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1772 PROCLAMATIONS, Nos. 9, 10. it appears thatthe public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation; rmsr mmmaim, Now, therefore, I, WILLIAM MGKINLEY, President of the United -*’**°”“· States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there is 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 Territory of Arizona, and within the · boundaries particularly described as follows, to-wit: B.,.,,..;,,-;,,.,, Beginning at the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), Township thirteen (13) North, Range three (3) West, Gila and Salt River l\leridian, Arizona; thence southerly along the range line to the point for the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said Township'; thence westerly along the unsurveyed section line to the point for the southwest corner of Section twentyeight (28), said Township; thence northerly along the unsurveyed section line to the point for the north-west corner of Section nine (9), said Township; thence easterly along the unsurveyed and surveyed section line to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), said Township, the place of beginning. rmt una mms Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands °‘°°*‘“’“· which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal _ entry or covered by any lawful tilin g duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to Inake entry or filing of record has not expired; and all mining claims duly located and held according to the laws of the United States and rules and · regulations not in conflict therewith; ` Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entrymen, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, settlement or location was made. Reserved frvm scr- Warniiig is hereby expressly given to all persons not to enter or "°'“°"‘ make settlement upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aiiixed. · Done at the City of Washington this tenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and ninety- [SEAL.] eight, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-second. WILLIAM McKINL1¤r By the President: WILLIAM R. DAY Secretary of State. [No. 10.] May 25, Isos. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. W" "”"'“ S"“‘“· A I>aocLAMA*r1oN. rumble. Whereas an Act of Congress was approved on the twenty-ilfth day of Ame, p 364- April, 1898, entitled “An Act Declaring that war exists between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Spain," and · Am, p. sen. Wliereas, by an Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for tempoI·ar1ly 1D07B3S1I1g the Military Establishment of the United States in time of war and for other purposes," approved April 22, 1898; the President is authorized, in order to raise a volunteer army, to issue his proclamation calling for volunteers to serve in the Army of the United tates; seem: an m mi. Now, Therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States A ¤¤¤·>¤- by virtue of the power vested in me by the Constitution and the laws;