \"furnish [sic]\" is so printed in the Statutes (APP reads \"furnished\"). The indented paragraph beginning \"shall be disposed of\" is the Statutes' block quotation of the Act of April 21, 1906. Countersigned by Alvey A. Adee, Acting Secretary of State.", "story": 68}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Opened ceded Lower Brule Indian Reservation lands in South Dakota to homestead settlement at appraised value, with applicants filing affidavits in the Pierre land district for a drawing.", "categories": ["indian-lands", "public-lands"], "action": "open", "places": [{"name": "Lower Brule Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "South Dakota"}], "states": ["South Dakota"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [68], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-08-12", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "Only a handful of people turned up when registration opened at Pierre, since the order of registering had no bearing on the drawing; about 500 registered the first day.", "source": "Los Angeles Herald, October 12, 1907", "date": "1907-10", "story": 68}, {"text": "With a day of registration left the total stood at 3,460, and local notaries were angry at outside notaries taking affidavits on the trains.", "source": "Los Angeles Herald, October 18, 1907", "date": "1907-10", "story": 68}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The General Land Office judged the registration-and-drawing plan entirely satisfactory and reported that practically all the lands were entered by people who registered.", "source": "General Land Office, Annual Report for 1908, p. 29", "date": "1908", "story": 68}], "legacy": [{"text": "Part of the 1906 cession was still unsold in 1913. No court ruling on the present legal status of the cession has been found.", "source": "Proc. 1252 (1913)", "date": "1913", "story": 68}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1913-09-24", "text": "Woodrow Wilson's Proclamation 1252 offered the unsold lands at public auction at Pierre, for cash, at no less than a dollar an acre.", "source": "Proclamation 1252", "story": 68}], "uncertain": ["The congressional record read shows no separate assent by the Lower Brule to the House's substitute text of the 1906 act; the agreement's own text, presumably in S. Rep. 253, was not read.", "The present legal status of the 1906 Lower Brule cession has not been settled by any ruling found."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-678", "type": "executive_order", "number": "678", "tr_sequence": 640, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-08-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Portion of Lower Brule Indian Reservation, S. Dak., Transferred from Chamberlain Land District to Pierre Land District", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Moved part of the Lower Brule Indian Reservation in South Dakota from the Chamberlain land district to the Pierre land district.", "categories": ["public-lands", "indian-lands"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Lower Brule Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "South Dakota"}, {"name": "Chamberlain Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "South Dakota"}, {"name": "Pierre Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "South Dakota"}], "states": ["South Dakota"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [93, 94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-08-12", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-679", "type": "executive_order", "number": "679", "tr_sequence": 641, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-08-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Classification of A. J. Robinson as Train-Master in Quartermaster's Department At Large", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_679", "revid": 1876776, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 127"}}, "text": null, "summary": "Authorized the classification of A. J. Robinson as train-master in the Army Quartermaster's Department at large.", "categories": ["civil-service", "military-naval"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["A. J. Robinson"], "significance": 1, "stories": [93, 94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-08-12", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "uo-120", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 114, "inferred": true, "date": "1907-08-12", "title": "Civil Service General Rule II and Rule X amended to permit transfer of a meritorious overseas non-classified employee into a competitive classified position, with CSC approval.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "eo-680", "type": "executive_order", "number": "680", "tr_sequence": 642, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-08-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Chemist in Bureau of Standards Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_680", "revid": 1876796, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 128"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The vacancy in the position of chemist at $4,000 per annum in the Bureau of Standards, created by the resignation of Dr. William A. Noyes, may be filled without examination and certification under the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 128)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, August 12, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed the Bureau of Standards chemist post left open by Dr. William A. Noyes's resignation to be filled without civil-service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 1, "stories": [93, 94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-08-12", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-680-half", "type": "executive_order", "number": "680½", "tr_sequence": 643, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-08-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Fixing Salary of Isthmian Canal Commissioners W. C. Gorgas and Jackson Smith", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_680%C2%BD", "revid": 3464545, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Under authority vested in me by law it is ordered :", "Effective August 12, 1907, the salaries of Lieut.-Col. W. C. Gorgas and Jackson Smith, Isthmian Canal Commissioners, are fixed at $14,000 per annum."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, August 12, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Set the salaries of Isthmian Canal Commissioners Lt. Col. W. C. Gorgas and Jackson Smith at $14,000 a year, effective August 12, 1907.", "categories": ["canal-zone"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["W. C. Gorgas", "Jackson Smith"], "significance": 1, "stories": [93, 94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-08-12", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-120", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 120, "date": "1907-08-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Civil Service General Rule II and Rule X amended to permit transfer of a meritorious overseas non-classified employee into a competitive classified position, with CSC approval.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 120, "page": "203", "citations": "1907 CSR 127; (1908 CSA 38, 59)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Civil Service General Rule II and Rule X amended to permit transfer of a meritorious overseas non-classified employee into a competitive classified position, with CSC approval.", "reconciliation": "numbered_duplicate", "duplicate_of": "eo-679", "reconciliation_note": "**Confirmed 2026-10-12 = part of EO 679.** The Civil Service Commission's *Twenty-fourth Report* (1907), p. 127, prints the single Aug. 12, 1907 order: the A. J. Robinson classification followed by the general clause for similar overseas cases that Lord lists separately. See entry #114.", "title_notes": ["The order allowed such employees to be classified, not transferred (Civil Service Commission, Twenty-fourth Report, p. 127)."], "summary": null, "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": null, "stories": [114], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-08-12", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-679", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The same order of August 12, 1907; Lord's unnumbered entry paraphrases its second paragraph.", "story": 114, "date": "1907-08-12", "title": "Authorizing Classification of A. J. Robinson as Train-Master in Quartermaster's Department At Large", "type": "executive_order", "number": "679"}]}
{"id": "eo-681", "type": "executive_order", "number": "681", "tr_sequence": 644, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-08-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of W. Dawson Johnston as Compiler of Statistics in Bureau of Education Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_681", "revid": 1876808, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 128"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. W. Dawson Johnston, of Vermont, who has been employed in the Library of Congress for several years, may be transferred to the position of collector and compiler of statistics, for duty also as librarian, in the Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, without reference to the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 128)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, August 14, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let W. Dawson Johnston, a Library of Congress employee, transfer to the Bureau of Education as collector and compiler of statistics and librarian, without regard to civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "transfer", "places": [], "states": ["Vermont"], "people": ["W. Dawson Johnston"], "significance": 1, "stories": [93, 94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-08-14", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-664", "type": "executive_order", "number": "664", "tr_sequence": 625, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-08-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reorganizing Accounting and Disbursing Offices and Procedures for the Isthmian Canal Commission", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_664", "revid": 1904052, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Under authority vested in me by law it is ordered:", "That on and after August 15, 1907, the positions of General Auditor and Local Auditor be abolished.", "That there be appointed for the Commission upon the Isthmus an Examiner of Accounts, and in Washington, D. C., an Assistant Examiner of Accounts.", "The duties of the Examiner of Accounts on the Isthmus shall be:", "(a) To inspect and examine all vouchers prepared and paid by the Disbursing Officer on the Isthmus.", "(b) To inspect from time to time the accounts of all officials of the Commission on the Isthmus charged with the care of funds or property of the Commission, and to annually verify property accounts by an inventory of all property.", "(c) To semiannually, or oftener if public interests seem to require, count the cash in the hands of disbursing officers and other officials on the Isthmus intrusted with the custody of funds of the Commission or of the Canal Zone Government.", "(d) To check up from time to time, as the interests of the Commission seem to require, through inspectors to be appointed by him, the returns of laborers and employees working by the day or upon an hourly basis in any of the several departments or divisions of the Commission. Inspectors now charged with similar duties under the disbursing officer shall be transferred to the jurisdiction of the Examiner of Accounts.", "(e) To check from the appointment records the pay rolls of employees engaged upon a monthly or yearly basis.", "(f) To examine periodically the general books of the Commission kept by the Disbursing Officer.", "(g) To keep a record of claims payable to and of accounts and bills receivable by the Commission, and to check against the same collections made by the Disbursing Officers. It shall also be his duty to direct the attention of the Disbursing Officer from time to time to unsettled claims, accounts, or bills receivable by the Commission, and to urge their collection. Statements of all claims due the Commission or bills and accounts receivable shall be promptly transmitted by the department whence they originate to the Examiner of Accounts, in order that he may have an independent record of the claims, accounts, and bills receivable with the collection of which the Disbursing Officer is charged. The original evidence or documents supporting such claims, accounts, or bills receivable shall be transmitted to the Disbursing Officer for collection.", "(h) All vouchers for accounts payable or receivable shall be examined and checked by him as soon after payment as practicable. He shall also, at a later period and as promptly as possible after transmission to him of the Disbursing Officer's account current, certify thereon his administrative examination of and transmit the same, together with accompanying vouchers, to the Auditor for the War Department, for final audit. He shall not, however, keep duplicate sets of vouchers or of the documentary or other evidence from which the vouchers are prepared, but may keep a voucher register.", "(i) If he dissents from any voucher paid by the Disbursing Officer, he shall note his exceptions and submit the same to the Disbursing Officer for correction, before the latter's account current is made up. If an agreement shall not be arrived at between the Examiner of Accounts and the Disbursing Officer, a statement of the unadjusted differences shall be transmitted by the Examiner to the Auditor for the War Department with the Disbursing Officer's account current.", "(j) He shall also audit the accounts of the Canal Zone Government.", "(k) He shall be appointed by and report to the Chairman of the Isthmian Canal Commission, and it shall be his duty to call the attention of the Chairman to any irregularities in the accounts or books of any officer or employee of the Commission.", "The duties of the Disbursing Officer on the Isthmus, in addition to the payment and disbursements of the funds of the Commission upon properly prepared vouchers, shall be:", "(a) To assemble the original documents, papers, and other evidence from which the vouchers are prepared.", "(b) To collect all claims due the Commission or accounts and bills receivable.", "(c) To keep property accounts with the various officers upon the Isthmus charged with the custody or use of property.", "(d) To keep the general books of the Commission, which shall properly classify all the expenditures made by the Commission, and apportion expenditures and the cost of labor and supplies among the several departments in the proportion in which they are used by the several departments.", "(e) To furnish at all times access to his books, original papers, and documents, to the Examiner of Accounts and his representatives.", "(f) To distribute expenditures made by the Commission under the proper appropriation heads.", "(g) His books shall show the amount expended by each of the several departments during each calendar month, and from the beginning of the work, and exhibit comparative statements of expenditures for the same calendar month of the previous year.", "(h) His books shall likewise contain an exhibit of the work done by each department of the Commission, and by the Commission as a whole, and shall show the comparative cost of doing similar work between corresponding annual dates and between the several departments.", "(i) In the total cost of the work, as performed by the several departments, and by the Commission as a whole, account shall be taken of the general expenditures of the Commission, whether on the Isthmus or in the United States.", "(j) He shall transmit weekly abstracts of the general books to the Disbursing Officer a Washington t, in order that duplicates of the same may be kept in the United States.", "(k) Requisitions for public funds shall be submitted to the Examiner of accounts for notation.", "The Assistant Examiner of Accounts, so far as the requirements of the work in the United States demand or permit, shall perform for the Commission in the United States similar duties to those performed by the Examiner of Accounts on the Isthmus, and shall likewise inspect the accounts of Special Disbursing Officers not employed on the Isthmus, which shall be forwarded to him at Washington for that purpose before transmission to the Auditor for the War Department. Abstracts of approved expenditures by the Special Disbursing Officers shall be periodically transmitted by him to the Disbursing Officer upon the Isthmus for entry in the general books.", "The Disbursing Officer in the United States, so far as the requirements of the work in the United States demand or permit, shall perform duties corresponding to those of the Disbursing Officer on the Isthmus, except that the general books kept by him shall only be duplicates of the general books kept by the Disbursing Officer on the Isthmus. He shall weekly transmit to the Disbursing Officer on the Isthmus abstracts of all payments, disbursements, and collections made by him and statements of approved vouchers outstanding.", "The original documents from which the vouchers are prepared shall be transmitted to the Auditor of the Treasury for the War Department by the several Disbursing Officers, with their accounts current, through the Examining Officers. Duplicates of such documents, however, shall be retained in the office of the several Disbursing Officers as part of the records of the Commission."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, August 15, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reorganized the Isthmian Canal Commission's accounts, abolishing the General and Local Auditor posts and creating an Examiner of Accounts on the Isthmus and an Assistant Examiner in Washington.", "categories": ["canal-zone", "government-administration"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [93, 94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-08-15", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "eo-663", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 93, "inferred": true, "date": "1907-07-01", "title": "Transferring Purchase of Isthmian Canal Commission Supplies to Supervision of Chief of Engineers", "type": "executive_order", "number": "663"}]}
{"id": "eo-665", "type": "executive_order", "number": "665", "tr_sequence": 626, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-08-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reorganizing Washington Office of Isthmian Canal Commission", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_665", "revid": 3464549, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Under authority vested in me by law, it is ordered :", "Offices for the convenient execution of its business within the United States shall be maintained by the Isthmian Canal Commission in Washington.", "The following officers and employees of the Commission and their necessary force of assistants shall be provided with quarters therein: the General Counsel, General Purchasing Officer, Disbursing Officer in the United States, Assistant Examiner of Accounts, Appointment Clerk, Chief of Record Division, and Chief Draftsman.", "The General Purchasing Officer shall provide the necessary offices and their appointments, and shall have general charge and custody of the same and of the discipline of the clerical force. Appointments in the United States of Commission employees shall be made by him, subject to the rules of the civil service law and of the Commission. He shall have charge of the records and archives of the offices, and of the distribution of correspondence."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, August 15, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Set up the Isthmian Canal Commission's Washington office, listing which officers work there and putting the General Purchasing Officer in charge of the offices.", "categories": ["canal-zone", "government-administration"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [93, 94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-08-15", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "eo-663", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 93, "inferred": true, "date": "1907-07-01", "title": "Transferring Purchase of Isthmian Canal Commission Supplies to Supervision of Chief of Engineers", "type": "executive_order", "number": "663"}]}
{"id": "eo-682", "type": "executive_order", "number": "682", "tr_sequence": 645, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-08-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Shell Keys Reservation as Reserve and Breeding Ground for Birds", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_682", "revid": 12438644, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that the Executive Order of July 9, 1855, creating the Light House Reservation, which embraces a small group of unsurveyed islets located in the Gulf of Mexico about three and one-half miles south of Marsh Island, Louisiana, and approximately in latitude 29° 26′ north, longitude 91° 51′ west from Greenwich, as appears upon United States Coast Survey Chart No. 200, be, and the same is hereby vacated and set aside; and it is also ordered that these islets, located within the area segregated and shown upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this Order, be, and they are hereby reserved and set apart for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a reserve and breeding ground for native birds. This reservation to be known as Shell Keys Reservation."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, August 17, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Vacated an 1855 lighthouse reservation on a cluster of small islets in the Gulf of Mexico south of Marsh Island, Louisiana, and set them aside as Shell Keys Reservation, a reserve and breeding ground for native birds.", "categories": ["wildlife"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Shell Keys Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Louisiana"}], "states": ["Louisiana"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-08-17", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The islets were reserved for the Department of Agriculture, whose Bureau of Biological Survey administered the growing chain of bird reservations.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1907-08-17", "story": 94}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The order first vacated the lighthouse reservation covering the islets, then reserved them anew for birds.", "source": "Executive Order 682", "date": "1907-08-17", "story": 94}], "legacy": [{"text": "Shell Keys endures as an eight-acre refuge of shell islets south of Marsh Island, one of the oldest units of the National Wildlife Refuge System.", "source": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service", "story": 94}], "today": [{"name": "Shell Keys National Wildlife Refuge", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "origin", "state": "Louisiana", "since": "1907-08-17", "note": "Eight acres in Iberia Parish, reached by boat, administered from the Southwest Louisiana refuge complex.", "source": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service", "story": 94}], "uncertain": ["No independent record has been found of the July 9, 1855 lighthouse reservation that the order recites and vacates."]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-675", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The Tern Islands bird reservation of August 8, 1907.", "story": 94, "date": "1907-08-08", "title": "Establishing Tern Islands Reservation near Mississippi River Delta in Louisiana as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Birds", "type": "executive_order", "number": "675"}]}
{"id": "eo-683", "type": "executive_order", "number": "683", "tr_sequence": 646, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-08-19", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Revokes Executive Order 666, Which Enlarged Malate Barracks Reservation, Manila", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Revoked Executive Order 666, which had enlarged the Malate Barracks reservation in Manila.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "revoke", "places": [{"name": "Malate Barracks Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-08-19", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-684", "type": "executive_order", "number": "684", "tr_sequence": 647, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-08-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Executive Order of February 24, 1906, Classifying Certain Laborers, to Allow Increases in Pay", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_684", "revid": 1871223, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 109"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["That part of the Executive order of February 24, 1906, which provides that no laborer classified thereunder shall receive increase of pay or be promoted or transferred without examination by the Commission is hereby amended to read as follows:", "No laborer thus classified shall be promoted in grade or transferred without examination by the Commission; nor shall any laborer be increased in pay beyond the usual and ordinary pay of the position and duties such laborer customarily fills and discharges."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 109)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, August 28, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Loosened a 1906 order on classified laborers so they could get pay raises, while still requiring a Civil Service Commission exam for promotion or transfer and capping pay at the usual rate for the job.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-08-28", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-685", "type": "executive_order", "number": "685", "tr_sequence": 648, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-08-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Additional Lands for Fort Sill Military Reservation, Oklahoma Territory", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_685", "revid": 1890007, "printed_source": "General Orders No. 189, War Dept., September 11, 1907"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that the public lands, hereinafter described, be withdrawn from sale or other disposition and reserved and set apart for military purposes as a portion of the Fort Sill Military Reservation, Oklahoma Territory, viz:", "Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, the SE. ¼ of the SE. ¼, the W. ½ of the SE. ¼, and the E. ½ of the SW. ¼; section 18, township 2 north, range 11 west, Indian meridian, Oklahoma Territory. Said lands contain, in the aggregate, 372.45 acres."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders No. 189, War Dept., September 11, 1907)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "T. Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, August 29, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Added 372.45 acres of public land in Oklahoma Territory to the Fort Sill Military Reservation, withdrawing it from sale for military purposes.", "categories": ["military-naval", "public-lands"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Fort Sill Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Oklahoma"}], "states": ["Oklahoma"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-08-29", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-686", "type": "executive_order", "number": "686", "tr_sequence": 649, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-09-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Four Employees as Clerks in War Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_686", "revid": 1877388, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 128"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. Etta A. Giers and Mrs. Lyda M. Stansell, widows of deceased clerks in the War Department, Mrs. Ella Laing, an excepted employee of the army transport service, and Miss Emma Washburn, a temporary employee in the Quartermaster-General's Office, may be appointed to clerical positions in the War Department without reference to the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 128)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, September 2, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed four women, including two widows of War Department clerks, to be appointed to War Department clerical jobs without following the civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Etta A. Giers", "Lyda M. Stansell", "Ella Laing", "Emma Washburn"], "significance": 1, "stories": [94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-09-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-687", "type": "executive_order", "number": "687", "tr_sequence": 650, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-09-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Limitations on Transfer", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Amended the civil-service rules governing limits on transferring employees between positions.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-09-07", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-688", "type": "executive_order", "number": "688", "tr_sequence": 651, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-09-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Felix Neumann as Clerk in Smithsonian Institution Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_688", "revid": 1877399, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 128"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Felix Neumann may be appointed as a clerk in the Bureau of International Exchanges, Smithsonian Institution, without examination under the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 128)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, September 9, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Felix Neumann be appointed a clerk in the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of International Exchanges without a civil-service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Felix Neumann"], "significance": 1, "stories": [94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-09-09", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-772", "type": "proclamation", "number": "772", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-09-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart Tongass National Forest, Alaska", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 772, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-772"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2152, "last_page": 2153, "cite": "35 Stat. 2152–2153", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2152.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-09-10", "table_title": "Setting apart Tongass National Forest, Alaska."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the Territory of Alaska, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by utilizing said lands as a National Forest;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from settlement, entry, or sale, and set apart as a public reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land in the Territory of Alaska, shown as the Tongass National Forest on the diagram forming a part hereof:", "Provided, that this proclamation shall not be so construed as to deprive any person of any valid right possessed under the Treaty for the cession of the Russian possessions in North America to the United States, concluded at Washington on the thirtieth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, or acquired under any act of Congress relating to the Territory of Alaska;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force: not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby established which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal: and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves:” Provided, That lands heretofore restored to settlement or entry under the provisions of the foregoing act shall be excepted from the force and effect of this proclamation.", "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 10th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL.] seven, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2152", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Tongass National Forest, Alaska.", "Preamble.", "National forest, Alaska.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Post, p. 2226.", "Proviso.", "Valid rights not affected.", "Vol. 15, p. 539.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233.", "Lands excepted."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt.", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Tongass National Forest in the Territory of Alaska, reserving its timbered public lands from settlement, entry or sale while protecting valid existing rights.", "categories": ["forests", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Tongass National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 5, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-09-10", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The new forest reached California papers as a one-sentence filler: about two million acres of rough country, its islands and mainland well covered with trees.", "source": "Salinas Index Journal, September 30, 1907; Marin Journal, October 3, 1907", "date": "1907-09", "story": 67}], "legacy": [{"text": "In July 1908 the Tongass was merged with the Alexander Archipelago reserve of 1902. The combined Tongass is now the largest national forest in the country, at about 16.7 million acres.", "source": "USFS Alaska Region, Tongass National Forest Assessment Report (2025)", "date": "1908-07", "story": 67}], "today": [{"name": "Tongass National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "origin", "state": "Alaska", "since": "1907-09-10", "note": "Merged with the 1902 Alexander Archipelago reserve in 1908; the largest national forest in the country.", "source": "USFS Alaska Region, Tongass National Forest Assessment Report (2025)", "story": 67}], "uncertain": ["Who asked for the Tongass forest is not known; the Forest Service case files in National Archives Record Group 95 would settle it.", "How Alaska's own newspapers received the Tongass forest has not been checked."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-491", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 33, "inferred": true, "date": "1902-08-20", "title": "Establishment of the Alexander Archipelago Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "491"}, {"id": "eo-908", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Merged with the Alexander Archipelago reserve under the Tongass name in July 1908.", "story": 67, "date": "1908-07-02", "title": "55 Specified National Forests Consolidated and/or Renamed", "type": "executive_order", "number": "908"}]}
{"id": "proc-773", "type": "proclamation", "number": "773", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-09-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Diminishing Chugach National Forest, Alaska", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 773, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-773"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2153, "last_page": 2154, "cite": "35 Stat. 2153–2154", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2153.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-09-18", "table_title": "Diminishing Chugach National Forest, Alaska."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by excluding certain lands from the Chugach National Forest, in the Territory of Alaska, established by proclamation issued July twenty-third, nineteen hundred and seven;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 area of the said National Forest is hereby changed to exclude therefrom a tract of land extending one mile back from the tide line, on both sides of the bay known as Valdez Arm, following the tide line from its intersection with the line of 146° 30’ longitude west from Greenwich, easterly around the head of the Valdez Arm; and that the aforesaid National Forest now contains, with the exception of the lands hereby excluded, all of the tracts of land, in the Territory of Alaska, shown as the Chugach National Forest on the diagram forming a part hereof; and further described as follows: All of the public land lying within a line beginning at the southern extremity of Cape Puget, Alaska, on the east coast of Kenai Peninsular; thence in a general northerly direction, following the coast line, to the western extremity of Portage Bay; thence northwesterly to the divide between Turnagain Arm and Portage Bay; thence in a general northerly direction along the divide between Knik Arm and Port Welles and in a general easterly direction along the main divide of the Chugach Mountains, continuing thence to a point on left bank of Copper River opposite the northern extremity of Cottonwood Island; thence southerly, down left bank of said Copper River, to its southern extremity: thence in a southwesterly direction to the southern extremity of Cape Cleare; thence in a northwesterly direction to the southern extremity of Cape Puget, the place of beginning, and embracing all islands within said described line; excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation the several areas contained within boundaries formed by circles described with a radius of a mile, each, from the centers of the following named towns and settlements, to wit: Eyak, Orca, Tahtetlahk, Ellamar, Valdez, Fort Liscum, Einiklik, Chenaga, Nutchek and Latouche:", "Provided, that this proclamation shall not be construed so as to deprive any person of any valid right possessed under the Treaty for the cession of the Russian possessions in North America to the United States, concluded at Washington on the thirtieth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, or acquired under any act of Congress relating to the Territory of Alaska;", "And further excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the aforesaid National Forest which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "The lands hereby excluded from the aforesaid National Forest which are not embraced in any other withdrawal, reservation, or appropriation, shall be restored to the public domain and become subject to settlement, appropriation, and disposition under the provisions, conditions, and restrictions applicable to such lands on such date and after such notice by publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, and no person will be permitted to gain or exercise any right whatever under any settlement or occupation begun prior to such date and all such settlements and occupations are hereby forbidden.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricutural lands within forest reserves:” Provided, that lands heretofore restored to settlement or entry under the provisions of the foregoing act shall be excepted from the force and effect of this proclamation.", "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 18th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2153", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Chugach National Forest, Alaska.", "Preamble.", "Ante, p. 2149.", "Post, p. 2231.", "Boundaries modified.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Description.", "Proviso.", "Valid rights not affected.", "Vol. 15, p. 539.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Lands restored to public domain.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233.", "Lands excepted."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Cut a strip of land reaching one mile back from the tide line on both sides of Valdez Arm out of the Chugach National Forest in Alaska.", "categories": ["forests", "insular-territories"], "action": "reduce", "places": [{"name": "Chugach National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-09-18", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "proc-770", "relation": "reduces", "note": "Excluded land from the Chugach forest set apart two months earlier.", "story": 67, "date": "1907-07-23", "title": "Setting Apart Chugach National Forest, Alaska", "type": "proclamation", "number": "770"}]}
{"id": "proc-774", "type": "proclamation", "number": "774", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-09-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Extending Copyright Benefits to Citizens of Austria", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 774, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-774"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2155, "last_page": 2155, "cite": "35 Stat. 2155", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2155.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-09-20", "table_title": "Extending copyright benefits to citizens of Austria."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America.", "A PROCLAMATION.", "WHEREAS it is provided by section 13 of the act of Congress of March 3, 1891, entitled \"An Act to amend title sixty, chapter three, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to copyrights,\" that said act \"shall only apply to a citizen or subject of a foreign state or nation when such foreign state or nation permits to citizens of the United States of America the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as its own citizens; or when such foreign state or nation is a party to an international agreement which provides for reciprocity in the granting of copyright, by the terms of which agreement the United States of America may, at its pleasure, become a party to such agreement:\"", "And whereas it is also provided by said section that \"the existence of either of the conditions aforesaid shall be determined by the President of the United States by proclamation made from time to time as the purposes of this act may require:\"", "And whereas satisfactory official assurances have been given that in Austria the law permits to citizens of the United States the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as to the citizens of that country:", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do declare and proclaim that the first of the conditions specified in section 13 of the act of March 3, 1891, is now fulfilled in respect to the subjects of Austria.", "IN TESTIMONY 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 20th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-second.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President: ELIHU ROOT, Secretary of State."], "source": "35 Stat. 2155 (Internet Archive scan of the same volume, leaf 2404), checked against Foreign Relations of the United States, 1907, pt. 1, doc. 61; 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Margin cites the 1891 act at \"Vol. 26, p. 1110.\" Note the comma after \"Washington\" and \"of America\" in the dating clause. Italics not preserved.", "story": 69}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "title_notes": ["The proclamation speaks of \"the subjects of Austria\" (35 Stat. 2155)."], "summary": "Extended the protection of U.S. copyright law to citizens of Austria.", "categories": ["copyright", "foreign-affairs"], "action": "grant", "places": [{"name": "Austria", "kind": "country"}], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [69], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-09-20", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "No American press notice of the Austrian finding has been found, though only California papers were searched.", "source": "California Digital Newspaper Collection search, 1907", "date": "1907", "story": 69}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "diplomatic", "text": "Austria's Minister of Justice issued an ordinance citing the proclamation and extending Austria's 1895 copyright law to works of American citizens protected in the United States.", "source": "RGBl. No. 265/1907", "date": "1907-12-09", "story": 69}], "legacy": [{"text": "Austria's 1907 ordinance stayed in force under its Copyright Act of 1936 and was not repealed until the end of 2018.", "source": "BGBl. No. 111/1936, § 101(3); BGBl. I No. 61/2018", "date": "2018", "story": 69}, {"text": "Country-by-country arrangements like this one lasted until the United States joined the Berne Convention, effective March 1, 1989.", "source": "Pub. L. 100-568", "date": "1989-03-01", "story": 69}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1909-03-04", "text": "The Copyright Act of 1909 replaced the 1891 act on which this finding rested.", "source": "research entry", "story": 69}, {"date": "1910-04-09", "text": "President Taft's proclamation re-extended American copyright to Austria and the other countries already covered, effective July 1, 1909.", "source": "36 Stat. 2685", "story": 69}], "uncertain": ["What form Austria's satisfactory official assurances took is not known; they are not printed in the State Department's published correspondence.", "Whether the proclamation drew press notice outside California has not been tested."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-510", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Same section-13 copyright finding, for Cuba.", "story": 69, "date": "1903-11-17", "title": "Extending Benefits of Copyright Law to Citizens of Cuba", "type": "proclamation", "number": "510"}, {"id": "proc-577", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Same section-13 copyright finding, for Norway.", "story": 69, "date": "1905-07-01", "title": "Extending Foreign Copyright Protection to Norway", "type": "proclamation", "number": "577"}]}
{"id": "eo-689", "type": "executive_order", "number": "689", "tr_sequence": 652, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-09-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Limitations on Transfer", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_689", "revid": 1870025, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 104"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Civil-service Rule X, section 8, clause (a) is hereby amended to read as follows:", "(a) He must have served three years in or under the Department or independent office from which transfer is proposed; but the Commission may waive this requirement when it deems such action necessary in the interests of the service, in cases of transfer other than from one Executive Department to another at Washington, D. C. In any case, he must have received absolute appointment and have actually served at least six months next preceding the transfer; but the Commission may waive this latter requirement where the person has been separated within a year from a competitive position after six months' service therein, upon the certificate of the proper officer that the separation was caused by a necessary reduction of force and not by inefficiency, and may allow transfer to any other Department or office upon his passing an examination prescribed by the Commission testing his efficiency for the position to which his transfer is proposed, subject to the other provisions of this rule."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 104)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, September 23, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Rewrote the civil-service rule on transfers: employees generally needed three years in their current office and six months' service after absolute appointment, with the Commission able to waive some requirements.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-09-23", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-690", "type": "executive_order", "number": "690", "tr_sequence": 653, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-09-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Rachel F. Sullivan as Clerk in Boston Post Office Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_690", "revid": 1877420, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 129"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Miss Rachel F. Sullivan may be reinstated as a clerk in the Boston post-office without reference to the time limitation of the reinstatement rule."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 129)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, September 23, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Rachel F. Sullivan to be reinstated as a clerk in the Boston post office despite the time limit in the reinstatement rule.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [{"name": "Boston", "kind": "town", "state": "Massachusetts"}], "states": ["Massachusetts"], "people": ["Rachel F. Sullivan"], "significance": 1, "stories": [94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-09-23", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-691", "type": "executive_order", "number": "691", "tr_sequence": 654, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-09-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Classifying R. D. Scarlett and John M. Newton as Clothing Examiners in Quartermaster's Department, Philadelphia, Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_691", "revid": 1877411, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 129"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["R. D. Scarlett and John M. Newton, who have been serving in the quartermaster's department at large, Philadelphia, as clothing examiners since February, 1904, are hereby included within the classified service."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 129)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, September 23, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Brought R. D. Scarlett and John M. Newton, clothing examiners for the Army quartermaster's department in Philadelphia since 1904, into the classified civil service.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [{"name": "Philadelphia", "kind": "town", "state": "Pennsylvania"}], "states": ["Pennsylvania"], "people": ["R. D. Scarlett", "John M. Newton"], "significance": 1, "stories": [94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-09-23", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-692", "type": "executive_order", "number": "692", "tr_sequence": 655, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-09-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Land in Alabama Reserved for War Dept. for Improvement of Black Warrior River", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reserved land in Alabama for the War Department's use in improving the Black Warrior River.", "categories": ["water-reclamation", "public-lands"], "action": "establish", "places": [], "states": ["Alabama"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-09-26", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-693", "type": "executive_order", "number": "693", "tr_sequence": 656, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-09-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Redefining Boundaries of Camp Keithley Military Reservation, Mindanao, Philippine Islands", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_693", "revid": 5041645, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 205, War Dept., October 3, 1907"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that the military reservation of Camp Keithley, Mindanao, Philippine Islands, reserved, under the name of \"Camp Marahui\" by executive order of January nineteenth, nineteen hundred and five (General Orders, Numbered Twelve, War Department, Washington, January twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and five), be modified so as to reserve all lands, and those only, included within metes and bounds described as follows:", "Beginning at station 1 on map of Proposed Brigade Post on Lake Lanao, Mindanao, P. I., tracing of which is filed in office of the Chief Engineer Officer, Philippines Division, said station being a stone monument on the shore of Lake Lanao, near the mouth of the Agus River; thence N. 52° 4′ E., 6,530 feet to station 2; thence N. 4° 50′ E., 17,938 feet to station 3 on Mt. Wheeler; thence S. 61° 00′ W., 24,663 feet to station 4 on Lions Paw; thence S. 56° 21′ W., 17,071 feet to station 5 on Umbrella Tree; thence S. 8° 49′ W., 15,161 feet to station 6 on Flake Hill; thence S. 77° 56′ E., 865 feet to station 7 on Gurayn Point; thence N. 81° 10′ E., 23,595 feet to station 8 on Kailaden Point; thence N. 51° 45′ E., 13,542 feet to station 9 on shore line of Lake Lanao; thence following shore line of Lake Lanao to station 1 or point of beginning, N. 47° 22′ W., 3,827 feet. Area 17,076 acres, more or less. All bearings are magnetic. Magnetic deviation 1° 35′ E., for October, 1906."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 205, War Dept., October 3, 1907)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, September 26, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Redrew the boundaries of Camp Keithley, a military reservation on Lake Lanao in Mindanao first reserved in 1905 as Camp Marahui, covering about 17,076 acres.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Camp Keithley", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-09-26", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-775", "type": "proclamation", "number": "775", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-09-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Diminishing Medicine Bow National Forest, Colorado and Wyoming", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 775, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-775"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2155, "last_page": 2156, "cite": "35 Stat. 2155–2156", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2155.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-09-27", "table_title": "Diminishing Medicine Bow National Forest, Colorado and Wyoming."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by excluding certain lands, in the State of Wyoming, from the Medicine Bow National Forest;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 aforesaid Medicine Bow National Forest are hereby changed to exclude therefrom the said lands, and that the boundaries are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pur- suant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the aforesaid National Forest which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "The lands hereby excluded from the Medicine Bow National Forest, which are not embraced in any other withdrawal, reservation, or appropriation, shall be restored to the public domain and become subject to settlement under the general provisions of the homestead laws on such date and after such notice by publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, but shall not become subject to entry, filing, selection, or other form of appropriation until the expiration of thirty days from the date so fixed, and no person will be permitted to gain or exercise any right whatever under any settlement or occupation begun prior to such date, and all such settlement and occupation are hereby forbidden.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves:” Provided, that lands heretofore restored to settlement or entry under the provisions of the foregoing act shall be excepted from the force and effect of this proclamation.", "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 27th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL.] seven, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2155", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Medicine Bow National Forest, Colo, and Wyo.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 32, pp. 2003, 2015.", "Vol. 34, pp. 3039, 3303.", "Boundaries modified.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Lands restored to public domain.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233.", "Lands excepted."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Removed certain lands in Wyoming from the Medicine Bow National Forest, restoring lands not otherwise reserved to the public domain.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "reduce", "places": [{"name": "Medicine Bow National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Wyoming"}], "states": ["Wyoming", "Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-09-27", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "congress", "text": "Although Colorado and Wyoming were Fulton states, this proclamation was allowed after March 4 because it only cut land out, and the proviso barred only creation and additions.", "source": "34 Stat. 1271", "date": "1907-09-27", "story": 67}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-694", "type": "executive_order", "number": "694", "tr_sequence": 657, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-09-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Ordering the United States Civil Service Commission to Assist the Porto Rican Civil Service Commission", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_694", "revid": 1871225, "printed_source": "[http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA534&id=mWZZAAAAIAAJ#v=onepage&q=&f=true External Information about this EO]  "}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["{| style=\"margin: 0em 0em 0em 0em;\" | width=2%| |The United States Civil Service Commission is directed to render such assistance as may be practicable to the Porto Rican Civil Service Commission, created under the insular legislative act of March 14, 1907, and officers and employees in the Federal service in Porto Rico shall facilitate the holding of examinations and other work of the Porto Rican Civil Service Commission and render such other assistance as may be practicable. The United States Civil Service Commission, may, in its discretion, authorize the transfer of employees from the civil service of Porto Rico to that of the United States, subject to the limitation respecting transfer within the Federal civil service", "Theodore Roosevelt The White House, September 27, 1907. | width=2%| |}", "== Notes == See Related: Executive Order of November 20, 1900 (similar order regarding the Philippines)"], "source": "Wikisource (from [http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA534&id=mWZZAAAAIAAJ#v=onepage&q=&f=true External Information about this EO]  )", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Directed the U.S. Civil Service Commission and federal workers in Porto Rico to help the island's new civil service commission, and allowed transfers from Porto Rico's civil service into the federal service.", "categories": ["civil-service", "insular-territories"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": ["Puerto Rico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-09-27", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-695", "type": "executive_order", "number": "695", "tr_sequence": 658, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-09-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Transfer of Charles M. Irelan to Clerk in War Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_695", "revid": 1880065, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 129"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Charles M. Irelan may be transferred from the Patent Office to a clerical position in the War Department without reference to the six months' limitation upon transfers after reinstatement."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 129)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, September 28, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Charles M. Irelan to move from the Patent Office to a War Department clerical job without waiting out the six-month limit on transfers after reinstatement.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Charles M. Irelan"], "significance": 1, "stories": [94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-09-28", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-696", "type": "executive_order", "number": "696", "tr_sequence": 659, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-09-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Transfer of Charles E. Knight to Shipping Commissioner in San Francisco Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_696", "revid": 1880085, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 130"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Charles E. Knight, at present a bank examiner, may be transferred from his position and appointed shipping commissioner at the port of San Francisco, Cal., another position under the Government service without examination and certification under the civil-service rules. There is now no register of eligibles for this position."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 130)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, September 28, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let bank examiner Charles E. Knight be appointed shipping commissioner at the port of San Francisco without a civil-service exam, since no list of eligible candidates existed.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [{"name": "San Francisco", "kind": "town", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": ["Charles E. Knight"], "significance": 1, "stories": [94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-09-28", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-697", "type": "executive_order", "number": "697", "tr_sequence": 660, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-10-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of William Stimpel as Disciplinarian at Carlisle, Pennsylvania Indian School After Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_697", "revid": 1880091, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 130"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. William Stimpel may be appointed disciplinarian at the Carlisle, Pa., Indian School upon noncompetitive examination showing him to be qualified by experience for the position."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 130)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, October 5, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed William Stimpel to be appointed disciplinarian at the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania after a noncompetitive exam showing his experience.", "categories": ["civil-service", "indian-lands"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Pennsylvania"], "people": ["William Stimpel"], "significance": 1, "stories": [94], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-10-05", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-698", "type": "executive_order", "number": "698", "tr_sequence": 661, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-10-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Tariff of Consular Fees to Specify Passport Extension Fee as $1.00", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_698", "revid": 1929184, "printed_source": "State Department Circular, November 30, 1907"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Fee No. 8 of the tariff of American consular fees which took effect November 1, 1906, is hereby amended to read as follows:", "\"Fee No. 8: Issuing a passport (Form No. 9) or extending a passport, $1.00.\""], "source": "Wikisource (from State Department Circular, November 30, 1907)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, October 14, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Set the consular fee for issuing or extending a passport at $1.00.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [95], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-10-14", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-699", "type": "executive_order", "number": "699", "tr_sequence": 662, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-10-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Three Arch Rocks Reservation as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds and Animals", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_699", "revid": 12440746, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that the group of small unsurveyed islands known as the \"Three Arch Rocks,\" located in the Pacific Ocean from one-half mile to one mile off the coast of Oregon, approximately in latitude 45° 28′ north, 124° west from Greenwich, as shown upon the United States Coast Survey Chart No. 6100, and located within the area segregated by a broken line and shown upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this order, is hereby reserved and set aside for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds and animals. This reservation to be known as Three Arch Rocks Reservation."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, October 14, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Set aside Three Arch Rocks, a group of small islands off the Oregon coast, as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds and animals.", "categories": ["wildlife"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Three Arch Rocks Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Oregon"}], "states": ["Oregon"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [95], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-10-14", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Three Arch Rocks, off Oceanside, Oregon, was reserved for the Department of Agriculture as a preserve for native birds and animals, the first federal bird reservation on the Pacific Coast.", "source": "Executive Order 699", "date": "1907-10-14", "story": 95}], "legacy": [{"text": "The refuge sustains what the Fish and Wildlife Service calls the largest and most diverse seabird colony in Oregon, and the only Steller sea lion pupping site on the north Oregon coast.", "source": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service", "story": 95}], "today": [{"name": "Three Arch Rocks National Wildlife Refuge", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "origin", "state": "Oregon", "since": "1907-10-14", "note": "Fifteen acres across nine rocks; also a designated wilderness since 1970.", "source": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Public Law 91-504", "story": 95}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1940-07-25", "text": "Renamed a National Wildlife Refuge by Proclamation 2416.", "source": "5 Fed. Reg. 2677; 54 Stat. 2717", "story": 95}, {"date": "1970-10-23", "text": "Congress designated about seventeen acres at Three Arch Rocks as wilderness.", "source": "Public Law 91-504, 84 Stat. 1104", "story": 95}], "uncertain": ["The date of William L. Finley's first White House presentation of his Three Arch Rocks photographs is not known."]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-296-a", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Stump Lake, North Dakota, an earlier bird reservation west of the Mississippi.", "story": 95, "date": "1905-03-09", "title": "Creating Stump Lake Reservation, North Dakota, as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Birds", "type": "executive_order", "number": "296-A"}, {"id": "eo-704", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Near-twin order for the Washington coast nine days later.", "story": 95, "date": "1907-10-23", "title": "Establishing Copalis Rock Reservation as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds and Animals", "type": "executive_order", "number": "704"}]}
{"id": "eo-700", "type": "executive_order", "number": "700", "tr_sequence": 663, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-10-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Continued Employment of John V. Davis as Automatic Scale Mechanician Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_700", "revid": 1880106, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 130"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["John V. Davis, automatic scale mechanician, may be continued in the service for such further period as may be necessary for the completion of the work to which he is now assigned without compliance with the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 130)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, October 21, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let automatic scale mechanician John V. Davis stay on the job until his current assignment was finished, without meeting civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["John V. Davis"], "significance": 1, "stories": [95], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-10-21", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-701", "type": "executive_order", "number": "701", "tr_sequence": 664, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-10-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "EO of April 4, 1853, Reserving Lands at Rock Harbor, Isle Royale, Lake Superior, Michigan, Partially Revoked", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Partly revoked an 1853 order that had reserved land at Rock Harbor on Isle Royale in Lake Superior, Michigan.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "revoke", "places": [{"name": "Rock Harbor, Isle Royale", "kind": "island", "state": "Michigan"}], "states": ["Michigan"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [95], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-10-21", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-702", "type": "executive_order", "number": "702", "tr_sequence": 665, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-10-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Lands in Alaska for Army Signal Corps Telegraph Lines", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_702", "revid": 5075332, "printed_source": "General Order No. 224, War Dept., November 5, 1907"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The following-described tracts of public land, situate in the District of Alaska, are hereby reserved, subject to private rights, for the use of the Signal Corps, United States Army, in its operation and maintenance of the United States Military Telegraph Lines in Alaska, viz:", "Donnelly's.—Beginning at a post on the bank of the Big Delta River, about three-quarters of a mile south of Donnelly's Road-house, marked “U. S. M. R. No. 1”; thence south one mile to post marked “U. S. M. R. No. 2”; thence east one mile to post marked “U. S. M. R. No. 3”; thence north one mile to post marked “U. S. M. R. No. 4”; thence west one mile to point of beginning.", "McCallum's.—Beginning at a post three hundred feet east and one thousand nine hundred and fifty-six feet north of northeast corner of McCallum's Road-house, marked “U. S. M. R. No. 1”; thence south one mile to post marked “U. S. M. R. No. 2”; thence east one mile to post marked “U. S. M. R. No. 3”: thence north one mile to post marked “U. S. M. R. No. 4”: thence west one mile to point of beginning.", "Paxson's.—Station Reserve: Beginning at a post one hundred and fifty-two feet north, and four hundred and sixty-two feet west of northwest corner of Paxson's Road-house, marked “U. S. M. R. No. 1”; thence east one thousand feet to post marked “U. S. M. R. No. 2”; thence north one thousand feet to post marked “U. S. M. R. No. 3”; thence west one thousand feet across Gulkana River to post marked “U. S. M. R. No. 4”; thence south one thousand feet across Gulkana River to point of beginning.", "Paxson's.—Timber Reserve: Beginning at a post one mile south and two thousand one hundred and twelve feet east of initial point of station reserve marked “U. S. M. R. No. 1”; thence west three thousand nine hundred and sixty feet to post marked “U. S. M. R. No. 2”; thence south one mile to post marked “U. S. M. R. No. 3”; thence east three thousand nine hundred and sixty feet to post marked “U. S. M. R. No. 4”: thence north one mile to point of beginning.", "Right of Way.—A strip of land one hundred feet wide (fifty feet on each side of the center of telegraph line) along the United States Military Telegraph Line from Gulkana Station, near the mouth of the Gulkana River, to McCarty Station, near the mouth of the Big Delta River; which owing to its length of one hundred and sixty-one miles, more or less, is necessarily unstaked.", "The reservation at Central and at Summit, and that portion of the right of way between Northfork and McCarty, Alaska, which were reserved for military telegraph purposes by Executive Order, dated May 24, 1905, (G. O. No. 83, War Department, June 5, 1905), having become useless for the purposes for which reserved, are hereby placed under the control of the Secretary of the Interior, under Act of Congress approved July 5, 1884 (23 Stat. L., 103), for disposition under said act or as may be otherwise provided by law."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Order No. 224, War Dept., November 5, 1907)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, October 23, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved tracts of public land in Alaska, including sites at Donnelly's, McCallum's and Paxson's roadhouses plus a right of way, for the Army Signal Corps to run its military telegraph lines.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories", "public-lands"], "action": "establish", "places": [], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [95], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-10-23", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "eo-328-b", "relation": "revokes", "note": null, "story": 114, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-05-24", "title": "Approving Acting War Secretary Recommendation of May 24, 1905 to Reserve 13 Tracts of Described Lands in Alaska for Use by the Signal Corps. United States Army", "type": "executive_order", "number": "328-B"}, {"id": "uo-109", "relation": "revokes", "note": null, "story": 114, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-05-24", "title": "Certain lands near Central, Alaska, reserved for military purposes.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}, {"id": "uo-110", "relation": "revokes", "note": null, "story": 114, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-05-24", "title": "Certain lands at Summit, Alaska, reserved for military purposes.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "eo-703", "type": "executive_order", "number": "703", "tr_sequence": 666, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-10-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Flattery Rocks Reservation as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds and Animals", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_703", "revid": 12442298, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that all small, unsurveyed and unreserved islands lying off the coast of the State of Washington in the Pacific Ocean, between latitudes 48° 02′ North and 48° 23′ North, among which are those named and commonly known as Spike Rock, Father and Son, Bodiel-teh Islets, Flattery Rocks, Ozette Island and White Rock, as the same are shown upon coast survey chart No. 6400, or upon the General Land Office map of the State of Washington, dated 1887, and located within the area segregated by a broken line and shown upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this order, are hereby reserved end set aside for the use of the Department of Agriculture, as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds and animals. This reservation to be known as Flattery Rocks Reservation."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, October 23, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Set aside the small islands off the Washington coast between set latitudes, including Flattery Rocks, Ozette Island and White Rock, as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds and animals.", "categories": ["wildlife"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Flattery Rocks Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Washington"}], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [95], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-10-23", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Flattery Rocks National Wildlife Refuge", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "origin", "state": "Washington", "since": "1907-10-23", "note": "Part of the Washington Islands Wilderness, managed within the Washington Maritime National Wildlife Refuge Complex.", "source": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service", "story": 95}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1940-07-25", "text": "Renamed Flattery Rocks National Wildlife Refuge by Proclamation 2416.", "source": "5 Fed. Reg. 2677; 54 Stat. 2717", "story": 95}, {"date": "1970-10-23", "text": "Congress included the refuge in the Washington Islands Wilderness.", "source": "Public Law 91-504, 84 Stat. 1104", "story": 95}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-704", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Companion Washington coast bird reservation of the same day.", "story": 95, "date": "1907-10-23", "title": "Establishing Copalis Rock Reservation as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds and Animals", "type": "executive_order", "number": "704"}, {"id": "eo-705", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Companion Washington coast bird reservation of the same day.", "story": 95, "date": "1907-10-23", "title": "Establishing Quillayute Needles Reservation as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds and Animals", "type": "executive_order", "number": "705"}]}
{"id": "eo-704", "type": "executive_order", "number": "704", "tr_sequence": 667, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-10-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Copalis Rock Reservation as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds and Animals", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_704", "revid": 12442299, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that all small, unsurveyed islands lying off the coast of the State of Washington in the Pacific Ocean, between latitudes 47° 8′ North, and 47° 29′ North, among which are those named and commonly known as Arch Island, Sea Lion Rock, Willoughby Rock, Split Rocks, Sonora Reef, Greenville Arch and Copalis Rock, as the same are shown upon coast survey chart No. 6400 or upon the General Land Office map of the State of Washington, dated 1887, and located within the area segregated by a broken line and shown upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this order, are hereby reserved and set aside for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds and animals. This reservation to be known as Copalis Rock Reservation."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, October 23, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Created Copalis Rock Reservation from small islands off the Washington coast, including Arch Island, Sea Lion Rock and Copalis Rock, as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds and animals.", "categories": ["wildlife"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Copalis Rock Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Washington"}], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [95], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-10-23", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Copalis National Wildlife Refuge", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "origin", "state": "Washington", "since": "1907-10-23", "note": "Part of the Washington Islands Wilderness, managed within the Washington Maritime National Wildlife Refuge Complex.", "source": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service", "story": 95}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1940-07-25", "text": "Renamed Copalis National Wildlife Refuge by Proclamation 2416.", "source": "5 Fed. Reg. 2677; 54 Stat. 2717", "story": 95}, {"date": "1970-10-23", "text": "Congress included the refuge in the Washington Islands Wilderness.", "source": "Public Law 91-504, 84 Stat. 1104", "story": 95}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-699", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The Three Arch Rocks order, nearly identical in wording.", "story": 95, "date": "1907-10-14", "title": "Establishing Three Arch Rocks Reservation as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds and Animals", "type": "executive_order", "number": "699"}, {"id": "eo-703", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Companion Washington coast bird reservation of the same day.", "story": 95, "date": "1907-10-23", "title": "Establishing Flattery Rocks Reservation as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds and Animals", "type": "executive_order", "number": "703"}, {"id": "eo-705", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Companion Washington coast bird reservation of the same day.", "story": 95, "date": "1907-10-23", "title": "Establishing Quillayute Needles Reservation as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds and Animals", "type": "executive_order", "number": "705"}]}
{"id": "eo-705", "type": "executive_order", "number": "705", "tr_sequence": 668, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-10-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Quillayute Needles Reservation as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds and Animals", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_705", "revid": 12442301, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that all small, unsurveyed and unreserved islands lying off the coast of the State of Washington in the Pacific Ocean, between latitude 47° 38′ North, and 48° 02′ North, among which are those named and commonly known as Hand Rock, Carroll Islets, Bald Island, Jagged Islet, Cake Rock, James Island, Huntington Rock, Quillayute Needles, Rounded Islet, Alexander Island, Perkins Reef, North Rock, Middle Rock, Abbey Island and South Rock, as the same are shown upon coast survey chart No. 6400, or upon the General Land Office map of the State of Washington, dated 1887, and located within the area segregated by a broken line and shown upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this order, are hereby reserved and set aside for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds and animals. This reservation to be known as Quillayute Needles Reservation."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, October 23, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved the small islands off the Washington coast between set latitudes, among them Carroll Islets, James Island and Quillayute Needles, as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds and animals.", "categories": ["wildlife"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Quillayute Needles Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Washington"}], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [95], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-10-23", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Quillayute Needles National Wildlife Refuge", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "origin", "state": "Washington", "since": "1907-10-23", "note": "Part of the Washington Islands Wilderness, managed within the Washington Maritime National Wildlife Refuge Complex.", "source": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service", "story": 95}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1940-07-25", "text": "Renamed Quillayute Needles National Wildlife Refuge by Proclamation 2416.", "source": "5 Fed. Reg. 2677; 54 Stat. 2717", "story": 95}, {"date": "1970-10-23", "text": "Congress included the refuge in the Washington Islands Wilderness.", "source": "Public Law 91-504, 84 Stat. 1104", "story": 95}, {"date": "1966-09-19", "text": "Public Land Order 4095 removed James Island from the refuge as part of the Quileute Indian Reservation.", "source": "Public Land Order 4095", "story": 95}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-703", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Companion Washington coast bird reservation of the same day.", "story": 95, "date": "1907-10-23", "title": "Establishing Flattery Rocks Reservation as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds and Animals", "type": "executive_order", "number": "703"}, {"id": "eo-704", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Companion Washington coast bird reservation of the same day.", "story": 95, "date": "1907-10-23", "title": "Establishing Copalis Rock Reservation as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds and Animals", "type": "executive_order", "number": "704"}]}
{"id": "proc-776", "type": "proclamation", "number": "776", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-10-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Thanksgiving Day, 1907", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": ["Corrected from “1907-10-26”. Statutes margin and dating clause read \"this twenty-fifth day of October\" (35 Stat. 2156); the 26th is the day the text reached the press."], "citations": {"app": {"number": 776, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-776"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2156, "last_page": 2157, "cite": "35 Stat. 2156–2157", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2156.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-10-25", "table_title": "Announcing Thursday, November 28, 1907, as Thanksgiving Day."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America.", "A PROCLAMATION.", "Once again the season of the year has come when, in accordance with the custom of our forefathers for generations past, the President appoints a day as the especial occasion for all our people to give praise and thanksgiving to God.", "During the past year we have been free from famine, from pestilence, from war. We are at peace with all the rest of mankind. Our natural resources are at least as great as those of any other nation. We believe that in ability to develop and take advantage of these resources the average man of this nation stands at least as high as the average man of any other. Nowhere else in the world is there such an opportunity for a free people to develop to the fullest extent all its powers of body, of mind, and of that which stands above both body and mind, character. Much has been given us from on high and much will rightly be expected of us in return. Into our care the ten talents have been entrusted; and we are to be pardoned neither if we squander and waste them, nor yet if we hide them in a napkin; for they must be fruitful in our hands. Ever thruout the ages, at all times and among all peoples, prosperity has been fraught with danger, and it behooves us to beseech the Giver of All Things that we may not fall into love of ease and of luxury; that we may not lose our sense of moral responsibility; that we may not forget our duty to God and to our neighbor. A great democracy like ours, a democracy based upon the principles of orderly liberty, can be perpetuated only if in the heart of the ordinary citizen there dwells a keen sense of righteousness and justice. We should earnestly pray that this spirit of righteousness and justice may grow ever greater in the hearts of all of us, and that our souls may be inclined ever more both toward the virtues that tell for gentleness and tenderness, for loving kindness and forbearance one with another, and toward those no less necessary virtues that make for manliness and rugged hardihood—for without these qualities neither nation nor individual can rise to the level of greatness.", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, do set apart Thursday, the 28th day of November, as a day of general thanksgiving and prayer, and on that day I recommend that the people shall cease from their daily work. and, in their homes or in their churches, meet devoutly to thank the Almighty for the many and great blessings they have received in the past, and to pray that they may be given the strength so to order their lives as to deserve a continuation of these blessings in the future.", "In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this twenty-fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL.] seven and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President: ELIHU ROOT Secretary of State."], "source": "35 Stat. 2156–2157 (page image), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Supersedes the American Presidency Project transcription, which departs from the Statutes in wording (e.g., \"special\" for \"especial,\" \"lose\" for \"love,\" drops \"ever greater\") and omits the seal and countersignature. Simplified spellings \"thruout\" and \"affixt\" are original. \"daily work. and\" is printed with a period and left as printed; a raised dot between \"set\" and \"my\" in the witness clause is a printing blemish and not reproduced.", "story": 70}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Named Thursday, November 28, 1907, as a national day of thanksgiving, noting a year free from famine, pestilence and war.", "categories": ["ceremonial"], "action": "announce", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [70], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-10-25", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The proclamation was printed widely from the Associated Press text; its phrase \"rugged hardihood\" appears in fourteen items in California papers that fall.", "source": "California Digital Newspaper Collection, October 27–November 30, 1907", "date": "1907", "story": 70}, {"text": "The Ventura Morning Free Press called it a \"Characteristic Document of Nation's Executive.\"", "source": "Ventura Morning Free Press, October 28, 1907", "date": "1907-10-28", "story": 70}, {"text": "A letter to the Sacramento Union arguing for keeping saloons out of the city's home districts quoted the proclamation's warning against \"love of ease and of luxury\" as a \"clarion call of the President.\"", "source": "Sacramento Union, November 3, 1907", "date": "1907-11-03", "story": 70}, {"text": "None of the coverage read connected the passage on prosperity to the Panic of 1907 then under way.", "source": "research entry", "story": 70}], "legacy": [{"text": "The proclamation joined the unbroken annual Thanksgiving line; the date rested on custom until Congress fixed it in 1941.", "source": "55 Stat. 862", "date": "1941", "story": 70}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1941-12-26", "text": "A joint resolution fixed Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November, after Franklin Roosevelt had moved it a week earlier in 1939–1941.", "source": "55 Stat. 862", "story": 70}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-665", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The 1906 Thanksgiving proclamation, which also used simplified spellings.", "story": 70, "date": "1906-10-22", "title": "Thanksgiving Day, 1906", "type": "proclamation", "number": "665"}]}
{"id": "proc-777", "type": "proclamation", "number": "777", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-10-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Lassen Peak National Forest, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 777, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-777"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2157, "last_page": 2158, "cite": "35 Stat. 2157–2158", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2157.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-10-26", "table_title": "Enlarging Lassen Peak National Forest, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Lassen Peak National Forest certain lands, within the State of California, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Lassen Peak National Forest is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the aforesaid National Forest are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby enlarged which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves:” Provided, that lands heretofore restored to settlement or entry under the provisions of the foregoing act shall be excepted from the force and effect of this proclamation.", "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 26th day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2157", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Lassen Peak National Forest, Cal.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34, p. 3063.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Post, p. 2246.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233.", "Lands excepted."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Added timbered lands in California to the Lassen Peak National Forest.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Lassen Peak National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-10-26", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-778", "type": "proclamation", "number": "778", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-10-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Stanislaus National Forest, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 778, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-778"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2158, "last_page": 2159, "cite": "35 Stat. 2158–2159", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2158.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-10-26", "table_title": "Enlarging Stanislaus National Forest, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Stanislaus National Forest certain lands, within the State of California, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Stanislaus National Forest is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the aforesaid National Forest are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement Has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby enlarged which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves:” Provided, that lands heretofore restored settlement or entry under the provisions of the foregoing act shall be excepted from the force and effect of this proclamation.", "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 26th day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2158", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Stanislaus National Forest, Cal.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 29, p. 898.", "Vol. 33, p. 702.", "Vol. 34, p. 2229.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Post, pp. 2235, 2249.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233.", "Lands excepted."]}, "signed_as": "T. Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Stanislaus National Forest in California with additional lands partly covered with timber.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Stanislaus National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-10-26", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-779", "type": "proclamation", "number": "779", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-10-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart San Benito National Forest, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 779, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-779"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2159, "last_page": 2160, "cite": "35 Stat. 2159–2160", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2159.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-10-26", "table_title": "Setting apart San Benito National Forest, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of California, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by utilizing said lands as a National Forest;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from settlement or entry and set apart as a public reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of California, shown as the San Benito National Forest on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "2160 Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby established which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 26th day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2159", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["San Benito National Forest, Cal.", "Preamble.", "National forest, California.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart the San Benito National Forest from timbered public lands in California, reserving them from settlement or entry.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "San Benito National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-10-26", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-706", "type": "executive_order", "number": "706", "tr_sequence": 669, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-10-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Permanent Appointment of Charles H. McLellan as Superintendent in Revenue Cutter Service Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_706", "revid": 1880115, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 131"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Charles H. McLellan, captain in the U. S. Revenue-Cutter Service, retired, was for a number of years during his active service detailed to the Life-Saving Service, and since his retirement has been employed for a number of temporary periods, with the consent of the Civil Service Commission, in superintending the construction of self-righting and self-bailing lifeboats and other life-saving apparatus, in all of which he is an expert, and it being necessary in the best interest of the service to continue Captain McLellan in this position, his appointment is hereby authorized without compliance with the civil-service rules for such period as his services may be required, the rate of compensation to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 131)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, October 30, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Authorized the appointment of retired Revenue-Cutter Service captain Charles H. McLellan, an expert on lifeboats, to keep superintending lifesaving-equipment construction without civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Charles H. McLellan"], "significance": 1, "stories": [95], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-10-30", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-707", "type": "executive_order", "number": "707", "tr_sequence": 670, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-10-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of John P. Scruggs as Deputy Collector in Internal Revenue Service Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_707", "revid": 1880108, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 130"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. John P. Scruggs having been separated from the position of deputy collector in the internal-revenue district of South Carolina for more than one year upon charges of misconduct, which charges a careful investigation has shown to have been substantially unfounded, and Mr. Scruggs's service to have been honest and efficient, he may be reappointed in the Internal-Revenue Service without compliance with the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 130)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, October 30, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed John P. Scruggs, removed as a South Carolina deputy revenue collector on misconduct charges later found largely unfounded, to be reappointed without civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["South Carolina"], "people": ["John P. Scruggs"], "significance": 1, "stories": [95], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-10-30", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-708", "type": "executive_order", "number": "708", "tr_sequence": 671, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-11-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Post Cemetery Lands Reserved for Fort Sumner Previously Reserved by EO of May 22, 1871, Released", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Released post cemetery lands at Fort Sumner that had been reserved by an 1871 executive order.", "categories": ["military-naval", "public-lands"], "action": "revoke", "places": [{"name": "Fort Sumner", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [95], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-11-02", "impact": {"uncertain": ["No text of the order is available online; only its date and subject are known."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-709", "type": "executive_order", "number": "709", "tr_sequence": 672, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-11-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Addition to the Navajo Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_709", "revid": 1738953, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that the following-described tract of country in the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, viz:", "Commencing at a point where the east line of the Navajo Indian Reservation, as at present constituted, intersects the north boundary of township 23 north, range 13 west, New Mexico meridian; thence due east to the northeast corner of township 23 north, range 5 east; thence south to the southeast corner of township 17 north, range 5 east, New Mexico meridian; thence west to the first guide meridian; thence south on the said guide meridian to the southeast corner of township 15 north, range 9 west; thence west to the southwest corner of township 15 north, range 14 west; thence north to the northwest corner of township 15 north, range 14 west; thence due west to the boundary line between the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico; thence south on the boundary line between the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico to the northeast corner of township 23 north, range 31 east; thence west to the northwest corner of township 23 north, range 29 east; thence south to the northwest corner of township 21 north, range 29 east; thence west to the northwest corner of township 21 north, range 29 east; thence west to the northwest corner of township 21 north, range 26 east; thence south to the southeast corner of township 21 north, range 25 east; thence west to the southwest corner of township 21 north, range 22 east; thence due north to the southern boundary of the Navajo Reservation, as at present constituted, be, and the same is hereby, withdrawn from sale and settlement and set apart for the use of the Indians as an addition to the present Navajo Reservation: Provided, That this withdrawal shall not affect any existing valid rights of any person."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, November 9, 1907. == Notes == Amended by Executive Order 744, January 28, 1908; Executive Order 1000, December 30, 1908; Executive Order 1284, January 16, 1911 See Related: Executive Order 711, November 11, 1907; Executive Order 743, January 28, 1908;", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Withdrew a large tract in the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico from sale and settlement and added it to the Navajo Reservation, protecting valid existing rights.", "categories": ["indian-lands"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Navajo Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona", "New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [95], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-11-09", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-744", "relation": "amended_by", "note": null, "story": 96, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-01-28", "title": "Addition to the Navajo Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico", "type": "executive_order", "number": "744"}, {"id": "eo-1000", "relation": "reduced_by", "note": null, "story": 103, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-12-30", "title": "Altering Lands Composing Reservation of Navajo Indians", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1000"}]}
{"id": "eo-710", "type": "executive_order", "number": "710", "tr_sequence": 673, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-11-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Joseph B. Dalton as Skilled Laborer in Bureau of the Census Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_710", "revid": 1880118, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 131"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Joseph B. Dalton may be appointed to the position of skilled laborer in the Bureau of the Census without examination under the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 131)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, November 9, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Joseph B. Dalton be appointed a skilled laborer in the Bureau of the Census without a civil-service exam.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Joseph B. Dalton"], "significance": 1, "stories": [95], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-11-09", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-711", "type": "executive_order", "number": "711", "tr_sequence": 674, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-11-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Addition to the Jicarilla Indian Reservation in New Mexico", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_711", "revid": 2077101, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that the following-described lands in New Mexico, viz: Beginning at the northeast corner of T. 26 N., R. 4 W.; thence east along the township line between Tps. 26 and 27 N. to the northwest corner of T. 26 N., R. 5 W. ; thence due south to the southeast corner of T. 22 N., R. 5 W.; thence east on the township line between Tps. 21 and 22 N. to the southeast corner of T. 22 N., R. 1 W.; thence north to the northeast corner of T. 23 N., R. 2 W.; thence west to the southeast corner of T. 24 N., R. 4 W.; thence north to the southeast corner of T. 26 N., R. 4 W.; thence east to the southeast corner of T. 26 N., R. 3 W.; thence north to the southeast corner of T. 27 N., R. 3 W.; thence east along the southern boundary of the present Jicarilla Indian Reservation to the range line between Rs. 1 and 2 W., in T. 27 N., be, and the same are hereby, withdrawn from sale and settlement, and set apart for Indian purposes, for the use of the Indians of the Jicarilla Indian Reservation: Provided, That this withdrawal shall not affect any existing valid rights of any party."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, November 11, 1907. == Notes == Amended by Executive Order 743, January 28, 1908; See Related: Executive Order 709, November 9, 1907; Executive Order 744, January 28, 1908; Executive Order 1000, December 30, 1908; Executive Order 1284, January 16, 1911", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Set apart additional lands in New Mexico for the Indians of the Jicarilla Indian Reservation, withdrawing them from sale and settlement.", "categories": ["indian-lands"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Jicarilla Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [95], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-11-11", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-743", "relation": "amended_by", "note": "Amended by the order of January 28, 1908.", "story": 95, "date": "1908-01-28", "title": "Addition to the Jicarilla Indian Reservation in New Mexico", "type": "executive_order", "number": "743"}]}
{"id": "proc-780", "type": "proclamation", "number": "780", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-11-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Announcing Admission of Oklahoma as a State", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 780, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-780"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2160, "last_page": 2161, "cite": "35 Stat. 2160–2161", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2160.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-11-16", "table_title": "Announcing admission of Oklahoma as a State."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.", "A PROCLAMATION.", "WHEREAS the Congress of the United States did by an act approved on the sixteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and six, provide that the inhabitants of the Territory of Oklahoma and of the Indian Territory might, under and upon the conditions prescribed in said act, adopt a constitution and become the State of Oklahoma:", "AND WHEREAS by the said act provision was duly made for the election of a Constitutional Convention to form a constitution and state government for the said proposed State; and whereas it appears from the information laid before me that such Convention was duly elected and such constitution and state government were thereby duly formed:", "AND WHEREAS by the said act the said Convention was further authorized and empowered to provide by ordinance for submitting the said constitution to the people of the said State for ratification or rejection, and likewise for the ratification or rejection of any provisions thereof to be by the said Convention separately submitted:", "AND WHEREAS it has been certified to me, as required by the said act, by the Governor of the Territory of Oklahoma and by the Judge senior in service of the United States Court of Appeals for the Indian Territory that a majority of the legal votes cast at an election duly provided for by ordinance, as required by said act, have been cast for the adoption of said constitution; and whereas a copy of the said constitution has been certified to me, as required by said act, together with the articles, propositions and ordinances pertaining thereto, including a separate proposition for state-wide prohibition which has been certified to me as having been adopted by a majority of the electors at the election aforesaid:", "AND WHEREAS it appears from the information laid before me that the Convention aforesaid after its organization and before the formation of the said constitution duly declared on behalf of the people of the said proposed State that they adopted the Constitution of the United States:", "AND WHEREAS it appears that the said constitution and government of the proposed State of Oklahoma are republican in form and that the said constitution makes no distinction in civil or political rights on account of race or color, and is not repugnant to the Constitution of the United States or to the principles of the Declaration of Independence, and that it contains all of the six provisions expressly required by Section 3 of the said act to be therein contained:", "AND WHEREAS it further appears from the information laid before me that the Convention above mentioned did by ordinance irrevocable accept the terms and conditions of the said act as required by Section 22 thereof, and that all the provisions of the said act approved on the sixteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and six, have been duly complied with:", "NOW, THEREFORE, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do, in accordance with the provisions of the said act of Congress of June sixteenth, one thousand nine hundred and six, declare and announce that the result of the said election, wherein the Constitution formed as aforesaid was submitted to the people of the proposed State of Oklahoma for ratification or rejection, was that the said Constitution was ratified together with a provision for state-wide prohibition, separately submitted at the said election; and the State of Oklahoma is to be deemed admitted by Congress into the Union under and by virtue of the said act on an equal footing with the original States;", "IN TESTIMONY 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 sixteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-second.", "[SEAL.] THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:", "ELIHU ROOT, Secretary of State."], "source": "35 Stat. 2160–2161 (GovInfo page scans), collated against Wikisource transcription", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "'did by ordinance irrevocable accept' is as printed (Enabling Act term of art), not a typo.", "story": 17}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Declared Oklahoma admitted as a state after voters ratified the constitution drafted under the 1906 enabling act for Oklahoma and Indian Territories.", "categories": ["statehood"], "action": "announce", "places": [{"name": "Oklahoma", "kind": "state", "state": "Oklahoma"}], "states": ["Oklahoma"], "people": [], "significance": 5, "stories": [17], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-11-16", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "By November 1907 the fights over joint statehood and the constitution were over, and the new state greeted the signing as a celebration rather than a contest.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1907-11", "story": 17}, {"text": "On statehood day a mock wedding on the steps of Guthrie's Carnegie Library joined \"Mr. Oklahoma Territory,\" played by C. G. Jones, to \"Miss Indian Territory,\" played by Anna Trainor Bennett.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1907-11-16", "story": 17}, {"text": "National opinion on the new constitution split: reformers and Populists praised its railroad and corporate regulation, while conservatives and much of the business press called it dangerously radical.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1907", "story": 17}, {"text": "The statewide prohibition clause was welcomed by the temperance movement and resented by others as a mandate written into the founding document.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1907", "story": 17}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "political", "text": "Charles N. Haskell was inaugurated as the first governor, and the new state proved as Democratic as Republicans in Washington had feared.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1907-11-16", "story": 17}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "Statehood ended Indian Territory as a separate territorial jurisdiction, but the Five Tribes' governments continued under the Five Tribes Act of 1906.", "source": "Five Tribes Act, April 26, 1906, 34 Stat. 137, 148, §28", "date": "1907-11-16", "story": 17}, {"kind": "local", "text": "Guthrie became the first state capital.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1907-11-16", "story": 17}, {"kind": "local", "text": "Oklahoma's first legislature passed a separate-coach law, Senate Bill One, approved December 18, 1907.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1907-12-18", "story": 17}, {"kind": "political", "text": "In his Seventh Annual Message Roosevelt told Congress that Oklahoma now stood on a full equality with the other states, adding that the federal duty to guard the rights of the Indians within its borders remained unchanged.", "source": "Seventh Annual Message, December 3, 1907 (American Presidency Project)", "date": "1907-12-03", "story": 17}], "legacy": [{"text": "The 1907 constitution is still in force, with no successor document; at about 84,956 words it was the fourth-longest state constitution as of January 1, 2023, with 200 of 376 submitted amendments adopted.", "source": "Council of State Governments", "date": "2023-01-01", "story": 17}, {"text": "Constitutional prohibition lasted until voters repealed it in 1959; liquor by the drink stayed illegal until 1984, and then only by county option.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1959", "story": 17}, {"text": "The fight over moving the capital to Oklahoma City produced Coyle v. Smith, the leading statement of the equal-footing doctrine for new states.", "source": "Coyle v. Smith, 221 U.S. 559 (1911)", "date": "1911", "story": 17}, {"text": "The Five Tribes' governments, suppressed but never dissolved after statehood, regained the right to elect their own principal officers in 1970.", "source": "Pub. L. 91-495, 84 Stat. 1091", "date": "1970-10-22", "story": 17}, {"text": "In McGirt v. Oklahoma the Supreme Court held that Congress never disestablished the Muscogee (Creek) reservation, so the land remains Indian country for federal criminal law; later rulings have narrowed the decision.", "source": "McGirt v. Oklahoma, 591 U.S. 894 (2020)", "date": "2020-07-09", "story": 17}], "today": [{"name": "State of Oklahoma", "kind": "other", "relation": "origin", "state": "Oklahoma", "since": "1907-11-16", "note": "Admitted as the forty-sixth state; its 1907 constitution remains in force.", "source": "35 Stat. 2160–2161; Council of State Governments", "story": 17}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1910-06-11", "text": "Voters chose to move the capital from Guthrie to Oklahoma City, 96,448 to 64,522; the state supreme court voided the election that November.", "source": "research entry", "story": 17}, {"date": "1910-12-29", "text": "The legislature located the capital at Oklahoma City by statute.", "source": "research entry", "story": 17}, {"date": "1911", "text": "The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the capital move, holding that locating a state's seat of government is a state power beyond the control of Congress.", "source": "Coyle v. Smith, 221 U.S. 559 (1911)", "story": 17}, {"date": "1936-06-26", "text": "The Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act opened tribal reorganization to Oklahoma tribes.", "source": "49 Stat. 1967", "story": 17}, {"date": "1959-04-07", "text": "State Question 386 repealed constitutional prohibition, 396,845 to 314,380; legal package sales began September 1, 1959.", "source": "research entry", "story": 17}, {"date": "1970-10-22", "text": "Congress restored popular election of the Five Tribes' principal officers.", "source": "Pub. L. 91-495, 84 Stat. 1091", "story": 17}, {"date": "1984-09-18", "text": "State Question 563 allowed liquor by the drink, by county option.", "source": "research entry", "story": 17}, {"date": "2020-07-09", "text": "The Supreme Court held 5–4 that the Muscogee (Creek) reservation was never disestablished and remains Indian country under the Major Crimes Act.", "source": "McGirt v. Oklahoma, 591 U.S. 894 (2020)", "story": 17}, {"date": "2022", "text": "The Supreme Court held that the state and federal governments share jurisdiction over crimes by non-Indians against Indians in Indian country, narrowing McGirt without overruling it.", "source": "Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta, 597 U.S. 629 (2022)", "story": 17}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-488", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 39, "inferred": true, "date": "1902-08-08", "title": "Ratification of Creek Indians-U.S. Treaty", "type": "proclamation", "number": "488"}]}
{"id": "proc-781", "type": "proclamation", "number": "781", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-11-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Gila Cliff-Dwellings National Monument, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 781, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-781"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2162, "last_page": 2162, "cite": "35 Stat. 2162", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2162.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-11-16", "table_title": "Setting aside Gila Cliff-Dwellers National Monument, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America", "A Proclamation", "Whereas, the group of cliff-dwellings, known as the Gila Hot Springs Cliff-Houses, which is situated upon public land in the Mogollon Mountains, within the Gila National Forest, in the Territory of New Mexico, is of exceptional scientific and educational interest, being the best representative of the Cliff-Dwellers' remains of that region, and it appears that the public interest would be promoted by reserving these ruins as a National Monument, with as much land as may be necessary for the proper protection thereof;", "Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section two of the Act of Congress, approved June eighth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, \"An Act For the preservation of American antiquities,\" do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from appropriation and use of all kinds under all of the public land laws, subject to all prior valid adverse claims, and set apart as a National Monument, all the tracts of land, in the Territory of New Mexico, shown as the Gila Cliff-Dwellings National Monument on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The reservation made by this proclamation is not intended to prevent the use of the lands for forest purposes under the proclamation establishing the Gila National Forest, but so far as the two reservations are consistent they are equally effective. In all respects in which they may be inconsistent the National Monument hereby established shall be the dominant reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure or destroy any feature of this National Monument or 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 to be affixed.", "Done at the City of Washington this 16th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:\nELIHU ROOT, Secretary of State."], "source": "35 Stat. 2162 (GovInfo page image STATUTE-35-Pg2162, read at 200 dpi, with text layer), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Follows the Statutes at Large, not the American Presidency Project: reserving clause reads 'shown as' (APP has 'known as'); preamble ends with a semicolon. Hyphenation of cliff-dwellings/Cliff-Houses/Cliff-Dwellings/Cliff-Dwellers' is original. Markdown emphasis removed.", "story": 24}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Gila Cliff-Dwellings National Monument to protect the cliff houses in the Mogollon Mountains of New Mexico Territory, inside the Gila National Forest.", "categories": ["monuments"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Gila Cliff-Dwellings National Monument", "kind": "monument", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 5, "stories": [24], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-11-16", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Albuquerque Morning Journal ran the news under the headline \"GOVERNMENT PROTECTS GILA CLIFF DWELLINGS.\"", "source": "Albuquerque Morning Journal, November 29, 1907, p. 4", "date": "1907-11-29", "story": 24}, {"text": "The Deming Graphic praised the proclamation in an editorial paragraph as a wise act in the interest of archaeological science.", "source": "Deming Graphic, December 6, 1907, p. 1", "date": "1907-12-06", "story": 24}, {"text": "No notice in the national press has been found.", "source": "Chronicling America search, November 16 to December 31, 1907", "story": 24}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The monument grew out of Gila Forest Supervisor R. C. McClure's December 1906 report recommending a fence and gate across the mouth of Cliff Dweller Canyon.", "source": "Peter Russell, Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument: An Administrative History, ch. 1", "date": "1906-12", "story": 24}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "Guarding the monument became an unfunded, incidental duty of a forest ranger stationed seventeen miles away.", "source": "Peter Russell, Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument: An Administrative History", "story": 24}], "legacy": [{"text": "The proclamation protected a site already thoroughly looted within six years of its first recorded visit in 1878, but it kept the ground out of private hands for good.", "source": "Peter Russell, Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument: An Administrative History", "story": 24}, {"text": "A nominal custodian was appointed only in 1942, and the first full-time ranger arrived in early 1963.", "source": "Peter Russell, Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument: An Administrative History", "date": "1963", "story": 24}, {"text": "In June 1924 the Forest Service set aside the surrounding backcountry as the Gila Wilderness, which it calls the world's first area of land designated as wilderness.", "source": "U.S. Forest Service, Gila National Forest", "date": "1924-06", "story": 24}], "today": [{"name": "Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument", "kind": "national_monument", "relation": "origin", "state": "New Mexico", "since": "1907-11-16", "note": "Now 533 acres in two units; the only park system unit with Mogollon sites.", "source": "National Park Service", "story": 24}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1933-08-10", "text": "Executive Order 6166 (signed June 10, 1933) transferred the monument from Agriculture to the Interior Department.", "source": "Executive Order 6166", "story": 24}, {"date": "1962-04-17", "text": "Kennedy's Proclamation 3467 added about 375 acres, including the detached TJ Ruin unit, and removed the monument from Forest Service administration.", "source": "76 Stat. 1465", "story": 24}, {"date": "1975", "text": "A cooperative agreement returned day-to-day management to the Gila National Forest, with the Park Service keeping jurisdiction.", "source": "Peter Russell, Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument: An Administrative History", "story": 24}], "uncertain": ["Whether any lawsuit or formal objection followed is not known; court records were not searched.", "Whether the Silver City newspapers reported the proclamation cannot be tested, since their 1907 issues are not digitized.", "Whether the Forest Service relied on McClure's report alone in drawing the monument is not known.", "The current division of management between the Park Service and the Forest Service should be confirmed with the park."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-582", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The 1905 proclamation for the Gila Forest Reserve, within which the monument lay.", "story": 24, "date": "1905-07-21", "title": "Enlargement of the Gila Forest Reserve, New Mexico", "type": "proclamation", "number": "582"}]}
{"id": "eo-712", "type": "executive_order", "number": "712", "tr_sequence": 675, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-11-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Prescribing Same Extra Compensation for Marine Corps Signalmen as Received by Navy Signalmen", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_712", "revid": 1889021, "printed_source": "General Order No. 58, Navy Dept., December 9, 1907"}}, "text": null, "summary": "Gave Marine Corps signalmen the same extra pay that Navy signalmen received.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [95], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-11-16", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-713", "type": "executive_order", "number": "713", "tr_sequence": 676, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-11-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Carriage Drivers for President and Department Heads Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_713", "revid": 1871095, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 107"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["One driver of carriage, each, for the personal use of the President, the head of any Executive Department, the Secretary to the President, and such other drivers of carriages as may from time to time be authorized by competent authority, may be appointed without reference to the civil-service rules or the labor regulations."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 107)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, November 20, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed carriage drivers for the President, department heads and the Secretary to the President to be hired without civil-service rules or labor regulations.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [95], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-11-20", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-714", "type": "executive_order", "number": "714", "tr_sequence": 677, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-11-22", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Regulations to Govern the Employment of Unskilled Laborers Outside Washington, D.C.", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_714", "revid": 1871220, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 109"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The regulations governing the employment of unskilled laborers in Federal offices outside of Washington, D. C., promulgated December 12, 1904, are hereby amended by the addition of the following clause to Regulation IV, section 1, paragraph (a):", "The Commission may, however, in any civil-service district, certify from its register the three standing highest thereon shown by said register to possess the requisite qualifications for the position to be filled.", "As amended, paragraph (a) referred to will read:", "(a) The nominating or appointing officer shall request the certification of eligibles, specifying sex and principal duties of the position, and the board shall certify from the proper register the three names at the head thereof, of the sex specified, which may not have been certified three times to the office in which the vacancy exists. The Commission may, however, in any civil-service district, certify from its register the three standing highest thereon shown by said register to possess the requisite qualifications for the position to be filled."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 109)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, November 22, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed the Civil Service Commission, in any district, to certify the three highest qualified candidates from its register when filling unskilled laborer jobs in federal offices outside Washington, D.C.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [95], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-11-22", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "eo-285", "relation": "amends", "note": null, "story": 84, "inferred": true, "date": "1904-12-12", "title": "Regulations to Govern the Employment of Unskilled Laborers in the Federal Offices Outside of Washington, D. C.", "type": "executive_order", "number": "285"}]}
