authorizes the President of the United States to designate and reserve Vol. 39, p. 1773. Additional lands re served from leases, etc. Coal Leasing Block No. 12, embracing 480 acres within the coal Description. field of Matanuska. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, 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 seventeen, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-first. By the President: ROBERT LANSING, WOODROW WILSON BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION June 18, 1917. El Morro National Monument, N. Mex. Area extended. Vol. 34, p. 225. WHEREAS, it appears that the public good will be promoted by adding to the El Morro National Monument certain lands within the State of New Mexico containing ruins of archaeological value; Now, therefore, I, WOODROW WILSON, 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 proclaim that a tract described as the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter and Description. the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section six, township nine north, range fourteen west, New Mexico Principal Meridian, is 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 an addition to the El Morro National Monument, and that the boundaries of said National Monument are now as shown on the diagram hereto annexed and forming a part hereof. Vol. 34, p. 3264, Reserved from settle Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not ment, etc. to appropriate, injure, remove, or destroy any feature of this National Monument, or to locate or settle on 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 18th day of June, in the year By the President: ROBERT LANSING, June 27, 1917. Registration Porto Rico. Preamble. Ante, p. 20. Day, BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, on the 18th day of May, A. D. 1917, the President of the United States did issue a Proclamation calling upon all persons subject to registration for military purposes to register as provided by Public Laws, p. 76. the Act of Congress of May 18, 1917, entitled "An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States." Ante, p. 21. July 5, 1917, desig AND WHEREAS, in such Proclamation it was provided among other things that "In the territories of Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico a day for registration will be named in a later Proclamation." NOW, THEREFORE, I, WOODROW WILSON, President of the tering for day of regis- United States, for the purpose of fixing the date for registration in the territory of Porto Rico, do hereby set, fix and establish the 5th day of July, A. D., one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, as the date of registration, and I do hereby direct that on such day, between the hours of 7 A. M. and 9 P. M., all male persons subject to registration for military purposes, the same being Persons required to register. June 28, 1917. Naval operating base, Hampton Roads, Va. Preamble. Authority for acquiring. Public Laws, p. 207. ex * * * Those who shall have attained their twenty-first birthday and who shall not have attained their thirty-first birthday on or before the day here named are required to register, cepting only officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army, the Regular Army Reserve, the Officers' Reserve Corps, the Enlisted Reserve Corps, the National Guard and National Guard Reserve recognized by the Militia Bureau of the War Department, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Coast Guard, and the Naval Militia, Naval Reserve Force, Marine Corps Reserve, and National Naval Volunteers recognized by the Navy Department. do present themselves, for the purpose of registration for military purposes, at such places and to be registered by such officials in each municipality as shall be designated and appointed by the Governor 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 27th day of June one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and of the Independence [SEAL.] of the United States the one hundred and forty-first. WOODROW WILSON By the President: ROBERT LANSING, BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS the Act of Congress to supply urgent deficiencles in appropriations for the Military and Naval Establishments, approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen (Public number Twenty-three, Sixty-fifth Congress), contains the following provision: "Naval operating base, Hampton Roads, Virginia: The President is hereby authorized and empowered to take over for the United States the immediate possession and title, including all easements, rights of way, riparian and other rights appurtenant thereto, and including all the rights and properties of railway, electric light, power, telephone, telegraph, water, and sewer companies, of the tract of land known as the Jamestown Expo sition site, on Hampton Roads, Virginia, and of such lands adjacent thereto as lie north of Ninety-ninth Street and Algonquin Street, the entire property being bounded on the north and west by Hampton Roads and Willoughby Bay, on the east by Boush Creek, and on the south by Ninety-ninth and Algonquin Streets. "That if said lands and appurtenances and improvements thereof shall be taken over as aforesaid, the United States shall make just compensation therefor, to be determined by the President, and if the amount thereof, so determined by the President, is unsatisfactory to the person entitled to receive the same such person shall be paid seventy-five per centum of the amount so determined by the President and shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum, as added to said seventy-five per centum will make up such amount as will be just compensation therefor, in the manner provided for by section twenty-four, paragraph twenty, and section one hundred and forty-five of the Judicial Code. "Upon the taking over of said property by the President as aforesaid, the title to all property so taken over shall immediately vest in the United States. "For the payment of compensation for said property so taken over, $1,200,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary; and toward the equipment of the same as a naval operating base, including piers, store houses, oil-fuel storage, training station and recreation grounds for the fleet and other purposes, $1,600,000, in all, $2,800,000: Provided, That the appropriation herein shall be available only for the acquisition of the entire property bounded on the north and west by Hampton Roads and Willoughby Bay, on the east by Boush Creek, and on the south by Ninety-ninth and Algonquin Streets, together with all easements, rights of way, riparian and other rights appurtenant thereto, and all the rights and properties of railway, electric light, power, telephone, telegraph, cable, water, and sewer companies: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to expend public money in the development of said tract of land without reference to the requirements of section three hundred and fiftyfive of the Revised Statutes." AND WHEREAS it is a military necessity to take possession of the said above mentioned tract of land, together with all easements, rights of way, riparian, and other rights and privileges appurtenant or appertaining thereto, and to begin without delay the development of said tract for the uses and purposes of the naval service of the United States: NOW, THEREFORE, KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRES-, Possession taken of Jamestown Exposition ENTS: That I, WOODROW WILSON, President of the United site for naval purposes. States of America, by virtue of the power and authority vested in me by the said act of Congress approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, do hereby, on behalf of the United States, take title to and possession of the tract of land known as the Jamestown Exposition site on Hampton Roads, Virginia, and of such lands adjacent thereto as lie north of Ninety-ninth Street and Algonquin Street, the entire property being bounded on the north and west by Hampton Roads and Willoughby Bay, on the east by Boush Creek, and on the south by Ninety-ninth and Algonquin Streets; together with all roads, streets, and alleys therein, and all easements, rights of way, riparian and other rights, franchises, and privileges whatsoever appurtenant or appertaining thereto, including all fixed and immovable property within said tract of land, now owned or claimed by any individual or by any railway, electric light, power, telephone, telegraph, cable, water or sewer company or companies, |