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PROGLAMATIONS. Nos. 10, 11. 1773 and deeming sufficient occasion to exist, have thought lit to call forth and hereby do call forth, volunteers to the aggregate number of 75,000 in addition to the volunteers called forth by my proclamation of the $"*W·P-29- twenty-third ot Apr1l,1n the present year; the same to be apportioned, as_ far as practicable, among the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia, according to population, and to serve for two years, unlesssooner discharged. The proportion of each arm and the details of enlistment and organization will be made known through the \Var Department. ln 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 twentyfifth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety- [sun.,] eight, and of the [independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-second. · WILLIAM MGKINLEY By the President: WILLIAM R. DAY, Secretary of State. . [No. 1 1.] BY rim Pnnsmmnr or run Umrnn Srxrns or Ammucn. May 2q_ ma A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Con- rmmm•,v¤1.z¤,p. gress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, enti- lmtled, “An act to repeal timber-culture 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 public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or under-growth, 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 "; And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved A,.,,_ P_ M_ June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled, “An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the iiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety- eight, and for other purposes", that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve"; And whereas, the public land in the Territory of New Mexico, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation; N ow, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, R£’¤yF1g;,¤;¤g6P·><=¤>• by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid Acts of Congress, ¤.,..°.,.mg2d_ '°"" do hereby make known and proclaim that the boundary lines of the Forest Reservation in the Territory of New Mexico, known as “The Pecos River Forest Reserve", created by proclamation of January VOL 2, ,,_ M_ eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, are hereby so changed and ' enlarged as to include all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the Territory of New Mexico, and within the boundaries particularly described as fellows, to wit: Beginning at the south-west corner of Township seventeen (17) North, ntuuamu. Range thirteen (13) East, New Mexico Principal Meridian, New Mexico; thence easterly along the Fourth (4th) Standard Parallel North, to its intersection with the west boundary line of the Las Vegas Grant;