{"id": "eo-715", "type": "executive_order", "number": "715", "tr_sequence": 678, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-11-22", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Civil Service Commission to Waive Examination Requirements Under Certain Circumstances", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_715", "revid": 1895299, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 110"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["When transfers or promotions are properly applied for and are otherwise permissible, the Civil Service Commission is hereby authorized, in its discretion, looking to the good of the public service only, to waive requirements for examination and to substitute for such examination so waived such other tests of fitness and capacity as the Commission may decide.", "In each case where such waiver is made the reasons therefor shall be stated at length by the Commission and made matter of record in its minutes."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 110)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, November 22, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Gave the Civil Service Commission discretion to waive exams for permitted transfers and promotions and substitute other tests of fitness, with reasons recorded in its minutes.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [95], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-11-22", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-782", "type": "proclamation", "number": "782", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-11-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Prescott National Forest, Arizona", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 782, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-782"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2162, "last_page": 2163, "cite": "35 Stat. 2162–2163", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2162.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-11-26", "table_title": "Enlarging Prescott National Forest, Arizona."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Prescott National Forest certain lands, within the Territory of Arizona, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Prescott National Forest is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the aforesaid National Forest are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "2163 Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby enlarged which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves:” Provided, that lands heretofore restored to settlement or entry under the provisions of the foregoing act shall be excepted from the force and effect of this proclamation.", "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 26th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2162", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Prescott National Forest, Ariz.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 30, p. 1771.", "Vol. 31, p. 1956.", "National forest, Arizona.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Post, p. 2218.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233.", "Lands excepted."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Added timbered lands in the Territory of Arizona to the Prescott National Forest.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Prescott National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-11-26", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-716", "type": "executive_order", "number": "716", "tr_sequence": 679, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-11-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Adjusting Rules for Extra Pay for Navy Gun Pointers", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_716", "revid": 1888965, "printed_source": "General Order No. 57, Navy Dept., December 9, 1907"}}, "text": null, "summary": "Adjusted the rules for extra pay given to Navy gun pointers.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [95], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-11-28", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-x-1907-12-05", "type": "proclamation", "number": null, "date": "1907-12-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Announcing reciprocal commercial arrangement with Great Britain", "title_source": "Statutes at Large, list of proclamations", "date_notes": [], "numbering_note": "Printed in the Statutes at Large as a proclamation signed by Roosevelt, but not among the American Presidency Project's numbered Proclamations 465–871. Unverified: needs checking against the State Department's proclamation register.", "citations": {"statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2163, "last_page": 2164, "cite": "35 Stat. 2163", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2163.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-12-05"}}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS the Government of His Britannic Majesty has entered into a Commercial Agreement with the United States providing for the application of the minimum rate under the third section of the Tariff Act of the United States approved July 24, 1897, to works of art, being the product of the industry of the United Kingdom, in return for the free admission of samples of dutiable goods brought into the territory of the United Kingdom by commercial travelers of the United States, by which Agreement, in the judgment of the President, reciprocal and equivalent concessions are secured in favor of products of the United States;", "Therefore, be it known that I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority conferred by said Act of Congress, do hereby suspend during the continuance in force of said Agreement the imposition and collection of the duties imposed by the first section of said act upon the articles hereinafter specified, being the products of the industry of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and do declare in place thereof the rate of duty provided in the third section of said act to be in force, as follows:", "Paintings in oil or water colors, pastels, pen and ink drawing, and statuary, fifteen per centum ad valorum.", "In testimony 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 fifth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2163", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization; not proofread.", "marginal_notes": ["Reciprocity with Great Britain.", "Vol. 30, p. 203.", "Reducing duties on products of Great Britain.", "Vol. 30, p. 151.", "Vol. 30, p. 203.", "Articles affected.", "Agreement.", "Vol. 30, p. 203."]}, "summary": "Announced a commercial agreement with Great Britain lowering U.S. duties on British paintings, drawings and statuary to 15 percent, in return for free entry of American commercial travelers' samples.", "categories": ["trade-reciprocity", "foreign-affairs"], "action": "announce", "places": [{"name": "Great Britain", "kind": "country"}], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-12-05", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-717", "type": "executive_order", "number": "717", "tr_sequence": 680, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-12-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Granting Certain Employees of the Technologic Branch of the Geologic Survey All Rights of Classified Personnel Except Transfer", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_717", "revid": 1873287, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 112"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The persons named in the list of employees of the technologic branch of the Geological Survey, submitted to the Civil Service Commission by the Interior Department under date of November 22, 1907, may be given all the rights which they would have acquired if appointed thereto upon examination under the civil-service rules except that they shall not be transferred to positions outside of that branch."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 112)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, December 7, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Gave employees of the Geological Survey's technologic branch the rights of examined civil servants, except that they could not transfer outside that branch.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "grant", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [95], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-12-07", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-718", "type": "executive_order", "number": "718", "tr_sequence": 681, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-12-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing East Timbalier Island Reservation as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_718", "revid": 12439813, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that a small marshy island commonly known as East Timbalier Island, formerly a part of the military reservation abandoned for military purposes by Executive order of September 23, 1886, located in the Gulf of Mexico, State of Louisiana, approximately in latitude 29° 3′ north, longitude 90° 18′ west from Greenwich, as shown upon the United States Coast Survey Chart No. 197, and located within the area segregated by the broken line shown upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this order, is hereby reserved and set apart for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds. This reserve to be known as the East Timbalier Island Reservation."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, December 7, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved East Timbalier Island, a small marshy island in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana and once part of a military reservation, as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds.", "categories": ["wildlife"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "East Timbalier Island Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Louisiana"}], "states": ["Louisiana"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [95], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-12-07", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Oil infrastructure overran East Timbalier Island, and by early summer 2021 it had \"finally erod[ed] away,\" though Louisiana now lists its restoration among active projects.", "source": "USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2022–5107; CPRA Fiscal Year 2027 Annual Plan (March 2026)", "date": "2021", "story": 95}], "today": [{"name": "East Timbalier Island Reservation", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "abolished", "state": "Louisiana", "note": "Never renamed a National Wildlife Refuge; revoked in 1969.", "source": "Public Land Order 4597, 34 Fed. Reg. 6584", "story": 95}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1969-04-10", "text": "Assistant Secretary of the Interior Harrison Loesch revoked the reservation by Public Land Order 4597, under delegated authority.", "source": "34 Fed. Reg. 6584 (April 17, 1969)", "story": 95}, {"date": "2020-07", "text": "Louisiana's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority closed a restoration project at the design stage after a breach and rising costs, moving the money to other barrier-island work.", "source": "research entry", "story": 95}, {"date": "2026-03", "text": "The authority's Fiscal Year 2027 Annual Plan lists East Timbalier Island Restoration among active projects, in engineering and design.", "source": "CPRA, Fiscal Year 2027 Annual Plan (March 2026)", "story": 95}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-783", "type": "proclamation", "number": "783", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-12-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Monticello National Forest, Utah", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 783, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-783"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2164, "last_page": 2165, "cite": "35 Stat. 2164–2165", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2164.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-12-12", "table_title": "Enlarging Monticello National Forest, Utah."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Monticello National Forest certain lands, within the State of Utah, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Monticello National Forest is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands and that the boundaries of the aforesaid National Forest are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby enlarged which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any section, entry, or filing, which may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves:” Provided, that lands heretofore restored to settlement or entry under the provisions of the foregoing act shall be excepted from the force and effect of this proclamation.", "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 12th day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL.] seven, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2164", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Monticello National Forest, Utah.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34, p. 3272.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233.", "Lands excepted."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Monticello National Forest in Utah with additional timbered lands.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Monticello National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-12-12", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-784", "type": "proclamation", "number": "784", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-12-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart Vegas National Forest, Nevada", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 784, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-784"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2165, "last_page": 2166, "cite": "35 Stat. 2165–2166", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2165.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-12-12", "table_title": "Setting apart Vegas National Forest, Nevada."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Nevada, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by utilizing said lands as a National Forest;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An Act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from settlement or entry and set apart as a public reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Nevada, shown as the Vegas National Forest on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby established which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal: and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 12th day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL.] seven, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2165", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Vegas National Forest, Nev.", "Preamble.", "Post, p. 2216.", "National forest, Nevada.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Vegas National Forest on timbered public lands in Nevada, reserving them from settlement or entry.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Vegas National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Nevada"}], "states": ["Nevada"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-12-12", "impact": {"uncertain": ["Who asked for the Vegas forest, and how Nevada papers received it, is not known."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-785", "type": "proclamation", "number": "785", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-12-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Aquarius National Forest, Utah", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 785, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-785"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2166, "last_page": 2167, "cite": "35 Stat. 2166–2167", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2166.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-12-13", "table_title": "Enlarging Aquarius National Forest, Utah."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Aquarius National Forest certain lands, within the State of Utah, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Aquarius National Forest is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the aforesaid National Forest are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby enlarged which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves:” Provided, that lands heretofore restored to settlement or entry under the provisions of the foregoing act shall be excepted from the force and effect of this proclamation.", "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 13th day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2166", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Aquarius National Forest, Utah.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 33, p. 2320.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233.", "Lands excepted."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Added timbered lands in Utah to the Aquarius National Forest.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Aquarius National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-12-13", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-719", "type": "executive_order", "number": "719", "tr_sequence": 682, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-12-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Transfer of William McCambridge to Competitive Position in Interstate Commerce Commission Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_719", "revid": 1880523, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 131"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. William McCambridge, of Illinois, may be transferred without examination from the excepted to the competitive class in the Interstate Commerce Commission."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 131)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, December 13, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed William McCambridge of Illinois to move from the excepted to the competitive class at the Interstate Commerce Commission without an exam.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["Illinois"], "people": ["William McCambridge"], "significance": 1, "stories": [95], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-12-13", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-720", "type": "executive_order", "number": "720", "tr_sequence": 683, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-12-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Charles Earl, Commerce and Labor Dept. Solicitor, Designated to Act as Interior Sec'y During the Absence of the Sec'y, the Assistant Sec'y", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Designated Charles Earl, solicitor of the Department of Commerce and Labor, to serve as acting Secretary of the Interior while the Secretary and Assistant Secretary were away.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Charles Earl"], "significance": 1, "stories": [95], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-12-13", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-721", "type": "executive_order", "number": "721", "tr_sequence": 684, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-12-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Access to Historical Records of Executive Departments by Agents of Historical Research of the Carnegie Institution of Washington", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_721", "revid": 1889077, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Officers in the executive departments who have charge of archives or administrative records are instructed, in so far as public interests and departmental orders permit them to do so, to allow agents of the Department of Historical Research of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, bearing proper credentials from the Director of that Department, to have access to those papers, for historical purposes, at all times which are not inconvenient in respect to public business, and under such proper conditions as may be desired."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, December 14, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Told federal record keepers to give credentialed agents of the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of Historical Research access to departmental archives for historical research when convenient.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [95], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-12-14", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-722", "type": "executive_order", "number": "722", "tr_sequence": 685, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-12-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Extended Temporary Employment of Emily G. Stickney as Clerk Examiner in Bureau of Chemistry Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_722", "revid": 1880527, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 132"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The temporary appointment of Miss Emily G. Stickney as a clerk examiner in the Bureau of Chemistry, Department of Agriculture, which will expire by limitation on December 31, 1907, may be extended for such periods as may be necessary to make an appointment from the editorial clerk examination, which is to be held on January 8 and 9, 1908."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 132)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, December 17, 1907.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Emily G. Stickney's temporary job as clerk examiner in the Bureau of Chemistry to be extended until an appointment could be made from a January 1908 exam.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Emily G. Stickney"], "significance": 1, "stories": [95], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-12-17", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-723", "type": "executive_order", "number": "723", "tr_sequence": 686, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-12-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Providing for Examinations for Appointment in the United States Military and Naval Academies", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_723", "revid": 1871230, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 110"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Upon the request of any Member of Congress the United States Civil Service Commission shall aid in testing the qualifications of applicants for designation for appointment in the United States Military or Naval academies, so far as this may be done without thereby adding to the expenses of the Commission. Theodore Roosevelt The White House, December 17, 1907.", "== Notes == Amended by: Executive Order 5918, September 7, 1932 Revoked by: Executive Order 12553, February 25, 1986"], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 110)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "title_notes": ["The order directed the Civil Service Commission to help Members of Congress test the qualifications of applicants for designation to the academies, at no added expense to the Commission; it did not set up academy examinations outright."], "summary": "Directed the Civil Service Commission, at any member of Congress's request, to help test applicants for appointment to the U.S. Military and Naval academies, if no added expense resulted.", "categories": ["civil-service", "military-naval"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [95], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-12-17", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-786", "type": "proclamation", "number": "786", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-12-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart Arkansas National Forest, Arkansas", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 786, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-786"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2167, "last_page": 2168, "cite": "35 Stat. 2167–2168", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2167.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-12-18", "table_title": "Setting apart Arkansas National Forest, Arkansas."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Arkansas, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by utilizing said lands as a National Forest;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An Act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” do proclaim that there are hereby re- served from settlement or entry and set apart as a public reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Arkansas, shown as the Arkansas National Forest on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby established which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundrd and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 18 day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2167", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Arkansas National Forest, Ark.", "Preamble.", "Post, p. 2235.", "National forest, Arkansas.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart the Arkansas National Forest from timbered public lands in Arkansas, reserving them from settlement or entry.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Arkansas National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arkansas"}], "states": ["Arkansas"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-12-18", "impact": {"uncertain": ["Who asked for the Arkansas forest, and how Arkansas papers received it, is not known."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-787", "type": "proclamation", "number": "787", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-12-19", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of the Tonto National Monument, Arizona", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 787, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-787"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2168, "last_page": 2169, "cite": "35 Stat. 2168–2169", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2168.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-12-19", "table_title": "Setting aside Tonto National Monument, Arizona."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America", "A Proclamation", "Whereas, two prehistoric ruins of ancient cliff dwellings situated upon public lands of the United States, and located in the region commonly known as the Tonto Drainage Basin, about two miles south of the Salt River Reservoir, Gila County, Arizona, are of great ethnologic, scientific and educational interest, and it appears that the public interests would be promoted by reserving these relics of a vanished people as a National Monument with as much land as may be necessary for the proper protection thereof;", "Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section two of the Act of Congress approved June 8, 1906, entitled \"An Act for the Preservation of American Antiquities,\" do hereby set aside as the Tonto National Monument, subject to any valid interest or rights, the prehistoric cliff dwelling ruins and one section of land upon which same are located, situated in Gila County, Arizona, more particularly described as follows, to wit:", "Section thirty-four, unsurveyed, in township four north, range twelve east of the Gila and Salt River Meridian, Arizona, as shown upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this Proclamation.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, excavate, injure or destroy any of the prehistoric ruins or remains thereof declared to be a National Monument, or to locate or settle upon any of the lands reserved and made a part of said monument by this Proclamation.", "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 19th day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:\nELIHU ROOT, Secretary of State."], "source": "35 Stat. 2168–2169 (GovInfo page images), 2026-08-22; American Presidency Project transcription found faithful", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Typographic differences in the Statutes printing: '[SEAL.]' appears inline between 'one thousand nine hundred and seven,' and 'and of the Independence'; 'Now, therefore' with lowercase t; comma after 'United States of America' in the opening display line; countersignature on two lines without the comma. Markdown emphasis removed.", "story": 25}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created Tonto National Monument to protect two prehistoric cliff-dwelling ruins in Gila County, Arizona, about two miles south of the Salt River Reservoir, along with one section of land.", "categories": ["monuments"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Tonto National Monument", "kind": "monument", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 5, "stories": [25], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-12-19", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "No newspaper coverage of the monument has been found, even in the digitized Daily Arizona Silver Belt of Globe, the Gila County seat.", "source": "Chronicling America, 1907-08; California Digital Newspaper Collection, Dec. 1907-Mar. 1908", "story": 25}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The monument was placed under the Forest Service, which held it until 1933, though the ground lay outside the Tonto National Forest until January 1908.", "source": "35 Stat. 2176; research entry", "date": "1907-12-19", "story": 25}], "legacy": [{"text": "The ruins were lightly guarded for two decades; the Forest Service and the Southern Pacific built the first road to them in 1929.", "source": "Nancy L. Dallett, At the Confluence of Change (2008)", "date": "1929", "story": 25}, {"text": "Unsupervised visitors and vandals damaged the cliff dwellings at some point between the 1880s and the early 1930s; surviving records cannot fix when.", "source": "Dallett, At the Confluence of Change, p. 111", "story": 25}, {"text": "The first Park Service ranger, Charlie Steen, arrived in 1934.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1934", "story": 25}], "today": [{"name": "Tonto National Monument", "kind": "national_monument", "relation": "origin", "state": "Arizona", "since": "1907-12-19", "note": "Now 1,120 acres: the original 640 plus 480 added in 1937.", "source": "Proc. 2230, 50 Stat. 1825", "story": 25}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1929", "text": "The Forest Service and the Southern Pacific built a road, parking area and trail to the Lower Cliff Dwelling.", "source": "Nancy L. Dallett, At the Confluence of Change (2008)", "story": 25}, {"date": "1933-08-10", "text": "Executive Order 6166 (signed June 10, 1933) transferred the monument to the National Park Service.", "source": "Executive Order 6166", "story": 25}, {"date": "1937-04-01", "text": "Franklin Roosevelt's Proclamation 2230 added about 480 acres from the Tonto National Forest and placed the monument under the Park Service director.", "source": "50 Stat. 1825", "story": 25}], "uncertain": ["Who first proposed Tonto as a national monument is not known.", "Whether the proclamation met any objection is not known; government correspondence has not been read.", "The Arizona Gazette, New York Times and Washington Post were not searched for coverage."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-598", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The 1905 Tonto Forest Reserve, whose boundary left the monument's township outside it.", "story": 25, "date": "1905-10-03", "title": "Establishment of the Tonto Forest Reserve, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "598"}, {"id": "proc-795", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The January 1908 forest enlargement that brought the adjoining quarter-sections into the Tonto National Forest.", "story": 25, "date": "1908-01-13", "title": "Enlarging Tonto National Forest, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "795"}]}
{"id": "proc-788", "type": "proclamation", "number": "788", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-12-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging San Gabriel National Forest, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 788, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-788"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2169, "last_page": 2170, "cite": "35 Stat. 2169–2170", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2169.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-12-23", "table_title": "Enlarging San Gabriel National Forest, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the San Gabriel National Forest certain lands, within the State of California, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 San Gabriel National Forest is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the aforesaid National Forest are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation ail lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby enlarged which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement 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 to be affixed.", "Done at the City of Washington this 23rd day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2169", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["San Gabriel National Forest, Cal.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 27, p. 1049.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Added timbered lands in California to the San Gabriel National Forest.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "San Gabriel National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-12-23", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-789", "type": "proclamation", "number": "789", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1907-12-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart Verde National Forest, Arizona", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 789, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-789"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2170, "last_page": 2171, "cite": "35 Stat. 2170–2171", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2170.pdf", "statutes_date": "1907-12-30", "table_title": "Setting apart Verde National Forest, Arizona."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the Territory of Arizona, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by utilizing said lands as a National Forest;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An Act To repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from settlement or entry and set apart as a public reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the Territory of Arizona, shown as the Verde National Forest on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made, pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the national forest hereby established which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation; and provided also that since the withdrawal made by this proclama- tion and any withdrawal heretofore made for national irrigation works are consistent, both shall be effective upon the land withdrawn, but the withdrawal for national irrigation works shall be the dominant one and may, when necessary, be changed to a withdrawal for irrigation from such works.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 30th day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL.] seven, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2170", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Verde National Forest, Ariz.", "Preamble.", "National forest, Arizona.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Lands for irrigation.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart the Verde National Forest from timbered public lands in the Territory of Arizona.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Verde National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [67], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1907-12-30", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-724", "type": "executive_order", "number": "724", "tr_sequence": 687, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-01-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Instructions to Diplomatic Officers of 1897, Paragraph 42, and Consular Regulations of 1896, Paragraph 441, Amended to Define Relative Rank of Diplomatic Officers", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Amended the 1897 diplomatic instructions and 1896 consular regulations to define the relative rank of diplomatic officers.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs", "government-administration"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-01-03", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-725", "type": "executive_order", "number": "725", "tr_sequence": 688, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-01-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Executive Order No. 527 of November 17, 1906, Newly Defining the Powers of the Isthmian Canal Commission and Its Chairman", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_725", "revid": 12352757, "printed_source": "1 Canal Record 161, January 22, 1908"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The Executive Order of November 17, 1906, is hereby modified as follows:", "The Commission shall hold sessions upon the Isthmus at the call of the Chairman. Four members shall constitute a quorum and the action of such majority shall be the action of the Commission.", "The Commission, under the supervision of the Secretary of War and subject to the approval of the President, is charged with the general duty of the adoption of plans for the construction and maintenance of the canal; with the employment and the fixing of the compensation of engineers or other persons necessary for the proper and expeditious prosecution of said work; with the making of all contracts for the construction of the canal or any of its needful accessories; with the duty of making to the President annually, or at such other periods as may be required either by law or the order of the President, full and complete reports of all their actings and doings and of all moneys received and expended in the construction of said work and in the performance of their duties in connection therewith; and with the duty of advising and assisting the Chairman in the execution of the work of canal construction, with the government and sanitation of the Canal Zone and with all matters of sanitation in the cities of Panama and Colon and the harbors thereof, and with the purchase and delivery of supplies, machinery and necessary plant.", "For the proper prosecution of the work, the organization shall be divided by the Chairman, with the approval of the Secretary of War or the President, into such Departments as seem advisable.", "Among such Departments shall be a Department of Construction and Engineering, which may be subdivided into Divisions in the discretion of the Chairman, who will also be the Chief Engineer.", "A Department of Civil Administration, charged with the duty of administering the civil government within the Canal Zone.", "A Department of Law, charged with the general supervision of the legal matters pertaining to the Commission, whether in the United States or on the Isthmus of Panama, including the acquisition of right of way and the adjustment of land damages.", "A Department of Sanitation, charged with the duty of preserving the sanitation and health conditions upon the Isthmus.", "A Purchasing Department, charged with the purchase of all supplies, machinery and necessary plant.", "A Department of Disbursements, charged with the preparation of vouchers and the disbursement of funds for the Commission, and with the keeping of the general books of the Commission, upon the Isthmus.", "A Department of Examination of Accounts, charged with the duty of examining into and checking the accounts of the persons charged with the custody and disposition of the property and funds of the Commission.", "A Department charged with the duty of employing the necessary common labor for the Commission; with the keeping of the personal records of employes; with the care of quarters; and with the operation of Commission hotels and mess-houses.", "Each of the foregoing Departments shall discharge such further duties as may be assigned to it from time to time by the Chairman; and the Chairman, with the approval of the Secretary of War or the President, may transfer from time to time specific duties from one Department to another.", "The Heads of the several Departments shall be appointed by and report to the Chairman, and their salaries, except as otherwise provided, shall be fixed by him, subject to the disapproval of the Commission.", "Officers and employes in the several Departments shall be appointed and their salaries primarily fixed by the head of the department in which they are engaged, after consultation with the Chairman of the Commission.", "Contracts for the purchase of supplies, involving an estimated expenditure exceeding $10,000.00, shall be made only after due public advertisement in newspapers of general circulation, and shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder, except in case of emergency, when, with the approval of the Secretary of War, advertising may be dispensed with.", "In the making of contracts for supplies or construction involving an estimated expenditure of more than $1,000.00 and less than $10,000.00, competitive bids shall be secured by invitation or advertisement whenever practicable.", "The Head of each Department shall make a report upon the work and operation of his Department to the Chairman of the Commission as often as may be required.", "The Chairman of the Commission shall make a report to the Secretary of War setting forth the results accomplished by each Department of the work at least annually, and as often as he may deem advisable or the Secretary may require.", "The Secretary of War shall make to the President a report at least annually and as often as he may deem advisable or the President may require.", "All members of the Commission shall reside upon the Isthmus, except when on leave of absence, which will be granted to members of the Commission by the Chairman and to the Chairman by the Secretary of War.", "In case of absence from the Isthmus, the Chairman will designate a member of the Commission to act in his stead.", "All Executive orders relating to the Panama Canal, excepting so far as they may be inconsistent with the present Order, remain in force.", "Effective this date, January 6, 1908."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1 Canal Record 161, January 22, 1908)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House January 6, 1908. ==Enclosure== War Department, Washington, January 5, 1908. My Dear Mr. President: I enclose herewith a form of Executive Order for your signature, defining the duties of the Isthmian Canal Commission, the duties of the Chairman of the Commission, and the duties of the Secretary of War in relation to Canal matters. This order makes substantially no change in the authority of the Commission, the Chairman and Secretary of War as now exercised, except perhaps in respect to a few duties of a detailed executive character which are transferred from the Commission to the Chairman, leaving the Commission still in general charge of the construction of the Canal, as provided by law. Canal matters have been conducted under previous Executive Orders with informal amendments from time to time which it is difficult for anyone not very familiar with the history of Canal matters either to find or understand. For that reason, it seems wise now to cover the matter by a new order which is not an amendment or a change except as to the unimportant details referred to, but merely a comprehensive revision of existing provisions. Very sincerely yours, Wm. H. Taft. The President. Enclosure. == Notes == Amends: Executive Order 527, November 17, 1906 See Related: Executive Order 317-A, April 1, 1905", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reorganized the Isthmian Canal Commission, setting a quorum, assigning its duties under the Secretary of War, and having the Chairman, also Chief Engineer, divide the work into departments such as construction, civil administration, law and sanitation.", "categories": ["canal-zone", "government-administration"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-01-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-726", "type": "executive_order", "number": "726", "tr_sequence": 689, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-01-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Civil Service Rules Section A, Subdivision IX, Amended to Allow Appointment of Shipping Commissioners in Certain Ports (Revoked by EO 733)", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Amended the civil-service rules to allow appointment of shipping commissioners at certain ports; later revoked by Executive Order 733.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-01-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-790", "type": "proclamation", "number": "790", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-01-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging San Bernardino National Forest, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 790, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-790"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2171, "last_page": 2172, "cite": "35 Stat. 2171–2172", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2171.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-01-07", "table_title": "Enlarging San Bernardino National Forest, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the San Bernardino National Forest certain lands, within the State of California, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 San Bernardino National Forest is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the aforesaid National Forest are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby enlarged which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which may have been permitted to remain if record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation; and provided also that since the withdrawal made by this proclamation and any withdrawal heretofore made for national irrigation works are consistent, both shall be effective upon the land withdrawn, but the withdrawal for national irrigation works shall be the dominant one and may, when necessary, be changed to a withdrawal for irrigation from such works.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement 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 to be affixed.", "Done at the City of Washington this 7th day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2171", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["San Bernardino National Forest, Cal.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 27, p. 1068.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Lands for irrigation.", "Reserved from settlement."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the San Bernardino National Forest in California with additional timbered lands.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "San Bernardino National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [71], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-01-07", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "San Bernardino National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "California", "source": "research entry", "story": 71}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-727", "type": "executive_order", "number": "727", "tr_sequence": 690, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-01-08", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Continued Retention of Fifteen Temporary Indian Service Employees Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_727", "revid": 1873357, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 113"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The 15 persons employed under irrigation engineers in the Indian service, carried on the rolls of the disbursing officer as irregular employees outside the classified service, of which a list has been furnished the Civil Service Commission by the Secretary of the Interior, may be continued as a temporary expedient until other arrangements can be made; but no addition shall be made to this force of employees, except in accordance with the civil-service rules; nor shall the present employees be transferred to positions outside this force."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 113)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, January 8, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let 15 irregular employees working under irrigation engineers in the Indian service stay on temporarily without civil-service rules, but barred adding to the force or transferring them.", "categories": ["civil-service", "indian-lands"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-01-08", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-728", "type": "executive_order", "number": "728", "tr_sequence": 691, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-01-08", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Continued Retention of 126 Union Agency Employees Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_728", "revid": 1873365, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 113"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The 126 employees of the Union Agency, of which a list has been furnished the Civil Service Commission by the Secretary of the Interior, and who are carried in the agent's accounts as irregular labor outside the classified service, may be continued without examination under the civil-service rules as a temporary expedient in view of the impossibility of dispensing with or changing the present force. No addition shall, however, be made to the force, except in accordance with the civil-service rules; nor shall the present employees be transferred to positions outside of that agency."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 113)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, January 8, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed 126 irregular employees of the Union Agency to remain temporarily without civil-service exams, while barring new additions to the force or transfers out of the agency.", "categories": ["civil-service", "indian-lands"], "action": "other", "places": [{"name": "Union Agency", "kind": "other"}], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-01-08", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-791", "type": "proclamation", "number": "791", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-01-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Diminishing Blue Mountains National Forest, Oregon", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 791, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-791"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2172, "last_page": 2173, "cite": "35 Stat. 2172–2173", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2172.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-01-09", "table_title": "Diminishing Blue Mountains National Forest, Oregon."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by excluding certain lands, in the State of Oregon, from the Blue Mountains National Forest, set apart and reserved by public proclamation dated March second, nineteen hundred and two;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 aforesaid proclamation is hereby modified and that the boundaries of the aforesaid Blue Mountains National Forest are hereby changed to exclude therefrom such lands, and are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The lands hereby excluded from the Blue Mountains National Forest which are not embraced in any other withdrawal, reservation, or appropriation, shall be restored to the public domain and become subject to settlement under the general provisions of the homestead laws on such date and after such notice by publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, but shall not become subject to entry, filing, selection, or other form of appropriation until the expiration of thirty days from the date so fixed, and no person will be permitted to gain or exercise any right whatever under any settlement or occupation begun prior to such date, and all such settlement and occupation are hereby forbidden.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands in the National Forest as reduced by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 9th day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2172", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Blue Mountains National Forest, Oreg.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34, pp. 3194, 3302.", "Boundaries modified.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Lands restored to public domain.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Removed certain lands in Oregon from the Blue Mountains National Forest and set terms for restoring them to homestead settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "reduce", "places": [{"name": "Blue Mountains National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}], "states": ["Oregon"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [71], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-01-09", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Six months after this proclamation trimmed it, the Blue Mountains forest was divided by executive orders of June 13, 1908 among the new Whitman, Malheur, Umatilla and Deschutes forests.", "source": "FS-612", "date": "1908-06-13", "story": 71}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Blue Mountains name lasted only until July 1, 1908.", "source": "FS-612", "date": "1908-07-01", "story": 71}], "today": [{"name": "Blue Mountains National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "abolished", "state": "Oregon", "note": "Divided among the Whitman, Malheur, Umatilla and Deschutes forests, effective July 1, 1908.", "source": "FS-612", "story": 71}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-618", "relation": "reduces", "note": "Excluded land from the Blue Mountains reserve set apart in 1906.", "story": 71, "date": "1906-03-15", "title": "Setting Apart the Blue Mountains Forest Reserve, Oregon", "type": "proclamation", "number": "618"}, {"id": "eo-813", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "Created the Whitman forest from part of the Blue Mountains.", "story": 71, "date": "1908-06-13", "title": "Whitman National Forest, Oregon, Created", "type": "executive_order", "number": "813"}, {"id": "eo-814", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "Created the Malheur forest from part of the Blue Mountains.", "story": 71, "date": "1908-06-13", "title": "Malheur National Forest, Oregon, Created", "type": "executive_order", "number": "814"}, {"id": "eo-815", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "Created the Umatilla forest from part of the Blue Mountains.", "story": 71, "date": "1908-06-13", "title": "Umatilla National Forest, Oregon, Created", "type": "executive_order", "number": "815"}, {"id": "eo-816", "relation": "superseded_by", "note": "Created the Deschutes forest from part of the Blue Mountains.", "story": 71, "date": "1908-06-13", "title": "Deschutes National Forest, Oregon, Created", "type": "executive_order", "number": "816"}]}
{"id": "proc-792", "type": "proclamation", "number": "792", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-01-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Monterey National Forest, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 792, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-792"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2173, "last_page": 2174, "cite": "35 Stat. 2173–2174", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2173.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-01-09", "table_title": "Enlarging Monterey National Forest, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Monterey National Forest certain lands, within the State of California, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Monterey National Forest is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the aforesaid National Forest are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby enlarged which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation; and provided also that since the withdrawal made by this proclamation and any withdrawal heretofore made for national irrigation works are consistent, both shall be effective upon the land withdrawn, but the withdrawal for national irrigation works shall be the dominant one and may, when necessary, be changed to a withdrawal for irrigation from such works.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves:” Provided, that lands heretofore restored to settlement or entry under the provisions of the foregoing act shall be excepted from the force and effect of this proclamation.", "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 9th day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2173", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Monterey National Forest, Cal.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34. p. 3218.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Lands for irrigation.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233.", "Lands excepted."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Added timbered lands in California to the Monterey National Forest.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Monterey National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [71], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-01-09", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Monterey forest became the Santa Barbara in 1919 and part of Los Padres in 1936.", "source": "FS-612", "date": "1936", "story": 71}], "today": [{"name": "Los Padres National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "California", "source": "FS-612", "story": 71}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-793", "type": "proclamation", "number": "793", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-01-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Aside Muir Woods National Monument, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 793, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-793"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2174, "last_page": 2175, "cite": "35 Stat. 2174–2175", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2174.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-01-09", "table_title": "Setting aside Muir Woods National Monument, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, William Kent and his wife, Elizabeth Thatcher Kent, of the City of Chicago, in County of Cook in the State of Illinois, did, on December 26, 1907, pursuant to the Act of Congress entitled, “An Act for the preservation of American Antiquities,” approved June 8, 1906, by their certain deed of relinquishment and conveyance, properly executed in writing and acknowledged, relinquish, remise, convey and forever quitclaim to the United States of America the following mentioned lands at that time held by them in private ownership and lying and being in Township One North, of Range Six West, Mt. Diablo Meridian, in the County of Marin, in the State of California, and bounded and particularly described as follows, to-wit: Beginning at a stake “A.7” driven in the center of the road in Redwood Canon and located by the following courses and distances from the point of commencement of the tract of land, which was conveyed by the Tamalpais Land and Water Company to William Kent by a deed dated August 29th, 1905, and recorded in the office of the County Recorder of Marin County, California, Book 95 of Deeds at page 58, to-wit:—North eighteen degrees thirty-two minutes East two hundred thirty-two and sixty-four hundredths feet, North sixty-six degrees thirty minutes West one hundred sixty-seven and thirty-four hundredths feet, North eighty-six degrees twenty-five minutes West ninety-eight and sixty-two hundredths feet, North seventy degrees no minutes, West two hundred forty-one and seven hundredths feet, North fifty-seven degrees twenty-nine minutes West one hundred seventy-eight and three hundredths feet; North forty-six degrees twenty-two minutes West two hundred thirty-five and thirty-nine hundredths feet and North twenty-four degrees twenty-five minutes West two hundred twenty-five and fifty-six hundredths feet; thence from said stake “A.7.”, the point of beginning, South fifty-four degrees nineteen minutes West fourteen hundred eighty-two and seven tenths feet to Station A.8 from which Station 4 of the survey of the tract of land conveyed to William Kent as aforesaid bears south fifty-four degrees nineteen minutes west three hundred ten feet distant; thence from said Station A.8. North forty-seven degrees thirty minutes West twenty-six hundred eighty feet; thence due West six hundred fifty and eight tenths feet; thence North fifty-two degrees thirty minutes West eleven hundred feet; thence North nineteen degrees forty-five minutes West ten hundred fifty-eight and four tenths feet to Station A.12. from which Station 16 of the Survey of the tract of land conveyed to William Kent as aforesaid bears South eighty-three degrees forty-two minutes West three hundred ten feet distant; thence North eighty-three degrees forty-two minutes East thirty-one hundred nine and two tenths feet; thence north fifty-five degrees twenty-eight minutes East fifteen hundred fifty feet to an iron bolt, three-quarters of an inch in diameter and thirty inches long, Station 14; thence South seventeen degrees eighteen minutes East twenty-eight hundred twenty and nine tenths feet; thence South four degrees ten minutes East nine hundred thirty feet to a stake “A.16” driven in the center of a graded road; and thence South forty-five degrees seventeen minutes West two hundred ninety-eight and five tenths feet to said stake A.7. the place of beginning. Containing an area of two hundred ninety-five acres a little more or less, and,", "WHEREAS, said relinquishment and conveyance has been accepted by the Secretary of the Interior in the manner and for the purposes prescribed in said Act of Congress, and", "WHEREAS, an extensive growth of redwood trees (Sequoia sempervirens) embraced in said land is of extraordinary scientific interest and importance because of the primeval character of the forest in which it is located, and of the character, age and size of the trees,", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of United States of America, by virtue of the power and authority in me vested by Section 2 of said Act of Congress, do hereby declare and proclaim that said grove and all of the land hereinbefore described and fully delineated on the diagram hereto attached and made a part hereof, are hereby reserved from appropriation and use of all kinds under all the public land laws of the United States and set apart as a National Monument, to be known and recognized as the Muir Woods National Monument.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, cut, injure, destroy or take away any trees on said land and not to locate or settle upon any of said land.", "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 9th day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2174", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Muir Woods National Monument, Cal.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34, p. 225.", "Description.", "National monument, California.", "Reserved from settlement, etc."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Accepted land in Marin County, California, donated by William Kent and Elizabeth Thatcher Kent, and set it aside as Muir Woods National Monument.", "categories": ["monuments"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Muir Woods National Monument", "kind": "monument", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": ["William Kent", "Elizabeth Thatcher Kent"], "significance": 5, "stories": [4], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-01-09", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The gift drew applause and no controversy: it cost the treasury nothing and made a private donor the hero.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1908", "story": 4}, {"text": "John Muir wrote Kent that the gift was \"in many ways the most notable service to God & man I've heard of since my forest wanderings began.\"", "source": "John Muir to William Kent, February 6, 1908, Kent Family Papers, Yale, MS 309", "date": "1908-02-06", "story": 4}, {"text": "Roosevelt offered to name the monument for Kent; Kent declined, and Roosevelt replied, \"By George! you are right.\"", "source": "Roosevelt to Kent, January 22 and February 5, 1908; Kent to Roosevelt, January 30, 1908", "date": "1908-02-05", "story": 4}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "court", "text": "The North Coast Water Company pressed its condemnation suit for nearly a year after the land became federal, but Kent was never served and the suit was never tried.", "source": "Elizabeth Thacher Kent, \"Biography of William Kent, Independent\" (c. 1950); letter of Kent's law firm, December 21, 1908", "date": "1908-12", "story": 4}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "Interior Secretary Garfield approved no funding for the monument for more than nine months while the suit hung over it.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1908", "story": 4}, {"kind": "political", "text": "Kent asked Roosevelt to have the district attorney \"use every possible means to prevent the destruction of a single tree,\" and Roosevelt answered at once.", "source": "Kent to Roosevelt, September 22, 1908", "date": "1908-09-22", "story": 4}, {"kind": "local", "text": "The water company engineered a four-day water shortage in Mill Valley to build pressure; residents saw it was deliberate and it backfired.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1908-10", "story": 4}], "legacy": [{"text": "Muir Woods was the tenth national monument and the first established on land donated to the United States under the Antiquities Act.", "source": "Ronald F. Lee, The Story of the Antiquities Act", "story": 4}, {"text": "As a congressman, Kent became a leading champion of the 1913 Raker Act damming Yosemite's Hetch Hetchy Valley, a break that cost him Muir's friendship.", "source": "research entry; Kent to Rep. Sydney Anderson, July 2, 1913", "date": "1913", "story": 4}, {"text": "Delegates to the United Nations founding conference held a memorial to Franklin Roosevelt in Cathedral Grove; no proclamation or order designated the site.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1945-05-19", "story": 4}, {"text": "It is the only old-growth coast redwood forest in the San Francisco Bay Area, with 756,573 recreation visits in 2025.", "source": "National Park Service visitation statistics", "date": "2025", "story": 4}], "today": [{"name": "Muir Woods National Monument", "kind": "national_monument", "relation": "origin", "state": "California", "since": "1908-01-09", "note": "The only old-growth coast redwood forest in the San Francisco Bay Area.", "source": "National Park Service", "story": 4}], "uncertain": ["Why the proclamation calls the Kents \"of the City of Chicago\" when they had moved to Kentfield, California, in 1907 is not known.", "The sent wording of Muir's February 6, 1908 letter rests on NPS transcriptions of the undigitized original at Yale."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-796", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 26, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-01-16", "title": "Setting Aside Pinnacles National Monument, California", "type": "proclamation", "number": "796"}]}
{"id": "eo-729", "type": "executive_order", "number": "729", "tr_sequence": 692, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-01-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Canal Zone Penal Code Regarding Certain Misdemeanors", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_729", "revid": 12438645, "printed_source": "1 Canal Record 171, January 29, 1908"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Under authority vested in me by law, it is ordered:", "That Title XIV of Act No. 14 of the Penal Code of the Laws of the Canal Zone be amended, effective January 15, 1908, by adding thereto the following section:", "Sub-section 1. Every vagrant or person found within the Canal Zone without legitimate business or visible means of support; and", "Sub-section 2. Every mendicant or habitual beggar found within the Canal Zone; and", "Sub-section 3. Every person found within or loitering about any laborers' camp, mess house, quarters, or other Isthmian Canal Commission building, or any railroad car, or station or other building of the Panama Railroad Company, or any dwelling or other building owned by any private person, without due and proper authority and permission so to be; or peddling goods or merchandise about any laborers' camp or mess house daring hours when laborers are ordinarily employed at work, or in or about places where groups of men are at work; and", "Sub-section 4. Every person found in the Canal Zone in an intoxicated condition or under the influence of liquor; and", "Sub-section 5. Every person who shall, in the Canal Zone, engage in any kind of disorderly conduct or breach or disturbance of the peace; shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $25, or by imprisonment in jail not to exceed 30 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1 Canal Record 171, January 29, 1908)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, January 9, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Added misdemeanors to the Canal Zone penal code for vagrancy, begging, loitering around canal camps and buildings, public drunkenness and disorderly conduct, punishable by up to $25 or 30 days in jail.", "categories": ["canal-zone"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-01-09", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-730", "type": "executive_order", "number": "730", "tr_sequence": 693, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-01-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Canal Zone Regulations Regarding Unclaimed Property Held by Common Carriers", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_730", "revid": 1901416, "printed_source": "1 Canal Record 171, January 29, 1908"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Under authority vested in me by law, it is ordered:", "Whenever there shall remain in the possession of any common carrier within the Canal Zone any freight, baggage, or other property, transported by or deposited with the common carrier at any point in the Canal Zone, which shall have remained unclaimed by the owner or consignee for a period of six months, and upon which there shall remain unpaid or shall have accumulated freight charges or charges for handling and storage, it shall be lawful for the common carrier to sell the same at public auction, at some designated point within the Canal Zone, after having advertised the sale, with a short description of the property to be sold, for a period of three weeks in some newspaper of general circulation within the Canal Zone.", "In all cases where any such property is of a perishable character, the carrier shall be authorized to apply to any judge of the circuit court within the Canal Zone, or, if the property shall be of less value than one hundred dollars, to any district judge within the Canal Zone, upon an affidavit describing briefly the property to be sold, its unclaimed state, and its perishable character for an order for an immediate sale, upon such terms as to notice as the nature of the case may admit of, and as to such court or courts as shall seem proper.", "Before advertising the property for sale the same shall be opened by the carrier, and if it contains any indication of the owner or consignee, a written notice of the existence of the unclaimed property and of the intention to sell the same at public auction shall be mailed by the carrier to the owner or consignee, at any indicated address, four weeks before the date of actual sale.", "The residue of moneys received from such sale under the foregoing sections, after deducting the accumulated charges for transportation, cost of handling and storage, demurrage, and the cost and expense of the proceedings authorizing the advertising and sale, shall be held for a period of three years, and shall be paid to the owner of such freight, baggage or other property, on demand. If at the end of the three-year period the said residue shall not have been claimed by the owner, it shall be paid into the Treasury of the Canal Zone Government, to the credit of the public school fund."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1 Canal Record 171, January 29, 1908)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, January 9, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed common carriers in the Canal Zone to auction freight, baggage or other property left unclaimed for six months with unpaid charges, after advertising the sale.", "categories": ["canal-zone"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-01-09", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-731", "type": "executive_order", "number": "731", "tr_sequence": 694, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-01-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Canal Zone Laws Regarding Composition of Judicial Circuits", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_731", "revid": 1901421, "printed_source": "1 Canal Record 171, January 29, 1908"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Under authority vested in me by law, it is ordered:", "That Section 22 of Act No. 1 of the Laws of the Canal Zone is hereby amended to read as follows:", "Section 22—The Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama, shall be divided into three Judicial Circuits.", "The First Judicial Circuit shall be composed of the Administrative District of Ancon. The Second Judicial Circuit shall consist of the Administrative Districts of Emperador and Gorgona. The Third Judicial Circuit shall be composed of the Administrative Districts of Cristobal."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1 Canal Record 171, January 29, 1908)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, January 9, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Divided the Canal Zone into three judicial circuits built from the administrative districts of Ancon, Emperador and Gorgona, and Cristobal.", "categories": ["canal-zone"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-01-09", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-732", "type": "executive_order", "number": "732", "tr_sequence": 695, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-01-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Applying Law No. 6 of the Republic of Panama, Regarding Exclusion of Certain Aliens, to the Canal Zone", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_732", "revid": 1901425, "printed_source": "1 Canal Record 171, January 29, 1908"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Under authority vested in me by law, it is ordered:", "That, until further ordered, Law No. 6, of March 11, 1904, of the Republic of Panama, as applied and construed by the Executive Decree of April 15, 1904, is hereby extended to and made applicable to the Canal Zone.", "The fines provided for in the said law shall apply to any company or individual who shall omit to prevent the escape of any transient of the nationality named in said law into the Canal Zone, and shall in all cases be imposed by the court of the Canal Zone district in which the violation of the law occurs, upon information of the Collector of Revenue or of the Prosecuting Attorney of the Canal Zone.", "This order shall not apply to any individuals introduced by the Isthmian Canal Commission or by its authority, for the purpose of temporarily laboring upon or in connection with the construction of the Isthmian Canal."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1 Canal Record 171, January 29, 1908)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, January 9, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Extended a 1904 Republic of Panama law excluding certain aliens to the Canal Zone, with fines for companies or individuals who let such travelers escape into the Zone, exempting workers brought in for canal construction.", "categories": ["canal-zone", "foreign-affairs"], "action": "regulate", "places": [{"name": "Panama", "kind": "country"}], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-01-09", "impact": {"later_actions": [{"date": "1917-02-06", "text": "Woodrow Wilson's Executive Order 2526 repealed the extension of Panama's Chinese exclusion law to the Canal Zone and substituted a Zone-specific exclusion regime.", "source": "Executive Order 2526", "story": 96}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-794", "type": "proclamation", "number": "794", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-01-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Aside Grand Canyon National Monument, Arizona", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 794, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-794"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2175, "last_page": 2176, "cite": "35 Stat. 2175–2176", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2175.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-01-11", "table_title": "Setting aside Grand Canyon National Monument, Arizona."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America", "A Proclamation", "Whereas, the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, which is situated upon public land within the Grand Canyon National Forest, in the Territory of Arizona, is an object of unusual scientific interest, being the greatest eroded canyon within the United States, and it appears that the public interests would be promoted by reserving it as a National Monument, with such other land as is necessary for its proper protection;", "Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section two of the Act of Congress, approved June eighth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, \"An Act For the preservation of American antiquities,\" do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from appropriation and use of all kinds under all of the public land laws, subject to all prior valid adverse claims, and set apart as a National Monument, all the tracts of land, in the Territory of Arizona, shown as the Grand Canyon National Monument on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The reservation made by this proclamation is not intended to prevent the use of the lands for forest purposes under the proclamation establishing the Grand Canyon National Forest, but the two reservations shall both be effective on the land withdrawn, but the National Monument hereby established shall be the dominant reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure or destroy any feature of this National Monument or 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 to be affixed.", "Done at the City of Washington this 11th day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:", "ELIHU ROOT, Secretary of State."], "source": "35 Stat. 2175 (Statutes at Large), 2026-08-21; base transcription from the American Presidency Project", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Text as given by the American Presidency Project (italics removed). Only typographic variance from the Statutes printing: Statutes sets \"WHEREAS\" in full capitals and \"Now, therefore,\" with a lowercase t. The proclamation reads \"within the United States\"; \"if not in the world\" is Justice Van Devanter's gloss in Cameron v. United States, not proclamation text.", "story": 3}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Proclaimed the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, described as the greatest eroded canyon in the United States, a national monument within the Grand Canyon National Forest in Arizona Territory.", "categories": ["monuments"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Grand Canyon National Monument", "kind": "monument", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 5, "stories": [3], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-01-11", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "Opponents seized on the monument's size, and Ralph Cameron, who held mining claims at the head of the Bright Angel Trail, refused to yield.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1908", "story": 3}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "local", "text": "Cameron kept collecting a one-dollar toll on the Bright Angel Trail until Coconino County took it over in 1912.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1912", "story": 3}, {"kind": "congress", "text": "Senate bills to make the canyon a national park were introduced again in 1910 and 1911, with the monument in place, and died.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1910", "story": 3}], "legacy": [{"text": "The monument held the line for eleven years until Congress made the canyon a national park in 1919, the outcome Roosevelt had wanted.", "source": "Act of February 26, 1919, 40 Stat. 1175", "date": "1919-02-26", "story": 3}, {"text": "Ruling against Cameron, a unanimous Supreme Court held that the Grand Canyon is an object of scientific interest under the Antiquities Act; it did not address the Act's smallest-area limit, though later courts cite the case for broad presidential discretion.", "source": "Cameron v. United States, 252 U.S. 450 (1920)", "date": "1920-04-19", "story": 3}, {"text": "As senator from 1921, Cameron fought the National Park Service and cut the park's appropriation from $100,000 for fiscal 1922 to $75,000 for fiscal 1923.", "source": "41 Stat. 1407; 42 Stat. 590", "date": "1922", "story": 3}, {"text": "Cameron lost his Senate seat to Carl Hayden in November 1926, 44,591 to 31,845, after a Los Angeles Times series alleged he had salted mining claims in the canyon.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1926-11", "story": 3}, {"text": "The designation remains the classic example of the Antiquities Act used boldly, a line running to the 2023 Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni-Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument.", "source": "Proclamation 10606, August 8, 2023", "date": "2023-08-08", "story": 3}], "today": [{"name": "Grand Canyon National Park", "kind": "national_park", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Arizona", "note": "The 1919 act revoked the monument and folded its lands into the park; 4,919,163 recreation visits in 2024.", "source": "Act of February 26, 1919, 40 Stat. 1175; NPS Grand Canyon Park Profile (2025)", "story": 3}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1919-02-26", "text": "Congress created Grand Canyon National Park, revoking the monument and folding its lands into the park.", "source": "40 Stat. 1175", "story": 3}, {"date": "1920-04-19", "text": "The Supreme Court ruled against Ralph Cameron's Cape Horn mining claim and rejected his argument that the monument lacked authority.", "source": "Cameron v. United States, 252 U.S. 450", "story": 3}, {"date": "1922", "text": "Congress cut the park's appropriation to $75,000 for fiscal 1923, from $100,000 the year before.", "source": "42 Stat. 590", "story": 3}], "uncertain": ["Cameron's February 1922 Senate speech is known only from a New York Times search excerpt; only the phrase \"thirty or forty millionaires\" is confirmed."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-658", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Devils Tower, the first Antiquities Act monument, first read the law to cover natural wonders.", "story": 3, "date": "1906-09-24", "title": "Setting Aside Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming", "type": "proclamation", "number": "658"}, {"id": "proc-694", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Roosevelt's 1906 game preserve on the Kaibab Plateau, north and west of the Colorado River, in the same forest reserve.", "story": 3, "date": "1906-11-28", "title": "Setting Aside Game Preserve in Grand Canyon Forest Reserve, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "694"}, {"id": "proc-796", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 26, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-01-16", "title": "Setting Aside Pinnacles National Monument, California", "type": "proclamation", "number": "796"}, {"id": "proc-804", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 6, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-04-16", "title": "Setting Aside Natural Bridges National Monument, Utah", "type": "proclamation", "number": "804"}, {"id": "proc-814", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 76, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-06-23", "title": "Enlarging the Grand Canyon National Game Preserve, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "814"}, {"id": "eo-909", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 101, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-07-02", "title": "Kaibab National Forest, Arizona", "type": "executive_order", "number": "909"}, {"id": "proc-818", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 71, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-07-02", "title": "Setting Apart the Coconino and Kaibab National Forests, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "818"}]}
{"id": "proc-795", "type": "proclamation", "number": "795", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-01-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Tonto National Forest, Arizona", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 795, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-795"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2176, "last_page": 2177, "cite": "35 Stat. 2176–2177", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2176.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-01-13", "table_title": "Enlarging Tonto National Forest, Arizona."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Tonto National Forest certain lands, within the Territory of Arizona, which are in part covered with timber, and by also including therein the area heretofore reserved and set apart as the Pinal Mountains National Forest;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Tonto National Forest is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the aforesaid National Forest are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however any part of the National Forest hereby enlarged which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation; and provided also that since the withdrawal made by this proclamation and any withdrawal heretofore made for national irrigation works are consistent, both shall be effective upon the land withdrawn, but the withdrawal for national irrigation works shall be the dominant one and may, when necessary, be changed to a withdrawal for irrigation from such works.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves:” Provided, that lands heretofore restored to settlement or entry under the provisions of the foregoing act shall be excepted from the force and effect of this proclamation.", "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 13th day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2176", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Tonto National Forest, Ariz.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34, p. 3166.", "Vol. 34, p. 2991.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Post, pp. 2219, 2236.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Lands for irrigation.", "Reserved from settlement, etc.", "Vol. 34, p. 233.", "Lands excepted."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Tonto National Forest in Arizona Territory with additional timbered lands and folded in the former Pinal Mountains National Forest.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Tonto National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}, {"name": "Pinal Mountains National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [71], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-01-13", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The enlarged Tonto also absorbed the small Pinal Mountains forest.", "source": "35 Stat. 2171–2208", "date": "1908-01-13", "story": 71}], "today": [{"name": "Tonto National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Arizona", "source": "research entry", "story": 71}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-539", "relation": "modifies", "note": null, "story": 55, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-03-20", "title": "Establishing the Pinal Mountains Forest Reserve, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "539"}, {"id": "proc-598", "relation": "enlarges", "note": null, "story": 55, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-10-03", "title": "Establishment of the Tonto Forest Reserve, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "598"}, {"id": "proc-787", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 25, "inferred": true, "date": "1907-12-19", "title": "Establishment of the Tonto National Monument, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "787"}]}
{"id": "eo-733", "type": "executive_order", "number": "733", "tr_sequence": 696, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-01-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Except Certain Shipping Commissioners of Department of Commerce and Labor from Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_733", "revid": 1912756, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 107"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Schedule A of classified positions excepted from examination under Rule II, clause 3, is hereby amended by adding to Subdivision IX, relating to the Department of Commerce and Labor, the following paragraph:", "Shipping commissioners whose compensation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1907, was, as shown by the records in the Department of Commerce and Labor, $2,500 or over."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 107)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, January 13, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Excepted from examination shipping commissioners in the Department of Commerce and Labor who earned $2,500 or more in fiscal year 1907.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-01-13", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-796", "type": "proclamation", "number": "796", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-01-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Aside Pinnacles National Monument, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": ["Corrected from “1908-01-28”. The signed original and the Statutes' margin date (35 Stat. 2177) give January 16, 1908; the printed dating clause on p. 2178 reads \"twenty-eighth\", a misprint repeated in later lists."], "citations": {"app": {"number": 796, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-796"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2177, "last_page": 2178, "cite": "35 Stat. 2177–2178", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2177.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-01-16", "table_title": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA\nA PROCLAMATION", "WHEREAS, the natural formations, known as the Pinnacles Rocks, with a series of caves underlying them, which are situated upon public lands, within the Pinnacles National Forest, in the State of California, are of scientific interest, and it appears that the public interests would be promoted by reserving these formations and caves as a National Monument, with as much land as may be necessary for the proper protection thereof;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section two of the Act of Congress, approved June eighth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, \"An Act For the preservation of American antiquities,\" do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from appropriation and use of all kinds under all of the public land laws, subject to all prior valid adverse claims, and set apart as a National Monument, all the tracts of land, in the State of California, shown as the Pinnacles National Monument on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The reservation made by this proclamation is not intended to prevent the use of the lands for forest purposes under the proclamation establishing the Pinnacles National Forest, but the two reservations shall both be effective on the land withdrawn, but the National Monument hereby established shall be the dominant reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure or destroy any feature of this National Monument or 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 to be affixed.", "DONE at the City of Washington this twenty-eighth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second.", "[SEAL.] THEODORE ROOSEVELT\nBy the President:\nELIHU ROOT, Secretary of State."], "source": "35 Stat. 2177–2178 (GovInfo page images) and an independent American Presidency Project transcription, 2026-08-22", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Testimonium printed as in the Statutes ('twenty-eighth day of January'), a compositor's error; the signed original (PINN 3658; TR Center o294289) reads 'this 16th day of January', and the proclamation's true date is January 16, 1908. Markdown emphasis removed.", "story": 26}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created Pinnacles National Monument to protect the Pinnacles Rocks and the caves beneath them, inside the Pinnacles National Forest in California.", "categories": ["monuments"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Pinnacles National Monument", "kind": "monument", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 5, "stories": [26], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-01-16", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Salinas Index Journal broke the news on its front page under a Washington dateline of January 17, crediting Congressman J. C. Needham as head of the movement.", "source": "Salinas Index Journal, Jan. 18, 1908, p. 1", "date": "1908-01-18", "story": 26}, {"text": "The San Francisco Call ran its own special dispatch on the new monument the next day and returned to the story on March 10.", "source": "San Francisco Call, Jan. 19, 1908, p. 36", "date": "1908-01-19", "story": 26}, {"text": "The item spread on the wire to about twenty California papers between January and March 1908, from San Mateo and Ventura to Los Angeles, Stockton, Eureka and Riverside, usually on the front page.", "source": "California Digital Newspaper Collection", "date": "1908", "story": 26}, {"text": "The Truckee Republican ran the one openly editorial headline, calling the monument another thing done by Roosevelt worthy of applause.", "source": "Truckee Republican, Feb. 8, 1908, p. 1", "date": "1908-02-08", "story": 26}, {"text": "Outside California the news ran as short filler in papers in South Dakota, Vermont, Illinois and Iowa.", "source": "Madison Daily Leader, Jan. 27, 1908; Essex County Herald, Jan. 31, 1908; Rock Island Argus, Feb. 7, 1908; Evening Times-Republican, June 22, 1908", "date": "1908", "story": 26}, {"text": "Every newspaper item found was favorable or neutral, and no opposition to the monument has been recorded.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1908", "story": 26}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "local", "text": "The monument displaced no rancher or logger, and no litigation over it has turned up.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1908", "story": 26}, {"kind": "local", "text": "The Salinas Index Journal followed up with a local piece on the road from Soledad to the Pinnacles.", "source": "Salinas Index Journal, Mar. 5, 1908", "date": "1908-03-05", "story": 26}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "After the monument was created, Gifford Pinchot moved to abolish the surrounding forest reserve and told Congressman Needham so.", "source": "research entry", "story": 26}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "Executive Order 908 merged the Monterey, San Benito and Pinnacles National Forests as the Monterey National Forest, about six months after the monument was proclaimed.", "source": "Executive Order 908; 36 Stat. 2764", "date": "1908-07-02", "story": 26}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "Forest supervisor Raymond Tyler reported in favor of eliminating the Pinnacles lands from the national forest.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1909-10-22", "story": 26}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "Taft's proclamation removed the monument's land from the Monterey National Forest while keeping the monument reserved, which placed it under the Secretary of the Interior.", "source": "36 Stat. 2764", "date": "1910-12-12", "story": 26}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson notified the Interior Department of the transfer.", "source": "Theodore Roosevelt Center, Pinnacles National Park collection, o294321", "date": "1910-12-16", "story": 26}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "Interior's report on the national monuments listed Pinnacles at 2,080 acres, marked as an estimated area, and by the 1912 edition carried it in Interior's table rather than Agriculture's.", "source": "Report on the National Monuments, 1911, p. 12; 1912, p. 15", "date": "1911", "story": 26}], "legacy": [{"text": "Later presidents and Congresses enlarged the monument many times, from about 2,080 acres to about 26,700.", "source": "NPS Land Resources Division, Listing of Acreage, Sept. 30, 2026", "date": "2026-09-30", "story": 26}, {"text": "Geologists matched the Pinnacles rocks to the Neenach volcanic field about 195 miles to the southeast, split from it by the San Andreas Fault.", "source": "Turner et al. (1970); Matthews (1976)", "date": "1970", "story": 26}, {"text": "The Chalone Creek Archeological Sites inside the monument, dating to A.D. 1000–1499, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.", "source": "National Register of Historic Places", "date": "1978", "story": 26}, {"text": "The first two captive-bred California condors were released at Pinnacles, which became the only National Park Service unit managing a condor release site.", "source": "National Park Service", "date": "2003-12-20", "story": 26}, {"text": "Pinnacles co-manages central California's wild condors with the Ventana Wildlife Society; the program counted 607 condors at the end of 2025, 117 of them in the central California flock.", "source": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, California Condor Recovery Program", "date": "2025-12-31", "story": 26}, {"text": "Congress redesignated the monument Pinnacles National Park and renamed its 1976 wilderness the Hain Wilderness, after homesteader Schuyler Hain.", "source": "Public Law 112-245, 126 Stat. 2385", "date": "2013-01-10", "story": 26}], "today": [{"name": "Pinnacles National Park", "kind": "national_park", "relation": "origin", "state": "California", "since": "1908-01-16", "note": "About 26,700 acres today; redesignated a national park in 2013.", "source": "Public Law 112-245, 126 Stat. 2385", "story": 26}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1910-12-12", "text": "Taft's proclamation eliminated the monument's land from the Monterey National Forest without affecting the monument, moving it to the Interior Department.", "source": "36 Stat. 2764", "story": 26}, {"date": "1923-05-07", "text": "Harding enlarged the monument by 562 acres (Proclamation 1660).", "source": "43 Stat. 1911", "story": 26}, {"date": "1924-07-02", "text": "Coolidge enlarged the monument by 326 acres (Proclamation 1704).", "source": "43 Stat. 1961", "story": 26}, {"date": "1931-04-13", "text": "Hoover enlarged the monument by 1,926 acres (Proclamation 1948).", "source": "47 Stat. 2451", "story": 26}, {"date": "1933-07-11", "text": "Franklin Roosevelt enlarged the monument by 5,322 acres (Proclamation 2050).", "source": "48 Stat. 1701", "story": 26}, {"date": "1941-12-05", "text": "Franklin Roosevelt enlarged the monument by 4,300 acres (Proclamation 2528).", "source": "55 Stat. 1709", "story": 26}, {"date": "1976-10-20", "text": "Congress added about 1,718 acres and designated the Pinnacles Wilderness.", "source": "Public Law 94-567, 90 Stat. 2692", "story": 26}, {"date": "1980-09-08", "text": "Congress made a boundary adjustment on Chalone Creek.", "source": "Public Law 96-344", "story": 26}, {"date": "2000-01-11", "text": "Clinton added roughly 7,900 federal acres (Proclamation 7266).", "source": "Proclamation 7266", "story": 26}, {"date": "2002-12", "text": "Congress added about 2,715 acres to the Pinnacles Wilderness.", "source": "Public Law 107-370", "story": 26}, {"date": "2013-01-10", "text": "Congress redesignated the monument Pinnacles National Park and renamed the wilderness the Hain Wilderness.", "source": "Public Law 112-245, 126 Stat. 2385", "story": 26}], "uncertain": ["The monument's original size is uncertain: about 2,080 acres by the Agriculture and Interior departments' estimate, but 2,560 acres by a 2020 Forest Service boundary compilation.", "Whether San Benito County newspapers covered the proclamation cannot be checked, since none from 1908 is digitized."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-638", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The 1906 Pinnacles Forest Reserve within which the monument was set apart; forest uses continued, with the monument as the dominant reservation.", "story": 26, "date": "1906-07-18", "title": "Setting Apart the Pinnacles Forest Reserve, California", "type": "proclamation", "number": "638"}, {"id": "proc-793", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Muir Woods, one of the cluster of monuments Roosevelt proclaimed that January.", "story": 26, "date": "1908-01-09", "title": "Setting Aside Muir Woods National Monument, California", "type": "proclamation", "number": "793"}, {"id": "proc-794", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Grand Canyon, one of the cluster of monuments Roosevelt proclaimed that January.", "story": 26, "date": "1908-01-11", "title": "Setting Aside Grand Canyon National Monument, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "794"}, {"id": "proc-799", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 29, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-02-07", "title": "Setting Aside Jewel Cave National Monument, South Dakota", "type": "proclamation", "number": "799"}, {"id": "eo-908", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Merged the Pinnacles National Forest into the Monterey National Forest in 1908.", "story": 26, "date": "1908-07-02", "title": "55 Specified National Forests Consolidated and/or Renamed", "type": "executive_order", "number": "908"}]}
{"id": "eo-734", "type": "executive_order", "number": "734", "tr_sequence": 697, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-01-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Ernest Coldwell as Revenue Agent in Internal Revenue Service Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_734", "revid": 1881455, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 132"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Ernest Coldwell, late collector of internal revenue for the fifth district of Tennessee, who became separated from said office and from the service by the consolidation of the two internal-revenue districts in Tennessee into one district, may, for the good of the service, be appointed a revenue agent in the Internal-Revenue Service without compliance with the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 132)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, January 16, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Ernest Coldwell, whose job as a Tennessee internal-revenue collector ended when two districts merged, to be appointed a revenue agent without civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Tennessee"], "people": ["Ernest Coldwell"], "significance": 1, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-01-16", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-735", "type": "executive_order", "number": "735", "tr_sequence": 698, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-01-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Huron Land District, South Dakota, Abolished; Transferred to Pierre Land District", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Abolished the Huron land district in South Dakota and transferred it to the Pierre land district.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Huron Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "South Dakota"}, {"name": "Pierre Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "South Dakota"}], "states": ["South Dakota"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-01-17", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-736", "type": "executive_order", "number": "736", "tr_sequence": 699, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-01-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Certain Lands in Colfax Land District, New Mexico, Transferred to Lincoln Land District", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Moved certain lands from the Colfax land district in New Mexico into the Lincoln land district.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Colfax Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "New Mexico"}, {"name": "Lincoln Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-01-17", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-737", "type": "executive_order", "number": "737", "tr_sequence": 700, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-01-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Land in Minto, Alaska, for Use by Army Signal Corps in Telegraph Line Operation", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_737", "revid": 1914137, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 19, War Dept., January 31, 1908"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The following-described tract of public land at Minto, in the Territory of Alaska, is hereby reserved from sale or other disposition, subject to private rights, if any there be, and set apart as a military reservation for the use of the Signal Corps, U. S. Army, in the matter of the operation of telegraph lines in Alaska, viz:", "That tract of land included within metes and bounds as follows:", "Beginning at a spruce post on the bank of the Tanana River and marked \"Stake No. 1;\" thence N. 18° 00′ E., 1,370 feet to a blazed spruce tree marked \"Stake No. 2;\" thence N. 72° 00′ W., 1,320 feet to a blazed spruce tree marked \"Stake No. 3;\" thence S. 18° 00′ W., 1,660 feet to a blazed cottonwood tree marked \"Stake No. 4\" on the bank of the Tanana River; thence in an easterly direction, following the meanderings of said river, approximately 1,320 feet, to \"Stake No. 1,\" the point of beginning. Area, 45.91 acres, more or less. The bearings are true."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 19, War Dept., January 31, 1908)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House January 18, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved a tract on the Tanana River at Minto, Alaska, as a military reservation for the Army Signal Corps to operate telegraph lines.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Minto", "kind": "town", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-01-18", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-738", "type": "executive_order", "number": "738", "tr_sequence": 701, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-01-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Employment of James S. Wickham in Bureau of the Census Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_738", "revid": 1881468, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 132"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. James S. Wickham may be employed in the Bureau of the Census upon experimental work in developing tabulating machinery, as authorized by the act of February 26, 1907, appropriating for executive, legislative, and judicial expenses, without examination under the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 132)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, January 20, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed James S. Wickham to work in the Bureau of the Census on experimental tabulating machinery without a civil-service exam.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["James S. Wickham"], "significance": 1, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-01-20", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-739", "type": "executive_order", "number": "739", "tr_sequence": 702, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-01-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Indians as Messengers in the Indian Affairs Office Subject to Noncompetitive Examination (Revoked by EO 754)", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Allowed Indians to be appointed messengers in the Office of Indian Affairs after a noncompetitive exam; later revoked by Executive Order 754.", "categories": ["civil-service", "indian-lands"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-01-24", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-740", "type": "executive_order", "number": "740", "tr_sequence": 703, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-01-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Certification Procedures", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_740", "revid": 12438080, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["This executive order entirely rewrote Civil Service Rule VII. The following is the rule as rewritten, but not the full order text.", "Any position or employment in the classified service not excepted from competitive examination, unless filled by reinstatement, transfer, promotion, or reduction, shall be filled in the following manner:", "(a) The nominating or appointing officer shall request the certification of eligibles, and the Commission shall certify, from the head of the register of eligibles appropriate for the group in which the position or positions to be filled are classified, a number of names sufficient to permit the nominating or appointing officer to consider three names in connection with each vacancy. Certification of an eligible for temporary appointment shall not affect his certification for probational appointment. Certifications shall be made without regard to sex unless sex is specified in the request.", "(b) The nominating or appointing officer shall make selection for the first vacancy from the highest three names certified, with sole reference to merit and fitness, unless objection shall be made, and sustained by the Commission, to one or more of the persons certified, for any of the reasons stated in Rule V, section 4. For the second vacancy he shall make selection from the highest three remaining, who have not been selected, or considered by him for three separate vacancies, or against whom objection has not been made and sustained in the manner indicated. The third and any additional vacancies shall be filled in like manner. Any eligible who has been certified three times or considered three times in cases where there is no formal certification, for three vacancies in his turn, without being selected, may be subsequently selected, subject to the approval of the Commission, from the certificate on which his name last appeared, if the condition of the register has not so changed as to place him in other respects beyond reach of certification.", "(c) The person selected for appointment shall be duly notified by the appointing officer, and upon accepting and reporting for duty shall receive from such officer a certificate of appointment for a probationary period of six months. If the conduct or capacity of the probationer be not satisfactory to the appointing officer the probationer shall be notified in writing that at the end of such probationary period he will not receive absolute appointment; otherwise his retention in the service shall be equivalent to his absolute appointment. A probationer separated from the service without delinquency or misconduct may be restored to the register of eligibles, in the discretion of the Commission, for the remainder of his period of eligibility.", "Certification for appointment in the Departments or independent offices at Washington shall be so made as to maintain, as nearly as the conditions of good administration will warrant, the apportionment of such appointments among the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia upon the basis of population: Provided, That appointments to the following-named positions shall not be so apportioned, viz: Plate printer, printer's assistant, skilled helper, and operative in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing; positions in the field service of the military staff departments and at Army Headquarters, mail-bag repair shop and mail-lock repair shop, Government Printing Office, Pension Agency, and local offices in the District of Columbia; apprentice, student, gardener, engraver, carpenter, cabinetmaker, painter, plumber, plumber's helper, electric wireman, electric lineman, and electrician's helper.", "The Commission may arrange the territory of the United States into appropriate districts for the purpose of certification to positions in parts of the service not subject to the apportionment, and certification to any such position may be confined to residents of the district in which such position is located."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Rewrote Civil Service Rule VII on how competitive positions are filled, with the Commission certifying enough names from the top of the register for appointing officers to consider three per vacancy.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-01-27", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "eo-209", "relation": "amends", "note": null, "story": 81, "inferred": true, "date": "1903-03-20", "title": "Prescribing Civil Service Rules in Lieu of Rules of May 6, 1896", "type": "executive_order", "number": "209"}]}
{"id": "eo-741", "type": "executive_order", "number": "741", "tr_sequence": 704, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-01-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Temporary Appointments", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_741", "revid": 12440747, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Rule VIII of the civil service rules is hereby amended to read as follows:", "Temporary appointment without examination and certification by the Commission shall not be made to a competitive position in any case except when the public interest so requires, and then only upon the prior authorization of the Commission; and any appointment so authorized shall continue only for such period as may be necessary to make appointment through certification of eligibles and in no case without prior approval of the Commission shall extend beyond thirty days from receipt by the appointing officer of the Commission's certificate; and when a vacancy is to be filled by promotion or transfer for which the Commission's certificate is not required and a temporary appointment is authorized by the Commission under the provisions of this section pending the promotion or transfer, such temporary appointment shall in no case continue beyond the period of thirty days, without prior approval of the Commission.", "When there are no eligibles upon a register for any grade in which a vacancy exists and the public interest requires that it be filled before eligibles can be provided by the Commission, then the Commission may authorize temporary appointment without examination. Such appointment shall continue only for such period as may be necessary to make appointment through certification and in no case without prior approval of the Commission shall extend beyond thirty days from the receipt by the appointing officer of the Commission's certification of eligibles.", "When there is at least one eligible and not more than two eligibles on a register for any grade in which a vacancy exists, the Commission shall, upon requisition from the proper appointing officer, certify the name of the one eligible or the names of the two eligibles, which shall be considered by the appointing officer with a view to probational appointment; and if the appointing officer shall elect not to make probational appointment from such certificate of less than three names, then if temporary appointment is required it shall be made from such certificate unless reasons satisfactory to the Commission are given why such appointment should not be made. Such temporary appointment may continue until three eligibles are provided. If selection is not made from the certificate for either probational or temporary appointment under the provisions of this section, then temporary appointment, if required, may be made under the provisions of section 2 of this rule.", "When there is work of a temporary character, at the completion of which the services of an additional employee will not be required, a temporary appointment may be made with the prior consent of the Commission for a period not to exceed three months, and may with like consent of the Commission be extended for a further period of three months. Such temporary appointment shall be made through certification from the Commission's eligible registers unless the Commission shall decide in any case that there are no available eligibles. Such temporary appointment shall not extend beyond six months unless there are no eligibles available for the additional period or under unusual circumstances which seem to the Commission to justify an extension beyond six months; and in no case shall such temporary appointment extend beyond six months for any purpose other than to complete the job of work for which the person was originally employed. The Commission may restrict certification for temporary appointment to such eligibles as by reason of residence or other conditions are immediately available.", "The acceptance of an eligible of a temporary appointment shall not affect his standing on any register for permanent employment, and experience gained as a temporary appointee shall in no way vary the order of certification for permanent appointment. A temporary appointment may be made permanent when the temporary appointee is within reach for permanent appointment at the time of his temporary appointment or in case he is so within reach during his temporary service. In such case the probational appointment may date from the time when he became within reach for probational appointment. A person who has been temporarily employed under the provisions of one section of this rule shall not for that reason be ineligible for employment under any other section. Any appointment under sections 1, 2, or 3 of this rule shall be promptly reported by letter to the Commission, as made, with a statement of the action taken for making permanent appointment. The Commission is authorized to inspect the records of any Department or Office to aid it in observing and enforcing the operation of the provisions of this rule and reporting thereon to the President."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, January 27, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Rewrote the civil-service rule on temporary appointments, allowing them only when the public interest required, with prior Commission approval, and only until eligibles could be certified.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-01-27", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "eo-818", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 100, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-06-15", "title": "Authorizing Temporary Appointments Under Banking Act of 1908 in Treasury Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "type": "executive_order", "number": "818"}]}
{"id": "proc-797", "type": "proclamation", "number": "797", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-01-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Announcing Reciprocal Commercial Arrangement with France", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 797, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-797"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2178, "last_page": 2178, "cite": "35 Stat. 2178", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2178.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-01-28", "table_title": "Announcing reciprocal commercial arrangement with France."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the French Republic have entered into an additional Commercial Agreement, signed on the 28th day of January, 1908, by which the application of the minimum rate under the third section of the Tariff Act of the United States, approved July 24, 1897, to champagne and all other sparkling wines is provided for in return for certain specified concessions in favor of products of the United States, including Porto Rico, which concessions, in the judgment of the President, are reciprocal and equivalent:", "THEREFORE, be it known that I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority conferred by said Act of Congress, do hereby conditionally suspend, from the first day of February, 1908, and during the time and in accordance with the terms of the aforesaid Additional Agreement, signed January 28th, 1908, the imposition and collection of the duties imposed by the first section of said Act upon the articles hereinafter specified, being the products of the soil and industry of France; and do declare in place thereof the rates of duty provided in the third section of said Act to be in force, as follows:", "On Champagne and all other sparkling wines, in bottles containing not more than one quart and more than one pint, six dollars per dozen; containing not more than one pint each and more than one-half pint, three dollars per dozen; containing one-half pint each or less, one dollar and fifty cents per dozen; in bottles or other vessels containing more than one quart each, in addition to six dollars per dozen bottles on the quantities in excess of one quart, at the rate of one dollar and ninety cents per gallon.", "IN TESTIMONY 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 twenty-eighth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred [SEAL.] and eight, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2178", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Reciprocity with France.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 30, p. 1774.", "Vol. 30, p. 203.", "Reduced duties on French products.", "Vol. 30, p. 203.", "Articles affected."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Announced a new trade agreement with France applying lower U.S. duty rates to champagne and other sparkling wines starting February 1, 1908, in return for French concessions on American products.", "categories": ["trade-reciprocity", "foreign-affairs"], "action": "announce", "places": [{"name": "France", "kind": "country"}], "states": ["Puerto Rico"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [107], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-01-28", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The champagne arrangement drew no more than importers' notice; reciprocity proclamations were the small change of trade policy.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1908", "story": 107}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "diplomatic", "text": "France and Algeria gave American coffee, cacao, chocolate, vanilla and similar colonial foods, and American mineral oils, their lowest tariff rates in return for lower U.S. duties on sparkling wine.", "source": "Additional Commercial Agreement, January 28, 1908, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1908", "date": "1908-01-28", "story": 107}], "legacy": [{"text": "The arrangement ended on October 31, 1909, after twenty-one months; France asked for an extension and was told there was no constitutional way to grant one.", "source": "Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act, sec. 4, 36 Stat. 11; Knox notice of August 7, 1909", "date": "1909-10-31", "story": 107}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1909-08-05", "text": "The Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act replaced the Dingley reciprocity scheme and required six months' notice of termination, counted from April 30, 1909.", "source": "36 Stat. 11", "story": 107}, {"date": "1909-08-07", "text": "Secretary of State Knox notified France that its agreements of 1898, 1902 and 1908 would end on October 31, 1909.", "source": "Knox notice, August 7, 1909", "story": 107}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-762", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 69, "inferred": true, "date": "1907-06-01", "title": "Announcing Reciprocal Commercial Arrangement With the German Empire", "type": "proclamation", "number": "762"}, {"id": "proc-850", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 109, "inferred": true, "date": "1909-02-20", "title": "Reciprocity with Spain", "type": "proclamation", "number": "850"}]}
{"id": "eo-742", "type": "executive_order", "number": "742", "tr_sequence": 705, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-01-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Specifying Classification and Pay for Navy Mess Attendants, and Prescribing Additional Pay for Cooks and Stewards", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_742", "revid": 1901395, "printed_source": "General Order No. 42, Navy Dept., February 7, 1908"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["On and after March 1, 1908 the classification and pay of mess attendants in the Navy who are citizens of the United States shall be as follows:", "{| |- | ||align=\"right\"|Per month. |- |Mess attendants, first class...........................................................................||align=\"right\"|$30.00 |- |Mess attendants, second class......................................................................||align=\"right\"|25.00 |- |Mess attendants, third class..........................................................................||align=\"right\"|20.00 |}", "On and after March 1, 1908, all stewards and cooks in the messman branch who are citizens of the United States and who hold, or may receive, certificates of qualification as stewards or cooks, shall receive $5 per month additional to the pay of their rating while holding such certificate, such additional pay to be of a permanent character as regular pay."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Order No. 42, Navy Dept., February 7, 1908)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, January 28, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Set monthly pay for Navy mess attendants who were U.S. citizens at $30, $25 and $20 by class, and gave certified stewards and cooks $5 a month extra.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-01-28", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-743", "type": "executive_order", "number": "743", "tr_sequence": 706, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-01-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Addition to the Jicarilla Indian Reservation in New Mexico", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_743", "revid": 1736769, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas it is found that Executive order of November 11, 1907, setting apart certain lands for the use of the Indians of the Jicarilla Indian Reservation, N. Мех., conflicts in part with Executive order of November 9, 1907, setting apart certain lands as an addition to the Navajo Indian Reservation, N. Мех., said Executive order is hereby so amended that the description of the tract of land thereby set apart for the purpose named therein shall read as follows:", "Beginning at a point on the south boundary of the Jicarilla Indian Reservation on the range line between Tps. 26 and 27 N., Rs. 2 and 3 W., New Mexico principal meridian; thence west on said boundary to the southwest corner of the reservation; thence continuing west on the township line between Tps. 26 and 27 N. to the northwest corner of T. 26 N., R. 5 W.; thence east along the township line between Tps. 21 and 22 N. to the northeast corner of T. 21 N., R. 4 W.; thence continuing east over unsurveyed lands along what would be, if established, the township line between Tps. 21 and 22 N. to what would be, if established, the southeast corner of T. 22 N., R. 2 W. ; thence north over unsurveyed lands to what will be when established the northeast corner of T. 23 N., R. 2 W. ; thence west over unsurveyed lands along what would be, if established, the township line between Tps. 23 and 24 N. to what would be, if established, the southeast corner of T. 24 N., R. 4 W.; thence north over unsurveyed lands to the southeast corner of T. 25 N.,.R. 4 W.; thence continuing north along the east line of T. 25 N., R. 4 W., to the southeast corner of T. 26 N., R. 4 W.; thence east over unsurveyed lands along what would be, if established, the township line between Tps. 25 and 26 N. to what would be, if established, the southeast corner of T. 26 N., R. 3 W. ; thence north to the place of beginning."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, January 28, 1908. == Notes == Amends: Executive Order 711, November 11, 1907 See Related: Executive Order 709, November 9, 1907; Executive Order 744, January 28, 1908;", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "title_notes": ["A boundary correction amending EO 711 to remove an overlap with the Navajo extension, not a new grant of land."], "summary": "Rewrote the boundary of the November 1907 addition to the Jicarilla Indian Reservation in New Mexico to fix a conflict with the Navajo Reservation addition.", "categories": ["indian-lands"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Jicarilla Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-01-28", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-711", "relation": "amends", "note": "Restated the boundaries of the November 1907 Jicarilla addition to remove an overlap; not a new grant of land.", "story": 96, "date": "1907-11-11", "title": "Addition to the Jicarilla Indian Reservation in New Mexico", "type": "executive_order", "number": "711"}, {"id": "eo-744", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Companion correction to the Navajo addition.", "story": 96, "date": "1908-01-28", "title": "Addition to the Navajo Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico", "type": "executive_order", "number": "744"}]}
{"id": "eo-744", "type": "executive_order", "number": "744", "tr_sequence": 707, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-01-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Addition to the Navajo Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_744", "revid": 6965397, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas it is found that the Executive order of November 9, 1907, setting apart certain lands in Arizona and New Mexico as an addition to the Navajo Indian Reservation, conflicts in part with Executive order of November 11, 1907, setting apart certain lands as an addition to the Jicarilla Indian Reservation, N. Мех., said Executive order is hereby so amended that the description of the tract of land set apart as an addition to the Navajo Reservation shall read as follows:", "Beginning at a point on the eastern boundary of the Navajo Reservation where it intersects what would be, if extended, the township line between townships 23 and 24 north; thence east along said township line between townships 23 and 24 north to the northeast corner of township 23 north, range 6 west, New Mexico meridian; thence south to the northeast corner of township 21 north, range 6 west; thence east to the northeast corner of township 21 north, range 5 west; thence south to the southeast corner of township 17 north, range 5 west; thence west to the first guide meridian west; thence south on said guide meridian to the southeast corner of township 15 north, range 9 west; thence west along the township line between townships 14 and 15 north to the northwest corner of township 15 north, range 14 west; thence west along the township line between townships 15 and 16 north to the boundary line between the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico; thence south on said boundary line to the northeast corner of township 23 north, range 31 east, Gila and Salt River meridian, Arizona; thence west on the township line between townships 23 and 24 north to the northwest corner of township 23 north, range 29 east; thence south to the northwest corner of township 21 north, range 29 east; thence west on the township line between townships 21 and 22 north to the northwest corner of township 21 north, range 26 east; thence south to the southeast corner of township 21 north, range 25 east; thence west on the fifth standard parallel north to the southwest corner of township 21 north, range 22 east; thence north on the range line between ranges 21 and 22 east to its intersection with the south boundary of the Hopi (Moqui) Indian Reservation, Ariz.; thence east to the southeast corner of said Hopi (Moqui) Reservation; thence north on the 110° of longitude west to the south boundary of the Navajo Reservation, Ariz.; thence east along the said south boundary to the boundary line between Arizona and New Mexico; thence continuing east along the boundary line of the Navajo Reservation, N. Мех., to the southeast corner of said reservation; thence north along the east boundary of said Navajo Reservation to the place of beginning."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, January 28, 1908. == Notes == Amends: Executive Order 709, November 9, 1907 Amended by Executive Order 1000, December 30, 1908; Executive Order 1284, January 16, 1911 See Related: Executive Order 711, November 11, 1907; Executive Order 743, January 28, 1908;", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "title_notes": ["A boundary correction amending EO 709 to remove an overlap with the Jicarilla extension, not a new grant of land."], "summary": "Revised the boundary of the November 1907 Navajo Reservation addition in Arizona and New Mexico to resolve its overlap with the Jicarilla Indian Reservation addition.", "categories": ["indian-lands"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Navajo Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona", "New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-01-28", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-709", "relation": "amends", "note": "Restated the boundaries of the November 1907 Navajo addition to remove an overlap; not a new grant of land.", "story": 96, "date": "1907-11-09", "title": "Addition to the Navajo Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico", "type": "executive_order", "number": "709"}, {"id": "eo-743", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Companion correction to the Jicarilla addition.", "story": 96, "date": "1908-01-28", "title": "Addition to the Jicarilla Indian Reservation in New Mexico", "type": "executive_order", "number": "743"}, {"id": "eo-1000", "relation": "reduced_by", "note": null, "story": 103, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-12-30", "title": "Altering Lands Composing Reservation of Navajo Indians", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1000"}]}
{"id": "eo-745", "type": "executive_order", "number": "745", "tr_sequence": 708, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-01-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Certain Described Lands in Alabama for Use of the War Department for Improvement of the Black Warrior, Warrior, and Tombigbee Rivers", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reserved described lands in Alabama for the War Department's work improving the Black Warrior, Warrior and Tombigbee rivers.", "categories": ["water-reclamation", "public-lands"], "action": "establish", "places": [], "states": ["Alabama"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-01-30", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-798", "type": "proclamation", "number": "798", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-02-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Trinity National Forest, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 798, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-798"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2179, "last_page": 2179, "cite": "35 Stat. 2179", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2179.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-02-03", "table_title": "Enlarging Trinity National Forest, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Trinity National Forest certain lands, within the State of California, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Trinity National Forest is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the aforesaid National Forest are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby enlarged which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation; and provided also that since the withdrawal made by this proclamation and any withdrawal heretofore made for national irrigation works are consistent, both shall be effective upon the land withdrawn, but the withdrawal for national irrigation works shall be the dominant one and may, when necessary, be changed to a withdrawal for irrigation from such works.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves:” Provided, that lands heretofore restored to settlement or entry under the provisions of the foregoing act shall be excepted from the force and effect of this proclamation.", "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 3rd day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2179", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Trinity National Forest, Cal.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34, p. 2998.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Post, pp. 2234, 2243.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Lands for irrigation.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233.", "Lands excepted."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Trinity National Forest in California with additional timbered lands.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Trinity National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [71], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-02-03", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Trinity was combined for administration into the Shasta-Trinity in 1954.", "source": "FS-612", "date": "1954", "story": 71}], "today": [{"name": "Shasta-Trinity National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "California", "source": "FS-612", "story": 71}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-746", "type": "executive_order", "number": "746", "tr_sequence": 709, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-02-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Woodward Land District, Okla., Abolished, and Lands, Business, and Archives Transferred to the Alva Land District", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Abolished the Woodward land district in Oklahoma and moved its lands, business and records to the Alva land district.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Woodward Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Oklahoma"}, {"name": "Alva Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Oklahoma"}], "states": ["Oklahoma"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-02-04", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-757", "relation": "amended_by", "note": "Moved the combined district's land office from Alva to Woodward.", "story": 96, "date": "1908-02-17", "title": "Amending Executive Order No. 746 of February 4, 1908, Consolidating the Woodward and Alva Land Districts, to Re-Locate the Land Office to Woodward, Oklahoma", "type": "executive_order", "number": "757"}]}
