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PROCLAMATIONS, 1906. 3195 ernment for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and niney-eight, and for other purposes,” that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify 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 ofsuch reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve ‘; And whereas, the public lands, in the State of Oregon, which are hereinafter indicated, and which include the greater portion of The Baker City Forest Reserve, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation; Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United OF°F°S'¢ ¤‘°S°"°· States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section mgm twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, entitled, "An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes," do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Oregon, shown as the Blue Mountains Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof; ‘ Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands Lands excepted. which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal · entry or covered by an lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to ,make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply · with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made. And whereas it a ars desirable that the entire area hereb re- Baker City For served should be knldgiin by one name, the title, “The Baker }City igrieautiifixninxs Forest Reserve ”, is hereby abolished, and the reservation established “°"° ““"“t““‘°d· by this proclamation shall be known as the Blue Mountains Forest Reserve. The lands heretofore within The Baker City Forest Reserve which puI,;*;,¤édg0¤;;*]j,§<;f°d *° are not hereby included within the Blue Mountains Forest Reserve but are restored to the public domain shall be open to settlement from the date hereof, but shall not be subject to entry, filing, or selection until after ninety days notice by such publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. _ Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settle- sc§|<§;e;¥<·<¤ from , ment upon the lands reserved by this proclamation. ` 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 15th day of March, in the ear of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [sam,.] six, and, of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth. Tunononm Roosrzvmxr By the President: Emun Roor Secretary of State. vox. xxxrv, rr 3--25 _