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3022 PROCLAMATIONS, 1905. 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 12th day of May, in the year . year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and live, and [SEAL.} of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth. ‘ THEODORE ROOSEVELT By the President: FRANCIS B Loomis Acting Secretary of State. ‘ May 12-1905- BY THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES or AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. The Ch°¤¤*’¤¤““ WHEREAS it is rovided b section twent ·four of the Act of oilirzgfst Reserve, Congress, apprbved lgarch third; eighteen hundred and ninety-one, m?1§j1103_ entitled, "An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other pur- P°*‘- P- 328*- poses ", “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 art of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber. or undizrgrowth, 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 Oregon, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation; 0rg`g¢‘;;¢¤* Mews- Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United ` 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 are 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 Oregon, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows: Description- Beginning at the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township four 4) North, Range forty-four (44) East, Wlillamette Meridian, Oregon; thence easterly to the north—east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence southerly to the south—west corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said township: thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township four (4) North, Range forty-five (45) East; thence easterly along the First (lst) Standard Parallel North to the south-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), Township five ( 5) North. Range forty-five (45) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence easterly to the south—east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence easterly to the south—east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), Township five (5) North, Range forty-six (46) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township five