Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 30.djvu/1801

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1768 PROCLAMATIONS. No. 5. 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 1t appear that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation; _ rmsmmwmim. Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, °"“f°""‘“· _ 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 California, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows, towit: nmmumes. Beginning at the north-west corner of fractional Township twelve S2) North, Han ge thirty (30) West, San Bernardino Base and Meridian, alifornia; thence southerly along the range line to the south-west corner of said fractional township; thense 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 point of intersection with the northern boundary line of the rancho Sisqudc; thence in a general south-easterly direction along the boundaries of the ranchos, Sisquoc, La Laguna, Canada de los Pinos or College Rancho, Tequepis, San Marcos and Los Prietos y Naialayegua, to the range line between Ranges twenty-four (24) and twenty-five (25) West; thence southerly along said range line to the south-east corner of Township five (5) North, Range twenty-tive (25) West; thence easterly along the surveyed and nnsnrveyed township line between Townships ibur (4) and (5) North, to the point of intersection with the western boundary line of the rancho Temascal; thence north-easterly along said boundary to the range line between Ranges seventeen (17) and eighteen (18) West; thence northerly along said range line to the north-east corner of Township five (5) North, Range eighteen (18) 'West; thence westerly along the First (lst) Standard Parallel North, to the southeast corner of Township six (6) North, Range eighteen (18) West; thence northerly along the range line between Ranges seventeen (17) and eighteen (18) West, to the point of intersection with the southern boundary line of the rancho La Liebre; thence north-westerly along the boundaries of the ranches 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, surveyed and nnsnrveyed, to ghe south-east corner of Township nine (9) North, Range twenty-seven ( 7) West; thence northerly along the range line between Ranges twenty- six (26) and twentyseven (27) West, to the point of intersection with the southern boundary line of the rancho Cuyama; thence northwesterly along the boundaries of the ranchos Cuyama (two) to the Eighth (Sth) 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. exmfmfuld °¤¤'*°° Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all irrigation rights and lands lawfully acquired therefor and 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 Cilice, 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 all mining claims duly located