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PROOLAMATIONS. Nos. 22, 23. 899 twenty-one (21) and twenty-two (22) East, to the north-east corner of Town ship seven (7) North, Range twenty-one (21) East; thence westerly along the township line to the northwest corner of said township; thence northerly along the ran ge line to the north-east corner of Township eight (8) North, Range twenty (20) East; thence westerly along the suryeyed and unsurveyed township line between Townships eight (S) and nine (9) North, to the north-west corner of Township eight (8) North, Range seventeen (17) East; thence southerly along the range line to the southeast corner of Township eight (8) North, Range sixteen (16) East; thence easterly along the unsurveyed township line to the point for the southeast corner of Township eight (S) North, Range seventeen (17) East; thence southerly along the unsurveyed and surveyed range line between Ranges seventeen (17) and eighteen (18) East, subject to the easterly offset on the First (1st) Standard Parallel North, to the south-east corner of Township four (4) North, Range seventeen (17) East; thence easterly along the township line to the northeast corner of Township three (3) North, Range eighteen (1S) East; thence southerly along the range line to the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly along the township line between Townships two (2) and three (3) North, to the south-east corner of Township three (3) North, Range twenty-four (24) East, the place of beginning. Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands uQ'{,‘};_,Y’“d °”*'*°¤ which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful tiling duly of record in the proper United · ·· ‘ States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and all mining claims duly located and held according to the laws of the United States and rules and regulations not in conflict therewith; Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, settlement or location was made. . Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to enter or mf,_°§,‘§{Y°d *'°'” °°" make settlement upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be atiixed. Done at the City of Washington: this 22d day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and ninety- [sen.] seven, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-first. Gsovnu CLEVELAND By the President: Rionaun OLNEY Sewetary of State. [No. 23.] BY run Pmasrnnnr or run Umrnn Sryrns or Annexes. _F¤*·¤¤·¤§§2;g{§?j; g A PROCLAMATIUN. Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Con- Xtrsnggble-1103 grass, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, enti- ‘“ "" ‘ tled,“An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other pnrposes",

  • ‘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