{"id": "eo-747", "type": "executive_order", "number": "747", "tr_sequence": 710, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-02-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Isabel E. McKinley in War Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_747", "revid": 1881477, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 132"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. Isabel E. McKinley may be reinstated in the War Department without regard to the length of her separation from that Department."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 132)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 4, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Isabel E. McKinley to be reinstated in the War Department regardless of how long she had been gone.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Isabel E. McKinley"], "significance": 1, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-02-04", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-748", "type": "executive_order", "number": "748", "tr_sequence": 711, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-02-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Mint and Assay Service Positions Excepted from Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_748", "revid": 1939445, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 108"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Schedule A, Subdivision II, paragraphs 6 and 7 of the civil-service rules, are hereby revoked and a new paragraph, to be numbered 6, is inserted, to read as follows, the subsequent paragraphs to be renumbered accordingly:", "One private secretary or confidential clerk to the superintendent, and one cashier in each mint or assay office."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 108)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 4, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Revised the civil-service exceptions for the mint and assay service so each mint or assay office could have one private secretary or confidential clerk and one cashier without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-02-04", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-749", "type": "executive_order", "number": "749", "tr_sequence": 712, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-02-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Extending Time for Completion of Work of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission to September 2, 1908", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Gave the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission more time to finish its work, extending its deadline to September 2, 1908.", "categories": ["government-administration", "foreign-affairs"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-02-05", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-750", "type": "executive_order", "number": "750", "tr_sequence": 713, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-02-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Providing Regulations Governing the Right to Trial by Jury in the Canal Zone", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_750", "revid": 1901437, "printed_source": "1 Canal Record 203, February 26, 1908"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Under authority vested in me by law it is ordered:", "In all criminal prosecutions in the Canal Zone wherein the penalty of death or imprisonment for life may be inflicted, the accused shall enjoy the right of trial by an impartial jury of the district in which the crime shall have been committed, to be chosen as follows: The clerk of the circuit court, the district judge, and the collector of revenue for the administrative district within the circuit in which the crime shall have been committed, shall constitute a jury commission for that circuit. In the second judicial district, the district judge and the collector of revenue to be members of the jury commission shall be designated by the circuit judge, upon this order becoming effective and annually thereafter, or as often as a vacancy may occur in the jury commission. Prior to the first day of the term of any circuit court, upon application of the prosecuting attorney, or by direction of the judge of the circuit in which the crime shall have been committed, the jury commission shall assemble and select the names of 60 male residents of the Canal Zone, between the ages of 21 and 65 years, in good standing and in full possession of their ordinary faculties, who shall have resided within the Canal Zone for not less than three months previously, and who shall be able to read, write, and understand the English language. Attorneys at law, physicians, ministers of an established religion, members of the military, naval, and police forces, and officers of the Commission of the rank and above the rank of resident engineers, shall be exempt from jury service. The names of the persons so selected shall be written by one of the commissioners upon slips of paper, folded so as to conceal the names, in a uniform manner and placed in a jury box. Upon the first day of the term, unless an adjournment of the trial beyond the term shall be granted, the judge shall select from the jury box the names of thirty jurors to constitute the panel for the trial of the defendant. The said jurors shall thereupon be summoned by a written notice, served upon them by the marshal of the court, to attend at the trial of the defendant upon a day named. If it appear that any of the jurors whose names have been selected are absent from the Canal Zone, or incapacitated from other cause from attending as jurors, the judge, upon the application of the marshal, shall draw the names of other jurors and direct their summons until a panel of thirty jurors shall be assembled. Upon calling the case for trial, twelve jurors shall be called to try the defendant in the order in which their names shall have been first drawn for summons by the circuit judge. Either side shall have the right to challenge any juror for cause, and, in addition thereto, the defendant and prosecuting attorney shall each have the right to challenge arbitrarily six of the said jurors. If the original panel of thirty shall be exhausted without securing twelve impartial jurors to try the defendant, the names of other jurors shall be drawn by the circuit judge from the jury box and such jurors summoned until the jury shall have been completed. The jury so selected shall, under the instructions of the court, and in conformity with the procedure prevailing in the Federal courts of the United States, determine whether, under the facts as proved, the defendant is guilty or not guilty. They shall conduct their deliberations in secret, and shall return a verdict of guilty or not guilty, which must be unanimous. Sentence shall be pronounced by the court. The circuit judge shall have the discretion to require the jury to be kept together and apart from the public from the time they are sworn until their verdict shall be returned. If they be kept together, suitable provision shall be made by the marshal of the court for their subsistence and lodging. The jurors shall be allowed a jury fee of $2 for each day actually summoned to court and engaged in the trial of a criminal action. The cost of subsistence and lodging of the jurors and the fees for the jurors' attendance shall be paid from the Treasury of the Canal Zone, upon a voucher duly approved by the circuit judge. It shall in all cases be optional with defendants to be tried before a jury as provided for in this order, or under the procedure prescribed in Section 171 of the Laws of the Canal Zone. The accused shall, however, in person or through his attorney, file a written statement with the clerk of the circuit court before which his trial is to take place, on the first day of the term for which the trial is set, stating the procedure by which he desires to be tried. The procedure having been once selected by the accused cannot thereafter be changed, but must be followed with respect to any future trial of the accused for the same offense."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1 Canal Record 203, February 26, 1908)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House February 6, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Guaranteed a jury trial in Canal Zone criminal cases punishable by death or life imprisonment, setting up jury commissions to draw 60 qualified male residents per term and listing who is exempt from service.", "categories": ["canal-zone"], "action": "regulate", "places": [{"name": "Canal Zone", "kind": "canal-zone", "state": "Panama Canal Zone"}], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-02-06", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-774", "relation": "amended_by", "note": "Replaced \"collector of revenue\" with \"tax collector\" in section 2.", "story": 96, "date": "1908-03-31", "title": "Amending Regulations Governing the Right to Trial by Jury in the Canal Zone", "type": "executive_order", "number": "774"}]}
{"id": "proc-799", "type": "proclamation", "number": "799", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-02-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Aside Jewel Cave National Monument, South Dakota", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 799, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-799"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2180, "last_page": 2180, "cite": "35 Stat. 2180", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2180.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-02-07", "table_title": "Setting aside Jewel Cave National Monument, South Dakota."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America\nA PROCLAMATION", "WHEREAS, the natural formation, known as the Jewel Cave, which is situated upon the public land, within the Black Hills National Forest, in the State of South Dakota, is of scientific interest, and it appears that the public interests would be promoted by reserving this formation as a National Monument, with as much land as may be necessary for the proper protection thereof;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section two of the Act of Congress, approved June eighth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, \"An Act For the preservation of American antiquities,\" do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from settlement, entry, and all forms of appropriation under the public land laws, subject to all prior valid adverse claims, and set apart as a National Monument, all the tracts of land, in the State of South Dakota, shown as the Jewel Cave National Monument on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The reservation made by this proclamation is not intended to prevent the use of the lands for purposes consistent with the withdrawal made by this proclamation, or for forest purposes under the proclamation establishing the Black Hills National Forest, but the two reservations shall both be effective on the land withdrawn, but the National Monument hereby established shall be the dominant reservation.", "Warning is hereby given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure, or destroy any feature of this National Monument or 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 to be affixed.", "Done at the City of Washington this 7th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second.", "[SEAL.] THEODORE ROOSEVELT\nBy the President:\nELIHU ROOT, Secretary of State."], "source": "35 Stat. 2180 (GovInfo page image), 2026-08-22", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Reserving clause reads 'shown as' (not 'known as'); warning clause has no 'expressly'. The page prints '[SEAL.]' inline within the Done at clause. Markdown emphasis removed.", "story": 29}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created Jewel Cave National Monument inside the Black Hills National Forest, protecting the cave as a formation of scientific interest; the monument takes priority, though forest uses may continue.", "categories": ["monuments"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Jewel Cave National Monument", "kind": "monument", "state": "South Dakota"}, {"name": "Black Hills National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "South Dakota"}], "states": ["South Dakota"], "people": [], "significance": 5, "stories": [29], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-02-07", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "Two weeks before the signing, the Custer Weekly Chronicle told readers the cave would become the \"Jewel Cave National Monument\" and that the game preserve once advocated would not be established.", "source": "Custer Weekly Chronicle, January 25, 1908", "date": "1908-01-25", "story": 29}, {"text": "The Hot Springs Weekly Star headlined the news \"ANOTHER GREAT CAVE,\" and Rapid City's Black Hills Union and Western Stock Review ran \"To Preserve Jewel Cave\" the same day.", "source": "Hot Springs Weekly Star and Black Hills Union, February 21, 1908", "date": "1908-02-21", "story": 29}, {"text": "Eleven South Dakota papers carried the news in 1908, most of them East River, far from the Black Hills.", "source": "Chronicling America, 1908", "date": "1908", "story": 29}, {"text": "The item ran as wire filler in more than twenty out-of-state papers from February into August 1908, from North Dakota and Wyoming to Rhode Island, the Carolinas and Oregon. No objection to the monument has been found anywhere.", "source": "Chronicling America, 1908", "date": "1908", "story": 29}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The monument stayed inside the Black Hills National Forest under Forest Service administration, with forest uses allowed so long as the monument remained the dominant reservation.", "source": "35 Stat. 2180", "date": "1908-02-07", "story": 29}, {"kind": "local", "text": "The Michauds' 1906 request for a Jewel Cave Game Reserve was set aside in favor of the monument, after the Forest Service found too little game to preserve.", "source": "NPS, Discovery & Early History; Custer Weekly Chronicle, January 25, 1908", "date": "1908", "story": 29}, {"kind": "local", "text": "Because the land was reserved subject to prior valid claims, the Jewel Tunnel mining claim survived, and mining claims held up development of the cave into the 1910s.", "source": "research entry", "story": 29}], "legacy": [{"text": "Beginning in 1959, Herb and Jan Conn and Dwight Deal began a systematic exploration; over about two decades the Conns surveyed some sixty-five miles of passage and laid out the routes of the park's Scenic and Discovery tours.", "source": "NPS park timeline", "date": "1959", "story": 29}, {"text": "As of September 7, 2024, 220.33 miles of passage had been mapped, making Jewel Cave the fifth-longest known cave in the world, and more than 55 percent of the known cave lies outside the monument under the national forest.", "source": "NPS Cave Exploration page", "date": "2024-09-07", "story": 29}, {"text": "A boundary adjustment to more than 9,000 acres appears in the park's 2016 Foundation Document as a planning need but has never been enacted.", "source": "NPS Foundation Document (2016)", "date": "2016", "story": 29}], "today": [{"name": "Jewel Cave National Monument", "kind": "national_monument", "relation": "origin", "state": "South Dakota", "since": "1908-02-07", "note": "1,273.51 acres, the Park Service's acreage of record.", "source": "NPS Land Resources Division, Listing of Acreage (September 30, 2026)", "story": 29}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1933-06-10", "text": "Executive Order 6166 moved the monument from the Forest Service to the National Park Service, effective August 10, 1933.", "source": "Executive Order 6166", "story": 29}, {"date": "1965-10-09", "text": "Congress revised the boundary to cover the cave then known, returning excluded lands to the Black Hills National Forest; the act states no acreage.", "source": "Public Law 89-250, 79 Stat. 971", "story": 29}], "uncertain": ["The proclamation and its diagram give no acreage; Interior's 1911 figure of 1,280 acres was marked as an estimate.", "How much of the cave remains unexplored is uncertain; Park Service pages give less than 5 percent or 3 to 5 percent as the share explored."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-796", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Pinnacles, three weeks earlier, reserved rock formations with caves underlying them; Jewel Cave was the first monument whose named object was a cave alone.", "story": 29, "date": "1908-01-16", "title": "Setting Aside Pinnacles National Monument, California", "type": "proclamation", "number": "796"}, {"id": "proc-807", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Lewis and Clark Cavern, the next cave monument, followed on May 11, 1908.", "story": 29, "date": "1908-05-11", "title": "Setting aside Lewis and Clark Cavern National Monument, Montana", "type": "proclamation", "number": "807"}]}
{"id": "eo-751", "type": "executive_order", "number": "751", "tr_sequence": 714, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-02-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of S. Baillio to Norfolk Navy Yard Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_751", "revid": 1881487, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 133"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. S. Baillio may be reinstated in the Norfolk Navy-Yard without regard to the length of his separation therefrom."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 133)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 7, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed S. Baillio to be reinstated at the Norfolk Navy Yard regardless of how long he had been out of service.", "categories": ["civil-service", "military-naval"], "action": "other", "places": [{"name": "Norfolk Navy Yard", "kind": "other", "state": "Virginia"}], "states": ["Virginia"], "people": ["S. Baillio"], "significance": 1, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-02-07", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-752", "type": "executive_order", "number": "752", "tr_sequence": 715, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-02-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement and Transfer of Douglas B. Thompson to Departmental Service Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_752", "revid": 1881485, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 133"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Douglas B. Thompson, who was separated from the service on the Isthmus of Panama by reason of illness, may be reinstated with the privilege of transfer to the departmental service if it should appear that any Department desires to appoint him in spite of his physical disablement."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 133)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 7, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Permitted Douglas B. Thompson, who left Isthmus of Panama service because of illness, to be reinstated with the option of transfer to a department that wants to hire him despite his disability.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": ["Douglas B. Thompson"], "significance": 1, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-02-07", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-753", "type": "executive_order", "number": "753", "tr_sequence": 716, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-02-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Certain Described Lands in Washington for Lighthouse Purposes", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reserved specified lands in Washington for lighthouse purposes.", "categories": ["lighthouses"], "action": "establish", "places": [], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-02-10", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The order added a strip of about six acres, left unplatted when the Port Angeles town site was subdivided, to the Ediz Hook Lighthouse Reservation, enlarging a reservation dating from 1862.", "source": "Interior Department report of Dec. 19, 1913, Congressional Record vol. 51, pt. 4, pp. 3520–21", "date": "1908-02-10", "story": 96}], "legacy": [{"text": "In 1913 the Interior Department cited the order in a report on a bill to lease part of the Ediz Hook Lighthouse Reservation to Port Angeles.", "source": "Congressional Record vol. 51, pt. 4 (Feb. 16, 1914), pp. 3520–21", "date": "1913-12-19", "story": 96}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-800", "type": "proclamation", "number": "800", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-02-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Modoc National Forest, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 800, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-800"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2180, "last_page": 2181, "cite": "35 Stat. 2180–2181", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2180.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-02-13", "table_title": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Modoc National Forest certain lands, within the State of California, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Modoc National Forest is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the aforesaid National Forest are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "2181 Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby enlarged which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation; and provided also that since the withdrawal made by this proclamation and any withdrawal heretofore made for national irrigation works are consistent, both shall be effective upon the land withdrawn, but the withdrawal for national irrigation works shall be the dominant one and may, when necessary, be changed to a withdrawal for irrigation from such works.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves:” Provided, that lands heretofore restored to settlement or entry under the provisions of the foregoing act shall be excepted from the force and effect of this proclamation.", "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 13th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2180", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Modoc National Forest, Cal.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 33, p. 2380.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Post, p. 2232.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal lands.", "Irrigation projects.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233.", "Lands excepted."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Modoc National Forest in California by adding nearby lands that are partly timbered.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Modoc National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [71], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-02-13", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Modoc National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "California", "source": "research entry", "story": 71}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-535", "relation": "enlarges", "note": null, "story": 49, "inferred": true, "date": "1904-11-29", "title": "Establishment of the Modoc Forest Reserve, California", "type": "proclamation", "number": "535"}]}
{"id": "eo-754", "type": "executive_order", "number": "754", "tr_sequence": 717, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-02-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Exceptions from Examination for Employees in Office of Indian Affairs", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_754", "revid": 13966551, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 105"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Section 2 of Rule III is hereby amended by adding after the words \"industrial teachers\" the words \"and in the Office of Indian Affairs in the messenger service.\"", "As amended the section will read:", "Where, in its opinion, the conditions of good administration warrant, the Commission may give noncompetitive examinations to test fitness for (a) transfer, reinstatement, or promotion; (b) appointment of Indians in the Indian service at large as superintendents, teachers, manual-training teachers, kindergartners, physicians, matrons, clerks, seamstresses, farmers, and industrial teachers, and in the Office of Indian Affairs in the messenger service, which examinations shall consist of the same tests of fitness as those applied to other persons seeking appointment through competitive examinations; (c) the appointment of the wife of the superintendent of an Indian school as teacher or matron therein; (d) employment as inspector of safety appliances by the Interstate Commerce Commission."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 105)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 15, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Amended civil-service Rule III so messengers in the Office of Indian Affairs can be among the Indians given noncompetitive examinations for appointment.", "categories": ["civil-service", "indian-lands"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-02-15", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-755", "type": "executive_order", "number": "755", "tr_sequence": 718, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-02-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Yellowstone Land District, Montana, Abolished; Transferred to Glasgow Land District", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Abolished the Yellowstone Land District in Montana and moved its lands to the Glasgow Land District.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Yellowstone Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Montana"}, {"name": "Glasgow Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-02-15", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-759", "relation": "amended_by", "note": "Extended the Yellowstone–Glasgow consolidation.", "story": 96, "date": "1908-02-21", "title": "Amending Executive Order No. 755 of February 15, 1908, Transferring Certain Montana lands from the Yellowstone Land District to the Glasgow Land District, to Transfer Additional Lands", "type": "executive_order", "number": "759"}]}
{"id": "eo-756", "type": "executive_order", "number": "756", "tr_sequence": 719, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-02-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "North Platte Land District, Nebraska, Abolished; Transferred to the Alliance Land District", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Abolished the North Platte Land District in Nebraska and shifted its lands to the Alliance Land District.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "North Platte Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Nebraska"}, {"name": "Alliance Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Nebraska"}], "states": ["Nebraska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-02-17", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-757", "type": "executive_order", "number": "757", "tr_sequence": 720, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-02-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Executive Order No. 746 of February 4, 1908, Consolidating the Woodward and Alva Land Districts, to Re-Locate the Land Office to Woodward, Oklahoma", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Amended Executive Order 746, which merged the Woodward and Alva land districts, to place the combined land office at Woodward, Oklahoma.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Woodward Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Oklahoma"}, {"name": "Alva Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Oklahoma"}, {"name": "Woodward", "kind": "town", "state": "Oklahoma"}], "states": ["Oklahoma"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-02-17", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-746", "relation": "amends", "note": "Moved the office of the consolidated Woodward–Alva district from Alva to Woodward.", "story": 96, "date": "1908-02-04", "title": "Woodward Land District, Okla., Abolished, and Lands, Business, and Archives Transferred to the Alva Land District", "type": "executive_order", "number": "746"}]}
{"id": "eo-758", "type": "executive_order", "number": "758", "tr_sequence": 721, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-02-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Prescribing Procedure for Submitting Recommendations Affecting Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_758", "revid": 1895304, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 110"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Hereafter the following procedure shall be strictly observed by officers and employees in the Executive civil service in submitting any recommendations affecting the method of appointment to any position or class of positions now included or which may be included in the classified service under the operation of the civil-service act or rules:", "Every recommendation shall be accompanied by a full statement of the reasons therefor, and, if approved by the head of the proper Department or independent bureau, shall be referred to the Civil Service Commission, which body shall submit a report thereon to the President.", "No recommendation of the character mentioned shall be submitted by any officer or employee, directly or indirectly, to Congress or to any committee or Member of Congress, except in the manner herein provided, unless such recommendation shall be called for from such officer or employee by the Senate, the House of Representatives, or the Congress."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 110)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 20, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Set a strict procedure for recommending changes in how classified positions are filled: each needs a full statement of reasons, department-head approval and a Civil Service Commission report to the President.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-02-20", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-759", "type": "executive_order", "number": "759", "tr_sequence": 722, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-02-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Executive Order No. 755 of February 15, 1908, Transferring Certain Montana lands from the Yellowstone Land District to the Glasgow Land District, to Transfer Additional Lands", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Amended Executive Order 755 to move additional Montana lands from the old Yellowstone Land District into the Glasgow Land District.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Yellowstone Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Montana"}, {"name": "Glasgow Land District", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-02-21", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-755", "relation": "amends", "note": "Extended the transfer of Yellowstone district lands to Glasgow.", "story": 96, "date": "1908-02-15", "title": "Yellowstone Land District, Montana, Abolished; Transferred to Glasgow Land District", "type": "executive_order", "number": "755"}]}
{"id": "eo-760", "type": "executive_order", "number": "760", "tr_sequence": 723, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-02-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Certain Described Lands at Lowell Point, Resurrection Bay, Alaska, for the Navy Department for Use as a Coaling Depot", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reserved land at Lowell Point on Resurrection Bay, Alaska, for the Navy Department as a coaling depot.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Lowell Point", "kind": "naval-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-02-21", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "eo-773", "relation": "revoked_by", "note": null, "story": 97, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-03-23", "title": "Redefining Boundaries of Naval Coaling Depot Reservation at Lowell Point, Resurrection Bay, Alaska", "type": "executive_order", "number": "773"}]}
{"id": "eo-761", "type": "executive_order", "number": "761", "tr_sequence": 724, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-02-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Edwyn N. Purvis as Clerk in Classified Service in United States Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_761", "revid": 1881492, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 133"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Edwyn N. Purvis, a former employee of the Isthmian Canal Service, may be appointed to a clerkship in the classified service in the United States without regard to the provisions of the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 133)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 21, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Edwyn N. Purvis, formerly of the Isthmian Canal Service, to be appointed a clerk in the classified service in the United States without civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Edwyn N. Purvis"], "significance": 1, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-02-21", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-762", "type": "executive_order", "number": "762", "tr_sequence": 725, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-02-22", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Edward J. Tupper as Deputy Collector and Inspector of Customs in Stamford, Connecticut, Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_762", "revid": 1881498, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 134"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Edward J. Tupper may be appointed deputy collector and inspector of customs at Stamford, Conn., without compliance with the civil-service rules or the Executive order of January 17, 1873."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 134)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 22, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Permitted Edward J. Tupper's appointment as deputy collector and inspector of customs at Stamford, Connecticut, without following the civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [{"name": "Stamford", "kind": "town", "state": "Connecticut"}], "states": ["Connecticut"], "people": ["Edward J. Tupper"], "significance": 1, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-02-22", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-763", "type": "executive_order", "number": "763", "tr_sequence": 726, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-02-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Mosquito Inlet Reservation in Florida as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_763", "revid": 12442302, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that all small mangrove and salt grass islets, shoals, sand bars and sand spits, situated in Mosquito Inlet, and in and near the mouths of the Halifax and Hillsboro rivers, in townships sixteen and seventeen south, range thirty-four east of the Tallahassee meridian, Florida, and located within the area segregated by a broken line, and shown upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this order, are hereby reserved and set aside for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds. This reservation to be known as the Mosquito Inlet Reservation."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, February 24, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Set aside the small mangrove and salt-grass islets, shoals and sand bars of Mosquito Inlet and the Halifax and Hillsboro river mouths as the Mosquito Inlet Reservation, a preserve and breeding ground for native birds.", "categories": ["wildlife"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Mosquito Inlet Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Florida"}], "states": ["Florida"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [96], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-02-24", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The order reserved the islets for the Department of Agriculture without naming the Bureau of Biological Survey, the arm of the Department that ran the bird reservations.", "source": "Executive Order 763 (Wikisource)", "date": "1908-02-24", "story": 96}, {"kind": "political", "text": "Like the bird orders before it, the reservation drew no recorded public reaction; it was one more small addition to the record of executive action that Roosevelt's opponents in Congress and the West resented as government by proclamation.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1908", "story": 96}], "legacy": [{"text": "Taft enlarged the reservation up into the Halifax River in 1909 and added the ban on hunting, trapping, capturing or disturbing birds that Roosevelt's order lacked.", "source": "Executive Order 1057", "date": "1909-04-02", "story": 96}, {"text": "The Biological Survey discontinued the refuge in 1928, saying it had become of little value to birds because of the growth of New Smyrna and a question of jurisdiction.", "source": "Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey, FY 1928, p. 27", "date": "1928", "story": 96}, {"text": "A historical marker at the Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse dates the reservation 1909–1918 and credits Taft, matching neither the 1908 creation nor the 1928 revocation.", "source": "research entry", "story": 96}, {"text": "Mosquito Inlet counts among the fifty-one bird reservations Roosevelt created by executive order, the body of work that became the National Wildlife Refuge System.", "source": "research entry", "story": 96}], "today": [{"name": "Mosquito Inlet Reservation", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "abolished", "state": "Florida", "note": "Revoked in 1928. The inlet, renamed Ponce de Leon Inlet in 1927, lies about ten miles south of Daytona Beach.", "source": "Executive Order 4832; Laws of Florida 1927, ch. 13325", "story": 96}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1909-04-02", "text": "Taft's Executive Order 1057 enlarged the Mosquito Inlet Reservation and added a ban on hunting, trapping, capturing or disturbing the birds.", "source": "Executive Order 1057", "story": 96}, {"date": "1927-05-07", "text": "The Florida Legislature renamed Mosquito Inlet as Ponce de Leon Inlet.", "source": "Laws of Florida 1927, ch. 13325, vol. III, p. 3783", "story": 96}, {"date": "1928-03-17", "text": "Executive Order 4832, under Coolidge, revoked both the 1908 order and Taft's 1909 enlargement.", "source": "Presidential Executive Orders (1944), entry 4832", "story": 96}], "uncertain": ["The exact wording of Executive Order 4832 has not been checked against the signed original.", "What happened to the birds on the reservation between 1908 and 1928 is not known; a 1909 Bird-Lore warden's report mentioning a Captain Pacetti is an unconfirmed lead."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-763-half", "type": "executive_order", "number": "763½", "tr_sequence": 727, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-02-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Construction of Fortifications on the Island of Corregidor, Manilla Bay, PI Upon Securing Any Lands Needed", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "title_notes": ["Construction was to start once the written consent of the landowners was obtained (1944 catalog, entry 763½)."], "summary": "Authorized building fortifications on Corregidor Island in Manila Bay, Philippines, once any needed lands are secured.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "other", "places": [{"name": "Corregidor", "kind": "island", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [97], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-02-25", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The order directed fortification work on Corregidor to start once the landowners gave written consent, on an island where the Army had been building batteries since 1904.", "source": "Presidential Executive Orders (1944), vol. 1, p. 72, entry 763½", "date": "1908-02-25", "story": 97}, {"kind": "political", "text": "The work fit a coast-defense program Congress had already funded and the public broadly supported, and it drew no recorded controversy.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1908", "story": 97}], "legacy": [{"text": "Corregidor held out under Japanese bombardment from Bataan until General Wainwright asked for terms late on May 6, 1942.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1942-05-06", "story": 97}, {"text": "A combined parachute and amphibious assault retook the island beginning February 16, 1945; MacArthur returned for the flag-raising on March 2.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1945", "story": 97}], "today": [{"name": "Fort Mills batteries, Corregidor", "kind": "other", "relation": "part", "state": "Philippines", "note": "The fort and its batteries survive as war memorials.", "source": "research entry", "story": 97}], "uncertain": ["The operative text of Executive Order 763½ has not been read; only the 1944 catalog summary is available."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-764", "type": "executive_order", "number": "764", "tr_sequence": 728, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-02-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Transferring Mississippi from the Internal Revenue Collection District of Louisiana to the Internal Revenue Collection District of Alabama", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Moved Mississippi from the Louisiana internal revenue collection district to the Alabama district.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "transfer", "places": [], "states": ["Mississippi", "Louisiana", "Alabama"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [97], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-02-28", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-801", "type": "proclamation", "number": "801", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-03-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Diminishing Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 801, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-801"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2181, "last_page": 2182, "cite": "35 Stat. 2181–2182", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2181.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-03-03", "table_title": "Diminishing Lincoln National Monument, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by excluding certain lands in the Territory of New Mexico, from the Lincoln National Forest, set apart and reserved by public proclamation dated April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seven;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 aforesaid proclamation is hereby modified and that the boundaries of the aforesaid Lincoln National Forest are hereby changed to exclude therefrom such lands, and are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The lands hereby excluded from the Lincoln National Forest which are not embraced in other withdrawals, including withdrawals for administrative sites for use in the management of the Forest, or which are not embraced in any other reservation, or appropriation, shall be restored to the public domain and become subject to settlement under the general provisions of the homestead laws on such date and after such notice by publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, but shall not become subject to entry, filing, selection, or other form of appropriation until the expiration of thirty days from the date so fixed, and no person will be permitted to gain or exercise any right whatever under any settlement or occupation begun prior to such date, and all such settlement and occupation are hereby forbidden.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands in the National Forest as reduced by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 3rd day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2181", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Lincoln National Forest, N. Mex.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 32, p. 2018.", "Vol. 34, pp. 3175, 3216.", "Ante, p. 2126.", "Boundaries modified.", "Vol. 30. p. 36.", "Post, p. 2238.", "Lands restored to public domain.", "Reserved from settlement.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Diminishing Lincoln National Monument, New Mexico”. The proclamation's text.", "The American Presidency Project and the printed list of proclamations say \"Lincoln National Monument\", an error: the document concerns the Lincoln National Forest."], "summary": "Shrank the Lincoln National Forest in New Mexico by redrawing its boundaries and returning excluded lands to the public domain. (The Statutes' contents table misprints \"Monument\" for \"Forest.\")", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "reduce", "places": [{"name": "Lincoln National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [107], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-03-03", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The proclamation cut 109,312 acres from the Lincoln National Forest, reducing it from 627,435 to 518,123 acres, and returned the land to the homestead laws.", "source": "Report of the Forester, FY1908, p. 413", "date": "1908", "story": 107}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Lincoln National Forest endures in south-central New Mexico, its boundaries adjusted many times since 1908.", "source": "research entry", "story": 107}], "today": [{"name": "Lincoln National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "New Mexico", "note": "This proclamation reduced the forest; it did not create it.", "source": "research entry", "story": 107}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1918-08-09", "text": "Wilson cut the forest again; a newspaper report put the cut near 28,000 acres, and the General Land Office restored about 15,950 acres of public land within it.", "source": "Proclamation 1474, 40 Stat. 1832; Land Service Bulletin, vol. 2 (1918)", "story": 107}, {"date": "1924-07-17", "text": "Coolidge cut the forest again under the same title.", "source": "Proclamation 1706", "story": 107}], "uncertain": ["The acreages sometimes given for the 1918 and 1924 cuts (27,784 and 19,678 acres) rest on a single compiler and have not been checked against the diagrams annexed to those proclamations."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-486", "relation": "modifies", "note": "Changed the boundary of the Lincoln Forest Reserve established in 1902.", "story": 107, "date": "1902-07-26", "title": "Establishment of the Lincoln Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "486"}, {"id": "proc-748", "relation": "modifies", "note": "The proclamation's recital names the April 24, 1907 proclamation as the one it modifies, though that order only enlarged the forest.", "story": 107, "date": "1907-04-24", "title": "Modifying Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico", "type": "proclamation", "number": "748"}]}
{"id": "eo-765", "type": "executive_order", "number": "765", "tr_sequence": 729, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-03-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Land in Hogan, Alaska, for Use by Army Signal Corps in Telegraph Line Operation", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_765", "revid": 1914055, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 34, War Dept., March 14, 1908"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The following-described tract of public land at Hogan, in the Territory of Alaska, is hereby reserved from sale or other disposition, subject to private rights, if any there be, and set apart as a military reservation for the use of the Signal Corps, U. S. Army, in the matter of the operation of telegraph lines in Alaska, viz:", "That tract of land included within metes and bounds as follows:", "Beginning at a point 300 feet west and 2,640 feet north of the middle point of the west wall of the telegraph station, designated by a post marked \"U.S.M.R.No.1;\" thence south 5,280 feet to a post marked \"U.S.M.R.No.2;\" thence east 5,280 feet to a post marked \"U.S.M.R.No.3;\" thence north 5,280 feet to a post marked \"U.S.M.R.No.4;\" thence west 5,280 feet to the point of beginning. Area, 640 acres, more or less. Bearings true—assuming variation of needle to be thirty-two degrees."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 34, War Dept., March 14, 1908)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House March 3, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved a square tract of public land at Hogan, Alaska, as a military reservation for the Army Signal Corps to run telegraph lines.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Hogan", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [97], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-03-03", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-766", "type": "executive_order", "number": "766", "tr_sequence": 730, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-03-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Charles L. Babcock as Immigrant Inspector in Immigration Service Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_766", "revid": 1881501, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 134"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Charles L. Babcock may be appointed as an immigrant inspector for confidential duty in the Immigration Service in the Department of Commerce and Labor without examination under the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 134)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 4, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Charles L. Babcock to be appointed an immigrant inspector for confidential duty in the Immigration Service without a civil-service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Charles L. Babcock"], "significance": 1, "stories": [97], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-03-04", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-767", "type": "executive_order", "number": "767", "tr_sequence": 731, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-03-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Revoking Executive Order of March 26, 1901 and Prescribing a New Ration for the Army", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Revoked the executive order of March 26, 1901, and prescribed a new ration for the Army.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "revoke", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [97], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-03-05", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-802", "type": "proclamation", "number": "802", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-03-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart Ozark National Forest, Arkansas", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 802, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-802"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2182, "last_page": 2183, "cite": "35 Stat. 2182–2183", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2182.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-03-06", "table_title": "Setting apart Ozark National Forest, Arkansas."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Arkansas, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by utilizing said lands as a National Forest;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An Act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from settlement or entry and set apart as a public reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Arkansas, shown as the Ozark National Forest on the diagram forming a part hereof;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, pr upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, That these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby established which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation; and provided also that since the withdrawal made by this proclamation and any withdrawal heretofore made for national irrigation works are consistent, both shall be effective upon the land withdrawn, but the withdrawal for national irrigation works shall be the dominant one and may, when necessary, be changed to a withdrawal for irrigation from such works.", "Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 6th day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2182", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Ozark National Forest, Ark.", "Preamble.", "National forest, Arkansas.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Post, p. 2233.", "Lands excepted.", "Coal land.", "Irrigation projects.", "Reserved from allotment.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Ozark National Forest from partly timbered public lands in Arkansas, reserving them from settlement or entry for the use and benefit of the people.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Ozark National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arkansas"}], "states": ["Arkansas"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [71], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-03-06", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Ozark was combined with the St. Francis in 1963.", "source": "FS-612", "date": "1963", "story": 71}], "today": [{"name": "Ozark–St. Francis National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "origin", "state": "Arkansas", "note": "Set apart from unreserved public land in 1908; combined with the St. Francis in 1963.", "source": "FS-612", "story": 71}], "uncertain": ["Whether anyone outside the Forest Service formally asked for the Ozark forest is not known."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-768", "type": "executive_order", "number": "768", "tr_sequence": 732, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-03-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Transfer of Philip W. Reinhard, Jr., Customs Clerk, to Competitive Service Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_768", "revid": 1881508, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 134"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Philip W. Reinhard, jr., of New York, confidential clerk to the collector of customs at New York, may be transferred from the excepted to the competitive class because of his faithful service during the past nine years, it being desirable that he continue in the performance of the responsible duties, classified in character, which he has been performing."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 134)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 6, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Moved Philip W. Reinhard Jr., confidential clerk to the New York collector of customs, from the excepted to the competitive class in recognition of nine years of faithful service.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["New York"], "people": ["Philip W. Reinhard, Jr."], "significance": 1, "stories": [97], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-03-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-769", "type": "executive_order", "number": "769", "tr_sequence": 733, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-03-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Certain Lands Near Chena and Fairbanks, Alaska, Reserved for Signal Corps Telegraph Lines; EO 328-B Revoked", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reserved lands near Chena and Fairbanks, Alaska, for Army Signal Corps telegraph lines and revoked Executive Order 328-B.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Chena", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}, {"name": "Fairbanks", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [97], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-03-13", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-328-b", "relation": "revokes", "note": "The Chena–Fairbanks telegraph reservation revoked this earlier order.", "story": 97, "date": "1905-05-24", "title": "Approving Acting War Secretary Recommendation of May 24, 1905 to Reserve 13 Tracts of Described Lands in Alaska for Use by the Signal Corps. United States Army", "type": "executive_order", "number": "328-B"}]}
{"id": "eo-770", "type": "executive_order", "number": "770", "tr_sequence": 734, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-03-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Except Certain Caretakers of Former Military Reservations from Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_770", "revid": 10944392, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 108"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Schedule A, Subdivision III, of positions excepted from examination under the civil-service rules, is hereby amended by the addition of the following new paragraph, to be numbered \"10:\"", "Care takers of abandoned military reservations or of abandoned or unoccupied military posts, when the positions are filled by retired noncommissioned officers or enlisted men."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 108)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 17, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Added caretakers of abandoned military reservations or posts to the positions excepted from examination, when the jobs go to retired noncommissioned officers or enlisted men.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [97], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-03-17", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-771", "type": "executive_order", "number": "771", "tr_sequence": 735, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-03-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Portion of Hawkins Island, Prince William Sound, Alaska, Reserved as Navy Coaling Station", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reserved part of Hawkins Island in Prince William Sound, Alaska, as a Navy coaling station.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Hawkins Island", "kind": "naval-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [97], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-03-18", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-772", "type": "executive_order", "number": "772", "tr_sequence": 736, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-03-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Wilhelm Lutz to Position in Immigration Bureau Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_772", "revid": 1881521, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 135"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Wilhelm Lutz, assistant chief of police of Porto Rico, may be appointed to a position in the Immigration Bureau of the United States for the reasons set forth in the letter of Governor Post."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 135)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 21, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Wilhelm Lutz, assistant chief of police of Porto Rico, to be appointed to the U.S. Immigration Bureau for reasons given by Governor Post.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Puerto Rico"], "people": ["Wilhelm Lutz"], "significance": 1, "stories": [97], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-03-21", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-773", "type": "executive_order", "number": "773", "tr_sequence": 737, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-03-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Redefining Boundaries of Naval Coaling Depot Reservation at Lowell Point, Resurrection Bay, Alaska", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_773", "revid": 1913573, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that the following land and water surfaces on Resurrection Bay, at a place known as Lowell Point, situate on Kenai Peninsula, and represented upon United States Coast and Geodetic Survey chart No. 8538 as being in approximate longitude 149° 27′ west, latitude 60° 04′ north, in Alaska, containing about 3,350 acres, be, and the same are hereby, reserved for use of the Navy Department as a coaling depot, subject to any existing vested rights of persons within the limits described, viz:", "Beginning at extreme low water and extending thence due west (true) to a post about, 20 feet from high water, at the foot of land slide just north of the shoal off the northeast side of Lowell Point and 500 feet south of a waterfall, said post bearing the legend \"U. S. Naval Reservation,\" and extending thence due west-southwest (true) up the face of the bluff to the backbone of the ridge and following the backbone of the ridge in a generally westerly direction to the peak marked \"4000\" on United States Coast and Geodetic Survey chart No. 8538; thence due south (true) to the peak marked \"3020\" on above-named chart; thence continuing due south (true) to Tonsina Creek and across said creek to the right bank; thence following the right bank of said creek to its mouth; thence due east (true) to extreme low water; thence following extreme low water to point of beginning, including all rights in and to the waters of Tonsina Creek, its branches and tributaries, without and within the limits above described.", "Executive Order No. 760, dated February 21, 1908, reserving said tract of land for naval purposes, is hereby revoked."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, March 23, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Redrew the Navy coaling-depot reservation at Lowell Point on Resurrection Bay, Alaska, about 3,350 acres including Tonsina Creek waters, and revoked the earlier Executive Order 760.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Lowell Point", "kind": "naval-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [97], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-03-23", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-760", "relation": "revokes", "note": "Redrew the Lowell Point coaling depot (about 3,350 acres) and revoked the February 21, 1908 order that first set it aside.", "story": 97, "date": "1908-02-21", "title": "Reserving Certain Described Lands at Lowell Point, Resurrection Bay, Alaska, for the Navy Department for Use as a Coaling Depot", "type": "executive_order", "number": "760"}]}
{"id": "eo-774", "type": "executive_order", "number": "774", "tr_sequence": 738, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-03-31", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Regulations Governing the Right to Trial by Jury in the Canal Zone", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_774", "revid": 1901441, "printed_source": "1 Canal Record 266, April 22, 1908"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Under authority vested in me by law, it is ordered:", "Executive Order No. 750, dated February 6, 1908, providing for a system of jury trials in criminal prosecutions in the Canal Zone, wherein the penalty of death or imprisonment for life may be inflicted, is hereby modified by striking out of line 1 and 2, section 2, and out of line 4 and 5 of the same section, the words \"collector of revenue\" and inserting in lieu thereof the words \"tax collector.\""], "source": "Wikisource (from 1 Canal Record 266, April 22, 1908)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House March 31, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "title_notes": ["The order only replaced \"collector of revenue\" with \"tax collector\" in section 2 of EO 750."], "summary": "Tweaked the Canal Zone jury-trial order (Executive Order 750) by replacing \"collector of revenue\" with \"tax collector\" on the jury commissions.", "categories": ["canal-zone"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Canal Zone", "kind": "canal-zone", "state": "Panama Canal Zone"}], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [97], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-03-31", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-750", "relation": "amends", "note": "Replaced \"collector of revenue\" with \"tax collector\" in section 2.", "story": 97, "date": "1908-02-06", "title": "Providing Regulations Governing the Right to Trial by Jury in the Canal Zone", "type": "executive_order", "number": "750"}]}
{"id": "eo-775", "type": "executive_order", "number": "775", "tr_sequence": 739, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-04-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "EO of May 9, 1898, Which Reserved Lands in Washington, Revoked", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Revoked an executive order of May 9, 1898, that had reserved lands in Washington.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "revoke", "places": [], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [97], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-04-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-776", "type": "executive_order", "number": "776", "tr_sequence": 740, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-04-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Executive Order 707, Reinstating John P. Scruggs, Confirmed", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Confirmed Executive Order 707, which reinstated John P. Scruggs.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["John P. Scruggs"], "significance": 1, "stories": [97], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-04-04", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-777", "type": "executive_order", "number": "777", "tr_sequence": 741, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-04-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Prescribing Hours of Labor at Navy Yards", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_777", "revid": 1931372, "printed_source": "[http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA535&id=mWZZAAAAIAAJ#v=onepage&q=&f=true External Information about this EO]  "}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["{| style=\"margin: 0em 0em 0em 0em;\" | width=2%| |It is hereby ordered that on Saturdays, until further notice, during the months and at the naval stations hereinbelow named, four hours, exclusive of time for luncheon, shall constitute a day's work for skilled mechanics and laborers and employees in the classified service at said naval stations; viz:", "Naval Stations:", "Cavlte and Olongapo, P. I.: April, May, and June; Guam: July, August, and September; Tutuila: December, January, and February; Honolulu: July, August, and September; Guantanamo: June, July, and August; San Juan, P. R.: August, September, and October:", "Provided, That if any skilled mechanic or laborer shall work more than four hours on any Saturday during the months aforesaid he shall be paid for such extra work at the rate of fifty per centum in addition to his regular and normal compensation and no more.", "Theodore Roosevelt The White House, April 4, 1908. | width=2%| |}", "== Notes == See Related: Executive Order 1096, June 25, 1909"], "source": "Wikisource (from [http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA535&id=mWZZAAAAIAAJ#v=onepage&q=&f=true External Information about this EO]  )", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Made four hours a full Saturday's work at overseas naval stations during set hot months, from Cavite and Olongapo to Guam, Tutuila, Honolulu, Guantanamo and San Juan, with time-and-a-half for extra hours.", "categories": ["military-naval", "labor-business"], "action": "regulate", "places": [{"name": "Cavite", "kind": "naval-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Olongapo", "kind": "naval-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Guam", "kind": "naval-reservation", "state": "Guam"}, {"name": "Tutuila", "kind": "naval-reservation", "state": "American Samoa"}, {"name": "Honolulu", "kind": "naval-reservation", "state": "Hawaii"}, {"name": "Guantanamo", "kind": "naval-reservation"}, {"name": "San Juan", "kind": "naval-reservation", "state": "Puerto Rico"}], "states": ["Philippines", "Guam", "American Samoa", "Hawaii", "Puerto Rico"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [97], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-04-04", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-778", "type": "executive_order", "number": "778", "tr_sequence": 742, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-04-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Transferring Certain Lands in Sitka, Alaska, from Navy Department to Army Signal Corps for Use as Cable House", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_778", "revid": 1912402, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 61, War Dept., April 1908"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The following described parcel of land situated in Sitka, Alaska, which was included in the reservations for public purposes made on the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, dated June 19, 1890, by executive order, dated June 21, 1890, is hereby transferred from the Navy Department to the War Department for the use of the Signal Corps, U. S. Army, as a site for a cable house and station in the operation of military cable and telegraph lines in Alaska, viz:", "All that parcel of land included within metes and bounds as follows:", "Commencing at low-water mark on the south side of the west end of Lincoln street; thence along the south side of said Lincoln street about 200 feet in a northeasterly direction to the northwest corner of lot occupied by United States court-house and jail building; thence in a southeasterly direction along the west fence of said lot 200 feet to low-water mark; and thence along low-water mark in a westerly and northwesterly direction to the point of beginning."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 61, War Dept., April 1908)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House April 4, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Transferred a parcel in Sitka, Alaska, from the Navy Department to the Army Signal Corps as a site for a cable house and station for military cable and telegraph lines.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Sitka", "kind": "town", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [97], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-04-04", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-121", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 121, "date": "1908-04-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Time limit on reinstatement waived for a classified employee who lost his health in line of duty as an incident to heroic conduct in saving life (Presidential Letter).", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 121, "page": "203–204", "citations": "1907 CSR 136; (I CFR 60, 277, 439; V CFR 439)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Classified employees who lost their health saving life in line of duty excepted from examination and reinstatement requirements (a Presidential Letter later treated as an EO by the Civil Service Commission).", "reconciliation": "distinct", "duplicate_of": null, "reconciliation_note": "No match.", "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Classified employees who lost their health saving life in line of duty excepted from examination and reinstatement requirements (a Presidential Letter later treated as an EO by the Civil Service Commission)”. Presidential Letter of April 4, 1908; not a general rule."], "summary": "Waived the time limit on reinstatement for a classified employee who lost his health in the line of duty while saving life.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [114], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-04-04", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The letter arose from the case of Frank Raynor, a Life-Saving Service surfman awarded the gold life-saving medal for rescuing the crew of the schooner Benjamin C. Cromwell; it noted that no pension existed for such a man.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1908-04-04", "story": 114}], "legacy": [{"text": "The waiver survived in the civil-service regulations for decades under the caption \"Time limit waived for heroic conduct.\"", "source": "research entry", "story": 114}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-779", "type": "executive_order", "number": "779", "tr_sequence": 743, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-04-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Tortugas Keys Reservation in Florida as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_779", "revid": 12441367, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that all islands embraced within the group known as the Dry Tortugas, located in the Gulf of Mexico, near the western extremity of the Florida Keys, approximately in latitude twenty-four degrees, thirty-eight minutes north, longitude eighty-two degrees, fifty-two minutes west from Greenwich, and situated within the area segregated by a broken line upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this order, are hereby reserved and set aside for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a preserve and breeding-ground for native birds; but the reservation made by this order is not intended to interfere with the use of these islands for necessary military purposes under the Executive Order of September 17, 1845, creating the Dry Tortugas Military Reservation, nor to, in any manner, vacate such order, except that such military use shall not extend to the occupation of the islet known as Bird Key. This reservation to be known as Tortugas Keys Reservation."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, April 6, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved all the Dry Tortugas islands as the Tortugas Keys Reservation, a preserve and breeding ground for native birds; military use may continue except on Bird Key.", "categories": ["wildlife"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Tortugas Keys Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Florida"}, {"name": "Bird Key", "kind": "island", "state": "Florida"}], "states": ["Florida"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [97], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-04-06", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Bureau of Biological Survey administered the reservation, sharing the cost of warden protection with the National Association of Audubon Societies.", "source": "Robertson, The Terns of the Dry Tortugas (1964), p. 27", "story": 97}, {"kind": "local", "text": "Under warden protection begun in 1903, the Bird Key sooty-tern colony grew from roughly 5,000 adults to an estimated 18,858 in 1907 and about 40,000 by 1909.", "source": "Robertson (1964), table 2", "date": "1909", "story": 97}], "legacy": [{"text": "The colony reached something like 80,000 to 100,000 breeding adults around 1917.", "source": "Robertson (1964), table 2", "date": "1917", "story": 97}, {"text": "Hurricanes in 1910 and 1919 stripped Bird Key's vegetation, and the island eroded until by mid-1935 it was a sandbar; it was not destroyed by the 1935 Labor Day hurricane.", "source": "National Park Service scientific literature", "date": "1935", "story": 97}, {"text": "The terns moved to nearby Bush Key, where up to 80,000 sooty terns and 4,500 brown noddies nest, the only significant colony of either in the United States.", "source": "National Park Service scientific literature", "story": 97}], "today": [{"name": "Dry Tortugas National Park", "kind": "national_park", "relation": "part", "state": "Florida", "note": "Proclamation 2112 replaced the bird reservation with Fort Jefferson National Monument in 1935; the monument became a national park in 1992.", "source": "Proclamation 2112; Public Law 102-525", "story": 97}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1935-01-04", "text": "Franklin Roosevelt's Proclamation 2112 created Fort Jefferson National Monument and expressly revoked Executive Order 779.", "source": "Proclamation 2112", "story": 97}, {"date": "1983", "text": "Fort Jefferson National Monument was enlarged.", "source": "research entry", "story": 97}, {"date": "1992-10-26", "text": "Congress redesignated the monument Dry Tortugas National Park.", "source": "Public Law 102-525", "story": 97}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-780", "type": "executive_order", "number": "780", "tr_sequence": 744, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-04-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Harry A. Strohm as Special Agent in Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster General Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_780", "revid": 1881529, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 137"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Harry A. Strohm, of Indiana, a third-class postmaster, who has had nine years' experience, may be appointed as a special agent of the Division of Classification in the Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster-General without examination under the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 137)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, April 13, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Harry A. Strohm, an Indiana third-class postmaster with nine years' experience, to be appointed a special agent in the Third Assistant Postmaster-General's office without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Indiana"], "people": ["Harry A. Strohm"], "significance": 1, "stories": [97], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-04-13", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-781", "type": "executive_order", "number": "781", "tr_sequence": 745, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-04-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Henry C. Towers as Expert and Chief in Bureau of Forestry Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_781", "revid": 1881544, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 137"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Henry C. Towers, an expert in the Bureau of Forestry, of the Department of Agriculture, may be appointed to the competitive position of expert and chief of the section of purchases in the same service without examination under the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 137)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, April 15, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Permitted Henry C. Towers, a Bureau of Forestry expert, to be promoted to expert and chief of the section of purchases without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Henry C. Towers"], "significance": 1, "stories": [97], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-04-15", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-803", "type": "proclamation", "number": "803", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-04-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Modifying Manzano National Forest, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 803, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-803"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2184, "last_page": 2185, "cite": "35 Stat. 2184–2185", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2184.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-04-16", "table_title": "Modifying Manzano National Forest, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Manzano National Forest certain lands, within the Territory of New Mexico, which are in part covered with timber, and by excluding therefrom certain lands;", "And whereas it appears desirable that the area heretofore reserved and set apart as the Mount Taylor National Forest should form a part of the Manzano National Forest;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Manzano National Forest are hereby changed and that they are now as shown on the two parts of the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "The lands hereby excluded from the Manzano National Forest which are not embraced in withdrawals for administrative sites for use in the management of the Forest, or in any other reservation, or appropriation, shall be restored to the public domain and become subject to settlement under the genera] provisions of the homestead laws on such date and after such notice by publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, but shall not become subject to entry, filing, selection, or other form of appropriation until the expiration of thirty days from the date so fixed, and no person will be permitted to gain or exercise any right whatever under any settlement or occupation begun prior to such date, and all such settlement and occupation are hereby forbidden.", "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 16th day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2184", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Manzano National Forest, N. Mex.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34, p. 3257.", "Vol. 34, p. 3239.", "Mount Taylor National Forest added.", "Boundaries modified.", "Prior rights not affected, etc.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233.", "Lands restored to public domain."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Redrew the Manzano National Forest in New Mexico, folding in the Mount Taylor National Forest, adding timbered lands and returning excluded lands to the public domain.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Manzano National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}, {"name": "Mount Taylor National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [71], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-04-16", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The proclamation added and excluded land and absorbed the Mount Taylor forest; from it on, the standard text promised not to prevent settlement of land opened under the Forest Homestead Act of 1906.", "source": "35 Stat. 2171–2208", "date": "1908-04-16", "story": 71}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Manzano was renamed the Cibola in December 1931.", "source": "FS-612", "date": "1931-12", "story": 71}], "today": [{"name": "Cibola National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "renamed", "state": "New Mexico", "source": "FS-612", "story": 71}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-662", "relation": "modifies", "note": "Absorbed the Mount Taylor forest set apart in 1906.", "story": 71, "date": "1906-10-05", "title": "Setting Apart the Mount Taylor Forest Reserve, New Mexico", "type": "proclamation", "number": "662"}]}
{"id": "proc-804", "type": "proclamation", "number": "804", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-04-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Aside Natural Bridges National Monument, Utah", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 804, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-804"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2183, "last_page": 2184, "cite": "35 Stat. 2183–2184", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2183.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-04-16", "table_title": "Setting aside Natural Bridges National Monument, Utah."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America", "A Proclamation", "Whereas, a number of natural bridges situated in southeastern Utah, having heights more lofty and spans far greater than any heretofore known to exist, are of the greatest scientific interest, and it appears that the public interests would be promoted by reserving these extraordinary examples of stream erosion with as much land as may be necessary for the proper protection thereof;", "Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section two of the Act of Congress approved June 8, 1906, entitled \"An Act for the Preservation of American Antiquities,\" do hereby set aside as the Natural Bridges National Monument, subject to any valid interest or rights, at and surrounding each of the natural bridges located on the White Canyon and tributaries, in San Juan County, State of Utah, by common report named by Horace J. Long as Augusta Bridge, Caroline Bridge and the Little Bridge, forty acres in square form with side lines running north and south and east and west equidistant from the respective centers of said bridges.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure or destroy any of the natural bridges hereby declared to be a National Monument, nor to locate or settle upon any of the lands reserved and made a part of said Monument by this proclamation.", "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 16th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:\nROBERT BACON, Acting Secretary of State."], "source": "35 Stat. 2183–2184 (scanned Statutes at Large original), collated word for word with the American Presidency Project transcription, 2026-08-21", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Wording identical to the Statutes original; printed marginal sidenotes not reproduced. Italic emphasis from the source transcription not preserved.", "story": 6}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created Natural Bridges National Monument in Utah's San Juan County, protecting the Augusta, Caroline and Little bridges on White Canyon with 40 acres around each.", "categories": ["monuments"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Natural Bridges National Monument", "kind": "monument", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 5, "stories": [6], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-04-16", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Salt Lake Herald greeted the news on page one under the headline \"PRESERVED FROM VANDALS.\"", "source": "Salt Lake Herald, April 17, 1908, p. 1", "date": "1908-04-17", "story": 6}, {"text": "Within a day the Salt Lake Tribune called the reservation too small, opening a run of at least four editorials in twelve days.", "source": "Salt Lake Tribune, April 18, 1908", "date": "1908-04-18", "story": 6}, {"text": "Byron Cummings, whose 1907 survey underlay the proclamation, told a Salt Lake paper the reservation was not sufficient for its purpose.", "source": "Deseret Evening News, April 18, 1908", "date": "1908-04-18", "story": 6}, {"text": "The Tribune proposed enlarging the monument to a full township, six miles square, or 23,040 acres.", "source": "Salt Lake Tribune, April 19, 1908", "date": "1908-04-19", "story": 6}, {"text": "The Salt Lake Real Estate Association formally petitioned for a full-township reserve.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1908-04-23", "story": 6}, {"text": "The Utah press almost uniformly reported the monument as forty acres rather than 120, so critics argued against a reservation one-third its true size.", "source": "Utah newspapers, April–June 1908", "date": "1908", "story": 6}, {"text": "The Tribune observed that no one opposed the reservation because there were no conflicting interests, vested rights, or settlements on the ground.", "source": "Salt Lake Tribune, April 29, 1908", "date": "1908-04-29", "story": 6}, {"text": "The Tribune reported a proclamation adding a tract nine by fourteen miles; no such proclamation was issued.", "source": "Salt Lake Tribune, May 13, 1908; 35 Stat. 2185–2192", "date": "1908-05-13", "story": 6}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "political", "text": "Roosevelt asked Gifford Pinchot how much more land was needed, with Senator Reed Smoot working the question in Washington.", "source": "Salt Lake Tribune, May 7, 1908", "date": "1908-05-07", "story": 6}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "General Land Office surveyor William B. Douglass resurveyed the area and had the bridges given Hopi-word names, which the U.S. Geographic Board accepted: Sipapu, Kachina, and Owachomo.", "source": "Neil Judd", "date": "1908", "story": 6}], "legacy": [{"text": "Taft's 1909 proclamation replaced the three forty-acre squares with about 2,740 acres, a direct answer to the 1908 campaign for more land.", "source": "Proc. 881, 36 Stat. 2502–2503", "date": "1909-09-25", "story": 6}, {"text": "The Geographic Board's Fourth and Fifth Reports paired two of the new names with the wrong bridges until the Board re-decided all three in 1937.", "source": "U.S. Geographic Board, Fourth Report (1916)", "date": "1937", "story": 6}, {"text": "Natural Bridges was certified as the world's first International Dark Sky Park.", "source": "DarkSky International", "date": "2007-03-06", "story": 6}], "today": [{"name": "Natural Bridges National Monument", "kind": "national_monument", "relation": "origin", "state": "Utah", "since": "1908-04-16", "note": "Utah's first national monument and the state's first unit of the national park system; about 7,636 acres today.", "source": "NPS Land Resources Division, listing of acreage, June 30, 2026", "story": 6}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1909-09-25", "text": "Proclamation 881 enlarged the monument to about 2,740 acres.", "source": "36 Stat. 2502–2503", "story": 6}, {"date": "1916-02-11", "text": "Proclamation 1323 re-described the boundary against new survey corners without enlarging it.", "source": "39 Stat. 1764–1765", "story": 6}, {"date": "1937", "text": "The U.S. Geographic Board re-decided the names Sipapu, Kachina, and Owachomo.", "source": "research entry", "story": 6}, {"date": "1962-08-14", "text": "Proclamation 3486 added about 5,236 acres and excluded about 320 acres at Snow Flat Spring Cave and Cigarette Spring Cave.", "source": "76 Stat. 1495–1497", "story": 6}], "uncertain": ["Whether Douglass found the earlier names attached to the wrong bridges, as is often said, is unconfirmed; the only firsthand account reports just an objection to the names."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-794", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Grand Canyon, three months earlier, read the Antiquities Act's smallest-area clause to cover more than 800,000 acres; Natural Bridges read it literally.", "story": 6, "date": "1908-01-11", "title": "Setting Aside Grand Canyon National Monument, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "794"}]}
{"id": "eo-782", "type": "executive_order", "number": "782", "tr_sequence": 746, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-04-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Land in Fairbanks, Alaska, for Use by Army Signal Corps as Wireless Telegraph Station", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_782", "revid": 1914046, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 66, War Dept., April 29, 1908"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The following described tract of land at Fairbanks, in the Territory of Alaska, is hereby reserved from sale or other disposition, subject to private rights, if any there be, and set apart as a military reservation for the use of the Signal Corps, U. S. Army, for a wireless telegraph station in the matter of the operation of telegraph lines in Alaska, viz:", "That tract of land included within metes and bounds as follows:", "Beginning at a stake, centered with a tack, and marked \"Initial Stake No. 1;\" thence N. 81° 50′ E. 18 feet to the left bank of the Chena River at its intersection with the south line of the Independent Lumber Company's property; thence in a southerly direction following the meanderings of the left bank of the Chena River approximately 853 feet; thence S. 81° 50′ W. 16 feet to a stake, centered with a tack, and marked \"Stake No. 2;\" thence S. 81° 50′ W. 1,100 feet to a stake, centered with a tack, and marked \"Stake No. 3;\" thence N. 8° 10′ W. 850 feet to a stake, centered with a tack, and marked \"Stake No. 4;\" thence N. 81° 50′ E. 982 feet to initial stake No. 1, the point of beginning. Area, 19 acres, more or less. All courses are referred to the true meridian."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 66, War Dept., April 29, 1908)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House April 16, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved a tract on the Chena River at Fairbanks, Alaska, as a military reservation for an Army Signal Corps wireless telegraph station.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Fairbanks", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [97], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-04-16", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-783", "type": "executive_order", "number": "783", "tr_sequence": 747, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-04-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of William S. Murphy as Chinese Inspector in Immigration Service Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_783", "revid": 1881550, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 137"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. William S. Murphy, of Mississippi, may be appointed as a Chinese inspector in the Immigration Service without examination under the civil-service rules on account of his extensive experience in court practice and special qualifications, it being intended to utilize his capabilities at present in a position where there is great need of an officer who has legal training of a practical character."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 137)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, April 17, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed William S. Murphy of Mississippi, valued for his legal training, to be appointed a Chinese inspector in the Immigration Service without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Mississippi"], "people": ["William S. Murphy"], "significance": 1, "stories": [97], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-04-17", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-805", "type": "proclamation", "number": "805", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-04-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Modifying Sierra National Forest, California and Nevada", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 805, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-805"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2185, "last_page": 2186, "cite": "35 Stat. 2185–2186", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2185.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-04-20", "table_title": "Modifying Sierra National Forest, California and Nevada."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Sierra National Forest certain lands, within the States of California and Nevada, which are in part covered with timber, and by excluding therefrom certain lands within the State of California;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Sierra National Forest is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the aforesaid National Forest are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force. And such withdrawal shall not limit the rights granted to the city of Los Angeles by the Act of Congress approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, Thirty-four Statutes at Large, page eight hundred and one.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "The lands hereby excluded from the Sierra National Forest which are not embraced in any other withdrawal, reservation, or appropriation, shall be restored to the public domain and become subject to settlement under the general provisions of the homestead laws on such date and after such notice by publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, but shall not become subject to entry, filing, selection, or other form of appropriation until the expiration of thirty days from the date so fixed, and no person will be permitted to gain or exercise any right whatever under any settlement or occupation begun prior to such date, and all such settlement and occupation are hereby forbidden.", "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 20th day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2185", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Sierra National Forest, Cal. and Nev.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 27, p. 1059.", "Vol. 33, p. 702.", "Boundaries modified.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Post, pp. 2235, 2249.", "Prior rights, etc., not affected.", "Rights granted Los Angeles, Cal., not affected.", "Vol. 34, p. 801.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233.", "Lands restored to public domain."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Redrew the Sierra National Forest, adding partly timbered lands in California and Nevada and excluding some California lands.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Sierra National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California", "Nevada"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [71], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-04-20", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The proclamation added land in California and Nevada and excluded land in California, restoring it to the public domain.", "source": "35 Stat. 2171–2208", "date": "1908-04-20", "story": 71}], "today": [{"name": "Sierra National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "California", "source": "research entry", "story": 71}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-784", "type": "executive_order", "number": "784", "tr_sequence": 748, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-04-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Alpheus H. Mahone as Fish Culturist in Bureau of Fisheries Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_784", "revid": 1881570, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 138"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Alpheus H. Mahone may be reinstated as a fish culturist in the Bureau of Fisheries without reference to the time limit of eligibility prescribed by the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 138)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, April 20, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Alpheus H. Mahone to be reinstated as a fish culturist in the Bureau of Fisheries despite the civil-service time limit.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Alpheus H. Mahone"], "significance": 1, "stories": [97], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-04-20", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-785", "type": "executive_order", "number": "785", "tr_sequence": 749, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-04-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Positions Excepted from Examination for Interstate Commerce Commission Personnel", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_785", "revid": 12440748, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 108"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The civil-service rules are hereby amended by adding to Schedule A the following section:", "Not exceeding 20 special agents under the division of prosecutions, subject to such evidence of qualification as the Civil Service Commission may prescribe after consultation with the Interstate Commerce Commission: Provided, That should the Civil Service Commission at any time have reason to believe that the privilege afforded by this section is abused, it may revoke it."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 108)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, April 21, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Excepted up to 20 special agents in the Interstate Commerce Commission's division of prosecutions from examination, with the Civil Service Commission able to revoke the privilege if abused.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [97], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-04-21", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-786", "type": "executive_order", "number": "786", "tr_sequence": 750, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-04-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of John Krey as Assistant Engineer in Engineer Department of the United States Army Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_786", "revid": 1881582, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 138"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. John Krey may be reinstated as an assistant engineer in the Engineer Department of the United States Army in the discretion of the Secretary of War and should the needs of the service so require, without reference to the time limit of the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 138)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, April 23, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed John Krey to be reinstated as an assistant engineer in the Army's Engineer Department without regard to the civil-service time limit.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["John Krey"], "significance": 1, "stories": [97], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-04-23", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-806", "type": "proclamation", "number": "806", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-04-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Jemez National Forest, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 806, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-806"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2186, "last_page": 2186, "cite": "35 Stat. 2186", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2186.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-04-24", "table_title": "Enlarging Jemez National Forest, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Jemez National Forest certain lands, within the Territory of New Mexico, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Jemez National Forest is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the aforesaid National Forest are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 24th day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2186", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Jemez National Forest, N. Mex.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34, pp. 3182, 3261.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Post, p. 2240.", "Prior rights not affected, etc.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 283."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Jemez National Forest in New Mexico with additional partly timbered lands.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Jemez National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [71], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-04-24", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Jemez joined the Pecos to form the Santa Fe National Forest in 1915.", "source": "EO 2160; FS-612", "date": "1915-04-06", "story": 71}], "today": [{"name": "Santa Fe National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "New Mexico", "source": "FS-612", "story": 71}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1915-04-06", "text": "Executive Order 2160 combined the Jemez and Pecos forests as the Santa Fe.", "source": "EO 2160; FS-612", "story": 71}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-787", "type": "executive_order", "number": "787", "tr_sequence": 751, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-04-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "San Juan National Forest, Colorado, Diminished", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reduced the San Juan National Forest in Colorado.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "reduce", "places": [{"name": "San Juan National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [97], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-04-24", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-788", "type": "executive_order", "number": "788", "tr_sequence": 752, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-04-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Canal Zone Laws Regarding Defacement or Removal of Survey Monuments", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_788", "revid": 1901449, "printed_source": "1 Canal Record 290, May 13, 1908"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Under authority vested in me by law, it is ordered:", "Section 436 of act No. 14 of the Laws of the Canal Zone is hereby amended so as to read as follows:", "Every person who wilfully injures, defaces, or removes any signal, monument, building, or appurtenance thereto, placed, erected or used by persons engaged in the United States Coast Survey, or Isthmian Canal Commission, or any public service company within the Canal Zone, knowing the same to be a boundary or survey monument, is guilty of a misdemeanor."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1 Canal Record 290, May 13, 1908)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, April 24, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Rewrote a Canal Zone law to make it a misdemeanor to willfully damage, deface or remove boundary or survey monuments and signals.", "categories": ["canal-zone"], "action": "regulate", "places": [{"name": "Canal Zone", "kind": "canal-zone", "state": "Panama Canal Zone"}], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [97], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-04-24", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-789", "type": "executive_order", "number": "789", "tr_sequence": 753, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-04-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Govt. Employees at San Fran., Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda Excused on May 6, 1908 for Reception of Battleship Fleet", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Gave federal employees in San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda May 6, 1908, off for the reception of the battleship fleet.", "categories": ["ceremonial"], "action": "other", "places": [{"name": "San Francisco", "kind": "town", "state": "California"}, {"name": "Oakland", "kind": "town", "state": "California"}, {"name": "Berkeley", "kind": "town", "state": "California"}, {"name": "Alameda", "kind": "town", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [97], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-04-30", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The San Francisco Call reported that Representatives Knowland and Kahn had pressed the President for a holiday in the city's federal offices on the day the fleet arrived.", "source": "San Francisco Call, May 1, 1908, p. 10", "date": "1908-05-01", "story": 97}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "local", "text": "The holiday was extended to the federal offices in Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley, and the San Francisco post office closed for the day.", "source": "San Francisco Call, May 2, 1908, pp. 11, 14", "date": "1908-05-06", "story": 97}], "uncertain": ["Whether Executive Order 789 is the original San Francisco holiday order or the version extended to the East Bay cities cannot be told without its text."]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-799", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Three weeks later Roosevelt excused Civil and Spanish War veterans for a reinterment parade.", "story": 97, "date": "1908-05-23", "title": "Civil and Spanish War Veterans Excused on May 27, 1908 for Parade Regarding Removal of Body of Vice President George Clinton", "type": "executive_order", "number": "799"}]}
{"id": "eo-790", "type": "executive_order", "number": "790", "tr_sequence": 754, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-04-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Camp Stotsenburg Military Reservation Near Angeles, Pampanga, Luzon, Philippine Islands", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_790", "revid": 1905658, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 85, War Dept., May 18, 1908"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Pursuant to section 12 of Act of Congress, approved July 1, 1902, entitled \"An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes, (32 Stat. L., 691), the following-described lands are hereby reserved for the extension of the Camp Stotsenburg military reservation, near Angeles, Pampanga, Luzon, Philippine Islands, as declared by executive order of September 1, 1903 (G. O., No. 34, War Department, October 13, 1903), with the exception and subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth, viz: All public lands, except the tract hereinafter set forth, included within metes and bounds described as follows:", "Commencing at a cement monument at a point (station F.) on the line M-N of the existing reservation, as shown on the plan of \"Proposed extension of the Camp Stotsenburg military reservation, surveyed by First Lieut. Ph, J. Lauber, Second Infantry, and Second Lieut. Kenyon A. Joyce, Sixth Cavalry, January, 1908;\" said point of beginning being distant 1,773.46 meters from the said corner M; thence N. 44° 27′ 00″ W. 1,585.16 meters to a cement monument (station G) near the west end of barrio Dolores; thence N. 4° 23′ 20″ E. 1,736.81 meters to a cement monument (station H) on the south bank of the Bamban River; thence, following the meanderings of the Bamban River on its south bank, to a cement monument (station I) at the point of confluence with the Mabangla River (general direction, N. 23° 10′ 00″ E.; distance in direct line, 4,739 meters); thence N. 17° 26′ 10″ W. 892.47 meters to a wooden stake (station J) on the summit of the hill Panaysan; thence N. 3° 19′ 00″ W. 14,135 meters to a cement monument (station K) near barrio Telatau; thence N. 70° 7′ 20″ W. 9,203.42 meters to the triangulation station (station L) on Mount Biclat; thence S. 62° 23′ 5″ W. 17,132.29 meters to the southernmost peak (station U) of Mount Bocuel; thence S. 00° 27′ 40″ W. 9,817.39 meters to a flag pole (station Z) on the summit of a hill on the main ridge of the Zambales Mountains; thence S. 21° 27′ 20″ E. 15,650 meters to the summit of the south scarp (station B) of the gap in the ridge east of Mount Pinatubo; thence N. 82° 6′ 23″ E, 6,149.93 meters to station E of the existing reservation; thence, following the west and north boundaries of the reservation, N. 31° 49′ 30″ E. 5,165.06 meters; S. 83° 22′ 00″ E. 2,920.99 meters; N. 68° 25′ 00″ E. 2,886.76 meters; N. 71° 11′ 00″ E. 2,595.17 meters; N. 84° 5′ 00″ E. 1,773.46 meters to the point of commencement.", "There is excepted from the operation of this order the following-described tract of occupied land situated in the barrio of O'Donnell, municipality of Capas, viz:", "Commencing at the 11-mile post on the Capas-Iba Road; thence N. 11° 23′ 20″ W. 3,806.58 meters to a wooden stake on the right bank of the Caputian River; thence, following the river bank, downstream to the point of confluence with the Bangut River; thence, following the left bank of the Bangut River, upstream to the point of confluence with the Caliuagin River; thence, following the left bank of the Caliuagin River, upstream to the point of confluence with the Calanat Creek; thence, following the left bank of Calanat Creek, upstream to a wooden stake; thence N. 46° 2′ 20″ W. 150.96 meters, to the point of commencement.", "The area of the extension, exclusive of the excepted land at O'Donnell, is 58,006.5 hectares, more or less. The bearings are true, as established from the lines A-Y and M-N of the survey of the existing reservation. Magnetic declination, 1° 25′ east. [1908.]", "The said reservation is made subject to the following conditions:", "That no private property shall be taken or destroyed without first making payment therefor; that no private parties who are at present lawful owners or occupants or in the lawful possession or occupation of the land required for the reservation, shall be dispossessed or disturbed in their ownership, possession, or occupation, until their ownership or right to possession or occupancy has been extinguished by due process of law, and all lawful claims of such owners or occupants have been fully paid."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 85, War Dept., May 18, 1908)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, April 30, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Enlarged the Camp Stotsenburg military reservation near Angeles, Pampanga, on Luzon in the Philippines.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Camp Stotsenburg", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [98], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-04-30", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "uo-068", "relation": "enlarges", "note": null, "story": 112, "inferred": true, "date": "1903-09-01", "title": "Fifteen Philippine military reservations established in one order (Camp Stotsenberg at Angeles, Camp McGrath at Batangas, and others).", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "eo-791", "type": "executive_order", "number": "791", "tr_sequence": 755, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-05-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Katherine J. Fenton as Draftsman in Departments of the Washington, D.C. Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_791", "revid": 1881584, "printed_source": "1907 CSR 138"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The appointment of Mrs. Katherine J. Fenton to a position as departmental clerk copyist draftsman, or copyist topographic draftsman, in the departments at Washington is hereby permitted without compliance with the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1907 CSR 138)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, May 1, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Katherine J. Fenton to be appointed a copyist draftsman in the Washington departments without civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": ["Katherine J. Fenton"], "significance": 1, "stories": [98], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-05-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-792", "type": "executive_order", "number": "792", "tr_sequence": 756, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-05-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Fourteen Tracts of Land in Alaska for Stations on Third Section of United States Military Telegraph Lines", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_792", "revid": 12438081, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 90, War Dept., May 23, 1908"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The tracts of public land, hereinafter described, situated in the Territory of Alaska, are hereby reserved from sale or other disposition, subject to private rights, if any there be, and set apart as military reservations for the several stations on the Third Section of the United States Military Telegraph Lines in the Territory of Alaska, for the use of the Signal Corps, United States Army, in the matter of the operation of telegraph lines in Alaska.", "The name of each station, its approximate latitude and longitude, and the metes and bounds of the reservation thereat, are as follows:", "Beginning at a stake on the bank of the Yukon River and marked \"Stake No. 1,\" N. 58° 00′ W. 618 feet to a stake marked \"Stake No. 2;\" thence N. 32° 00′ E. 195 feet to a stake marked \"Stake No. 3;\" thence S. 58° 00′ E. 618 feet to a stake on the bank of the Yukon River and marked \"Stake No. 4;\" thence in a southerly direction approximately 195 feet, following the meanderings of the bank of the Yukon River to Stake No. 1, the point of beginning. Area, 2.766 acres, more or less. The bearings are true.", "Beginning at a stake on the bank of the Yukon River and marked \"Stake No. 1,\" following the meanderings of the bank of the Yukon River in an easterly direction to a stake on the bank of the Yukon River and marked \"Stake No. 2;\" thence due north 325 feet to a stake marked \"Stake No. 3;\" thence due west 110 feet to a stake marked \"Stake No. 4;\" thence due south, following the eastern line of the Catholic Mission homestead, 325 feet to Stake No. 1, the point of beginning. Area, 0.821 acre, more or less. The bearings are true.", "Beginning at a stake on the bank of the Yukon River and marked \"Stake No. 1,\" N. 10° 00′ W. 1,000 feet to a stake marked \"Stake No. 2;\" thence S. 80° 00′ W. 1,000 feet to a stake marked \"Stake No. 3;\" thence S. 10° 00′ E. 1,000 feet to a stake on the bank of the Yukon River and marked \"Stake No. 4;\" thence following the meanderings of the bank of the Yukon River in an easterly direction approximately 1,000 feet to Stake No. 1, the point of beginning. Area, 22.956 acres, more or less. The bearings are true.", "Beginning at a stake at the top of the bank of the Yukon River and marked \"Stake No. 1,\" due north 1,000 feet to a stake marked \"Stake No. 2;\" thence due west 1,000 feet to a stake marked \"Stake No. 3;\" thence due south 1,000 feet to a stake marked \"Stake No. 4,\" and located at the top of the bank of the Yukon River; thence following the meanderings of the bank of the Yukon River in an easterly direction approximately 1,000 feet to Stake No. 1, the point of beginning. Area, 22.956 acres, more or less. The bearings are true.", "Beginning at a stake on the bank of the Yukon River and marked \"Stake No. 1,\" following the meanderings of said bank in an easterly direction approximately 1,000 feet to a stake on the bank of the Yukon River marked \"Stake No. 2;\" thence N. 32° 00′ E. 1,000 feet to a stake marked \"Stake No. 3;\" thence S. 82° 00′ W. 1,000 feet to a stake marked \"Stake No. 4;\" thence S. 32° 00′ W. 1,000 feet to Stake No. 1, the point of beginning. Area, 18.319 acres, more or less. The bearings are true.", "Beginning at a stake on the bank of the Yukon River at high-water mark and marked \"Stake No. 1,\" N. 2° 00′ E. 600 feet to a stake marked \"Stake No. 2;\" thence S. 88° 00′ E. 600 feet to a stake marked \"Stake No. 3;\" thence S. 2° 00′ W. 600 feet to a stake on the bank of the Yukon River marked \"Stake No. 4;\" thence in a westerly direction following the meanderings of the bank of the Yukon River to Stake No. 1, the point of beginning. Area, 8.262 acres, more or less. The bearings are true.", "Beginning at a stake on the bank of the Yukon River and marked \"Stake No. 1,\" following the meanderings of the bank of the Yukon River in an easterly direction to another stake on the bank of the Yukon River and marked \"Stake No. 2,\" approximately 1,000 feet; thence N. 28° 00′ W. 1,000 feet to a stake marked \"Stake No. 3;\" thence S. 62° 00′ W. 1,000 feet to a stake marked \"Stake No. 4;\" thence S. 28° 00′ E. 1,000 feet to Stake No. 1, the point of beginning. Area, 22.956 acres, more or less. The bearings are true.", "Beginning at a stake at the top of the bank of the Yukon River and marked \"Stake No. 1,\" N. 12° 00′ W. 1,000 feet to a stake marked \"Stake No. ;\" thence S. 54° 00′ W. 1,000 feet to a stake marked \"Stake No. 3;\" thence S. 12° 00′ E. 1,000 feet to a stake at the top of the bank of the Yukon River and marked \"Stake No. 4;\" thence following the meanderings of the bank of the Yukon River in an easterly direction approximately 1,000 feet to Stake No. 1, the point of beginning. Area, 21.235 acres, more or less. The bearings are true.", "Beginning at a stake at the top of the bank of a slough of the Tanana River; said stake being located on the western boundary line of the homestead of J. M. Hall, and marked \"Stake No. 1;\" thence in a westerly direction, following the meanderings of the bank of the above-mentioned slough, approximately 1,320 feet to a stake on the bank of the said slough, and marked \"Stake No. 2;\" thence S. 10° 00′ W. 1,320 feet to a stake marked \"Stake No. 3;\" thence S. 80° 00′ E. 1,320 feet to a stake marked \"Stake No. 4,\" and located on the western boundary line of the homestead of J. M. Hall; thence N. 10° 00′ E. 1,320 feet, following the western boundary line of the said homestead, to Stake No. 1, the point of beginning. Area, 40 acres, more or less. The bearings are true.", "Beginning at a cottonwood post on the bank of the Tanana River which marks an upper corner of the homestead of J. C. Riley, and marked \"Stake No. 1,\" N. 38° 00′ W., following the line of the said homestead 325 feet to a cottonwood stump, which marks an angle of said homestead, and marked \"Stake No. 2;\" thence N. 52° 00′ E. following the line of said homestead, 1,320 feet to a spruce stump, which marks a corner of said homestead, and marked \"Stake No. 3;\" thence S. 38° 00′ E. 325 feet to a cottonwood stump marked \"Stake No. 4;\" thence following the meanderings of the bank of the Tanana River in a westerly direction approximately 1,320 feet to Stake No. 1, the point of beginning. Area, 9.848 acres, more or less. The bearings are true.", "Beginning at a square blazed pine tree on the top of the bank of the Tanana River and marked \"Stake No. 1,\" N. 32° 00′ E. 1,500 feet to a square blazed tree marked \"Stake No. 2;\" thence N. 58° 00′ W. 1,500 feet to a square blazed tree marked \"Stake No. 3;\" thence S. 32° 00′ W. 1,500 feet to a square blazed stump on the top of the bank of the Tanana River and marked \"Stake No. 4;\" thence in an easterly direction, following the meanderings of the bank of the Tanana River, approximately 1,500 feet to Stake No. 1, the point of beginning. Area, 51.652 acres, more or less. The bearings are true.", "Beginning at a stake marked \"Stake No. 1,\" S. 12° 00′ E. 2,600 feet to a stake marked \"Stake No. 2;\" thence N. 78° 00′ E. 3,400 feet to a stake marked \"Stake No. 3;\" thence N. 12° 00′ W. 2,600 feet to a stake marked \"Stake No. 4;\" thence S. 78° 00′ W. 3,400 feet to Stake No. 1, the point of beginning. Area, 202.938 acres, more or less. The bearings are true.", "Beginning at a blazed tree on the bank of a slough of the Tanana River and marked \"Stake No 1,\" which slough is within the limit of high-water mark of said river, following the meanderings of the bank of this slough in an easterly direction approximately 800 feet to a blazed tree marked \"Stake No. 2;\" thence S. 28° 00′ W. 5,280 feet to a blazed tree marked \"Stake No. 3;\" thence N. 62° 00′ W. 800 feet to a blazed tree marked \"Stake No. 4;\" thence N. 28° 00′ E. following the line of the eastern boundary of Delta City, 5,280 feet to Stake No. 1, the point of beginning. Area, 96.969 acres, more or less. The bearings are true.", "Beginning at initial post marked \"Stake No. 1,\" and which is situated on the north side of Second street in the village known as Richardson, Alaska, and about 28 feet west of the east line of the Hart-James Survey, and approximately 935 feet in an easterly direction from the crossing of Second street and the Banner Creek Trail; thence N. 68° 00′ W. 50 feet along the line of Second street to a post marked \"Stake No. 2;\" thence N. 22° 00′ E. 285 feet to a post marked \"Stake No. 3;\" and situated on the south line of the Alaskan Military Telegraph Line right of way; thence S. 68° 00′ E. 50 feet, following the south line of the said right of way to a post marked \"Stake No. 4;\" thence S. 22° 00′ W. 285 feet to initial Stake No. 1, the point of beginning. Area, 0.327 acre, more or less. The bearings are true."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 90, War Dept., May 23, 1908)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House May 4, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved fourteen tracts in Alaska, mostly along the Yukon River, as military reservations for stations on the Third Section of the U.S. Military Telegraph Lines.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [98], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-05-04", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "uo-122", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 114, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-05-04", "title": "Certain lands at Rapids, on the Yukon River, Alaska, reserved for military purposes.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "uo-122", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 122, "date": "1908-05-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Certain lands at Rapids, on the Yukon River, Alaska, reserved for military purposes.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 122, "page": "204", "citations": "(1916 MR 486)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Certain lands at Rapids, on the Yukon River, Alaska, reserved for military purposes.", "reconciliation": "numbered_duplicate", "duplicate_of": "eo-792", "reconciliation_note": "**= EO 792** (May 4, 1908), \"Reserving Fourteen Tracts of Land in Alaska for Stations on Third Section of United States Military Telegraph Lines\" (research entry #114).", "summary": null, "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": null, "places": [], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": null, "stories": [114], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-05-04", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-792", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The same order; Lord's unnumbered list carries this numbered document a second time.", "story": 114, "date": "1908-05-04", "title": "Reserving Fourteen Tracts of Land in Alaska for Stations on Third Section of United States Military Telegraph Lines", "type": "executive_order", "number": "792"}]}
{"id": "eo-793", "type": "executive_order", "number": "793", "tr_sequence": 757, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-05-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Lands in California Eliminated From Lighthouse Reserve of EO of Jan 26, 1867", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Removed lands in California from a lighthouse reserve created by an executive order of January 26, 1867.", "categories": ["lighthouses"], "action": "reduce", "places": [], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [98], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-05-05", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-807", "type": "proclamation", "number": "807", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-05-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting aside Lewis and Clark Cavern National Monument, Montana", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 807, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-807"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2187, "last_page": 2188, "cite": "35 Stat. 2187–2188", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2187.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-05-11", "table_title": "Setting aside Lewis and Clark Cavern National Monument, Montana."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America,", "A PROCLAMATION.", "WHEREAS, an extraordinary limestone cavern situated in Jefferson County, Montana, is of great scientific interest, and it appears that the public interest would be promoted by reserving the same with as much land as may be necessary for the proper protection thereof;", "Now, therefore, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section two of the Act of Congress approved June 8, 1906, entitled, \"An Act for the Preservation of American Antiquities\", do hereby set aside as the Lewis and Clark Cavern National Monument, subject to any valid existing rights, at, embracing and surrounding the limestone cavern located upon unsurveyed land in township one North, range two West of Montana Meridian, Montana, one mile more or less northeasterly from Limespur, a station and post office on the Northern Pacific railroad, in Jefferson County, one hundred and sixty acres of land in square form with side lines running north and south and all sides equidistant from the main entrance to said cavern.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to appropriate, injure, or destroy any of the natural formations in the cavern hereby declared to be a National Monument, nor to locate or settle upon any of the lands reserved and made a part of said Monument by this proclamation.", "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 11th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second.", "[SEAL.] THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President: ELIHU ROOT, Secretary of State."], "source": "35 Stat. 2187–2188 (GovInfo page images), 2026-08-22", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Printed volume sets the opening line in small caps with trailing comma; [SEAL.] sits in the left margin of the 'Done at' block; signatures in caps-and-small-caps; Antiquities Act title printed GPO-style with spaces inside the quotation marks. Lowercase 'city of Washington' is correct. Marginal sidenotes omitted. No diagram accompanies this proclamation.", "story": 30}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Setting Aside Lewis and Clark Cavern National Monument, Montana”. Statutes at Large, vol. 35, pt. 2, list of proclamations, p. xvi."], "summary": "Created Lewis and Clark Cavern National Monument, protecting a limestone cavern near Limespur in Jefferson County, Montana, with 160 acres around its entrance.", "categories": ["monuments"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Lewis and Clark Cavern National Monument", "kind": "monument", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 5, "stories": [30], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-05-11", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The General Land Office's annual report called the cavern \"a cave whose beauty is probably second to no other in the United States.\"", "source": "GLO Annual Report, fiscal year 1908, p. 19", "date": "1908", "story": 30}, {"text": "The River Press of Fort Benton ran a front-page Helena dispatch, \"Montana's Mammoth Cavern,\" describing the cave chamber by chamber and reporting the new supervisor's appointment.", "source": "River Press (Fort Benton), July 1, 1908", "date": "1908-07-01", "story": 30}, {"text": "The Whitefish Pilot noted that Montana had a cave comparing favorably with Kentucky's Mammoth Cave, newly set aside by Roosevelt.", "source": "Whitefish Pilot, July 3, 1908", "date": "1908-07-03", "story": 30}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Louis L. Sharp, chief of the General Land Office's field division, was named supervisor of the monument seven weeks after the signing.", "source": "River Press (Fort Benton), July 1, 1908", "date": "1908", "story": 30}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "A General Land Office survey found the 160 acres lay wholly within the Northern Pacific Railway's unpatented land grant, so the government had reserved ground it did not own.", "source": "Proc. 1123, 37 Stat. 1679–1680", "story": 30}, {"kind": "local", "text": "Dan Morrison's attempt to secure title to the cave under the mining laws revealed the railway's ownership; there was no lawsuit.", "source": "Sen. Thomas J. Walsh, Congressional Record, January 26, 1929", "story": 30}, {"kind": "economic", "text": "The Northern Pacific quitclaimed the tract to the United States for the monument, on condition that it revert to the railway if the monument was no longer maintained.", "source": "Quitclaim deed No. 18129E", "date": "1911-02-14", "story": 30}], "legacy": [{"text": "By 1930 the cave was closed to visitors because of vandalism and the lack of funds for lighting and ranger protection.", "source": "NPS, Glimpses of Our National Monuments (1930)", "date": "1930", "story": 30}, {"text": "Civilian Conservation Corps Company 574 developed the cave between 1935 and 1941, putting in the first electric lighting, a 538-foot exit tunnel, and a 3.2-mile road up Greer Gulch.", "source": "Lewis and Clark Caverns National Register nomination", "date": "1935", "story": 30}, {"text": "Montana dedicated the state park on May 4, 1941; rain canceled the ceremony, but some three thousand people drove up anyway.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1941-05-04", "story": 30}, {"text": "It is the only one of Roosevelt's eighteen national monuments that left federal ownership.", "source": "research entry", "story": 30}], "today": [{"name": "Lewis and Clark Caverns State Park", "kind": "state_park", "relation": "transferred", "state": "Montana", "note": "3,015 acres; counted as Montana's first state park.", "source": "Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks", "story": 30}, {"name": "Lewis and Clark Cavern National Monument", "kind": "national_monument", "relation": "abolished", "state": "Montana", "note": "Ended as a consequence of the 1937 conveyance to Montana, not by a formal abolition.", "source": "Act of August 24, 1937, 50 Stat. 746–747", "story": 30}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1911-05-16", "text": "President Taft's Proclamation 1123 confirmed the same 160 acres on the new survey, subject to the railway deed's conditions.", "source": "37 Stat. 1679–1680", "story": 30}, {"date": "1929-02-04", "text": "A private act paid Dan A. Morrison $5,000 for the discovery, exploration and development of the cavern.", "source": "45 Stat. 2048", "story": 30}, {"date": "1937-08-24", "text": "Congress authorized and directed the Secretary of the Interior to convey the monument and surrounding land, about 1,500 acres, to Montana for a public park, reserving minerals to the United States.", "source": "Act of August 24, 1937, ch. 741, 50 Stat. 746–747", "story": 30}], "uncertain": ["Who chose the name \"Lewis and Clark Cavern\" is not known.", "No individual sponsor of the monument has been identified.", "What became of the railway's 1911 right of reverter when the land went to Montana in 1937 is not known.", "The date the conveyance to Montana was completed is not known.", "Whether Montana's 1908 dailies took any position on the monument has not been tested."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-799", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Jewel Cave, three months earlier, also used the Antiquities Act's scientific-interest reach to protect a cave.", "story": 30, "date": "1908-02-07", "title": "Setting Aside Jewel Cave National Monument, South Dakota", "type": "proclamation", "number": "799"}]}
