Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 27.djvu/1050

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rnootnmiyrious. Nos. 28, 29. 1029 line between Sections four (4) and five (5), to the north-west corner of _,.B°g“‘*°'*°°·C°”· Section four (4), in said Township and Range; thence easterly on the the township line between Townships one (1) and two (2) South, Range five (5) East, to the south-west corner of Section thirty-tive (35), Township one (1) South, Range five (5) East; thence northerly on the section line between Sections thirty-four (34), thirty—five (35), twenty-six (26), twenty-seven (27), twenty-two (22) and twenty-three (23), to the north-west corner of Section. twenty-tl1ree (23), of said Township and Range; thence easterly on the section line between Sections fourteen (14) and twenty-three (23), thirteen (13) and twenty-four (24), to the north—east corner of Section twenty-four (24), of said Township and Range; thence northerly along the range line between Ranges five (5) and six (6) East, to the place of beginning. _ Excepting from the force and efect of this proclamation all lands c_}·,;§°l °¤***°¤ ·=*· which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal P ` 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; and all mining claims duly located and held according to the laws of the United States and rules and regulations not in conflict therewith; 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, settlement, or location was made. Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to enter or ,,§,${"°** *’°¤ **·"· make settlement upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this seventeenth (17th) day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and [SEAL.] ninety-two, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and sixteenth. BEN.: Hnemsou By the President: WILLIAM F Wnimron Acting Secretary of State. [No. 29.] Br ·rnn PRESIDENT or rms: Umrmn Suwrns or Ammmcu. A l‘R0()LAMA'l`l0N. Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-fbur of the act of Congress, Jim __3 mc, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, ¢< An nk2g.,. net to repeal lTllIll)('l‘·l‘llltlll'(¥ laws, and for other purposes," *‘ That the $f§f’,}‘,i’]f·,,03_ 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 ])l'TTl'l{1lll2llZl0ll, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof;” . And whereas, the public lands in the State of Colorado, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered uith timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation. Now, thereftire, I , Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States, Forest reservation. by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the C°l°“‘d°’