Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 34 Part 3.djvu/232

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SOYO PROCLAMATIONS, 1905. Segfgggad f'° m WVarning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settle ` ment upon the lands reserved by this proclamation. Name. The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Payette Forest Reserve. · IN WITNESS XVHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Vitashington this 23d day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of the [SEAL.] Independence of the United States the one hundred and twent —ninth. y T. Roosnvmxr By the President: FRANCIS B Loomis Acting Secretary of S tate. June 3,1905. BY THE Pxnsinnxr or THE Uxirnn Sratrrs or IAMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. rue San Juan XVHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of

°“ R°“°"°’ Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one,

__ $$>¤§bi;· 1103 entitled, "An act· to repeal timber—culture laws, and for other pur- P08}, 5. ziaos.poses ", “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 proclamatiorg. declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereo "; A And whereas, the public lands in the State of Colorado, 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; roms: reserve, Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United C°l°"d°‘ States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are 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 Colorado, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows: Description. . Beginning at the north—west corner of Township forty-two (42) Xorth, Range three (3) \Vest, New Mexico Principal Meridian, Colorado; thence easterly to the north·east corner of Section three (3), said township; thence southerly to the south—east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence southerly to the south—west» corner of said section: thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north—west quarter of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence southerly to the southeast corner of the south-west ’ quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north—east corner of Section thirty-four (34), said township: thence southerly to the north—west corner of Section fourteen (14), Township forty-one (41) North, Range three \Vest: thence easterly to the north—east corner of said section: thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36). said township; thence easterly along the Tenth (10th) Correction Line North to the north—east corner of Township forty