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PROCLAMATIONS, 1905. 3037 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; - Provided further, That nothing herein shall give any force or edect to any claim or right to any of the lands heretofore embraced within the reserves hereby consolidated which would not have been entitled to recognition if said reserves as heretofore established had been continued in force without being merged into a single reserve as hereinbefore provided. The lands hereby excluded from the reserve and restored to the 1_e§§’;gé*?Q0l”§bQ,$ public domain shall be open to settlement from the date hereof, but domain. D shall not be subject to entry, filing or selection until after ninety days notice by such publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. V = WVarning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to`make settle- Se§g§;*];;*;d { Y ° m ment upon the lands reserved by this proclamation. ` IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set_my hand and caused the seal of the United_States to be ailixed.‘ Done at the City of Washington this 12th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of . [san,.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth. . ` T. Roosnwaur By the President: FnANo1s B. LooM1s Acting Secretary of State. BY THE Pnnsinnxr or rim Uxrrno Srxrizs or Aunmcx. May 15,1905. A PR()CLAMA'I`I()N. IVHEREAS, by Executive ()rder dated December 27. 1875, Sec- mn§;S}l3?if,)r*&*_}*¤*¤ tions and 6, township 15 south, range 2 east, San Bernardino Preamble. " Meridian, California, were with certain other tracts of land withdrawn from the public domain and reserved for the use of the Capitan Grande Band or Village of Mission Indians; and IVHEREAS, the Commission appointed upder the provisions of the Act of Congress approved January 12, 1891, entitled "An Act for the relief of the Mission Indians in the State of California," (I`. S. V0!-26, p- T11 Statutes at Large, vol. 26, page 712) selected for the said Capitan Grande band or village of Indians certain tracts of land and intentionally omitted and excluded from such selection the said sections 5 and 6, township 15 south, range 2 east: and IVHEREAS, the report and recommendations of the said Commission were approved by Executive ()rder dated December 29. 1891, which Order also directed that "All of the lands mentioned in said report are hereby withdrawn from settlement and entry until patents shall have issued for said selected reservations. and until the recommendations of said Commission shall be fully executed. and. by the proclamation of the President of the United States. the lands or any part thereof shall be restored to the public domain; " and WVHEREAS, a patent was issued March 10, 1894. to the said Indians for the lands selected by the Commission as aforesaid and