{"id": "eo-794", "type": "executive_order", "number": "794", "tr_sequence": 758, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-05-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Creating Commission to Examine Laws for Security of Passengers and Crew on United States Vessels", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_794", "revid": 1904263, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The following named gentlemen are designated as members of a Commission, hereby created, to examine the laws of the United States for the better security of the lives of passengers and crews on board vessels of the United States, with a view to their revision, and to recommend to me such changes as, in their judgment, the public interests seem to require:", "Capt. Adolph Marx, U. S. N., Chairman of the Light-House Board, Chairman. Hon. Charles Earl, Solicitor of the Department of Commerce and Labor. Hon. Eugene T. Chamberlain, Commissioner of Navigation. Hon. George Uhler, Supervising Inspector-General, Steamboat Inspection Service. Commander William Strother Smith, U. S. N."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, May 12, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Created a commission, chaired by Capt. Adolph Marx, to review U.S. laws on the safety of passengers and crews aboard American vessels and recommend revisions.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Adolph Marx", "Charles Earl", "Eugene T. Chamberlain", "George Uhler", "William Strother Smith"], "significance": 3, "stories": [98], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-05-12", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The commission reported in February 1909 as Better Security of Life at Sea; the report makes no reference to the General Slocum disaster.", "source": "S. Doc. No. 701, 60th Cong., 2d Sess.", "date": "1909-02", "story": 98}], "uncertain": ["Whether newspapers of 1908 linked the commission to the General Slocum disaster has not been checked."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-795", "type": "executive_order", "number": "795", "tr_sequence": 759, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-05-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Ordering Heads of Executive Departments to Arrange Salaries to Conform to Recommendations of Committee on Grades and Salaries", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_795", "revid": 1904277, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["On June 11, 1907, an executive order was issued under which the heads of the Executive Departments formed a committee on grades and salaries. This committee prepared clear and concise tables of estimates for positions and salaries in conformity with the schedule and recommendations of the committee on department methods of January 4, 1907. In the absence of action by Congress on the general subject of departmental grades the heads of the executive departments and independent government establishments are hereby ordered to arrange the present salaries in said executive departments and independent Government establishments so as to conform, as nearly as may be, to the principles underlying the report of the committee on grades and salaries.", "Owing to the fact that the annual salaries attaching to adjacent grades often differ by as much as $200, it will, of course, be impossible to do more than approximate this plan, and in many cases also it will be impossible to make changes with exact adaptation to individual efficiency. But the good of the service urgently demands that as far as practicable the rule be followed of paying similar salaries for similar grades of work, and that to each position shall be assigned the person best fitted for it, as shown by work already accomplished."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, May 13, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Directed department heads to align salaries with the Committee on Grades and Salaries' recommendations, paying similar salaries for similar work as far as practicable.", "categories": ["government-administration", "civil-service"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [98], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-05-13", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The pay order was part of the quiet drive for efficiency in the departments and drew little notice.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1908", "story": 98}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-651", "relation": "implements", "note": "Applied the principles of the report of the Committee on Grades and Salaries, which EO 651 had created.", "story": 98, "date": "1907-06-11", "title": "Establishing a Committee on Grades and Salaries in the Executive Departments", "type": "executive_order", "number": "651"}, {"id": "eo-804", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Extended to clerks and draftsmen at arsenals and navy yards.", "story": 98, "date": "1908-05-29", "title": "EO 795 Extended to Clerks and Draftsmen at Navy Yards", "type": "executive_order", "number": "804"}]}
{"id": "eo-796", "type": "executive_order", "number": "796", "tr_sequence": 760, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-05-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Certain Lands on Island of Biliran, Philippine Islands, for Military Purposes", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_796", "revid": 2400995, "printed_source": "General Orders No. 92, War Dept., May 26, 1908"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Pursuant to section 12 of Act of Congress approved July 1, 1902, entitled \"An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes\" (32 Stat. L., 691), the following-described public lands, situated on the Island of Biliran, Philippine Islands, are hereby reserved, subject to private rights, if any there be, and to the conditions hereinafter set forth, for military purposes, viz: All public lands within metes and bounds described as follows:", "Beginning on the west shore of Biliran Island at a point on the south bank of the Busali River at its mouth; thence approximately N. 82° 00′ 00″ E. 5,820 meters, more or less, to the summit of a prominent knoll; thence due east 2,000 meters; thence due north to the intersection with a line running east from a point 2,000 meters from the summit of Catmon Mountain on the ridge extending north-northeast from said summit; thence due west to said point 2,000 meters from summit of Catmon Mountain on the ridge extending north-northeast from said summit; thence by a straight line to a point, on the shore at the line of mean high water, 500 meters in a general northwest direction from the right bank of the Catmon River at its mouth; thence in a general southeast direction, along the line of mean high water, to the initial point. There is also included with this reservation all land lying under the waters of Biliran Bay fronting the reservation to a distance of 1,000 meters from the line of mean high water. Area: 6,632.3 hectares, more or less. The bearings are true.", "The said reservation is made subject to the following conditions:", "That no private property shall be taken or destroyed without first making payment therefor; that no private parties who are at present lawful owners or occupants, or in the lawful possession or occupation of the land required for this reservation, shall be dispossessed or disturbed in their ownership, possession, or occupation, until their ownership or right to possession or occupancy has been extinguished by due process of law and all lawful claims of such owners or occupants have been fully paid."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders No. 92, War Dept., May 26, 1908)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, May 13, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved public lands on Biliran Island in the Philippines for military purposes.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Biliran", "kind": "island", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [98], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-05-13", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "uo-123", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 114, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-05-13", "title": "Biliran Island Military Reservation, Leyte Province, P. I., established.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "uo-123", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 123, "date": "1908-05-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Biliran Island Military Reservation, Leyte Province, P. I., established.", "title_source": "Lord (ed.), List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series (1943)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 123, "page": "204", "citations": "(1916 MR 477)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Biliran Island Military Reservation, Leyte Province, P. I., established.", "reconciliation": "numbered_duplicate", "duplicate_of": "eo-796", "reconciliation_note": "**= EO 796** (May 13, 1908), \"Reserving Certain Lands on Island of Biliran, Philippine Islands, for Military Purposes.\" Same date, same subject.", "summary": null, "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": null, "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": null, "stories": [114], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-05-13", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-796", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The same order; Lord's unnumbered list carries this numbered document a second time.", "story": 114, "date": "1908-05-13", "title": "Reserving Certain Lands on Island of Biliran, Philippine Islands, for Military Purposes", "type": "executive_order", "number": "796"}]}
{"id": "proc-808", "type": "proclamation", "number": "808", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-05-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Changing Name of Garden City National Forest to Kansas National Forest, Kansas, and Enlarging", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 808, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-808"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2188, "last_page": 2189, "cite": "35 Stat. 2188–2189", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2188.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-05-15", "table_title": "Changing name of Garden City National Forest to Kansas National Forest, Kansas, and enlarging."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America", "A PROCLAMATION", "WHEREAS, the Garden City National Forest, in the State of Kansas, was established by proclamation dated July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and five;", "And whereas, it appears that the name of said National Forest should be changed to the Kansas National Forest and that the public good would be promoted by adding to said Forest certain lands, within the State of Kansas, which are in part covered with timber or undergrowth;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 such National Forest shall hereafter be known as the Kansas National Forest and the boundaries shall, from the date of this proclamation, be as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, \"An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.\"", "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 15th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President: ELIHU ROOT Secretary of State."], "source": "35 Stat. 2188–2189 (GovInfo page images), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "[SEAL.] restored in the dating clause where the volume prints it; signature block in small capitals in the original. Boundary is carried on the bound diagram, not reproduced. Marginal notes (\"Kansas National Forest, Kans.\"; \"Garden City National Forest, changed to\") not reproduced.", "story": 71}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Renamed the Garden City National Forest the Kansas National Forest and enlarged it with lands partly covered by timber or undergrowth.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Kansas National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Kansas"}], "states": ["Kansas"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [71], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-05-15", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The renamed Kansas National Forest reached 302,387 acres in Finney, Kearny, Hamilton, Grant and Haskell counties, where planting had begun in 1906 on open range.", "source": "Kansas Historical Society", "date": "1908", "story": 71}], "legacy": [{"text": "The forest never grew its promised timber; a 1911 drought killed 90 percent of the living trees, and the forest was abolished in 1915 with its land made available to homesteaders.", "source": "Kansas Historical Society; Proc. 1314, 39 Stat. 1752", "date": "1915", "story": 71}], "today": [{"name": "Kansas National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "abolished", "state": "Kansas", "note": "Abolished effective December 1, 1915.", "source": "Proc. 1314, 39 Stat. 1752", "story": 71}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1915-10-14", "text": "Proclamation 1314 abolished the Kansas National Forest, effective December 1, 1915.", "source": "39 Stat. 1752, per FS-612", "story": 71}], "uncertain": ["Whether anyone outside the Forest Service formally asked for the Kansas enlargement is not known.", "How Garden City papers received the change has not been checked."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-585", "relation": "renames", "note": null, "story": 55, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-07-25", "title": "Establishment of the Garden City Forest Reserve, Kansas", "type": "proclamation", "number": "585"}]}
{"id": "eo-797", "type": "executive_order", "number": "797", "tr_sequence": 761, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-05-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Land in Chena, Alaska, for Use by Army Signal Corps in Telegraph Line Operation", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_797", "revid": 1914295, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 93, War Dept., May 27, 1908"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The following-described tract of public land at Chena, in the Territory of Alaska, is hereby reserved from sale or other disposition, subject to private rights, if any there be, and set apart as a military reservation for the use of the Signal Corps, United States Army, in the matter of the operation of telegraph lines in Alaska, viz:", "That tract of land included within metes and bounds as follows:", "Beginning at a stake 2″ x 4″ (Corner No. 1), located at the southeast corner of said tract, and also distant west 23.5 feet from corner of residence of H. A. Currier; thence north 200 feet to a similar stake (Corner No. 2), and also distant west 23.5 feet from the northwest corner of lot of H. A. Currier on First street; thence west 100 feet to a similar stake (Corner No. 3) ; thence south 200 feet to a similar stake (Corner No. 4); thence east, along Front street, 100 feet, to Corner No. 1, the point of beginning. Area, 20,000 square feet. The bearings are true. Lat. 64° 50′ N.; long. 148° 00′ W."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 93, War Dept., May 27, 1908)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House May 16, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved a small tract at Chena, Alaska, as a military reservation for Army Signal Corps telegraph operations.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Chena", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [98], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-05-16", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-809", "type": "proclamation", "number": "809", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-05-22", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Modifying Dixie National Forest, Utah and Arizona", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 809, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-809"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2187, "last_page": 2187, "cite": "35 Stat. 2187", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2187.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-05-22", "table_title": "Modifying Dixie National Forest, Utah and Arizona."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Dixie National Forest, certain lands, within the Territory of Arizona, which are in part covered with timber, and by excluding therefrom certain lands within the State of Utah;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Dixie National Forest are hereby changed and that they are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "The lands hereby excluded from the Dixie National Forest which are not embraced in withdrawals for administrative sites for use in the management of the Forest, or in any other reservation, or appropriation, shall be restored to the public domain and become subject to settlement under the general provisions of the homestead laws on such date and after such notice by publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, but shall not become subject to entry, filing, selection, or other form of appropriation until the expiration of thirty days from the date so fixed, and no person will be permitted to gain or exercise any right whatever under any settlement or occupation begun prior to such date, and all such settlement and occupation are hereby forbidden.", "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 22nd day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2187", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Dixie National Forest, Utah and Ariz.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34, p. 3147.", "Boundaries modified.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Post, p. 2221.", "Prior rights, etc., not affected.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p 233.", "Lands restored to public domain, etc."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Redrew the Dixie National Forest, adding partly timbered lands in Arizona and excluding some lands in Utah.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Dixie National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah", "Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [71], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-05-22", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The proclamation added land in Arizona and excluded land in Utah, restoring it to the public domain.", "source": "35 Stat. 2171–2208", "date": "1908-05-22", "story": 71}], "today": [{"name": "Dixie National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Utah", "source": "research entry", "story": 71}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-798", "type": "executive_order", "number": "798", "tr_sequence": 762, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-05-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Continued Employment of Richard H. Taylor as Inspector in Department of Commerce and Labor Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_798", "revid": 1908844, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 131"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Richard H. Taylor, of California, may be continued as an immigrant inspector for assignment to special investigations of a confidential character in the Department of Commerce and Labor so long as the department may regard such services necessary and in the interest of good administration."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 131)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, May 23, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Richard H. Taylor of California to stay on as an immigrant inspector handling confidential investigations for as long as the Department of Commerce and Labor needs him.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["California"], "people": ["Richard H. Taylor"], "significance": 1, "stories": [98], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-05-23", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-799", "type": "executive_order", "number": "799", "tr_sequence": 763, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-05-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Civil and Spanish War Veterans Excused on May 27, 1908 for Parade Regarding Removal of Body of Vice President George Clinton", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Excused Civil War and Spanish War veterans in government service on May 27, 1908, for a parade marking the removal of Vice President George Clinton's body.", "categories": ["ceremonial"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [98], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-05-23", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "eo-789", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 97, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-04-30", "title": "Govt. Employees at San Fran., Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda Excused on May 6, 1908 for Reception of Battleship Fleet", "type": "executive_order", "number": "789"}]}
{"id": "eo-800", "type": "executive_order", "number": "800", "tr_sequence": 764, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-05-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Employment of John M. Jones as Tariff Expert in Interstate Commerce Commission Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_800", "revid": 1908843, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 131"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. John M. Jones may be employed as an expert familiar with modern tariff and traffic conditions in the Interstate Commerce Commission without examination under the civil-service rules. This employment may be terminated at any time in the discretion of the Interstate Commerce Commission."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 131)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, May 26, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed the Interstate Commerce Commission to employ John M. Jones as a tariff and traffic expert without examination, at the Commission's discretion.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["John M. Jones"], "significance": 1, "stories": [98], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-05-26", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-801", "type": "executive_order", "number": "801", "tr_sequence": 765, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-05-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Pocatello National Forest, Idaho and Utah, Enlarged by Adding Port Neuf National Forest and Part of Bear River National Forest", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Enlarged the Pocatello National Forest in Idaho and Utah by adding the Port Neuf National Forest and part of the Bear River National Forest.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Pocatello National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Idaho"}, {"name": "Port Neuf National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Idaho"}, {"name": "Bear River National Forest", "kind": "forest"}], "states": ["Idaho", "Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [98], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-05-26", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Port Neuf name ended with this order; the old Port Neuf lands are today the Westside Ranger District of the Caribou-Targhee National Forest.", "source": "research entry", "story": 98}, {"text": "The Pocatello name was dropped in 1915, when that forest went into the Cache.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1915", "story": 98}], "today": [{"name": "Caribou-Targhee National Forest (Westside Ranger District)", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Idaho", "note": "The former Port Neuf National Forest lands.", "source": "research entry", "story": 98}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1915", "text": "The Pocatello National Forest was merged into the Cache and its name discontinued.", "source": "research entry", "story": 98}], "uncertain": ["The exact wording of Executive Order 801 has not been checked; no transcription is available."]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-802", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Signed the same day; the two orders together dissolved the Bear River National Forest.", "story": 98, "date": "1908-05-26", "title": "Abolishing Bear River National Forest and Establishing Cache National Forest", "type": "executive_order", "number": "802"}]}
{"id": "eo-802", "type": "executive_order", "number": "802", "tr_sequence": 766, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-05-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Abolishing Bear River National Forest and Establishing Cache National Forest", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_802", "revid": 12470969, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that on and after July 1, 1908, the land within the boundary shown on the attached diagram heretofore set apart, reserved, and proclaimed as part of the Bear River National forest shall be known as the Cache National forest. The remaining portions of the Bear River National forest shall continue reserved and constitute a part of the Pocatello National forest, as directed by my order of that date.", "It is not intended by this order to release any land from reservation or to reserve any land not heretofore embraced in a National forest."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, May 26, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "title_notes": ["EO 802 renamed what remained of the Bear River National Forest as the Cache; EOs 801 and 802 together dissolved the Bear River."], "summary": "Renamed part of the Bear River National Forest the Cache National Forest from July 1, 1908, with the rest joining the Pocatello National Forest; no land was added or released.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Bear River National Forest", "kind": "forest"}, {"name": "Cache National Forest", "kind": "forest"}, {"name": "Pocatello National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Idaho"}], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [98], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-05-26", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Cache National Forest was never abolished; in 1973 its administration was split along the Utah–Idaho line.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1973", "story": 98}], "today": [{"name": "Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Utah", "note": "The Utah four-fifths of the Cache, now the Logan and Ogden Ranger Districts; the Cache's principal successor.", "source": "research entry", "story": 98}, {"name": "Caribou-Targhee National Forest (Montpelier Ranger District)", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Idaho", "note": "The Idaho portion of the Cache.", "source": "research entry", "story": 98}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1973", "text": "The Cache's Utah portion was merged administratively with the Wasatch National Forest and its Idaho portion went to the Caribou.", "source": "research entry", "story": 98}, {"date": "2007", "text": "The Wasatch-Cache joined the Uinta to form the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest.", "source": "research entry", "story": 98}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-500", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 42, "inferred": true, "date": "1903-05-29", "title": "Establishment of the Logan Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "500"}, {"id": "eo-801", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Signed the same day; the two orders together dissolved the Bear River National Forest.", "story": 98, "date": "1908-05-26", "title": "Pocatello National Forest, Idaho and Utah, Enlarged by Adding Port Neuf National Forest and Part of Bear River National Forest", "type": "executive_order", "number": "801"}]}
{"id": "eo-803", "type": "executive_order", "number": "803", "tr_sequence": 767, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-05-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Fort Keough Military Reservation Abolished; Transferred to Department of Interior", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Abolished the Fort Keough military reservation and turned it over to the Interior Department.", "categories": ["military-naval", "public-lands"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Fort Keough", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [98], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-05-28", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-804", "type": "executive_order", "number": "804", "tr_sequence": 768, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-05-29", "date_precision": "day", "title": "EO 795 Extended to Clerks and Draftsmen at Navy Yards", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "title_notes": ["The order covers clerks and draftsmen at arsenals and navy yards."], "summary": "Extended Executive Order 795's salary-alignment rules to clerks and draftsmen at navy yards.", "categories": ["government-administration", "military-naval"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [98], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-05-29", "impact": {"uncertain": ["The exact wording of Executive Order 804 has not been checked; no transcription is available."]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-795", "relation": "modifies", "note": "Extended the salary-standardization order to clerks and draftsmen at arsenals and navy yards.", "story": 98, "date": "1908-05-13", "title": "Ordering Heads of Executive Departments to Arrange Salaries to Conform to Recommendations of Committee on Grades and Salaries", "type": "executive_order", "number": "795"}]}
{"id": "eo-805", "type": "executive_order", "number": "805", "tr_sequence": 769, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Employment of Charles Lutz in Charge of Statistics and Accounts in Interstate Commerce Commission Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_805", "revid": 1908845, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 132"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Charles Lutz may be employed in charge of statistics and accounts under the Interstate Commerce Commission without examination under the civil-service rules. This employment may be terminated at any time in the discretion of the Interstate Commerce Commission."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 132)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 2, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed the Interstate Commerce Commission to employ Charles Lutz in charge of statistics and accounts without examination, at the Commission's discretion.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Charles Lutz"], "significance": 1, "stories": [98], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-806", "type": "executive_order", "number": "806", "tr_sequence": 770, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Disposition of Former Pennsylvania Railroad Company Station in Washington Authorized", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Authorized disposal of the former Pennsylvania Railroad Company station in Washington.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [98], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-05", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-807", "type": "executive_order", "number": "807", "tr_sequence": 771, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Four-Hour Workday on Saturdays from July to September for Skilled Mechanics at Navy Yards", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Set a four-hour Saturday workday from July through September for skilled mechanics at navy yards.", "categories": ["military-naval", "labor-business"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [98], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-05", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-808", "type": "executive_order", "number": "808", "tr_sequence": 772, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-08", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Portions of Man Key and Woman Key, Florida, Reserved for Navy Dept.", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reserved portions of Man Key and Woman Key, Florida, for the Navy Department.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Man Key", "kind": "island", "state": "Florida"}, {"name": "Woman Key", "kind": "island", "state": "Florida"}], "states": ["Florida"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [98], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-08", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Navy's Chief of Ordnance reported fuel-oil tank sets proposed on Woman Key and Man Key for the Key West station.", "source": "Navy Department, Annual Reports, 1909, Miscellaneous Reports, p. 429", "date": "1909", "story": 98}], "legacy": [{"text": "The naval reservation and Roosevelt's Key West bird reservation overlapped on paper for seventy-four years, until the naval claim was revoked after the 1975 wilderness designation.", "source": "Public Land Order 6214, 47 Fed. Reg. 11668–11669", "date": "1982-03-18", "story": 98}], "today": [{"name": "Key West National Wildlife Refuge", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "transferred", "state": "Florida", "note": "When the naval reservation was revoked in 1982 the lands remained withdrawn for the refuge under Executive Order 923.", "source": "Public Land Order 6214", "story": 98}, {"name": "Florida Keys Wilderness", "kind": "other", "relation": "part", "state": "Florida", "note": "Man Key and Woman Key lie inside the congressionally designated wilderness.", "source": "Public Law 93-632", "story": 98}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1924-08-11", "text": "Coolidge's Executive Order 4060 reserved for naval purposes all the islands, keys, harbors and shoals in a block of townships that included the two keys.", "source": "Public Land Order 6214 (reciting EO 4060)", "story": 98}, {"date": "1975-01-03", "text": "Congress designated the Florida Keys Wilderness, which takes in Man Key and Woman Key.", "source": "Public Law 93-632", "story": 98}, {"date": "1982-03-18", "text": "Public Land Order 6214 revoked Executive Order 808 and Executive Order 4060, leaving the lands withdrawn for the Key West National Wildlife Refuge.", "source": "47 Fed. Reg. 11668–11669", "story": 98}], "uncertain": ["The exact wording of Executive Order 808 is not known; no printing has been found."]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-923", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The Key West bird reservation, which expressly left this naval reservation standing on the same two keys.", "story": 98, "date": "1908-08-08", "title": "Establishing Key West Reservation in Florida as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "type": "executive_order", "number": "923"}]}
{"id": "eo-809", "type": "executive_order", "number": "809", "tr_sequence": 773, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-08", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Instructing Heads of Departments to Furnish Information to National Conservation Commission Upon Request", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_809", "revid": 1906911, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["A national conservation commission to consider and advise the President upon the condition and needs of the natural resources of the country has been appointed by the President. The heads of the executive departments, bureaus, and other government establishments are hereby instructed to secure, compile, and furnish to the said commission all such information and data relevant to its work as the commission may from time to time request, and as may be respectively within the lawful powers of such departments, bureaus, and government establishments to secure, compile, or furnish, and not inconsistent with express provisions of law."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 8, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Directed executive departments and bureaus to gather and furnish data requested by the new National Conservation Commission on the condition and needs of the nation's natural resources.", "categories": ["conservation-policy"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [98], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-08", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The order turned the existing bureaus, such as the Geological Survey, Forest Service, Census and General Land Office, into the research arm of a commission that had no money or staff of its own.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1908-06-08", "story": 98}, {"kind": "congress", "text": "Congress answered Roosevelt's unauthorized commissions with the Tawney amendment, which barred public money for any commission not authorized by law and barred lending department staff to one; the staff ban killed the National Conservation Commission.", "source": "Act of March 4, 1909, ch. 299, sec. 9, 35 Stat. 945, 1027", "date": "1909-03-04", "story": 98}, {"kind": "political", "text": "Roosevelt wrote that the amendment forbade him to appoint further commissions and that he would have refused to obey it had he stayed in office; the statute itself cut off money and staff rather than banning appointments.", "source": "Roosevelt, Autobiography", "story": 98}], "legacy": [{"text": "The commission's three-volume Report, transmitted January 22, 1909, was in Roosevelt's words \"the first inventory of its natural resources ever made by any nation.\"", "source": "S. Doc. No. 676, 60th Cong., 2d Sess.; Roosevelt's message of transmittal", "date": "1909-01-22", "story": 98}, {"text": "Congress refused to fund the commission's continuation, but the report and the conference behind it shaped resource policy for decades.", "source": "research entry", "story": 98}]}, "related": []}
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{"id": "eo-811", "type": "executive_order", "number": "811", "tr_sequence": 776, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of William J. Dow as Private Secretary to Public Printer Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_811", "revid": 1908896, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 132"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. William J. Dow may be reinstated in the Government Printing Office and appointed as private secretary to the Public Printer without reference to the time limitation prescribed by the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 132)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 9, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed William J. Dow to be reinstated at the Government Printing Office as private secretary to the Public Printer despite the civil-service time limit.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["William J. Dow"], "significance": 1, "stories": [98], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-09", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-812", "type": "executive_order", "number": "812", "tr_sequence": 777, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Salary of William R. Wheeler, Member Immigration Commission, Fixed at $7500 Per Annum", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Set the salary of Immigration Commission member William R. Wheeler at $7,500 a year.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["William R. Wheeler"], "significance": 1, "stories": [98], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-10", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-813", "type": "executive_order", "number": "813", "tr_sequence": 778, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Whitman National Forest, Oregon, Created", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Created the Whitman National Forest in Oregon.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Whitman National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}], "states": ["Oregon"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [99], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-13", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Since 1954 the Whitman has been administered jointly with the Wallowa; the two remain legally separate forests.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1954", "story": 99}], "today": [{"name": "Wallowa–Whitman National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Oregon", "since": "1908-06-13", "note": "Joint administration of two legally distinct forests since 1954.", "source": "research entry", "story": 99}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-791", "relation": "supersedes", "note": null, "story": 71, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-01-09", "title": "Diminishing Blue Mountains National Forest, Oregon", "type": "proclamation", "number": "791"}]}
{"id": "eo-814", "type": "executive_order", "number": "814", "tr_sequence": 779, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Malheur National Forest, Oregon, Created", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Created the Malheur National Forest in Oregon.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Malheur National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}], "states": ["Oregon"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [99], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-13", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Malheur name is still on the map, as a national forest or the core of one; the Forest Service's chronological record shows it not discontinued through 1973.", "source": "USDA Forest Service, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (1973 ed.)", "story": 99}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-791", "relation": "supersedes", "note": null, "story": 71, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-01-09", "title": "Diminishing Blue Mountains National Forest, Oregon", "type": "proclamation", "number": "791"}]}
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{"id": "eo-817", "type": "executive_order", "number": "817", "tr_sequence": 782, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Fremont National Forest, Oregon, Modified", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Fremont National Forest, Oregon, Created”. The Fremont was set up by Proc. 651 of Sept. 17, 1906 (34 Stat. 3231); FS-612, pp. 12–13."], "summary": "Reorganized the Fremont National Forest in Oregon, which had been created by proclamation in 1906.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Fremont National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}], "states": ["Oregon"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [99], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-13", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Fremont name is still on the map, as a national forest or the core of one; the Forest Service's chronological record shows it not discontinued through 1973.", "source": "USDA Forest Service, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (1973 ed.)", "story": 99}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-651", "relation": "modifies", "note": "The 1906 proclamation that created the Fremont Forest Reserve.", "story": 114, "date": "1906-09-17", "title": "Setting Apart the Fremont Forest Reserve, Oregon", "type": "proclamation", "number": "651"}, {"id": "uo-125", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 114, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-06-13", "title": "Fremont National Forest, Oreg., reorganized and boundaries defined.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}, {"id": "eo-913", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Redefined the Fremont boundary on July 14, 1908.", "story": 114, "date": "1908-07-14", "title": "Boundaries of Fremont National Forest, Oreg., Redefined", "type": "executive_order", "number": "913"}]}
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{"id": "uo-125", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 125, "date": "1908-06-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Fremont National Forest, Oreg., reorganized and boundaries defined.", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": ["Corrected from “1908-07-01”. This is EO 817, approved June 13, 1908 (effective July 1). The Fremont was created by Proc. 651 of Sept. 17, 1906."], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 125, "page": "204", "citations": "(EO 913)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Fremont National Forest, Oreg., established and boundaries defined.", "reconciliation": "numbered_duplicate", "duplicate_of": "eo-817", "reconciliation_note": "**= EO 817** (approved June 13, 1908, effective July 1). The Fremont itself dates from Proc. 651 of Sept. 17, 1906. EO 913 (July 14, 1908) is a later boundary redefinition (research entry #114).", "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Fremont National Forest, Oreg., established and boundaries defined”. This is EO 817, approved June 13, 1908 (effective July 1). The Fremont was created by Proc. 651 of Sept. 17, 1906."], "summary": null, "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": ["Oregon"], "people": [], "significance": null, "stories": [114], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-13", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "proc-651", "relation": "modifies", "note": "The 1906 proclamation that created the Fremont Forest Reserve.", "story": 114, "date": "1906-09-17", "title": "Setting Apart the Fremont Forest Reserve, Oregon", "type": "proclamation", "number": "651"}, {"id": "eo-817", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The same order; Lord entered its July 1, 1908 effective date as a separate document.", "story": 114, "date": "1908-06-13", "title": "Fremont National Forest, Oregon, Modified", "type": "executive_order", "number": "817"}, {"id": "eo-913", "relation": "modified_by", "note": "Redefined the Fremont boundary on July 14, 1908.", "story": 114, "date": "1908-07-14", "title": "Boundaries of Fremont National Forest, Oreg., Redefined", "type": "executive_order", "number": "913"}]}
{"id": "proc-810", "type": "proclamation", "number": "810", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart as Public Lands a Strip of Land on the Canadian Frontier", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 810, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-810"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2189, "last_page": 2189, "cite": "35 Stat. 2189", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2189.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-06-15", "table_title": "Setting apart as public lands a strip of land on the Canadian frontier."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America,", "A Proclamation.", "WHEREAS, the customs and immigration laws of the United States can be better enforced and the public welfare thereby better advanced when the Federal Government has complete control of the use and occupation of lands abutting on international boundary lines;", "NOW, THEREFORE, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States, do hereby proclaim and make known that all unpatented public lands of the United States, lying within sixty feet of the boundary line between the United States and the Dominion of Canada, are hereby declared to be, and are set apart as a public reservation, and shall hereafter be subject only to such rights as have been heretofore legally acquired under settlements, entries, reservations, or other forms of appropriations, and are now existing, but shall not be subject at any time to any other claim, use, or occupation, except for public highways; and any patent issued for any legal subdivision, affected by this reservation under any claim hereafter initiated, shall contain a recital that it is issued subject to this proclamation.", "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 15th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:", "ELIHU ROOT, Secretary of State."], "source": "35 Stat. 2189 (GovInfo page image), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "[SEAL.] restored where the volume sets it into the dating clause. Wording otherwise agrees with the Statutes and the American Presidency Project.", "story": 73}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Reserved all unpatented public lands within 60 feet of the Canadian border, putting the strip under federal control to better enforce customs and immigration laws; only public highways are allowed.", "categories": ["public-lands", "foreign-affairs"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Canada", "kind": "country"}], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [73], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-15", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "A syndicated item treated the strip as a curiosity, \"NOVEL RESERVATION,\" and misreported its width as thirty feet.", "source": "Auburn Journal, July 23, 1908", "date": "1908-07-23", "story": 73}, {"text": "No comment for or against has been found in the California and Washington papers searched.", "source": "California Digital Newspaper Collection; Washington Digital Newspapers, June–August 1908", "date": "1908", "story": 73}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "diplomatic", "text": "The proclamation answered a 1907 United States proposal for a joint sixty-foot strip on the Alaska–Yukon line, extended to the whole frontier in line with Canada's wishes.", "source": "International Boundary Commission, Joint Report (1918), pp. 20–22", "date": "1908-08-07", "story": 73}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "Because the text contemplated patents to land on the strip, new claims could still be started and carried to patent with only a recital.", "source": "35 Stat. 2189; Proc. 1196", "date": "1908", "story": 73}], "legacy": [{"text": "The northern strip remains one of the least-known of Roosevelt's reservations, resting today as much on Taft's 1912 proclamation as on Roosevelt's.", "source": "research entry", "story": 73}], "today": [{"name": "Sixty-foot federal strip along the Canadian border", "kind": "other", "relation": "origin", "state": "United States–Canada boundary", "since": "1908-06-15", "note": "Reissued in stronger terms by Taft's Proclamation 1196 (1912).", "source": "research entry", "story": 73}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1912-05-03", "text": "Taft's Proclamation 1196 reserved the strip from all entry and disposition under the public-land laws, protecting claims made before June 15, 1908 and letting those made between 1908 and 1912 go to patent subject to the reservation.", "source": "Proc. 1196 (American Presidency Project)", "story": 73}], "uncertain": ["Which United States department first proposed the Alaska strip in October 1907 is not known; State Department files (NARA RG 59) would settle it.", "Which agency administers the northern strip today, and whether any of it has been transferred, is not known.", "Why Taft reissued the reservation in 1912 is not stated.", "Reception in Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota and Maine papers has not been searched."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-758", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The Mexican-border strip of 1907, of which this is the northern counterpart, though worded differently.", "story": 73, "date": "1907-05-27", "title": "Setting Apart as Public Lands a Strip of Land on the Mexican Frontier", "type": "proclamation", "number": "758"}]}
{"id": "eo-818", "type": "executive_order", "number": "818", "tr_sequence": 783, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Temporary Appointments Under Banking Act of 1908 in Treasury Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_818", "revid": 1908206, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 122"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The requirements under Civil Service Rule VIII regarding temporary appointments, as amended by executive order of January 27, 1908, are hereby waived as to temporary appointments in the Treasury Department under the act of Congress approved May 30, 1908, \"To amend the national banking laws.\" Temporary appointments under the act above referred to may be made by the Secretary of the Treasury without regard to civil-service rules for such time as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of the act mentioned.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT.", "THE WHITE HOUSE, *June 15, 1908.*"], "source": "U.S. Civil Service Commission, Twenty-fifth Report (fiscal 1908), p. 122, \"Orders Amending General Rules and Regulations\" (HathiTrust uc1.a0001648948), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Wording identical in the Wikisource transcription and the Civil Service Commission printing. The order carries no caption; the catalog heading's \"Banking Act of 1908\" is a later compiler's label.", "story": 100}, "summary": "Waived civil-service temporary-appointment rules so the Treasury Secretary could staff up to carry out the 1908 act amending the national banking laws.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [100], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-15", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The emergency currency the order helped staff for was issued only once, in 1914–1915: $382,502,645 to 1,363 banks, all retired without loss by December 1915.", "source": "Comptroller of the Currency, Annual Report, 1915", "date": "1915", "story": 100}, {"text": "The National Monetary Commission created by the same law reported the Aldrich Plan on January 8, 1912; the Federal Reserve Act followed on December 23, 1913.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1913-12-23", "story": 100}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1913-12-23", "text": "Section 27 of the Federal Reserve Act extended the Aldrich–Vreeland emergency-currency provisions to June 30, 1915.", "source": "Federal Reserve Act, sec. 27", "story": 100}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-741", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Waived, for Treasury hires under the currency law, Civil Service Rule VIII as amended by EO 741.", "story": 100, "date": "1908-01-27", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Temporary Appointments", "type": "executive_order", "number": "741"}]}
{"id": "eo-819", "type": "executive_order", "number": "819", "tr_sequence": 784, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Andrew Christensen as Special Agent in General Land Office Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_819", "revid": 1908899, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 132"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Andrew Christensen, a former employee of the classified service, may be appointed as a special agent of the General Land Office without reference to the limitations of the reinstatement and transfer rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 132)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 15, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed former classified employee Andrew Christensen to be appointed a General Land Office special agent despite reinstatement and transfer limits.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Andrew Christensen"], "significance": 1, "stories": [100], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-15", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-811", "type": "proclamation", "number": "811", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Modifying Boundaries of the Gila National Forest, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 811, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-811"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2190, "last_page": 2191, "cite": "35 Stat. 2190–2191", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2190.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-06-18", "table_title": "Modifying boundaries of the Gila National Forest, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Gila National Forest, in the Territory of New Mexico, was established by proclamation dated July twenty-first, nineteen hundred and five, and the Big Burros National Forest in the Territory of New Mexico was established by proclamation dated April sixth, nineteen hundred and seven;", "And whereas, it appears that all of the Big Burros National Forest, a portion of the Gila National Forest, and certain other lands within the Territory of New Mexico not heretofore reserved, which are in part covered with timber, should be known as the Gila National Forest;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, entitled, “An Act Making apropriations 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 Gila National Forest shall, from the date of this proclamation, be as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The remaining portion of the former Gila National Forest, with the exception of four sections which are indicated on the attached diagram as eliminated, shall remain reserved and together with certain additions from public lands shall constitute the Datil National Forest, according to my proclamation of this date.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "The lands hereby excluded from the Gila National Forest which are not embraced in withdrawals for administrative sites for use in the management of the Forest, or in any other reservation, or appropriation, shall be restored to the public domain and become subject to settlement under the general provisions of the homestead laws on such date and after such notice by publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, but shall not become subject to entry, filing, selection, or other form of appropriation until the expiration of thirty days from the date so fixed, and no person will be permitted to gain or exercise any right whatever under any settlement or occupation begun prior to such date, and all such settlement and occupation are hereby forbidden.", "2190 This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 18th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2190", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Gila National Forest, N. Mex.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34. p. 3123.", "Vol. 34, p. 3274.", "Ante, p. 2120.", "Post, p. 2224.", "Boundaries modified.", "Post, p. 2191.", "Prior rights not affected, etc.", "Lands restored to public domain.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Redrew the Gila National Forest in New Mexico, absorbing the Big Burros National Forest and new lands, while the rest of the old Gila became part of the Datil National Forest.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Gila National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}, {"name": "Big Burros National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [71], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-18", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The reshaped Gila absorbed the Big Burros forest, and four sections of the old Gila were restored to the public domain.", "source": "35 Stat. 2171–2208", "date": "1908-06-18", "story": 71}], "today": [{"name": "Gila National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "New Mexico", "source": "research entry", "story": 71}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-812", "type": "proclamation", "number": "812", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Datil National Forest, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 812, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-812"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2191, "last_page": 2191, "cite": "35 Stat. 2191", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2191.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-06-18", "table_title": "Setting apart the Datil National Forest, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Gila National Forest, in the Territory of New Mexico, was established by proclamation dated July twenty-first, nineteen hundred and five;", "And whereas, it appears that a part of said National Forest together with certain other lands within the Territory of New Mexico not heretofore reserved, which are in part covered with timber, should be known as the Datil National Forest;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Datil National Forest shall, from the date of this proclamation, be as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 18th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2191", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Datil National Forest, N. Mex.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34, p. 3123.", "Post, p. 2230.", "National Forest, New Mexico.", "Vol. 30, p. 30.", "Ante, p. 2190.", "Prior rights not affected, etc.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Datil National Forest in New Mexico from part of the Gila National Forest plus additional partly timbered lands.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Datil National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}, {"name": "Gila National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [71], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-18", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Datil was split between the Cibola and the Gila in December 1931.", "source": "FS-612", "date": "1931-12", "story": 71}], "today": [{"name": "Cibola National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "New Mexico", "source": "FS-612", "story": 71}, {"name": "Gila National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "New Mexico", "source": "FS-612", "story": 71}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-851", "relation": "enlarged_by", "note": null, "story": 108, "inferred": true, "date": "1909-02-23", "title": "Consolidating the Datil and Magdalena National Forests, New Mexico", "type": "proclamation", "number": "851"}]}
{"id": "eo-819-half", "type": "executive_order", "number": "819½", "tr_sequence": 785, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of John McCarthy as Laborer in Charge of Warehouse in War Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_819%C2%BD", "revid": 1909792, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 133"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. John McCarthy, commissary sergeant, U. S. Army, retired, may be appointed without examination to the position of laborer in charge of warehouse, Subsistence Department at large, New York, N. Y., by reason of the unusual experience and training required by the position and possessed by Mr. McCarthy."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 133)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 18, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed retired commissary sergeant John McCarthy to be appointed without examination as laborer in charge of a Subsistence Department warehouse in New York, given his unusual experience.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["New York"], "people": ["John McCarthy"], "significance": 1, "stories": [100], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-18", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-820", "type": "executive_order", "number": "820", "tr_sequence": 786, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Columbia National Forest in Washington from Portion of Rainier National Forest", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_820", "revid": 12445614, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that on and after July 1, 1908, the land within the boundary shown on the attached diagram heretofore set apart, reserved, and proclaimed as part of the Rainier National Forest, shall be known as the Columbia National Forest. It is not intended by this order to release any land from reservation or to reserve any land not heretofore embraced in a National Forest."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 18, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Renamed part of the Rainier National Forest the Columbia National Forest from July 1, 1908, without adding or releasing any land.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Rainier National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Washington"}, {"name": "Columbia National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Washington"}], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [99], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-18", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Columbia National Forest became the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in 1949; the renaming proclamation names Executive Order 820 as the order that first defined the forest.", "source": "Proclamation 2845", "date": "1949-06-15", "story": 99}], "today": [{"name": "Gifford Pinchot National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "origin", "state": "Washington", "since": "1908-06-18", "note": "Created as the Columbia National Forest; renamed in 1949.", "source": "Proclamation 2845", "story": 99}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1949-06-15", "text": "Harry Truman's Proclamation 2845 renamed the Columbia the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.", "source": "Proclamation 2845", "story": 99}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-821", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Modified the Rainier, from which the Columbia was carved.", "story": 99, "date": "1908-06-18", "title": "Rainier National Forest, Wash., Modified", "type": "executive_order", "number": "821"}]}
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{"id": "eo-822", "type": "executive_order", "number": "822", "tr_sequence": 788, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Washington National Forest, Wash., Diminished", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reduced the Washington National Forest in Washington.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "reduce", "places": [{"name": "Washington National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Washington"}], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [99], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-18", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-823", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Chelan created partly from Washington National Forest land.", "story": 99, "date": "1908-06-18", "title": "Chelan National Forest, Wash., Created", "type": "executive_order", "number": "823"}, {"id": "eo-824", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Snoqualmie created partly from Washington National Forest land.", "story": 99, "date": "1908-06-18", "title": "Snoqualmie National Forest, Wash., Created", "type": "executive_order", "number": "824"}, {"id": "eo-825", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Wenatchee created partly from Washington National Forest land.", "story": 99, "date": "1908-06-18", "title": "Wenatchee National Forest, Wash., Created", "type": "executive_order", "number": "825"}]}
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{"id": "eo-827", "type": "executive_order", "number": "827", "tr_sequence": 793, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Nebo National Forest, Utah, Created", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Neba National Forest, Utah, Created”. \"Neba\" is a typo; the forest is named for Mount Nebo."], "summary": "Created the Nebo National Forest in Utah.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Neba National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [99], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-18", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "proc-509", "relation": "supersedes", "note": null, "story": 42, "inferred": true, "date": "1903-11-05", "title": "Enlargement of the Payson Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "509"}, {"id": "eo-826", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 99, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-06-18", "title": "Fillmore National Forest, Utah, Modified", "type": "executive_order", "number": "826"}]}
{"id": "eo-828", "type": "executive_order", "number": "828", "tr_sequence": 794, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-19", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Frank E. Elder in Government Printing Office Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_828", "revid": 1908905, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 133"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Frank E. Elder may be reinstated in the Government Printing Office without regard to the fact that he has been separated from that office for more than a year."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 133)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 19, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Frank E. Elder to be reinstated in the Government Printing Office even though he had been gone from the office for more than a year.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Frank E. Elder"], "significance": 1, "stories": [100], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-19", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-829", "type": "executive_order", "number": "829", "tr_sequence": 795, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Officers of Assistant Japanese and Chinese Sec'ys in Embassy at Tokio and Legation at Peking to be filled in Rotation", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Directed that the posts of assistant Japanese and Chinese secretaries at the embassy in Tokio and the legation in Peking be filled in rotation.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs", "government-administration"], "action": "regulate", "places": [{"name": "Tokio", "kind": "town"}, {"name": "Peking", "kind": "town"}], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [100], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-20", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Charles Jonathan Arnell became assistant Japanese secretary at Tokyo on June 25, 1908, and Willys Ruggles Peck assistant Chinese secretary at Peking on November 9, 1908.", "source": "Register of the Department of State", "date": "1908", "story": 100}], "uncertain": ["Whether Executive Order 829 actually prescribes filling the posts \"in rotation\" is not known; its text has not been found."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-814", "type": "proclamation", "number": "814", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging the Grand Canyon National Game Preserve, Arizona", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 814, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-814"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2192, "last_page": 2192, "cite": "35 Stat. 2192", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2192.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-06-23", "table_title": "Setting aside the Grand Canyon National Game Preserve, Arizona."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America", "A PROCLAMATION", "WHEREAS, it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, \"An Act for the protection of wild animals in the Grand Canyon Forest Reserve,\" \"That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to designate such areas in the Grand Canyon Forest Reserve as should, in his opinion, be set aside for the protection of game animals and be recognized as a breeding place therefor.", "\"Sec. 2. That when such areas have been designated as provided in section one of this Act, hunting, trapping, killing, or capturing of game animals upon the lands of the United States within the limits of said areas shall be unlawful, except under such regulations as may be prescribed from time to time by the Secretary of Agriculture; and any person violating such regulations or the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction in any United States court of competent jurisdiction, be fined in a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year, or shall suffer both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.", "\"Sec. 3. That it is the purpose of this Act to protect from trespass the public lands of the United States and the game animals which may be thereon, and not to interfere with the operation of the local game laws as affecting private, State, or Territorial lands;\"", "And whereas, the Grand Canyon Game Preserve, in the Territory of Arizona, was established by proclamation dated November twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and six;", "And whereas, for the purpose of giving the said Act greater effect, it appears desirable to enlarge the said Game Preserve, in the Territory of Arizona, by including therein certain additional lands;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby proclaim that all those lands, within the area of the Grand Canyon National Game Preserve, as indicated on the attached diagram, are designated and set aside for the protection of game animals, and shall be recognized as a breeding place therefor, and that the hunting, trapping, killing, or capturing of game animals upon the lands of the United States within the limits of said area is unlawful, except under such regulations as may be prescribed from time to time by the Secretary of Agriculture.", "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 23d day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second.", "[SEAL.] THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:", "ALVEY A. ADEE", "Acting Secretary of State."], "source": "35 Stat. 2192 (GovInfo page image), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Seal restored ([SEAL.]), which the American Presidency Project omits. Keep the Statutes' lowercase 'for' in the act's title and 'Grand Canyon Game Preserve' without 'National' in the second Whereas. Countersigned by Alvey A. Adee, Acting Secretary of State. Boundary appears only on the diagram plate following p. 2192.", "story": 76}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "title_notes": ["The American Presidency Project and the Statutes list caption this \"Setting aside the Grand Canyon National Game Preserve\"; the proclamation enlarged the preserve created in 1906."], "summary": "Enlarged the Grand Canyon National Game Preserve in the Territory of Arizona, adding lands set aside for the protection of game animals and recognized as a breeding place for them, where hunting and trapping on federal land became unlawful except under regulation.", "categories": ["wildlife", "forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Grand Canyon National Game Preserve", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [76], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-23", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "A Washington notice explained the extension as \"imperative in order to protect the game now in existence\" south of the canyon, and added that protected game would add to the interest of tourists.", "source": "San Jose Mercury, July 6, 1908; Tuolumne Independent, July 7; San Francisco Call, July 12, 1908", "date": "1908-07", "story": 76}, {"text": "The notice ran in at least six California papers as routine government news, with no editorial comment in the copies read and no objection found through the end of July.", "source": "California Digital Newspaper Collection, June 20–July 31, 1908", "date": "1908-07", "story": 76}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The enlargement carried the game preserve across the Colorado River onto the Coconino Plateau and the South Rim, but reserved no new land from settlement: the ground was already national forest, and only the hunting rules changed.", "source": "35 Stat. 2192, with diagram", "date": "1908-06-23", "story": 76}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The July 2, 1908 proclamation dividing the Grand Canyon National Forest expressly left the game preserve and the national monument untouched, confirming that the preserve now reached south of the river.", "source": "35 Stat. 2196", "date": "1908-07-02", "story": 76}], "legacy": [{"text": "The 1908 line was the high-water mark of the preserve's southern edge; 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{"id": "proc-813", "type": "proclamation", "number": "813", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Announcing the Death of Ex-President Grover Cleveland", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 813, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-813"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2193, "last_page": 2193, "cite": "35 Stat. 2193", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2193.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-06-24", "table_title": "Announcing the death of ex-President Grover Cleveland."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States.", "A PROCLAMATION.", "The White House,", "June 24, 1908.", "To the People of the United States:", "Grover Cleveland, President of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and again from 1893 to 1897, died at 8:40 o'clock this morning at his home in Princeton, New Jersey. In his death the Nation has been deprived of one of its greatest citizens. By profession a lawyer, his chief services to his country were rendered during his long, varied and honorable career in public life. As Mayor of his city, as Governor of his State, and twice as President, he showed signal power as an administrator, coupled with entire devotion to the country's good and the courage that quailed before no hostility when once he was convinced where his duty lay. Since his retirement from the Presidency he has continued well and faithfully to serve his countrymen by the simplicity, dignity and uprightness of his private life.", "In testimony of the respect in which his memory is held by the government and people of the United States, I do hereby direct that the flags on the White House and the several departmental buildings be displayed at half-staff for a period of thirty days; and that suitable military and naval honors, under the orders of the Secretaries of War and of the Navy, be rendered on the day of the funeral.", "Done this twenty-fourth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight and of the independence of the United States of America [SEAL.] the one hundred and thirty-second.", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "By the President:", "ALVEY A. ADEE", "Acting Secretary of State."], "source": "35 Stat. 2193 (GovInfo page image), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Follows the Statutes, not the American Presidency Project, which adds 'of America' to the heading, drops the dateline 'The White House, June 24, 1908.', adds a comma after 'In his death', capitalizes 'Independence', adds a period after the signature, and omits the [SEAL.]. No 'In witness whereof' clause.", "story": 75}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Announced the death of former President Grover Cleveland at his home in Princeton, New Jersey, and ordered flags on the White House and federal department buildings flown at half-staff for thirty days, with military and naval honors on the day of the funeral.", "categories": ["ceremonial"], "action": "announce", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Grover Cleveland"], "significance": 4, "stories": [75], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-24", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "An Associated Press dispatch reported that steps were taken to carry out the proclamation as soon as it was received, and described the half-staff orders that followed.", "source": "Los Angeles Herald, June 25, 1908, \"Government to Honor Memory\"", "date": "1908-06-25", "story": 75}, {"text": "California papers printed the text or a summary, including the San Luis Obispo Tribune under the headline \"ROOSEVELT GIVES HIGH PRAISE TO CLEVELAND.\"", "source": "Fresno Bee, June 24; Riverside Enterprise, June 25; San Luis Obispo Tribune, June 30, 1908", "date": "1908-06", "story": 75}, {"text": "No editorial objection to the proclamation was found in California papers for June 24–30, 1908.", "source": "California Digital Newspaper Collection", "date": "1908-06", "story": 75}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Army posts, fleets, ships and naval stations were ordered to fly their colors at half staff for thirty days, and diplomatic and consular offices were to do the same.", "source": "Los Angeles Herald, June 25, 1908", "date": "1908-06-24", "story": 75}, {"kind": "diplomatic", "text": "The State Department told its overseas posts by telegraph instead of by mail, so the observance would be uniform in time, which the press called an innovation.", "source": "San Francisco Call, June 26, 1908", "date": "1908-06", "story": 75}, {"kind": "local", "text": "In San Francisco, the fleet in the harbor and the Presidio and bay forts fired half-hourly guns on the day of the funeral.", "source": "San Francisco Call, June 27, 1908", "date": "1908-06-26", "story": 75}, {"kind": "local", "text": "At Cleveland's wish the funeral was private, with no eulogy; Mrs. Cleveland declined a military funeral, and Roosevelt attended the simple service at Westland.", "source": "San Francisco Call, June 26–27, 1908", "date": "1908-06-26", "story": 75}], "legacy": [{"text": "The proclamation had no legal effect and carries no legacy of its own beyond the mourning it marked; what stands out is the warmth of its tribute to a man of the other party.", "source": "research entry", "story": 75}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-465", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Roosevelt's proclamation on the death of William McKinley, which follows a different form.", "story": 75, "date": "1901-09-14", "title": "Announcing the Death of William McKinley", "type": "proclamation", "number": "465"}, {"id": "proc-578", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Roosevelt's proclamation on the death of Secretary of State John Hay.", "story": 75, "date": "1905-07-03", "title": "Announcing the Death of John Hay", "type": "proclamation", "number": "578"}]}
{"id": "eo-830", "type": "executive_order", "number": "830", "tr_sequence": 796, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Basil Miles as Superintendent in Post Office Department Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_830", "revid": 1908907, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 133"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Basil Miles may be appointed as superintendent of the division of foreign mails in the Post-Office Department without examination under the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 133)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 24, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Permitted Basil Miles to be appointed superintendent of the division of foreign mails in the Post-Office Department without a civil-service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Basil Miles"], "significance": 1, "stories": [100], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-24", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Basil Miles ran the foreign mail service until 1913 and then returned to the State Department.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1913", "story": 100}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-831", "type": "executive_order", "number": "831", "tr_sequence": 797, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Yachts of Royal Vancouver Yacht Club Authorized to Visit U.S. Without Entry, Clearance, or Charges", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Let yachts of the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club visit the United States without entry, clearance, or charges.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs", "trade-reciprocity"], "action": "grant", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [100], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-25", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The San Juan Islander reported that Royal Vancouver Yacht Club yachts could now visit Puget Sound ports without entry, clearance or charges, under the act of May 28.", "source": "San Juan Islander, July 4, 1908", "date": "1908-07-04", "story": 100}], "legacy": [{"text": "The reciprocity provision behind the order was later codified and remained the basis for excusing foreign yacht-club vessels from entry and clearance.", "source": "Act of May 28, 1908, 35 Stat. 424, 425–426", "story": 100}], "uncertain": ["The text of Executive Order 831 has not been found.", "A Royal Vancouver skipper won the Alexandra Cup from the Seattle defender Spirit within two weeks, but no record ties the order to the races."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-832", "type": "executive_order", "number": "832", "tr_sequence": 798, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Exceptions from Examination for Paymasters in New York Customs District", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_832", "revid": 2389240, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 124"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Schedule A, Subdivision II, paragraph 4, of the civil-service rules, which at present excepts from the requirement of examination:", "In the New York customs district: One paymaster; stitch counters,", "is hereby amended to read as follows:", "In the New York customs district: Two paymasters; stitch counters."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 124)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 25, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Amended the civil-service rules so the New York customs district could fill two paymaster posts, instead of one, without examination, along with its stitch counters.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["New York"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [100], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-25", "impact": {"later_actions": [{"date": "1911-06-12", "text": "Executive Order 1371 revoked the order.", "source": "research entry", "story": 100}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-209", "relation": "amends", "note": "Allowed the New York customs district a second excepted paymaster in Schedule A.", "story": 100, "date": "1903-03-20", "title": "Prescribing Civil Service Rules in Lieu of Rules of May 6, 1896", "type": "executive_order", "number": "209"}]}
{"id": "eo-833", "type": "executive_order", "number": "833", "tr_sequence": 799, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Lewis and Clark National Forest, Mont., Diminished", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reduced the Lewis and Clark National Forest in Montana.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "reduce", "places": [{"name": "Lewis and Clark National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [99], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-25", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "eo-834", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Blackfeet carved from part of the Lewis and Clark.", "story": 99, "date": "1908-06-25", "title": "Blackfeet National Forest, Mont., Created", "type": "executive_order", "number": "834"}, {"id": "eo-835", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Flathead carved from part of the Lewis and Clark.", "story": 99, "date": "1908-06-25", "title": "Flathead National Forest, Mont., Created", "type": "executive_order", "number": "835"}]}
{"id": "eo-834", "type": "executive_order", "number": "834", "tr_sequence": 800, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Blackfeet National Forest, Mont., Created", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Created the Blackfeet National Forest in Montana.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Blackfeet National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [99], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-25", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "eo-833", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 99, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-06-25", "title": "Lewis and Clark National Forest, Mont., Diminished", "type": "executive_order", "number": "833"}]}
{"id": "eo-835", "type": "executive_order", "number": "835", "tr_sequence": 801, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Flathead National Forest, Mont., Created", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Established the Flathead National Forest in Montana.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Flathead National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [99], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-25", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The order revived a Flathead name that had been in use from 1897 to 1903, and the name endures.", "source": "research entry", "story": 99}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-833", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 99, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-06-25", "title": "Lewis and Clark National Forest, Mont., Diminished", "type": "executive_order", "number": "833"}]}
{"id": "eo-836", "type": "executive_order", "number": "836", "tr_sequence": 802, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Kootenai National Forest, Mont. and Idaho, Modified", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Modified the boundaries of the Kootenai National Forest in Montana and Idaho.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Kootenai National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana", "Idaho"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [99], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-25", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Kootenai name is still on the map, as a national forest or the core of one; the Forest Service's chronological record shows it not discontinued through 1973.", "source": "USDA Forest Service, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (1973 ed.)", "story": 99}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-837", "type": "executive_order", "number": "837", "tr_sequence": 803, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Routt National Forest, Colo., Created", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Created the Routt National Forest in Colorado.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Routt National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [99], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-25", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Routt name is still on the map, as a national forest or the core of one; the Forest Service's chronological record shows it not discontinued through 1973.", "source": "USDA Forest Service, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (1973 ed.)", "story": 99}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-569", "relation": "modifies", "note": null, "story": 55, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-06-12", "title": "Establishing the Park Range Forest Reserve, Colorado", "type": "proclamation", "number": "569"}]}
{"id": "eo-838", "type": "executive_order", "number": "838", "tr_sequence": 804, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Cabinet National Forest, Mont. and Idaho., Diminished", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Shrank the Cabinet National Forest in Montana and Idaho.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "reduce", "places": [{"name": "Cabinet National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana", "Idaho"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [99], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-25", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-839", "type": "executive_order", "number": "839", "tr_sequence": 805, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Hayden National Forest, Colo., Created", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Established the Hayden National Forest in Colorado.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Hayden National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [99], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-25", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "proc-569", "relation": "modifies", "note": null, "story": 55, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-06-12", "title": "Establishing the Park Range Forest Reserve, Colorado", "type": "proclamation", "number": "569"}]}
{"id": "eo-840", "type": "executive_order", "number": "840", "tr_sequence": 806, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Challis National Forest, Idaho, Created", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Created the Challis National Forest in Idaho.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Challis National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Idaho"}], "states": ["Idaho"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [99], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-26", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "eo-858", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 99, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-06-26", "title": "Sawtooth National Forest, Idaho, Diminished", "type": "executive_order", "number": "858"}]}
{"id": "eo-841", "type": "executive_order", "number": "841", "tr_sequence": 807, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Salmon National Forest, Idaho, Created", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Established the Salmon National Forest in Idaho.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Salmon National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Idaho"}], "states": ["Idaho"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [99], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-26", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Salmon name is still on the map, as a national forest or the core of one; the Forest Service's chronological record shows it not discontinued through 1973.", "source": "USDA Forest Service, Establishment and Modification of National Forest Boundaries (1973 ed.)", "story": 99}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-859", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The Lemhi order, which also concerns the Salmon National Forest.", "story": 99, "date": "1908-06-26", "title": "Modifying Lemhi National Forest", "type": "executive_order", "number": "859"}]}
{"id": "eo-842", "type": "executive_order", "number": "842", "tr_sequence": 808, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Clearwater National Forest, Idaho", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_842", "revid": 12446697, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that on and after July 1, 1908, the land within the boundaries shown on the attached diagram, heretofore set apart, reserved, and proclaimed as parts of the Coeur D'Alene and Bitter Root National Forests, shall be known as the Clearwater National Forest. It is not intended by this order to release any land from reservation or to reserve any land not heretofore embraced in a National Forest."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 26, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Renamed parts of the Coeur D'Alene and Bitter Root National Forests in Idaho as the Clearwater National Forest, effective July 1, 1908, without adding or releasing any land.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Clearwater National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Idaho"}, {"name": "Coeur D'Alene National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Idaho"}, {"name": "Bitter Root National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Idaho"}], "states": ["Idaho"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [99], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-26", "impact": null, "related": []}
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{"id": "eo-862", "type": "executive_order", "number": "862", "tr_sequence": 828, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyo., Diminished", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reduced the Medicine Bow National Forest in Wyoming.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "reduce", "places": [{"name": "Medicine Bow National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Wyoming"}], "states": ["Wyoming"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-30", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "proc-474", "relation": "modifies", "note": null, "story": 33, "inferred": true, "date": "1902-05-22", "title": "Establishing the Medicine Bow Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "474"}]}
{"id": "eo-863", "type": "executive_order", "number": "863", "tr_sequence": 829, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Cascade National Forest, Oreg., Created", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Cascade National Forest, Oreg.., Created”. Typo (double period)."], "summary": "Created the Cascade National Forest in Oregon.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Cascade National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}], "states": ["Oregon"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-30", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Cascade National Forest merged into the Willamette in 1933.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1933", "story": 101}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1933", "text": "The Cascade National Forest was merged into the Willamette.", "source": "research entry", "story": 101}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-864", "type": "executive_order", "number": "864", "tr_sequence": 830, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Oregon National Forest, Oreg., Created", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Established the Oregon National Forest in Oregon.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Oregon National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}], "states": ["Oregon"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-30", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Created the Oregon National Forest from part of the Cascade and the whole of the Bull Run forest.", "source": "Davis, National Forests of the United States (FS-612 appendix)", "date": "1908-07-01", "story": 101}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Oregon National Forest became Mount Hood National Forest in 1924.", "source": "EO 3944", "date": "1924", "story": 101}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1924", "text": "Renamed Mount Hood National Forest by Executive Order 3944.", "source": "EO 3944", "story": 101}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-865", "type": "executive_order", "number": "865", "tr_sequence": 831, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Siuslaw National Forest and Redefining Umpqua National Forest in Oregon from Portions of Cascade, Fremont, and Former Umpqua National Forests", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_865", "revid": 12446164, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that on and after July 1, 1908, the land within the boundaries shown on the attached diagram, heretofore set apart, reserved, and proclaimed as parts of the Cascade, Fremont, and Umpqua National Forests, shall be known as the Umpqua National Forest. The remaining portion of the present Umpqua National Forest, with the exception of the portions indicated on this diagram and on the diagram of the Siuslaw as eliminations, shall continue reserved and constitute the Siuslaw National Forest. It is not intended by this order to release any land from reservation, except the areas indicated as eliminations, or to reserve any land not heretofore embraced in a National Forest.", "The lands hereby excluded from the Umpqua National Forest which are not embraced in withdrawals for administrative sites for use in the management of the Forest, or in any other reservation, or appropriation, shall be restored to the public domain and become subject to settlement under the general provisions of the homestead laws on such date and after such notice by publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, but shall not become subject to entry, filing, selection, or other form of appropriation until the expiration of thirty days from the date so fixed, and no person will be permitted to gain or exercise any right whatever under any settlement or occupation begun prior to such date, and all such settlement and occupation are hereby forbidden."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 30, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Redrew the Umpqua National Forest in Oregon from parts of the Cascade, Fremont, and Umpqua forests, made the rest of the old Umpqua the Siuslaw National Forest, and returned eliminated lands to the public domain for homestead settlement.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Umpqua National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}, {"name": "Siuslaw National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}, {"name": "Cascade National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}, {"name": "Fremont National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}], "states": ["Oregon"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-30", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Unlike most of the run, this order released land: it excepted \"the areas indicated as eliminations\" from its no-release disclaimer and directed that the excluded Umpqua land be restored to the public domain.", "source": "EO 865 (Wikisource)", "date": "1908-06-30", "story": 101}, {"kind": "local", "text": "The Umpqua land cut out of the forest became subject to settlement under the general homestead laws.", "source": "EO 865 (Wikisource)", "date": "1908-07-01", "story": 101}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-860", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "EO 860 of the same day is the order credited with establishing the Siuslaw.", "story": 101, "date": "1908-06-30", "title": "Siuslaw National Forest, Oreg., Created", "type": "executive_order", "number": "860"}]}
{"id": "eo-866", "type": "executive_order", "number": "866", "tr_sequence": 832, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Siskiyou National Forest, Oreg. and Calif., Created", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Cheyenne National Forest, Oreg. and Calif., Created”. The Cheyenne National Forest was in Wyoming (EO 861); this order concerns the Siskiyou (Davis, FS-612 appendix)."], "summary": "Created the Siskiyou National Forest in Oregon and California.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Cheyenne National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}], "states": ["Oregon", "California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-30", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Siskiyou was still a separate national forest under its 1908 name in 1981.", "source": "Davis, ed., Encyclopedia of American Forest and Conservation History (1983), vol. II, pp. 743–788", "date": "1981", "story": 101}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-867", "type": "executive_order", "number": "867", "tr_sequence": 833, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Crater National Forest, Oregon and California", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_867", "revid": 12448369, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that on and after July 1, 1908, the land within the boundaries shown on the attached diagram, heretofore set apart, reserved, and proclaimed as the Ashland National Forest, parts of the Cascade and Siskiyou National Forests, and a part of the Klamath National Forest in California, shall be known as the Crater National Forest. It is not intended by this order to release any land from reservation or to reserve any land not heretofore embraced in a National Forest."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, June 30, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Joined the Ashland National Forest with parts of the Cascade, Siskiyou, and Klamath forests to form the Crater National Forest in Oregon and California, effective July 1, 1908.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Crater National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}, {"name": "Ashland National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}, {"name": "Cascade National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}, {"name": "Siskiyou National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}, {"name": "Klamath National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["Oregon", "California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-30", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Created the Crater National Forest, spanning Oregon and California, from the Ashland and parts of the Cascade, Siskiyou and Klamath forests.", "source": "Davis, National Forests of the United States (FS-612 appendix); EO 867 (Wikisource)", "date": "1908-07-01", "story": 101}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Crater National Forest became the Rogue River National Forest in 1932.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1932", "story": 101}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1932", "text": "The Crater National Forest was renamed the Rogue River.", "source": "research entry", "story": 101}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-896", "type": "executive_order", "number": "896", "tr_sequence": 862, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-06-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Beartooth National Forest, Mont., Created", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Created the Beartooth National Forest in Montana.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Beartooth National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-06-30", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Established the Beartooth National Forest in Montana on 685,293 gross acres, from part of the Yellowstone and all of the Pryor Mountains forests; signed June 30 and effective July 1, 1908, though its number falls among the July 1 orders.", "source": "Stark, Names, Boundaries, and Maps: The Northern Region (2022), p. 72", "date": "1908-06-30", "story": 101}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Beartooth was divided between the Absaroka and the Custer in 1932, and its name was discontinued.", "source": "Davis, ed., Encyclopedia of American Forest and Conservation History (1983), vol. II, pp. 743–788", "date": "1932", "story": 101}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1932", "text": "The Beartooth National Forest was divided between the Absaroka and the Custer.", "source": "Davis, ed., Encyclopedia of American Forest and Conservation History (1983)", "story": 101}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-496", "relation": "supersedes", "note": null, "story": 42, "inferred": true, "date": "1903-01-29", "title": "Enlargement of the Yellowstone National Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "496"}]}
{"id": "proc-815", "type": "proclamation", "number": "815", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of Uinta National Forest, Utah", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 815, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-815"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2193, "last_page": 2194, "cite": "35 Stat. 2193–2194", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2193.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-07-01", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of Uinta National Forest, Utah."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, by Executive Order of this date, the Ashley National Forest, within the States of Utah and Wyoming, has been formed from a portion of the land set apart and reserved as the Uinta National Forest;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the remaining portion of the Uinta National Forest, certain lands within the State of Utah, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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, on and after July first, nineteen hundred and eight, the boundaries of the Uinta National Forest within the State of Utah shall be as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 1st day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2193", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Uinta National Forest, Utah.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 29. p. 895.", "Vol. 34, pp. 3116, 3186, 3207.", "Boundaries modified.", "Prior rights not affected, etc.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Uinta National Forest in Utah with new, partly timbered lands, after the Ashley National Forest was carved from part of it, protecting existing land claims.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Uinta National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}, {"name": "Ashley National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [71], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-01", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The proclamation noted that the Ashley National Forest had been formed from part of the Uinta by executive order the same day.", "source": "35 Stat. 2171–2208", "date": "1908-07-01", "story": 71}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Uinta became part of the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache by administrative consolidation in 2007–08.", "source": "FS-612", "date": "2008", "story": 71}], "today": [{"name": "Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Utah", "source": "FS-612", "story": 71}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-816", "type": "proclamation", "number": "816", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Crook National Forest, Arizona", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 816, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-816"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2194, "last_page": 2195, "cite": "35 Stat. 2194–2195", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2194.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-07-01", "table_title": "Setting apart the Crook National Forest, Arizona."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Mount Graham National Forest, within the Territory of Arizona, was established by proclamation dated July twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and was enlarged to embrace a portion of the Fort Grant Military Reservation by Executive Order, dated October sixth, nineteen hundred and six, which also provided for the unhampered use by the War Department of the land described in such Executive Order;", "And whereas, it appears that a portion of the Tonto National Forest, all of the Mount Graham National Forest except the area shown on the attached diagram as eliminated, together with certain lands within the Territory of Arizona not heretofore reserved, which are in part covered with timber, should be known as the Crook National Forest;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 on and after the first day of July, nineteen hundred and eight, the boundaries of the Crook National Forest shall be as indicated on the attached diagram.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "2195 The lands hereby eliminated from the Mount Graham National Forest which are not embraced in withdrawals for administrative sites for use in the management of the Forest, or in any other reservation, or appropriation, shall be restored to the public domain and become subject to settlement under the general provisions of the homestead laws on such date and after such notice by publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, but shall not become subject to entry, filing, selection, or other form of appropriation until the expiration of thirty days from the date so fixed, and no person will be permitted to gain or exercise any right whatever under any settlement or occupation begun prior to such date, and all such settlement and occupation are hereby forbidden.", "It is not intended by this proclamation to release any land from reservation, or to reserve any land except the areas indicated on the attached diagram as added and eliminated.", "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 1st day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2194", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Crook National Forest, Ariz.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 32, p. 2017.", "Vol. 34, p. 3166.", "Ante, p. 2176.", "National Forest, Arizona.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Prior rights not affected, etc.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233.", "Lands restored to public domain, etc."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart the Crook National Forest in the Territory of Arizona from part of the Tonto, most of the Mount Graham forest, and new timbered land, returning eliminated land to the public domain.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Crook National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}, {"name": "Mount Graham National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}, {"name": "Tonto National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [71], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-01", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Crook forest was built from part of the Tonto and most of the Mount Graham, and some tracts were eliminated and restored to the public domain.", "source": "35 Stat. 2171–2208", "date": "1908-07-01", "story": 71}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-485", "relation": "supersedes", "note": null, "story": 33, "inferred": true, "date": "1902-07-22", "title": "Establishment of the Mount Graham Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "485"}, {"id": "eo-869", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Same-day order redefining the Tonto, with part going to the Crook.", "story": 71, "date": "1908-07-01", "title": "Tonto National Forest, Arizona", "type": "executive_order", "number": "869"}]}
{"id": "eo-868", "type": "executive_order", "number": "868", "tr_sequence": 834, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Sitgreaves National Forest, Arizona", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_868", "revid": 12442306, "printed_source": "| notes  ="}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that on and after July 1, 1908, the land within the boundary shown on the attached diagram, heretofore set apart, reserved, and proclaimed as parts of the Black Mesa and Tonto National Forests, shall be known as the Sitgreaves National Forest. The remaining portions of the Black Mesa National Forest shall continue reserved and constitute the Apache National Forest and parts of the Coconino and Tonto National Forests. It is not intended by this order to release any land from reservation or to reserve any land not heretofore embraced in a National Forest."], "source": "Wikisource (from | notes  =)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, July 1, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Formed the Sitgreaves National Forest in Arizona from parts of the Black Mesa and Tonto National Forests, effective July 1, 1908, without adding or releasing any land.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Sitgreaves National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}, {"name": "Black Mesa National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}, {"name": "Tonto National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-01", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Sitgreaves remains a legally distinct proclaimed forest, administered with the Apache since 1974 as the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1974", "story": 101}], "today": [{"name": "Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Arizona", "note": "The Sitgreaves keeps its proclaimed boundaries but shares a supervisor with the Apache.", "source": "research entry", "story": 101}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-818", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 71, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-07-02", "title": "Setting Apart the Coconino and Kaibab National Forests, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "818"}]}
{"id": "eo-869", "type": "executive_order", "number": "869", "tr_sequence": 835, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Tonto National Forest, Arizona", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_869", "revid": 12438650, "printed_source": "| notes  ="}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that on and after July 1, 1908, the land within the boundary shown on the attached diagram, heretofore set apart, reserved, and proclaimed as parts of the Tonto and Black Mesa National Forests, shall be known as the Tonto National Forest. The remaining portions of the Tonto National Forest shall continue reserved and constitute parts of the Crook, Sitgreaves, and Coconino National Forests. It is not intended by this order to release any land from reservation or to reserve any land not heretofore embraced in a National Forest."], "source": "Wikisource (from | notes  =)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, July 1, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Redefined the Tonto National Forest in Arizona from parts of the Tonto and Black Mesa forests, with the rest going to the Crook, Sitgreaves, and Coconino National Forests.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Tonto National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}, {"name": "Black Mesa National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-01", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Tonto National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Arizona", "note": "Still a separate, discrete national forest.", "source": "research entry", "story": 101}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-816", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 71, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-07-01", "title": "Setting Apart the Crook National Forest, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "816"}]}
{"id": "eo-870", "type": "executive_order", "number": "870", "tr_sequence": 836, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Modifying Holy Cross National Forest, Colorado", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_870", "revid": 12442307, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that on and after July 1, 1908, the land within the boundaries shown on the attached diagram, heretofore set apart, reserved, and proclaimed as parts of the Holy Cross, Leadville, Gunnison, and Battlement Mesa National Forests, shall be known as the Holy Cross National Forest. The remaining portions of the Holy Cross National Forest shall continue reserved and constitute parts of the Leadville National Forest. It is not intended by this order to release any land from reservation or to reserve any land not heretofore embraced as a National Forest."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, July 1, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reshaped the Holy Cross National Forest in Colorado from parts of the Holy Cross, Leadville, Gunnison, and Battlement Mesa forests, shifting its remaining land to the Leadville National Forest.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Holy Cross National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}, {"name": "Leadville National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-871", "type": "executive_order", "number": "871", "tr_sequence": 837, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Targhee National Forest, Idaho and Wyo., Created", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Created the Targhee National Forest in Idaho and Wyoming.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Targhee National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Idaho"}], "states": ["Idaho", "Wyoming"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-01", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Targhee was still a separate national forest under its 1908 name in 1981.", "source": "Davis, ed., Encyclopedia of American Forest and Conservation History (1983), vol. II, pp. 743–788", "date": "1981", "story": 101}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-496", "relation": "supersedes", "note": null, "story": 42, "inferred": true, "date": "1903-01-29", "title": "Enlargement of the Yellowstone National Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "496"}, {"id": "proc-560", "relation": "modifies", "note": null, "story": 55, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-05-23", "title": "Establishment of the Henrys Lake Forest Reserve, Idaho", "type": "proclamation", "number": "560"}]}
{"id": "eo-872", "type": "executive_order", "number": "872", "tr_sequence": 838, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Teton National Forest, Wyo., Created", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Established the Teton National Forest in Wyoming.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Teton National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Wyoming"}], "states": ["Wyoming"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-01", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Teton was combined administratively with the Bridger in 1973.", "source": "Davis, ed., Encyclopedia of American Forest and Conservation History (1983), vol. II, pp. 743–788", "date": "1973", "story": 101}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-496", "relation": "supersedes", "note": null, "story": 42, "inferred": true, "date": "1903-01-29", "title": "Enlargement of the Yellowstone National Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "496"}]}
{"id": "eo-873", "type": "executive_order", "number": "873", "tr_sequence": 839, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Wyoming National Forest, Wyo., Created", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Created the Wyoming National Forest in Wyoming.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Wyoming National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Wyoming"}], "states": ["Wyoming"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-01", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "proc-496", "relation": "supersedes", "note": null, "story": 42, "inferred": true, "date": "1903-01-29", "title": "Enlargement of the Yellowstone National Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "496"}]}
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{"id": "eo-875", "type": "executive_order", "number": "875", "tr_sequence": 841, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Absaroka National Forest, Mont., Created", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Established the Absaroka National Forest in Montana.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Absaroka National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-01", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Absaroka was divided between the Gallatin and the Lewis and Clark in 1945, and its name was discontinued.", "source": "Davis, ed., Encyclopedia of American Forest and Conservation History (1983), vol. II, pp. 743–788", "date": "1945", "story": 101}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1945", "text": "The Absaroka National Forest was divided between the Gallatin and the Lewis and Clark.", "source": "Davis, ed., Encyclopedia of American Forest and Conservation History (1983)", "story": 101}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-493", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 33, "inferred": true, "date": "1902-09-04", "title": "Establishment of the Absaroka Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "493"}, {"id": "proc-496", "relation": "supersedes", "note": null, "story": 42, "inferred": true, "date": "1903-01-29", "title": "Enlargement of the Yellowstone National Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "496"}]}
{"id": "eo-876", "type": "executive_order", "number": "876", "tr_sequence": 842, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Apache National Forest, Arizona", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_876", "revid": 12441370, "printed_source": "| notes  ="}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that on and after July 1, 1908, the land within the boundary shown on the attached diagram, heretofore set apart, reserved, and proclaimed as a part of the Black Mesa National Forest, shall be known as the Apache National Forest. The remaining portions of the Black Mesa National Forest shall continue reserved and constitute the Sitgreaves National Forest and parts of the Coconino and Tonto National Forests. It is not intended by this order to release any land from reservation or to reserve any land not heretofore embraced in a National Forest."], "source": "Wikisource (from | notes  =)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, July 1, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Named part of the Black Mesa National Forest in Arizona the Apache National Forest, effective July 1, 1908, with the remainder going to the Sitgreaves, Coconino, and Tonto forests.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Apache National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}, {"name": "Black Mesa National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-01", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Apache was combined administratively with the Sitgreaves in 1974.", "source": "Davis, ed., Encyclopedia of American Forest and Conservation History (1983), vol. II, pp. 743–788", "date": "1974", "story": 101}], "today": [{"name": "Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Arizona", "note": "Administered jointly with the Sitgreaves since 1974.", "source": "research entry", "story": 101}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-818", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 71, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-07-02", "title": "Setting Apart the Coconino and Kaibab National Forests, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "818"}]}
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{"id": "eo-879", "type": "executive_order", "number": "879", "tr_sequence": 845, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Gallatin National Forest, Mont., Modified", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Adjusted the boundaries of the Gallatin National Forest in Montana.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Gallatin National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-01", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "proc-595", "relation": "modifies", "note": null, "story": 55, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-10-03", "title": "Establishment of the Big Belt Forest Reserve, Montana", "type": "proclamation", "number": "595"}]}
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{"id": "eo-883", "type": "executive_order", "number": "883", "tr_sequence": 849, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Bitterroot National Forest, Mont., Enlarged", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Expanded the Bitterroot National Forest in Montana.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Bitterroot National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-01", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "proc-599", "relation": "modifies", "note": null, "story": 55, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-10-03", "title": "Establishment of the Hell Gate Forest Reserve, Montana", "type": "proclamation", "number": "599"}]}
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{"id": "eo-885", "type": "executive_order", "number": "885", "tr_sequence": 851, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Uncompahgre National Forest, Colo., Enlarged", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Enlarged the Uncompahgre National Forest in Colorado.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Uncompahgre National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-01", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Uncompahgre was combined administratively with the Grand Mesa and Gunnison in 1976.", "source": "Davis, ed., Encyclopedia of American Forest and Conservation History (1983), vol. II, pp. 743–788", "date": "1976", "story": 101}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-886", "type": "executive_order", "number": "886", "tr_sequence": 852, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "San Juan National Forest, Colo., Modified", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Modified the boundaries of the San Juan National Forest in Colorado.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "San Juan National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-01", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "San Juan National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Colorado", "note": "Still a separate, discrete national forest.", "source": "research entry", "story": 101}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-887", "type": "executive_order", "number": "887", "tr_sequence": 853, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Rio Grande National Forest, Colo., Created", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Created the Rio Grande National Forest in Colorado.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Rio Grande National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-01", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Rio Grande National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "origin", "state": "Colorado", "since": "1908-07-01", "note": "Still a separate, discrete national forest.", "source": "research entry", "story": 101}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-888", "type": "executive_order", "number": "888", "tr_sequence": 854, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Pike National Forest, Colo., Created", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Established the Pike National Forest in Colorado.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Pike National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-01", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Pike remains a legally distinct proclaimed forest, administered with the San Isabel since 1975.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1975", "story": 101}], "today": [{"name": "Pike National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "origin", "state": "Colorado", "since": "1908-07-01", "note": "Shares a supervisor with the San Isabel since 1975.", "source": "research entry", "story": 101}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-889", "type": "executive_order", "number": "889", "tr_sequence": 855, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Montezuma National Forest, Colo., Modified", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Adjusted the boundaries of the Montezuma National Forest in Colorado.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Montezuma National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-890", "type": "executive_order", "number": "890", "tr_sequence": 856, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Leadville National Forest, Colo., Modified", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Modified the boundaries of the Leadville National Forest in Colorado.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Leadville National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-891", "type": "executive_order", "number": "891", "tr_sequence": 857, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Gunnison National Forest, Colo., Modified", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Changed the boundaries of the Gunnison National Forest in Colorado.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Gunnison National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-01", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Gunnison remains a legally distinct proclaimed forest, administered with the Grand Mesa and Uncompahgre since 1976.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1976", "story": 101}], "today": [{"name": "Gunnison National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Colorado", "note": "Administered with the Grand Mesa and Uncompahgre since 1976 (the GMUG).", "source": "research entry", "story": 101}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-892", "type": "executive_order", "number": "892", "tr_sequence": 858, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Cochetopah National Forest, Colo., Modified", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Modified the boundaries of the Cochetopah National Forest in Colorado.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Cochetopah National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-893", "type": "executive_order", "number": "893", "tr_sequence": 859, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Arapaho National Forest, Colo., Created", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Created the Arapaho National Forest in Colorado.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Arapaho National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-894", "type": "executive_order", "number": "894", "tr_sequence": 860, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Battlement National Forest, Colo., Created", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Established the Battlement National Forest in Colorado.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Battlement National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-895", "type": "executive_order", "number": "895", "tr_sequence": 861, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Shoshone National Forest, Wyo., Created", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Created the Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Shoshone National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Wyoming"}], "states": ["Wyoming"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-01", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Shoshone National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "origin", "state": "Wyoming", "since": "1908-07-01", "note": "Still a separate, discrete national forest.", "source": "research entry", "story": 101}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-496", "relation": "supersedes", "note": null, "story": 42, "inferred": true, "date": "1903-01-29", "title": "Enlargement of the Yellowstone National Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "496"}]}
