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_ PROCLAMATION S, 1905. ‘ 3039 BY THE PRESIDEN1` or THE Unrrmn STATES or AMERIGA. Ma 17, 1905. A PROCLANIATION. 4-; WVHEREAS, The lVIedicine Bow Forest Reserve, in the State of VVyoming, was established by proclamation dated May twenty-second, FTM Modioioo Bow nineteen hundred and two, under and by virtue of section twenty-four ctiitietinh §$;w°’ of the Act of Congress, approved hiarch third, eighteen hundred and $§?'§‘§’}°i,p_ 2003 ninety-one, entitled,_"An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for 2%% 26 1103 i other purposes ”, which provides, “That the President of the United 1>ii.·}¢, iipeaog. ` 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, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled, Vol.30,p.36. "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 “ the President · is hereby authorized at any time to modifly 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 alto ther any order creating such reserve ”; under which provision the iiimndary. lines of the said forest reserve were changed and enlarged by proclamation dated V°*· 32· P- 2015- July sixteenth, nineteen hundred and two; And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by including within the said forest reserve certain additional lands in the State of Colorado which are in part covered with timber; Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United Ama °¤‘¤’g°d- States, by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do hereby make known and proclaim that the boundary lines of the aforesaid Medicine Bow Forest Reserve are hereby further modified so as to read as follows: Beginning at the north-west corner of Township seventeen (17) Description. North. Range eighty-one (81) lVest, Sixth (Gth) Principal Meridian, lllyoming; thence easterly to the north—east corner of said township; thence southerly to the north—west corner of Section thirty (30), Township seventeen (17) North. Range eighty (80) )Vest; thence easterly to the north·east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said, township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township 7 seventeen (17) North, Range seventy-nine (79) \Vest; thence easterly to the north—east corner of Section five Township seventeen (17) North, Range seventy-eivht (78) )Vest; thence southerly along the section lines, allowing fer the proper offset on the Fourth (lth) Standard Parallel North, to the south-east corner of Section thirty- two (32). Township fourteen (14) North, Range seventy-eight 78) \Vest; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section four (-1), Township thirteen 13) North, Range seventy-seven (77) llvest; thence southerly along the section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the Third ( 3rd) Standard Parallel North, to the point of intersection with the boundary line between the States of llryoming and Colorado: thence westerly along said state boundary line to the point of intersection with the range line between Ranges seventy-seven (77)