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x PROCLAMATIONS, 1905. 3077 — 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 ", under which provision the boundary lines of the said forest reserve were changed and the area thereof reduced by proclamation V<>1-33,1>·2359· dated May sixteenth, nineteen hundred and four; And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by further releasing and excluding lands from the said forest reserve, V and by including therein additional lands which are in part covered with timber; ’ Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United Ee§¢¤¤¤<1¤rie¤ modi- States, by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid act of ' Congress approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do hereby make known and proclaim that the boundary lines of the aforesaid Battlement Mesa Forest Reserve are hereby further modified so as to read as follows: Beginning at the north-west corner of Section three (3), Township Description. nine (9) South, Range ninety-seven (97) W'est, Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian, Colorado; thence easterly to the south—west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township eight (8) South, Range ninety-six . . (96) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section ; twenty-two (22), said township; thence easterly to the south-west ~ corner of Section fifteen (15), Township eight (8) South, Range a ninety-five (95) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of S Section three (3), said township; thence easterly to the south—east i Y corner of Township seven (7) South, Range ninety-five (95) West; 3 thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), I Township seven (7) South, Range ninety-four (94) West; thence V ° » easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), Town- _ » tj ship seven (7) South, Range ninety-three (93) Wrest; thence south- , ¥ erly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said town- r s _- ship; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section three (3), ‘ Township eight (8) South, Range ninet-y—three (93) West; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section fourteen (14), said , township; thence easterly to the north—east corner of Section thir— ~ teen (13), said township; thence southerly to the south—west corner ( of Section eighteen (18). Township eight (8) South, Range ninety- two (92) \Vest; thence easterly to the north—east corner of Section · twenty-four (24), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township eight (8) South, Range ninety-one (91) \Vcst; it thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section v . four (4), said township; thence easterly to the north—east corner of 1 Townshi eight (8) South, Ran e ninetv (90) \Vest; thence southerli to tlie north-west corner ofg Township nine ( 9) South, Range eighty-nine (89) ¥Vest; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said townshi ; thence southerly, allowing for the proper offset on the Second (2nd) Correction Line South, to the south-east corner of ‘ Township twelve (12) South, Range eighty-nine (S9) \Vest; thence ` westerly to the south-west corner of Township twelve (12) Sowuth, f Range ninety-three (93) lVest; thence northerly to the north-east I corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township twelve (12) South, `· Range ninety-four (94) West; thence westerly to the north—east _ corner of Section twenty-three (23), Township twelve (12) South, _ Range ninety-five (95) )Vest; thence southerly to the southeast = corner of said section; thence westerly to the southwest corner of said section; thence southerly to the south—east corner of the north- - i east quarter of Section ten (10), Township thirteen (13) South, j