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PROCLAMATIONS, 1905. 3 113 Done at the City of `Washington, this third day of July, A. D. 1905, and of the independence of the United States of America _ [SEAL.] the one hundred and twenty ninth. • T Hnononn ROOSEVELT By the President: HERBERT H. D. PEIRCE Acting Secretary of State. Br THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES or AME1z1cA. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS, it is provided b section twenty-four of the Act of M':`1x;ia§L1%•lg€:s(% Congress, approved March third; eighteen hundred and ninety-one, R€¤¤rv¢-€¤1- entitled, "An act to repeal timber—culture laws, and for other pur- iigili iiiijlgf 110e. poses ", “That the President of the United States may, from time to P°"# P- 32**1- ’ 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 Bresident shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof ”; And whereas, the public lands in the State of California, 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; Now, therefore, I. Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United C,,{°,§0‘,.§§‘; '°"°"°· 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 California, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows: Beginning at the north-west corner of Section thirty-one (31), D°°°’*P**°¤· Township thirty (30) North, Range ten (10) East, Mount Diablo Base and Meridian, California; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence southerly to the north—west corner of Section twelve (12), Township twenty- nine (29) North, Range ten (10) East; thence easterly to the northeast corner of said section; thence southerly to the north—east corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), Township twenty-eight (28) North, Range twelve ( 12) East; thence souther y to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence southerl to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the n6rtii—east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township twenty-eight (28) North, Range thirteen (13) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty (20) , . said township; thence southerly to the south—east corner of said sec- · tion; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-