1~RocLAiIATIoxs, 1906. _ 3207 Br THE PRESIDENT or THE IIXITED STATES or IKBIERICA. MW 29- l906· A PROCLAMATION. IVHEREAS, the IVichita Forest Reserve, in the Territory of Okla- R Wichita lF<>F¢>St homa, was established by proclamation dated July fourth, nineteen efiziiiibgii a` hundred and one;V°*· 32, ¥’· 197* And whereas, it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved June V°l· 3*% P- 36- ' fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled, "An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes," that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve ”; And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, within the Territory of Oklahoma, which are in part covered with timber; Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United Iarggg°d“’l°S °¤‘ States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the afore- ` said act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do proclaim that the aforesaid Wichita Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are, accordingly, now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof; Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands L¤¤d¤ °¤¤°¤*°d· 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 Office, 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: Provided, that this ` exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made. \Varning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settle- SE§,';;§D$,{]‘;_*"’ mm ment upon the lands reserved by this proclamation. IN IVITNESS IVHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. g Done at the City of lVashington this 29th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [ssrn,.] six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth. T. RoosEvm,T By the President: ELIIIU Roor _ · Secretary of State. Br THE PRESIDENT or THE Uxrrmn STATES or ;\)IERICA. May 29, 1906. A PROCLAMATION. YVHEREAS, the Uinta Forest Reserve, in the State of Utah, was mma roms: ae established by proclamation dated February twenty-second, eighteen “'fL§;,§,§{,{’é_ hundred and mnety-seven, under the name of the Uintah Forest Re- VM- 29, v· 895- serve, and was `subsequently enlarged, by proclamations dated July Ann-, DD.3116, fourteenth, nineteen hundred and five. and January sixteenth, nine- 31%
