PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2769 BY rm: Pnnsmmrr or THE Umrsn Srarns or Amrzarca j_·j¤¤¤b¤r¤6,191¤. A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS an Executive Order dated July first, nineteen hundred FQ? §0'{§’ N“"°”°l and eight directed that parts of the Holy Cross, Leadville, Gunnison, Pminblef and Battlement Natrona Forests should be known as the Holy Cross National Forest; and an Executive Order dated April twenty-sixth, ‘ nineteen hundred and nine, directed that a art of the Holy Cross N atronal Forest should constitute the Sopris Nlational Forest; and WHEREAS it agpears that the Fpublic good will be promoted by transferring to the opris National orest an additional portion of the AM P- 2761 Holy Cross National Forest, and by eliminating certam lands from said Holy Cross National Forest; Now, therefore, I, William H. Taft, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power ir1 me vestedby the Act of Con- ° ’p` gress éaipproved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitl ‘An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal fyear ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and or other purposes," do proclaim that the boundaries of the Hol£Cross Nationa Forest are hereby changed and that thely are now as s own on the diagram forming a part hereof. This ssroc amation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of `·t§<;}¢¤¤·g”1¤¤¤=- any lan heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of ’P` ' Congress alpproved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled ‘ ‘An Act, o provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest_ ‘ reserves. ’ The lands herebly eliminated from the Holy Cross National Forest Pulggdg ¤¤>¤¤d *¤ which are not em raced in withdrawals for administrative sites for use in the management of the Forest, or in any other reservation or appropriation, shall be restored to the public domain and become sulgject to settlement under the general provisions of the homestead laws on such date and after such notice K publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, but s al not become subject to entry, filing, selection, or other form of arépropriation until the expiration of thirty days from the date so fixe , and no person will be permitted to acquire or exercise any right whatever under any settlement or occupancy begun prior to such date, and all such settlement or occupation is hereby orbidden. It is not intended by this proclamation to release any land from Am °"'°°*·d· reservation except the areas indicated on the diagram as eliminated, nor to reserve zgréy land not heretofore embraced in a National Forest. IN WITNE 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 sixteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ten, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-fifth. ‘ · WM H Tarrr By the President: P C Knox Secretary of State.
