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2004 PROCLAMATIONS. MS. 20, 21. United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within Wh1Ch to make entry or filing of record has not expire : Hwzded, 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 or settlement was made. dS1g16g3V6d mm °°*· Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make set- ` tlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation. _ _ J; nM9d1d2e B"' The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Medicine ` Bow Forest Reserve. 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 22d da of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two and of the [sun.] Independence of the, United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth. . Trnzonoma Roosnvmrr , By the President: Jomx HAY ' Secretary of State. [No. 21.] ¥¤Y”·1°°“· Br rm: Pnrzsrnnxr or rm: Umrmn Sums or Ammmoa. A PROCLAMATION. {1{g¤·{;>§·m Vllhereas, The Big Horn Forest Reserve, in the State of Wyoming, ``was established by (proclamation dated February twenty-secon , eighteen hundred an ninety-seven, under and by virtue of section vows, v»11¤¤. twenty-four of the Act of Conlgress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, "An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes", which provides, "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 who ly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial va ue or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the _ establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof ”; Vol-30. v-36- And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled, ‘ An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other pur oses", that "'1€ie President is hereby authorized at any time to modlify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creatin v»1.m,p.1ma such reserve”; under which provision, the boundary lines of the said forest reserve were changed and enlarged by proclamation dated June _ twentyminth, nineteen hundred; ¤'§¤°R§s*g“*?{,f¤,,€;,’{; Now, therefore, 1, Tmzonoan Roosmvmxr, President of the United mms. States, by virtue of the power vested in me b the aforesaid act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen bundled and ninety-seven, do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby reserved from entry or settlement, and added to and made a part of the aforesaid Big Horn Forest Reserve, all those certain tracts, pieces or par-