Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 35 Part 2.djvu/1165

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2228 PROULAMATLONS, 1909. Sitka; also the several areas contained within boundaries formed by circles described with a radius of one mile, each, from the centers of the following named towns and settlements, to wit: Snettishan, Sumdum, Windham, and Loring; also the areas contained within boundaries formed by circles described with a radius of two miles, each, from the centers of the towns of Petersburg and Wrangell; also Annette and Pennock Islands; also all the northern portion of Gravina Island which lies above a line running from the head of Vallenar Bay southeasterly to the head of Blank Inlet; also all that portion of Revillagigedo Island lying southwest of a line beginning at a oint at the head of Wards Cove; and running thence in a southeasterly direction, at a distance of two miles from the shores of Tongass Narrows to a point on Carroll Inlet; and also all that portion of Kasaan Peninsula, forming a part of Prince of Wl/'ales Island, which lies southeast of a line beginning at a point on Kasaan Bay due west of the United States Location Monument Number 5, and running thence, north 44° 42’ p east 6,996 feet (a proximate] ) to the most southwesterly point on _ the bay known as lllyman Anchorage: $'°l;""°j t { Provided, that this proclamation shall not be so construed as to

.,,,t$_ "gm °° °` deprive any person of any valid right possessed under the Treaty for

V 1 53 the cession o the Russian possessions in North America to the United ° °15’p' g` States, concluded at Washington on the thirtieth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, or acquired under any act of Con- _ _ gress relatingrto the Territory of Alaska. wi?? "gms °°t °f The with awal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any ubhc purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such 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 force. - Ag'*°““`~"“““““*· This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of V°l·***·P·233· any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, "A.n Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves." IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to he affixed. Done at the Cit of Washington this 16th day of February, in the year of, our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine, [sun,.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third. Tmzonoim Roosnvrzrir By the President: Ronnnr Bacox Secretary of State. r»t¤myzo,19oo. BY THE Pnnsrnmxr or rm: Uxrrno Srxrns or Amnmca A PROCLMMTION Fromta zunonai WHEREAS, an Executive Order signed July second, nineteen

 hundred and eight, consolidated the Toiyabe, Monitor and Toquima

X:Q;3;bP$h,B_ National Forests under‘the name of the Toiyabe National Forest; ` ° And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by to the Toiyabe National Forest, certain lands within the State of Nevada, which are in part covered with timber; Q,<(:{=¤3<g¤i¤¤3:¤¤¤rz¤d- Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United ' '°’States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act