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comfortable by sprinkling the roads throughout the dry season, 

 and to guard the health of the traveler by the installation of 

 proper water supply and sewerage systems. The responsibility 

 for the future conduct of the national parks must rest with 

 Congress, but the Department feels that the financial needs 

 of these reservations should be clearly presented to Congress 

 in the annual estimates. 



Devil Postpile National Monument, California. 



By the President of the United States of America, a Proclama- 

 tion: Whereas the natural formations known as the Devil Postpile 

 and Rainbow Falls, within the Sierra National Forest, in the 

 State of California, are of scientific interest, and it appears that 

 the public interests will be promoted by reserving said formations 

 as a National Monument; 



Now, therefore, I, William H. Taft, 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 hun- 

 dred 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 lands laws, subject to 

 all prior valid adverse claims, and set apart as a National Monu- 

 ment, all the tracts of land in the State of CaHfornia shown as 

 the Devil Postpile 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 Sierra National Forest. 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 reservations shall both be effective on the land withdrawn, but 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 sixth day of July, in the 

 year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eleven, and of 

 the Independence of the United States the one hundred and 

 thirty-sixth. Wm. H. Taft. 



By the President: 



P. C. Knox, Secretary of State. 



