Name. The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Weiser 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 25th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth.
By the President:
- FRANCIS B Loomis
- Acting Secretary of State.
May 29, 1905.
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By the President of the United States of America.
A PROCLAMATION.
The Sawtooth Forest reserve, Idaho.
Preamble.
Vol. 26, p. 1103.
Post, p. 3260.
WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress,
approved March 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 Idaho, 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;
Forest reserve, Idaho. 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 Idaho, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:
Description. Beginning at the north-west corner of Section three (3), Township thirteen (13) North, Range five (5) East, Boise Base and Meridian, Idaho; thence easterly to the north—east corner of Section four (4), Township thirteen (13) North, Range eight (8) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section Eileen (15), Township twelve (12) North, Range eight (8) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township twelve (12) North, ’ Range nine (9) East; thence southerly to the south—west corner of Section thirty (30), Township twelve (12) North, Range ten (10) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six ( 36), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township twelve (12) North. Range eleven (11) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), Township eleven (11) North, Range eleven (11) East: thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-one (21). said township: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), Township eleven (11) North, Range twelve (12) East; thence southerly to the southwest corner of Section sixteen (16). Township ten (10) North, Range twelve (12) East; thence easterly to the north—east corner of Section