{"id": "proc-817", "type": "proclamation", "number": "817", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Modifying Boundaries of Klamath National Forest, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 817, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-817"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2195, "last_page": 2196, "cite": "35 Stat. 2195–2196", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2195.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-07-02", "table_title": "Modifying boundaries of Klamath National Forest, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the Klamath, Trinity, and Shasta National Forests, all in California, have been established by proclamations which described their respective boundaries;", "And whereas, it appears that parts of the Klamath, Trinity, and Shasta National Forests, together with certain lands not heretofore reserved, which are in part covered with timber, should be consolidated into one Forest, which should be known as the Klamath National Forest;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 on and after July first, nineteen hundred and eight, the boundaries of the Klamath National Forest shall be as indicated by the black line on the attached diagram. The remaining portions of the Klamath National Forest shall continue reserved and constitute parts of the Siskiyou, Crater, Trinity, and Shasta National Forests.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "It is not intended by this proclamation to release any land from reservation, or to add any land except that indicated on the attached diagram as an addition to such Klamath National Forest.", "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 2 day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2195", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Klamath National Forest, Cal.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34. p. 3001.", "Ante, p. 2179.", "Vol. 34, p. 3235.", "Boundaries modified.", "Vol. 30. p. 36.", "Post, pp. 2223, 2238.", "Prior rights not affected, etc.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Consolidated parts of the Klamath, Trinity, and Shasta National Forests in California, plus some partly timbered new land, into one Klamath National Forest, with leftover land going to the Siskiyou, Crater, Trinity, and Shasta forests.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Klamath National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}, {"name": "Trinity National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}, {"name": "Shasta National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [71], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-02", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Klamath was re-formed from parts of the Klamath, Trinity and Shasta forests.", "source": "35 Stat. 2171–2208", "date": "1908-07-02", "story": 71}], "today": [{"name": "Klamath National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "California", "source": "research entry", "story": 71}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-818", "type": "proclamation", "number": "818", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Coconino and Kaibab National Forests, Arizona", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": ["Some sources date this July 1, 1908; the Statutes at Large print it under July 2 (35 Stat. 2196). Check the signed original."], "citations": {"app": {"number": 818, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-818"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2196, "last_page": 2197, "cite": "35 Stat. 2196–2197", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2196.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-07-02", "table_title": "Setting apart the Coconino and Kaibab National Forests, Arizona."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the San Francisco Mountains, Black Mesa, Tonto, and Grand Canyon National Forests, all in Arizona, have been established by proclamations which described their respective boundaries;", "And whereas, it appears that all of the San Francisco Mountains National Forest, parts of the Black Mesa and Tonto National Forests, all of the Grand Canyon National Forest south and east of the Colorado River, except the area indicated as eliminated on the attached diagram (Part Two) of the Coconino National Forest, together with certain lands not heretofore reserved, and which are in part covered with timber, should be consolidated into one National Forest, which should be known as the Coconino National Forest;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 on and after July first, nineteen hundred and eight, the boundaries of the Coconino National Forest shall be as shown on the two parts of the attached diagram. The remaining portion of the Grand Canyon National Forest, with the exception of the eliminated area, shall continue reserved and constitute the Kaibab National Forest. All that portion of the Black Mesa National Forest not included in the Coconino National Forest (Part One of Diagram) has, by Executive Orders, been included in the Sitgreaves, Apache, and Tonto National Forests.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation nor prevent the use of such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "It is not intended by this proclamation to modify the proclamations heretofore issued establishing the Grand Canyon National Game Preserve and the Grand Canyon National Monument, both of which include land embraced in the boundaries of the Coconino National Forest.", "The portions of the Grand Canyon National Forest indicated on the attached diagram (Part Two) of the Coconino National Forest as eliminated which are not embraced in withdrawals for administrative sites for use in the management of the Forest, or in any other reservation, or appropriation, shall be restored to the public domain and become subject to settlement under the general provisions of the homestead laws on such date and after such notice by publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, but shall not become subject to entry, filing, selection, or other form of appropriation until the expiration of thirty days from the date so fixed, and no person will be permitted to gain or exercise any right whatever under any settlement or occupation begun prior to such date, and all such settlement and occupation are hereby forbidden.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 2 day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2196", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Coconino and Kaibab national forests, Ariz.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 32, p. 1991.", "Ante, pp. 2146, 2176.", "Vol. 34, p. 3223.", "National forests, Arizona.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Coconino.", "Kaibab.", "Prior rights not affected, etc.", "Vol. 34, p. 3263.", "Ante, p. 2192.", "Ante, p. 2175.", "Lands restored to public domain, etc.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart the Coconino and Kaibab National Forests in Arizona, merging the San Francisco Mountains forest, parts of the Black Mesa and Tonto, and Grand Canyon land south and east of the Colorado River into Coconino; the rest became Kaibab.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Coconino National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}, {"name": "Kaibab National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}, {"name": "San Francisco Mountains National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}, {"name": "Grand Canyon National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}, {"name": "Black Mesa National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [71], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-02", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The proclamation consolidated the San Francisco Mountains forest and parts of the Black Mesa, Tonto and Grand Canyon forests into the Coconino, and made the rest of the Grand Canyon forest north of the river the Kaibab.", "source": "35 Stat. 2196", "date": "1908-07-02", "story": 71}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "It expressly left the Grand Canyon National Game Preserve and Grand Canyon National Monument proclamations unchanged.", "source": "35 Stat. 2196", "date": "1908-07-02", "story": 71}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Coconino and Kaibab forests still frame the Grand Canyon.", "source": "research entry", "story": 71}], "today": [{"name": "Coconino National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "origin", "state": "Arizona", "since": "1908-07-02", "source": "research entry", "story": 71}, {"name": "Kaibab National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "origin", "state": "Arizona", "since": "1908-07-02", "note": "FS-612 records the Kaibab as established by executive order of the same date; the proclamation names it.", "source": "FS-612", "story": 71}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-469", "relation": "supersedes", "note": null, "story": 33, "inferred": true, "date": "1902-04-12", "title": "Establishing the San Francisco Mountains Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "469"}, {"id": "proc-794", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Grand Canyon National Monument, which overlaps the Coconino and which this proclamation left unchanged.", "story": 71, "date": "1908-01-11", "title": "Setting Aside Grand Canyon National Monument, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "794"}, {"id": "proc-814", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 76, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-06-23", "title": "Enlarging the Grand Canyon National Game Preserve, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "814"}, {"id": "eo-868", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Order putting part of the Black Mesa forest into the Sitgreaves.", "story": 71, "date": "1908-07-01", "title": "Sitgreaves National Forest, Arizona", "type": "executive_order", "number": "868"}, {"id": "eo-876", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Order putting part of the Black Mesa forest into the Apache.", "story": 71, "date": "1908-07-01", "title": "Apache National Forest, Arizona", "type": "executive_order", "number": "876"}, {"id": "eo-909", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Same-day executive order naming the Kaibab National Forest; the two instruments worked together.", "story": 71, "date": "1908-07-02", "title": "Kaibab National Forest, Arizona", "type": "executive_order", "number": "909"}]}
{"id": "eo-897", "type": "executive_order", "number": "897", "tr_sequence": 863, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Tahoe National Forest, Calif., Modified", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Modified the boundaries of the Tahoe National Forest in California.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Tahoe National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-02", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Tahoe was still a separate national forest under its 1908 name in 1981.", "source": "Davis, ed., Encyclopedia of American Forest and Conservation History (1983), vol. II, pp. 743–788", "date": "1981", "story": 101}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-898", "type": "executive_order", "number": "898", "tr_sequence": 864, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Mono National Forest, California and Nevada", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": ["Wikisource dates this order 1908-07-01; the Wikipedia list gives 1908-07-02."], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_898", "revid": 12446698, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that on and after July 1, 1908, the land within the boundary shown on the attached diagram, heretofore set apart, reserved, and proclaimed as parts of the Stanislaus, Sierra, Tahoe, and Inyo National Forests, shall be known as the Mono National Forest. It is not intended by this order to release any land from reservation or to reserve any land not heretofore embraced in a National Forest."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, July 1, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Formed the Mono National Forest in California and Nevada from parts of the Stanislaus, Sierra, Tahoe, and Inyo forests, effective July 1, 1908, without adding or releasing any land.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Mono National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}, {"name": "Stanislaus National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}, {"name": "Sierra National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}, {"name": "Tahoe National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}, {"name": "Inyo National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California", "Nevada"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-02", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Mono National Forest was split between the Inyo and the Toiyabe in 1945.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1945", "story": 101}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1945", "text": "The Mono National Forest was split between the Inyo and the Toiyabe.", "source": "research entry", "story": 101}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-899", "type": "executive_order", "number": "899", "tr_sequence": 865, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Inyo National Forest, Calif. and Nev., Modified", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Adjusted the boundaries of the Inyo National Forest in California and Nevada.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Inyo National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California", "Nevada"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-02", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Inyo National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "California", "note": "Still a separate, discrete national forest.", "source": "research entry", "story": 101}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-900", "type": "executive_order", "number": "900", "tr_sequence": 866, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Trinity National Forest, Calif., Modified", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Modified the boundaries of the Trinity National Forest in California.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Trinity National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-02", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Trinity was combined administratively with the Shasta in 1954.", "source": "Davis, ed., Encyclopedia of American Forest and Conservation History (1983), vol. II, pp. 743–788", "date": "1954", "story": 101}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-901", "type": "executive_order", "number": "901", "tr_sequence": 867, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Stanislaus National Forest, Calif., Modified", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Changed the boundaries of the Stanislaus National Forest in California.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Stanislaus National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-02", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Stanislaus National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "California", "note": "Still a separate, discrete national forest.", "source": "research entry", "story": 101}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-902", "type": "executive_order", "number": "902", "tr_sequence": 868, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Sierra National Forest, Calif., Diminished", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reduced the Sierra National Forest in California.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "reduce", "places": [{"name": "Sierra National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-02", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Sierra was still a separate national forest under its 1908 name in 1981.", "source": "Davis, ed., Encyclopedia of American Forest and Conservation History (1983), vol. II, pp. 743–788", "date": "1981", "story": 101}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-904", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Signed the same day; established the Sequoia from portions of the Sierra.", "story": 101, "date": "1908-07-02", "title": "Establishing Sequoia National Forest in California from Portions of Sierra National Forest", "type": "executive_order", "number": "904"}]}
{"id": "eo-903", "type": "executive_order", "number": "903", "tr_sequence": 869, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Shasta National Forest, Calif., Modified", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Modified the boundaries of the Shasta National Forest in California.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Shasta National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-02", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Shasta remains a legally distinct proclaimed forest, administered with the Trinity since 1954.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1954", "story": 101}], "today": [{"name": "Shasta National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "California", "note": "Shares a supervisor with the Trinity since 1954.", "source": "research entry", "story": 101}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-904", "type": "executive_order", "number": "904", "tr_sequence": 870, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Sequoia National Forest in California from Portions of Sierra National Forest", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_904", "revid": 12446165, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that on and after July 1, 1908, the land within the boundaries shown on the attached diagram, heretofore set apart, reserved, and proclaimed as the Sierra National Forest, shall be known as the Sequoia National Forest. The remaining portions of the Sierra National Forest shall continue reserved and constitute the Sierra National Forest, and parts of the Stanislaus, Inyo and Mono National Forests. It is not intended by this order to release any land from reservation or to reserve any land not heretofore embraced in a National Forest."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, July 2, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Carved the Sequoia National Forest out of the Sierra National Forest in California, effective July 1, 1908, with the remainder staying the Sierra or joining the Stanislaus, Inyo, and Mono forests.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Sequoia National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}, {"name": "Sierra National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-02", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Sequoia National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "origin", "state": "California", "since": "1908-07-02", "note": "Still a separate, discrete national forest.", "source": "research entry", "story": 101}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-902", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The same day's order for the Sierra, from whose portions the Sequoia was made.", "story": 101, "date": "1908-07-02", "title": "Sierra National Forest, Calif., Diminished", "type": "executive_order", "number": "902"}]}
{"id": "eo-905", "type": "executive_order", "number": "905", "tr_sequence": 871, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Plumas National Forest, Calif., Modified", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Adjusted the boundaries of the Plumas National Forest in California.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Plumas National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-02", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Plumas was still a separate national forest under its 1908 name in 1981.", "source": "Davis, ed., Encyclopedia of American Forest and Conservation History (1983), vol. II, pp. 743–788", "date": "1981", "story": 101}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-579", "relation": "modifies", "note": null, "story": 55, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-07-14", "title": "Establishment of the Diamond Mountain Forest Reserve, California", "type": "proclamation", "number": "579"}]}
{"id": "eo-906", "type": "executive_order", "number": "906", "tr_sequence": 872, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Lassen National Forest, Calif., Created", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Created the Lassen National Forest in California.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Lassen National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-02", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Lassen National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "origin", "state": "California", "since": "1908-07-02", "note": "Still a separate, discrete national forest.", "source": "research entry", "story": 101}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-579", "relation": "modifies", "note": null, "story": 55, "inferred": true, "date": "1905-07-14", "title": "Establishment of the Diamond Mountain Forest Reserve, California", "type": "proclamation", "number": "579"}]}
{"id": "eo-907", "type": "executive_order", "number": "907", "tr_sequence": 873, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "California National Forest, Calif., Created", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Established the California National Forest in California.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "California National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-02", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The California National Forest was renamed the Mendocino in 1932.", "source": "Davis, ed., Encyclopedia of American Forest and Conservation History (1983), vol. II, pp. 743–788", "date": "1932", "story": 101}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1932", "text": "The California National Forest was renamed the Mendocino.", "source": "Davis, ed., Encyclopedia of American Forest and Conservation History (1983)", "story": 101}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-908", "type": "executive_order", "number": "908", "tr_sequence": 874, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "55 Specified National Forests Consolidated and/or Renamed", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Consolidated or renamed 55 specified national forests.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-02", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "In a single order, consolidated or renamed national forests across the West and in Alaska; the government's numbered index counts 55 forests, while a Forest Service appendix cites the order in 79 forest entries, counting both sides of each merger.", "source": "Lord, numbered index; Davis, National Forests of the United States (FS-612 appendix)", "date": "1908-07-02", "story": 101}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "Created the Alamo (from the Guadalupe and Sacramento), the Coronado (from the Dragoon, Santa Catalina and Santa Rita) and the Sioux (from the Cave Hills, Short Pine, Slim Buttes, Ekalaka and Long Pine), and folded the Afognak into the Chugach and the Alexander Archipelago into the Tongass.", "source": "Davis, National Forests of the United States (FS-612 appendix)", "date": "1908-07-02", "story": 101}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "Made pure name changes: Big Horn to Bighorn, Fish Lake to Fishlake, Aquarius to Powell, Otter to Custer, Imnaha to Wallowa, and Pecos River to Pecos.", "source": "Davis, National Forests of the United States (FS-612 appendix)", "date": "1908-07-02", "story": 101}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Cleveland, Coronado, Humboldt, Bighorn, Fishlake, Custer, Chugach and Tongass were all still separate national forests under their 1908 names in 1981; the Tongass had been divided administratively into three units in 1974.", "source": "Davis, ed., Encyclopedia of American Forest and Conservation History (1983), vol. 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{"id": "eo-909", "type": "executive_order", "number": "909", "tr_sequence": 875, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Kaibab National Forest, Arizona", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_909", "revid": 12446699, "printed_source": "| notes  ="}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that on and after July 1, 1908, the land within the boundary shown on the attached diagram, heretofore set apart, reserved, and proclaimed as a part of the Grand Canyon National Forest, shall be known as the Kaibab National Forest. The remaining portion of the Grand Canyon National Forest, with the exception of the area indicated as eliminated on Part Two of the diagram of the Coconino National Forest, shall remain reserved and constitute a part of the Coconino National Forest. It is not intended by this order to modify the proclamations issued establishing the Grand Canyon National Game Preserve and the Grand Canyon National Monument, both of which include land embraced in the boundaries of such Kaibab National Forest. It is not intended by this order to release any land from reservation or to reserve any land not heretofore embraced in a National Forest."], "source": "Wikisource (from | notes  =)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, July 2, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Named part of the Grand Canyon National Forest in Arizona the Kaibab National Forest, leaving the Grand Canyon National Game Preserve and Grand Canyon National Monument proclamations unchanged; the rest joined the Coconino.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Kaibab National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}, {"name": "Grand Canyon National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}, {"name": "Coconino National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [101], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-02", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Split the Grand Canyon National Forest along the Colorado River: the land north of the river became the Kaibab National Forest and the rest became part of the Coconino, effective July 1, 1908, a day before the order was signed.", "source": "EO 909 (Wikisource); Davis, National Forests of the United States (FS-612 appendix)", "date": "1908-07-01", "story": 101}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The order states that it does not modify the Grand Canyon National Game Preserve or the Grand Canyon National Monument, both of which overlapped the new Kaibab forest.", "source": "EO 909 (Wikisource)", "date": "1908-07-02", "story": 101}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Kaibab (about 1.6 million acres) and the Coconino (more than 1.8 million acres) remain separate national forests, and the Kaibab wraps Grand Canyon National Park on both rims, from the North Kaibab Ranger District to the Tusayan district on the south.", "source": "research entry", "story": 101}], "today": [{"name": "Kaibab National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "origin", "state": "Arizona", "since": "1908-07-02", "note": "About 1.6 million acres; effective July 1, 1908.", "source": "research entry", "story": 101}, {"name": "Coconino National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Arizona", "note": "The Grand Canyon forest land south of the river joined the Coconino; more than 1.8 million acres today.", "source": "research entry", "story": 101}], "uncertain": ["Whether the misspelling \"hertofore\" in the available transcription is in the signed order has not been checked against the original at the National Archives (Record Group 11)."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-694", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The 1906 game preserve, which the order expressly leaves unchanged.", "story": 101, "date": "1906-11-28", "title": "Setting Aside Game Preserve in Grand Canyon Forest Reserve, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "694"}, {"id": "proc-794", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The 1908 Grand Canyon National Monument, which the order expressly leaves unchanged.", "story": 101, "date": "1908-01-11", "title": "Setting Aside Grand Canyon National Monument, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "794"}, {"id": "proc-818", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Companion proclamation setting apart the Coconino and Kaibab and returning part of the old Grand Canyon forest to the public domain.", "story": 101, "date": "1908-07-02", "title": "Setting Apart the Coconino and Kaibab National Forests, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "818"}]}
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{"id": "eo-911", "type": "executive_order", "number": "911", "tr_sequence": 877, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "George Uhler Designated to Act as Supervising Inspector of steam Vessels in 7th District, Cincinnati, Pending Regular Appointment", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Designated George Uhler to act as supervising inspector of steam vessels for the 7th District at Cincinnati until a regular appointment was made.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [{"name": "Cincinnati", "kind": "town", "state": "Ohio"}], "states": ["Ohio"], "people": ["George Uhler"], "significance": 1, "stories": [102], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-03", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-912", "type": "executive_order", "number": "912", "tr_sequence": 878, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Boundaries of Deschutes National Forest, Oreg. Redefined", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Redefined the boundaries of the Deschutes National Forest in Oregon.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Deschutes National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}], "states": ["Oregon"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [102], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-14", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "eo-816", "relation": "modifies", "note": null, "story": 114, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-06-13", "title": "Deschutes National Forest, Oregon, Created", "type": "executive_order", "number": "816"}, {"id": "uo-124", "relation": "modifies", "note": null, "story": 114, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-06-13", "title": "Deschutes National Forest, Oreg., established and boundaries defined.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "eo-913", "type": "executive_order", "number": "913", "tr_sequence": 879, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Boundaries of Fremont National Forest, Oreg., Redefined", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Redrew the boundaries of the Fremont National Forest in Oregon.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Fremont National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Oregon"}], "states": ["Oregon"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [102], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-14", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "eo-817", "relation": "modifies", "note": null, "story": 114, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-06-13", "title": "Fremont National Forest, Oregon, Modified", "type": "executive_order", "number": "817"}, {"id": "uo-125", "relation": "modifies", "note": null, "story": 114, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-06-13", "title": "Fremont National Forest, Oreg., reorganized and boundaries defined.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "eo-914", "type": "executive_order", "number": "914", "tr_sequence": 880, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Four People as Experts in Liquor Suppression Among Indians Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_914", "revid": 1908913, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 134"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["W. S. Lowe, Grosvenor A. Porter, T. E. Brentz, and E. E. Kinnett, of Oklahoma, may be appointed without reference to the civil-service rules as experts in the suppression of the liquor traffic among the Indians."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 134)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, July 16, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Permitted W. S. Lowe, Grosvenor A. Porter, T. E. Brentz, and E. E. Kinnett, of Oklahoma, to be appointed experts in suppressing the liquor traffic among Indians without regard to civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service", "indian-lands"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Oklahoma"], "people": ["W. S. Lowe", "Grosvenor A. Porter", "T. E. Brentz", "E. E. Kinnett"], "significance": 1, "stories": [102], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-16", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-915", "type": "executive_order", "number": "915", "tr_sequence": 881, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Herman Gluck in Internal Revenue Service Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_915", "revid": 1908911, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 134"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Herman Gluck, whose services as a deputy collector of internal revenue at New York were discontinued on March 1, 1907, may be reinstated without regard to the expiration of his year of eligibility."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 134)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, July 16, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Herman Gluck, a deputy collector of internal revenue at New York whose service ended March 1, 1907, to be reinstated even though his year of eligibility had expired.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["New York"], "people": ["Herman Gluck"], "significance": 1, "stories": [102], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-16", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-916", "type": "executive_order", "number": "916", "tr_sequence": 882, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of George Terwilliger in Government Printing Office Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_916", "revid": 1908915, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 134"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["George Terwilliger may be reinstated in the Government Printing Office without regard to the length of his separation from the service."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 134)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, July 16, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let George Terwilliger return to the Government Printing Office regardless of how long he had been out of the service.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["George Terwilliger"], "significance": 1, "stories": [102], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-16", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-917", "type": "executive_order", "number": "917", "tr_sequence": 883, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of William E. Shields in Government Printing Office Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_917", "revid": 2393598, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 135"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. William E. Shields may be reinstated in the Government Printing Office without regard to the length of his separation from the office."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 135)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, July 18, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Permitted William E. Shields to be reinstated in the Government Printing Office no matter how long he had been away.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["William E. Shields"], "significance": 1, "stories": [102], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-18", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-918", "type": "executive_order", "number": "918", "tr_sequence": 884, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "EO 503, Authorizing Extra Pay for Marine Corps Messmen, Amended", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Amended Executive Order 503, which authorized extra pay for messmen in the Marine Corps.", "categories": ["military-naval", "government-administration"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [102], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-21", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-919", "type": "executive_order", "number": "919", "tr_sequence": 885, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Further Reserving Lands in Gila National Forest, New Mexico, to Protect Water Supply of Fort Bayard", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_919", "revid": 1909759, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 126, War Dept., August 19, 1908."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that the west half of the southwest quarter of section 1; the east half of the southeast quarter of section 2; the north half of the northeast quarter, the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter, and the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section 3; the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter and lot 4 of section 10; all in township 17 south, range 13 west; and the west tier of section 6, consisting of lots 4, 5, 6 and 7 of said section, in township 17 south, range 12 west; all lying north of the military reservation of Fort Bayard, New Mexico, and within the limits of the Gila National Forest as established by Proclamation of the President of July 21, 1905, be further withdrawn from sale or other disposition, subject to private rights if any there be, for military purposes to protect the water supply of Fort Bayard: Provided, That this withdrawal for use by the War Department shall not revoke the withdrawal of the land as a part of the Gila National Forest made by the Proclamation of July 21, 1905, but both withdrawals shall stand together, the withdrawal for the War Department being the dominant one, and whenever the use of the land as a National Forest does not interfere with the protection of the water supply of Fort Bayard, such use shall not be interfered with, but the lands shall not be subject to appropriation under any of the public land laws."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 126, War Dept., August 19, 1908.)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, July 23, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Withdrew additional tracts inside the Gila National Forest, just north of Fort Bayard, for military use to protect the fort's water supply, while keeping the land part of the national forest.", "categories": ["military-naval", "forests", "public-lands"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Gila National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}, {"name": "Fort Bayard", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [102], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-23", "impact": {"uncertain": ["The later history of this Fort Bayard watershed withdrawal has not been traced."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-920", "type": "executive_order", "number": "920", "tr_sequence": 886, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-07-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Lands in Tanana, Alaska, Adjoining Fort Gibbon, for Use by Army Signal Corps", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_920", "revid": 1921295, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 126, War Dept., August 10, 1908"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that all that tract of public land at Tanana, adjoining the military reservation of Fort Gibbon, Alaska, included within metes and bounds as hereinafter set forth, be and hereby is reserved from sale or other disposition, subject to private rights, if any there be, and set apart as a military reservation for the use of the Signal Corps, United States Army, viz:", "Beginning at Corner No. 1, marked by an iron-pipe monument about 3 feet high and about 3 inches in diameter, being centered with a tack by means of a wooden plug, and placed at the intersection of the east line of the Fort Gibbon, Alaska, Military Reservation and the north line of S. A. Homestead Claim of the North American Transportation and Trading Company, said point of intersection being approximately 668 feet due north of the monument at the southeast corner of the said Fort Gibbon, Alaska, Military Reservation; thence S. 83° 30′ E. 800 feet, following the north boundary line of the said homestead, to Corner No. 2, marked by a monument of the same description as said monument at Corner No. 1; thence due north 1,000 feet to Corner No. 3, marked by a monument of the same description as said monument at Corner No. 1; thence N. 83° 30′ W. 800 feet to Corner No. 4, marked by a monument of the same description as said monument at Corner No. 1, and situated on the east line of the said Fort Gibbon, Alaska, Military Reservation; thence due south 1,000 feet, following the east boundary line of the said Fort Gibbon, Alaska, Military Reservation, to Corner No. 1, the place of beginning; containing an area of 18.25 acres, more or less. All courses are referred to the true meridian.", "The said premises include a part of the homestead entry of Arthur J. Campbell; which entry has been relinquished as to so much of the land as is covered by this Order, by deed of the said Arthur J. Campbell, dated March 23, 1908, and recorded March 30, 1908, in Volume 2 of Deeds, page 250, Rampart recording district, Alaska."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 126, War Dept., August 10, 1908)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "T. Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House July 25, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Set apart a tract of public land at Tanana, next to the Fort Gibbon military reservation, as a military reservation for the Army Signal Corps.", "categories": ["military-naval", "public-lands", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Tanana", "kind": "town", "state": "Alaska"}, {"name": "Fort Gibbon", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [102], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-07-25", "impact": {"uncertain": ["The later history of the Tanana Signal Corps reservation has not been traced."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-921", "type": "executive_order", "number": "921", "tr_sequence": 887, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-08-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Extending Time for Completion of Work of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission to March 2, 1909", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Gave the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission until March 2, 1909, to finish its work.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs", "government-administration"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [102], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-08-03", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-922", "type": "executive_order", "number": "922", "tr_sequence": 888, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-08-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Regulations Governing Employment of Unskilled Laborers Outside Washington, D.C. Regarding Period of Eligibility", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_922", "revid": 1908805, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 128"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Subdivision III, section 3, of the regulations to govern the employment of unskilled laborers in federal offices outside of Washington, D. C., is hereby amended by the addition of the following words: \"but eligible registers may be extended for a longer time by direction of the Civil Service Commission, when such action is deemed necessary in the interests of the service.\"", "The amended section will read as follows:", "Sec. 3. The period of eligibility shall be one year from the date of entry upon the register; but eligible registers may be extended for a longer time by the direction of the Civil Service Commission, when such action is deemed necessary in the interests of the service."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 128)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, August 3, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Changed the rules for hiring unskilled laborers in federal offices outside Washington, D.C., so the Civil Service Commission could keep eligible registers in force longer than one year when the service required it.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [102], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-08-03", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "eo-285", "relation": "amends", "note": null, "story": 84, "inferred": true, "date": "1904-12-12", "title": "Regulations to Govern the Employment of Unskilled Laborers in the Federal Offices Outside of Washington, D. C.", "type": "executive_order", "number": "285"}]}
{"id": "proc-819", "type": "proclamation", "number": "819", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-08-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Exchanging Lands with Porto Rico for Public Uses", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 819, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-819"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2197, "last_page": 2199, "cite": "35 Stat. 2197–2199", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2197.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-08-04", "table_title": "Exchanging lands with Porto Rico for public uses."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas, by “An Act to readjust the boundaries of the naval reservations in Porto Rico established in pursuance of the Act of July first, nineteen hundred and two,” approved March 4, 1907, the President is authorized by proclamation to cede, transfer, and convey to the government of Porto Rico, to be held and disposed of for the use and benefit of the people of said island, such portions as are not needed for naval purposes of the tract of eighty acres of public land lying along the Caguas road, city of San Juan, Porto Rico, reserved by paragraph marked one of the Executive proclamation of June twenty-six, nineteen hundred and three, for the use of the United States in pursuance of the provisions of the Act of July first, nineteen hundred and two, upon the condition that the government of Porto Rico shall, by proper authority, cede, convey, release, and transfer to the United States the following described tracts of land, together with all buildings and improvements thereon: (1) That tract or parcel of land containing about eleven (11) acres extending east from the new wireless station, between the north line of the survey heretofore made by the Navy Department and the south line of the military reservation, to the tract of four and fifty-nine one-hundredths (4.59) acres belonging to and reserved by the insular government for jail or penitentiary purposes; (2) That triangular tract or parcel of land containing seventenths (.7) of an acre, lying to the northward of the western portion of the present naval hospital reservation, extending to the army reservation line; (3) All public lands of Porto Rico south of the scarp wall on the Barrio de la Puntilla; and", "Whereas, the government of Porto Rico, by an act of the Legislative Assembly of said Island, entitled “An Act to authorize the . Governor of Porto Rico to convey to the United States certain tracts of land,” approved March 14, 1907, authorized the Governor of Porto Rico, in the name of the people of Porto Rico, to execute a deed or deeds ceding and releasing to the United States the above-described three tracts of land; and", "Whereas, Regis H. Post, Governor of Porto Rico, acting for the people of Porto Rico and under the authority conferred upon him by the above-mentioned act, and Commodore Karl Rohrer, U. S. Navy, acting on behalf of the United States, did on April 27, 1908, execute a certain deed, No. 48, before Herminio Diaz Navarrio, Attorney and Notary Public at San Juan, Porto Rico, whereby (among other things) the above-described three tracts of land are ceded, renounced, and transferred by the people of Porto Rico to the United States for naval purposes;", "Now, Therefore, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States, by virtue of the authority in me vested, and in pursuance of said Act of Congress, approved March 4, 1907, do hereby cede, transfer, and convey to the government of Porto Rico to be held and disposed of for the use and benefit of the people of said Island, all of the said tract of eighty acres of public land lying along the Caguas road, city of San Juan, Porto Rico, heretofore, by Executive proclamation of January twenty-six, nineteen hundred and three, reserved for the use of the United States for naval purposes, EXCEPT the following described tracts of land, embraced within the said eighty acres of public land:", "2199 (now a factory of The American Tobacco Company), fronting sixty (60) feet on the Caguas road and extending the full width south to the water front, as now existing or as may hereafter be established. All of said lands being more particularly described by metes and bounds and otherwise in the above-mentioned deed executed April 27, 1908, and in a certain report, dated December 10, 1906, concerning the public lands of Porto Rico reserved for naval purposes, submitted by Captain Sam, C. Lemly, U. S. Navy, retired, and Frank Feuille, then Attorney General of Porto Rico.", "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 eight, [SEAL.] and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2197", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Porto Rico.", "Exchange of lands with.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34, p. 1410.", "Vol. 33, p. 2314.", "Vol. 32, p. 731.", "Lands ceded to the United States.", "Lands ceded to Porto Rico.", "Vol. 34, p. 1410.", "Lands excepted."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Carried out a land swap with Porto Rico: unneeded parts of an 80-acre naval tract on the Caguas road in San Juan went to the island government, which in turn ceded three tracts to the United States.", "categories": ["insular-territories", "military-naval", "public-lands"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "San Juan", "kind": "town", "state": "Puerto Rico"}], "states": ["Puerto Rico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [107], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-08-04", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Puerta de Tierra strip the proclamation released is now dense city.", "source": "research entry", "story": 107}, {"text": "The wireless-station parcel the Navy kept was the site of Navy Radio San Juan, opened in December 1903 as the island's first wireless station; its operations later moved to Cayey, Isla Grande and Fort Allen, and the successor command was disestablished in 2004.", "source": "research entry", "story": 107}], "uncertain": ["What became of each of the six San Juan parcels the Navy kept has not been traced."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-502", "relation": "modifies", "note": "Conveyed to Puerto Rico most of the eighty-acre Caguas road tract reserved for the Navy in 1903.", "story": 107, "date": "1903-06-26", "title": "Reservation of Lands in Puerto Rico for Naval Purposes", "type": "proclamation", "number": "502"}, {"id": "proc-503", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The 1903 Marine Hospital Service reservation near San Antonio bridge, very likely the proposed Marine Hospital site the proclamation names.", "story": 107, "date": "1903-06-30", "title": "Reservation of Lands in Puerto Rico", "type": "proclamation", "number": "503"}]}
{"id": "eo-923", "type": "executive_order", "number": "923", "tr_sequence": 889, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-08-08", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Key West Reservation in Florida as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_923", "revid": 12439825, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that all keys and islands of the Florida Keys group, between latitude 24° 27′ and 24° 40′ north, and longitude 81° 49′ and 82° 10′ west from Greenwich, as the same are shown upon coast survey chart No. 170, and located within the area segregated by the broken line shown upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this order, are hereby reserved and set aside for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds. This reservation is subject to, and is not intended to interfere with, the use of \"Marquesas Keys\" for life-saving purposes, reserved by Executive Order of March 12, 1884, nor with the use of \"Man Key\" and \"Woman Key,\" reserved for naval purposes by Executive Order of June 8, 1908; nor is it intended in any manner to vacate such orders. This reservation to be known as Key West Reservation."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, August 8, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Created the Key West Reservation, setting aside the keys and islands of the Florida Keys west of Key West as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds, without disturbing existing life-saving and naval reservations there.", "categories": ["wildlife"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Key West Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Florida"}, {"name": "Florida Keys", "kind": "island", "state": "Florida"}], "states": ["Florida"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [102], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-08-08", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Key West survives as a national wildlife refuge of about 209,000 acres, nearly all of it open water, taking in the Marquesas Keys and 13 other islands across 375 square miles.", "source": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Annual Report of Lands (as of Sept. 30, 2025)", "date": "2025-09-30", "story": 102}], "today": [{"name": "Key West National Wildlife Refuge", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "origin", "state": "Florida", "since": "1908-08-08", "note": "208,937.33 total acres, of which 206,289 are held under agreement or lease, essentially open water.", "source": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Annual Report of Lands (as of Sept. 30, 2025)", "story": 102}, {"name": "Florida Keys Wilderness", "kind": "other", "relation": "part", "state": "Florida", "note": "Key West's share is 2,019 acres; the wilderness also spans the National Key Deer and Great White Heron refuges.", "source": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Annual Report of Lands, Table 8; Pub. L. 93-632", "story": 102}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1975-01-03", "text": "Congress designated 2,019 acres of the Key West refuge as part of the Florida Keys Wilderness.", "source": "Pub. L. 93-632", "story": 102}], "uncertain": ["Which refuge complex manages the Key West refuge today should be confirmed; it has been placed in the J. N. \"Ding\" Darling complex, but the Fish and Wildlife Service also describes it in its Florida Keys complex materials."]}, "related": [{"id": "uo-054", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The Florida reservations extended the Gulf Coast chain begun at Pelican Island in 1903.", "story": 102, "date": "1903-03-13", "title": "Pelican Island Reservation, Fla., established as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}, {"id": "eo-808", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 98, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-06-08", "title": "Portions of Man Key and Woman Key, Florida, Reserved for Navy Dept.", "type": "executive_order", "number": "808"}]}
{"id": "eo-924", "type": "executive_order", "number": "924", "tr_sequence": 890, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-08-08", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Klamath Lake Reservation in Oregon and California as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_924", "revid": 12441371, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that all islands situated in Lower Klamath Lake, and the marsh and swamp lands unsuitable for agricultural purposes in townships thirty-nine, forty, and forty-one south, ranges eight and nine, and township forty-one south, range ten, all east of the Willamette Meridian, Oregon, and in townships forty-seven and forty-eight north, ranges one, two and three east of Mount Diablo Meridian, California, and situated within the area segregated by a broken line, as shown upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this order, are hereby reserved and set aside for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a preserve and breeding-ground for native birds. The taking or the destruction of birds' eggs and nests, and the taking or killing of any species of native bird for any purpose whatever is prohibited, and warning is expressly given to all persons not to commit within the reserved territory any of the acts hereby enjoined. This order is made subject to and is not intended to interfere with the use of any part of the reserved area by the Reclamation Service acting under the provisions of the act approved June 17, 1902, or any subsequent legislation. This reserve to be known as Klamath Lake Reservation."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, August 8, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Established the Klamath Lake Reservation, reserving the islands of Lower Klamath Lake and nearby marsh lands unfit for farming as a breeding ground for native birds, and banned killing birds or taking their eggs and nests.", "categories": ["wildlife"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Klamath Lake Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation"}, {"name": "Lower Klamath Lake", "kind": "other"}], "states": ["Oregon", "California"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [102], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-08-08", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The order made the reservation subject to use by the Reclamation Service under the Reclamation Act of 1902, conceding the reclamation claim in the document that created the refuge.", "source": "EO 924 (Wikisource)", "date": "1908-08-08", "story": 102}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Klamath Water Users Association persuaded Woodrow Wilson to cut the Lower Klamath reservation in 1915.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1915", "story": 102}, {"text": "Biological Survey reports of 1916, 1918 and 1919 record homestead applications rejected inside the boundary and organized movements to drain the water from both the Klamath and Malheur reservations.", "source": "Bureau of Biological Survey, annual reports, 1916, 1918, 1919", "story": 102}, {"text": "Four later executive orders took the reservation from a reconstructed 81,619 acres down to 46,902 as reclamation drained much of Lower Klamath Lake.", "source": "Klamath Basin NWR Complex Final CCP/EIS (Dec. 2016), App. G; research entry", "story": 102}, {"text": "The Fish and Wildlife Service calls Lower Klamath the nation's first waterfowl refuge; that framing is the agency's, since the 1908 order uses the same \"native birds\" language as every order in the series.", "source": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; EO 924", "story": 102}], "today": [{"name": "Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "origin", "state": "Oregon and California", "since": "1908-08-08", "note": "50,092 acres today.", "source": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service", "story": 102}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1915-05-14", "text": "Executive Order 2200 reduced the reservation, after the Klamath Water Users Association pressed its case with Wilson.", "source": "EO 2200", "story": 102}, {"date": "1919-12-02", "text": "Executive Order 3187 reduced the reservation further.", "source": "EO 3187", "story": 102}, {"date": "1921-03-28", "text": "Executive Order 3422 reduced the reservation further.", "source": "EO 3422", "story": 102}, {"date": "1940-07-10", "text": "Executive Order 8475 revoked the 1908 order as to a single lot of 7.80 acres.", "source": "EO 8475, 5 FR 2541", "story": 102}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-929", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The Oregon Audubon Society pressed for both the Klamath and Malheur reservations.", "story": 102, "date": "1908-08-18", "title": "Establishing Lake Malheur Reservation in Oregon as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "type": "executive_order", "number": "929"}]}
{"id": "eo-925", "type": "executive_order", "number": "925", "tr_sequence": 891, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-08-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "George W. Woodruff, Assistant Attorney General, Designated to Act as Interior Secretary During Absences", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Designated Assistant Attorney General George W. Woodruff to act as Secretary of the Interior when the Secretary is absent.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["George W. Woodruff"], "significance": 2, "stories": [102], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-08-10", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-926", "type": "executive_order", "number": "926", "tr_sequence": 892, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-08-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Excusing Federal Employees From Work on Labor Day", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": ["Wikisource dates this order 1908-08-08; the Wikipedia list gives 1908-08-10."], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_926", "revid": 3869042, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that all per diem employees and other day laborers in the Federal public service, wherever employed, whose employment extends through and beyond the first Monday in September, commonly known as Labor Day and set apart as a legal public holiday for certain branches of the public service by the act of June 28, A. D., 1894, be excused from work on said day, and the said day is declared to be a holiday for all purposes for said per diem employees and laborers."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, August 8, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Gave per diem employees and day laborers across the federal service the first Monday in September, Labor Day, off as a full holiday.", "categories": ["government-administration", "labor-business"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [102], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-08-10", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-x-1908-08-12", "type": "proclamation", "number": null, "date": "1908-08-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reciprocity with the Netherlands", "title_source": "Statutes at Large, list of proclamations", "date_notes": [], "numbering_note": "Printed in the Statutes at Large as a proclamation signed by Roosevelt, but not among the American Presidency Project's numbered Proclamations 465–871. Unverified: needs checking against the State Department's proclamation register.", "citations": {"statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2199, "last_page": 2199, "cite": "35 Stat. 2199", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2199.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-08-12"}}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas the Government of the Netherlands has entered into a Commercial Agreement with the United States in conformity with the provisions of the third section of the Tariff Act of the United States approved July 24, 1897, by which Agreement in the judgment of the President reciprocal and equivalent concessions are secured in favor of the products of the United States;", "Therefore, be it known that I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority conferred by said Act of Congress, do hereby suspend during the continuance in force of said Agreement the imposition and collection of the duties imposed by the first Section of said Act upon the articles hereinafter specified, being the products of the industry of the Netherlands; and do declare in place thereof the rates of duty provided in the third Section of said Act to be in force and effect from and after the date of this, my Proclamation, as follows:", "Brandies, or other spirits manufactured or distilled from grain or other materials, one dollar and seventy-five cents per proof gallon. In testimony 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 twelfth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2199", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization; not proofread.", "marginal_notes": ["Reciprocity with the Netherlands.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 30, p. 203.", "Reduced duty on Netherland products.", "Articles affected.", "Vol. 30, p. 204.", "Diplomatic note.", "Vol. 26, p. 139.", "Maastricht pottery."]}, "summary": "Put a commercial agreement with the Netherlands into effect, cutting U.S. duties on Dutch brandies and other distilled spirits to the reduced reciprocity rate.", "categories": ["trade-reciprocity", "foreign-affairs"], "action": "regulate", "places": [{"name": "Netherlands", "kind": "country"}], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-08-12", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-927", "type": "executive_order", "number": "927", "tr_sequence": 893, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-08-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Extending Military Reservation on Batan and Cacraray Islands, Philippine Islands", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_927", "revid": 1909160, "printed_source": "| notes    = Amends Executive Order 428, March 10, 1906."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that the following areas of submerged lands, reefs and rocks be added to the military reservations on Batan Island, Luzon, and on the Island of Cacraray, Albay Province, Philippine Islands, as declared by Executive Order of March 10, 1906 (G. 0., No. 60, War Department, March 23, 1906), viz:", "To the military reservation on Batan Island:", "All submerged areas, reefs and rocks between the low-water boundary of said reservation, as described in said order, and a line in the sea parallel to and 1,000 yards out beyond the said low-water boundary—the easterly boundaries of the lands herein added to the reservation being a line drawn due north in Gaba Bay from the point where the present eastern boundary meets low-water line of said bay, and a line S. 18° 10′ E. into Caracaran Bay from the point where the said eastern boundary meets the low-water line of Caracaran Bay.", "To the military reservation on the Island of Cacraray:", "All submerged areas, reefs and rocks between the low-water boundary of the existing reservation and a line in the sea 1,000 yards out beyond the said low-water boundary-the side lines of the lands herein added to said reservation being drawn from the points where the north and south boundaries of the said reservation meet the low-water boundary at right angles to the general direction of the shore line at said points, respectively."], "source": "Wikisource (from | notes    = Amends Executive Order 428, March 10, 1906.)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, August 14, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Extended the military reservations on Batan Island and Cacraray Island in the Philippines to take in the submerged lands, reefs and rocks out to 1,000 yards beyond low water.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Batan Island", "kind": "island", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Cacraray", "kind": "island", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [102], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-08-14", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-928", "type": "executive_order", "number": "928", "tr_sequence": 894, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-08-14", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Penal Code of Canal Zone Regarding Punishment for Grand Larceny", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_928", "revid": 1909762, "printed_source": "2 Canal Record 11, September 9, 1908."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Under authority vested in me by law, it is ordered:", "Section 344 of the Penal Code of the Canal Zone is amended to read as follows:", "\"Section 344. Grand larceny is punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding ten years.\""], "source": "Wikisource (from 2 Canal Record 11, September 9, 1908.)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, Washington, D. C., August 14, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Amended the Canal Zone Penal Code so grand larceny carries up to ten years in the penitentiary.", "categories": ["canal-zone"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [102], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-08-14", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-929", "type": "executive_order", "number": "929", "tr_sequence": 895, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-08-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Lake Malheur Reservation in Oregon as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_929", "revid": 12439826, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that all smallest legal subdivisions which touch the shoreline of Lakes Malheur and Harney and the streams and waters connecting these lakes in township twenty-five south, ranges thirty-two, thirty-two and one-half and thirty-three; township twenty-six south, ranges twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-one, thirty-two and thirty-three; township twenty-seven south, ranges twenty-nine, twenty-nine and one-half, thirty and thirty-two, all east of the Willamette Meridian, Oregon, together with all islands and unsurveyed lands situated within the meander lines of said lakes and connecting waters, as segregated by the broken line shown upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this Order, are hereby reserved, subject to valid existing rights, and set aside for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a preserve and breeding-ground for native birds. The taking or destruction of birds' eggs and nests, and the taking or killing of any species of native bird for any purpose whatsoever, except under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture, is prohibited, and warning is expressly given to all persons not to commit within the reserved territory any of the acts hereby enjoined. This reserve to be known as Lake Malheur Reservation."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, August 18, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Created the Lake Malheur Reservation, protecting the shorelines, islands and connecting waters of Lakes Malheur and Harney as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds.", "categories": ["wildlife"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Lake Malheur Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Oregon"}, {"name": "Lake Malheur", "kind": "other", "state": "Oregon"}, {"name": "Lake Harney", "kind": "other", "state": "Oregon"}], "states": ["Oregon"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [102], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-08-18", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "local", "text": "By 1911 questions had arisen with residents of adjoining land over cutting hay, burning tules, grazing hogs, destroying coyotes and trapping; the Biological Survey reported meeting them so as to keep friendly relations.", "source": "Bureau of Biological Survey, annual report, 1911", "date": "1911", "story": 102}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Biological Survey's 1912 list numbered Lake Malheur 19th among the national bird reservations.", "source": "Palmer, Biological Survey Circular No. 87 (1912), pp. 9–10", "date": "1912", "story": 102}], "legacy": [{"text": "Oregon claimed title to Malheur Lake in 1916, a fight settled only by the Supreme Court in 1935, which described the reservation as 81,786 acres of unsurveyed land within a 105.36-mile meander line.", "source": "United States v. Oregon, 295 U.S. 1, 5 (1935)", "date": "1935", "story": 102}, {"text": "Biological Survey reports of 1916, 1918 and 1919 record organized movements to drain the water from both the Klamath and Malheur reservations.", "source": "Bureau of Biological Survey, annual reports, 1916, 1918, 1919", "story": 102}, {"text": "The refuge grew to more than twice its 1908 size with the Blitzen Valley addition of 1935 and the Double-O Unit of 1941.", "source": "research entry", "story": 102}, {"text": "In 2016 an armed group occupied the refuge headquarters in a standoff over federal control of Western land.", "source": "research entry", "date": "2016", "story": 102}], "today": [{"name": "Malheur National Wildlife Refuge", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "origin", "state": "Oregon", "since": "1908-08-18", "note": "187,171.20 acres as of September 30, 2025; one of the largest freshwater marsh and wetland refuges in the West.", "source": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Annual Report of Lands (as of Sept. 30, 2025), Table 3", "story": 102}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1935", "text": "The Supreme Court settled Oregon's claim to Malheur Lake in United States v. Oregon.", "source": "United States v. Oregon, 295 U.S. 1 (1935)", "story": 102}, {"date": "1935", "text": "The Blitzen Valley was added to the refuge.", "source": "research entry", "story": 102}, {"date": "1941", "text": "The Double-O Unit was added to the refuge.", "source": "research entry", "story": 102}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-924", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The Oregon Audubon Society pressed for both reservations.", "story": 102, "date": "1908-08-08", "title": "Establishing Klamath Lake Reservation in Oregon and California as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "type": "executive_order", "number": "924"}]}
{"id": "eo-930", "type": "executive_order", "number": "930", "tr_sequence": 896, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-08-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Advancing Money to Capt. Albert Mertz to Transfer Lighthouse Establishment Vessels to Pacific Coast", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Authorized an advance of funds to Capt. Albert Mertz to move Lighthouse Establishment vessels to the Pacific coast.", "categories": ["lighthouses"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Albert Mertz"], "significance": 2, "stories": [102], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-08-21", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-820", "type": "proclamation", "number": "820", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-08-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Rosebud Indian Reservation", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 820, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-820"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2199, "last_page": 2204, "cite": "35 Stat. 2199–2204", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2199.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-08-24", "table_title": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Whereas by the Act approved March 2, 1907 (34 Stat., 1230), the Congress directed that all that part of the Rosebud Indian Reservation lying south of the Big White river, and east of Range 25 west, of the Sixth Principal Meridian, except all Sections 16 and 36, which were granted to the state of South Dakota, and excepting also such parts thereof as have been or shall hereafter be either allotted to Indians, selected by said state, or reserved for townsite purposes, be disposed of under the general provisions of the homestead laws of the United States, and be opened to settlement, entry and occupation only in such manner as the President might prescribe by proclamation;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power and authority vested in me by said Act of Congress, do hereby prescribe, proclaim and make known that all of said lands which shall remain unallotted to Indians, unselected by said state and unreserved for townsites, on the first day of March, A. D. 1909, will be opened to settlement and entry, under the general provisions of the homestead laws, and of said Act of Congress, in the manner herein prescribed as follows, and not otherwise:", "Any person filing more than one affidavit, or in any other than his true name, shall be denied the privilege he might have otherwise secured, under this drawing, except, that any honorably discharged soldier or sailor entitled to the benefits of Section 2304 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the Act of March 1, 1901 (31 Stat., 847), may be represented by an agent of his own selection, for the purpose of executing and presenting his application for registration, due authority therefor being shown, but no person shall be permitted to act as agent for more than one such soldier or sailor, and the agents of all soldiers and sailors must execute the affidavits required of them at one of the towns named above, and present the same in the same manner in which persons who are not soldiers are required to present their applications.", "Envelopes showing, on the outside, distinctive marks of any character, indicating the name of the person whose application is inclosed therein, shall be eliminated from the drawing.", "2204 taken and drawn from the whole number of envelopes so presented, such number of them as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this Proclamation; and the applications for registration contained in the envelopes so drawn shall, when they are correct in form and execution, be numbered serially in the order in which they are drawn, and the number thus assigned shall fix and control the order in which applications to enter may be presented, after the lands shall become subject to entry. 5. Immediately after the drawing, a list of the successful applicants, showing the number assigned to each of them, will be conspicuously posted at the place of registration, and furnished to the press for publication as a matter of news, and a notice will be promptly mailed to each person whose name is drawn and numbered, informing him of the number assigned to him, and of the date on which he must apply to enter, and later he will, in due time, be furnished with a copy of the regulations controlling the method of entry, and be supplied with a map showing the lands subject to entry. The notice will be mailed to the postoffice address given by the applicant in his application for registration, except in cases where the applicant requests otherwise, and any applicant who changes his postoffice address before November 1, 1908, should, at once, inform the Superintendent of the Opening of the change. 6. Commencing at 9:00 a. m., on March 1, 1909, and continuing thereafter on such dates as may be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, persons holding numbers assigned to them under this Proclamation will be permitted to present their applications to enter (or their declaratory statements, in cases where the applicant is entitled to make entry as a former soldier), in the order in which their applications for registration were drawn and numbered. 7. If any person fails to apply to enter or to file a declaratory statement, if he is entitled to do so, as a former soldier, on the day assigned to him for that purpose, or, if he presents more than one application for registration, or presents an application in any other than his true name, he will forfeit his right to enter any of said lands prior to September 1, 1909. 8. None of these lands shall become subject to settlement or entry prior to September 1, 1909, except in the manner prescribed herein, and all persons are admonished not to make any settlement prior to that date, on any lands not covered by entries made by them under this Proclamation. 9. The Secretary of the Interior shall make and publish such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper to carry into full force and effect the manner of settlement, occupation and entry, as herein provided for, and he shall, prior to the first day of March, reserve from said land such tracts for townsite purposes as, in his opinion, may be required for the future public interests. 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 24th day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2199", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Rosebud Indian Reservation, S. Dak.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34, p. 1230.", "Opening lands for settlement Mar. 1, 1909.", "Date of Opening.", "Registration.", "Applications.", "Forfeiture.", "Soldiers and sailors’ rights not affected.", "R. S., sec. 2304, p. 422.", "Vol. 31, p. 847.", "Drawings.", "Notice to successful applicants.", "Presentation of applications to enter.", "Forfeiture.", "Occupancy.", "Regulations."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Opened unallotted Rosebud Indian Reservation lands south of the Big White River to homestead settlement on March 1, 1909, setting out rules for registration and the drawing.", "categories": ["indian-lands", "public-lands"], "action": "open", "places": [{"name": "Rosebud Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "South Dakota"}], "states": ["South Dakota"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [107], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-08-24", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "Wire services covered the October 19 drawing as a land-rush spectacle.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1908-10-19", "story": 107}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "local", "text": "114,769 people registered for roughly 5,300 quarter-section claims, with 80,635 envelopes received at Dallas and 34,134 at Gregory.", "source": "Santa Fe New Mexican, October 19, 1908; Sisseton Weekly Standard, October 23, 1908", "date": "1908-10", "story": 107}, {"kind": "local", "text": "O'Neill, Nebraska, where 45,808 affidavits were sworn, was the busiest of the six registration towns, followed by Chamberlain with 20,248.", "source": "Sisseton Weekly Standard, October 23, 1908", "date": "1908-10", "story": 107}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Interior Department announced 838,000 acres and 5,300 farms, figures that do not match; within weeks the General Land Office commissioner said the number of quarter sections could not be given.", "source": "Kingsbury County Independent, September 4, 1908; Lewiston Evening Teller, September 15, 1908", "date": "1908-09", "story": 107}, {"kind": "political", "text": "There was no organized opposition beyond the affected Sicangu (Brulé) Lakota, whose objections carried little weight in the policy of the day.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1908", "story": 107}], "legacy": [{"text": "The 1904, 1907 and 1910 openings left the reservation a checkerboard of tribal, allotted and fee land; the Supreme Court held in 1977 that the acts diminished the reservation's boundaries, over a dissent by three justices.", "source": "Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip, 430 U.S. 584 (1977)", "date": "1977", "story": 107}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1977", "text": "The Supreme Court held that the 1907 act detached Tripp and Lyman counties from the Rosebud Sioux Reservation.", "source": "Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip, 430 U.S. 584 (1977)", "story": 107}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-526", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The 1904 opening of the Gregory County tract of the Rosebud Reservation.", "story": 107, "date": "1904-05-13", "title": "Opening of Sioux Lands of the Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota", "type": "proclamation", "number": "526"}]}
{"id": "eo-931", "type": "executive_order", "number": "931", "tr_sequence": 897, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-08-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Harry H. Weddle as Inspector in Charge in Immigration Service Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_931", "revid": 1908919, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 135"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Harry H. Weddle, of California, may be appointed as inspector in charge at San Diego, Cal., in the Immigration Service without examination under the civil-service act and rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 135)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, August 27, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Harry H. Weddle of California to be appointed inspector in charge at San Diego in the Immigration Service without a civil-service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["California"], "people": ["Harry H. Weddle"], "significance": 1, "stories": [102], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-08-27", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-932", "type": "executive_order", "number": "932", "tr_sequence": 898, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-08-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Chase Lake Reservation in North Dakota as Reserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_932", "revid": 12440749, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that all of the unappropriated public lands lying within the meander lines of Chase Lake in township one hundred and forty-one north, range sixty-nine west of the Fifth Principal Meridian, North Dakota, as shown upon the township plat of survey approved November 3, 1875, and as segregated by the broken lines upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this Order, are hereby reserved and set aside for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a reserve and breeding ground for native birds. The taking or destruction of birds' eggs and nests, and the taking or killing of any species of native bird for any purpose whatsoever is prohibited, and warning is expressly given to all persons not to commit within the reserved territory any of the acts hereby enjoined. This reserve to be known as Chase Lake Reservation."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, August 28, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Established the Chase Lake Reservation, reserving public lands within Chase Lake's meander lines as a breeding ground for native birds, where taking birds, eggs or nests is prohibited.", "categories": ["wildlife"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Chase Lake Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "North Dakota"}], "states": ["North Dakota"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [102], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-08-28", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Biological Survey's 1912 list numbered Chase Lake 20th among the national bird reservations.", "source": "Palmer, Biological Survey Circular No. 87 (1912), pp. 9–10", "date": "1912", "story": 102}], "legacy": [{"text": "Chase Lake remains a refuge that has at times hosted nearly a third of the continental white-pelican population, in the Fish and Wildlife Service's words.", "source": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service", "story": 102}], "today": [{"name": "Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "origin", "state": "North Dakota", "since": "1908-08-28", "note": "4,385 acres; managed in the Eastern North Dakota refuge complex.", "source": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service", "story": 102}, {"name": "Chase Lake Wilderness", "kind": "other", "relation": "part", "state": "North Dakota", "note": "4,155 acres, designated in 1975.", "source": "Wilderness.net", "story": 102}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1975", "text": "A 4,155-acre wilderness was designated within the refuge.", "source": "Wilderness.net", "story": 102}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-933", "type": "executive_order", "number": "933", "tr_sequence": 899, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-09-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Exceptions from Examination for Civilian Teachers in Military Academies", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_933", "revid": 1939927, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 124"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The civil-service rules, Schedule A, Section III, War Department, is hereby amended by adding a new paragraph, to be numbered 11, and to read as follows:", "Civilian professors, instructors, and teachers in the U. S. Military Academy at West Point and in the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 124)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, September 3, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Exempted civilian professors, instructors and teachers at the Military Academy at West Point and the Naval Academy at Annapolis from civil-service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service", "military-naval"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [102], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-09-03", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-934", "type": "executive_order", "number": "934", "tr_sequence": 900, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-09-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Some South Dakota Lands Within Belle Fourche Irrigation Project Further Reserved for Agricultural Experiments", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reserved additional South Dakota lands within the Belle Fourche Irrigation Project for agricultural experiments.", "categories": ["water-reclamation"], "action": "establish", "places": [], "states": ["South Dakota"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [102], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-09-07", "impact": {"uncertain": ["The later history of the Belle Fourche experiment-farm reservation has not been traced. It is not the Belle Fourche bird reservation, which came later by Executive Order 1032."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-935", "type": "executive_order", "number": "935", "tr_sequence": 901, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-09-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Four People in Bureau of the Census Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_935", "revid": 1908921, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 135"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Frank Dingman, C. W. G. Brett, Raymond Bartlett, and Charles F. Young may be appointed under the appropriation \"Tabulating statistics, Census Office,\" in the Bureau of the Census, without reference to the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 135)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, September 9, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Frank Dingman, C. W. G. Brett, Raymond Bartlett and Charles F. Young to be hired for tabulating statistics in the Bureau of the Census without civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Frank Dingman", "C. W. G. Brett", "Raymond Bartlett", "Charles F. Young"], "significance": 1, "stories": [102], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-09-09", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-936", "type": "executive_order", "number": "936", "tr_sequence": 902, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-09-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Certain Land in California Reserved for Lighthouse Purposes", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reserved a parcel of land in California for lighthouse purposes.", "categories": ["lighthouses", "public-lands"], "action": "establish", "places": [], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [102], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-09-10", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-937", "type": "executive_order", "number": "937", "tr_sequence": 903, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-09-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Creating Interdepartmental Statistical Committee to Promote Uniformity of Statistical Methods and Results", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_937", "revid": 1909789, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The following-named gentlemen, representing the several Executive Departments and one independent government establishment, are hereby designated as members of an Interdepartmental Statistical Committee hereby created, under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, for the purpose of promoting uniformity of statistical methods and results, preventing duplications, rendering possible closer cooperation, and keeping the statistical work of the government abreast of the most modern methods:", "Mr. John Ball Osborne, Chief of the Bureau of Trades Relations, Department of State; Hon. Lawrence O. Murray, Comptroller of the Currency, Department of the Treasury; Major John T. Thompson, Assistant, Ordnance Department, Department of War; Mr. H. C. Gauss, Private Secretary to the Attorney General, Department of Justice; Mr. E. T. Bushnell, Chief Clerk to the First Assistant Postmaster General, Post Office Department; Mr. F. S. Curtis, Chief Clerk, Department of the Navy; Mr. Clarence J. Blanchard, Statistician, Reclamation Service, Department of the Interior; Mr. Victor H. Olmsted, Statistician and Chief, Bureau of Statistics, Department of Agriculture; Mr. Oscar P. Austin, Chief of Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and Labor; and Prof. Henry C. Adams, In Charge of Statistics and Accounts, Interstate Commerce Commission.", "Hon. Lawrence O. Murray, Comptroller of the Currency, Treasury Department, is hereby designated to act as Chairman of this Committee.", "The specific duties of the Committee thus created shall be as follows:", "(a) To make recommendations with a view to eliminating unnecessary duplication of work and conflicting results. (b) To make recommendations with a view of utilizing the statistical material in one branch of Government work, with reference to the needs or aims of other branches. (c) To make recommendations with a view of establishing uniform definitions of statistical terms. (d) To make recommendations with a view of introducing uniform methods. (e) To make recommendations in regard to schedules and accompanying instructions relative to any new line of statistical inquiry; to study the needs of the various bureaus and Departments from time to time and above all to test the results achieved, and to investigate whether they are in harmony with each other and modern statistical methods and practice. (f) To make recommendations regarding the preparation and the place of publication of the Statistical Abstract of the United States."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, September 10, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Created an Interdepartmental Statistical Committee, with a member from each executive department and the Interstate Commerce Commission, to make government statistics uniform and cut duplicate work. Lawrence O. Murray was named chairman.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "establish", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["John Ball Osborne", "Lawrence O. Murray", "John T. Thompson", "H. C. Gauss", "E. T. Bushnell", "F. S. Curtis", "Clarence J. Blanchard", "Victor H. Olmsted", "Oscar P. Austin", "Henry C. Adams"], "significance": 3, "stories": [102], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-09-10", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-821", "type": "proclamation", "number": "821", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-09-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Aside the Tumacacori National Monument, Arizona", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 821, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-821"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2205, "last_page": 2205, "cite": "35 Stat. 2205", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2205.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-09-15", "table_title": "Setting aside the Tumacacori National Monument, Arizona."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America,", "A PROCLAMATION.", "WHEREAS, the Tumacacori Mission, an ancient Spanish ruin, which is one of the oldest mission ruins in the southwest, erected probably in the latter part of the sixteenth century, being largely of burned brick and cement mortar instead of adobe, and in remarkable repair, considering its great age, and of great historical interest, and it appears that the public interests would be promoted by reserving this ruin with as much land as may be necessary for the protection thereof, and WHEREAS:", "Under the terms of the Act entitled \"An Act for the Preservation of American Antiquities\", approved June 8, 1906, one Carmen Mendez, whose homestead entry is No. 3035, has relinquished to the United States ten acres of ground thereof upon which said mission ruin is located, and the Secretary of the Interior has accepted such relinquishment for the purposes specified in said Act:", "Now, therefore, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section two of the Act above referred to, do hereby set aside as the Tumacacori National Monument, the Tumacacori Mission ruins and ten acres of land upon which the same are located, situated in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, more particularly described as follows, to wit:", "The east half of northwest quarter of southwest quarter of southeast quarter and the west half of northeast quarter of southwest quarter of southeast quarter of section thirty, township twenty-one south, range thirteen east of Gila and Salt River Meridian, Arizona.", "Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, excavate, injure or destroy any of the ruins or relics hereby declared to be a National Monument or to locate or settle upon any of the lands reserved and made a part of said monument by this Proclamation.", "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 15 day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third.", "Theodore Roosevelt", "By the President:", "Alvey A. Adee", "Acting Secretary of State."], "source": "35 Stat. 2205 (GovInfo page images), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "[SEAL.] restored inside the dating clause, where the Statutes print it. Unordinal \"this 15 day of September\" is as printed. Tract described by survey subdivision; nothing abridged. GLO plat bound facing the page gives \"Containing 10 acres.\"", "story": 72}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set aside the Tumacacori Mission ruins, a Spanish mission in Santa Cruz County, and the ten acres beneath them as the Tumacacori National Monument.", "categories": ["monuments"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Tumacacori National Monument", "kind": "monument", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 5, "stories": [72], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-09-15", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "Tucson told the story as good news for business, under the headline \"Historic Tumacácori Mission Will Attract Many Tourists.\"", "source": "Tucson Daily Citizen, October 26, 1908, cited by Baker and Zenzen", "date": "1908-10-26", "story": 72}, {"text": "The monument met no significant opposition.", "source": "Baker and Zenzen, Tumacácori Administrative History (NPS 2014)", "story": 72}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "local", "text": "Homesteader Carmen Mendez gave up the ten acres around the ruin freely and received a patent for his remaining 150 acres.", "source": "GLO Serial Patent 33662", "date": "1908-12-14", "story": 72}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The monument was handed to the Forest Service to administer under a cooperative agreement between Interior and Agriculture.", "source": "Baker and Zenzen, Tumacácori Administrative History (NPS 2014)", "date": "1908", "story": 72}, {"kind": "local", "text": "The monument sat on ground claimed under Baca Float No. 3, a disputed Mexican-era grant the government had declared no bar only months before.", "source": "Baker and Zenzen, Tumacácori Administrative History (NPS 2014)", "date": "1908", "story": 72}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Supreme Court held that title to Baca Float No. 3 had passed to the Baca heirs in 1864, voiding Mendez's homestead and leaving the mission privately owned by the Bouldin family.", "source": "Lane v. Watts, 234 U.S. 525", "date": "1914-06-22", "story": 72}, {"text": "The Bouldins deeded the ten acres back to the United States in 1917, and the site passed to the National Park Service in 1918, where Frank Pinkley began repairing the church.", "source": "Baker and Zenzen, Tumacácori Administrative History (NPS 2014)", "date": "1918", "story": 72}, {"text": "In 1990 the monument became Tumacácori National Historical Park, adding the Guevavi and Calabazas mission sites; 310 more acres followed in 2002.", "source": "Pub. L. 101-344, 104 Stat. 393", "date": "1990-08-06", "story": 72}], "today": [{"name": "Tumacácori National Historical Park", "kind": "national_park", "relation": "origin", "state": "Arizona", "since": "1908-09-15", "note": "The monument was abolished and the historical park created in its place in 1990.", "source": "Pub. L. 101-344, 104 Stat. 393", "story": 72}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1914-06-22", "text": "Lane v. Watts upheld the Baca heirs' title to the Float and barred Interior from proceeding with entries on it.", "source": "234 U.S. 525", "story": 72}, {"date": "1917-12-08", "text": "The Bouldin family deeded the ten acres back to the United States.", "source": "Baker and Zenzen, Tumacácori Administrative History (NPS 2014)", "story": 72}, {"date": "1918", "text": "The Forest Service handed the monument to the National Park Service.", "source": "Baker and Zenzen, Tumacácori Administrative History (NPS 2014)", "story": 72}, {"date": "1990-08-06", "text": "Congress abolished the monument and created Tumacácori National Historical Park, adding Guevavi (about 8 acres) and Calabazas (about 22 acres).", "source": "Pub. L. 101-344, 104 Stat. 393", "story": 72}, {"date": "2002", "text": "About 310 acres, including the mission orchard and land along the Santa Cruz River, were added to the park.", "source": "research entry", "story": 72}], "uncertain": ["How Arizona papers other than the Tucson Daily Citizen received the monument has not been checked."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-938", "type": "executive_order", "number": "938", "tr_sequence": 904, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-09-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Drs. Hopkins and Cunningham as Physicians on Isthmus of Panama Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_938", "revid": 1908924, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 136"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Doctors Hopkins and Cunningham may be appointed as physicians to teach microscopic work in connection with tropical diseases at the Ancon Hospital, on the Isthmus of Panama, without reference to the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 136)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, September 15, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Drs. Hopkins and Cunningham to be appointed, without civil-service rules, as physicians teaching microscopic work on tropical diseases at Ancon Hospital on the Isthmus of Panama.", "categories": ["civil-service", "canal-zone"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": ["Hopkins", "Cunningham"], "significance": 1, "stories": [102], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-09-15", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-939", "type": "executive_order", "number": "939", "tr_sequence": 905, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-09-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Pine Island Reservation in Florida as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_939", "revid": 12438085, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that two small, unsurveyed islets, commonly known as \"Bird Island\" and \"Middle Island,\" located approximately in latitude twenty-six degrees forty minutes north, longitude eighty-two degrees fourteen minutes west from Greenwich, and a small bird island, approximately in latitude twenty-six degrees thirty-seven minutes north, longitude eighty-two degrees ten minutes west from Greenwich, all in and near the northern end of Pine Island Sound on the west coast of Florida as shown upon the United States Coast Survey Chart No. 175, and located within the areas segregated by the broken lines and shown upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this order, are hereby reserved and set apart for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds. The taking or destruction of birds' eggs or nests, and the taking or killing of any species of native bird for any purpose whatsoever, except under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture, is prohibited, and warning is expressly given to all persons not to commit within the reserved territory any of the acts hereby enjoined. This reserve to be known as Pine Island Reservation."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, September 15, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Created the Pine Island Reservation, protecting Bird Island, Middle Island and another small islet near the north end of Pine Island Sound as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds.", "categories": ["wildlife"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Pine Island Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Florida"}, {"name": "Bird Island", "kind": "island", "state": "Florida"}, {"name": "Middle Island", "kind": "island", "state": "Florida"}], "states": ["Florida"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [102], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-09-15", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Pine Island National Wildlife Refuge", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "origin", "state": "Florida", "since": "1908-09-15", "note": "608.48 acres; part of the J. N. \"Ding\" Darling refuge complex.", "source": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Annual Report of Lands (as of Sept. 30, 2025)", "story": 102}]}, "related": [{"id": "uo-054", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The Florida reservations extended the Gulf Coast chain begun at Pelican Island in 1903.", "story": 102, "date": "1903-03-13", "title": "Pelican Island Reservation, Fla., established as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "eo-940", "type": "executive_order", "number": "940", "tr_sequence": 906, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-09-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Albert W. Pontius as Clerk in Department of State Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_940", "revid": 1908926, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 136"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Albert W. Pontius, of Minnesota, may be appointed a clerk, class three, in the Department of State without examination under the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 136)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, September 25, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Permitted Albert W. Pontius of Minnesota to be appointed a class-three clerk in the Department of State without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["Minnesota"], "people": ["Albert W. Pontius"], "significance": 1, "stories": [102], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-09-25", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-941", "type": "executive_order", "number": "941", "tr_sequence": 907, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-09-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Transfer of Charles H. Cameron to Chinese Inspector in Immigration Service Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_941", "revid": 1908930, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 136"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Charles H. Cameron, a mounted deputy collector and inspector in the customs service, may be transferred to the position of Chinese inspector in the Immigration Service, Department of Commerce and Labor, without examination under the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 136)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, September 26, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed customs officer Charles H. Cameron to transfer to Chinese inspector in the Immigration Service without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Charles H. Cameron"], "significance": 1, "stories": [102], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-09-26", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-942", "type": "executive_order", "number": "942", "tr_sequence": 908, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-09-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Palma Sola Reservation in Florida as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_942", "revid": 12442310, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that a small, unsurveyed island in Palma Sola bay, Florida, approximately in latitude twenty-seven degrees, twenty-nine minutes north, longitude eighty-two degrees forty minutes west from Greenwich, as the same appears upon Coast Survey Chart number one hundred and seventy-five and located within the area segregated by the broken line as shown upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this order, is hereby reserved and set apart for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds. The taking or the destruction of birds' eggs and nests, and the taking or killing of any species of native bird for any purpose whatever, except under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture, is prohibited, and warning is expressly given to all persons not to commit any of the acts hereby enjoined. This reservation to be known as Palma Sola Reservation."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, September 26, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved a small island in Palma Sola Bay as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds, prohibiting the taking of birds, eggs or nests except under Agriculture Department rules.", "categories": ["wildlife"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Palma Sola Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Florida"}], "states": ["Florida"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [102], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-09-26", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The reservation was renamed the Palma Sola National Wildlife Refuge in 1940 and revoked in 1948; the revoking order describes a small unsurveyed island of about two acres.", "source": "Proclamation 2416; Public Land Order 446, 13 FR 657", "story": 102}], "today": [{"name": "Palma Sola National Wildlife Refuge", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "abolished", "state": "Florida", "note": "Revoked in 1948; the land reverted to the public-land laws on April 9, 1948.", "source": "Public Land Order 446, 13 FR 657", "story": 102}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1940-07-25", "text": "Renamed the Palma Sola National Wildlife Refuge by Proclamation 2416.", "source": "Proclamation 2416", "story": 102}, {"date": "1948-02-06", "text": "Public Land Order 446 revoked Executive Order 942; the island reverted to the public-land laws on April 9, 1948.", "source": "Public Land Order 446, 13 FR 657", "story": 102}], "uncertain": ["Why the reservation was revoked in 1948 is not known; the revoking order gives no reason, and an unsourced story that the island eroded away may confuse it with Passage Key.", "The size of the reservation in 1908 is not known; the two-acre figure is from the 1948 revocation."]}, "related": [{"id": "uo-054", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The Florida reservations extended the Gulf Coast chain begun at Pelican Island in 1903.", "story": 102, "date": "1903-03-13", "title": "Pelican Island Reservation, Fla., established as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "eo-943", "type": "executive_order", "number": "943", "tr_sequence": 909, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-09-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Matlacha Pass Reservation in Florida as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_943", "revid": 12442311, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that three small islands located in Matlacha Pass, Florida, approximately in latitude twenty-six degrees, thirty-four minutes north, longitude eighty-two degrees, four minutes, and latitude twenty-six degrees, thirty-two minutes north, longitude eighty-two degrees, three minutes, as the same appear upon Coast Survey Chart number one hundred seventy-five, and one island approximately in latitude twenty-six degrees, thirty-one minutes north, longitude eighty-two degrees, two minutes, not shown upon said chart, all west from Greenwich and located within the areas segregated by the broken lines shown upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this order, are hereby reserved and set aside for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds. The taking or destruction of birds' eggs and nests and the taking or killing of any species of native bird for any purpose whatever, except under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture, is prohibited, and warning is expressly given to all persons not to commit any of the acts hereby enjoined. This reserve to be known as Matlacha Pass Reservation."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, September 26, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Created the Matlacha Pass Reservation, setting aside four small islands in Matlacha Pass as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds.", "categories": ["wildlife"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Matlacha Pass Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Florida"}], "states": ["Florida"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [102], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-09-26", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Matlacha Pass National Wildlife Refuge", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "origin", "state": "Florida", "since": "1908-09-26", "note": "Has \"grown to 31 islands encompassing over 500 acres\" (564.73 acres as of Sept. 30, 2025); part of the J. N. \"Ding\" Darling refuge complex.", "source": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Annual Report of Lands (as of Sept. 30, 2025)", "story": 102}]}, "related": [{"id": "uo-054", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The Florida reservations extended the Gulf Coast chain begun at Pelican Island in 1903.", "story": 102, "date": "1903-03-13", "title": "Pelican Island Reservation, Fla., established as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "eo-944", "type": "executive_order", "number": "944", "tr_sequence": 910, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-09-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Continued Employment of Three Clerks in Isthmian Canal Service Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_944", "revid": 1908933, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 137"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["George Shaffer, Olof Ekedahl, and Willoughby Culbertson may be continued on clerical duties in the Isthmian Canal Service without examination under the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 137)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, September 30, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let George Shaffer, Olof Ekedahl and Willoughby Culbertson stay on clerical duties in the Isthmian Canal Service without civil-service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service", "canal-zone"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": ["George Shaffer", "Olof Ekedahl", "Willoughby Culbertson"], "significance": 1, "stories": [102], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-09-30", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-945", "type": "executive_order", "number": "945", "tr_sequence": 911, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-09-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Lands in Circle, Alaska, for Use by Army Signal Corps as Wireless Telegraph Station", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_945", "revid": 1921305, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 158, War Dept., October 8, 1908"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The following described tract of public land at Circle, Alaska, is hereby reserved from sale or other disposition, subject to private rights, if any there be, and set apart for a wireless telegraph station for the use of the Signal Corps, US Army, in the matter of the operation of telegraph lines in Alaska, viz:", "That tract of public land included within metes and bounds (except the tracts \"A\" and \"B\" as hereinafter described), as follows:", "Beginning at a stake 42 feet north of the northern corner of the northeast concrete pier of tower; thence east 130 feet to a stake, Corner 1; thence south 126 feet to a stake, Corner 2; thence west 250 feet to a stake, Corner 3; thence north 126 feet to a stake, Corner 4; thence east 120 feet to the place of beginning; containing, less the exceptions stated, .71 acre. The courses are magnetic.", "Excepted tracts:", "\"A\"—A rectangular tract 14 feet north and south by 23 feet east and west; the northwest corner of which is situate 29 feet west and 24 feet south of the point of beginning.", "\"B\"—A rectangular tract 18 feet north and south by 15 feet east and west; the northwest corner of which is situate 55 feet west and 45 feet north of the southeast corner of the reservation."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 158, War Dept., October 8, 1908)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House September 30, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved a 0.71-acre tract at Circle for an Army Signal Corps wireless telegraph station serving Alaska's telegraph lines.", "categories": ["military-naval", "public-lands", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Circle", "kind": "town", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [102], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-09-30", "impact": {"uncertain": ["The later history of the Circle wireless-station reservation has not been traced."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-948", "type": "executive_order", "number": "948", "tr_sequence": 914, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-10-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Melvin W. Sheppard as Night Inspector in Customs Service Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_948", "revid": 1908935, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 137"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Melvin W. Sheppard may be appointed a night inspector in the customs service at the port of Philadelphia without a compliance with the provisions of the civil service rules and regulations."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 137)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, October 2, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Melvin W. Sheppard to be appointed a night inspector in the customs service at the port of Philadelphia without meeting civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["Pennsylvania"], "people": ["Melvin W. Sheppard"], "significance": 1, "stories": [102, 103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-10-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-946", "type": "executive_order", "number": "946", "tr_sequence": 912, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-10-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Exceptions from Examination for Certain Isthmian Canal Commission Employees", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_946", "revid": 1908239, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 124"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Schedule A, Subdivision VIII, relating to the Isthmian Canal Commission, is hereby amended as follows: The present paragraph will be numbered 1, but will remain otherwise unchanged. A new paragraph, to be numbered 2, to read as follows, is hereby added:", "One inspecting engineer and inspectors in the purchasing department."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 124)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, October 3, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Exempted one inspecting engineer and the inspectors in the Isthmian Canal Commission's purchasing department from civil-service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service", "canal-zone"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [102, 103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-10-03", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-947", "type": "executive_order", "number": "947", "tr_sequence": 913, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-10-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Classifying Eight Employees of the Isthmian Canal Commission", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_947", "revid": 1908774, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 127"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The eight persons named in the letter of the Secretary of War, dated September 23, 1908, who have been employed jointly by the Isthmian Canal Commission and the Panama Railroad Company, may be retained and become a part of the classified force of the Isthmian Canal Commission upon the separation of the work of the two offices."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 127)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, October 3, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Brought eight people employed jointly by the Isthmian Canal Commission and the Panama Railroad Company into the Commission's classified force when the two offices' work was separated.", "categories": ["civil-service", "canal-zone"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 1, "stories": [102, 103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-10-03", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-949", "type": "executive_order", "number": "949", "tr_sequence": 915, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-10-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Retransfers to Positions Previously Held", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_949", "revid": 2387790, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 123"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Section 3 of Civil Service Rule X is hereby amended by adding after the word \"executive\" the words \"or judicial,\" and by striking out after the word \"clauses\" the expression \"(a),\" so that the section as amended will read as follows:", "Any person may be retransferred to a position in which he was formerly employed, or to any position to which transfer could be made therefrom, if since his transfer he has been continuously in the executive or judicial civil service of the United States or of its insular possessions. Such transfer may be made without compliance with clauses (b), (c), (d), and (e) of section 8 of this rule."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 123)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, October 7, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Broadened the civil-service retransfer rule so employees who had served continuously in the judicial as well as executive service could return to a former position.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-10-07", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-950", "type": "executive_order", "number": "950", "tr_sequence": 916, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-10-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Classification of Certain Employees Hired Prior to Attorney General Ruling", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_950", "revid": 1908796, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 128"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Prior to February 12, 1908, various places in the executive civil service were filled without compliance with the requirements of the civil-service act and rules, because the appointing officers were of the opinion that the terms of an appropriation act or some circumstance implied exception from such requirements. On February 12, 1908, the Attorney-General rendered an opinion holding, in effect, that all places in the executive civil service, except those mentioned in Schedule A of the rules, and except persons employed merely as laborers, and persons whose appointments are subject to confirmation by the Senate, must be filled as a result of open competitive examinations held under the provisions of the law, and that Congress, in the exemption of any position or class of positions from the operation of the civil-service act, must use language indicating clearly and affirmatively its intention that the civil-service rules should not be applied.", "Persons whose names are reported to the Civil Service Commission in response to this opinion and who are occupying places whose duties are similar to those of competitive positions may be classified upon approval by the commission, but may be transferred only when, in the opinion of the Civil Service Commission, such transfer is required in the interest of the service, and then only after an appropriate examination by said commission. Vacancies shall be filled in accordance with the civil-service act and rules. If said commission finds that any of these places can not be satisfactorily subjected to competitive tests they may be treated as excepted from examination and their occupants shall not acquire a competitive status."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 128)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, October 9, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed employees hired outside the civil-service rules before a February 12, 1908, Attorney General opinion to be classified with Civil Service Commission approval, with limits on their transfer.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-10-09", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-951", "type": "executive_order", "number": "951", "tr_sequence": 917, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-10-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of William Norman as Assistant Inspector of Hulls in Steamboat Inspection Service Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_951", "revid": 1908937, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 137"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Captain William Norman may be appointed as assistant inspector of hulls, Steamboat-Inspection Service, at New Orleans, La., without examination under the civil service rules."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 137)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, October 12, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Captain William Norman to be appointed assistant inspector of hulls in the Steamboat-Inspection Service at New Orleans without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["Louisiana"], "people": ["William Norman"], "significance": 1, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-10-12", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-952", "type": "executive_order", "number": "952", "tr_sequence": 918, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-10-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of John A. Flickinger as Watchman Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_952", "revid": 1908939, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 137"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. John A. Flickinger, formerly an eligible on the watchman register and three times certified for appointment may be appointed as a watchman in the classified civil service."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 137)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, October 17, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Permitted John A. Flickinger, three times certified from the watchman register, to be appointed a watchman in the classified service.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["John A. Flickinger"], "significance": 1, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-10-17", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-953", "type": "executive_order", "number": "953", "tr_sequence": 919, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-10-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Regulations Governing Employment of Unskilled Laborers Outside Washington, D.C. Regarding Demotions and Transfers", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_953", "revid": 12438087, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 129"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The regulations governing the employment of unskilled laborers in federal offices outside of Washington, D. C., are hereby amended, viz:", "By adding a new regulation, to be numbered VI, and to read as follows:", "Section 1. The Civil Service Commission shall have authority to authorize: (a) The demotion of any person from the classified service to the position of mere unskilled laborer, and the appointment of such person, in consequence of such demotion, upon his passing the required physical examination, to the position of mere unskilled laborer; a statement of duties in every case to be attached to the application of the department for such demotion, showing the duties of the person proposed to be demoted in the old and new position.", "(b) The transfer of any mere unskilled laborer from any office or bureau to another, provided that such unskilled laborer is in good standing and has had at least six months' experience, and the qualifications in the new position are the same as those in the old.", "(c) The temporary appointment of a mere unskilled laborer for a period to exceed thirty days in cases of great and evident necessity.", "By adding to the concluding sentence of section 3, Regulation IV, the words \"except as provided in Regulation VI hereof.\" The amended section will read:", "Sec. 3. When a demand for appointment or employment arises which can not be met in the manner provided in section 1, a person whose name is either not on the register or not in turn for certification may be appointed temporarily; but such appointment shall continue only during the continuance, in the judgment of the commission, of the conditions which necessitated it, and no such persons shall be thus employed more than thirty days in any period of twelve months, except as provided in Regulation VI hereof."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 129)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, October 21, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Added a rule letting the Civil Service Commission approve demoting classified employees to unskilled laborer and transferring laborers between offices outside Washington, D.C.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-10-21", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "eo-285", "relation": "amends", "note": null, "story": 84, "inferred": true, "date": "1904-12-12", "title": "Regulations to Govern the Employment of Unskilled Laborers in the Federal Offices Outside of Washington, D. C.", "type": "executive_order", "number": "285"}]}
