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902 Pn00LAMAT10Ns. Nos. 24, 25. northwesterly along said shore line to the east boundary of the Makah Indian Reservation; thence southerly along the east boundary to the southeast corner of said reservation and westerly along the south boundary thereof to the high-water-mark on the Pacinc Coast; thence southerly along said coast line to the north boundary of the Quinaielt Indian Reservation; thence southeasterly along the north boundary to the eastern point of said reservation and south westerly along the south boundary thereof to the point of intersection with the Fifth (5th) Standard Parallel North; thence easterly along said parallel to the southeast corner of Township twenty-one (21) North, Range five (5) West, _ _ the place of beginning. _x{,`;‘{f_,,Y“"" °"*“°“ Excepting from the tbrce and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful tilin g 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 par; ticular 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. mmm from me Warniiig is hereby expressly given to all persons not to enter or make °°"'°”°' settlement upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation. In witness whereotl I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aftixed. Done at the City of Washington this 22d day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and ninety- [SEAL.] seven, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-first. GROVER CLEVELAND By the President: RICHARD OLNEY Secretary of Stufc. · [ N o. 25.} ru¤c¤y22,1ss·z. BY rms PRESIDENT o1·‘ THE UNITED Srnuzs on Amazmcn. A PROCLAMATION. . {Z$¤g,l*‘°·nm YVlnereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, ' ’p`approved l\Iarch third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An 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 the limits thereof" ; And whereas, the public lands in the State of South Dakota, 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; S0f;Q{(°;{a{f);gf"°**°¤· Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-ibur of the 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