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PROCLAMATIONS, 1905. 315] BY THE PRESIDENT or THE UXTTED STATES or AMERICA. october 3,1905. A PROCLAMATION. VVHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of R Big *3;}* Forest Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, €P(i‘leli1‘ii1blgd1t. entitled, "An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other pur- l1;§§,26[; *’駧g3· poses ”, “That the President of the United States may, from time to l i U 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 Montana,_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 M§;,‘{§°,$§_r°s°rv°‘ 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 Montana, and within the - boundaries particularly described as follows: Beginning at thenorth-east corner of Section five (5), Township D¢S¢fiP¤¤¤· eight (8) North, Range five (5) East, Principal Meridian, Montana; thence southerly. to the south—west corner of Section sixteen (16), Township seven (7) North, Range five (5) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section three (3), Township (6) North, Range live (5) East; thence westerly to the northwest corner of Section ten (10), said township; thence southerly to the southfivest corner of said section; thence easterly to the northeast corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township six (6) North, Range four (4) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section: thence easterly to the northeast corner of Section three (3), Township five (5) North, Range four (4) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section two (2), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section eleven (11), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence northerly to the north—west corner of Section seven (7), Township five North, Range five (5) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the northwest quarter of Section nine (9), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section ten (10), said township: thence northerly to the north—west corner of Section eleven (11). said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12). said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township five (5) North, Range six (6) East; thence easterlv to the north-east corner of Section six said township; thence southerlv to the south—west corner of Section seventeen (17), said township :i thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence southerly to the south-west