{"id": "eo-954", "type": "executive_order", "number": "954", "tr_sequence": 920, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-10-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Exceptions from Examination for Civilian Instructors in Revenue Cutter Service", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_954", "revid": 1908227, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 125"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Schedule A, Section II, of the civil-service rules, is hereby amended by the addition of a new paragraph, to be numbered 12, and to read as follows:", "Civilian instructors in the U. S. Revenue-Cutter Service."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 125)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, October 21, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Exempted civilian instructors in the Revenue-Cutter Service from civil-service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-10-21", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-955", "type": "executive_order", "number": "955", "tr_sequence": 921, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-10-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Regulations Governing Employment of Unskilled Laborers in Washington, D.C. Regarding Demotions and Temporary Appointments", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_955", "revid": 1908834, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 130"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The regulations governing the employment of unskilled laborers at Washington, D. C., are hereby amended, viz:", "By the addition of a new regulation, to be numbered XI, and to read as follows:", "Sec. 1. The board, with the authority of the commission, shall have authority to authorize:", "(a) The demotion of any person from the classified service to the position of mere unskilled laborer, and the appointment of such person in consequence of such demotion, upon his passing the required physical examination, to the position of mere unskilled laborer, a statement of duties in every instance to be appended to the request of the department for such demotion, showing the duties of the person to be demoted in his former and in his proposed new position.", "(b) The temporary appointment of a mere unskilled laborer for a period to exceed thirty days, in cases of great and evident necessity.", "By adding to the concluding sentence of Regulation VII the words \"except as provided in Regulation XI hereof.\" The amended regulation will read:", "Appointment or employment for temporary service shall be made as far as practicable as appointments to permanent positions. Where the needs of the service require, the board may authorize the temporary appointment of any eligible or of a person whose name is not on any register, but no person shall render more than thirty days' temporary service in any period of twelve months where appointed out of his turn, or outside these regulations, except as provided in Regulation XI hereof."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 130)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, October 21, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Gave the labor board in Washington, D.C., authority to approve demotions to unskilled laborer and, in urgent cases, temporary laborer appointments longer than thirty days.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-10-21", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "eo-275", "relation": "amends", "note": null, "story": 84, "inferred": true, "date": "1904-11-15", "title": "Regulations Governing the Appointment of Unclassified Laborers in the Departments at Washington, D.C.", "type": "executive_order", "number": "275"}]}
{"id": "eo-956", "type": "executive_order", "number": "956", "tr_sequence": 922, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-10-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Frederick Koch as Disciplinarian at Indian School Upon Noncompetitive Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_956", "revid": 1908944, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 138"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Frederick Koch may be appointed disciplinarian at the Carlisle, Pa., Indian School, upon noncompetitive examination showing him to be qualified by experience for the position."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 138)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, October 21, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Frederick Koch to be appointed disciplinarian at the Carlisle Indian School after a noncompetitive examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["Pennsylvania"], "people": ["Frederick Koch"], "significance": 1, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-10-21", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-957", "type": "executive_order", "number": "957", "tr_sequence": 923, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-10-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Conrad Henzman as Messenger in New York Military Headquarters Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_957", "revid": 1908946, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 138"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Conrad Henzman, a retired first sergeant, with thirty years' experience in the army, may be appointed without examination as a messenger at military headquarters, New York City."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 138)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, October 23, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Conrad Henzman, a retired first sergeant with thirty years in the Army, be appointed messenger at military headquarters in New York City without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service", "military-naval"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["New York"], "people": ["Conrad Henzman"], "significance": 1, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-10-23", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-958", "type": "executive_order", "number": "958", "tr_sequence": 924, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-10-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Island Bay Reservation in Florida as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_958", "revid": 12442312, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that all of the unsurveyed mangrove and other islands in township forty-two south, range twenty-one east, of the Tallahassee Principal Meridian, Florida, situated southerly from the surveyed shore line, as the same appears upon the official plat of said township in the General Land Office, approved July 23, 1850, and located within the area segregated by the broken line shown upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this Order, are hereby reserved and set aside for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds. The taking or destruction of birds' eggs and nests, and the taking or killing of any species of native bird for any purpose whatever, except under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture, is prohibited and warning is expressly given to all persons not to commit any of the acts hereby enjoined. This reserve to be known as Island Bay Reservation."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, October 23, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Created the Island Bay Reservation, setting aside unsurveyed mangrove and other islands in a Florida township as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds.", "categories": ["wildlife"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Island Bay Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Florida"}], "states": ["Florida"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-10-23", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-959", "type": "executive_order", "number": "959", "tr_sequence": 925, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-10-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Mary A. Eldridge as Clerk in War Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_959", "revid": 1908948, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 138"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. Mary A. Eldridge may be reinstated to a clerical position in the office of the Auditor for the War Department on the basis of her former service in the clerical grade in the Patent Office."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 138)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, October 26, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Permitted Mary A. Eldridge to be reinstated as a clerk in the office of the Auditor for the War Department, based on her earlier Patent Office service.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Mary A. Eldridge"], "significance": 1, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-10-26", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-960", "type": "executive_order", "number": "960", "tr_sequence": 926, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-10-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Lands on Montague Island, Prince William Sound, Alaska, for Use by Army Signal Corps in Operation of Telegraph Lines", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_960", "revid": 1921323, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 176, War Dept., November 7, 1908"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that the northern part of Montague Point, Montague Island, Prince William Sound, Alaska, on which the United States cables are now landed, embracing all public lands included within metes and bounds as follows, be reserved from sale or other disposition, subject to private rights, if any there be, and set apart for the use of the Signal Corps, United States Army, in the operation of military telegraph lines in Alaska, viz:", "Beginning, for the northwest corner, at a small stone monument at high-water mark (latitude 60° 22′ 25″ north; longitude 147° 08′ 00″ west), the position of which is determined by left tangent of Seal Island bearing S. 81° W.; and right tangent of Knowles Head bearing N. 12° E.; thence S. 28° E. 880 yards, to the southwest corner (latitude 60° 22′ 00″ north; longitude 147° 08′ 00″ west); thence N. 62° E. 2,640 yards, to the southeast corner (latitude 60° 22′ 00″ north; longitude 147° 05′ 30″ west), the position of which is determined by right tangent of Knowles Head bearing N. 9° E.; thence following the coast line, which bounds the reservation to the northward and eastward, to the point of beginning. All bearings are magnetic."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 176, War Dept., November 7, 1908)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House October 26, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved the northern part of Montague Point on Montague Island, where U.S. cables land, for the Army Signal Corps' military telegraph lines in Alaska.", "categories": ["military-naval", "public-lands", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Montague Island", "kind": "island", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-10-26", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-961", "type": "executive_order", "number": "961", "tr_sequence": 927, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-10-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Loch Katrine Reservation in Wyoming as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_961", "revid": 12446167, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that all of the lands embraced within the meander survey of a reservoir site located in what is commonly known as the Oregon Basin, embracing five thousand five hundred acres, more or less, in section five, township fifty-one north, range one hundred west, sections nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three and thirty-four, township fifty-two north, range one hundred west of the Sixth Principal Meridian, Wyoming, together with a strip of land fifty feet wide adjoining said meander survey on the outside and surrounding said reservoir site, as the said reservoir site appears upon the map of the Shoshone River canal, on file in the General Land Office, approved March 13, 1903, and as the same is shown by the broken line upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this Order, are hereby reserved, subject to valid existing rights, and set aside for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds. The taking or destruction of birds' eggs and nests, and the taking or killing of any species of native bird for any purpose whatever, except under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Department of Agriculture, is prohibited, and warning is expressly given to all persons not to commit any of the acts hereby enjoined. This reserve to be known as the Loch-Katrine Reservation."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, October 26, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Establishing Loch Katrine Reservation in Oregon as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds”. The order places the site in the Oregon Basin, Wyoming, on the Sixth Principal Meridian; confirmed by EO 3468 (1921)."], "summary": "Created the Loch-Katrine Reservation, setting aside a reservoir site in Wyoming's Oregon Basin, plus a 50-foot strip around it, as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds.", "categories": ["wildlife"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Loch-Katrine Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Wyoming"}], "states": ["Wyoming"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-10-26", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "eo-1032", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 105, "inferred": true, "date": "1909-02-25", "title": "Establishing Seventeen Reservations as Preserves and Breeding Grounds for Native Birds", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1032"}]}
{"id": "eo-962", "type": "executive_order", "number": "962", "tr_sequence": 928, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-10-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Lands in Makanalua, Molokai Island, Hawaii, for Lighthouse Purposes", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reserved land at Makanalua on the island of Molokai for lighthouse purposes.", "categories": ["lighthouses", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Makanalua", "kind": "other", "state": "Hawaii"}, {"name": "Molokai", "kind": "island", "state": "Hawaii"}], "states": ["Hawaii"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-10-27", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-963", "type": "executive_order", "number": "963", "tr_sequence": 929, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-10-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Charles W. Edwards as Classified Laborer in Treasury Department Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_963", "revid": 1908950, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 138"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Charles W. Edwards, an unclassified laborer in the office of the Register of the Treasury, may be promoted or appointed to the position of classified laborer in the service of the Treasury Department."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 138)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, October 28, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Charles W. Edwards, an unclassified laborer in the office of the Register of the Treasury, to be made a classified laborer in the Treasury Department.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Charles W. Edwards"], "significance": 1, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-10-28", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-822", "type": "proclamation", "number": "822", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-10-31", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Thanksgiving Day, 1908", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 822, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-822"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2205, "last_page": 2206, "cite": "35 Stat. 2205–2206", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2205.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-10-31", "table_title": "Designating Thursday, November 28, 1908, as a day of general thanksgiving."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Once again the season is at hand when, according to the ancient custom of our people, it becomes the duty of the President to appoint a day of prayer and of thanksgiving to God.", "Year by year this Nation grows in strength and worldly power. During the century and a quarter that has elapsed since our entry into the circle of independent peoples we have grown and prospered in material things to a degree never known before, and not now known in any other country. The thirteen colonies which straggled along the seacoast of the Atlantic and were hemmed-in but a few miles west of tidewater by the Iridian haunted wilderness, have been transformed into the mightiest republic which the world has ever seen. Its domains stretch across the continent from one to the other of the two greatest oceans, and it exercises dominion alike in the arctic and tropic realms. The growth in wealth and population has surpassed even the growth in territory. Nowhere else in the world is the average of individual comfort and material well-being as high as in our fortunate land.", "For the very reason that in material well-being we have thus abounded, We owe it to the Almighty to show equal progress in moral and spiritual things. With a nation, as with the individuals who make up a nation, material well-being is an indispensable foundation. But the foundation avails nothing by itself. That life is wasted, and worse than wasted, which is spend in piling, heap upon heap, those things which minister merely to the pleasure of the body and to the power that rests only on wealth. Upon material wellbeing as a foundation must be raised the structure of the lofty life of the spirit, if this Nation is properly to fulfil its great mission and to accomplish all that we so ardently hope and desire. The things of the body are good; the things of the intellect better; the best of all are the things of the soul; for, in the nation as in the individual, in the long run it is character that counts. Let us therefore as a people set our faces resolutely against evil, and with broad charity, with kindliness and good-will toward all men, but with unflinching determination to smite down wrong, strive with all the strength that is given us for righteousness in public and in private life.", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, do set apart Thursday, the 26th day of November, next, as a day of general thanksgiving and prayer, and on that day I recommend that the people shall cease from their daily work, and, in their homes or in their churches, meet devoutly to thank the Almighty for the many and great blessings they have received in the past, and to pray that they may be given the strength so to order their lives as to deserve a continuation of these blessings in the future.", "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.", "Done at the City of Washington this thirty-first day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL.] eight and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2205", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Preamble.", "Thursday, November 26, 1908, set apart as a day of national thanksgiving."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart Thursday, November 26, 1908, as a national day of thanksgiving.", "categories": ["ceremonial"], "action": "announce", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [107], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-10-31", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The annual observance was later fixed by law to the fourth Thursday of November.", "source": "Joint resolution of December 26, 1941, 55 Stat. 862", "date": "1941-12-26", "story": 107}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-964", "type": "executive_order", "number": "964", "tr_sequence": 930, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-11-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Modifying Boundaries of Malate Barracks Reservation, Manila, Philippine Islands", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_964", "revid": 1909781, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 181, War Dept., November 16, 1908"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that Parcel \"B\" of the Military Reservation of Malate Barracks, commonly called \"Cuartel de Malate\" situated in the city of Manila, Philippine Islands, as reserved by of May 17, 1905 (G. O., No. 77, War Department, May 27, 1905), be modified so as to include lands bounded and described as follows:", "Beginning at a point marked \"1\" on plan prepared in the office of the Chief Engineer Officer, Philippines Division, June, 1908, and designated as 'Map of Parcel B' Military Reservation, Cuartel Malate; said point being the intersection of the west building line of Calle Real and the south side of a caIlejon marking the north boundary of the military reservation; also being N. 8° 17′ E. 2.522 meters from a cross-cut in the top of a cannon-shot set into the bottom of the concrete gatepost at the southeast side of the northeast entrance to Parcel \"B\" Cuartel Malate; thence S. 25° 28′ E. 241.19 meters to point marked \"2\" on plan; said point being the intersection of the west building line of Calle Real and the northern line of private property declared in decree No. 534 of the Court of Land Registration of the Philippine Islands; also being S. 60° 38′ E. 0.519 meters from a cross cut in the top of the cannon-ball surmounting the pillar at the southeast corner of Parcel \"B\", Cuartel Malate; thence S. 64° 56′ W 78.33 meters to point \"3\" on plan; said point being the intersection of the line of private property above described with the line of the exterior crest of the sea wall of the Military Reservation; said property line also being marked with a cut in the concrete top of the sea wall at its exterior edge; thence N 26° 07′ 30″ W. 245.40 meters along the line of the sea wall to point marked \"4\" on plan; said point being the northwest corner of the sea wall; thence N. 67° 45′ E. 81.38 meters to the point of beginning—including the land between high and low-water mark in Manila Bay in front of said parcel. Area, within metes and bounds described above, 19,387.19 square meters. All bearings true."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 181, War Dept., November 16, 1908)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, November 2, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Redrew the boundaries of Parcel B of the Malate Barracks military reservation in Manila.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Malate Barracks", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Manila", "kind": "town", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-11-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-965", "type": "executive_order", "number": "965", "tr_sequence": 931, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-11-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Certain Lands in Susitna and Tyonic, Alaska, Reserved for Educational Purposes", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reserved certain lands at Susitna and Tyonic for educational purposes.", "categories": ["insular-territories", "public-lands"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Susitna", "kind": "other", "state": "Alaska"}, {"name": "Tyonic", "kind": "other", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-11-04", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-966", "type": "executive_order", "number": "966", "tr_sequence": 932, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-11-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Canal Zone Regulations Regarding Appeals, and Repealing Certain Sections of Code of Criminal Procedure", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_966", "revid": 2869372, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Under authority vested in me by law, it is ordered:", "An appeal from the judgment of a District Court of the Canal Zone may be taken by the defendant by giving notice in open court of his intention so to do at the time the judgment is rendered, or by filing with the court a written notice of appeal within five days thereafter. The appeal may thereupon be perfected by the defendant by filing with the District Court or with the Circuit Court to which the appeal is taken, a bond in a sum fixed by the Judge of said District Court or the Judge of said Circuit Court, but not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, and with one or more sufficient sureties approved by the court or clerk accepting the same, for his appearance and trial upon appeal in the Circuit Court: Provided, That if a money deposit be made in lieu of the bond, the amount to be deposited shall not exceed one-half of the sum required in the bond.", "Sections 44, 45, and 46 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Canal Zone are hereby repealed."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, November 7, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Set new procedures for defendants appealing Canal Zone District Court judgments, including notice deadlines and bond limits, and repealed certain sections of the Code of Criminal Procedure.", "categories": ["canal-zone"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-11-07", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-967", "type": "executive_order", "number": "967", "tr_sequence": 933, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-11-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Exceptions from Examination for Transferred Employees in Isthmian Canal Commission", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_967", "revid": 1909764, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 125; 2 Canal Record 106, December 2, 1908"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Schedule A, Section VIII, paragraph 1, of the civil-service rules, is hereby amended by the addition of the following words at the end of the paragraph:", "Unless he was classified by the executive order of November 15, 1904, in a position which was then and is at the time of the proposed transfer in the competitive service.", "As amended the paragraph will read as follows:", "All officers and employees in the service of the Isthmian Canal Commission upon the Isthmus of Panama except those who are to perform the duties of clerk, bookkeeper, stenographer, typewriter, surgeon, physician, trained nurse, or draftsman. Appointments to clerical positions on the Isthmus of Panama paying less than $75 in gold per month may be made without examination under the civil-service rules. No person appointed to the service on the Isthmus of Panama otherwise than through competitive examination or by transfer or promotion from a competitive position shall be transferred to a competitive position, unless he was classified by the executive order of November 15, 1904, in a position which was then and is at the time of the proposed transfer in the competitive service."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 125; 2 Canal Record 106, December 2, 1908)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, November 9, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Narrowed the Isthmian Canal Commission's civil-service exception so employees classified in 1904 into competitive positions are not covered by it on transfer.", "categories": ["civil-service", "canal-zone"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-11-09", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-968", "type": "executive_order", "number": "968", "tr_sequence": 934, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-11-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Hilworth T. B. Jones as Translator in Office of Naval Intelligence Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_968", "revid": 1908952, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 139"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Hilworth T. B. Jones may be appointed as translator at $1,400 per annum, Office of Naval Intelligence, Navy Department."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 139)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, November 11, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Hilworth T. B. Jones to be appointed a translator at $1,400 a year in the Office of Naval Intelligence without civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service", "military-naval"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Hilworth T. B. Jones"], "significance": 1, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-11-11", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-969", "type": "executive_order", "number": "969", "tr_sequence": 935, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-11-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Defining the Duties of the United States Marine Corps", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_969", "revid": 1697554, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["In accordance with the power vested in me by section 1619, Revised Statutes of the United States, the following duties are assigned to the United States Marine Corps:", "(1) To garrison the different navy-yards and naval stations, both within and beyond the continental limits of the United States.", "(2) To furnish the first line of the mobile defense of naval bases and naval stations beyond the continental limits of the United States.", "(3) To man such naval defenses, and to aid in manning, if necessary, such other defenses, as may be erected for the defense of naval bases and naval stations beyond the continental limits of the United States.", "(4) To garrison the Isthmian Canal Zone, Panama.", "(5) To furnish such garrisons and expeditionary forces for duties beyond the seas as may be necessary in time of peace."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House November 12, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Assigned the Marine Corps its duties: garrisoning navy yards and naval stations, defending overseas naval bases, garrisoning the Isthmian Canal Zone, and furnishing expeditionary forces abroad in peacetime.", "categories": ["military-naval", "canal-zone"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-11-12", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "congress", "text": "The House Naval Affairs Subcommittee on Naval Academy and Marine Corps held hearings on the status of the Marine Corps on January 7–15, 1909.", "source": "Hearings … on the Status of the U.S. Marine Corps (GPO, 1909)", "date": "1909-01-07", "story": 103}, {"kind": "congress", "text": "The naval appropriations act of March 3, 1909, reversed the order by barring Marine Corps pay unless Marines served \"as heretofore\" on battleships and armored cruisers, in detachments of at least eight percent of the ships' enlisted strength.", "source": "Act of March 3, 1909, ch. 255, 35 Stat. 753, at 773–774", "date": "1909-03-03", "story": 103}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1909-03-03", "text": "Congress conditioned the Marine Corps pay appropriation on Marines serving aboard battleships and armored cruisers, undoing the order's effect.", "source": "35 Stat. 753, at 773–774", "story": 103}], "uncertain": ["What witnesses said at the January 1909 Marine Corps hearings has not been reviewed."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-970", "type": "executive_order", "number": "970", "tr_sequence": 936, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-11-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Further Reserving Lands in Gila National Forest, New Mexico, to Protect Water Supply of Fort Bayard", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_970", "revid": 1909756, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 187, War Dept., November 25, 1908."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section seven, and the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section eighteen, township seventeen south range twelve west, New Mexico, within the limits of the Gila National Forest as established by proclamations of the President, dated July 21, 1905, and June 18, 1908, be further withdrawn from sale or other disposition, subject to private rights, if any there be, for military purposes to protect the water supply of Fort Bayard: Provided, That this withdrawal for use by the War Department shall not revoke the withdrawal of the land as a part of the Gila National Forest made by said proclamations of July 21, 1905, and June 18, 1908, but both withdrawals shall stand together."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 187, War Dept., November 25, 1908.)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, November 13, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Withdrew two more tracts within the Gila National Forest for military use to protect Fort Bayard's water supply, keeping both reservations in force together.", "categories": ["military-naval", "forests", "public-lands"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Gila National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}, {"name": "Fort Bayard", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-11-13", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-971", "type": "executive_order", "number": "971", "tr_sequence": 937, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-11-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Retention of War Department Laborers in San Francisco", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_971", "revid": 1908838, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 130"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["D. L. Howard, John Thompson, and William Lafaire, who were employed in the Quartermaster's Department at San Francisco, Cal., incident to the earthquake and fire of April, 1906, as unskilled laborers for the performance of unclassified duties, without reference to the labor regulations, and who are still in the service, may be retained and shall have the same status as laborers selected from the labor registers.", "The retention of any other laborers employed under the same circumstances may be authorized by the Civil Service Commission."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 130)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, November 13, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let three laborers hired at San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and fire stay on with regular status, and allowed the Civil Service Commission to retain others hired the same way.", "categories": ["civil-service", "military-naval"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["California"], "people": ["D. L. Howard", "John Thompson", "William Lafaire"], "significance": 2, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-11-13", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-972", "type": "executive_order", "number": "972", "tr_sequence": 938, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-11-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of George F. Cooke as Clerk in Post Office Without Regard to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_972", "revid": 1908954, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 139"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. George F. Cooke may be reinstated to a clerkship of not exceeding $1,000 in any post-office, without reference to the time limitation of the reinstatement rule."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 139)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, November 13, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed George F. Cooke to be reinstated to a post-office clerkship paying up to $1,000, regardless of the reinstatement time limit.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["George F. Cooke"], "significance": 1, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-11-13", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-973", "type": "executive_order", "number": "973", "tr_sequence": 939, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-11-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Civil War Veterans and Members of Women's Relief Corps and Sons of Veterans Excused from Duty Nov 25, 1908, for Unveiling of Statue of Philip Henry Sheridan", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Excused Civil War veterans and members of the Women's Relief Corps and Sons of Veterans in federal service from duty on November 25, 1908, for the unveiling of the Philip Henry Sheridan statue.", "categories": ["ceremonial", "government-administration"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-11-17", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-974", "type": "executive_order", "number": "974", "tr_sequence": 940, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-11-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Dardanelle Land District, Ark., Abolished; Transferred to Little Rock Land District", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Abolished the Dardanelle land district in Arkansas and folded it into the Little Rock land district.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Dardanelle land district", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Arkansas"}, {"name": "Little Rock land district", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Arkansas"}], "states": ["Arkansas"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-11-21", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "local", "text": "The Dardanelle, Arkansas, land office was consolidated with Little Rock and closed after January 30, 1909.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1909-01-30", "story": 103}], "uncertain": ["The full text of this order has not been found."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-975", "type": "executive_order", "number": "975", "tr_sequence": 941, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-11-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Restoring Certain Chehalis Indian Lands to Public Domain and Allotting Same to Ada McKay", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_975", "revid": 1912392, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that the west half of the southwest quarter of section three, township fifteen north, range four west of the Willamette meridian, in the State of Washington, reserved for the use and occupation of the Chehalis Indians by order of the President dated October 1, 1886, be and the same is hereby, restored to the public domain.", "It is hereby directed that the Secretary of the Interior allot to Ada McKay, a Skokomish half-blood Indian, the land above described in accordance with the provisions of section 4 of the act of Congress approved February 8, 1887 (24 Stat. L., 388), as amended by the act of February 28, 1891 (26 Stat. L., 794)."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House November 23, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Returned a tract set aside for the Chehalis Indians to the public domain and directed that it be allotted to Ada McKay, a Skokomish Indian.", "categories": ["indian-lands", "public-lands"], "action": "restore", "places": [{"name": "Chehalis Indian lands", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "Washington"}], "states": ["Washington"], "people": ["Ada McKay"], "significance": 2, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-11-23", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-823", "type": "proclamation", "number": "823", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-11-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Ocala National Forest, Florida", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 823, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-823"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2206, "last_page": 2207, "cite": "35 Stat. 2206–2207", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2206.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-11-24", "table_title": "Setting apart the Ocala National Forest, Florida."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Florida, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by utilizing said lands as a National Forest;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An Act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from settlement or entry and set apart as a public reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Florida, shown as the Ocala National Forest on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is 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 24th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2206", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Ocala National Forest, Fla.", "Preamble.", "National Forest, Florida.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Prior rights not affected."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Ocala National Forest from partly timbered public lands in Florida, reserving them from settlement for the use and benefit of the people.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Ocala National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Florida"}], "states": ["Florida"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [71], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-11-24", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "Forest and Stream noted that \"to Florida goes the distinction of getting the first National forest created east of the Mississippi River,\" and gave the Ocala as 201,480 acres.", "source": "Forest and Stream, December 12, 1908, p. 935", "date": "1908-12-12", "story": 71}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Ocala was combined with the Choctawhatchee as the Florida National Forest in 1911 and separated out again in 1927.", "source": "Proc. 1122, 37 Stat. 1678; Proc. 1816, 45 Stat. 2927", "date": "1927", "story": 71}], "today": [{"name": "Ocala National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "origin", "state": "Florida", "since": "1908-11-24", "source": "research entry", "story": 71}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1911-04-17", "text": "Proclamation 1122 combined the Ocala and Choctawhatchee as the Florida National Forest, effective July 1, 1911.", "source": "37 Stat. 1678", "story": 71}, {"date": "1927", "text": "Proclamation 1816 separated the Ocala division out of the Florida National Forest.", "source": "45 Stat. 2927", "story": 71}], "uncertain": ["Whether anyone outside the Forest Service formally asked for the Ocala forest is not known.", "How Ocala papers received it has not been checked."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-824", "type": "proclamation", "number": "824", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-11-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Dakota National Forest, North Dakota", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 824, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-824"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2207, "last_page": 2207, "cite": "35 Stat. 2207", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2207.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-11-24", "table_title": "Setting apart the Dakota National Forest, North Dakota."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of North Dakota, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by utilizing said lands as a National Forest;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An Act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from settlement or entry and set apart as a public reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of North Dakota, shown as the Dakota National Forest on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is 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 24th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2207", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Dakota National Forest, N. Dak.", "National Forest, North Dakota.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Prior rights not affected."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Dakota National Forest on partly timbered public lands in North Dakota, reserving them from settlement and entry.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Dakota National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "North Dakota"}], "states": ["North Dakota"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [71], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-11-24", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "Forest and Stream reported Governor John Burke \"very much interested in this forest,\" and gave the Service's reasons: an experimental field for planting in \"the least forested State in the Union,\" with its timber kept for home builders.", "source": "Forest and Stream, December 12, 1908, p. 935", "date": "1908-12-12", "story": 71}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The forest was run from Camp Crook, South Dakota, and in April 1912 foresters rode out from Bowman to plant ponderosa pine among the native pines of the scoria buttes.", "source": "K. D. Swan, \"Reminiscences of the Dakota National Forest\"", "date": "1912-04", "story": 71}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Dakota National Forest, in present-day Slope County south of Medora, was abolished in 1917.", "source": "Proc. 1387, 40 Stat. 1685", "date": "1917-07-30", "story": 71}], "today": [{"name": "Dakota National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "abolished", "state": "North Dakota", "note": "About 14,000 acres in present-day Slope County; abolished 1917.", "source": "Proc. 1387, 40 Stat. 1685", "story": 71}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1917-07-30", "text": "Proclamation 1387 abolished the Dakota National Forest.", "source": "40 Stat. 1685, per FS-612", "story": 71}], "uncertain": ["Whether Governor Burke or anyone else formally asked for the Dakota forest is not known; Forest Service boundary files (NARA RG 95) would settle it.", "How Dickinson and Bowman papers received it has not been checked."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-976", "type": "executive_order", "number": "976", "tr_sequence": 942, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-11-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Exceptions from Examination for Special Agents of General Land Office", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_976", "revid": 1939210, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 126"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Paragraph 11 of Subdivision VI of Schedule A of classified positions excepted from examination under Rule II, clause 3, is hereby amended by striking out the word \"five\" and inserting in lieu thereof the word \"three.\" As amended the paragraph will read:", "Three special agents of the General Land Office to investigate fraudulent entries and other matters of a criminal nature."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 126)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, November 24, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Cut the number of General Land Office special agents exempted from examination, who investigate fraudulent land entries, from five to three.", "categories": ["civil-service", "public-lands"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-11-24", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-977", "type": "executive_order", "number": "977", "tr_sequence": 943, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-11-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Forbidding Most Notaries Public in Government Service to Charge Fees for Notarial Acts", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_977", "revid": 1912670, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that hereafter no officer, clerk, or employee in the executive service of the government (except postmasters at offices of the fourth class and rural carriers), who is also a notary public, shall charge or receive any compensation whatever for performing any notarial act for an officer, clerk, or employee of the government in his official capacity, or for any person when, in the case of such person the act is performed during the hours of such notary's service to the government. Disobedience of this order shall be ground for immediate dismissal from the service.", "This order shall not apply to oaths of disinterestedness or other oaths required to be made by law, provided that the work in connection therewith is not performed during office hours.", "For the purposes of this order, the expression \"office hours\" shall be construed to include the half hour allowed each working day for luncheon."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House November 24, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Barred most federal employees who are notaries public from charging fees for notarial acts done for government business or during office hours, on pain of dismissal.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-11-24", "impact": null, "related": [{"id": "eo-288-half", "relation": "supersedes", "note": null, "story": 84, "inferred": true, "date": "1904-12-31", "title": "Forbidding Notaries Public in Government Service to Charge Fees for Notarial Acts", "type": "executive_order", "number": "288½"}]}
{"id": "eo-978", "type": "executive_order", "number": "978", "tr_sequence": 944, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-11-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Lands on Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, for Observation Stations in Connection with Defensive Works", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_978", "revid": 3968332, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 200, War Dept., December 10, 1908"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that the following-described lands and rights-of-way, situated on the Island of Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, be reserved from sale and set apart, subject to private rights, if any there be, for observation stations and rights-of-way thereto, in connection with the defensive works of said island, viz:", "(a) That parcel of public land on Round Top (or Ualakaa) included within metes and bounds as follows:", "Beginning at a point on the summit of Round Top bearing N. 41° 34′ E., and distant 100 feet from the Ualakaa Triangulation Station, and running thence, by true bearings, S. 86° 24′ W. 319 feet; thence S. 31° 01′ W. 133.2 feet; thence S. 14° 40′ W. 149 feet; thence S. 30° 04′ E. 224.8 feet; thence N. 74° 15′ E. 87.3 feet; thence N. 53° 37′ E. 157.7 feet; thence N. 44° 35′ E. 295 feet; thence N. 35° 58′ W. 179.8 feet, to the initial point: containing 3.68 acres, more or less.", "(b) That strip of land, 20 feet wide, connecting the reservation above described with a proposed public road for a right-of-way for a road, bridle path, or telephone line, included within metes and bounds as follows:", "Beginning at the end of the fourth course of the Round Top Reservation, above described, and running thence by true bearings N. 30° 04′ W. 27.2 feet along said reservation; thence S. 17° 15′ W. 485.2 feet to the proposed Tantalus Heights Road; thence N. 83° 37′ E. 21.8 feet along the upper side of said road; thence N. 17° 15′ E. 458 feet to the initial point: containing 0.22 acre, more or less.", "(c) A strip of land, 10 feet wide, for a right-of-way from said Round Top Reservation to Manoa Heights Road, extending 5 feet on each side of a line drawn from the Ualakaa Triangulation Station to said road; the true bearing of said line being S. 45° E.", "(d) A strip of land, 10 feet wide, for a right-of-way from said Round Top Reservation, to the Sugar Loaf reservation, hereinafter described, extending 5 feet on each side of a line drawn from the Ualakaa Triangulation Station to said Sugar Loaf reservation; the true bearing of said line being N. 33° 14′ E.", "(a) That parcel of public land on Sugar Loaf (or Kakea) included within metes and bounds as follows:", "Beginning at the west corner of the \"Olindita\" property; said corner bearing S. 63° 30′ E. and distant 334 feet from the Kakea Triangulation Station; and running thence, by true bearings, N. 41° 15′ E. 100 feet along the said \"Olindita\" property; thence N. 49° 30′ W. 173 feet along same property; thence N. 75° 08′ W. 239.5 feet to a point bearing N. 1° 04′ E. and distant 100 feet from the Kakea Triangulation Station; thence S. 70° 34′ W. 214.9 feet; thence S. 9° E. 185.5 feet to a point bearing N. 32° 08′ E. from the Ualakaa Triangulation Station; thence S. 32° 23′ E. 90 feet; thence S. 87° 15′ E. 159 feet; thence N. 76° 29′ E. 192.1 feet; thence N. 60° E. 88.8 feet to the initial point: containing 3.14 acres, more or less.", "(b) A strip of land, 20 feet wide, for a right-of-way for a bridle path or road to connect the Sugar Loaf reservation with existing trails, included within metes and bounds as follows:", "Beginning at the west corner of the \"Olindita\" property—the initial point of the Sugar Loaf reservation—and running thence, by true bearings, S. 29° 45′ E. 88.4 feet along the \"Olindita\" property; thence S. 55° 05′ E. 229 feet along same property; thence S. 38° 55′ E. 850 feet, more or less, along the same property and government land to the trail to W. F. Frear's; thence southwesterly, along said trail, to a point distant 20 feet measured at right angles to the line last-above described; thence N. 38° 55′ W. 345 feet, more or less, along government land; then N. 55° 05′ W. 327.7 feet along government land; thence N. 29° 45′ W. 92.8 feet, still along government land, to the Sugar Loaf reservation; thence N. 60° E. 20 feet, more or less, along the Sugar Loaf reservation to the point of beginning: containing 0.32 acre, more or less."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 200, War Dept., December 10, 1908)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House November 24, 1908. == Notes == See Related: Executive Order 4179-A, March 20, 1925", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved land on Round Top (Ualakaa) and other Oahu sites, with rights-of-way, for observation stations tied to the island's defensive works.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories", "public-lands"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Oahu", "kind": "island", "state": "Hawaii"}, {"name": "Round Top (Ualakaa)", "kind": "other", "state": "Hawaii"}], "states": ["Hawaii"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-11-24", "impact": {"later_actions": [{"date": "1925", "text": "A 1925 order cited the reservation by the executive order of November 24, 1908.", "source": "Executive Order 4179-A", "story": 114}, {"date": "1935-01-17", "text": "Executive Order 6948 moved the right-of-way between the Round Top and Sugar Loaf reservations.", "source": "Executive Order 6948 (American Presidency Project)", "story": 114}, {"date": "1952", "text": "Executive Order 10342 described land reserved for military purposes by Executive Order 978 of November 24, 1908.", "source": "Executive Order 10342 (Truman Library text)", "story": 114}], "uncertain": ["Why the 1910 War Department compilation dated the order December 1, 1908; most likely General Orders No. 200 printed it with the December 1 Camp Overton order."]}, "related": [{"id": "uo-126", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 114, "inferred": true, "date": "1908-11-24", "title": "Round Top and Sugar Loaf Military Reservation, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, established.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "eo-979", "type": "executive_order", "number": "979", "tr_sequence": 945, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-11-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Lands on North Side of Gulkana River, Alaska, for Use by Army Signal Corps in Operation of Telegraph Lines", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_979", "revid": 1921350, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 200, War Dept., December 10, 1908"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that all that tract of public land located on the north side of the Gulkana River, Alaska, near the trail crossing the same, and about four miles above the confluence of the Gulkana and Copper rivers, which is included within metes and bounds as follows, be reserved from sale or other disposition, and set apart for the use of the Signal Corps, United States Army, in its operation and maintenance of the military lines in Alaska, viz:", "Beginning at the corner post marked \"U. S. M. R. No. 1,\" at the west end of the extreme south boundary of the reservation, which post bears S. 55° W. 144.43 feet from the west end of south wall of Gulkana Telegraph Station; thence N. 49° E. 1,000 feet to postmarked \"U. S. M. R. No. 2;\" thence S. 41° E. 1,000 feet to post marked \"U. S. M. R. No. 3;\" thence S. 49° W. 1,000 feet to postmarked \"U. S. M. R. No. 4;\" thence N. 41° W. 1,000 feet to point of beginning. The bearings given are referred to the true meridian. Magnetic declination, 1908, 30° east."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 200, War Dept., December 10, 1908)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House November 24, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Set apart a tract on the north side of the Gulkana River, near the Gulkana Telegraph Station, for the Army Signal Corps' military telegraph lines.", "categories": ["military-naval", "public-lands", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Gulkana River", "kind": "other", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-11-24", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "uo-126", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null, "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": 126, "date": "1908-11-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Round Top and Sugar Loaf Military Reservation, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, established.", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": ["Corrected from “1908-12-01”. This is EO 978 (1916 Military Reservations compilation; EO 4179-A, 1925; EO 6948, 1935)."], "citations": {"lord": {"number": 126, "page": "204", "citations": "(1910 MR 92; 1916 MR 104)"}}, "text": null, "lord_description": "Round Top and Sugar Loaf Military Reservation, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, established (given as Nov. 24, 1908 in 1916 MR 104).", "reconciliation": "numbered_duplicate", "duplicate_of": "eo-978", "reconciliation_note": "**= EO 978** (Nov. 24, 1908), \"Reserving Lands on Oahu … for Observation Stations in Connection with Defensive Works.\" Lord's Dec. 1 date is a compiler's slip from War Dept. G.O. 200, which also published EO 985 of Dec. 1 (research entry #114).", "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Round Top and Sugar Loaf Military Reservation, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, established (given as Nov. 24, 1908 in 1916 MR 104)”. This is EO 978 (1916 Military Reservations compilation; EO 4179-A, 1925; EO 6948, 1935)."], "summary": null, "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": null, "places": [], "states": ["Hawaii"], "people": [], "significance": null, "stories": [114], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-11-24", "impact": {"later_actions": [{"date": "1925", "text": "A 1925 order cited the reservation by the executive order of November 24, 1908.", "source": "Executive Order 4179-A", "story": 114}, {"date": "1935-01-17", "text": "Executive Order 6948 moved the right-of-way between the Round Top and Sugar Loaf reservations.", "source": "Executive Order 6948 (American Presidency Project)", "story": 114}, {"date": "1952", "text": "Executive Order 10342 described land reserved for military purposes by Executive Order 978 of November 24, 1908.", "source": "Executive Order 10342 (Truman Library text)", "story": 114}], "uncertain": ["Why the 1910 War Department compilation dated the order December 1, 1908; most likely General Orders No. 200 printed it with the December 1 Camp Overton order."]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-978", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The same order; Lord's unnumbered list carries this numbered document a second time.", "story": 114, "date": "1908-11-24", "title": "Reserving Lands on Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, for Observation Stations in Connection with Defensive Works", "type": "executive_order", "number": "978"}]}
{"id": "eo-980", "type": "executive_order", "number": "980", "tr_sequence": 946, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-11-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amendment of Executive Order No. 330-B of June 12, 1905, Establishing Limits of Punishment for Enlisted Men of the Army", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_980", "revid": 12437153, "printed_source": "Published: [http://books.google.com/books?id=EqQyAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA52 General Orders, No. 204], War Dept., December 15, 1908  "}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The Executive Order, dated June 12, 1905, establishing limits of punishment for enlisted men of the Army, under an Act of Congress approved September 27, 1890, and which was published in General Orders, No. 96, War Department, Washington, June 19, 1905, is amended so as to prescribe, for time of peace, as follows: __NOTOC__ {| style=\"margin: 0em 1.0em 0em 0em;\" |-valign=\"top\" | === . === In all cases of desertion the sentence may include dishonorable discharge and forfeiture of pay and allowances. {{PL-indent| Subject to the modifications authorized in section 2 of this article, the maximum limit of the term of confinement (at hard labor) for desertion committed in time of peace shall be three (3) years.", "The foregoing limitations are subject to modification under the following conditions:|-2.0|2.0}}", "{| style=\"margin: 0em 0em 0em 2.0em;\" |-valign=\"top\" | (a) | The punishment of a deserter maybe increased by one year of confinement at hard labor in consideration of each previous conviction of desertion. |-valign=\"top\" | (b) | The punishment for desertion when joined in by two or more soldiers in the execution of a conspiracy, or for desertion in the presence of an outbreak of Indians or of any unlawful assemblage which the troops may be opposing, shall not exceed dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and confinement at, hard labor for five years. |}", "=== . ===", "Except as herein otherwise indicated, punishments shall not exceed the limits prescribed in the following table:", "{|cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"4\" width=\"82%\" style=\"text-align:left; font-size:95%; margin: 2em auto 2em auto; border-color:#333; border-width:1px; border-top-style:solid; border-bottom-style:solid;\" |-valign=\"baseline\" |align=\"center\" width=\"40%\" style=\"border-bottom:1px #333 solid; border-right:1px #333 solid\" |Offenses. |align=\"center\" style=\"border-bottom:1px #333 solid\" |Limits of punishment. |-valign=\"baseline\" |align=\"center\" style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid\"|Under 17th Article of War.||  |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid\"| | |- |align=\"center\" style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid\"|Under 20th Article of War.||  |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid\"| | |- |align=\"center\" style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid\"|Under 24th Article of War.||  |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid\"| | |- |align=\"center\" style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid\"|Under 32d Article of War.||  |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid\"|Absence without leave—||  |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |- |align=\"center\" style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid\"|Under 33d Article of War.||  |- |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |- |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | rowspan=\"2\" valign=\"center\" | {| | | |} |- |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| |- |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | rowspan=\"9\" valign=\"center\" | {| | | |} |- |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| |- |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| |- |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| |- |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| |- |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| |- |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| |- |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| |- |valign=\"baseline\" style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| |- |align=\"center\" style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid\"|Under 38th Article of War.||  |- |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid\"|Found drunk—||  |- valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |- valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |- |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | rowspan=\"9\" valign=\"center\" | {| | |Forfeiture of $12; for noncommissioned officer, reduction and forfeiture of $20. |} |- |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| |- |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| |- |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| |- |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| |- |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| |- |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| |- |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| |- |valign=\"baseline\" style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| |- |align=\"center\" style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid\"|Under 40th Article of War.||  |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |- |align=\"center\" style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid\"|Under 51st Article of War.||  |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |- |align=\"center\" valign=\"baseline\" style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid\"|Under 60th Article of War. | |- |align=\"center\" style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid\"|Under 62d Article of War.||  |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |- |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid\"| |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |- |align=\"center\" style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid\"|Under 62d Article of War—Continued.||  |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |- |align=\"center\" style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid\"|Under 62d Article of War—Continued.||  |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |- |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | rowspan=\"2\" valign=\"center\" | {| | | |} |- |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| |-valign=\"baseline\" |style=\"border-right:1px #333 solid;\"| | |}", "=== . === The introduction and use of evidence of previous convictions is subject to the following regulations: {{PL-indent| Such evidence shall be limited, except as provided in section 5 of this article, to previous convictions by courts-martial of an offense or offenses within one year preceding the date of commission of any offense charged and during the current enlistment. These convictions must be proved by the records of previous trials and convictions, or by duly authenticated copies of such records, or by duly authenticated copies of the orders promulgating such trials and convictions. Charges forwarded to the authority competent to order a general court-martial, or submitted to a summary, garrison, or regimental court-martial, must be accompanied by the proper evidence of previous convictions.", "Whenever a soldier is convicted of an offense for which a discretionary punishment is authorized, the court will receive evidence of previous convictions (see section 1 of this article), if there be any. General, regimental, and garrison courts-martial will, after a finding of guilty, be opened for the purpose of ascertaining whether there is such evidence and, if so, of receiving it.", "Previous convictions in connection with inferior court offenses.—When a soldier is convicted of an offense the punishment for which under Article II of this order or the custom of the service does not exceed three months' confinement at hard labor and forfeiture of three months' pay, the punishment so authorized may, upon proof of previous convictions (see section 1 of this article) be increased one-half for each of such convictions up to the limit of three months' confinement at hard labor and forfeiture of three months' pay, and, for noncommissioned officer or first-class private, reduction in addition thereto. In case of a soldier whose total length of service does not exceed one year, upon proof of five or more of such convictions, if the total of the sentences, substitutions considered (see Article VII), equals or exceeds forfeiture of $50 or confinement at hard labor for 100 days, the limit of punishment shall be dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and confinement at hard labor for three months; but in cases where the length of service exceeds one year, the limit of punishment shall be as just stated upon proof of five or more previous convictions, whatever the character of the sentences may have been, but if dishonorable discharge be not adjudged, the limit shall be three months' confinement at hard labor and forfeiture of three months' pay, and, for a noncommissioned officer or first-class private, reduction in addition thereto.", "Previous convictions in connection with general court-martial offenses.—When the conviction is for an offense punishable under Article II of this order or the custom of the service with a greater punishment than three months' confinement at hard labor and forfeiture of three months' pay, such punishment shall not be increased by reason of previous convictions, except as hereinafter specified; but evidence of those described in section 1 of this article will be submitted to the court to aid it to determine upon the proper measure of punishment subject to the limit already authorized. In the case of a soldier whose total length of service does not exceed one year, upon proof of five or more of such convictions, if the total of the sentences, substitutions considered (see Article VII), equals or exceeds forfeiture of $50 or confinement at hard labor for 100 days, the court may, if the authorized limit does not include dishonorable discharge, adjudge dishonorable discharge and forfeiture of all pay and allowances with the authorized confinement; but incases where the length of service exceeds one year, the limit of punishment shall be as just stated, upon proof of five or more previous convictions, whatever the character of the sentences may have been.", "On a conviction of desertion evidence of convictions of previous desertions may also be introduced, irrespective of the enlistment or of the period which may have elapsed since such conviction or convictions.", "When a noncommissioned officer is convicted of an offense not punishable with reduction, he may, upon proof of one previous conviction within the prescribed period (see section 1 of this article), be sentenced to reduction in addition to the punishment already authorized.", "First-class privates may be reduced to second-class privates in all cases where for like offenses on the part of noncommissioned officers their reduction in grade is now authorized.|-2.0|2.0}}", "=== . === When a soldier shall, on one arraignment, be convicted of two or more offenses, none of which is punishable under Article II of this order or the custom of the service with dishonorable discharge, but the aggregate term of confinement for which, as specified in said article, may exceed six months, dishonorable discharge with forfeiture of pay and allowances may be awarded in addition to the authorized confinement.", "=== . === If, in any case where the limit of punishment is dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and confinement at hard labor for a stated number of months, dishonorable discharge be not adjudged, the limit of forfeiture shall be all pay due and to become due during the prescribed limit of confinement.", "=== . === This order prescribes the maximum limit of punishment for the offenses named, and this limit is intended for those cases in which the severest punishment should be awarded. In other cases the punishment should be graded down according to the extenuating circumstances. Offenses not herein provided for remain punishable as authorized by the Articles of War and the custom of the service.", "=== . === Substitutions for punishment named in Article II of this order are authorized at the discretion of the courts at the following rates:", "Two days' confinement at hard labor for one dollar forfeiture, or the reverse; one day's solitary confinement on bread and water diet for two days' confinement at hard labor or for one dollar forfeiture; provided that a noncommissioned officer not sentenced to reduction shall not be subject to confinement; and provided that solitary confinement shall not exceed fourteen days at one time, nor be repeated until fourteen days have elapsed, and shall not exceed eighty-four days in one year.", "This order shall become operative in the United States and contiguous Territories thirty days after its date, and elsewhere within the jurisdiction of the United States sixty days from its date. |}", "Theodore Roosevelt The White House, November 25, 1908.", "== Notes == Amends: Executive Order 330-B, June 12, 1905 Amended by: Executive Order 1173, March 3, 1910 Executive Order 1333, April 14, 1911 Executive Order of June 10, 1911 (General Orders No. 77, War Dept., 1911) Superseded by: Executive Order 2043, September 5, 1914 See Related: Executive Order of March 26, 1901 Executive Order 2498, December 15, 1916 Executive Order 4773, November 29, 1927"], "source": "Wikisource (from Published: [http://books.google.com/books?id=EqQyAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA52 General Orders, No. 204], War Dept., December 15, 1908  )", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Revised the peacetime limits of punishment for Army enlisted men, capping confinement at hard labor for desertion at three years, with set conditions for modifying that limit.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-11-25", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-981", "type": "executive_order", "number": "981", "tr_sequence": 947, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-11-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Stephen C. Stuntz as Soil Bibliographer in Soils Bureau", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_981", "revid": 1764805, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Stephen C. Stuntz may be appointed a soil bibliographer in the Bureau of Soils, Department of Agriculture, without reference to the provisions of the civil-service act and rules."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House November 25, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Stephen C. Stuntz to be appointed soil bibliographer in the Agriculture Department's Bureau of Soils without civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Stephen C. Stuntz"], "significance": 1, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-11-25", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-825", "type": "proclamation", "number": "825", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-11-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Choctawhatchee National Forest, Florida", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 825, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-825"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2208, "last_page": 2208, "cite": "35 Stat. 2208", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2208.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-11-27", "table_title": "Setting apart the Choctawhatchee National Forest, Florida."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Florida, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by utilizing said lands as a National Forest;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An Act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from settlement or entry and set apart as a public reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Florida, shown as the Choetawhatchee National Forest on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is 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 27th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2208", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Choetawhatchee National Forest, Fla.", "Preamble.", "National Forest, Florida.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Prior rights not affected, etc."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart the Choctawhatchee National Forest on partly timbered public lands in Florida.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Choetawhatchee National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Florida"}], "states": ["Florida"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [71], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-11-27", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Choctawhatchee was part of the Florida National Forest from 1911, took its own name again in 1927, and in 1940 about 340,000 acres went to the War Department as Eglin Field.", "source": "FS-612; official Eglin history", "date": "1940-06-27", "story": 71}], "today": [{"name": "Eglin Air Force Base", "kind": "military_installation", "relation": "transferred", "state": "Florida", "note": "About 340,000 acres transferred to the War Department in 1940 as Eglin Field.", "source": "Official Eglin history", "story": 71}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1911-04-17", "text": "Proclamation 1122 combined the Choctawhatchee and Ocala as the Florida National Forest.", "source": "37 Stat. 1678", "story": 71}, {"date": "1927-11-10", "text": "After the Ocala division was separated out, the remainder was renamed the Choctawhatchee by executive order.", "source": "FS-612", "story": 71}, {"date": "1940-06-27", "text": "The Choctawhatchee National Forest was transferred to the War Department and became Eglin Field.", "source": "Official Eglin history", "story": 71}], "uncertain": ["Whether anyone outside the Forest Service formally asked for the Choctawhatchee forest is not known."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-982", "type": "executive_order", "number": "982", "tr_sequence": 948, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-11-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Limit Exceptions from Examination for Certain Postmasters", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_982", "revid": 3905169, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 126"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Schedule A, Subdivision V, paragraph 4 of the civil-service rules, is hereby amended to read as follows:", "All employees on star routes and in post-offices having no city free delivery service, other than postmasters of the fourth class, in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 126)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, November 30, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Narrowed a civil-service exception covering star-route employees and post offices without city delivery to fourteen northern and northeastern states, excluding fourth-class postmasters.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["Maine", "New Hampshire", "Vermont", "Massachusetts", "Rhode Island", "Connecticut", "New York", "New Jersey", "Pennsylvania", "Ohio", "Indiana", "Illinois", "Wisconsin", "Michigan"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-11-30", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-983", "type": "executive_order", "number": "983", "tr_sequence": 949, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-11-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Fourth Class Postmasters Without Examination Until Civil Service Registers Available", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_983", "revid": 1914091, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 126"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Fourth-class postmasters having been classified in certain States and time being necessarily required before any positions in such offices can be filled by examination and certification from the Civil Service Commission, any vacancy in such post-offices occurring prior to the time at which the Civil Service Commission shall certify to the Post-Office Department that it is able to hold examinations and make certifications to such positions may be filled by the Post-Office Department without examination."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 126)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, November 30, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let the Post-Office Department fill newly classified fourth-class postmaster vacancies without examination until the Civil Service Commission could certify eligibles.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-11-30", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The order letting the Post Office fill fourth-class postmasterships by interim appointment stood for thirty-nine years.", "source": "research entry", "story": 103}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1947", "text": "The order was revoked.", "source": "research entry", "story": 103}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-984", "type": "executive_order", "number": "984", "tr_sequence": 950, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-12-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Admission of Deaf-Mutes to Examinations for Civil Service", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_984", "revid": 1908216, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 123"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Deaf-mutes may be admitted to examination for all places in the classified civil service of the United States whose duties, in the opinion of the Civil Service Commission, they are capable of performing."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 123)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House December 1, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Opened civil-service examinations to deaf-mutes for any classified position the Civil Service Commission judged they could perform.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-12-01", "impact": {"later_actions": [{"date": "1909", "text": "The order admitting deaf-mutes to civil-service examinations was amended, not repealed, four months later.", "source": "research entry", "story": 103}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-985", "type": "executive_order", "number": "985", "tr_sequence": 951, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-12-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Adding Certain Lands in Nonucan, Mindanao, Philippine Islands, to Camp Overton Military Reservation as Target Range", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_985", "revid": 1912348, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 200, War Dept., December 10, 1908"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that the Military Reservation of Camp Overton, situated at Nonucan, about three miles west of Iligan, in the Island of Mindanao, Philippine Islands, as reserved by executive order, dated July 11, 1903 (G. O. No. 112, Headquarters of the Army, Adjutant General's Office, July 31, 1903), be enlarged by the addition thereto of land for a target range, so that the reservation, as enlarged, will include all public lands, and those only, within metes and bounds, as follows:", "Starting at the mouth of the Nonucan River and running thence along low-water mark in an easterly direction about 1,737.36 meters to the center of the mouth of Timonora Creek; thence following the center of the bed of Timonora Creek to a point 815.34 meters from low-water mark at the mouth of said creek, in general direction south 24 degrees east; thence south 58 degrees 47 minutes west about 454.15 meters to the top of ridge separating the valleys of Timonora Creek and Nonucan River; thence following said ridge in a general direction south 8 degrees east 5,562.62 meters to a point near old Spanish trail; thence due west 396.24 meters; thence north 17 degrees 40 minutes west 5,821.66 meters to concrete monument; thence south 7 degrees 15 minutes west 2,072.64 meters to concrete monument; thence south 48 degrees 32 minutes west 691.90 meters to a point in face of rock on west bank of Agus River 137.16 meters south of Maria Christina Falls; thence following west bank of Agus River, general direction north 34 degrees west 1,871.47 meters to concrete monument on beach at mouth of Agus River; thence along low-water mark of coast line in general direction north 51 degrees 30 minutes east for 2,124.46 meters to starting point at mouth of Nonucan River."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 200, War Dept., December 10, 1908)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House December 1, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Enlarged the Camp Overton military reservation at Nonucan, near Iligan on Mindanao, to add land for a target range.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Camp Overton", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}, {"name": "Mindanao", "kind": "island", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-12-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-986", "type": "executive_order", "number": "986", "tr_sequence": 952, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-12-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Regarding Exceptions from Examination for Army Transport Service", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_986", "revid": 13968469, "printed_source": "1908 CSR 126"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Schedule A, Subdivision III, section 4, of the civil service rules, is hereby amended to read as follows:", "United States army transport service: Longshoremen employed by the department at ports in the United States; trade and noneducational employees in the Philippine Islands, and all employees on transport ships other than clerks.", "The transfer or promotion of any person brought into the competitive service by this amendment shall be subject to the civil service rules and the following limitations:", "(a) If he has had less than five years' service he may not be transferred or promoted to any position except upon passing the examination prescribed for such position; if his transfer is proposed to a position in the clerical grade, and is otherwise permissible under the rules, he may not be so transferred until he has passed the prescribed examination with the rating required for promotion to the clerical grade in the departments at Washington; if his transfer is proposed to a position other than clerical he may not be transferred until he has passed the prescribed examination with the rating required for original entrance to such position.", "(b) If he has had five years' or more satisfactory service he may be transferred to a position of no higher grade without examination; but he may not be transferred to a position of a higher grade without passing the prescribed examination for original entrance to such position, regardless of the length of his service."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1908 CSR 126)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, December 3, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Rewrote the civil-service exception for the Army transport service, covering longshoremen, Philippine trade workers and most ship crews, and set conditions on later transfers or promotions.", "categories": ["civil-service", "military-naval"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-12-03", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-987", "type": "executive_order", "number": "987", "tr_sequence": 953, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-12-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Dell A. Baker as Deputy Collector in Office of Collector of Customs at Port of New York", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_987", "revid": 1764808, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Dell A. Baker may be appointed to the position of deputy collector in the office of the collector of customs at the port of New York."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House December 3, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Permitted Dell A. Baker to be appointed deputy collector in the office of the collector of customs at the port of New York.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["New York"], "people": ["Dell A. Baker"], "significance": 1, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-12-03", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-826", "type": "proclamation", "number": "826", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-12-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Land for Light-House Uses on Hana Bay, Maui Island, Hawaii", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 826, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-826"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2208, "last_page": 2209, "cite": "35 Stat. 2208–2209", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2208.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-12-04", "table_title": "Reserving land for light-house uses on Hana Bay, Mauai Island, Hawaii."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, by joint resolution “to provide for annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the United States,” approved July 7, 1898, the cession by the government of the Republic of Hawaii, to the United States of America, of all rights of sovereignty of whatsoever kind in and over the Hawaiian Islands and their dependencies, and the transfer to the United States of the absolute fee and ownership of all public, government or crown lands, public buildings, or edifices, ports, harbors, military equipment, and all other public property of every kind and description belonging to the government of the Hawaiian Islands, was duly accepted, ratified, and confirmed, and the said Hawaiian Islands and their dependencies annexed as a part of the territory of the United States, and made subject to the sovereign dominion thereof, and all and singular the property and rights hereinbefore mentioned vested in the United States of America;", "AND WHEREAS, it was further provided in said resolution that the existing laws of the United States relative to public lands shall not apply to such lands in the Hawaiian Islands, but the Congress of the United States shall enact special laws for their management and disposition;", "AND WHEREAS, it is deemed necessary in the public interests that a certain parcel of land situated in Hana Bay, in the island and County of Maui, Territory of Hawaii, be immediately reserved for light-house purposes;", "NOW THEREFORE, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States, by virtue of the authority in me vested, do hereby declare, proclaim, and make known that the following described lot or plat of land be and the same is hereby, subject to such legislative action as the Congress of the United States may take with respect thereto, reserved for light-house purposes, to-wit:—", "All of the land, the property of the United States of America, on the island of Puukii (sometimes known as Puuiki) on the south side of the entrance to the harbor variously known as Hana, Pueokahi and Kauiki, in the County of Maui, Territory of Hawaii.", "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 December in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2208", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Hawaiian Islands.", "Lands on Maui Island reserved for light-house purposes.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 30, p. 750.", "Hana Bay.", "Light-house site.", "Description."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Reserving Land for Light-House Uses on Hana Bay, Mauai Island, Hawaii”. \"Mauai\" is a typo in the American Presidency Project catalog; 35 Stat. 2208 reads \"Maui Island\"."], "summary": "Reserved for lighthouse purposes the U.S.-owned land on the island of Puukii at the entrance to Hana harbor, Maui.", "categories": ["lighthouses", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Puukii", "kind": "island", "state": "Hawaii"}, {"name": "Hana Bay", "kind": "other", "state": "Hawaii"}], "states": ["Hawaii"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [74], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-12-04", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Hana Bay light stands on the islet of Puʻukiʻi just off Kaʻuiki Head, and the station has always carried the Kaʻuiki Head name.", "source": "research entry", "story": 74}, {"text": "A fourteen-foot concrete pyramidal tower was built on Puʻukiʻi in 1914, and the light was converted to acetylene and automated.", "source": "LighthouseFriends", "date": "1914", "story": 74}], "today": [{"name": "Kaʻuiki Head Light", "kind": "lighthouse", "relation": "part", "state": "Hawaii", "note": "A Coast Guard aid to navigation on the islet of Puʻukiʻi, Hana Bay, Maui.", "source": "LighthouseFriends", "story": 74}, {"name": "Puʻukiʻi islet bird sanctuary", "kind": "other", "relation": "part", "state": "Hawaii", "note": "The islet reserved in 1908 is now a bird sanctuary closed to visitors.", "source": "LighthouseFriends", "story": 74}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-513", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The 1903 proclamation that brought the Republic of Hawaii's lighthouse establishment into the federal system.", "story": 74, "date": "1903-12-28", "title": "Lighthouses in Hawaii", "type": "proclamation", "number": "513"}]}
{"id": "proc-827", "type": "proclamation", "number": "827", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-12-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Land for Light-House Uses at Lae o Kokole, Kauai Island, Hawaii", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 827, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-827"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2209, "last_page": 2211, "cite": "35 Stat. 2209–2211", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2209.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-12-04", "table_title": "Reserving land for light-house uses at Lae o Kokole, Kauai Island, Hawaii."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, by joint resolution “to provide for annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the United States”, approved July 7, 1898, the cession by the government of the Republic of Hawaii to the United States of America, of all rights of sovereignty of whatsoever kind in and over the Hawaiian Islands and their dependencies, and the transfer to the United States of the absolute fee and ownership of all public, government or crown lands, public buildings, or edifices, ports, harbors, military equipment, and all other public property of every kind and description belonging to the government of the Hawaiian Islands, was duly accepted, ratified, and confirmed, and the said Hawaiian Islands and their dependencies annexed as a part of the territory of the United States, and made subject to the sovereign dominion thereof, and all and singular the property and rights hereinbefore mentioned vested in the United States of America;", "AND WHEREAS, it was further provided in said resolution that the existing laws of the United States relative to public lands shall not apply to such lands in the Hawaiian Islands, but the Congress of the United States shall enact special laws for their management and disposition;", "AND WHEREAS, it is deemed necessary in the public interests that a certain parcel of land situated at Lae o Kokole, District of Waimea, in the Island of Kauai, Territory of Hawaii, be immediately reserved for light-house purposes;", "NOW THEREFORE, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States, by virtue of the authority in me vested do hereby declare, proclaim, and make known that the following described lot or plot of land be and the same is hereby, subject to such legislative action as the Congress of the United States may take with respect thereto, reserved for light-house purposes, to-wit:—", "2210ernment Survey triangulation station “Kanaloa” are respectively 100° 25’ and 7464.1 feet, and running by true azimuths and distances as follows: 1. 295° 5’ 376.95 ft. to a point marked by a 1” gal. iron pipe 2. 25° 5’ 439.0 “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ 3. 25° 5’ 202.2 “more or less to a point on the seashore 4. 115° 5’ 376.95 “along the seashore to a point on the seashore. 5. 205° 5’ 197.8 “more or less to a point marked by a 1” gal. iron pipe. 6. 205° 5’ 443.4 “to the point of beginning; Containing an area of 5.5486 acres more or less.", "2211 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 December in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2209", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Hawaiian Islands.", "Lands on Kauai Island reserved for lighthouse purposes.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 30, p. 750.", "Lae o Kokole, district of Waimea.", "Light-house site.", "Description.", "Right of way to Government main road."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Reserved a parcel at Lae o Kokole, in the Waimea district of Kauai, for lighthouse purposes, with a right-of-way to the government road.", "categories": ["lighthouses", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Lae o Kokole", "kind": "lighthouse", "state": "Hawaii"}], "states": ["Hawaii"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [74], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-12-04", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Light-House Board's fiscal 1909 report listed Lae o Kokole among Twelfth District lights that \"should be provided with quarters for the keepers.\"", "source": "Light-House Board, Annual Report for fiscal 1909, p. 60", "date": "1909", "story": 74}], "uncertain": ["Whether today's Kokole light east of Kekaha stands on the 1908 Lae o Kokole parcel is not confirmed; the survey ties the plot only to the territorial survey station \"Kanaloa,\" whose position has not been compared with the Coast Guard's light position."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-513", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The 1903 proclamation that brought the Republic of Hawaii's lighthouse establishment into the federal system.", "story": 74, "date": "1903-12-28", "title": "Lighthouses in Hawaii", "type": "proclamation", "number": "513"}]}
{"id": "proc-828", "type": "proclamation", "number": "828", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-12-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Land for Light-House Uses at McGregor's Point, Maui Island, Hawaii", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 828, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-828"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2211, "last_page": 2212, "cite": "35 Stat. 2211–2212", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2211.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-12-04", "table_title": "Reserving land for light-house uses at McGregor’s Point, Mauai Island, Hawaii."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, by joint resolution “to provide for annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the United States”, approved July 7, 1898, the cession by the government of the Republic of Hawaii to the United States of America, of all rights of sovereignty of whatsoever kind in and over the Hawaiian Islands and their dependencies, and the transfer to the United States of the absolute fee and ownership of all public, government or crown lands, public buildings, or edifices, ports, harbors, military equipment, and all other public property of every kind and description belonging to the government of the Hawaiian Islands, was duly accepted, ratified, and confirmed, and the said Hawaiian Islands and their dependencies annexed as a part of the territory of the United States, and made subject to the sovereign dominion thereof, and all and singular the property and rights hereinbefore mentioned vested in the United States of America;", "AND WHEREAS, it was further provided in said resolution that the existing laws of the United States relative to public lands shall not apply to such lands in the Hawaiian Islands, but the Congress of the United States shall enact special laws for their management and disposition;", "AND WHEREAS, it is deemed necessary in the public interests that a certain parcel of land situated at McGregor’s Point, District of Lahaina, in the Island of Maui, Territory of Hawaii, be immediately reserved for light-house purposes;", "NOW THEREFORE, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States, by virtue of the authority in me vested do hereby declare, proclaim, and make known that the following described lot or plot of land be and the same is hereby, subject to such legislative action as the Congress of the United States may take with respect thereto, reserved for light-house purposes, to-wit:—", "Containing 1.32 acres more or less.", "2212 Dwelling site: From the mast of McGregor’s Point Light Station measure by true azimuth 138° 45’ 945 ft. to a point on the hillside for a place of beginning. Thence by true azimuths and distances: 1. 157° 52’ 275 ft. thence 2. 104° 15’ 450 “ “ 3. 337° 52’ 560 “more or less to north side of Government road; thence 4. Along Government road to place bearing 337° 52’ and being about 300 ft. distant from place of beginning; thence 5. 157° 52’ 300 ft. to place of beginning. Containing 4.2 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 4th day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2211", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Hawaiian Islands.", "Lands on Maui Island reserved for light-house purposes.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 30, p. 750.", "McGregor’s Point, District of Lahaina.", "Light-house site.", "Description.", "Dwelling site."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Reserving Land for Light-House Uses at McGregor's Point, Mauai Island, Hawaii”. \"Mauai\" is a typo in the American Presidency Project catalog."], "summary": "Set aside land at McGregor's Point, in Maui's Lahaina district, for a lighthouse site and a keeper's dwelling site.", "categories": ["lighthouses", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "McGregor's Point", "kind": "lighthouse", "state": "Hawaii"}], "states": ["Hawaii"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [74], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-12-04", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "A twenty-foot reinforced-concrete pyramidal tower had replaced the light's mast by 1915.", "source": "LighthouseFriends", "date": "1915", "story": 74}], "today": [{"name": "McGregor Point Light", "kind": "lighthouse", "relation": "part", "state": "Hawaii", "note": "Still a Coast Guard aid to navigation on Maui.", "source": "LighthouseFriends", "story": 74}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-513", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The 1903 proclamation that brought the Republic of Hawaii's lighthouse establishment into the federal system.", "story": 74, "date": "1903-12-28", "title": "Lighthouses in Hawaii", "type": "proclamation", "number": "513"}]}
{"id": "proc-829", "type": "proclamation", "number": "829", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-12-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Land for Light-House Uses at Kahala Point, Kauai Island, Hawaii", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 829, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-829"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2212, "last_page": 2213, "cite": "35 Stat. 2212–2213", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2212.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-12-04", "table_title": "Reserving land for light-house uses at Kahala Point, Kauai Island, Hawaii."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, by joint resolution “to provide for annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the United States”, approved July 7, 1898, the cession by the government of the Republic of Hawaii to the United States of America, of all rights of sovereignty of whatsoever kind in and over the Hawaiian Islands and their dependencies, and the transfer to the United States of the absolute fee and ownership of all public, government or crown lands, public buildings, or edifices, ports, harbors, military equipment, and all other public property of every kind and description belonging to the government of the Hawaiian Islands, was duly accepted, ratified, and confirmed, and the said Hawaiian Islands and their dependencies annexed as a part of the territory of the United States, and made subject to the sovereign dominion thereof, and all and singular the property and rights hereinbefore mentioned vested in the United States of America;", "AND WHEREAS, it was further provided in said resolution that the existing laws of the United States relative to public lands shall not apply to such lands in the Hawaiian Islands, but the Congress of the United States shall enact special laws for their management and disposition;", "AND WHEREAS, it is deemed necessary in the public interests that a certain parcel of land situated at Kahala Point, in the Island of Kauai, Territory of Hawaii, be immediately reserved for light-house purposes;", "NOW THEREFORE, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States, by virtue of the authority in me vested do hereby declare, proclaim, and make known that the following described lot or plot of land be and the same is hereby, subject to such legislative action as the Congress of the United States may take with respect thereto, reserved for light-house purposes, to-wit:—", "2213lation station “Bight” are respectively 38° 36’ and 384.4 ft. and running by true azimuths and distances as follows: 1. 196° 50’ 243.2 ft. to a point marked by a cross on a stone. 2. 194° 55’ 165.3 “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ 3. 166° 52’ 133.3 “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ 4. 143° 30’ 136.1 “ “ “ “ “’ “ “ “ “ “ 5. 121° 4’ 43.5 “ “ “ “ “ “ “1” Gal. Iron Pipe 6. 180° 0’ 149.3 “more or less to a point on the seashore marked by a cross on a stone. 7. 261° 29’ 140.5 “along the seashore to a point marked by a cross on a stone. 8. 321° 17’ 371.2 “along the seashore to a point marked by a cross on a stone. 9. 353° 54’ 404.1 “along the seashore to a point marked by a cross on a stone. 10. 70° 42’ 400.8 “more or less, to the point of beginning. Containing an area of 4.5202 acres more or less.", "Containing an area of 1.1524 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 4th day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2212", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Hawaiian Islands.", "Lands on Kauai Island reserved for lighthouse, etc., purposes.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 30, p. 750.", "Kahala Point.", "Light-house site.", "Description.", "Right of way to Anahola wharf landing.", "Description."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Reserved land at Kahala Point on Kauai for lighthouse purposes, along with a right-of-way to the Anahola wharf landing.", "categories": ["lighthouses", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Kahala Point", "kind": "lighthouse", "state": "Hawaii"}], "states": ["Hawaii"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [74], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-12-04", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Light-House Board's fiscal 1909 report listed Kahala among Twelfth District lights that \"should be provided with quarters for the keepers.\"", "source": "Light-House Board, Annual Report for fiscal 1909, p. 60", "date": "1909", "story": 74}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Kahala Point light was automated in 1913.", "source": "LighthouseFriends", "date": "1913", "story": 74}], "today": [{"name": "Kahala Point Light", "kind": "lighthouse", "relation": "part", "state": "Hawaii", "note": "Still a Coast Guard aid to navigation on Kauai's east coast.", "source": "LighthouseFriends", "story": 74}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-513", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The 1903 proclamation that brought the Republic of Hawaii's lighthouse establishment into the federal system.", "story": 74, "date": "1903-12-28", "title": "Lighthouses in Hawaii", "type": "proclamation", "number": "513"}]}
{"id": "proc-830", "type": "proclamation", "number": "830", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-12-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Land for Light-House Uses at Ka Lae, Hawaii Island, Hawaii", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 830, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-830"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2213, "last_page": 2214, "cite": "35 Stat. 2213–2214", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2213.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-12-04", "table_title": "Reserving land for light-house uses at Ka Lae, Hawaii Island, Hawaii."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["A PROCLAMATION.", "WHEREAS, by joint resolution “to provide for annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the United States”, approved July 7, 1898, the cession by the government of the Republic of Hawaii to the United States of America, of all rights of sovereignty of whatsoever kind in and over the Hawaiian Islands and their dependencies, and the transfer to the United States of the absolute fee and ownership of all public, government or crown lands, public buildings, or edifices, ports, harbors, military equipment, and all other public property of every kind and description belonging to the government of the Hawaiian Islands, was duly accepted, ratified, and confirmed, and the said Hawaiian Islands and their dependencies annexed as a part of the territory of the United States, and made subject to the sovereign dominion thereof, and all and singular the property and rights hereinbefore mentioned vested in the United States of America;", "AND WHEREAS, it was further provided in said resolution that the existing laws of the United States relative to public lands shall not apply to such lands in the Hawaiian Islands, but the Congress of the United States shall enact special laws for their management and disposition;", "AND WHEREAS, it was deemed necessary in the public interests that a certain parcel of land situated at Ka Lae, District of Kau, in the Island of Hawaii, Territory of Hawaii, be immediately reserved for light-house purposes;", "NOW THEREFORE, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States, by virtue of the authority in me vested do hereby declare, proclaim, and make known that the following described lot or plot of land be and the same is hereby, subject to such legislative action as the Congress of the United States may take with respect thereto, reserved for light-house purposes, to-wit:—", "From Ka Lae Trig. Station measure by true azimuth 195° 15′ 310 feet to a stake for a place of beginning. Thence by true azimuths and distances:", "1. 134° 17′ 600.3 ft. to a drill hole “A” in center of a square cut in the solid rock, by the sea. Thence continuing the last described course;", "2. 134° 17′ to high water mark at the sea.", "3. Thence along the sea at high water mark in a southeasterly direction; thence", "4. 174° 49′ to a point “B” a drill hole in the solid rock. The points “A” and “B” being connected as follows. Beginning at “A” thence 355° 56′ 1127.7 ft. to a drill hole in the rock. Thence 306° 12′ 546.8 ft. to the point “B” aforesaid. Thence continuing the last described course;", "5. 174° 49′ 1032.6 ft. to the place of beginning.", "Containing 10.02 acres more or less exclusive of seashore and Pali.", "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 December in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third.", "[SEAL.]", "THEODORE ROOSEVELT.", "By the President:", "ALVEY A. ADEE", "Acting Secretary of State."], "source": "35 Stat. 2213–2214 (GovInfo page images), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Statutes print no 'By the President of the United States of America' heading over the five Hawaii light-house proclamations, only 'A PROCLAMATION.' Third recital reads 'public interests.' [SEAL.] restored. Small capitals in the signature block rendered as capitals. Preamble and survey description given in full.", "story": 74}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Alvey A. Adee", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Reserved about 10 acres at Ka Lae, in the Kau district of the island of Hawaii, for lighthouse purposes.", "categories": ["lighthouses", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Ka Lae", "kind": "lighthouse", "state": "Hawaii"}], "states": ["Hawaii"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [74], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-12-04", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "A forty-five-foot steel tower replaced the Ka Lae mast in 1928, its beacon run from batteries charged by a wind-driven generator.", "source": "LighthouseFriends", "date": "1928", "story": 74}, {"text": "The Ka Lae light was automated in 1949 and replaced by a thirty-two-foot concrete pole in 1972; it now runs on solar-charged batteries.", "source": "LighthouseFriends", "date": "1972", "story": 74}, {"text": "Ka Lae became an early test of statehood and ceded land: Governor William F. Quinn and Representative Daniel K. Inouye argued that surplus acreage of the reservation should go back to the State under section 5(e) of the Hawaii Statehood Act.", "source": "Inouye to Herbert C. Bonner, June 3, 1960, Inouye Papers", "date": "1960-06-03", "story": 74}], "today": [{"name": "Ka Lae Light", "kind": "lighthouse", "relation": "part", "state": "Hawaii", "note": "Owned by the Coast Guard and still an aid to navigation at South Point, Island of Hawaii.", "source": "LighthouseFriends", "story": 74}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1960", "text": "The Coast Guard declared about 5¾ acres of the Ka Lae reservation surplus.", "source": "Inouye to Herbert C. Bonner, June 3, 1960, and enclosures, Inouye Papers", "story": 74}], "uncertain": ["Whether the roughly 5¾ acres declared surplus in 1960 went back to the State of Hawaii under section 5(e) of the Statehood Act is not known."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-513", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The 1903 proclamation that brought the Republic of Hawaii's lighthouse establishment into the federal system.", "story": 74, "date": "1903-12-28", "title": "Lighthouses in Hawaii", "type": "proclamation", "number": "513"}]}
{"id": "proc-831", "type": "proclamation", "number": "831", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-12-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Aside the Wheeler National Monument, Colorado", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 831, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-831"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2214, "last_page": 2215, "cite": "35 Stat. 2214–2215", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2214.pdf", "statutes_date": "1908-12-07", "table_title": "Setting aside the Wheeler National Monument, Colorado."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America", "A PROCLAMATION", "WHEREAS, certain volcanic formations in the State of Colorado within the Rio Grande and Cochetopa National Forests, are of unusual scientific interest as illustrating erratic erosion, and it appears that the public interests would be promoted by reserving said formations as a National Monument;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section two of the Act of Congress, approved June eighth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, \"An Act For the preservation of American antiquities,\" do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws, subject to all prior valid adverse claims, and set apart as a National Monument, all the tracts of land, in the State of Colorado, shown as the Wheeler National Monument on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The reservation made by this proclamation is not intended to prevent the use of the lands for forest purposes under the Executive Orders establishing the Rio Grande and Cochetopa National Forests, but the two reservations shall both be effective on the land withdrawn, but the National Monument hereby established shall be the dominant reservation and any use of the land which interferes with its preservation or protection as a National Monument is hereby forbidden.", "Warning is hereby given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure, or destroy any feature of this National Monument, or 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 to be affixed.", "Done at the City of Washington this 7th day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third.", "Theodore Roosevelt", "By the President:", "Elihu Root", "Secretary of State."], "source": "35 Stat. 2214–2215 (GovInfo page images), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "[SEAL.] restored inside the dating clause. Boundary carried on the Forest Service diagram bound between pp. 2214 and 2215 (\"Wheeler National Monument within Cochetopa and Rio Grande National Forests, Colorado, 1908\"); no metes-and-bounds passage to abridge.", "story": 72}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Wheeler National Monument to protect volcanic formations of unusual scientific interest within the Rio Grande and Cochetopa National Forests, making the monument the dominant reservation.", "categories": ["monuments"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Wheeler National Monument", "kind": "monument", "state": "Colorado"}, {"name": "Rio Grande National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}, {"name": "Cochetopa National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Colorado"}], "states": ["Colorado"], "people": [], "significance": 5, "stories": [72], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-12-07", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "Colorado papers greeted the monument warmly; 35 items, nearly all one Washington notice, ran across the state, and no criticism has been found.", "source": "Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection, December 1908–January 1909", "date": "1908-12", "story": 72}, {"text": "The Monte Vista Journal, still awaiting the proclamation, called the spot \"much grander than the Garden of the Gods at Colorado Springs.\"", "source": "Monte Vista Journal, December 19, 1908", "date": "1908-12-19", "story": 72}, {"text": "The Washington notice, run as \"New Colorado Park\" and on the Creede Candle's front page, predicted tourists once a road or trail was built and noted it could then be reached only on foot.", "source": "Boulder Daily Camera, December 21, 1908; Creede Candle, December 26, 1908", "date": "1908-12", "story": 72}, {"text": "An illustrated feature on the monument followed in January.", "source": "Elbert County Tribune, January 14, 1909", "date": "1909-01-14", "story": 72}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The monument was made the dominant reservation over the Rio Grande and Cochetopa National Forests, with both reservations remaining in effect on the same land.", "source": "35 Stat. 2214–2215", "date": "1908-12-07", "story": 72}], "legacy": [{"text": "Never given a road, the monument drew about a hundred visitors a year in the 1920s and 43 recorded visits in 1943.", "source": "National Parks Traveler, December 2009", "story": 72}, {"text": "Congress abolished the 300-acre monument in 1950 and returned the land to the Rio Grande National Forest, the same day it abolished Colorado's Holy Cross National Monument.", "source": "64 Stat. 404–405", "date": "1950-08-03", "story": 72}, {"text": "The pinnacles are protected as the Wheeler Geologic Area, enlarged in 1962 and brought into the La Garita Wilderness in 1993.", "source": "Colorado Encyclopedia", "date": "1993", "story": 72}], "today": [{"name": "Wheeler National Monument", "kind": "national_monument", "relation": "abolished", "state": "Colorado", "note": "Abolished 1950; the formations are now the Wheeler Geologic Area of the Rio Grande National Forest, in the La Garita Wilderness.", "source": "Act of August 3, 1950, 64 Stat. 405", "story": 72}, {"name": "Rio Grande National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Colorado", "note": "Wheeler Geologic Area.", "source": "Act of August 3, 1950, 64 Stat. 405", "story": 72}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1933", "text": "The government reorganization moved the monument from the Forest Service to the National Park Service.", "source": "research entry", "story": 72}, {"date": "1950-08-03", "text": "Congress abolished \"the Wheeler National Monument, containing three hundred acres\" and placed the land under the surrounding national forest.", "source": "ch. 534, Pub. L. 81-652, 64 Stat. 405", "story": 72}, {"date": "1962", "text": "The Forest Service enlarged the protected Wheeler area.", "source": "Colorado Encyclopedia", "story": 72}, {"date": "1993", "text": "The Colorado Wilderness Act brought the area into the La Garita Wilderness, exempting a four-wheel-drive road of about fourteen miles.", "source": "Colorado Encyclopedia", "story": 72}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-988", "type": "executive_order", "number": "988", "tr_sequence": 954, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-12-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Colby Land District, Kansas, Abolished; Transferred to Topeka Land District", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Abolished the Colby land district in Kansas and transferred its business to the Topeka land district.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Colby land district", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Kansas"}, {"name": "Topeka land district", "kind": "land-district", "state": "Kansas"}], "states": ["Kansas"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-12-07", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "local", "text": "The Colby, Kansas, land office, down to about 42,000 acres of unappropriated land against a statutory threshold of 100,000, was consolidated with Topeka effective February 1, 1909.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1909-02-01", "story": 103}], "uncertain": ["The full text of this order has not been found."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-989", "type": "executive_order", "number": "989", "tr_sequence": 955, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-12-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Prescribing Regulations for Physical Examinations for Marine Corps Officers", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_989", "revid": 2221295, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Officers of the United States Marine Corps, of whatever rank, will be examined physically and undergo the tests herein prescribed at least once every two years; the time of such examination to be designated by the Commandant of the Corps so as to interfere as little as possible with their regular duties, and the tests to be carried out in the United States between May first and July first, as the Commandant of the Corps may direct, and on foreign stations between December first and February first.", "All field officers will be required to take a riding test of ninety miles, this distance to be covered in three days. Physical examinations before and after riding, and the riding tests to be the same as those prescribed for the United States Army by General Orders, No. 79 (paragraph 3), War Department, May 14, 1908.", "Line officers of the Marine Corps in the grade of captain or lieutenant will be required to walk fifty miles, this distance to be divided into three days, actual marching time, including rests, twenty hours. In battle, time is essential and ground may have to be covered on the run; if these officers are not equal to the average physical strength of their companies the men will be held back, resulting in unnecessary loss of life and probably defeat. Company officers will, therefore, be required, during one of the marching periods, to double-time two hundred yards, with a half minute's rest; then three hundred yards, with one minute's rest; then complete the test in a two hundred yard dash, making in all seven hundred yards on the double-time, with one and one-half minutes' rest. The physical examinations before and after the test to be the same as provided for in paragraph 2 of this order.", "The Commandant of the Marine Corps will be required to make such of the above tests as the Secretary of the Navy shall direct.", "Field officers of the permanent staff of the Marine Corps who have arrived at an age and rank which renders it highly improbable that they will ever be assigned to any duty requiring participation in active military operations in the field, may, upon their own application, be excused from the physical test, but not from the physical examination, prescribed above. Such a request, however, if granted, will be regarded by the executive authority as conclusive reason for not selecting the applicant for any future promotion in volunteer rank, or for assignment, selection or promotion to a position involving participation in operations of the line of the Marine Corps, or in competition with officers of the line of the Marine Corps for any position."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House December 9, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Required Marine Corps officers to pass physical examinations and tests at least every two years, including a 90-mile, three-day riding test for field officers.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-12-09", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-991", "type": "executive_order", "number": "991", "tr_sequence": 957, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-12-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Georgia M. Sargent to Position in Classified Service", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_991", "revid": 1764847, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. Georgia M. Sargent, widow of the late Commissioner-General of Immigration, Frank P. Sargent, may be appointed to a position in the classified service without examination under the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House December 9, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Georgia M. Sargent, widow of Commissioner-General of Immigration Frank P. Sargent, to be appointed to a classified position without examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["Georgia"], "people": ["Georgia M. Sargent"], "significance": 1, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-12-09", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-990", "type": "executive_order", "number": "990", "tr_sequence": 956, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-12-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Wilhelm Lutz to Position in Customs Service", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_990", "revid": 1764816, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The executive order of March 21, 1908, permitting the appointment of Mr. Wilhelm Lutz, assistant chief of police of Porto Rico, to a position in the Immigration Bureau of the United States, is hereby amended to permit his appointment to a position in the Customs Service of the United States."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House December 10, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Amended an earlier order so Wilhelm Lutz, assistant chief of police of Porto Rico, could be appointed to the U.S. Customs Service instead of the Immigration Bureau.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": ["Puerto Rico"], "people": ["Wilhelm Lutz"], "significance": 1, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-12-10", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-992", "type": "executive_order", "number": "992", "tr_sequence": 958, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-12-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Transfer of Walter R. Gallaher to Classified Clerical Position in United States", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_992", "revid": 1764819, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Walter R. Gallaher, a clerk at $1,800 per annum in the Isthmian service, may be transferred to a classified clerical position in the United States."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House December 11, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Walter R. Gallaher, an $1,800 clerk in the Isthmian service, to transfer to a classified clerical position in the United States.", "categories": ["civil-service", "canal-zone"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Walter R. Gallaher"], "significance": 1, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-12-11", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-993", "type": "executive_order", "number": "993", "tr_sequence": 959, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-12-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Promotion of Herman W. Kuchmeister to Day Inspector", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_993", "revid": 1764821, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Herman W. Kuchmeister, an assistant weigher in the Customs Service at Boston, may be promoted to day inspector without further examination."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House December 18, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Permitted Herman W. Kuchmeister, an assistant weigher in the Boston customs service, to be promoted to day inspector without further examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["Massachusetts"], "people": ["Herman W. Kuchmeister"], "significance": 1, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-12-18", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-994", "type": "executive_order", "number": "994", "tr_sequence": 960, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-12-22", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Clare Kiggins to Position in Classified Service Upon Passing Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_994", "revid": 1764827, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Miss Clare Kiggins may be appointed to a position in the departmental classified service upon passing such appropriate noncompetitive examination for the place to be filled as the Commission may prescribe."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House December 22, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Clare Kiggins to be appointed to the departmental classified service after an appropriate noncompetitive examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Clare Kiggins"], "significance": 1, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-12-22", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-995", "type": "executive_order", "number": "995", "tr_sequence": 961, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-12-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Transfer of Clerks Serving in Cuba to Classified Service", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_995", "revid": 1748267, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["During the provisional administration of the Cuban Government by the United States, which began September 29, 1906, it became necessary for the United States to employ persons in a civil capacity in Cuba in classified positions, both under the provisional government and the army of Cuban pacification, some of whom were temporarily transferred from the classified service while others were appointed temporarily without examination.", "Upon the termination of the provisional government any person thus temporarily employed without examination may be transferred within one year from the date of the termination of his service in Cuba under the provisional government or the army of Cuban pacification to the classified service subject to the rules governing transfer and the following limitations:", "(a) He may not be transferred to a position requiring a higher grade of work than that performed by him in Cuba.", "(b) He must pass the examination required for original entrance to the position to which his transfer is proposed; and no person who at any time previous to this order or otherwise has failed in such examination shall be allowed reexamination except upon special order of the Civil Service Commission founded upon reasons peculiar to his case approved by said Commission.", "(c) He must have served at least one year In a civil capacity under the provisional government In Cuba or the army of Cuban pacification and to within six months of the termination of said provisional government or of the withdrawal of the said army of Cuban pacification.", "(d) His name must appear upon a list to be furnished by the War Department to the Civil Service Commission of persons who rendered satisfactory service and who were not separated for delinquency or misconduct, such list to show sufficient data to enable the Commission to determine eligibility for transfer under the foregoing.", "It is to be understood that this action is not to be taken as a precedent for similar action in any future case; and hereafter in making any appointments or employments, when it is not possible to make selection for that purpose from certifications from the Civil Service Commission's eligible registers, persons employed without examination shall not thereafter be brought into the classified service by special order."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House December 23, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let civilians employed temporarily in Cuba under the provisional government or the Army of Cuban Pacification transfer into the U.S. classified service within a year, if they passed the entrance exam and met service conditions.", "categories": ["civil-service", "foreign-affairs"], "action": "regulate", "places": [{"name": "Cuba", "kind": "country"}], "states": ["Cuba"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-12-23", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-996", "type": "executive_order", "number": "996", "tr_sequence": 962, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-12-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Appointing H. A. Gudger as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Canal Zone", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_996", "revid": 1909765, "printed_source": "2 Canal Record 155, January 13, 1909."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Under authority vested in me by law, and until otherwise provided by law or ordered, H. A. Gudger is appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Canal Zone, at a salary of six thousand five hundred dollars per annum.", "Effective January 4, 1909."], "source": "Wikisource (from 2 Canal Record 155, January 13, 1909.)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, December 23, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Appointed H. A. Gudger Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Canal Zone at $6,500 a year, effective January 4, 1909.", "categories": ["civil-service", "canal-zone"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": ["H. A. Gudger"], "significance": 1, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-12-23", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-997", "type": "executive_order", "number": "997", "tr_sequence": 963, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-12-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Appointing Wesley M. Owen as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Canal Zone", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_997", "revid": 1909767, "printed_source": "2 Canal Record 155, January 13, 1909."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Under authority vested in me by law, and until otherwise provided by law or ordered, Wesley M. Owen, is appointed an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Canal Zone, at a salary of six thousand dollars per annum.", "Effective January 4, 1909."], "source": "Wikisource (from 2 Canal Record 155, January 13, 1909.)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House, December 23, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Named Wesley M. Owen an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Canal Zone at $6,000 a year, effective January 4, 1909.", "categories": ["civil-service", "canal-zone"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": ["Wesley M. Owen"], "significance": 1, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-12-23", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-998", "type": "executive_order", "number": "998", "tr_sequence": 964, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-12-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Transfer of W. W. Adams to Position of Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue Upon Passing Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_998", "revid": 1764835, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The requirement of Rule X, that a person to be eligible for transfer must have been in the service at least six months next preceding the transfer, is hereby waived to permit the transfer of Mr. W. W. Adams from the postal service to the position of deputy collector of internal revenue upon his passing an appropriate examination prescribed by the Commission."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House December 28, 1908.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Waived the six-month service requirement so W. W. Adams could transfer from the postal service to deputy collector of internal revenue once he passed an examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["W. W. Adams"], "significance": 1, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-12-28", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-999", "type": "executive_order", "number": "999", "tr_sequence": 965, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-12-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Remission for Portion of Chinese Boxer Rebellion Indemnity", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_999", "revid": 12777505, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Pursuant to the authority of the joint resolution of Congress to provide for the remission of a portion of the Chinese indemnity, approved May 25, 1908, I hereby consent to a modification of the bond for $24,440,778.81, dated December 15, 1906, received from China pursuant to the protocol of September 7, 1901, for indemnity against losses and expenses incurred by reason of the so-called Boxer disturbances in China during the year 1900, so that the total payment to be made by China under the said bond shall be limited to the sum of $13,655,492.69 and interest at the stipulated rate of 4 per cent per annum, and that the remainder of the indemnity to which the United States is entitled under the said protocol and bond be remitted as an act of friendship, such payment and remission to be made at the time and in the manner hereinafter provided, which I deem to be just, that is to say:", "In accordance with the plan of amortization annexed to the original indemnity bond, the amounts payable hereafter by China to the United States would be as set forth in the schedule annexed hereto marked \"Schedule A,\" and identified by the signature of the Secretary of State.", "I have caused an account to be made by the Treasury Department in which the payments already made under the original bond are credited as against a debt of $13,655,492.69 with interest at 4 per cent per annum beginning July 1, 1901, in lieu of the original sum specified in the bond and I find that after such credits, and including in such credits the sum of $85,223.04, which it is assumed will be paid on the 1st day of January, 1909, there will remain on that day to be paid and retained by the United States in satisfaction of the sum of $13,655,492.69 and interest thereon, the sum of $9,644,367.60.", "[Directions for retaining only the Schedule B sums and remitting the Schedule C balance to China after January 1, 1909, and the three annexed amortization schedules identified by Secretary of State Elihu Root, abridged here for length.]", "In witness whereof, I have caused the seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed.", "Done at Washington, this twenty-eighth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and eight.", "[seal.]", "Theodore Roosevelt.", "By the President: Elihu Root, Secretary of State."], "source": "Foreign Relations of the United States, 1908, Doc. 64 (State Department printing), 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Abridged: the remission directions and Schedules A-C are omitted at the marked point. Seal restored in the signature block as printed. The credited installment $85,223.04 is reproduced as printed; the order's own Schedule A gives $85,223.64. Wikisource misprints the later repetition of $9,644,367.60 as $9,044,367.60; do not use Wikisource for the omitted passages.", "story": 103}, "summary": "Consented to limit China's Boxer indemnity bond payments to $13,655,492.69 plus 4 percent interest, remitting the rest of the U.S. share \"as an act of friendship\" under a May 1908 joint resolution of Congress.", "categories": ["foreign-affairs"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "China", "kind": "country"}], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-12-28", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The remission was welcomed by American missionary and educational groups and by a Chinese government eager for a gesture of respect, and it met no serious opposition at home.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1908", "story": 103}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "diplomatic", "text": "Secretary of State Elihu Root sent the order and its three schedules to the Chinese minister and telegraphed W. W. Rockhill, the American minister in China, on December 31, 1908.", "source": "Foreign Relations of the United States, 1908, Docs. 64 and 65", "date": "1908-12-31", "story": 103}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The State Department printed the order and its schedules in full in the published Foreign Relations volume for 1908.", "source": "Foreign Relations of the United States, 1908, Doc. 64", "story": 103}, {"kind": "congress", "text": "Congress had already authorized the remission by joint resolution and set the cap two million dollars higher than Roosevelt asked, so $10,785,286.12 was remitted instead of the $12,785,286.12 he proposed.", "source": "Pub. Res. No. 29, 35 Stat. 577; Seventh Annual Message, December 3, 1907", "date": "1908-05-25", "story": 103}, {"kind": "diplomatic", "text": "At China's request the returned money went to education, through an office under the Foreign and Education ministries that was to send 100 students a year for four years and at least 50 a year thereafter.", "source": "research entry", "story": 103}, {"kind": "diplomatic", "text": "The first students sailed before any school existed to prepare them: 47 in October 1909 and 70 in August 1910, among them Hu Shih and Zhao Yuanren.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1909-10", "story": 103}], "legacy": [{"text": "In the spring of 1911 a preparatory school opened in Beijing as Tsing Hua Imperial College; it became Tsing Hua College in 1912, added a university section in 1925 and became National Tsing Hua University in 1928.", "source": "research entry; The Far Eastern Review and The Tsing Hua Annual, as cited by the Tsinghua alumni association", "date": "1911", "story": 103}, {"text": "A further $1,175,835.64 left over from the claims reserve was returned in 1915–1918 under the same 1908 resolution, bringing the total returned to $11,961,121.76; the 1924 remission resolution credits that whole figure to Roosevelt's 1908 order.", "source": "Pub. Res. No. 21, 43 Stat. 135 (May 21, 1924)", "story": 103}, {"text": "The remission is still cited in both countries as an early, lasting act of American cultural diplomacy, though historians note it advanced American influence as much as Chinese welfare.", "source": "research entry", "story": 103}], "today": [{"name": "Tsinghua University", "kind": "other", "relation": "origin", "since": "1908-12-28", "note": "Began as the preparatory school for indemnity-funded students in Beijing in 1911.", "source": "research entry", "story": 103}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1924-05-21", "text": "A second joint resolution remitted further Boxer indemnity payments to China.", "source": "Pub. Res. No. 21, 43 Stat. 135", "story": 103}], "uncertain": ["The exact day the Tsing Hua school opened in the spring of 1911 is uncertain; sources point to late March, April 1 and April 29."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1000", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1000", "tr_sequence": 966, "lord_number": null, "date": "1908-12-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Altering Lands Composing Reservation of Navajo Indians", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1000", "revid": 1738998, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that the unallotted lands in Tps. 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21 N., Rs. 5, 6, 7, and 8 W., and Tps. 22 and 23 N., Rs. 6, 7, and 8 W. of the New Mexico principal meridian, withdrawn from sale and settlement and set apart for the use of the Indians as an addition to the Navajo Reservation by Executive orders dated November 9, 1907, and January 28, 1908, be, and the same are hereby, restored to the public domain, except the following-described lands, embracing 110 unapproved allotments, namely:", "The SW. ¼ of sec. 23, T. 17 N., R. 5 W.; the S. ½ of sec. 35, T. 18 N., R. 5 W.; sec. 23 and the N. ½ of sec. 25, T. 19 N., R. 5 W.; the W. ½ of sec. 5 and the E. ½ of sec. 6, T. 20 N., R. 6 W., unsurveyed; the NW. ¼ of sec. 3, the NE. ¼ of sec. 4, the S. ½ of sec. 5, the NW. ¼ of sec. 8, sec. 17, the N. ½ of sec. 19, sec. 20, and the SE. ¼ of sec. 31, T. 21 N., R. 6 W.; the W. ½ of sec. 33, the S. ½ of sec. 34, and the W. ½ of sec. 35, T. 22 N., R. 6 W.; the N. ½ of sec. 3, sec. 4, the W. ½ and the SE. ¼ of sec. 7, the SE. ¼ of sec. 8, sec. 9, the W. ½ of sec. 16, secs. 17 and 18, the N. ½ and the SE. ¼ of sec. 19, sec. 20, the W. ½ of sec. 21, the E. ½ of sec. 22, sec. 23, the NW. ¼ of sec. 28, the N. ½ of sec. 29, and the NE. ¼ of sec. 30, T. 20 N., R. 7 W.; the W. ½ of sec. — , the SE. ¼ of sec. 19, the SW. ¼ of sec. 20, the N. ½ and the SE. ¼ of sec. 24, the E. ½ of sec. 25, the SW. ¼ of sec. 26, the S. ½ of sec. 27, the SE. ¼ of sec. 28, the NW. ¼ of sec. 29, the NE. ¼ of sec. 30, the E. ½ of sec. 33, sec. 34, and the W. ½ of sec. 35, T. 21 N., R. 7 W., and secs. 1 and 12 and the SE. ¼ of sec. 11, T. 21 N., R. 8 W. of the New Mexico principal meridian."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House December 30, 1908. == Notes == Amends: Executive Order 709, November 9, 1907; Executive Order 744, January 28, 1908 See Related: Executive Order 711, November 11, 1907; Executive Order 743, January 28, 1908; Executive Order 1284, January 16, 1911 Executive Order 1359, May 24, 1911; Executive Order 1483, February 17, 1912", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Returned to the public domain unallotted lands in New Mexico that 1907 and 1908 orders had added to the Navajo Reservation, except for 110 unapproved allotments described in the order.", "categories": ["indian-lands", "public-lands"], "action": "restore", "places": [{"name": "Navajo Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [103], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1908-12-30", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Restored to the public domain the unallotted lands in the eastern third of the 1907–1908 Navajo addition, east of the New Mexico First Guide Meridian, as Section 25 of the Act of May 29, 1908 directed, while excepting tracts holding 110 unapproved Navajo allotments.", "source": "EO 1000; Act of May 29, 1908, sec. 25", "date": "1908-12-30", "story": 103}], "legacy": [{"text": "In 1990 the Tenth Circuit held that this order and Executive Order 1284 together diminished or terminated the New Mexico part of the addition, while finding the area had remained predominantly Navajo in character.", "source": "Pittsburg & Midway Coal Mining Co. v. Yazzie, 909 F.2d 1387 (10th Cir. 1990)", "date": "1990", "story": 103}, {"text": "The same court reported that about 55 percent of the land is in Navajo fee ownership or held in trust, and another 21 percent is Bureau of Land Management land leased to the Tribe.", "source": "Pittsburg & Midway Coal Mining Co. v. Yazzie, 909 F.2d 1387 (10th Cir. 1990)", "date": "1990", "story": 103}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1911-01-16", "text": "Executive Order 1284 restored all the remaining unallotted land in the addition.", "source": "EO 1284", "story": 103}, {"date": "1990", "text": "The Tenth Circuit held that the 1908 and 1911 orders diminished or terminated the New Mexico portion of the addition.", "source": "909 F.2d 1387", "story": 103}], "uncertain": ["How much of the land this order restored passed to non-Navajo settlers is not known."]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-709", "relation": "reduces", "note": "Restored unallotted land that the 1907 order had added to the reservation.", "story": 103, "date": "1907-11-09", "title": "Addition to the Navajo Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico", "type": "executive_order", "number": "709"}, {"id": "eo-744", "relation": "reduces", "note": "Restored unallotted land within the addition as amended in January 1908.", "story": 103, "date": "1908-01-28", "title": "Addition to the Navajo Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico", "type": "executive_order", "number": "744"}]}
