Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 34 Part 3.djvu/271

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PROCLAMATIONS, 1905. 3109 Br run Pnnsmniwr or Tun Uiwrrmn Siwrns or Amnmca. June 14,1905. A PROCLAMATION. YVHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Con- The uncompengress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, enti- §;$vsF`C°{,l`f°t R°` tled, "An act to repeal timber—culture laws, and for other purposes ", $g‘f"g{,*’*°· 1103 " That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set Pos}, ;i.p9282. ` 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 by section twenty-four of C°l°md°' 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: Bebinning at the north—west corner of section eighteen,(18) , Town- D€,,mpu.,.,_ , ship fifteen (15) South, Range one hundred ang two (102) West, Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian, Colorado; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section sixteen (10), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence northerl to the north-west corner of Section seven (T), Township fifteen (ll.5) South, Range one hundred and one (101) West; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence northerly to the north—west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), Township fifteen (15) South, Range one hundred (100) lVest; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence easterly to the ° north-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence 1 southerly to the south-west corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-two (22). said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-three(23) ,said township; thence easterly to the northeast corner of Section twenty-six (26). said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six · (36), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township fifteen (15) South. Range ninety-nine (99) West; thence easterly along the Third (3rd) Correction Line South to the northeast corner of fractional Township fifty-one 51) North, Range fifteen (15) \Vest, New l\Iexico Principal Meridian; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section seven (7), Township fifty (50) North, Range fourteen (14) lVest; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south—east quarter of Section seven (T), Township fifty (50) North, Range thirteen (13) lVest; thence southerly to the southwest corner of Section five (5), Township forty-nine (-19) North,