Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 35 Part 2.djvu/1116

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PROCLAMATIONS, 1908. 2207 reserved from settlement or entry and set apart as a public reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Florida, shown as the Ocala National Forest on the diagram forming a part hereof. . ‘ The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands M1,??' "*¤***’ “°‘ “" which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land ` laws or reserved for any public purpose, be sub'ect to and shall not interfere with or defeat eg)al rights under suclh appropriation nor prevent the use for such pu liclpurpose of lands so reserved, so long as such npfpropriation is lega y maintained, or such reservation remains in orce. 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 Wasliington this 24th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty third. Tnnononn Roosnvmxr By the President: Enum Roor ` Secretary of State. BY THE PnEsmENT or THE UNITED STATES or AMERICA November 24,1sm. ` A PROCLAMATION . · - . VVHEREAS, the public lands in the State of North Dakota, which FD¤k¤¢== National are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it °’°S°' N‘D°k` appears that the public good would be promoted by utilizing said lands as a National Forest; Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United N,lfr:,§g)¤gL0tf_`°*¤S*· States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section · ` twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen V°l‘2°·*" "°3‘ hundred and ninety-one, entitled, "An Act to repeal timber·culture laws, and for other purposes," do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from settlement or entry and set apart as a public reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of North Dakota, shown as the Dakota National Forest on the diagram forming a lpart hereof. The withdrawal mac e by this proclamation shall, as to all lands fwlmgf **8***3 ¤°* ¤¥· which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land i ` laws or reserved for any ublnc purpose, be sub`ect to, and shall not interfere with or defeat Iegal rights under sucb appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public Purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legal y maintained, or such reservation remains in fbrce. IN WITNESS 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 24th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one ‘ hundred and thirty-third. THEODOEE ROOSEVELT By the President: ELIHU Roo'? Secretary of Stale.