{"id": "eo-1001", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1001", "tr_sequence": 967, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-01-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Admittance of C. M. Huntington to Examination Without Reference to Civil Service Rules", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1001", "revid": 1764849, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. C. M. Huntington may be admitted to examination without reference to the provisions of the civil-service rules disqualifying him for examination."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House January 1, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Authorizing Admittance of W. W. Adams to Examination Without Reference to Civil Service Rules”. The order's text and Lord's index name C. M. Huntington; the W. W. Adams caption belongs to EO 998."], "summary": "Allowed C. M. Huntington to sit for a civil-service examination despite rule provisions that would have disqualified him.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["C. M. Huntington"], "significance": 1, "stories": [104], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-01-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1002", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1002", "tr_sequence": 968, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-01-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Providing that Railroad Cars in Canal Zone Be Equipped with Safety Appliances", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1002", "revid": 1918076, "printed_source": "2 Canal Record 173, January 27, 1909"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Under authority vested in me by law, it is ordered:", "The requirements of the act of Congress, relating to the use on trains of certain described and approved driving-wheel and train brakes, couplers, hand holds, and drawbars of required height for freight cars, approved March 2, 1893 (contained in 27 Statutes at Large, p. 531), and known as \"An act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes and their locomotives with driving-wheel brakes, and for other purposes,\" as amended by an act approved April 1, 1896 (contained in 29 Statutes at Large, p. 85), and as amended by an act approved March 2, 1903 (contained in 32 Statutes at Large, p. 943), shall be extended to apply to that zone in the Republic of Panama mentioned and described in section 2 of the act of Congress dated June 28, 1902, and entitled \"An act to provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans,\" and commonly known as the \"Canal Zone.\" The various appliances for the protection of trainmen on freight train cars with reference to running boards, ladders, sill steps, roof hand holds, and the position of brake shafts, as designated in the existing standards of the Master Car Builders' Association in the United States, shall be used by all carriers in the aforementioned Canal Zone. The equipment and appliances required to be used in sections 1 and 2 of this order shall be constantly and at all times maintained in good and working order, by any and all railroads engaged in the business of a common carrier and operating in the aforementioned Canal Zone. In particular, sections 1, 2, and 3 of this order shall be carefully observed and obeyed by the Panama Railroad, a carrier operating in the said Canal Zone. All railroads operated and cars used by the Government of the United States within navy-yards, arsenals, military reservations, government wharves, and any and all other territories under the jurisdiction of the United States, shall be equipped with the safety appliances required in the safety appliance acts mentioned and described in section 1 of this order, and in the codes of rules mentioned and described in section 2 of this order, and said equipment and appliances shall at all times be maintained in good and working order. This order shall take effect not later than six months from the date of the promulgation thereof."], "source": "Wikisource (from 2 Canal Record 173, January 27, 1909)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House January 6, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Extended federal railroad safety-appliance laws to the Canal Zone, requiring automatic couplers, brakes, hand holds and other trainmen protections on carriers there, including the Panama Railroad.", "categories": ["canal-zone", "labor-business"], "action": "regulate", "places": [{"name": "Canal Zone", "kind": "canal-zone", "state": "Panama Canal Zone"}], "states": ["Panama Canal Zone"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [104], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-01-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1003", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1003", "tr_sequence": 969, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-01-07", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Prescribing Regulations for Navy and Marine Corps Men Aboard Army Transports, and Army Men Aboard Naval Vessels", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1003", "revid": 1935701, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 7, War Dept., January 16, 1909"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps, while being transported on an Army transport, shall be subject to and obey the United States Army Transport Service Regulations, and shall be liable to their proportionate share of police and guard duty whenever the commanding officer of troops on board the transport shall deem it advisable to divide those duties between the enlisted men of the Army and those of the Navy or Marine Corps on board. Enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps may also be called upon, but only when, in the judgment of said commanding officer, there is an emergency, to perform such duty as their special knowledge and skill may enable them to perform.", "Enlisted men of the Army, while being transported on a naval vessel, shall be subject to and obey the regulations of the ship, and shall be liable to their proportionate share of police and guard duty whenever the commanding officer of the ship shall deem it advisable to divide those duties between the enlisted men of the Navy and those of the Army on board. Enlisted men of the Army may also be called upon, but only when, in the judgment of said commanding officer, there is an emergency, to perform such duties as their special knowledge and skill may enable them to perform.", "All orders to enlisted men of the Navy or Marine Corps on board an Army transport, or to enlisted men of the Army on board a naval vessel, shall, as far as practicable, be given through their respective officers, noncommissioned or petty officers."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 7, War Dept., January 16, 1909)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House January 7, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Set rules for sailors and Marines riding Army transports, and soldiers aboard naval vessels: each follows the ship's regulations and shares police and guard duty when the commanding officer directs.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "regulate", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [104], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-01-07", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1004", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1004", "tr_sequence": 970, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-01-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules Providing for Transfer After Two Years of Service in the Office of the President of the United States", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1004", "revid": 1939117, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Rule X is hereby amended by the addition of a paragraph to be numbered 11, to read as follows:", "Any person who has served for at least two years in the office of the President of the United States may be transferred to a competitive classified position upon such tests of fitness as the Commission may deem proper."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House January 9, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Amended civil-service Rule X so anyone who had served at least two years in the office of the President could transfer to a competitive classified position after tests of fitness.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [104], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-01-09", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1005", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1005", "tr_sequence": 971, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-01-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Grace W. Nettleton to Clerkship in Treasury Department", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1005", "revid": 1764856, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mrs. Grace W. Nettleton, whose name stands third on the editorial clerk register from Connecticut, and second on the clerk register from the same State, may be appointed to a clerkship in the Treasury Department."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House January 11, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Permitted Grace W. Nettleton, ranked on Connecticut's clerk registers, to be appointed to a clerkship in the Treasury Department.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Connecticut"], "people": ["Grace W. Nettleton"], "significance": 1, "stories": [104], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-01-11", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1006", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1006", "tr_sequence": 972, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-01-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Fannie C. Chase as Skilled Laborer in Government Printing Office", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1006", "revid": 1764852, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Miss Fannie C. Chase may be reinstated as a skilled laborer in the Government Printing Office without reference to the time limit prescribed by the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House January 11, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Fannie C. Chase return as a skilled laborer at the Government Printing Office without regard to the civil-service time limit on reinstatement.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Fannie C. Chase"], "significance": 1, "stories": [104], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-01-11", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1007", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1007", "tr_sequence": 973, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-01-12", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Revoking Executive Order 632½ of May. 10, 1907, and Directing the Retransfer of the Vessel Zafiro, from the War Sec'y to the Navy Sec'y", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Revoked Executive Order 632½ of May 10, 1907, and directed that the vessel Zafiro be transferred back from the Secretary of War to the Secretary of the Navy.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "transfer", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [104], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-01-12", "impact": {"uncertain": ["The full text of this order has not been found."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1008", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1008", "tr_sequence": 974, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-01-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Transferring Portion of Kaakaukukui Reef Naval Reservation in Hawaii to War Department", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1008", "revid": 4723213, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 17, War Dept., January 30, 1909"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["For the purpose of establishing suitable protection for the submarine-mine defenses of Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, five and three-quarters acres of the United States Naval Reservation, Honolulu, on Kaakaukukui Reef, are hereby placed under the control of the Secretary of War for the purpose aforesaid.", "The land in question is more particularly described as follows:", "That portion of Kaakaukukui Reef located and bounded as follows: Beginning at the northeasterly end of a seawall located S. 39 degrees W. and 638.85 feet from the southwestern boundary of the Immigration Station; thence N. 51 degrees W., parallel with said boundary, 722 feet to the outer edge of a seawall; thence S. 39 degrees W., along said seawall, about 253 feet to a point of curvature; thence southerly and easterly along said seawall, constructed with a radius of about 146 feet, about 229.5 feet to a tangent point; thence S. 51 degrees E., along said seawall, about 399 feet to a corner of the wall; thence N. 62 degrees and 45 minutes E., along said seawall, about 439 feet to the point of beginning: the tract being surrounded on all sides by the United States Naval Reservation, and containing about five and three-quarters acres."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 17, War Dept., January 30, 1909)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House January 15, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Placed five and three-quarter acres of the Honolulu naval reservation on Kaakaukukui Reef under the Secretary of War to protect the harbor's submarine-mine defenses.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Kaakaukukui Reef Naval Reservation", "kind": "naval-reservation", "state": "Hawaii"}], "states": ["Hawaii"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [104], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-01-15", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1009", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1009", "tr_sequence": 975, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-01-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Land Office at Mitchell, S. Dak., Transferred to Gregory; Certain Described Lands of the Chamberlain Land District Transferred", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Land Office at Mitchell, S. Dak., Transferred to Gregory; Certain Described Lands of the Chamberlain Land District Transferred to ”. Truncation marker removed.", "The source list cuts this caption off; the full wording awaits the signed original."], "summary": "Moved the land office at Mitchell, South Dakota, to Gregory and transferred certain described lands out of the Chamberlain land district.", "categories": ["public-lands"], "action": "transfer", "places": [{"name": "Mitchell", "kind": "town", "state": "South Dakota"}, {"name": "Gregory", "kind": "town", "state": "South Dakota"}, {"name": "Chamberlain land district", "kind": "land-district", "state": "South Dakota"}], "states": ["South Dakota"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [104], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-01-18", "impact": {"uncertain": ["The full text of this order has not been found."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1010", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1010", "tr_sequence": 976, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-01-19", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Creating the Council of the Fine Arts", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1010", "revid": 12440696, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["I hereby call the attention of the heads of Executive Departments, Bureaus and Commissions to the following correspondence between the American Institute of Architects and myself:"], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "The American Institute of Architects,\n\nWashington, D. C., January 11, 1909", "place_date": "To the President of the United States: Sir: In the rapid advancement which our country had made in all other phases of civilization, the arts have been denied that governmental consideration which is so universally accorded by other nations. This is not due to lack of appreciation on the part of the people, nor can it be said that the Government has withheld financial support, for, since the formation of the Government, over five hundred million dollars have been expended for public buildings, monuments and other works of art. About ninety per cent. of this amount has been spent during the last quarter century, while present appropriations contemplate the expenditure of over forty millions more. The expenditure of these vast sums signifies that we are establishing, at a rate never before exceeded, lasting monuments to our civilization. Under our lack of system, and in the absence of proper management, the results do not adequately and properly represent or express the state of enlightenment and cultivation which our people have attained. The works of art of a nation are the documents by which it is judged, and their permanence is sufficient reason for extraordinary care in their design and execution. When such works are undertaken by a government, a high standard of excellence becomes a national obligation. Whenever the Government proposes any great project of public utility, such as irrigation or reclamation of land, the improvement of rivers or harbors, the Panama Canal, or any great engineering work, it is taken as a matter of course that the plans must receive the fullest measure of expert advice and criticism from men of eminence in the profession concerned, but such is not the case in works which relate to the arts. The only department which has achieved any success in this direction is the Treasury Department, through the Supervising Architect's Office, since the passage of the Tarsney Act. In the early days of the republic, President Washington and his immediate successors sought trained experts in the arts and called to the service of the country those of the highest skill, and employed them in a consistent effort toward the building of the nation's capital. Even in that formative period of the nation, with the continent undeveloped and the finances at a low ebb, the Government saw to it that these matters were handled with no less intelligence and far-sightedness than the other projects which engaged its attention, and as a result, the earliest buildings of the Government, not only in the capital, but elsewhere, rank among the great architectural triumphs of their period. The several States and their growing cities were influenced accordingly. With the rapid growth of the country, this systematic method of procedure was lost sight of. L'Enfant's beautiful plan of Washington suffered through the power of each department to choose the site for its own building, and the fact that such a plan existed was almost, if not entirely, forgotten. The White House itself, within recent years, has been threatened with mutilation through the efforts of misguided enthusiasm for supposed improvement. Wise action by the present Executive alone saved this monument, but there is no assurance for its future. Existing public buildings are largely subject to modification due to the caprice or supposed convenience of temporary officials. New buildings are located without proper regard for their convenience or dignity and without a view to the inevitable requirement for increasing dimensions, resulting in additional expense. Frequently, they are found inadequate even before they are completed. Our statues, paintings and other works of art are treated with like indifference to the dictates of common sense. Our coinage and our engraved notes have been equally neglected. The revival of L'Enfant's plan of the city of Washington through the efforts of the American Institute of Architects, has awakened the public to a consciousness of its importance and made possible the realization of its essential features, but the necessity of some adequate safeguard for the future is made evident by the fact that ever since the plan was revived there have been serious attempts to encroach upon it. We believe that a permanent and definite authority should be established to which shall be referred for approval or disapproval, the plans and designs of all future public works of architecture, paintings, sculpture, parks, bridges, or other works of which the art of design forms an integral part; that to its care should be entrusted the conservation of historic monuments; and that this authority should be vested in a Bureau of Fine Arts, as a part of a Division of Public Instruction, which could itself be under the Secretary of the Interior, and could include Bureaus of Education, Science and the Fine Arts. Under present conditions we suggest that, as an initiatory step, the President designates a Council of the Fine Arts, which could exercise advisory functions when called upon, and could also make recommendations upon its own initiative. We suggest: That the council should consist of architects, painters, sculptors, landscape Architects and laymen, appointed by the President, from nominations made by the Directors of the American Institute of Architects. That the Supervising Architect of the Treasury should be the executive. That the object should be to have the Council advise upon the character and design of all public works of architecture, painting, sculpture; all monuments, parks, bridges, and other works of which the art of design forms an integral part; and to make recommendations for the conservation of all historic monuments. That the details of carrying out this arrangement should be left to the direction of the American Institute of Architects, in collaboration with the Supervising Architect of the Treasury. Yours very respectfully, For the Committee, Glenn Brown, Secretary. Committee: Cass Gilbert, S. B. P. Trowbridge, Wm. A. Boring, Glenn Brown, C. Grant La Farge, George B. Post, Robert S. Peabody. The White House, Washington, January 11, 1909. Gentlemen: I cordially agree with your letter of January 11, 1909, and approve the recommendations you make. I request you to designate the names of thirty men representing all parts of the country to compose such a Council as you suggest. I understand, of course, that men representing the West are often found in New York and other large cities, simply because their work is done in such cities. I shall direct all my Cabinet officers to refer to the Council, for their expert advice, all matters in their charge embracing architecture, selection of sites, and landscape work, sculpture and painting. Moreover, I shall request the Council to watch legislation and on its own initiative to make public recommendations to the Executive and to Congress with regard to proposed changes in existing monuments, or with regard to any new project. I earnestly advise your body to take immediate steps to secure the enactment of a law giving permanent effect to what I am directing to be done. The course you advocate, and which I approve, should not be permissive with the Executive; it should be made mandatory upon him, by act of Congress. I shall request the Council immediately to report and give their opinion on the character and location of the Lincoln Memorial, as suggested in the resolutions passed by the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Architects. I heartily thank your body for this wise and patriotic action, which will secure to the American public what is literally priceless advice from the best men in the several artistic professions throughout the country at large. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Messrs. Cass Gilbert, S. B. P. Trowbridge, Wm. A. Boring, Glenn Brown, C. Grant La Farce, George B. Post, Robert S. Peabody, Committee, American Institute of Architects. The American Institute of Architects, Washington, D. C., January 16, 1909. To the President: Sir: We have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of January 11, 1909, addressed to the Committee of the American Institute of Architects, requesting the designation of a Council of the Fine Arts, thirty in number. That Committee has referred the matter to the Executive Committee of the Institute, which accordingly submits to you herewith the names of that number of experts in the Arts of Architecture, Sculpture, Painting and Landscape work, who are hereby recommended for your consideration. Very respectfully, Glenn Brown, Secretary, For the Committee. The American Institute of Architects, Washington, D. C., January 16, 1909. To the President: Sir: Referring to the letter of this date relative to the Council of the Fine Arts, it may not be amiss to inform you of the method adopted and reasons for making the selection of the names appearing upon the list submitted. The Institute \"Committee on the Bureau of the Fine Arts\" conferred with the Executive Committee of the Institute and requested the Executive Committee to make the selection. A large number of names were considered with a view to the eminence, availability, special experience and geographical location of the men to be designated. As your letter of January 11th advises the Committee to take immediate steps to secure the enactment of a law, giving permanent effect to what you are directing to be done, and as the members of our Committee on the Bureau of the Fine Arts have given the subject most serious study for several years, and as they are highly qualified in other respects to act on the Council, they have been designated among the thirty. The number of architectural questions involving not only buildings, but the selection of sites, treatment of grounds and landscape accessories will largely predominate all other problems likely to come before the Council, therefore the Committee has designated a larger number of architects than of representatives of the other arts. We understand that it is your intention to direct the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department to act as the executive officer for carrying out the instructions of the Council, and therefore his name has not been included in the list of thirty as it otherwise would have been. The Committee desires to express to you, Mr. President, its hearty appreciation of the very great service you are rendering to the country and to the arts. Very respectfully, Glenn Brown, Secretary, For the Committee. The White House, Washington, January 18, 1909. My Dear Mr. Brown: I have received your letters of January 16th and I nominate the following persons to compose the Council of Fine Arts: {|width=70% |- | colspan=\"3\" align=\"center\"|Architects. |- |Cass Gilbert,||width=\"20%\"| ||George B. Post, |- |C. Grant La Farge,|| ||Arnold W. Brunner, |- |Walter Cook,|| ||Robert S. Peabody, |- |William A. Boring,|| ||Charles F. McKim, |- |S. B. P. Trowbridge,|| ||William S. Eames, |- |John G. Howard,|| ||James Rush Marshall, |- |Glenn Brown,|| ||Abram Garfield, |- |Thomas R. Kimball,|| ||Frank Miles Day, |- |John L. Mauran,|| ||William B. Mundie, |- |D. H. Burnham,|| ||C. Howard Walker. |- |John M. Donaldson,|| || |- | colspan=\"3\" align=\"center\"|Painters. |- |John La Farge,|| ||E. H. Blashfield, |- |F. D. Millet,|| ||Kenyon Cox. |- | colspan=\"3\" align=\"center\"|Sculptors. |- |Daniel C. French,|| ||H. A. MacNeil, |- |Herbert Adams,|| ||K. T. Bitter. |- |colspan=\"3\" align=\"center\"|Landscape Architect. |- |colspan=\"3\" align=\"center\"|Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. |} and have issued an Executive order of which I enclose a copy. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. Glenn Brown, Secretary, American Institute of Architects. I direct that the heads of Executive Departments, Bureaus and Commissions govern themselves accordingly. Hereafter, before any plans are formulated for any buildings or grounds, or for the location or erection of any statue, the matter must be submitted to the Council I have named and their advice followed unless for good and sufficient reasons the President directs that it be not followed. The Supervising Architect of the Treasury will act as the executive officer for carrying out the recommendations of the Council. Theodore Roosevelt. The White House January 19, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Created a Council of the Fine Arts, calling the attention of executive department heads to the President's correspondence with the American Institute of Architects on the subject.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "establish", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [104], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-01-19", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Council of the Fine Arts drew respectful notice from the architectural and artistic professions.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1909", "story": 104}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The council met on February 9, 1909, and approved the Senate Park Commission's site for the Lincoln Memorial; McKim, very ill, attended briefly and later resigned, and Burnham was absent.", "source": "Kohler, \"The Commission of Fine Arts: Implementing the Senate Park Commission's Vision,\" U.S. Commission of Fine Arts", "date": "1909-02-09", "story": 104}, {"kind": "congress", "text": "Representative John J. Fitzgerald of New York moved to bar payment to members of the \"so-called Council of Fine Arts,\" saying its duty should be fixed by Congress and not by the Executive; the amendment carried on a division, 67 to 17.", "source": "Congressional Record, 60th Cong., 2d sess., vol. 43, pp. 2918–2922", "date": "1909-02-22", "story": 104}, {"kind": "congress", "text": "The sundry civil act struck at the council twice: a proviso barred paying its members or spending on plans it had approved, and section 9 barred paying any commission or council not authorized by law.", "source": "Act of March 4, 1909, ch. 299, 35 Stat. 945, at 959 and 1027", "date": "1909-03-04", "story": 104}, {"kind": "political", "text": "The fight came amid a wider clash between Congress and Roosevelt over commissions it had not authorized, including the Keep, Inland Waterways, National Conservation and Country Life commissions.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1909", "story": 104}], "legacy": [{"text": "Congress created a permanent Commission of Fine Arts of seven members in 1910; it still reviews the design of monuments, memorials and buildings in the capital and traces its lineage to the 1909 council.", "source": "Act of May 17, 1910, ch. 243, 36 Stat. 371; 40 U.S.C. §§ 9101–9104", "date": "1910-05-17", "story": 104}, {"text": "The statutory commission's seats were written to include distinguished laymen, where all thirty of Roosevelt's appointees had been practicing artists and designers.", "source": "research entry", "story": 104}], "today": [{"name": "U.S. Commission of Fine Arts", "kind": "other", "relation": "origin", "state": "District of Columbia", "since": "1909-01-19", "note": "Created by statute in 1910; traces its lineage to the 1909 council.", "source": "Act of May 17, 1910, ch. 243, 36 Stat. 371", "story": 104}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1909-03-04", "text": "The sundry civil appropriation act cut off funds for the council by name and under a general ban on unauthorized commissions.", "source": "35 Stat. 945, at 959 and 1027", "story": 104}, {"date": "1909-05-21", "text": "President Taft revoked the order by Executive Order 1074, citing the sundry civil act of March 4, 1909.", "source": "EO 1074", "story": 104}, {"date": "1910-05-17", "text": "Congress created the Commission of Fine Arts by statute.", "source": "36 Stat. 371", "story": 104}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-832", "type": "proclamation", "number": "832", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-01-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of Humboldt National Forest, Nevada", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 832, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-832"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2215, "last_page": 2216, "cite": "35 Stat. 2215–2216", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2215.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-01-20", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of Humboldt National Forest, Nevada."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, an Executive Order signed July Second, nineteen hundred and eight, consolidated the Ruby Mountains and Independence National Forests under the name of the Humboldt National Forest;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Humboldt National Forest, certain lands within the State of Nevada, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Humboldt National Forest is hereby enlarged and that its boundaries are as shown on the two parts of the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "2216 This proclamation, shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 20th day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2215", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Humboldt National Forest, Nev.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34, pp. 3198, 3251.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Prior rights not affected.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Elihu Root", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Added timbered lands in Nevada to the Humboldt National Forest, formed the year before from the Ruby Mountains and Independence forests.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Humboldt National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Nevada"}], "states": ["Nevada"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [108], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-01-20", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Nevada", "source": "research entry", "story": 108}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-833", "type": "proclamation", "number": "833", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-01-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Moapa National Forest, Nevada", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 833, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-833"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2216, "last_page": 2216, "cite": "35 Stat. 2216", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2216.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-01-21", "table_title": "Setting apart the Moapa National Forest, Nevada."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, an Executive Order signed July second, nineteen hundred and eight, consolidated the Charleston and Vegas National Forests under the name of the Moapa National Forest;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Moapa National Forest, certain lands within the State of Nevada, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Moapa National Forest is hereby enlarged and that its boundaries are as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 21st day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2216", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Moapa National Forest, Nev.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34, p. 3252.", "Ante, p. 2165.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Prior rights not affected, etc.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "title_notes": ["The proclamation enlarged the existing Moapa National Forest (created by EO 908); it did not create it."], "summary": "Enlarged the Moapa National Forest in Nevada, the 1908 merger of the Charleston and Vegas forests, by adding partly timbered public lands.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Moapa National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Nevada"}], "states": ["Nevada"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [108], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-01-21", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Moapa did not last as a separate forest. It was transferred whole to the Toiyabe National Forest in 1915.", "source": "EO 2162; FS-612", "date": "1915-07-01", "story": 108}], "today": [{"name": "Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Nevada", "note": "By way of the Toiyabe, which took in the whole Moapa in 1915.", "source": "FS-612", "story": 108}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1915-07-01", "text": "Executive Order 2162 transferred the entire Moapa National Forest to the Toiyabe.", "source": "EO 2162; FS-612", "story": 108}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-908", "relation": "enlarges", "note": "Enlarged the Moapa National Forest that Executive Order 908 had created out of the Charleston and Vegas forests.", "story": 108, "date": "1908-07-02", "title": "55 Specified National Forests Consolidated and/or Renamed", "type": "executive_order", "number": "908"}]}
{"id": "eo-1011", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1011", "tr_sequence": 977, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-01-22", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Re-establishing Fort Keogh Military Reservation in Montana", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1011", "revid": 4721974, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 22, War Dept., February 4, 1909"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The Executive Order, dated May 28, 1908 (No. 803) placing the military reservation of Fort Keogh, Montana, under the control of the Secretary of the Interior for disposition as provided for by act of July 5, 1884 (23 Stat. L., 103) or as may be otherwise provided by law, is hereby vacated, and the lands included in said military reservation, which was declared by Executive Order, dated March 14, 1878 (G. O., No. 7, Department of Dakota, March 22, 1878) and reduced by act of Congress, approved July 30, 1890 (26 Stat. L., 292) are hereby placed under the control of the War Department for military purposes."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 22, War Dept., February 4, 1909)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House January 22, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Canceled a 1908 order turning Fort Keogh, Montana, over to the Interior Department, and placed the military reservation's lands back under the War Department for military use.", "categories": ["military-naval"], "action": "restore", "places": [{"name": "Fort Keogh Military Reservation", "kind": "military-reservation", "state": "Montana"}], "states": ["Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [104], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-01-22", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1012", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1012", "tr_sequence": 978, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-01-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Continuance of William H. Baldwin as Special Examiner in Corporations Bureau", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1012", "revid": 1764870, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. William H. Baldwin may be continued as a special examiner in the Bureau of Corporations, Department of Commerce and Labor, as long as the department may regard his services necessary and in the interest of good administration."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House January 23, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed William H. Baldwin to stay on as a special examiner in the Bureau of Corporations for as long as the Department of Commerce and Labor needed him.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["William H. Baldwin"], "significance": 1, "stories": [104], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-01-23", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1013", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1013", "tr_sequence": 979, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-01-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Certain Described Lands in Minnesota for Lighthouse Purposes", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reserved certain described lands in Minnesota for lighthouse purposes.", "categories": ["lighthouses"], "action": "establish", "places": [], "states": ["Minnesota"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [104], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-01-23", "impact": {"uncertain": ["The full text of this order has not been found."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-834", "type": "proclamation", "number": "834", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-01-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Modifying Boundaries of Cleveland National Forest, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 834, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-834"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2217, "last_page": 2217, "cite": "35 Stat. 2217", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2217.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-01-26", "table_title": "Modifying boundaries of Cleveland National Forest, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, an Executive Order signed July second, nineteen hundred and eight, consolidated the San Jacinto and Trabuco Canyon National Forests under the name of the Cleveland National Forest;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Cleveland National Forest, certain lands within the State of California, which are in part covered with timber, and by excluding therefrom certain lands;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Cleveland National Forest are hereby changed and that they are now as shown on the two parts of the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of land so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves,” and Acts amendatory thereof.", "The lands hereby eliminated from the Cleveland National Forest which are not embraced in withdrawals for administrative sites for use in the management of the Forest, or in any other reservation, or appropriation, shall be restored to the public domain and become subject to settlement under the general provisions of the homestead laws on such date and after such notice by publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, but shall not become subject to entry, filing, selection, or other form of appropriation until the expiration of thirty days from the date so fixed, and no person will be permitted to gain or exercise any right whatever under any settlement or occupation begun prior to such date, and all such settlement and occupation are hereby forbidden.", "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 26th day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2217", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Cleveland National Forest, Cal.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34, p. 3276.", "Ante, p. 2144.", "Boundaries modified.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Prior rights not afected.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233.", "Lands restored to public domain."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Acting Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Redrew the Cleveland National Forest in Southern California, adding partly timbered lands and cutting out others, which returned to the public domain.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Cleveland National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [108], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-01-26", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1014", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1014", "tr_sequence": 980, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-01-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Pelican Island Reservation, Florida", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1014", "revid": 11906847, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is ordered that the Pelican Island Reservation, Florida, created by Executive Order of March 13, 1903, for the protection of native birds, be and the same is hereby enlarged so as to include all unreserved mangrove and other islands situated within Sections nine and ten, township thirty-one south, range thirty-nine east, of the Tallahassee Meridian, Florida, as segregated by the broken line shown upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this order. It is unlawful for any person to hunt, trap, capture, wilfully disturb, or kill any bird of any kind whatever, or take the eggs of such birds within the limits of this reservation, except under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture. Warning is expressly given to all persons not to commit any of the acts herein enumerated and which are prohibited by law."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House January 26, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Enlarged Florida's Pelican Island Reservation to take in unreserved mangrove and other islands nearby, keeping the ban on hunting birds or taking their eggs there.", "categories": ["wildlife"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Pelican Island Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Florida"}], "states": ["Florida"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [104], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-01-26", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Proclamation 2416 renamed the reservation Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge in 1940.", "source": "Proclamation 2416, 5 Fed. Reg. 2677, 54 Stat. 2717", "date": "1940-07-25", "story": 104}, {"text": "Most of the modern refuge's 5,376 acres was acquired after 1968.", "source": "research entry", "story": 104}], "today": [{"name": "Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "part", "state": "Florida", "note": "The mangrove islands added in 1909 enlarged the first federal bird reservation.", "source": "research entry", "story": 104}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1940-07-25", "text": "Renamed Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge by Proclamation 2416.", "source": "Proclamation 2416, 54 Stat. 2717", "story": 104}], "uncertain": ["How many acres the 1909 enlargement added is not known; only the diagram attached to the signed order at the National Archives could settle it, and Palmer's 1912 figure of 5.50 acres may or may not include the 1909 islands."]}, "related": [{"id": "uo-054", "relation": "enlarges", "note": "The original 1903 Pelican Island order, which this order enlarged; it dates that order to March 13, 1903, where contemporary records give March 14.", "story": 104, "date": "1903-03-13", "title": "Pelican Island Reservation, Fla., established as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "eo-1015", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1015", "tr_sequence": 981, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-01-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Edwin W. Hutcheson in Classified Service Upon Passing Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1015", "revid": 1764869, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Edwin W. Hutcheson may be reinstated in the classified service in any department or independent executive establishment, subject to his passing an appropriate examination."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House January 27, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Permitted Edwin W. Hutcheson to be reinstated in the classified service in any department, once he passed an appropriate examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Edwin W. Hutcheson"], "significance": 1, "stories": [104], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-01-27", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-835", "type": "proclamation", "number": "835", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-01-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of Pecos National Forest, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 835, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-835"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2218, "last_page": 2218, "cite": "35 Stat. 2218", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2218.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-01-28", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of Pecos National Forest, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, an Executive Order signed July second, nineteen hundred and eight, changed the name of the Pecos River National Forest to Pecos National Forest;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Pecos National Forest, certain lands, within the Territory of New Mexico, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Pecos National Forest is hereby enlarged and that its boundaries are as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 28th day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2218", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Pecos National Forest, N. Mex.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 27, p. 998.", "Vol. 30, p. 1773.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Prior rights not affected.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Expanded the Pecos National Forest in the Territory of New Mexico with additional partly timbered public lands.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Pecos National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [108], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-01-28", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1016", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1016", "tr_sequence": 982, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-01-28", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of Edward C. Baker as Clerk of Class 3 in State Department", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1016", "revid": 1764868, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Edward C. Baker, who has served as American vice-consul and marshal of the Consular Court at Foochow, China, and in a similar capacity at Amoy, and who has recently taken a thorough examination to test his qualifications for promotion in the Consular Service, may be appointed as a clerk of class 3 in the Department of State, where his services are needed because of his special knowledge of affairs in the Far East."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House January 28, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Edward C. Baker, a former vice-consul in China, to be appointed a class 3 clerk in the State Department for his special knowledge of Far East affairs.", "categories": ["civil-service", "foreign-affairs"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Edward C. Baker"], "significance": 1, "stories": [104], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-01-28", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1017", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1017", "tr_sequence": 983, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-01-30", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Daniel F. Dolan as Post-Office Inspector with Suspension of Sixty Days", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1017", "revid": 1764879, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Daniel F. Dolan may be reinstated as a post-office inspector and will be suspended for sixty days from the date of his reinstatement."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House January 30, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reinstated Daniel F. Dolan as a post-office inspector, with a sixty-day suspension starting on the date of his return.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Daniel F. Dolan"], "significance": 1, "stories": [104], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-01-30", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-836", "type": "proclamation", "number": "836", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of Prescott National Forest, Arizona", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 836, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-836"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2218, "last_page": 2219, "cite": "35 Stat. 2218–2219", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2218.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-02-01", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of Prescott National Forest, Arizona."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, an Executive Order signed July second, nineteen hundred and eight, consolidated the Prescott and Verde National Forests under the name of the Prescott National Forest;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Prescott National Forest, certain lands within the Territory of Arizona, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Prescott National Forest is hereby enlarged and that its boun- daries are as shown on the two parts of the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 1st day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2218", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Prescott National Forest, Ariz.", "Preamble.", "Vol 30, p. 1771.", "Vol. 31, p. 1956.", "Ante, p. 2162.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Prior rights not at fected.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Grew the Prescott National Forest in Arizona Territory, recently merged with the Verde forest, by adding partly timbered lands.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Prescott National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [108], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-01", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1018", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1018", "tr_sequence": 984, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Except National Bank Examiners and Receivers from Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1018", "revid": 1939119, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Schedule A of classified positions excepted from examination under Rule II, clause 3, is hereby amended by the addition to Subdivision II, relating to the Treasury Department, of a paragraph to read as follows:", "National-bank examiners and receivers under the office of the Comptroller of the Currency."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House February 3, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Excepted national-bank examiners and receivers under the Comptroller of the Currency from civil-service examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [105], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-03", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1019", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1019", "tr_sequence": 985, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Hawaiian Islands Reservation as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1019", "revid": 12441313, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that the following islets and reefs, namely: Cure Island, Pearl and Hermes Reef, Lysianski or Pell Island, Laysan Island, Mary Reef, Dowsetts Reef, Gardiner Island, Two Brothers Reef, French Frigate Shoal, Necker Island, Frost Shoal and Bird Island, situated in the Pacific Ocean at and near the extreme western extension of the Hawaiian Archipelago between latitudes 23° and 29° north, and longitudes 160° and 180° west from Greenwich, and located within the area segregated by the broken lines shown upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this order, are hereby reserved and set apart, subject to valid existing rights, for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds. It is unlawful for any person to hunt, trap, capture, wilfully disturb, or kill any bird of any kind whatever, or take the eggs of such birds within the limits of this reservation except under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed from time to time by the Secretary of Agriculture. Warning is expressly given to all persons not to commit any of the acts herein enumerated and which are prohibited by law.", "This reservation to be known as the Hawaiian Islands Reservation."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House February 3, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Set aside a chain of islets and reefs at the far western end of the Hawaiian Archipelago, from Cure Island to Necker Island, as the Hawaiian Islands Reservation for native birds.", "categories": ["wildlife", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Hawaiian Islands Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Hawaii"}], "states": ["Hawaii"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [105], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-03", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The National Association of Audubon Societies' 1909 report claimed broad credit for the national bird reservations, though the Hawaiian reservation appears in its tables as a single line and none of its paid wardens worked in Hawaii.", "source": "National Association of Audubon Societies, annual report for 1909", "date": "1909", "story": 105}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The revenue cutter Thetis brought twenty-three poachers seized on Laysan and Lisianski into Honolulu, with about 259,000 bird wings and two and a quarter tons of loose feathers valued at $112,000.", "source": "The Hawaiian Star, The Hawaiian Gazette and Pacific Commercial Advertiser (Honolulu), February 3–4, 1910", "date": "1910-02-02", "story": 105}, {"kind": "court", "text": "A federal grand jury indicted Max Schlemmer, the Laysan guano-lease holder, but only under the immigration laws for bringing in Japanese workers; he was never charged over the birds.", "source": "Honolulu press, March 21, 1910", "date": "1910-03-21", "story": 105}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "The Biological Survey's later account put the raid at the plumage of more than a quarter of a million birds and dated it to January 1910; the Honolulu papers of the day give February 2.", "source": "Henshaw, letter of transmittal, Biological Survey Bulletin 42 (1912), p. 3", "date": "1912", "story": 105}], "legacy": [{"text": "The reservation became the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge and later part of Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, among the largest protected areas on earth.", "source": "Proclamation 8031", "date": "2006-06-15", "story": 105}, {"text": "Papahānaumokuākea was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as a mixed natural and cultural site.", "source": "UNESCO World Heritage List", "date": "2010-07-30", "story": 105}], "today": [{"name": "Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "origin", "state": "Hawaii", "since": "1909-02-03", "source": "research entry", "story": 105}, {"name": "Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument", "kind": "national_monument", "relation": "part", "state": "Hawaii", "note": "Established by Proclamation 8031, June 15, 2006; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2010.", "source": "Proclamation 8031", "story": 105}], "later_actions": [{"date": "2006-06-15", "text": "Included in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, proclaimed under the Antiquities Act.", "source": "Proclamation 8031", "story": 105}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-199-a", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 81, "inferred": true, "date": "1903-01-20", "title": "Placing the Midway Islands Under the Jurisdiction and Control of the Navy Department", "type": "executive_order", "number": "199-A"}]}
{"id": "eo-1020", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1020", "tr_sequence": 986, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Certain Described Lands in Minnesota for Lighthouse Purposes", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reserved certain described lands in Minnesota for lighthouse purposes.", "categories": ["lighthouses"], "action": "establish", "places": [], "states": ["Minnesota"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [105], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-04", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1021", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1021", "tr_sequence": 987, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-04", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Certain Described Lands on Michigan Island, Wisconsin, for Lighthouse Purposes", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Set aside certain described lands on Michigan Island, Wisconsin, for lighthouse purposes.", "categories": ["lighthouses"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Michigan Island", "kind": "island", "state": "Wisconsin"}], "states": ["Wisconsin"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [105], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-04", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1022", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1022", "tr_sequence": 988, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-05", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Time Limit for Completion of Work of Spanish Treaty Claims Commission Extended to Sept. 2, 1909", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Extended the deadline for the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission to finish its work to September 2, 1909.", "categories": ["government-administration", "foreign-affairs"], "action": "modify", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [105], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-05", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1023", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1023", "tr_sequence": 989, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-06", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Lands Near Rampart, Alaska, Reserved for Agriculture Dept. Experiment Station", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reserved lands near Rampart, Alaska, for a Department of Agriculture experiment station.", "categories": ["public-lands", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Rampart", "kind": "town", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [105], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-06", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-837", "type": "proclamation", "number": "837", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of Tonto National Forest, Arizona", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 837, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-837"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2219, "last_page": 2220, "cite": "35 Stat. 2219–2220", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2219.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-02-10", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of Tonto National Forest, Arizona."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, an Executive Order signed July first, nineteen hundred and eight, established the present Tonto National Forest out of portions of the Tonto and Black Mesa National Forests;", "And whereas it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Tonto National Forest certain lands within the Territory of Arizona, which are in part covered with timber and undergrowth;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Tonto National Forest is hereby enlarged and that its boundaries are as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "2220 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 10th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2219", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Tonto National Forest, Ariz.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34, p. 3166,", "Ante, pp. 2146, 2176, 2194, 2196.", "Post, p. 2236.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Prior rights not affected.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Added partly timbered lands and undergrowth in Arizona Territory to the Tonto National Forest.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Tonto National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [108], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-10", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Tonto National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Arizona", "source": "research entry", "story": 108}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-838", "type": "proclamation", "number": "838", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Marquette National Forest, Michigan", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 838, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-838"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2220, "last_page": 2220, "cite": "35 Stat. 2220", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2220.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-02-10", "table_title": "Setting apart the Marquette National Forest, Michigan."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Michigan, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by utilizing said lands as a National Forest;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An Act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from settlement or entry and set apart as a public reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Michigan, shown as the Marquette National Forest on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is 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 10th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2220", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Marquette National Forest, Mich.", "Preamble.", "National Forest, Michigan.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Prior rights not affected."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Marquette National Forest from partly timbered public lands in Michigan, reserving them from settlement or entry.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Marquette National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Michigan"}], "states": ["Michigan"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [108], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-10", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The first Marquette National Forest lasted six years. Its land passed to the Michigan National Forest in 1915 and the Marquette name was dropped; that land later became part of the Hiawatha National Forest.", "source": "EO 2163; EO 10993", "date": "1915-07-01", "story": 108}], "today": [{"name": "Marquette National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "abolished", "state": "Michigan", "note": "Merged into the Michigan National Forest in 1915. A second, different Marquette (the renamed Michigan) was abolished in 1962.", "source": "FS-612", "story": 108}, {"name": "Hiawatha National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Michigan", "note": "Took in the lands of the second Marquette National Forest in 1962.", "source": "EO 10993", "story": 108}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1915-07-01", "text": "Executive Order 2163 passed the Marquette's land to the Michigan National Forest and discontinued the Marquette name.", "source": "EO 2163", "story": 108}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-841", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The Michigan National Forest, created the next day, took in the Marquette's land in 1915.", "story": 108, "date": "1909-02-11", "title": "Setting Apart the Michigan National Forest, Michigan", "type": "proclamation", "number": "841"}]}
{"id": "proc-839", "type": "proclamation", "number": "839", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Nevada National Forest, Nevada", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 839, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-839"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2220, "last_page": 2221, "cite": "35 Stat. 2220–2221", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2220.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-02-10", "table_title": "Setting apart the Nevada National Forest, Nevada."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Nevada, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by utilizing said lands as a National Forest;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An Act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from settlement or entry and set apart as a public reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Nevada, shown, as the Nevada National Forest on the two parts of the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is 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 10th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2220", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Nevada National Forest, Nev.", "Preamble.", "National Forest, Nevada.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Prior rights not affected."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Established the Nevada National Forest, setting apart partly timbered public lands in the state for the use and benefit of the people.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Nevada National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Nevada"}], "states": ["Nevada"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [108], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-10", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Nevada National Forest absorbed the whole Toiyabe in 1932 and was itself abolished in 1957, divided between the Humboldt and a revived Toiyabe.", "source": "EO 5863; Public Land Order 1487", "date": "1957-10-01", "story": 108}], "today": [{"name": "Nevada National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "abolished", "state": "Nevada", "note": "Abolished effective October 1, 1957, and divided between the Humboldt and the Toiyabe.", "source": "Public Land Order 1487", "story": 108}, {"name": "Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Nevada", "source": "research entry", "story": 108}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1932-07-01", "text": "Executive Order 5863 folded the entire Toiyabe National Forest into the Nevada.", "source": "EO 5863", "story": 108}, {"date": "1957-09-09", "text": "Public Land Order 1487, signed by Assistant Secretary of the Interior Roger Ernst, abolished the Nevada National Forest effective October 1, 1957 and divided it between the Humboldt and a revived Toiyabe.", "source": "Public Land Order 1487", "story": 108}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-840", "type": "proclamation", "number": "840", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of Dixie National Forest, Utah and Arizona", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 840, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-840"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2221, "last_page": 2221, "cite": "35 Stat. 2221", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2221.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-02-10", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of Dixie National Forest, Utah and Arizona."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Dixie National Forest certain lands within the State of Utah, which are in part covered with timber, or undergrowth;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Dixie National Forest is hereby enlarged and that its boundaries are as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 10th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL.] nine, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2221", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Dixie National Forest, Utah and Ariz.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34, p. 3147.", "Ante, p. 2187.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36,", "Prior rights not affected.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Dixie National Forest with partly timbered lands in Utah.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Dixie National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Utah"}], "states": ["Utah", "Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [108], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-10", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1024", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1024", "tr_sequence": 990, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of Charles B. Brewer as Ship Drafts in the Bureau of Construction and Repairs, Navy Department", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1024", "revid": 1766766, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Charles B. Brewer may be reinstated as a ship draftsman in the Bureau of Construction and Repairs, Navy Department, without reference to the length of time he has been separated from the service."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House February 10, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed Charles B. Brewer to return as a ship draftsman in the Navy's Bureau of Construction and Repair regardless of how long he had been out of service.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Charles B. Brewer"], "significance": 1, "stories": [105], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-10", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1025", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1025", "tr_sequence": 991, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-10", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Promotion of James J. Smith to Day Inspector in the Customs Service at the Port of New York", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1025", "revid": 1766769, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. James J. Smith may be promoted from night inspector to day inspector in the Customs Service at the port of New York."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House February 10, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Permitted James J. Smith's promotion from night inspector to day inspector in the Customs Service at the port of New York.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["New York"], "people": ["James J. Smith"], "significance": 1, "stories": [105], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-10", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-841", "type": "proclamation", "number": "841", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Michigan National Forest, Michigan", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 841, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-841"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2222, "last_page": 2222, "cite": "35 Stat. 2222", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2222.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-02-11", "table_title": "Setting apart the Michigan National Forest, Michigan."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Michigan, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by utilizing said lands as a National Forest;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An Act to repeal timber-culture, law’s, and for other purposes,” do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from settlement or entry and set apart as a public reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Michigan, shown as the Michigan National Forest on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is 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 11th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2222", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Michigan National Forest, Mich.", "Preamble.", "National Forest, Michigan.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Prior rights not affected."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Set apart partly timbered public lands in Michigan as the Michigan National Forest, closed to settlement or entry.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Michigan National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Michigan"}], "states": ["Michigan"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [108], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-11", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Pinconning Press and the Clare Sentinel ran the same short, factual item: the state land commissioner had been told that 134,630 acres in Ogemaw, Oscoda and Alcona counties near the Au Sable had been set aside as a national forest reserve.", "source": "Pinconning Press and Clare Sentinel, Mar. 11–12, 1909 (Digital Michigan Newspapers)", "date": "1909-03", "story": 108}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "local", "text": "Michigan's land commissioner, Huntley S. Russell, was notified from Washington of the new forest in northern Michigan.", "source": "Pinconning Press and Clare Sentinel, Mar. 11–12, 1909", "date": "1909-03", "story": 108}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Michigan took in the first Marquette's land in 1915, was renamed the Marquette in 1931, and was abolished in 1962, when its lands went to the Hiawatha National Forest.", "source": "EO 2163; Proc. 1938, 46 Stat. 3050; EO 10993", "date": "1962-02-09", "story": 108}], "today": [{"name": "Michigan National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "abolished", "state": "Michigan", "note": "Renamed Marquette in 1931; abolished in 1962.", "source": "Proc. 1938; EO 10993", "story": 108}, {"name": "Hiawatha National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Michigan", "source": "EO 10993", "story": 108}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1915-07-01", "text": "Executive Order 2163 added the Marquette National Forest's land to the Michigan.", "source": "EO 2163", "story": 108}, {"date": "1931-02-12", "text": "Proclamation 1938 renamed the Michigan National Forest the Marquette National Forest.", "source": "Proc. 1938, 46 Stat. 3050", "story": 108}, {"date": "1962-02-09", "text": "Executive Order 10993 transferred the lands of the Marquette National Forest, as proclaimed in 1931, to the Hiawatha National Forest.", "source": "EO 10993", "story": 108}], "uncertain": ["The 134,630 acres reported in the Michigan press differs slightly from the Forest Service's official 132,770 acres; the reason is not known."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-838", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The Michigan absorbed the first Marquette National Forest in 1915.", "story": 108, "date": "1909-02-10", "title": "Setting Apart the Marquette National Forest, Michigan", "type": "proclamation", "number": "838"}]}
{"id": "proc-842", "type": "proclamation", "number": "842", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-11", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Centennial Anniversary of the Birth of Abraham Lincoln", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 842, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-842"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2222, "last_page": 2223, "cite": "35 Stat. 2222–2223", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2222.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-02-11", "table_title": "Setting apart as a special legal holiday February 12, 1909, the centennial of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America", "A Proclamation", "Whereas, by Joint Resolution of Congress it is provided \"That the twelfth day of February, nineteen hundred and nine, the same being the centennial anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, be and the same is hereby, made a special legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the Territories of the United States\";", "And, Whereas, by the said Joint Resolution the President is authorized to issue a proclamation in accordance with the foregoing, setting apart the twelfth day of February, nineteen hundred and nine, as a special legal holiday;", "Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, in virtue of the authority conferred upon me by the said Joint Resolution, do hereby set apart the twelfth day of February, nineteen hundred and nine, as a special legal holiday.", "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 eleventh day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. By the President: ROBERT BACON, Secretary of State."], "source": "35 Stat. 2222–2223 (Statutes at Large page images) and the American Presidency Project, 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Text as given by the American Presidency Project. Differences from the Statutes printing are orthographic only: the Statutes sets \"WHEREAS\" in capitals without the following comma, prints \"DONE at the City of Washington,\" and has no comma after \"foregoing.\" The proclamation's quotation of the joint resolution omits the comma after \"be\" that the resolution itself has. The headnote spelling \"Anniversay\" is the American Presidency Project's typo, not in the official text.", "story": 109}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Centennial Anniversay of the Birth of Abraham Lincoln”. Spelling (\"Anniversay\" in the American Presidency Project caption); 35 Stat. 2222."], "summary": "Declared February 12, 1909, the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, a special legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the territories, as a joint resolution of Congress directed.", "categories": ["ceremonial"], "action": "announce", "places": [], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [109], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-11", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The proclamation was welcomed as part of a centennial the whole country embraced, with speeches, dinners and ceremonies from coast to coast.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1909-02-12", "story": 109}, {"text": "An Associated Press dispatch reported that Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the birthplace memorial at Hodgenville \"after appropriate forensic ceremonies.\"", "source": "Los Angeles Herald, Feb. 13, 1909", "date": "1909-02-13", "story": 109}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "February 12, 1909 became a special legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the Territories, as Congress's joint resolution of the day before had provided.", "source": "Pub. Res. No. 42, 60th Cong., 35 Stat. 1164; 35 Stat. 2222", "date": "1909-02-12", "story": 109}, {"kind": "local", "text": "The memorial building whose cornerstone Roosevelt laid that day was dedicated by President Taft on November 9, 1911.", "source": "Memorial Building plaque", "date": "1911-11-09", "story": 109}], "legacy": [{"text": "February 12 never became a federal holiday. Many states observe Lincoln's Birthday, but in popular practice it was absorbed into the third Monday in February set by the Uniform Monday Holiday Act.", "source": "Pub. L. 90-363, 82 Stat. 250; 5 U.S.C. §6103(a)", "date": "1971-01-01", "story": 109}, {"text": "The Memorial Building still shelters the symbolic birth cabin, whose logs date mostly to the 1840s.", "source": "National Park Service", "story": 109}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1968-06-28", "text": "The Uniform Monday Holiday Act moved Washington's Birthday to the third Monday in February, effective 1971; it created no Lincoln holiday and renamed nothing.", "source": "Pub. L. 90-363, 82 Stat. 250", "story": 109}, {"date": "2009-03-30", "text": "The Omnibus Public Land Management Act designated the birthplace site Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park.", "source": "Pub. L. 111-11, §7114, 123 Stat. 1202", "story": 109}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-847", "type": "proclamation", "number": "847", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of Klamath National Forest, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 847, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-847"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2223, "last_page": 2223, "cite": "35 Stat. 2223", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2223.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-02-13", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of Klamath National Forest, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Klamath National Forest certain lands, within the State of California, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Klamath National Forest is hereby enlarged and that its boundaries are as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 13th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL.] nine, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2223", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Klamath National Forest, Cal.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34, p. 3001.", "Ante, p. 2195.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Post, p. 2238.", "Prior rights not affected.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Extended the Klamath National Forest in California with additional partly timbered lands.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Klamath National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [108], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-13", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Klamath National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "California", "source": "research entry", "story": 108}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-848", "type": "proclamation", "number": "848", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Apart the Superior National Forest, Minnesota", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 848, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-848"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2223, "last_page": 2224, "cite": "35 Stat. 2223–2224", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2223.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-02-13", "table_title": "Setting apart the Superior National Forest, Minnesota."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Minnesota, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by utilizing said lands as a National Forest;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An Act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from settlement or entry and set apart as a public reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Minnesota, shown as the Superior National Forest on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is 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 13th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2223", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Superior National Forest, Minn.", "Preamble.", "National Forest, Minnesota.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Prior rights not affected."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created the Superior National Forest in Minnesota, reserving partly timbered public lands from settlement or entry for the use and benefit of the people.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Superior National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Minnesota"}], "states": ["Minnesota"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [108], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-13", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Superior grew into one of the best-known forests in the system, home to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.", "source": "research entry", "story": 108}], "today": [{"name": "Superior National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "origin", "state": "Minnesota", "since": "1909-02-13", "note": "Home to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.", "source": "research entry", "story": 108}], "uncertain": ["Whether Minnesota newspapers noticed the Superior's creation in 1909 is not known; no Minnesota collection could be searched by phrase and date."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1026", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1026", "tr_sequence": 992, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-13", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Naval Reservation on Subic Bay, Olongapo, Philippine Islands", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1026", "revid": 1924123, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that the following-described lands lying to the north of the naval reservation, Olongapo, Philippine Islands, be, and the same are hereby, reserved for naval purposes, subject to any existing vested rights therein, and placed under the control of the Secretary of the Navy for the purpose of extending the present boundaries of the United States naval reservation on Subic Bay at Olongapo, Philippine Islands, viz:", "From the United States naval (concrete) monument No. 1, situated on a narrow strip of flat land between the east bank of the Matain River and the foot of the west slope of Mount Lobso, said monument being on the northern boundary of the present naval reservation, Olongapo, Philippine Islands, and the bank of the Matain River, at a point approximately five feet from the water's edge; thence due east along the present northern boundary of said naval reservation a distance of 461.3234 meters more or less to a large triangular wooden stake which is the point of beginning.", "From the point of beginning thence on a line bearing N. 27° 17′ E., a distance of 9540.15 meters more or less to its point of intersection with a line bearing due west from a four-inch iron pipe and bronze disk, set in concrete on the highest point of Mt. Bluff, said point of intersection being 2529.81 meters more or less due west of the monument set on Mt. Bluff; thence along the above-mentioned line, due east 2529.81 meters more or less to the above-mentioned iron pipe and bronze disk on the highest point of Mt. Bluff; thence on a line bearing S. 73° 44′ E., a distance of 4945.3346 meters more or less to an iron pipe and bronze disk set in concrete on the highest point of Quadrant Mountain; thence on a line bearing approximately S. 21° 0′ W., a distance of 7597.07 meters more or less to a concrete monument situated on a shoulder of the south slope of Mt. Susong Delaga, said concrete monument marking the northeast corner of the present United States naval reservation, Olongapo; thence due west along the northern boundary of the said present naval reservation a distance of 8945.79 meters more or less to the point of beginning. The land included within these boundaries comprises an area of 6740.29 hectares more or less."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House February 13, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved lands north of the Olongapo naval reservation on Subic Bay in the Philippines for naval purposes, extending its boundaries under the Secretary of the Navy.", "categories": ["military-naval", "insular-territories"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Olongapo Naval Reservation", "kind": "naval-reservation", "state": "Philippines"}], "states": ["Philippines"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [105], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-13", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-843", "type": "proclamation", "number": "843", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Modifying Boundaries of Gila National Forest, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 843, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-843"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2224, "last_page": 2225, "cite": "35 Stat. 2224–2225", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2224.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-02-15", "table_title": "Modifying boundaries of Gila National Forest, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good will be promoted by adding to the Gila National Forest certain lands within the Territory of New Mexico, which are in part covered with timber, and by excluding therefrom certain lands;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Gila National Forest are hereby changed and that they are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "The lands hereby eliminated from the Gila National Forest which are not embraced in withdrawals for administrative sites for use in the management of the Forest, or in any other reservation, or appropriation, shall be restored to the public domain and become subject to settlement under the general provisions of the homestead laws on such date and after such notice by publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, but shall not become subject to entry, filing, selection, or other form of appropriation until the expiration of thirty days from the date so fixed, and no person will be permitted to gain or exercise any right whatever under any settlement or occupation begun prior to such date, and all such settlement and occupation are hereby forbidden.", "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 15th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2224", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Gila National Forest, N. Mex.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34, p. 3123.", "Ante, p. 2190.", "Boundaries modified.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Prior rights not affected.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233.", "Lands restored to public domain, etc."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Changed the Gila National Forest's boundaries in New Mexico Territory, adding partly timbered lands and releasing others back to the public domain.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Gila National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [108], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-15", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Gila National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "New Mexico", "source": "research entry", "story": 108}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-844", "type": "proclamation", "number": "844", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Modifying Boundaries of Black Hills National Forest, South Dakota and Wyoming", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 844, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-844"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2225, "last_page": 2225, "cite": "35 Stat. 2225", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2225.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-02-15", "table_title": "Modifying boundaries of Black Hills National Forest, South Dakota and Wyoming."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, an Executive Order signed June twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and eight, changed the boundaries of the Black Hills National Forest by transferring the portion of the National Forest which was located in the State of Wyoming to the Sundance National Forest;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Black Hills National Forest certain lands within the State of South Dakota, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Black Hills National Forest is hereby enlarged and that its boundaries are as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves,” and acts amendatory thereof.", "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 15th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2225", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Black Hills National Forest, S. Dak., and Wyo.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 29, p. 902.", "Vol. 30, p. 1783.", "Boundaries modified.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Prior rights not affected.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Revised the Black Hills National Forest, whose Wyoming portion had gone to the Sundance forest in 1908, by adding partly timbered lands in South Dakota.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Black Hills National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "South Dakota"}], "states": ["South Dakota", "Wyoming"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [108], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-15", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-845", "type": "proclamation", "number": "845", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-15", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of Sioux National Forest, Montana and South Dakota", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 845, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-845"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2226, "last_page": 2226, "cite": "35 Stat. 2226", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2226.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-02-15", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of Sioux National Forest, Montana and South Dakota."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, an Executive Order dated July second, nineteen hundred and eight, consolidated the Ekalaka and Long Pine National Forests, in the State of Montana, and the Short Pine, Slim Buttes and Cave Hills National Forests, in the State of South Dakota, under the name of the Sioux National Forest;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Sioux National Forest certain lands within the State of South Dakota, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Sioux National Forest is hereby enlarged and that its boundaries are as shown on the two parts of the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 15th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2226", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Sioux National Forest, Mont, and S. Dak.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34, pp. 3129, 3235, 3245.", "Vol. 33, pp. 2335, 2337.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Prior rights not affected.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Sioux National Forest, a 1908 merger of five Montana and South Dakota forests, with more partly timbered lands in South Dakota.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Sioux National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "South Dakota"}], "states": ["South Dakota", "Montana"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [108], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-15", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-846", "type": "proclamation", "number": "846", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of Tongass National Forest, Alaska", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 846, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-846"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2226, "last_page": 2228, "cite": "35 Stat. 2226–2228", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2226.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-02-16", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of Tongass National Forest, Alaska."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, an Executive Order dated July second, nineteen hundred and eight, consolidated the Alexander Archipelago and Tongass National Forests under the name of the Tongass National Forest;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Tongass National Forest certain lands within the Territory of Alaska, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Tongass National Forest is hereby enlarged and that its boundaries are as shown on the two parts of the diagram forming a part hereof, and further described as follows:", "All of the public land lying within boundaries described as follows: Beginning at the point where the International Boundary Line between the Territory of Alaska and the Dominion of Canada intersects the left bank of the Skagway River; thence southwesterly down the left bank of the said river to a point five miles above the center of the town of Skagway; thence in a southeasterly and southwesterly direction, at a distance of five miles from the center of said town, to the east shore of Chilkoot Inlet; thence southerly along said shore to Lynn Canal; thence southeasterly through Lynn Canal and Favorite Channel to a point on the shore of Young Bay due east of the head of Hawk Inlet; thence westerly to the head of Hawk Inlet; thence in a general southwesterly, northwesterly and southwesterly direction through Hawk Inlet, Icy Strait, passing between Pleasant Island and Lemesurier Island, through Inian Passage, and Cross Sound to a point due west of Cape Bingham; thence southeasterly to a point sixty miles west of Cape Muzon; thence easterly to Cape Muzon; thence in a general easterly, northerly, northeasterly, and northwesterly direction along the said International Boundary Line to the summit of Elbow Mount, at an elevation of 4,235 feet; thence northwesterly to the summit of the most westerly of Twin Peaks, at an elevation of 7,180 feet; thence northwesterly to the summit of a Peak, having an elevation of 5,821 feet, on the said International Boundary Line; thence in a general northwesterly direction along the said International Boundary Line to the summit of a peak known as Devils Paw, having an elevation of 8,000 feet; thence in a southwesterly direction to the summit of a peak, having an elevation of 5,977 feet, in Mendenhall Glacier; thence northwesterly to the summit of a peak, having an elevation of 6,550 feet, on the said International Boundary Line; thence in a general northwesterly direction along the said International Boundary Line to the point where it intersects the left bank of the Skagway River, the place of beginning; and embracing all islands within said described boundaries;", "Also all of the public land lying within boundaries described as follows: Beginning at the point where the sixtieth parallel of latitude intersects the International Boundary Line between the Territory of Alaska and the Dominion of Canada; thence due west along the said parallel to the middle of the channel of Yakutat Bay; thence in a southwesterly direction along the middle of the channel of said bay to a point due west of Ocean Cape; thence in a southeasterly direction to a point on the fifty-ninth parallel of latitude opposite the mouth of the Alsek River; thence easterly along said parallel to its intersection with the shore of Dry Bay; thence in a northwesterly direction along the shore of said bay to the left bank of the most easterly outlet of Alsek River; thence in a general northerly direction along the left bank of said river to a point midway between the mouth of the river and the intersection of the river with the said International Boundary Line; thence in a northwesterly direction to the foot of Yakutat Glacier; thence in a northerly direction to the summit of Mount Ruhamah on the said International Boundary Line; thence in a northwesterly direction along the said International Boundary Line to its intersection with the sixtieth parallel of latitude, the place of beginning; and embracing all islands within said described boundaries;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation the several areas contained within boundaries formed by circles described with a radius of five miles, each, from the centers of the following named towns and settlements, to wit: Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and Sitka; also the several areas contained within boundaries formed by circles described with a radius of one mile, each, from the centers of the following named towns and settlements, to wit: Snettishan, Sumdum, Windham, and Loring; also the areas contained within boundaries formed by circles described with a radius of two miles, each, from the centers of the towns of Petersburg and Wrangell; also Annette and Pennock Islands; also all the northern portion of Gravina Island which lies above a line running from the head of Vallenar Bay southeasterly to the head of Blank Inlet; also all that portion of Revillagigedo Island lying southwest of a line beginning at a point at the head of Wards Cove; and running thence in a southeasterly direction, at a distance of two miles from the shores of Tongass Narrows to a point on Carroll Inlet; and also all that portion of Kasaan Peninsula, forming a part of Prince of Wales Island, which lies southeast of a line beginning at a point on Kasaan Bay due west of the United States Location Monument Number 5, and running thence, north 44° 42’ east, 6,996 feet (approximately) to the most southwesterly point on the bay known as Lyman Anchorage:", "Provided, that this proclamation shall not be so construed as to deprive any person of any valid right possessed under the Treaty for the cession of the Russian possessions in North America to the United States, concluded at Washington on the thirtieth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, or acquired under any act of Congress relating to the Territory of Alaska.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 16th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2226", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Tongass National Forest, Alaska.", "Preamble.", "Ante, pp. 2148, 2152.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Description.", "Lands excepted.", "Proviso.", "Valid rights not affected.", "Vol. 15, p. 539.", "Prior rights not afected.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Expanded the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska, redrawing its bounds from the Skagway River along the Canadian boundary to Cape Muzon.", "categories": ["forests", "insular-territories"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Tongass National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [108], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-16", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Tongass National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Alaska", "source": "research entry", "story": 108}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-491", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 33, "inferred": true, "date": "1902-08-20", "title": "Establishment of the Alexander Archipelago Forest Reserve", "type": "proclamation", "number": "491"}]}
{"id": "eo-1027", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1027", "tr_sequence": 993, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-16", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Creating 6th Internal Revenue District in California by Removing Counties from 1st District", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Created a sixth internal revenue district in California by taking counties out of the first district.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "establish", "places": [], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [105], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-16", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1028", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1028", "tr_sequence": 994, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Reinstatement of R. Barnard Talcott as Assistant Engineer in Office of Supervising Architect of the Treasury", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1028", "revid": 1766780, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. R. Barnard Talcott maybe reinstated as assistant chief mechanical and electrical engineer, in the office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury, without compliance with the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House February 17, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed R. Barnard Talcott to be reinstated as assistant chief mechanical and electrical engineer in the Supervising Architect's office without meeting civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["R. Barnard Talcott"], "significance": 1, "stories": [105], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-17", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1029", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1029", "tr_sequence": 995, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-17", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Promotion of John Hunter, Peter J. Kaster, and Joseph Stangle to Assistant Weigher in the Customs Service at the Port of New York", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1029", "revid": 1766774, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["John Hunter, Peter J. Kaster, and Joseph Stangle may be promoted from the position of classified laborer to that of assistant weigher in the Customs Service at the port of New York, the provisions of the promotion regulations which operate against such promotions being hereby waived."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House February 17, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Waived promotion rules so John Hunter, Peter J. Kaster and Joseph Stangle could move from laborer to assistant weigher in the Customs Service at the port of New York.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["New York"], "people": ["John Hunter", "Peter J. Kaster", "Joseph Stangle"], "significance": 1, "stories": [105], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-17", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-849", "type": "proclamation", "number": "849", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 849, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-849"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2228, "last_page": 2229, "cite": "35 Stat. 2228–2229", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2228.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-02-20", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, an Executive Order signed July second, nineteen hundred and eight, consolidated the Toiyabe, Monitor and Toquima National Forests under the name of the Toiyabe National Forest;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Toiyabe National Forest, certain lands within the State of Nevada, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Toiyabe National Forest is hereby enlarged and that its boundaries are as shown on the two parts of the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 20th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2228", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Toiyabe National Forest, Nev.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34, p. 3278.", "Ante, pp. 2121, 2123.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Prior rights not affected.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Added partly timbered Nevada lands to the Toiyabe National Forest, consolidated in 1908 with the Monitor and Toquima forests.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Toiyabe National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Nevada"}], "states": ["Nevada"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [108], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-20", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Nevada", "source": "research entry", "story": 108}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1932-07-01", "text": "Executive Order 5863 folded the whole Toiyabe into the Nevada National Forest.", "source": "EO 5863", "story": 108}, {"date": "1957-09-09", "text": "Public Land Order 1487 revived the Toiyabe when the Nevada National Forest was abolished effective October 1, 1957.", "source": "Public Land Order 1487", "story": 108}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-850", "type": "proclamation", "number": "850", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-20", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reciprocity with Spain", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 850, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-850"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2229, "last_page": 2230, "cite": "35 Stat. 2229–2230", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2229.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-02-20", "table_title": "Reciprocity with Spain."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America", "A Proclamation", "Whereas, the Government of the United States of America and the Government of Spain have, by an exchange of notes at Washington on February 20, 1909, agreed to supplement the Commercial Agreement which they concluded at San Sebastion on August 1, 1906, to the end that sparkling wines produced in and exported from Spain may be admitted on their importation into the United States at the reduced rates authorized by Section 3 of the United States Tariff Act of July 24, 1897, which action, in the judgment of the President, is compensated by reciprocal and equivalent concessions on the part of Spain in favor of the products of the soil or industry of the United States;", "Now, Therefore, be it known that I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority conferred by the third section of said Tariff Act, do hereby suspend, during the continuance in force of the said Commercial Agreement of August 1, 1906, the imposition and collection of the duties imposed by the first section of said Act upon the articles hereinafter specified, being the products of the soil or industry of Spain; and do declare in place thereof the following rates of duty provided in the third section of said Act to be in force and effect from and after the date of this, my proclamation, as follows:", "On all sparkling wines, in bottles containing not more than one quart and more than one pint, six dollars per dozen; containing not more than one pint each and more than one-half pint, three dollars per dozen; containing one-half pint each or less, one dollar and fifty cents per dozen; in bottles or other vessels containing more than one quart each, in addition to six dollars per dozen bottles on the quantities in excess of one quart, at the rate of one dollar and ninety cents per gallon.", "In testimony 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 twentieth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-third. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. By the President: ROBERT BACON, Secretary of State."], "source": "35 Stat. 2229–2230 (Statutes at Large page images) and the American Presidency Project, 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "\"San Sebastion\" [sic] is printed so in the Statutes at Large; Foreign Relations of the United States, 1909 corrects it to \"San Sebastian.\" Orthographic differences from the Statutes (capitalized \"WHEREAS\", \"DONE at the City of Washington\") as for Proclamation 842.", "story": 109}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Extended the 1906 commercial agreement with Spain to sparkling wines, setting reduced U.S. duties on Spanish sparkling wine in exchange for Spanish concessions on American goods.", "categories": ["trade-reciprocity", "foreign-affairs"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Spain", "kind": "country"}], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [109], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-20", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "Newspapers carried brief, factual reports from one Associated Press paragraph, February 23–25, with no editorial or quoted objector.", "source": "Alexandria Gazette, Feb. 23; Salt Lake Herald, Feb. 24; New-York Tribune, New York Sun, San Francisco Call, Washington Herald, Feb. 25, 1909", "date": "1909-02", "story": 109}, {"text": "An Oakland Tribune editorial, reprinted by the San Francisco wine trade press, said the concession would scarcely be welcomed by California wine growers during a period of extraordinary depression in their industry.", "source": "Pacific Wine and Spirit Review, Mar. 31, 1909, vol. 51, p. 17", "date": "1909-03-31", "story": 109}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "A Treasury circular of February 26 (T.D. 29583) instructed customs officers to apply the reduced rates.", "source": "Pacific Wine and Spirit Review, Mar. 31, 1909, vol. 51, p. 17", "date": "1909-02-26", "story": 109}, {"kind": "economic", "text": "Spanish sparkling wines entered at the lower section 3 rates, six dollars a dozen for quart bottles, in place of the regular Dingley duties.", "source": "35 Stat. 2229–2230", "date": "1909-02-20", "story": 109}, {"kind": "congress", "text": "Within seven weeks the Senate Finance Committee was raising sparkling-wine duties in the Payne bill, from eight dollars to nine dollars and sixty cents a dozen quarts, and section 3 reciprocity was under attack.", "source": "New York Sun, Apr. 13, 1909", "date": "1909-04-13", "story": 109}, {"kind": "diplomatic", "text": "Under the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act, Secretary of State Knox gave Spain notice ending the 1906 and 1909 agreements as of August 7, 1910, so the reduced rates ran about eighteen months.", "source": "36 Stat. 11, sec. 4; Foreign Relations of the United States, 1909", "date": "1909-08-07", "story": 109}], "legacy": [{"text": "The agreement was dead by 1910, even though Spain announced in 1922 that it was ending the 1906 agreement.", "source": "Foreign Relations of the United States (editors' note)", "date": "1922-11", "story": 109}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1909-08-05", "text": "The Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act replaced the Dingley rates and directed the President to give notice ending the reciprocity agreements, which stayed in force until the notice ran out.", "source": "36 Stat. 11, sec. 4", "story": 109}, {"date": "1909-08-07", "text": "Secretary of State Knox notified the Spanish Minister that the agreements of August 1, 1906 and February 20, 1909 would end on August 7, 1910.", "source": "Foreign Relations of the United States, 1909", "story": 109}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-647", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 64, "inferred": true, "date": "1906-08-27", "title": "Reciprocity with Spain", "type": "proclamation", "number": "647"}, {"id": "proc-797", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "France received the same sparkling-wine concession under section 3 of the Dingley Act in 1908.", "story": 109, "date": "1908-01-28", "title": "Announcing Reciprocal Commercial Arrangement with France", "type": "proclamation", "number": "797"}]}
