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PROCLAMATION. No. 42. 1059 [N0. 43.] BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMEEIGA. rsmm 14, 18%- A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Con- ,%¤g·6”‘°·,,°B gress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled,’P' ` “An act 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 the limits thereof; And whereas, the public lands in the State of California, 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; Now, therefore, I, BENJAMIN HARRISON, President of the United rpmq mmmtu. States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the °“‘f°"““‘ 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 State of California, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows, to-wit: Beginning at the north-east corner of Township five (5) South, Range B¤¤¤·*¤‘i••· thirty (30) East, on the First (1st) Standard Parallel South, Mount Diablo Meridian, California; thence westerly along said First (lst) Standard Parallel to the north-west corner of Township live (5) South, Range twenty-one (21) East; thence southerly on the range line between Ranges twenty (20) and twenty-one (21) East, to the south-west corner of Township six (6) South, Range twenty-one (21) East; thence easterly on the township line between Townships six S6) and seven (7) South, to the south-east corner of Township six (6 South, Range twenty-one (21) East; thence southerly on the range line between Ranges twenty-one (21) and twenty-two (22) East, to the south-west corner of Township seven (7) South, Range twenty-two (22) East; thence easterly along the township line between Townships seven (7) and eight (S) South, to the south-east corner of Township seven (7) South, Range twenty-two (22) East; thence southerly along the range line between Ranges twenty-two (22) and twenty-three (23) East, to the south-west corner of Township eight (8) South, Range twenty-three (23) East; thence easterly along the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel South, to the north-east corner of Township nine (9) South,_ Range twenty-three (23) East; thence southerly along the unsurveyed and surveyed range line between Ranges twenty-three (23) and twenty-four (24) East, to the southwest corner of Township nine (9) South, Range twenty-mur (24) East; thence easterly along the township line between Townships nine (9) and ten (10) South, to the south-east corner of Township nine (9) South, Range twenty-tour (24) East; thence southerly along the range line between Ranges twenty-tour (24) and twenty-five (25) East, to the south-west corner of Township ten (10) South, Range twenty-tive (25) East; thence easterly along the township line between Townshipsten gg!) and eleven (11) South, to the south-east corner of Town ship ten (10) nth, Range twenty-five (25) East; thence southerly along the unsurveyed and surveyed range line between Ranges twenty-five (25) and twenty-six (26) East, in the southwest corner of Township twelve (12) South, Range twenty-six (26) East; thence easterly along the third (3rd) Standard Parallel South, to the north-west corner of Township thirteen (13) South, Range twenty-seven (27) East; thence southerly along the range line between Ranges twenty-six (26) and twenty-seven (27) East,