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ENLARGING THE MUIR WOODS NATIONAL MONUMENT, CALIFORNIA

WHEREAS the Muir Woods National Monument, California, was established by Proclamation No. 793 of January 9, 1908 (35 Stat. 2174), and was enlarged by proclamations No. 1608 of September 22, 1921 (42 Stat. 2249), and No. 2122 of April 5, 1935 (49 Stat. 3443), to protect a most extraordinary growth of redwood trees (Sequoia Sempervirens) of primeval character; and

WHEREAS the said monument is comprised of various parcels of land conveyed to the United States, as donations, from time to time for national-monument purposes, as separately described and set out in the above-mentioned proclamations; and

WHEREAS the William Kent Estate Company, a corporation of the State of California, has conveyed to the United States, as a donation, a tract of land adjoining the southwesterly boundary of the monument to afford better protection to the monument and to promote its administration and development; and

WHEREAS the United States has acquired from the State of California a leasehold interest in a tract of land adjoining the southeasterly boundary of the monument to afford better protection to the monument and to promote its administration and development; and

WHEREAS there lies at the entrance to the monument a tract of land belonging to the William Kent Estate Company which is needed for additional visitor parking space and for other purposes incident to the proper development and administration of the monument and which is in process of acquisition by the United States for such purposes; and

WHEREAS it appears that it would be in the public interest (1) to enlarge the Muir Woods National Monument by adding thereto the said tract of land donated to the United States by the William Kent Estate Company and the said tract of land leased to the United States by the State of California, (2) to extend the boundaries of the monument so as to include therein such additional lands and the said tract of land owned by the William Kent Estate Company, and (3) to provide that the last-mentioned tract of land shall become a part of the monument upon acquisition of title thereto or control thereof by the United States:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 2 of the act of June 8, 1906, 34 Stat. 225 (16 U.S.C. 431), do proclaim that, subject to all valid existing rights, the lands within the following-described boundaries which are now owned or controlled by the United States shall constitute the Muir Woods National Monument, and that the above-described tract of land within such boundaries which is now owned by the William Kent Estate Company shall become a part of such monument upon the acquisition of title thereto or control thereof by the United States:

Beginning at a point shown as A-14 on the map included with and made a part of Presidential Proclamation No. 793, dated January 9, 1908 (35 Stat. 2174), establishing the Muir Woods National Monument, which is the northernmost point of the said monument as presently constituted,

From the initial point,
S. 17° 18' E., 2828.40 ft.;
S. 4° 10' E., 930.00 ft.;
S. 45° 17' W., 282.80 ft.;
S. 26° 58' 30" E., 565.58 ft.;
S. 5° 18' W., 126.37 ft.;
S. 84° 42; E., 83.23 ft.;
S. 84° 42' E., 245.41 ft.;
S. 64° 46' E., 216.16 ft.;
along a curve to the north with a radius of 1025.0 ft. for a distance of 28.325 ft.;
S. 766° 21' E., 150.94 ft.;
thence along a curve to the south with a radius of 275.0 ft. for a distance of 95.073 ft.;
S 28° 05' W., 143.10 ft.;
S. 8° 12' 30" E., 491.22 ft.;
N. 74° 56' W., 894.16 ft.;
N. 74° 56' W., 294.76 ft.;
S. 64° 12' W., 20.85 ft.;
S. 83° 37' W., 779.66 ft.;
N. 75° 57' W., 850.32 ft.;
N. 47° 27' W., 1450.00 ft.;
N. 47° 48' W., 1050.00 ft.;
S. 49° 34' W., 93.44 ft.;
S. 85° 58' W., 462.81 ft.;
N. 11° 36' E., 199.28 ft.;
N. 78° 24' W., 78.62 ft.;
N. 84° 39' W., 187.00 ft.;
N. 68° 59' W., 88.00 ft.;
N. 53° 36' W., 309.37 ft.;
N. 52° 03' W., 621.56 ft.;
N. 31° 49' W., 258.89 ft.;
S. 51° 52' W., 449.53 ft.;
S. 52° 34' W., 877.94 ft.;
S. 49° 34' W., 299.10 ft.;
N. 70° 42' W., 200.00 ft.;
N. 52° 26' W., 499.39 ft.;
S. 73° 17' W., 239.73 ft.;
N. 85° 35' W., 319.84 ft.;
N. 65° 37' W., 539.52 ft.;
N. 42° 28' W., 378.05 ft.;
N. 42° 28' W., 75.00 ft.;
N. 59° 57' E., 3626.90 ft.;
S. 89° 39' E., 1341.70 ft.;
S. 65° 41' E., 1017.20 ft.;
N. 83° 42' E., 857.50 ft.;
N. 55° 38' E., 1550.00 ft. to the point of beginning;
containing 504.271 acres, more or less.

The Director of the National Park Service, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, shall have the supervision, management, and control of the said Muir Woods National Monument, as provided in the act of August 25, 1916, ch. 408, 39 Stat. 535, and acts additional thereto or amendatory thereof.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure, destroy, or remove any feature of this monument and not to locate or settle upon any of the lands thereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.

DONE at the City of Washington this twenty-sixth day of June in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-fifth. [SEAL]

HARRY S. TRUMAN

By the President:

DEAN ACHESON,
Secretary of State.