Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 27.djvu/1070

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PROCLAMATIONS. Nos. 37, 38. 1049 Done at the City of Washington, this ninth day of December in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and ninety- [SEAL.] two, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and seventeenth. BEM HARRISON By the President. Jour: W. Fosrmr, Secretary of State. [No. 38.] BY THE PRESIDENT oF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 1>mmm2u.1m. A PBOCLAMATION. Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four, of the act of Congress, Preamble approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An v°1‘2°·"**"m°‘ " act to repeal timber culture laws, and for other purposes, " “That the President of the United States may, irom 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 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 it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation. Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States, rome rem-mma. by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the afore- C**“‘°¤**· said 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 particularly described as ibllows, to-wit: Beginning at the north-east corner of Township three (3) North, Boundaries. Range six (6) \Vest of the San Bernardino Meridian; thence westerly on the surveyed and unsurveyed township line between Townships three (3) and four (4) North, Ranges six (6) and seven (7) West, to the north-east corner of Township three (3) North, Range eight (8) West; thence northerly on the uusurveyed and surveyed range line between Ranges seven (7) and (8) WVest, to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township tour (4) North, Rn-nge eight (8) \Vest; thence westerly on the surveyed and unsurveyed section line between Sections thirteen (13) and twenty-four (24), thurteen (14) and twenty- three (23), iitteen (15) and twenty-two (22), sixteen (16) and twenty-one (21), seventeen (17) and twenty (20) and eighteen (18) and nineteen (10) of said township and range, to the point for the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19) of said township and range; thence northerly on the unsnrveyed and surveyed range line between Ranges eight (8) and nine (9) ’West, to the north-east corner of Township four (4) North, Range nine (9) \Vest; thence westerly on the township line between Townships tour (-1) and live (5) North, Range nine (9) West, to the south-east corner of Township live (5) North, Range ten ( 10) YVest; thence northerly on the range line between Ranges nine (9) and ten (10) West, to the northeast corner of Section thirty-six (36) of said township and range; thence westerly on the section line between Sections twenty-five (25) and thirty-six (36), twenty-six (26) and thirty- tive (35) and twenty-seven (27) and thirty-four (34), to the southeast corner of Section twenty-eight (28) of said township and range; thence