{"id": "proc-851", "type": "proclamation", "number": "851", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Consolidating the Datil and Magdalena National Forests, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 851, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-851"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2230, "last_page": 2230, "cite": "35 Stat. 2230", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2230.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-02-23", "table_title": "Consolidating the Datil and Magdalena National Forests, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, an Executive Order signed July second, nineteen hundred and eight, consolidated the Magdalena and San Mateo National Forests under the name of the Magdalena National Forest;", "And whereas, it appears that all of the Datil and Magdalena National Forests together with certain lands in the Territory of New Mexico not heretofore reserved, and which are in part covered with timber, should be consolidated into one National Forest to be known as the Datil National Forest;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Datil National Forest is hereby enlarged and that its boundaries are as shown on the two parts of the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 23rd day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2230", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Datil National Forest, N. Mex.", "Preamble.", "Ante, p. 2142.", "Vol. 34, p. 3349.", "Ante, p. 2191.", "Consolidation of the Datil and Magdalena National forests.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Prior rights not affected.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Combined the Datil and Magdalena National Forests, plus unreserved timbered lands in New Mexico Territory, into a single forest named the Datil National Forest.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Datil National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [108], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-23", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The enlarged Datil was split in December 1931, with land going to the Cibola and the Gila national forests.", "source": "EO 5752; EO 5765", "date": "1931-12", "story": 108}], "today": [{"name": "Datil National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "abolished", "state": "New Mexico", "note": "Divided between the Cibola and the Gila in December 1931.", "source": "EO 5752; EO 5765", "story": 108}, {"name": "Cibola National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "New Mexico", "source": "EO 5752", "story": 108}, {"name": "Gila National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "New Mexico", "source": "EO 5765", "story": 108}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1931-12-03", "text": "Executive Order 5752 transferred part of the Datil National Forest to the Cibola.", "source": "EO 5752", "story": 108}, {"date": "1931-12-24", "text": "Executive Order 5765 transferred part of the Datil National Forest to the Gila.", "source": "EO 5765", "story": 108}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-812", "relation": "enlarges", "note": "Folded the Magdalena into the Datil National Forest, which Proclamation 812 had set apart in June 1908.", "story": 108, "date": "1908-06-18", "title": "Setting Apart the Datil National Forest, New Mexico", "type": "proclamation", "number": "812"}]}
{"id": "proc-852", "type": "proclamation", "number": "852", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-23", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of Chugach National Forest, Alaska", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 852, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-852"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2231, "last_page": 2232, "cite": "35 Stat. 2231–2232", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2231.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-02-23", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of Chugach National Forest, Alaska."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, an Executive Order dated July second, nineteen hundred and eight, consolidated the Chugach National Forest and the Afognak Forest and Fish Culture Reserve under the name of the Chugach National Forest;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Chugach National Forest certain lands within the Territory of Alaska, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Chugach National Forest is hereby enlarged and that its boundaries are as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof, and further described as follows: The island of Afognak and the adjacent islands which were set apart by proclamation dated December twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, as the “Afognak Forest and Fish Culture Reserve,” and also all of the public land lying within a line beginning at a point on the left bank of Copper River, due east of the northern extremity of Cottonwood Island; thence easterly along the divide between the watershed of Bremner River and Chitina River to a point due north of the southern extremity of Cape Suckling; thence due south to the southern extremity of Cape Suckling; thence in a northwesterly direction to the southern extremity of the left bank of Copper River; thence in a southwesterly direction to the southern extremity of Cape Cleare; thence in a northwesterly direction to the southern extremity of Cape Puget; thence in a general northwesterly direction along the divide of the foothills to its intersection with the main divide of the Kenai Mountains; thence in a general westerly direction along said main divide, between the waters of Resurrection Bay and Kenai Lake, and continuing southwesterly along said main divide to the head of Sheep Creek; thence southerly down the left bank of said creek to Kachemak Bay; thence in a general southerly, westerly and northerly direction along the shores of said bay, Cook Inlet and Knik Arm, at the mean low tide line, to the right bank of Knik River; thence easterly up the right bank of Knik River to the main divide of the Chugach Mountains; thence in a general easterly direction along the main divide of the Chugach Mountains to a point on the left bank of Copper River, due east of the northern extremity of Cottonwood Island, the place of beginning, and embracing all islands within said described line;", "Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation the several areas contained within boundaries formed by circles described with a radius of a mile, each, from the centers of the following named towns and settlements, to wit: Eyak, Orca, Tahtetlahk, Ellamar, Valdez, Fort Liscum, Einiklik, Chenaga, Nutchek, and Latouche; excepting also a tract of land extending one mile back from the tide line, on both sides of the bay known as Valdez Arm; following the tide line from its intersection with the line of 146° 30’ longitude west from Greenwich, easterly around the head of Valdez Arm:", "Provided, that this proclamation shall not be so construed as to deprive any person of any valid right possessed under the Treaty for the cession of the Russian possessions in North\" America to the United States, concluded at Washington on the thirtieth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, or acquired under any act of Congress relating to the Territory of Alaska.", "2232 The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "Since the withdrawal made by this proclamation for Forest purposes and the withdrawal made by proclamation dated December twenty-four, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, for the purpose of establishing fish culture stations and for the use of the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries are consistent, both shall be effective upon the land withdrawn, but the withdrawal for fish culture stations and for the use of the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries shall be the dominant one.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 23rd day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2231", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Chugach National Forest, Alaska.", "Preamble.", "Ante, pp. 2149, 2153.", "Vol. 27, p. 1052.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Description.", "Lands excepted.", "Proviso.", "Valid rights not affected.", "Vol. 15, p. 539.", "Prior rights not affected.", "Fish culture stations.", "Vol. 27, p. 1052.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged Alaska's Chugach National Forest, taking in Afognak Island and the former Afognak Forest and Fish Culture Reserve plus public lands around the Copper River and Kenai Mountains.", "categories": ["forests", "insular-territories"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Chugach National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [108], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-23", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Chugach National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Alaska", "source": "research entry", "story": 108}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1030", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1030", "tr_sequence": 996, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-24", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Lands on Copper and Klutina Rivers, Alaska, Reserved for Joint Educational and Agricultural Experiment Purposes", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Reserved lands along the Copper and Klutina Rivers in Alaska for joint educational and agricultural experiment purposes.", "categories": ["public-lands", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Copper and Klutina Rivers", "kind": "other", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [105], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-24", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-853", "type": "proclamation", "number": "853", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of Modoc National Forest, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 853, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-853"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2232, "last_page": 2233, "cite": "35 Stat. 2232–2233", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2232.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-02-25", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of Modoc National Forest, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, an Executive Order dated July second, nineteen hundred and eight, consolidated the Modoc and Warner Mountains National Forests under the name of the Modoc National Forest;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the Modoc National Forest certain lands within the State of California, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Modoc National Forest is hereby enlarged and that its boundaries are as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "2233 This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 25th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2232", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Modoc National Forest, Cal.", "Preamble.", "Ante, p. 2180.", "Vol. 33, p. 2375.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Prior rights not affected.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Added partly timbered California lands to the Modoc National Forest, merged in 1908 with the Warner Mountains forest.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Modoc National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [108], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-25", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Modoc National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "California", "source": "research entry", "story": 108}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-535", "relation": "enlarges", "note": null, "story": 49, "inferred": true, "date": "1904-11-29", "title": "Establishment of the Modoc Forest Reserve, California", "type": "proclamation", "number": "535"}]}
{"id": "proc-854", "type": "proclamation", "number": "854", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of Ozark National Forest, Arkansas", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 854, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-854"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2233, "last_page": 2233, "cite": "35 Stat. 2233", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2233.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-02-25", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of Ozark National Forest, Arkansas."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good will be promoted by adding to the Ozark National Forest, certain lands within the State of Arkansas, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Ozark National Forest is hereby enlarged and that its boundaries are as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 25th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2233", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Ozark National Forest, Ark.", "Preamble.", "Ante, p. 2182.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Prior rights not affected.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Ozark National Forest in Arkansas with additional partly timbered lands.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Ozark National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arkansas"}], "states": ["Arkansas"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [108], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-25", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-855", "type": "proclamation", "number": "855", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of California National Forest, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 855, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-855"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2233, "last_page": 2234, "cite": "35 Stat. 2233–2234", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2233.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-02-25", "table_title": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, an Executive Order dated July second, nineteen hundred and eight, consolidated parts of the Stony Creek and Trinity National Forests under the name of the California National Forest;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the California National Forest, certain lands within the State of California, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 California National Forest is hereby enlarged and that its boundaries are as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 25th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2233", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["California National Forest, Cal.", "Preamble.", "Ante, pp. 2125, 2179.", "National Forest, California.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Prior rights not affected.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Expanded the California National Forest, formed in 1908 from parts of the Stony Creek and Trinity forests, with more partly timbered lands.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "California National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [108], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-25", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1031", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1031", "tr_sequence": 997, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Employment of F. N. Clark in Interstate Commerce Commission", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1031", "revid": 1766781, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. F. N. Clark may be employed as a clerk in the Interstate Commerce Commission without reference to the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House February 25, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed F. N. Clark to be hired as a clerk at the Interstate Commerce Commission without regard to civil-service rules.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["F. N. Clark"], "significance": 1, "stories": [105], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-25", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1032", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1032", "tr_sequence": 998, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Seventeen Reservations as Preserves and Breeding Grounds for Native Birds", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1032", "revid": 11906845, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that the following reservoir sites, namely: Salt River, Arizona; East Park, California; Deer Flat and Minidoka, Idaho; Willow Creek, Montana; Carlsbad and Rio Grande, New Mexico; Cold Springs, Oregon; Belle Fourche, South Dakota; Strawberry Valley, Utah; Keechelus Lake, Kachess Lake, Clealum Lake, Bumping Lake and Conconully, Washington, and Shoshone and Pathfinder, Wyoming, together with the smallest legal subdivisions of land adjoining the flow lines thereof as segregated by the broken lines upon the diagrams hereto attached and made a part of this order, are hereby reserved, subject to Reclamation Service uses under the provisions of the act approved June 17, 1902 (32 Stat., 388), and to any other valid existing rights, and are set apart for the use of the Department of Agriculture as preserves and breeding grounds for native birds. It is unlawful for any person to hunt, trap, capture, wilfully disturb or kill any bird of any kind whatever or take the eggs of such birds within the limits of these reservations, except under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture. Warning is expressly given to all persons not to commit any of the acts herein enumerated and which are prohibited by law.", "These reservations to be known by the names designating the reserved tracts upon the diagrams attached."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House February 25, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Turned seventeen Reclamation Service reservoir sites in ten western states and territories, from Salt River, Arizona, to Pathfinder, Wyoming, into preserves and breeding grounds for native birds.", "categories": ["wildlife", "water-reclamation"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Salt River Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Arizona"}, {"name": "East Park Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "California"}, {"name": "Deer Flat Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Idaho"}, {"name": "Minidoka Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Idaho"}, {"name": "Willow Creek Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Montana"}, {"name": "Carlsbad Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "New Mexico"}, {"name": "Rio Grande Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "New Mexico"}, {"name": "Cold Springs Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Oregon"}, {"name": "Belle Fourche Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "South Dakota"}, {"name": "Strawberry Valley Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Utah"}, {"name": "Keechelus Lake Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Washington"}, {"name": "Kachess Lake Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Washington"}, {"name": "Clealum Lake Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Washington"}, {"name": "Bumping Lake Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Washington"}, {"name": "Conconully Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Washington"}, {"name": "Shoshone Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Wyoming"}, {"name": "Pathfinder Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Wyoming"}], "states": ["Arizona", "California", "Idaho", "Montana", "New Mexico", "Oregon", "South Dakota", "Utah", "Washington", "Wyoming"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [105], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-25", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The order put the bird preserves second to Reclamation Service use of the reservoirs, heading off any conflict with the water projects.", "source": "Executive Order 1032", "date": "1909-02-25", "story": 105}], "legacy": [{"text": "Most of the seventeen reservoir reservations were revoked between 1921 and 1968 as the reclamation projects and their uses changed; Deer Flat and Cold Springs were never revoked and remain national wildlife refuges.", "source": "research entry", "story": 105}, {"text": "Executive Order 7417 of 1936 misdates this order as February 5, 1909; it was signed February 25.", "source": "Executive Order 7417", "date": "1936-07-17", "story": 105}], "today": [{"name": "Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "origin", "state": "Idaho", "since": "1909-02-25", "note": "The Fish and Wildlife Service dates it to the Deer Flat Bird Reservation of February 25, 1909.", "source": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service", "story": 105}, {"name": "Cold Springs National Wildlife Refuge", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "origin", "state": "Oregon", "since": "1909-02-25", "note": "Established as the Cold Springs Reservation.", "source": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service", "story": 105}, {"name": "East Park Reservation", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "abolished", "state": "California", "note": "Revoked 1921.", "source": "Executive Order 3468", "story": 105}, {"name": "Keechelus Lake, Kachess Lake, Clealum Lake and Bumping Lake reservations", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "abolished", "state": "Washington", "note": "Four of the five Washington lake sites, revoked in 1921; Conconully, the fifth, lasted until 1960.", "source": "Executive Order 3468", "story": 105}, {"name": "Conconully Reservation", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "abolished", "state": "Washington", "note": "Revoked 1960.", "source": "Public Land Order 2072, 25 Fed. Reg. 2731", "story": 105}, {"name": "Shoshone and Pathfinder reservations", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "abolished", "state": "Wyoming", "note": "Revoked 1922.", "source": "Executive Order 3725", "story": 105}, {"name": "Rio Grande Reservation", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "abolished", "state": "New Mexico", "note": "Revoked and re-created as the Rio Grande Wild Life Refuge in 1933; that refuge was revoked in 1947.", "source": "Executive Order 6086; Public Land Order 378", "story": 105}, {"name": "Minidoka Reservation", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "origin", "state": "Idaho", "note": "Revoked and re-reserved on the same ground as a wildlife refuge by Executive Order 7417 in 1936.", "source": "Executive Order 7417", "story": 105}, {"name": "Carlsbad Reservation", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "abolished", "state": "New Mexico", "note": "Renamed Carlsbad National Wildlife Refuge in 1940; revoked 1947 (about 18,679.66 acres).", "source": "Public Land Order 392, 12 Fed. Reg. 5554", "story": 105}, {"name": "Strawberry Valley Reservation", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "abolished", "state": "Utah", "note": "Revoked 1961.", "source": "Public Land Order 2306, 26 Fed. Reg. 2467", "story": 105}, {"name": "Salt River Reservation", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "abolished", "state": "Arizona", "note": "Revoked 1961.", "source": "Public Land Order 2309, 26 Fed. Reg. 2617", "story": 105}, {"name": "Belle Fourche Reservation", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "abolished", "state": "South Dakota", "note": "Revoked 1964 (about 13,680 acres).", "source": "Public Land Order 3422, 29 Fed. Reg. 9666", "story": 105}, {"name": "Willow Creek Reservation", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "abolished", "state": "Montana", "note": "Revoked 1968.", "source": "Public Land Order 4431, 33 Fed. Reg. 8341", "story": 105}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1921-05-20", "text": "Revoked as to East Park and four of the five Washington lake sites, the sites said to lack plant food and other requirements for useful bird reservations.", "source": "Executive Order 3468", "story": 105}, {"date": "1922-08-18", "text": "Revoked as to Shoshone and Pathfinder, judged of too little value to be retained.", "source": "Executive Order 3725", "story": 105}, {"date": "1933-03-28", "text": "Revoked as to Rio Grande, the same ground reserved as the Rio Grande Wild Life Refuge.", "source": "Executive Order 6086", "story": 105}, {"date": "1936-07-17", "text": "Revoked as to Minidoka, the ground re-reserved as a wildlife refuge along with enlargements of 1912 and 1930.", "source": "Executive Order 7417", "story": 105}, {"date": "1940-07-25", "text": "Carlsbad renamed Carlsbad National Wildlife Refuge.", "source": "Proclamation 2416, 54 Stat. 2717", "story": 105}, {"date": "1947-08-11", "text": "Revoked as to Carlsbad.", "source": "Public Land Order 392, 12 Fed. Reg. 5554", "story": 105}, {"date": "1960-03-24", "text": "Revoked as to Conconully.", "source": "Public Land Order 2072, 25 Fed. Reg. 2731", "story": 105}, {"date": "1961-03-16", "text": "Revoked as to Strawberry Valley.", "source": "Public Land Order 2306, 26 Fed. Reg. 2467", "story": 105}, {"date": "1961-03-21", "text": "Revoked as to Salt River.", "source": "Public Land Order 2309, 26 Fed. Reg. 2617", "story": 105}, {"date": "1964-07-13", "text": "Revoked as to Belle Fourche.", "source": "Public Land Order 3422, 29 Fed. Reg. 9666", "story": 105}, {"date": "1968-05-29", "text": "Revoked as to Willow Creek.", "source": "Public Land Order 4431, 33 Fed. Reg. 8341", "story": 105}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-961", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Loch Katrine bird reservation, revoked by the same 1921 order that dropped East Park and four Washington sites.", "story": 105, "date": "1908-10-26", "title": "Establishing Loch Katrine Reservation in Wyoming as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "type": "executive_order", "number": "961"}]}
{"id": "eo-1033", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1033", "tr_sequence": 999, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-26", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Making Ten Employees of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission Eligible for Transfer to Competitive Service", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1033", "revid": 1764568, "printed_source": "1909 CSR 116"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The ten employees of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, who have been specially commended for retention in the public service by the president of that commission, may be transferred to the competitive classified service, no such transfer to be made until after appropriate noncompetitive examination and approval by the Civil Service Commission."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1909 CSR 116)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House February 26, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Made ten Spanish Treaty Claims Commission employees commended by its president eligible for transfer to the competitive service after noncompetitive examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 1, "stories": [105], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-26", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-856", "type": "proclamation", "number": "856", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Convening a Special Session of the United States Senate", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 856, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-856"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2234, "last_page": 2235, "cite": "35 Stat. 2234–2235", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2234.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-02-27", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of California National Forest, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["By the President of the United States of America", "A Proclamation", "Whereas, public interests require that the Senate of the United States be convened at 12 o'clock on the 4th day of March next to receive such communications as may be made by the Executive;", "Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and declare that an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene at the Capitol, in the city of Washington, on the 4th day of March next, at 12 o'clock noon, of which all persons who shall at that time be entitled to act as members of that body are hereby required to take notice.", "Given under my hand and the seal of the United States at Washington the 27th day of February in the year of our Lord 1909, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. By the President: ROBERT BACON, Secretary of State."], "source": "35 Stat. 2234–2235 (Statutes at Large page images) and the American Presidency Project, 2026-10-12", "kind": "collated", "verified": true, "note": "Orthographic differences from the Statutes (capitalized \"WHEREAS\") as for Proclamation 842.", "story": 109}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Called the U.S. Senate into special session at noon on March 4, 1909, to receive communications from the Executive.", "categories": ["congress"], "action": "convene", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [109], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-27", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "congress", "text": "The Senate convened as called at noon on March 4, 1909, sat three days and adjourned on March 6.", "source": "Congressional Record, vol. 44", "date": "1909-03-04", "story": 109}, {"kind": "congress", "text": "On March 5 the Senate received and confirmed all nine of Taft's Cabinet nominations in an executive session of fifty-five minutes.", "source": "Congressional Record, vol. 44, pp. 6–7", "date": "1909-03-05", "story": 109}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-498", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Roosevelt's call of the Senate for March 5, 1903.", "story": 109, "date": "1903-03-02", "title": "Convening the Senate of the United States", "type": "proclamation", "number": "498"}, {"id": "proc-538", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Roosevelt's call of the Senate for his own second inauguration day, 1905.", "story": 109, "date": "1905-02-23", "title": "Convening a Special Session of the United States Senate", "type": "proclamation", "number": "538"}]}
{"id": "proc-857", "type": "proclamation", "number": "857", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of Arkansas National Forest, Arkansas", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 857, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-857"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2234, "last_page": 2235, "cite": "35 Stat. 2234–2235", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2234.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-02-27", "table_title": "Convening special session of the Senate."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good will be promoted by adding to the Arkansas National Forest certain lands within the State of Arkansas, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Arkansas National Forest is hereby enlarged and that its boundaries are as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 27th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2234", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Arkansas National Forest, Ark.", "Preamble.", "Ante, p. 2167.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Prior rights not affected.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Added more partly timbered lands in Arkansas to the Arkansas National Forest.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Arkansas National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arkansas"}], "states": ["Arkansas"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [108], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-27", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1034", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1034", "tr_sequence": 1000, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Making Five Employees of the Office of the Assistant Attorney-General Eligible for Transfer to Competitive Service", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1034", "revid": 1764536, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The five employees in the office of the Assistant Attorney-General in charge of the defense of suits before the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, who have been specially recommended by him for retention in the public service, with the concurrence of the Attorney-General, may be transferred to the competitive classified service; no such transfer to be made until after appropriate noncompetitive examination and approval by the Civil Service Commission."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House February 27, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Made five employees of the Assistant Attorney-General's office defending Spanish Treaty Claims suits eligible for transfer to the competitive service after noncompetitive examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 1, "stories": [105], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-27", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1035", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1035", "tr_sequence": 1001, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Transfer of Roger H. Adams to Competitive Position in United States", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1035", "revid": 1766784, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. Roger H. Adams, a clerk in the Isthmian service, may be transferred to a competitive position in the United States, subject to such examination as the Civil Service Commission may prescribe."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House February 27, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Let Roger H. Adams, a clerk in the Isthmian service, transfer to a competitive position in the United States, subject to examination.", "categories": ["civil-service", "canal-zone"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": ["Roger H. Adams"], "significance": 1, "stories": [105], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-27", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1036", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1036", "tr_sequence": 1002, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Reserving Lands in Nome, Alaska, for Use by Army Signal Corps as Wireless Telegraph Station", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1036", "revid": 4721898, "printed_source": "General Orders, No. 55, War Dept., March 23, 1909"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["On the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, concurred in by the War Department, I hereby withdraw from all forms of disposal and reserve, for use of the Signal Corps, U. S. Army, as a wireless telegraph station in connection with the operation and maintenance of telegraph lines in Alaska, those certain blocks numbered eighty-eight (88), eighty-nine (89), and one hundred twenty-two (122), situated in the city of Nome, Alaska, and exhibited upon the plat of the Nome town site approved April 13, 1905."], "source": "Wikisource (from General Orders, No. 55, War Dept., March 23, 1909)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House February 27, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved three town blocks in Nome, Alaska, for an Army Signal Corps wireless telegraph station tied to the territory's telegraph lines.", "categories": ["military-naval", "public-lands", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Nome", "kind": "town", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [105], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-27", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1037", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1037", "tr_sequence": 1003, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Bering Sea Reservation as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1037", "revid": 12442258, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that Saint Matthew island, Hall island, and Pinnacle islet, situated in Bering Sea, approximately in latitude sixty degrees, thirty minutes north, longitude one hundred and seventy-two degrees, thirty minutes west from Greenwich, as segregated by the broken line shown upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this order, be and the same are hereby reserved and set apart for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds. It is unlawful for any person to hunt, trap, capture, wilfully disturb, or kill any bird of any kind whatever, or take the eggs of such birds within the limits of this reservation, except under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture. Warning is expressly given to all persons not to commit any of the acts herein enumerated and which are prohibited by law. This bird refuge to be known as Bering Sea Reservation."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House February 27, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved Saint Matthew Island, Hall Island and Pinnacle Islet in the Bering Sea as the Bering Sea Reservation, a preserve and breeding ground for native birds.", "categories": ["wildlife", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Bering Sea Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [105], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-27", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Renamed a national wildlife refuge in 1940 and folded into the Bering Sea Unit of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge in 1980.", "source": "Proclamation 2416, 54 Stat. 2717; Pub. L. 96-487, sec. 303(1)", "story": 105}], "today": [{"name": "Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge (Bering Sea Unit)", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Alaska", "source": "Pub. L. 96-487, sec. 303(1)", "story": 105}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1940-07-25", "text": "Renamed Bering Sea National Wildlife Refuge.", "source": "Proclamation 2416, 54 Stat. 2717", "story": 105}, {"date": "1980-12-02", "text": "Redesignated a subunit of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge.", "source": "Pub. L. 96-487, sec. 303(1)", "story": 105}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1038", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1038", "tr_sequence": 1004, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Fire Island Reservation, Cook Inlet, Alaska, as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Alaska Moose", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1038", "revid": 12438613, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that Fire Island, located approximately in latitude sixty-one degrees, fifteen minutes North, longitude one hundred and fifty degrees, fifteen minutes West from Greenwich, and near the head of Cook Inlet, south coast of Alaska, be and the same is hereby reserved and set apart for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a preserve and breeding ground for the Alaska moose."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House February 27, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Set aside Fire Island, near the head of Cook Inlet, Alaska, as a preserve and breeding ground for the Alaska moose.", "categories": ["wildlife", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Fire Island Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [105], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-27", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The moose preserve ran from 1909 to 1950 with a four-year gap; a commonly cited 1955 order (Public Land Order 1152) actually concerns a New York refuge.", "source": "15 Fed. Reg. 2463–2464; 20 Fed. Reg. 3701", "story": 105}, {"text": "Cook Inlet Region, Inc. owns most of the island, which it says it acquired as surplus federal property in 1982 through the Cook Inlet Land Exchange; the island hosts Anchorage's Fire Island wind farm.", "source": "Anchorage Daily News, July 19, 2012; Cook Inlet Region, Inc.", "story": 105}], "today": [{"name": "Fire Island Reservation", "kind": "other", "relation": "abolished", "state": "Alaska", "note": "Moose preserve finally revoked in 1950.", "source": "Public Land Order 639", "story": 105}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1921-03-26", "text": "Reservation revoked.", "source": "Executive Order 3421", "story": 105}, {"date": "1925-01-22", "text": "Reservation restored.", "source": "Executive Order 4131", "story": 105}, {"date": "1950-04-26", "text": "Reservation finally revoked.", "source": "Public Land Order 639, 15 Fed. Reg. 2463–2464", "story": 105}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1039", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1039", "tr_sequence": 1005, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Tuxedni Reservation, Alaska, as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1039", "revid": 12438045, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that Chisick Island and Egg Island, situated approximately in latitude sixty degrees, fifteen minutes north, longitude one hundred and fifty-two degrees, thirty minutes west from Greenwich, at the entrance to Tuxedni Harbor, Cook Inlet, Alaska, as segregated by the broken line shown upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this order, be and the same are hereby reserved and set apart for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds. It is unlawful for any person to hunt, trap, capture, wilfully disturb, or kill any bird of any kind whatever, or take the eggs of such birds within the limits of this reservation, except under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture. Warning is expressly given to all persons not to commit any of the acts herein enumerated and which are prohibited by law. This bird refuge to be known as Tuxedni Reservation."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House February 27, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Protected Chisick Island and Egg Island at the entrance to Tuxedni Harbor, Cook Inlet, as the Tuxedni Reservation for native birds, outlawing hunting or egg-taking there.", "categories": ["wildlife", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Tuxedni Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [105], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-27", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Renamed a national wildlife refuge in 1940 and folded into the Gulf of Alaska Unit of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge in 1980.", "source": "Proclamation 2416, 54 Stat. 2717; Pub. L. 96-487, sec. 303(1)", "story": 105}], "today": [{"name": "Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge (Gulf of Alaska Unit)", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Alaska", "source": "Pub. L. 96-487, sec. 303(1)", "story": 105}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1940-07-25", "text": "Renamed Tuxedni National Wildlife Refuge.", "source": "Proclamation 2416, 54 Stat. 2717", "story": 105}, {"date": "1980-12-02", "text": "Redesignated a subunit of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge.", "source": "Pub. L. 96-487, sec. 303(1)", "story": 105}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1040", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1040", "tr_sequence": 1006, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Saint Lazaria Reservation, Alaska, as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1040", "revid": 12442260, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that the island of Saint Lazaria, situated at the entrance to Sitka Sound, Alaska, approximately in latitude fifty-six degrees, fifty-nine minutes north, longitude one hundred and thirty-live degrees, forty-two minutes west from Greenwich, as segregated by the broken line shown upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this order, be and the same is hereby reserved and set apart for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds. It is unlawful for any person to hunt, trap, capture, wilfully disturb, or kill any bird of any kind whatever, or take the eggs of such birds within the limits of this reservation, except under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture. Warning is expressly given to all persons not to commit any of the acts herein enumerated and which are prohibited by law. This bird refuge to be known as Saint Lazaria Reservation."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House February 27, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Made Saint Lazaria Island, at the entrance to Sitka Sound, a preserve and breeding ground for native birds.", "categories": ["wildlife", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Saint Lazaria Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [105], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-27", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Renamed a national wildlife refuge in 1940 and folded into the Gulf of Alaska Unit of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge in 1980.", "source": "Proclamation 2416, 54 Stat. 2717; Pub. L. 96-487, sec. 303(1)", "story": 105}], "today": [{"name": "Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge (Gulf of Alaska Unit)", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Alaska", "source": "Pub. L. 96-487, sec. 303(1)", "story": 105}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1940-07-25", "text": "Renamed Saint Lazaria National Wildlife Refuge.", "source": "Proclamation 2416, 54 Stat. 2717", "story": 105}, {"date": "1980-12-02", "text": "Redesignated a subunit of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge.", "source": "Pub. L. 96-487, sec. 303(1)", "story": 105}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1041", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1041", "tr_sequence": 1007, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Yukon Delta Reservation, Alaska, as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1041", "revid": 12438614, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that the treeless tundra of the delta of the Yukon River, Alaska, situated west of longitude one hundred and sixty-two degrees and twenty minutes west of Greenwich and south of the Yukon River, as segregated by the broken line shown upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this order, be and the same is hereby reserved and set apart for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds. It is unlawful for any person to hunt, trap, capture, wilfully disturb, or kill any bird of any kind whatever, or take the eggs of such birds within the limits of this reservation, except under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture. Warning is expressly given to all persons not to commit any of the acts herein enumerated and which are prohibited by law. This bird refuge to be known as Yukon Delta Reservation."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House February 27, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved the treeless tundra of the Yukon River delta in Alaska as the Yukon Delta Reservation, a preserve and breeding ground for native birds.", "categories": ["wildlife", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Yukon Delta Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [105], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-27", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Agriculture Department said the roughly 8,000,000-acre reservation could not be adequately administered with its limited funds, and that the marshy country itself protected the birds.", "source": "USDA press release, \"Yukon Delta Bird Reservation Canceled,\" March 9, 1922", "date": "1922-03-09", "story": 105}, {"text": "Today's Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge was built in 1980 from other units and does not descend from this order.", "source": "Pub. L. 96-487, sec. 303(7)", "date": "1980-12-02", "story": 105}], "today": [{"name": "Yukon Delta Reservation", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "abolished", "state": "Alaska", "note": "Revoked 1922; not an ancestor of the present Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge.", "source": "Executive Order 3642; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Alaska land-status summary", "story": 105}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1922-02-27", "text": "Revoked in full, thirteen years to the day after it was created.", "source": "Executive Order 3642", "story": 105}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1042", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1042", "tr_sequence": 1008, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishment of a Bird Reservation on the Island of Culebra, Porto Rico", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1042", "revid": 5085313, "printed_source": "[http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA539&id=mWZZAAAAIAAJ#v=onepage&q=&f=true External Information about this EO]  "}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["{| style=\"margin: 0em 0em 0em 0em;\" | width=2%| |It is hereby ordered that the Islands of the Culebra group, Porto Rico, approximately in latitude eighteen degrees, twenty minutes north, longitude sixty-five degrees, twenty minutes west from Greenwich, excepting Culebra Island, be and the same are hereby reserved, subject to their use for naval and light-house purposes under the provisions of the Proclamations and Executive Orders heretofore issued and creating such reservations, and set apart for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds. It is unlawful for any person to hunt, trap, capture, willfully disturb, or kill any bird of any kind whatever, or take the eggs of such birds within the limits of this reservation, except under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture. Warning is expressly given to all persons not to commit any of the acts herein enumerated and which are prohibited by law.", "This reservation to be known as Culebra Reservation.", "Theodore Roosevelt The White House, February 27, 1909. | width=2%| |}", "== Notes == See Related: Proclamation 2416, July 25, 1940"], "source": "Wikisource (from [http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA539&id=mWZZAAAAIAAJ#v=onepage&q=&f=true External Information about this EO]  )", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": null, "place_date": null, "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Set apart the islands of the Culebra group in Puerto Rico, except Culebra Island itself, as a native-bird preserve, subject to existing naval and lighthouse uses.", "categories": ["wildlife", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Culebra group", "kind": "island", "state": "Puerto Rico"}], "states": ["Puerto Rico"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [105], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-27", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Culebra survives as the Caribbean's first federal wildlife reserve.", "source": "research entry", "story": 105}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-502", "relation": "same_subject", "note": null, "story": 44, "inferred": true, "date": "1903-06-26", "title": "Reservation of Lands in Puerto Rico for Naval Purposes", "type": "proclamation", "number": "502"}]}
{"id": "eo-1043", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1043", "tr_sequence": 1009, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Farallon Reservation, California, as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1043", "revid": 11906849, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that the Middle and North Farallon islands and other rocks to the Northwest of same, in California, situated approximately in latitude thirty-seven degrees and forty-five minutes north, longitude one hundred and twenty-three degrees and five minutes west from Greenwich, and located within the area segregated by the broken line upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this order, be and the same are hereby reserved and set apart for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds. It is unlawful for any person to hunt, trap, capture, wilfully disturb, or kill any birds of any kind whatever, or take the eggs of such birds within the limits of this reservation, except under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture. Warning is expressly given to all persons not to commit any of the acts herein enumerated and which are prohibited by law. This reserve to be known as Farallon Reservation."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House February 27, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Reserved the Middle and North Farallon islands and nearby rocks off California as the Farallon Reservation, a preserve and breeding ground for native birds.", "categories": ["wildlife"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Farallon Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [105], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-27", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The reservation grew beyond the North and Middle Farallones to take in the main South Farallon island, and most of the group became designated wilderness.", "source": "Public Land Order 4671; Pub. L. 93-550", "story": 105}], "today": [{"name": "Farallon Wilderness", "kind": "other", "relation": "part", "state": "California", "note": "141 acres, every island of the group except Southeast Farallon.", "source": "Pub. L. 93-550", "story": 105}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1969", "text": "Main South Farallon island added.", "source": "Public Land Order 4671", "story": 105}, {"date": "1974-12-26", "text": "Congress designated the 141-acre Farallon Wilderness.", "source": "Pub. L. 93-550", "story": 105}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1044", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1044", "tr_sequence": 1010, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-02-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Pribilof Reservation, Alaska, as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1044", "revid": 12441316, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that two small islands of the Pribilof group, located approximately in latitude fifty-seven degrees north, longitude one hundred and seventy degrees west from Greenwich, in Bering Sea, Alaska, known as Walrus island and Otter island, and located within the area segregated by the broken line upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this order, be and the same are hereby reserved, subject to the provisions of section nineteen hundred and fifty-six, Revised Statutes, relating to fur bearing animals, and set apart for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds. It is unlawful for any person to hunt, trap, capture, wilfully disturb, or kill any bird of any kind whatever, or take the eggs of such birds within the limits of this reservation, except under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture. Warning is expressly given to all persons not to commit any of the acts herein enumerated and which are prohibited by law.", "This reservation to be known as Pribilof Reservation."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House February 27, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Protected Walrus and Otter islands in Alaska's Pribilof group as a native-bird preserve, subject to existing law on fur-bearing animals.", "categories": ["wildlife", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Pribilof Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [105], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-02-27", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Named in the 1980 Alaska lands act as \"Pribilof (Walrus and Otter Islands)\" and placed in the Bering Sea Unit of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge.", "source": "Pub. L. 96-487, sec. 303(1)", "date": "1980-12-02", "story": 105}], "today": [{"name": "Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge (Bering Sea Unit)", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Alaska", "source": "Pub. L. 96-487, sec. 303(1)", "story": 105}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1980-12-02", "text": "Redesignated a subunit of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge.", "source": "Pub. L. 96-487, sec. 303(1)", "story": 105}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-858", "type": "proclamation", "number": "858", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of Mono National Forest, California and Nevada", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 858, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-858"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2235, "last_page": 2236, "cite": "35 Stat. 2235–2236", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2235.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-03-02", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of Mono National Forest, California and Nevada."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, an Executive Order dated July second, nineteen hundred and eight, consolidated portions of the Stanislaus, Sierra, Tahoe, and Inyo National Forests under the name of the Mono National Forest;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good will be promoted by adding to the Mono National Forest certain lands within the States of California and Nevada, which are in part covered with timber;", "2236 Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Mono National Forest is hereby enlarged and that its boundaries are as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 nine, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2235", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Mono National Forest, Cal. and Nev.", "Preamble.", "Ante, pp. 2158, 2185, 2134.", "Vol. 34, p. 3232.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Prior rights not affected.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Added partly timbered lands in California and Nevada to the Mono National Forest.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Mono National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California", "Nevada"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [108], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-03-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-859", "type": "proclamation", "number": "859", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging the Sitgreaves National Forest, Arizona", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 859, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-859"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2236, "last_page": 2237, "cite": "35 Stat. 2236–2237", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2236.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-03-02", "table_title": "Including part of the White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation in Sitgreaves National Forest, Arizona."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, an Executive Order signed July first, nineteen hundred and eight, directed that parts of the Black Mesa National Forest and the Tonto National Forest be known as the Sitgreaves National Forest;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good will be promoted by including in the Sitgreaves National Forest certain lands within the Territory of Arizona, shown on the diagram hereto attached and forming a part hereof, which are in part covered with timber, and which constitute a part of the White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation, established by Executive Order dated November ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy one, and modified by subsequent Orders;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 said lands are hereby added to the Sitgreaves National Forest and that the boundaries of said National Forest are now as shown on the two parts of the said diagram, and such National Forest so enlarged shall, except as hereinafter provided, be subject to all the laws affecting National Forests including the mineral land laws of the United States; Provided, that, nothing herein shall, for the term of twenty-five years from the date hereof, operate to terminate or abridge the rights of the Secretary of the Interior and of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under existing laws, to allot to individual Indians any of such of the above described lands as were included in the said White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation by the said Executive Orders modified as aforesaid; to use any of such lands or the timber thereon for Agency, school, or other tribal purposes; to permit the use of any of such lands for grazing purposes; to permit the free use by individual Indians of timber and stone from any of said lands necessary for domestic use upon their allotments; to dispose of the proceeds arising from grazing as provided for by law for other Indian funds; and to dispose of the dead timber standing or fallen upon such lands; Provided further, that said powers and rights of the Secretary of the Interior and Commissioner of Indian Affairs or permittees under or through them or either of them, and of individual Indians, except as to allotments to such Indians, shall be subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture may from time to time prescribe for the protection of the National Forest; and said powers and rights shall not be construed to apply to any land except such parts of said White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation as are included in the Forest by this proclamation, and all said powers and rights except the rights of individual Indians and their heirs to hold and enjoy their allotments, shall cease and determine twenty-five years after the date hereof, and thereafter the occupancy and use of the unallotted parts of said lands shall in all respects be subject to the laws governing National Forests.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved or used for Indian Agency, school, or church purposes, or reserved for any public purpose other than for Indian occupancy and use under such Executive Orders, be subject to, and shall not interfere with, or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, or prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 nine, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2236", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; 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The addition lasted barely three years.", "source": "Executive Orders Relating to Indian Reservations (1912), pp. 11–12", "date": "1912-02-17", "story": 108}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1912-02-17", "text": "Taft's order excluded from the Sitgreaves all the White Mountain Apache Reservation land added by the proclamation of March 2, 1909.", "source": "Executive Orders Relating to Indian Reservations (1912), pp. 11–12", "story": 108}]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-866", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The same day's Apache enlargement also took White Mountain Apache Reservation land and was reversed by the same 1912 orders.", "story": 108, "date": "1909-03-02", "title": "Enlarging the Apache National Forest, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "866"}]}
{"id": "proc-860", "type": "proclamation", "number": "860", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 860, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-860"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2238, "last_page": 2238, "cite": "35 Stat. 2238", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2238.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-03-02", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, an Executive Order dated July second, nineteen hundred and eight, consolidated the Lincoln and Gallinas National Forests under the name of the Lincoln National Forest;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good will be promoted by adding to the Lincoln National Forest, certain lands within the Territory of New Mexico, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Lincoln National Forest is hereby enlarged and that its boundaries are as shown on the two parts of the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 nine, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2238", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Lincoln National Forest, N. Mex.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 32, p. 2018.", "Vol. 34, pp. 3175, 3216.", "Ante, pp. 2126, 2181.", "Vol. 34, p. 3243.", "Ante, p. 2122.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Prior rights not affected.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Lincoln National Forest, merged in 1908 with the Gallinas forest, by adding partly timbered lands in New Mexico Territory.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Lincoln National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [108], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-03-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-861", "type": "proclamation", "number": "861", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of Shasta National Forest, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 861, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-861"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2238, "last_page": 2239, "cite": "35 Stat. 2238–2239", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2238.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-03-02", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of Shasta National Forest, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, an Executive Order dated July second, nineteen hundred and eight, consolidated portions of the Shasta and Klamath National Forests under the name of the Shasta National Forest;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good will be promoted by adding to the Shasta National Forest certain lands within the State of California, which are in part covered with timber, and by including therein portions of the area heretofore embraced in the Lassen National Forest;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Shasta National Forest is hereby enlarged and that its boundaries are as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 nine, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2238", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Shasta National Forest, Cal.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34, pp. 3001, 3235.", "Ante, pp. 2195, 2223.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Prior rights not affected.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Expanded the Shasta National Forest with partly timbered California lands, including part of the area formerly in the Lassen National Forest.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Shasta National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}, {"name": "Lassen National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [108], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-03-02", "impact": {}, "related": [{"id": "proc-867", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Signed the same day; part of the Shasta's addition came from the Lassen, and Proclamation 867 passed two small Lassen parcels to the Shasta.", "story": 108, "date": "1909-03-02", "title": "Transferring Part of Lassen National Forest, California, to Shasta National Forest, and Including Other Lands", "type": "proclamation", "number": "867"}]}
{"id": "proc-862", "type": "proclamation", "number": "862", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging the Alamo National Forest, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 862, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-862"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2240, "last_page": 2240, "cite": "35 Stat. 2240", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2240.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-03-02", "table_title": "Including part of the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation in Carson National Forest, New Mexico."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, an Executive Order signed July second, nineteen hundred and eight, consolidated the Guadalupe and Sacramento National Forests under the name of the Alamo National Forest;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good will be promoted by including in the Alamo National Forest certain lands within the Territory of New Mexico, shown on the diagram hereto attached and forming a part hereof, which are in part covered with timber, and which constitute a part of the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation, established in the first instance by Executive Order dated May twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and finally established as to its present boundaries by Executive Order dated March twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 said lands are hereby added to the Alamo National Forest and that the boundaries of said National Forest are now as shown on the two parts of the said diagram, and such National Forest so enlarged shall, except as hereinafter provided, be subject to all the laws affecting National Forests including the mineral land laws of the United States; Provided, that, nothing herein shall, for the term of twenty-five years from the date hereof, operate to terminate or abridge the rights of the Secretary of the Interior and of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under existing laws, to allot to individual Indians any of such of the above described lands as were included in the said Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation by the said Executive Order modified as aforesaid; to use any of such lands or the timber thereon for Agency, school, or other tribal purposes; to permit the use of any of such lands for grazing purposes; to permit the free use by individual Indians of timber and stone from any of said lands necessary for domestic use upon their allotments; to dispose of the proceeds arising from grazing as provided for by law for other Indian funds; and to dispose of the dead timber standing or fallen upon such lands; Provided further, that said powers and rights of the Secretary of the Interior and Commissioner of Indian Affairs or permittees under or through them or either of them, and of individual Indians, except as to allotments to such Indians, shall be subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture may from time to time prescribe for the protection of the National Forest; and said powers and rights shall not be construed to apply to any land except such parts of said Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation as are included m the Forest by this proclamation, and all said powers and rights except the rights of individual Indians and their heirs to hold and enjoy their allotments, shall cease and determine twenty-five years after the date hereof, and thereafter the occupancy and use of the unallotted parts of said lands shall in all respects be subject to the laws governing National Forests.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved or used for Indian Agancy, school, or church purposes, or reserved for any public purpose other than for Indian occupancy and use under such Executive Orders, be subject to, and shall not interfere with, or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, or prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 nine, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2240", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; 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Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Alamo National Forest, N. Mex.", "Preamble.", "Ante, pp. 2124, 2127.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Provisos.", "Use for Indians.", "Regulations, etc.", "Restriction.", "Prior rights not affected.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Added timbered parts of the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation to the Alamo National Forest in New Mexico Territory, with provisos for continued use for the Indians.", "categories": ["forests", "indian-lands"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Alamo National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}, {"name": "Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [108], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-03-02", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "political", "text": "The addition of Mescalero Apache Reservation land passed without recorded protest at the national level; the objections of the people affected carried little weight in the policy of the day.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1909", "story": 108}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Alamo National Forest did not survive under that name. It was moved into the Lincoln National Forest in 1917, and the Mescalero Apache Tribe's reservation and forest lands remain a live matter of tribal sovereignty.", "source": "EO 2633; Proc. 1474", "date": "1917-07-01", "story": 108}], "today": [{"name": "Lincoln National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "New Mexico", "note": "Manages the Sacramento and Guadalupe country of south-central New Mexico.", "source": "EO 2633; Proc. 1474", "story": 108}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1917-06-06", "text": "Executive Order 2633 transferred the Alamo National Forest to the Lincoln, effective July 1, 1917.", "source": "EO 2633; Proc. 1474 (Aug. 9, 1918)", "story": 108}], "uncertain": ["The full twenty-five-year Indian-rights proviso is abridged in the available text and should be reproduced verbatim from the Statutes at Large before it is quoted in full.", "How much land the enlargement added is not settled: the Forest Service history's resulting total implies about 371,244 acres, while a Washington dispatch of March 7, 1909 printed 348,211."]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-908", "relation": "enlarges", "note": "Enlarged the Alamo National Forest that Executive Order 908 formed by consolidating the Guadalupe and Sacramento forests.", "story": 108, "date": "1908-07-02", "title": "55 Specified National Forests Consolidated and/or Renamed", "type": "executive_order", "number": "908"}]}
{"id": "proc-863", "type": "proclamation", "number": "863", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging the Carson National Forest, New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 863, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-863"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2240, "last_page": 2241, "cite": "35 Stat. 2240–2241", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2240.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-03-02", "table_title": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, an Executive Order dated June twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and eight, directed that, on and after July first, nineteen hundred and eight, the Taos National Forest and a part of the Jemez National Forest be consolidated under the name of the Carson National Forest;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good will be promoted by adding to the Carson National Forest certain lands within the Territory of New Mexico, shown on the diagram hereto attached and forming a part hereof, which are in part covered with timber; and which tracts consist of certain lands not heretofore reserved, together with certain lands which constitute a part of the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation, established by Executive Order dated February eleventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and enlarged by Executive Orders dated November eleventh, nineteen hundred and seven, and January twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eight.", "Now, therefore, I, Thoeodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by an Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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 said lands are hereby added to the Carson National Forest and that the boundaries of said National Forest are now as shown on said diagram, and such National Forest so enlarged shall, except as hereinafter provided, be subject to all the laws affecting National Forests, including the mineral land laws of the United States; Provided, that nothing herein shall, for the term of twenty-five years from the date hereof, operate to terminate or abridge the rights of the Secretary of the Interior and of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under existing laws, to allot to individual Indians any of such of the above described lands as were included in the said Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation by the said Executive Order, modified as aforesaid; to use any of such lands or the timber thereon for Agency, school, or other tribal purposes; to permit the free use by individual Indians of timber and stone from any of the said lands necessary for domestic use upon their allotments; to dispose of the proceeds arising from grazing as provided for by law for other Indian funds; and to dispose of the merchantable timber on the unallotted portion of said lands; Provided further, that said powers and rights of the Secretary of the Interior and Commissioner of Indian Affairs or permittees under or through them or either of them, and of individual Indians, except as to allotments to such Indians, shall be subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture may from time to time prescribe for the protection of the National Forest; and said powers and rights shall not be construed to apply to any land except such parts of said Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation as are included in the Forest by this proclamation, and all said powers and rights except the rights of individual Indians and their heirs to hold and enjoy their allotments, shall cease and determine twenty-five years after the date hereof, and thereafter the occupancy and use of the unallotted parts of said lands shall in all respects be subject to the laws governing National Forests.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved or used for Indian Agency, school, or church purposes, or reserved for any public purpose other than for Indian occupancy and use under such Executive Orders, be subject to, and shall not interfere with, or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, or prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves”.", "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 nine, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2240", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; 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Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Carson National Forest, N. Mex.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34, p. 3262.", "Ante, p. 2186.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Provisos.", "Use for Indians.", "Regulations, etc.", "Prior rights not affected.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged the Carson National Forest with unreserved lands and part of the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation, with provisos for continued use for the Indians.", "categories": ["forests", "indian-lands"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Carson National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}, {"name": "Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "New Mexico"}], "states": ["New Mexico"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [108], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-03-02", "impact": {"uncertain": ["A Washington dispatch of March 7, 1909 gave the Carson addition as 399,000 acres; the Forest Service regional history gives 444,200."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-864", "type": "proclamation", "number": "864", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging the Zuni National Forest, Arizona and New Mexico", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 864, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-864"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2242, "last_page": 2243, "cite": "35 Stat. 2242–2243", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2242.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-03-02", "table_title": "Setting apart the Zuni National Forest, New Mexico and Arizona, and including parts of the Zuni and Navajo Indian reservations."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, it appears that the public good will be promoted by utilizing as a National Forest certain unreserved public lands, within the Territory of New Mexico, which are in part covered with timber or undergrowth; and certain public lands within said Territory, in part covered with timber and undergrowth, which constitute a part of the Zuni Indian Reservation, established by Executive Order dated March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and modified by subsequent Executive Orders; and certain public lands within the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona, in part covered with timber and undergrowth, which constitute a part of the Navajo Indian Reservation included in the extension made to said Reservation by Executive Order dated January sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and subsequent Executive Orders; all of which said lands are separately shown upon two parts of a diagram hereto attached and forming a part hereof.", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An Act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from settlement or entry and set apart as a public reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of lands, in the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, shown as the Zuni National Forest on the two parts of the said diagram, and such National Forest shall, except as hereinafter provided, be subject to all the laws affecting National Forests including the mineral land laws of the United States; Provided, that nothing herein shall, for the term of twenty-five years from the date hereof, operate to terminate or abridge the rights of the Secretary of the Interior and of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under existing laws, to allot to individual Indians any of such of the above described lands as were included in said Zuni and Navajo Indian Reservations by the said Executive Orders, modified as aforesaid; to use any of such lands or the timber thereon for Agency, school, or other tribal purposes; to permit the use of any of such lands for grazing purposes; to permit the free use by individual Indians of timber and stone from any of said lands necessary for domestic use upon their allotments; to dispose of the proceeds arising from grazing as provided for by law for other Indian funds; and to dispose of the dead timber standing or fallen upon such lands; Provided further, that said powers and rights of the Secretary of the Interior and Commissioner of Indian Affairs or permittees under or through them or either of them, and of individual Indians, except as to allotments to such Indians, shall be subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture may from time to time prescribe for the protection of the National Forest; and said powers and rights shall not be construed to apply to any land except such parts of said Zuni Indian Reservation and Navajo Indian Reservation as are included in the Forest by this proclamation, and all said powers and rights except the rights of individual Indians and their heirs to hold and enjoy their allotments, shall cease and determine twenty-five years after the date hereof, and thereafter the occupancy and use of the unallotted parts of said lands shall in all respects be subject to the laws governing National Forests.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved or used for Indian Agency, school, or church purposes, or reserved for any public purpose other than for Indian occupancy and use under such Executive Orders, be subject to, and shall not interfere with, or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, or prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 nine, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2242", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Zuni National Forest, Ariz. and N. Mex.", "Preamble.", "National Forest, Arizona and New Mexico.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Provisos.", "Use for Indians.", "Regulations, etc.", "Prior rights not affected.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "title_notes": ["The proclamation set the land apart \"as a public reservation\" and is the Zuni National Forest's founding act (FS-612: established March 2, 1909)."], "summary": "Took public lands, including parts of the Zuni and Navajo Indian Reservations, into the Zuni National Forest, keeping for 25 years the government's right to allot those lands to individual Indians.", "categories": ["forests", "indian-lands"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Zuni National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "New Mexico"}, {"name": "Zuni Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "New Mexico"}, {"name": "Navajo Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["New Mexico", "Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [108], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-03-02", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "The Zuni was transferred whole to the Manzano National Forest in 1914, and the Manzano was renamed the Cibola in 1931.", "source": "EO 2045; EO 5752", "date": "1931-12-03", "story": 108}], "today": [{"name": "Zuni National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "abolished", "state": "Arizona and New Mexico", "note": "Transferred whole to the Manzano in 1914.", "source": "EO 2045", "story": 108}, {"name": "Cibola National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "New Mexico", "note": "The Manzano was renamed the Cibola in 1931.", "source": "EO 5752", "story": 108}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1914-09-10", "text": "Executive Order 2045 transferred the entire Zuni National Forest to the Manzano.", "source": "EO 2045", "story": 108}, {"date": "1931-12-03", "text": "Executive Order 5752 renamed the Manzano National Forest the Cibola.", "source": "EO 5752", "story": 108}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-865", "type": "proclamation", "number": "865", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging the Trinity National Forest, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 865, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-865"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2243, "last_page": 2244, "cite": "35 Stat. 2243–2244", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2243.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-03-02", "table_title": "Including part of the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation in Trinity National Forest, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, an Executive Order dated July second, nineteen hundred and eight, changed the boundaries of the Trinity National Forest to embrace portions of the Trinity, Shasta, Klamath, and Stony Creek National Forests;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good will be promoted by including in the Trinity National Forest certain lands within the State of California, shown on the diagram hereto attached and forming a part hereof, which are in part covered with timber, and which constitute a part of the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation, established by Executive Order dated June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and modified by subsequent Orders;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 said lands are hereby added to the Trinity National Forest and that the boundaries of said National Forest are now as shown on the two parts of the said diagram, and such National Forest so enlarged shall, except as hereinafter provided, be subject to all the laws affecting National Forests, including the mineral land laws of the United States; Provided, that nothing herein shall, for the term of twenty-five years from the date hereof, operate to terminate or abridge the rights of the Secretary of the Interior and of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under existing laws, to allot to individual Indians any of suoh of the above described lands as were included in the said Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation by the said Executive Order modified as aforesaid; to use any of such lands or the timber thereon for Agency, school, or other tribal purposes; to permit the use of any of such lands for grazing purposes; to permit the free use by individual Indians of timber and stone from any of said lands neces- sary for domestic use upon their allotments; to dispose of the proceeds arising from grazing as provided for by law for other Indian funds; and to dispose of the dead timber standing or fallen upon such lands; Provided further, that said powers and rights of the Secretary of the Interior and Commissioner of Indian Affairs or permittees under or through them or either of them, and of individual Indians, except as to allotments to such Indians, shall be subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture may from time to time prescribe for the protection of the National Forest; and said powers and rights shall not be construed to apply to any land except such parts of said Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation as are included in the Forest by this proclamation, and all said powers and rights except the rights of individual Indians and their heirs to hold and enjoy their allotments, shall cease and determine twenty-five years after the date hereof, and thereafter the occupancy and use of the unallotted parts of said lands shall in all respects be subject to the laws governing National Forests.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved or used for Indian Agency, school, or church purposes, or reserved for any public purpose other than for Indian occupancy and use under such Executive Orders, be subject to, and shall not interfere with, or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, or prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 nine, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2243", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Trinity National Forest, Cal.", "Preamble.", "Ante, p. 2179.", "Vol. 34, p. 3235.", "Ante, pp. 2195, 2238, 2125.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 26, p. 1103.", "Provisos.", "Use for Indians.", "Regulations, etc.", "Prior rights not affected.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Added timbered parts of the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation in California to the Trinity National Forest, with provisos for continued use for the Indians.", "categories": ["forests", "indian-lands"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Trinity National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}, {"name": "Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [108], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-03-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-866", "type": "proclamation", "number": "866", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging the Apache National Forest, Arizona", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 866, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-866"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2244, "last_page": 2245, "cite": "35 Stat. 2244–2245", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2244.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-03-02", "table_title": "Including part of the White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation in Apache National Forest, Arizona."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, an Executive Order signed July first, nineteen hundred and eight, directed that a part of the Black Mesa National Forest be known as the Apache National Forest;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good will be promoted by including in the Apache National Forest certain lands within the Territory of Arizona, shown on the diagram hereto attached and forming a part hereof, which are in part covered with timber, and which constitute a part of the White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation, established by Executive Order dated November ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and modified by subsequent Orders;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 said lands are hereby added to the Apache National Forest and that the boundaries of said National Forest are now as shown on the said diagram, and such National Forest so enlarged shall, except as hereinafter provided, be subject to all the laws affecting National Forests including the mineral land laws of the United States; Provided, that, nothing herein shall, for the term of 25 years from the date hereof, operate to terminate or abridge the rights of the Secretary of the Interior and of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under existing laws, to allot to individual Indians any of such of the above described lands as were included in the said White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation by the said Executive orders modified as aforesaid; to use any of such lands or the timber thereon for Agency, school, or other tribal purposes; to permit the use of any of such lands for grazing purposes; to permit the free use by individual Indians of timber and stone from any of said lands necessary for domestic use upon their allotments; to dispose of the proceeds arising from grazing as provided for by law for other Indian funds; and to dispose of the dead timber standing or fallen upon such lands; Provided further, that said powers and rights of the Secretary of the Interior and Commissioner of Indian Affairs or permittees under or through them or either of them, and of individual Indians, except as to allotments to such Indians, shall be subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture may from time to time prescribe for the protection of the National Forest; and said powers and rights shall not be construed to apply to any land except such parts of said White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation as are included in the Forest by this proclamation, and all said powers and rights except the rights of individual Indians and their heirs to hold and enjoy their allotments, shall cease and determine twenty-five years after the date hereof, and thereafter the occupancy and use of the unallotted parts of said lands shall in all respects be subject to the laws governing National Forests.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved or used for Indian Agency, school, or church purposes, or reserved for any public purpose other than for Indian occupancy and use under such Executive Orders, be subject to, and shall not interfere with, or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, or prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 nine, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2244", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Apache National Forest, Ariz.", "Preamble.", "Ante, p. 2146.", "National Forest, Arizona.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Provisos.", "Use for Indians.", "Regulations, etc.", "Prior rights not affected.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Enlarged Arizona's Apache National Forest with timbered lands from the White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation, with provisos for continued use for the Indians.", "categories": ["forests", "indian-lands"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Apache National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "Arizona"}, {"name": "White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "Arizona"}], "states": ["Arizona"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [108], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-03-02", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Part of the 1909 addition went to the Crook National Forest in 1910.", "source": "Stark, Names, Boundaries, and Maps", "date": "1910", "story": 108}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "Taft's orders of February 17, 1912 returned about 348,600 acres of the Apache to the White Mountain Apache Reservation, undoing the rest of the 1909 addition.", "source": "Executive Orders Relating to Indian Reservations (1912), pp. 11–12; Stark, Names, Boundaries, and Maps", "date": "1912-02-17", "story": 108}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1910", "text": "Proclamation 1088 adjusted the Apache, leaving it at 1,625,000 acres.", "source": "Stark, Names, Boundaries, and Maps", "story": 108}, {"date": "1912-02-17", "text": "Taft's order excluded from the Apache all the White Mountain Apache Reservation land added by the proclamation of March 2, 1909, to restore the reservation to its earlier status.", "source": "Executive Orders Relating to Indian Reservations (1912), pp. 11–12", "story": 108}], "uncertain": ["The addition's size, about 483,000 acres, comes from a contemporary Washington dispatch and looks like a rounded estimate for unsurveyed reservation land."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-859", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "The same day's Sitgreaves enlargement also took White Mountain Apache Reservation land and was reversed by the same 1912 orders.", "story": 108, "date": "1909-03-02", "title": "Enlarging the Sitgreaves National Forest, Arizona", "type": "proclamation", "number": "859"}]}
{"id": "proc-867", "type": "proclamation", "number": "867", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Transferring Part of Lassen National Forest, California, to Shasta National Forest, and Including Other Lands", "title_source": "Corrected by the Library (see title note)", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 867, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-867"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2246, "last_page": 2246, "cite": "35 Stat. 2246", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2246.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-03-02", "table_title": "Transferring part of Lassen National Forest, California, to Shasta National Forest, and including other lands."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, an Executive Order dated July second, nineteen hundred and eight, consolidated the Lassen Peak, and parts of the Diamond Mountain, Plumas, and Shasta National Forests under the name of the Lassen National Forest;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good will be promoted by transferring to the Shasta National Forest a portion of the area heretofore embraced in the Lassen National Forest and by adding to the Lassen National Forest certain lands within the State of California, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Lassen National Forest are hereby changed and that they are now as shown on the two diagrams forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 nine, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2246", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Lassen National Forest, Cal.", "Preamble.", "Ante, p. 2157.", "Boundaries modified.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Prior rights not affected.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "title_notes": ["Corrected from “Transferring Part of Lassen National Forest, California, to Shasta National Forest, and Including Other”. Title was cut off; completed from the Statutes list of proclamations."], "summary": "Redrew the Lassen National Forest, shifting part of it to the Shasta National Forest and adding other partly timbered California lands.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "modify", "places": [{"name": "Lassen National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}, {"name": "Shasta National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [108], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-03-02", "impact": {"uncertain": ["A Washington dispatch of March 7, 1909 gave the Lassen addition as 517,794 acres; the Forest Service regional history gives 163,745."]}, "related": [{"id": "proc-861", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Two small Lassen parcels on the Pit River passed to the Shasta, enlarged the same day.", "story": 108, "date": "1909-03-02", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of Shasta National Forest, California", "type": "proclamation", "number": "861"}]}
{"id": "proc-868", "type": "proclamation", "number": "868", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of Plumas National Forest, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 868, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-868"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2246, "last_page": 2247, "cite": "35 Stat. 2246–2247", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2246.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-03-02", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of Plumas National Forest, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, an Executive Order dated July second, nineteen hundred and eight, consolidated portions of the Plumas, Diamond Mountain, and Tahoe National Forests under the name of the Plumas National Forest;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good will be promoted by adding to the Plumas National Forest certain lands within the State of California, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Plumas National Forest is hereby enlarged and that its boundaries are as shown on the two diagrams forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 nine, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2246", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Plumas National Forest, Cal.", "Preamble.", "Ante, pp. 2137, 2138.", "Post, p. 2249.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Prior rights no affected.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Added partly timbered lands in California to the Plumas National Forest.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Plumas National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [108], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-03-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-869", "type": "proclamation", "number": "869", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Setting Aside Mount Olympus National Monument, Washington", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 869, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-869"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2247, "last_page": 2248, "cite": "35 Stat. 2247–2248", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2247.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-03-02", "table_title": "Setting aside Mount Olympus National Monument, Washington."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, the slopes of Mount Olympus and the adjacent summits of the Olympic Mountains, in the State of Washington, within the Olympic National Forest, embrace certain objects of unusual scientific interest, including numerous glaciers, and the region which from time immemorial has formed the summer range and breeding grounds of the Olympic Elk (Cervus roosevelti), a species peculiar to these mountains and rapidly decreasing in numbers;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section two of the Act of Congress, approved June eighth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act For the preservation of American antiquities,” do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws, subject to all prior valid adverse claims, and set apart as a National Monument, all the tracts of land, in the counties of Jefferson, Clallam, Mason and Chehalis, in the State of Washington, shown as the Mount Olympus National Monument on the diagram forming a part hereof, and more particularly located and described as follows, to wit:", "Beginning at the southeast corner of Section 1, Township 21 North, Range 9 West, Willamette Base and Meridian, Washington; thence northerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed range line between Ranges 8 and 9 West to the southeast corner of unsurveyed Township 26 North, Range 9 West; thence westerly between unsurveyed Townships 25 and 26 North to the southwest corner of unsurveyed Town- ship 26 North, Range 9 West; thence northly on the unsurveyed range line between Ranges 9 and 10 West to the southwest corner of Township 29 North, Range 9 West; thence easterly on the surveyed and unsurveyed township line between Townships 28 and 29 North to the northeast corner of unsurveyed Township 28 North Range 6 West; thence southerly along the unsurveyed range line between Ranges 5 and 6 West to southeast corner of Township 28 North, Range 6 West; thence easterly along the unsurveyed township line between unsurveyed Townships 27 and 28 North, to the northeast corner of Township 27 North, Range 5 West; thence southerly along the unsurveyed range line between Ranges 4 and 5 West to the southeast corner of unsurveyed Township 25 North, Range 5 West; thence westerly along unsurveyed township line between townships 24 and 25 North to the Northeast corner of Township 24 North, Range 6 West; thence southerly along the unsurveyed range line between Ranges 5 and 6 West to the southeast corner of Township 23 North, Range 6 West; thence westerly along the unsurveyed townsliip line between Townships 22 and 23 North to the northeast corner of Township 22 North, Range 7 West; thence southerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed range line between Ranges 6 and 7 West to the northeast corner of Section 12, Township 21 North, Range 7 West; thence westerly along section line to the southwest corner of Section 6 of said Township; thence northerly along the range line to the northwest corner of said Section, said Township; thence westerly along the township line between Townships 21 and 22 North to the northwest, corner of Section 4, T. 21 North, Range 8 West; thence southerly along the section line to the southeast corner of Section 16, said Township; thence westerly along the section line to the southwest corner of Section 18, said Township; thence northerly to the southeast corner of Section 1, Township 21 North, Range 9 West, the place of beginning.", "The reservation made by this proclamation is not intended to prevent the use of the lands for forest purposes under the proclamations establishing the Olympic National Forest, but the two reservations shall both be effective on the land withdrawn, but the National Monument hereby established shall be the dominant reservation and any use of the land which interferes with its preservation or protection as a National Monument is hereby forbidden.", "Warning is hereby given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure, remove, or destroy any feature of this National Monument, or 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 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 nine, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2247", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Mount Olympus National Monument, Wash.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34, p. 3306.", "National Monument, Washington.", "Vol. 34, p. 225.", "Description.", "Forest uses not affected.", "Vol. 34, p. 3306.", "Reserved from settlement, etc."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Created Mount Olympus National Monument in Washington's Olympic Mountains to protect its glaciers and the summer range and breeding grounds of the Olympic elk, a species \"rapidly decreasing in numbers.\"", "categories": ["monuments", "wildlife"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Mount Olympus National Monument", "kind": "monument", "state": "Washington"}], "states": ["Washington"], "people": [], "significance": 5, "stories": [7], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-03-02", "impact": {"reception": [{"text": "The Olympic Peninsula Development League and the Seattle Commercial Club wanted the mountains opened to prospectors.", "source": "research entry", "story": 7}, {"text": "The Seattle Daily Times ran an editorial headlined \"Conservation, and Olympic Copper.\"", "source": "Seattle Daily Times, July 28, 1910, p. 6", "date": "1910-07-28", "story": 7}, {"text": "At the American Mining Congress, F. H. Stanard attacked Pinchot and Roosevelt for making \"a Siberian wilderness of the West.\"", "source": "American Mining Congress, 1912", "date": "1912", "story": 7}, {"text": "No contemporary critic argued that the monument broke the Antiquities Act's smallest-area limit; the proclamation never mentioned that standard.", "source": "Squillace, 37 Ga. L. Rev. 473, at 555", "story": 7}], "political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "Because it lay inside Olympic National Forest, the monument was run by the Forest Service rather than Interior.", "source": "Roloff, Washington Historical Quarterly 25 (1934)", "date": "1909", "story": 7}, {"kind": "administrative", "text": "Taft removed 160 acres to relieve a homesteader, leaving 608,480 acres.", "source": "Proc. 1191, 37 Stat. 1737; Interior, General Information Regarding the National Monuments (1917), p. 59", "date": "1912-04-17", "story": 7}], "legacy": [{"text": "Wilson's 1915 proclamation removed 309,110 acres, a little over half the monument, without stating a reason; the record points to timber and, secondarily, copper.", "source": "Proc. 1293, 39 Stat. 1726; Interior, General Information (1917), p. 59", "date": "1915-05-11", "story": 7}, {"text": "In 1917 the Interior Department estimated the elk of the Olympic region at probably double the roughly 2,000 of 1905, crediting state laws that barred killing them.", "source": "Interior, General Information Regarding the National Monuments (1917), p. 58", "date": "1917", "story": 7}, {"text": "Historian Hal Rothman called the monument \"Roosevelt's going-away present to himself.\"", "source": "Rothman, America's National Monuments, ch. 4", "story": 7}, {"text": "The monuments moved from the Forest Service to the National Park Service; Interior Secretary Ickes refused the Forest Service's request to reverse it.", "source": "E.O. 6166 (1933); E.O. 6228", "date": "1933", "story": 7}, {"text": "Congress abolished the monument and created Olympic National Park, about 624,000 acres by Interior's estimate, returning other former monument lands to the national forest.", "source": "Act of June 29, 1938, ch. 812, 52 Stat. 1241; Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior, FY1938, p. 27", "date": "1938-06-29", "story": 7}, {"text": "Olympic National Park became an International Biosphere Reserve in 1976 and a World Heritage Site in 1981.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1981", "story": 7}], "today": [{"name": "Olympic National Park", "kind": "national_park", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Washington", "note": "Created in 1938 in place of the abolished monument; 922,650 acres today, home to the largest fully wild herd of Roosevelt elk in the Pacific Northwest.", "source": "Act of June 29, 1938, 52 Stat. 1241; National Park Service", "story": 7}, {"name": "Olympic National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "Washington", "note": "Former monument lands eliminated in 1915 or left outside the 1938 park went back to the national forest.", "source": "Proc. 1293, 39 Stat. 1726; 52 Stat. 1241", "story": 7}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1912-04-17", "text": "Proclamation 1191 removed 160 acres.", "source": "37 Stat. 1737", "story": 7}, {"date": "1915-05-11", "text": "Proclamation 1293 removed about 309,110 acres, leaving 299,370.", "source": "39 Stat. 1726", "story": 7}, {"date": "1929-01-07", "text": "Proclamation 1862 removed 640 acres, excluding a homestead at Goblin's Gate on the Elwha.", "source": "45 Stat. 2984", "story": 7}, {"date": "1933-06-10", "text": "Executive Order 6166 transferred the national monuments to the National Park Service.", "source": "E.O. 6166, amended by E.O. 6228", "story": 7}, {"date": "1938-06-29", "text": "Congress abolished the monument and established Olympic National Park.", "source": "52 Stat. 1241", "story": 7}, {"date": "1940-01-02", "text": "Proclamation 2380 added 187,411 acres to the park.", "source": "54 Stat. 2678", "story": 7}, {"date": "1943-05-29", "text": "Proclamation 2587 added 20,600 acres in the Morse Creek country.", "source": "57 Stat. 741", "story": 7}, {"date": "1953-01-06", "text": "Proclamation 3003 added 47,753 acres, including the Coastal Strip and the Queets Corridor.", "source": "67 Stat. C27", "story": 7}], "uncertain": ["The park's size at its 1938 establishment is known only as the Interior Department's estimate of about 624,000 acres."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-870", "type": "proclamation", "number": "870", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging Boundaries of Tahoe National Forest, California and Nevada", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 870, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-870"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2249, "last_page": 2249, "cite": "35 Stat. 2249", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2249.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-03-02", "table_title": "Enlarging boundaries of Tahoe National Forest, California and Nevada."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, an Executive Order dated July second, nineteen hundred and eight, consolidated portions of the Tahoe, Stanislaus, and Plumas National Forests under the name of the Tahoe National Forest;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good will be promoted by adding to the Tahoe National Forest certain lands within the States of California and Nevada, which are in part covered with timber;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 Tahoe National Forest is hereby enlarged and that its boundaries are as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.”", "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 nine, [SEAL.] and of the Indpendence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2249", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Tahoe National Forest, Cal. and Nev.", "Preamble.", "Vol. 34, p. 3232.", "Ante, pp. 2138, 2158, 2246.", "Boundaries enlarged.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Prior rights not affected.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Extended the Tahoe National Forest with partly timbered lands in California and Nevada.", "categories": ["forests"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Tahoe National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California", "Nevada"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [108], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-03-02", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Tahoe National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "California", "source": "research entry", "story": 108}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "proc-871", "type": "proclamation", "number": "871", "tr_sequence": null, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Enlarging the Sequoia National Forest, California", "title_source": "American Presidency Project", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"app": {"number": 871, "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-871"}, "statutes": {"volume": 35, "page": 2249, "last_page": 2250, "cite": "35 Stat. 2249–2250", "page_image": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-35/pdf/STATUTE-35-Pg2249.pdf", "statutes_date": "1909-03-02", "table_title": "Including part of Tule River Indian Reservation in Sequoia National Forest, California."}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["WHEREAS, an Executive Order signed July second, nineteen hundred and eight, established the Sequoia National Forest out of portions of the Sierra National Forest;", "And whereas, it appears that the public good will be promoted by including in the Sequoia National Forest certain lands within the State of California, shown on the diagram hereto attached and forming a part hereof, which are in part covered with timber, and which constitute a part of the Tule River Indian Reservation, established by Executive Order dated October third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and modified by Executive Order dated August third, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight;", "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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 said lands are hereby added to the Sequoia National Forest and that the boundaries of said National Forest are now as shown on the said diagram, and such National Forest so enlarged shall, except as hereinafter provided, be subject to all the laws affecting National Forests including the mineral land laws of the United States; Provided, that, nothing herein shall, for the term of 25 years from the date hereof, operate to terminate or abridge the rights of the Secretary of the Interior and of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under existing laws, to allot to individual Indians any of such of the above described lands as were included in said Tule River Indian Reservation by the said Executive Order, modified as aforesaid; to use any of such lands or the timber thereon for Agency, school, or other tribal purposes; to permit the use of any of such lands for grazing purposes; to permit the free use by individual Indians of timber and stone from any of said lands necessary for domestic use upon their allotments; to dispose of the proceeds arising from grazing as provided for by law for other Indian funds; and to dispose of the dead timber standing or fallen upon such lands; Provided further, that said powers and rights of the Secretary of the Interior and Commissioner of Indian Affairs or permittees under or through them or either of them, and of individual Indians, except as to allotments to such Indians, shall be subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture may from time to time prescribe for the protection of the National Forest; and said powers and rights shall not be construed to apply to any land except such parts of said Tule River Indian Reservation as are included in the Forest by this proclamation, and all said powers and rights except the rights of individual Indians and their heirs to hold and enjoy their allotments, shall cease and determine twenty-five years after the date hereof, and thereafter the occupancy and use of the unallotted parts of said lands shall in all respects be subject to the laws governing National Forests.", "The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved or used for Indian Agency, school, or church purposes, or reserved for any public purpose other than for Indian occupancy and use under such Executive Orders, be subject to, and shall not interfere with, or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, or prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.", "This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves,” and Acts amendatory thereof.", "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 nine, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third."], "source": "Statutes at Large, 35 Stat. 2249", "kind": "statutes_digitization", "verified": false, "note": "GovInfo digitization of the printed Statutes at Large; not proofread. Check the page image before quoting.", "marginal_notes": ["Sequoia National Forest, Cal.", "Preamble.", "Ante, p. 2185.", "National Forest, California.", "Vol. 30, p. 36.", "Provisos.", "Use for Indians.", "Regulations, etc.", "Prior rights not affected.", "Agricultural lands.", "Vol. 34, p. 233."]}, "signed_as": "Theodore Roosevelt", "countersigned_by": {"name": "Robert Bacon", "role": "Secretary of State"}, "summary": "Brought timbered parts of the Tule River Indian Reservation into California's Sequoia National Forest, with provisos for continued use for the Indians.", "categories": ["forests", "indian-lands"], "action": "enlarge", "places": [{"name": "Sequoia National Forest", "kind": "forest", "state": "California"}, {"name": "Tule River Indian Reservation", "kind": "indian-reservation", "state": "California"}], "states": ["California"], "people": [], "significance": 3, "stories": [108], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-03-02", "impact": {"today": [{"name": "Sequoia National Forest", "kind": "national_forest", "relation": "part", "state": "California", "source": "research entry", "story": 108}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1045", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1045", "tr_sequence": 1011, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of James Mullenbach to Inspector in Immigration Service Without Examination", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1045", "revid": 1766790, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. James Mullenbach may be appointed inspector in charge of information and distribution work, Immigration Service, Chicago, Ill., without examination under the civil-service rules, in view of his peculiar qualifications for the work involved."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House March 2, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Allowed James Mullenbach to be appointed, without examination, as the Immigration Service inspector in charge of information and distribution work in Chicago, given his particular qualifications.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Illinois"], "people": ["James Mullenbach"], "significance": 1, "stories": [106], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-03-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1046", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1046", "tr_sequence": 1012, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Amending Civil Service Rules to Make United States Marshal Office Deputies Competitive", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1046", "revid": 1939129, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Paragraph 4, Section IV, Schedule A, of the civil-service rules relating to the Department of Justice, is hereby amended to read as follows:", "Any person employed as field deputy in the office of a United States marshal or whose chief duties are to serve process."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House March 2, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Narrowed the civil-service exception in U.S. marshals' offices to field deputies and those whose chief duty is serving process, bringing other deputies into the competitive service.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "amend-rules", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [106], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-03-02", "impact": {"legacy": [{"text": "Bringing office deputies in United States marshals' offices into the competitive service was absorbed into the growing merit system.", "source": "research entry", "story": 106}]}, "related": [{"id": "eo-209", "relation": "amends", "note": "Rewrote the Department of Justice exception first set in the 1903 civil-service rules.", "story": 106, "date": "1903-03-20", "title": "Prescribing Civil Service Rules in Lieu of Rules of May 6, 1896", "type": "executive_order", "number": "209"}]}
{"id": "eo-1047", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1047", "tr_sequence": 1013, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Authorizing Appointment of John M. Longan to Clerical Position in Classified Service", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1047", "revid": 6860956, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["Mr. John M. Longan, of Massachusetts, may be appointed to a clerical position in the classified service without reference to the requirements of the civil-service rules."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House March 2, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Permitted John M. Longan of Massachusetts to be appointed to a clerical position in the classified service without meeting civil-service requirements.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "appoint", "places": [], "states": ["Massachusetts"], "people": ["John M. Longan"], "significance": 1, "stories": [106], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-03-02", "impact": null, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1048", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1048", "tr_sequence": 1014, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Federal Employees in District of Columbia Excused From Work on Inauguration Day", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "Excused federal employees in the District of Columbia from work on Inauguration Day.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": ["District of Columbia"], "people": [], "significance": 2, "stories": [106], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-03-02", "impact": {"uncertain": ["Whether the Inauguration Day excusal covered the whole day or part of it, and all District of Columbia employees or only those who wished to attend, is not known; no full text has been located."]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-1049", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1049", "tr_sequence": 1015, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-03-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Establishing Bogoslof Reservation, Alaska, as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": ["Some standard lists give March 2, 1909; the White House dateline reads March 3."], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1049", "revid": 12441317, "printed_source": null}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["It is hereby ordered that the volcanic islets, commonly known as the Bogoslof islands of the Aleutian archipelago, Alaska, located approximately in latitude fifty-three degrees, fifty-eight minutes North, longitude one hundred and sixty-seven degrees, fifty-three minutes West from Greenwich, be and the same are hereby reserved and set apart for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds. It is unlawful for any person to hunt, trap, capture, wilfully disturb, or kill any bird of any kind whatever, or take the eggs of such birds within the limits of this reservation, except under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture. Warning is expressly given to all persons not to commit any of the acts herein enumerated and which are prohibited by law.", "This reserve to be known as the Bogoslof Reservation."], "source": "Wikisource", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House March 3, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Made the volcanic Bogoslof islands in Alaska's Aleutian chain a preserve and breeding ground for native birds, named the Bogoslof Reservation.", "categories": ["wildlife", "insular-territories"], "action": "establish", "places": [{"name": "Bogoslof Reservation", "kind": "wildlife-reservation", "state": "Alaska"}], "states": ["Alaska"], "people": [], "significance": 4, "stories": [106], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-03-03", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "political", "text": "The Bogoslof reservation passed without notice or opposition, like the rest of the bird-reservation program.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1909", "story": 106}], "legacy": [{"text": "The Bogoslof Reservation became the Bogoslof National Wildlife Refuge under the 1940 renaming of federal wildlife reservations.", "source": "Proclamation 2416", "date": "1940-07-25", "story": 106}, {"text": "Congress designated the Bogoslof Wilderness at 390 acres; the Fish and Wildlife Service now gives the island as 175 acres, its shape having been greatly modified by the 2016–17 eruption.", "source": "Pub. L. 91-504, 84 Stat. 1104–05; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; U.S. Geological Survey", "date": "1970-10-23", "story": 106}, {"text": "Bogoslof is listed among the major Steller sea-lion rookery sites, and the Bogoslof area of the Bering Sea shelf is one of three special Steller sea-lion foraging areas in Alaska.", "source": "50 C.F.R. part 226, Table 1 and § 226.202(c)", "story": 106}, {"text": "Bogoslof was Roosevelt's last addition to the bird-reservation system he began at Pelican Island in 1903, which grew into the National Wildlife Refuge System of 573 national wildlife refuges.", "source": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service", "story": 106}], "today": [{"name": "Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge (Aleutian Islands unit)", "kind": "wildlife_refuge", "relation": "absorbed_into", "state": "Alaska", "note": "Bogoslof and nearby Fire Island lie in this unit.", "source": "Pub. L. 96-487", "story": 106}, {"name": "Bogoslof Wilderness", "kind": "other", "relation": "part", "state": "Alaska", "note": "Designated 1970 at 390 acres; about 175 acres today.", "source": "Pub. L. 91-504, 84 Stat. 1104–05", "story": 106}], "later_actions": [{"date": "1940-07-25", "text": "Renamed Bogoslof National Wildlife Refuge.", "source": "Proclamation 2416", "story": 106}, {"date": "1970-10-23", "text": "Designated the Bogoslof Wilderness.", "source": "Pub. L. 91-504, 84 Stat. 1104–05", "story": 106}, {"date": "1980-12-02", "text": "Folded into the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge.", "source": "Pub. L. 96-487", "story": 106}]}, "related": [{"id": "uo-054", "relation": "same_subject", "note": "Pelican Island, the first bird reservation; Bogoslof was the last.", "story": 106, "date": "1903-03-13", "title": "Pelican Island Reservation, Fla., established as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds.", "type": "unnumbered_order", "number": null}]}
{"id": "eo-1050", "type": "executive_order", "number": "1050", "tr_sequence": 1016, "lord_number": null, "date": "1909-03-03", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Making Six Employees of the Department of Justice Eligible for Transfer to Competitive Service", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {"wikisource": {"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_1050", "revid": 1764572, "printed_source": "1909 CSR 117"}}, "text": {"paragraphs": ["The two employees under the appropriation \"Enforcement of antitrust laws\" and the four under the appropriation \"Five Civilized Tribes\" in the Department of Justice, who have been commended by the Attorney-General for retention in the public service, may be transferred to the competitive classified service after appropriate noncompetitive examination and approval by the Civil Service Commission."], "source": "Wikisource (from 1909 CSR 117)", "kind": "wikisource_transcription", "verified": false, "signed": "Theodore Roosevelt", "place_date": "The White House March 3, 1909.", "note": "Volunteer transcription of a printed compilation; not verified against the original."}, "summary": "Made six Justice Department employees, paid from the antitrust enforcement and Five Civilized Tribes appropriations, eligible for transfer to the competitive service after noncompetitive examination.", "categories": ["civil-service"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 1, "stories": [106], "day_by_day": "https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1909-03-03", "impact": {"political_impact": [{"kind": "administrative", "text": "The last numbered executive order Roosevelt signed; the series resumed with Executive Order 1051 on March 16, 1909, under Taft.", "source": "research entry", "date": "1909-03-03", "story": 106}]}, "related": []}
{"id": "eo-310-a", "type": "executive_order", "number": "310-A", "tr_sequence": 176, "lord_number": null, "date": null, "date_precision": null, "title": "Blank Number in the Official File of Numbered Orders", "title_source": "Wikipedia, List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt", "date_notes": [], "citations": {}, "text": null, "summary": "A blank number in the official file of numbered executive orders.", "categories": ["government-administration"], "action": "other", "places": [], "states": [], "people": [], "significance": 1, "stories": [85], "day_by_day": null, "impact": null, "related": []}