Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 34 Part 3.djvu/480

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raociixiiarioxs, 1906. 3255 g Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United B°““d""*"S States f A· · - ‘ - °ha“g°d" 0 merica, by wutue of the pon ei 111 me vested by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety- V°l· 3** D- 36· seven, entitled, "An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes,” do proclaim that the boundaries of the aforesaid Little Belt Forest Reserve ‘ are hereby further changed, and that they are now as shown on the · diagram forming a part hereof. This proclamation will not take eifect upon any lands withdrawn L¤¤dS exceptedor reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or c aim exists. The lands hereby excluded from the reserve and restored to the 0pg,§Q“‘l§g SLQQQBS public domain shall be open to settlement from the date hereof, but mentshall not be subject to entry, filing, or selection until after ninety days notice by such publication as the Secretary of the Interior inay prescribe. ‘ WV:-irning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement Segfjgfgtd f“°m 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 aiiixt. - Done at the Cit of Washington this 6th day of November, in the year of? our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and [sam,.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first. ’ Trmononn Roosnvmzr By the President: Romair B.-xcox » Acting S€C7‘€?ift7';l] of State. Br TH}: Pansinnxr or run Uxiren Srxri-xs or Aminmca N°‘"°"f}f’j]L}?9f[ A PROCLAMATION XVHEREAS, the public lands in the Territory of Arizona, which R__£p_{jg;¥¤X<;g}z*`·1·‘—‘~* are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it 'i·mafi1»1.>.' appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation; And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of "·*l· 2**- P~ l*"**· Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, "An act to repeal timber·cult_ure laws, and for other purposes," “That the President of the United States may. from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having_publ1c land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or uudergrowth, 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 "; _ _ _ F t G Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the Lmited ,,m§f,‘§§ '°"’"°· States of America. by virtue of the power in me vested by section twentv-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are herebv reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation. for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land. in the Territory of Arizona. shown as the Huachuca Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof. _ , This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn Lands ‘*“”¥’“*d· or reserved. at this date, from settlement, entry. or other appropria-