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";
Forest reserve, Montana. Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a A Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Montana, shown as the Long Pine Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof.
Lands excepted. This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists.
Reserved from settlement. Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserve by this proclamation.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt.
Done at the City of Washington this 24 day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first.
By the President:
- Alvey A. Adee
- Acting Secretary of State.
September 24, 1906.
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By the President of the United States of America.
A PROCLAMATION.
Devils Tower National Monument, Wyo.
Preamble.
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Whereas, It is provided by section two of the Act of Congress approved
June 8, 1906. entitled, "An Act for the preservation of
American Antiquities," “That the President of the United States is
hereby authorized, in his discretion, to declare by public proclamation
historic land marks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other
objects of historic or scientific interest that are situated upon the
lands owned or controlled by the Government of the United States
to be National Monuments, and may reserve as a part thereof parcels
of land, the limits of which in all cases shall be confined to the
smallest area compatible with the proper care and management of
the object to be protected; "
And, whereas, the lofty and isolated rock in the State of Wyoming, known as the “Devils Tower," situated upon the public lands owned and controlled by the United States is such an extraordinary example of the effect of erosion in the higher mountains to be a natural wonder and an object of historic and great scientific interest and it appears that the public good would be promoted by reserving this tower as a National monument with as much land as may be necessary for the proper protection thereof:
National monument, Wyoming. Now, therefore, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America. by virtue of the power in me vested by section two of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby set aside as the Devils Tower National Monument, the lofty and isolated rock situated in Crook County, Wyoming, more particularly located and described as follows, towit:
