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AND FOURTH ARMY

Presidio of San Francisco, California

Public Proclamation No. 16

March 2, 1943

TO: The People Within the State of Arizona, and the Public Generally:

WHEREAS, the Secretary of War has determined that the military situation no

longer requires the maintenance at its present location of the boundary of Military

Area No. 1 within the State of Arizona as established by Proclamation No. 1, this head-

quarters, dated March 2, 1942, and that therefore the area within that State now pro-

hibited to persons of Japanese ancestry may be reduced:

Now, THEREFORE, I, J. L. DeWitt, Lieutenant General, U. S. Army, by virtue

of the authority vested in me by the President of the United States and by the Secretary

of War, and my powers and prerogatives as Commanding General, Western Defense

Command, and pursuant to a determination of military necessity for the continuance of

Military Area No. 1 in Arizona as reduced and modified hereby, do declare and

proclaim that:

1. Public Proclamation No. 1, this headquarters, dated March 2, 1942, as

amended, is hereby further amended by striking from "EXHIBIT No. 1, Description

of Military Area No. 1," thereof, the following words:

*',. across the Colorado River to the point at or near Topock, Arizona, where

the same intersects the southerly line of the improved road running from Topock

in an easterly direction to Yucca, Arizona; thence along the southerly line of said

road to the point at or near Yucca, Arizona, where the same intersects the westerly

line of the improved road running in a southeasterly direction from Yucca to

Signal, Arizona; thence along the westerly line of said road to the point at or near

Signal, Arizona, where the same intersects the easterly line of the unimproved

road running in a northeasterly direction to Wikieup, Arizona; thence in a

northeasterly direction along the easterly line of said road to the point, approxi-

mately 16 miles northeast of Signal, Arizona, where the same intersects the

southerly line of the improved road running from said intersection through Hillside

to Congress Junction, Arizona; thence along the westerly line of said road to the

point at or near Congress Junction, where the same intersects the westerly line of

U. S. Highway No. 89; thence in a southerly direction along the westerly line of

U. S. Highway No. 89 to the point where the same intersects the city limits of

the city of Phoenix, Arizona; thence in an easterly and southerly direction along

said city limits to the point where the same intersects the southerly line of U. S.

Highway No. 80/89 east of Phoenix, Arizona; thence easterly along the southerly

line of U. S. Highway No. 80/89 to the intersection with the southerly line of

U. S. Highway No. 60/70 at or near Florence Junction, Arizona; thence easterly

along the southerly line of U. S. Highway No. 60/70 to the intersection of easterly

line of U. S. Highway No. 60 projected and southerly line of U. S. Highway

No. 70; thence easterly along the southerly line of U. S. Highway No. 70 to the

Arizona-New Mexico State Line;...";

and substituting in the place and stead of said words, the following:

",..to the California-Arizona State Line; thence southerly along the California-

Arizona State Line to southerly line of U. S. Highway No. 60; thence easterly

along the southerly line of U. S$. Highway No. 60 to the southerly line of the

Salome-Hassayampa road; thence along the southerly line of the Salome-Hassay-

ampa road to its intersection with the Yuma-Maricopa County Line; thence

southerly along the Yuma-Maricopa County Line to the southerly line of U. S.

Highway No. 80; thence easterly along the southerly line of said U. S. Highway

to its intersection with Arizona State Highway No. 85 (Gila Bend); thence

southerly along the westerly line of said State Highway to its intersection with the

unimproved Gila Bend-Papago Indian Reservation road; thence along the westerly

line of said unimproved road to the Maricopa-Pima County Line; thence easterly

along said County Line and the Pinal-Pima County Line to Graham County;

thence southerly along the Pima-Graham County Line to its intersection by the

Graham-Cochise County Line; thence easterly along the Graham-Cochise County

Line to the point where the Graham-Cochise County Line meets the Cochise-

Greenlee County Line and thence easterly along the northerly Cochise County

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Line to the Arizona-New Mexico State Line;...".

2. Said Proclamation No. 1 is hereby further amended by striking from Paragraph

No. 3 thereof, the following words:

`*.,..and is shown on the map (Exhibit No. 2) as an unshaded area."

3. Said Proclamation No. 1 is further amended by striking from Exhibit No. 2

thereof the State of Arizona.

4. The portion of Military Area No. 1 being within the State of Arizona as

hereby modified is shown on the map hereto attached (Exhibit No. 1) as a shaded area.

5. Public Proclamation No. 2, this headquarters, dated March 16, 1942, as

amended, is hereby further amended by striking therefrom, Exhibit No. 2 thereof.

6. The description of that portion of Military Area No. 1 being within the

boundaries of the State of Arizona contained in Civilian Exclusion Order No. 38, this

headquarters, dated May 3, 1942, is hereby amended to conform to the amended

description of Military Area No. 1 set forth in Paragraph No. 1 hereof.

7. Public Proclamation Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,9, 10, 11, 12 and 14, this headquarters,

are hereby amended to conform to the foregoing change in the common boundary line

of Military Areas Nos. 1 and 2, within the State of Arizona.

8. The foregoing amendments shall not operate to affect any offense committed

or any penalty incurred because of violations of the provisions of the Public Procla-

mations, Civilian Exclusion Orders or Civilian Restrictive Orders heretofore issued

by this headquarters.

9. This Proclamation shall become effective at midnight P.W.T. March 4, 1943.

J. L. DeEWrrt

Lieutenant General, U. S. Army

Commanding

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