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PROCLAMATIONS. Nos. 4, 5. 1973 Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands 1****** °¤°°P**’- which may ave been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing 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 riod within which to make ent1]y or filing of record has not expired: §·m;idcd, that this exception sha] 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 or settlement was made. Warning is ereby expressly givento aH persons not to make settle- uolgfjfw mm =€*· ment 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 ailixed. Done at the City of Washington this first day of July, in the ear of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and one, and oz the [sun,.] Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-fifth. ‘ Wrnuam MoKmn1:r By the President: Dnvm J. Hru., Acting Secretary of State. [No. 5.] BY THE PRESIDENT or THE Uurnzp Swans or Armucx. J¤1r 4,1901- _ A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Con- $‘j‘f‘,'},l’§·m,_ gress, approved March third, eighteen undred 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 bearin forests, in any part of the lpublic lands wholly or in part _ covered timber or un ergrowth, w ether 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 Territory of Oklahoma, within the limits hereinafter described, are in grt covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation; Now, therefore, 1, William McKinley, President of the United O,f{‘;{,°gf¤_'°°°"°°'°¤· States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four 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 tractskpieces or parcels of and lving and bein situate in the Territory of O ahoma and particularly described as fcglows, to wit: Beginning at the south—east corner of township three (3) north, B°¤¤d¤’l¤=· range fourteen (14) west, Indian Meridian, Territory of Oklahoma; thence north along the township line to the north-east corner of section twenty~four (24), township three (3) north, range fourteen (14) west; thence east on the section line to the south-east corner of section - thirteen (13), township three (3) north, range thirteen (13) west; thence north along the rangle line between ranges twelve (12) and thirteen (1) west, to the nort —east corner of the south-east quarter of section twelve (12), township three (3) north. range thirteen (13) west; thence west to the south—west corner of the north-west quarter of section