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PROCLAMATIONS. Nos. 17, 18.
1565

[No. 17.]

By the President of the United States of America.

A PROCLAMATION.

March 80, 1891.

Whereas it is provided by section twenty four of an Act·a roved Y””m'>*°· March the third, eighteen hundred andy ninety one, entitled an A""' p` 1m' 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 undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and limits thereof."

Now therefore, I Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States by virtue of the power in me vested, do hereby make known and proclaim that there has been and is hereby reserved from entry rmgt reservation, or settlement and set apart for a public forest reservation all that W>'°m“’€· tract of land situate the State of Wyoming contained within the following described boundaries.

Beginning at a int on the parallel of forty four degrees fifty Boundaries. minutes, where said parallel is intersected by the meridian of one hundred and ten degrees west longitude, thence due east along said parallel to the meridian of one hundred and nine degrees and thirty minutes west longitude; thence due south along said meridian to the forty fourth parallel of north latitude; thence due west along said parallel to its point of intersection with the west boundary of the State of Wyoming; thence due north along said boundary line to its intersection with the south boundary of the Yellowstone National Park.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to enter or name n-um in make settlement upon the tract of land reserved by this proclama- “°'”°“’~ t' . ulih wit}nes%whe§e§f;,\tlBhav¢i)he1i§>i1]rngo set my hand and caused the f t ni e s o e a e . Seljome ai? the City of Washington this 30th day of March in the — year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety [sem,.] one,dan(d of lndtelpendence of the United States the one hun re an een .

Benj Harrison.

By the President:

James G. Blane
Secretary of State.

[No. 18.]

By the President of the United States of America.

A PROCLAMATION.

The following revisions of the laws of the United States are Ap:-¤4,1ss1. hereby published for the information of all concerned. _ Section 1956, Revised Statutes, Chapter 3, Title 23, enacts that; R_S_,m_,9,,6,p_w_ "No person shall kill an otter, mink, marten, sable, or fur seal, or F,,,_b,,,,,,n,,,,,,,m,,,,_ other fur-bearing animalrwithin the limits of Alaska Territory, or Mun in the waters thereof; and every person guilty thereof, shall, for each offence, be lined not less than two hundred nor more than one