Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 34 Part 3.djvu/268

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3106 PROCLAMATIONS, 1905. 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 13th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth. T. RoosEvELT By the President: ` FRANCIS B. Loomrs S Acting Secretary of State. June 13, 1905- BY THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES or AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. F'§;‘:s§‘°'j{§:§r‘§; WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Com. CongI·ess, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, $i»ifgisl:l;°iZ110s. entitled, "An act to repeal timber—culture laws, and for other pur- "°*'· P- 33**- 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 covere 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 reserva- . tions 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 dpublic good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation; Forest reserve. Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United C°l°md°' States, b virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the afbresaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and pro- ' claim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set a art as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels oi) land lying and being situate in the State of Colorado, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows: D<·¤¤r¤¤¤<>¤- Beginning at the north-west corner of Section fifteen (15), Township fort I-two (42) North, Range thirteen (13) \Vest, New Mexico Principal} Meridian, Colorado; thence easterly to the north-east - corner of Section eighteen (18), Township forty-two (12) North, Range twelve (12) lVest; thence southerly to the south—west corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence easterly to the southeast corner of Section nineteen (19), Township forty-two (42) North, Range eleven (11) llrest; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section live said township: thence easterly to the north—east corner of Section four (4), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21). Township forty-two (42) North, Range ten (10) \Vest; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence southerly to the south—east corner of said township: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section three (3), Township forty-one (41) North, Range nine (9) \Vest: thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence easterly