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PROCLAMATIONS. Nos. 34, 35. 1043 of the west half of township one south of range twenty-seven east, lying Lands excepted—Continued. south of the Yellowstone Riiver. Tract 9. Section fourteen, township three south of range nineteen east. Tract 10. Beginning in the mid-channel of the Main or West Fork of Red Lodge Creek at the point where it intersects the line known as the line of the Blake Survey, and which was formerly supposed to be the south boundary of the Crow Indian Reserve; thence running due east along the line of said Blake Survey for a distance of one mile; thence runmng northeasterly along a line parallel to and one mile from the mid-channel of the said West Fork of said Red Lodge Creek for a distance of ten miles; thence due west to the mid-channel of the said West Fork of said Red Lodge Creek; thence southwesterly along the mid-channel of the said West Fork of said Bed Lodge Creek to the place of beginning. In Witness 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 fifteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and seventeenth. Benj Harrison By the President: John W. Foster Secretary of, State.

[No. 35.] BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. October 31, 1892 A PROCLAMATION. Whereas it is provided by section 13 of the act of Congress of March Preamble. Vol. 26, p. 1110 3, 1891, entitled “An act to amend title sixty, chapter three, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to copyrights," that said act “shall only apply to a citizen or subject of a foreign state or nation when such foreign state or nation permits to citizens of the United States of America the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as its own citizens; or when such foreign state or nation is a party to an international agreement which provides for reciprocity in the granting of copyright, by the terms of which agreement the United States of America may, at its pleasure, become a party to such agreement:" And whereas it is also provided by said section that “the existence of either of the conditions aforesaid shall be determined by the President of the United States by proclamation made from time to time as the purposes of this act may require:" And whereas satisfactory official assurances have been given that in Italy the law permits to citizens of the United States the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as to the subiects of Italy; Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States Copyright benefits extended to the subjects of Italy of America, do declare and proclaim that the first of the conditions specified in section 13 of the act of March 3, 1891, now exists and is ful-filled in respect to the subjects of Italy. In testimony 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 thirty-first day of October one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, and of the Inde- [SEAL.] pendence of the United States the one hundred and seventeenth. Benj Harrison By the President: John W. Foster, Secretary of State.