Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 34 Part 3.djvu/241

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rnocLAMAT1oNs, 1905. 3079 not-ice by such publication as the Secretary of the Interior may pre- . scribe. ( `Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settle- Reserved f rem ment u on the lands reserved by this proclamation.S°m°m°°t‘ IN '&ITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aflixed. Done at the City of Washington this 5th 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 f twenty-ninth. T. Roosnvnixr By the President: I Fmncis B. Loomis Acting Secretary of State. . BY THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES or AMEn1oA. June 12,1905- . A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS, it is provided ·b section twenty-four of the Act of {gk R¤¤z¤1F<>¤‘- Congress, approved March third; eighteen hundred and ninety-one, esrreiiiiiiiigf C° °` entitled, "A11 acteto repeal timber-culture laws,and for other pur- Xgbzf; péQg§3· poses", “That thefresident of the United States may, from time toi ` 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 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; Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United Forest reserve. States, by virtue of the power in me vested b section twenty-four of C°l°"d°' the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby malie 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: Beginning at the north-west corner of Section four (4), Township Descriptioneleven (11) North, Range ninety (90) lVest, Sixth (Gth) Principal Meridian, Colorado; thence easterly to the nortl1—east corner of Section six (G), Township eleven (11) North, Range eighty-nine (89) \Vest; thence southerly to the south—east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence southerly to the south—east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south·east quarter of Section thirty-three » (33), Township eleven (11) North, Range eighty-seven (87) lVest; thence northerly to the northeast corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence northerly to the south—east corner of the north—east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the northeast quarter of Section twenty-eight (28), Township eleven (11)