Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 34 Part 3.djvu/472

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3252 raocnamairioss, 1906. I covered with ti1nber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public 4 proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof ”; _ ,,eI;g({a°“* ”°“°“"°» Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United i i States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Nevada, shown as the Independence Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof. Lmds °‘°°¥’*°d· This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may becovered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists. s,,§{’§§,’Q,‘;,°§ f’°“‘ \Varning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation. V ·‘ IN IVITNESS YVHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be afiixt. Done at the City of IVashington this 5th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and » [sean.] six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first. Trmonomc Roosnvmxr By the President: · Ronmrr Bacon Acting Secretary of State. November 5- 1906- Br THE Prmsmmwr or THE Uxrrnn S·rA·r1~;s or AHIERICA . A PROCLAMATION €Sf*}§£§§$g“ ,,f;,°’· XVHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Nevada, which are Preamble hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation; V¤l· 2*% @1106- And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety- ' one, entitled, "An act to repeal timber—culture laws, and for other purposes,” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set 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 reserva- _ tions and the limits thereof ”; N0E,,Q’,},,‘f‘“ ’°"°"°* Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Nevada, shown as the Charleston Forest. Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof. Lands °X°°”t°d‘ .T his proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered