Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 34 Part 3.djvu/217

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PROCLAMATIONS, 1905. 3055 lVarning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settle- ggserved f F ¤ m ment upon the lands reserved by this proclamation. _ S9 ment' The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Henrvs Namg_ Lake Forest Reserve. ° IN IVITNESS WVHEREOF, I have hereunto set mv hand and caused the seal of the United States to be ailixed. i Done at the City of lVashington this 23d day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of the [SEAL.] Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth. T. ROOSEVELT By the President: FRANCIS B. Loomus. Acting Secretary of State. BY THE PRESIDENT or THE UN1TEn STATES or AMERICA. May 25, 1905. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS, it is provided,by section twenty-four of the Act of Con- The Weiser For— gress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, enti- °S{»r§§;$§{Q°i‘ m°h°‘ • tled, “An act to repeal timber—culture laws, and for other purposes ”, §6· P· QQ; Q " That the President of the United States may, from time to t1me,· set 3294i i’ pp`` " _ 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 Idaho, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation; Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United Forest reserve, States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of m°h°‘ · the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are 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 Idaho. and within the boundaries particularly described as follows: Beginning at the north—west corner of Township eighteen (18) Description. North, Range one (1) East, Boise Base and Meridian, Idaho; thence easterly to the north—east corner of Section four (4), said township; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section sixteen (16), ` said township; thence westerly to the north·west corner of said section; thence southerly to 'the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence southerly to the south—west corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-one 31), Township eighteen (18) North, Range two (2) East; thence easterly to the north—east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section: thence easterly along the Fourth (4th) Standard Parallel North to the north—east corner of Section five (5) , Township seventeen (17) North, Range two (2) East; thence southerly to the south—east corner of