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PROOLAMAT10Ns, 1906. 3245 BY THE PRESIDENT or THE Uxrrnn STATES or A.MERICA. N°”mb°*' 5· 1906- A PROCLAMATION. TVHEREAS, the public lands in the Territory of New Mexico, M¤gd¤*¤¤¤, Forwhich are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and €si>[i$iiiiii'ilié.N`M°x' it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation; _ And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of WL 26, ***1103* Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, "An act to repeal timber—culture laws, and for other purp0ses,” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearin forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in · part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof "; Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United NeI;,°,&$§,Q0'°s°’v°· States of America, b virtue of the power in me vested by section ` twenty-four of the afliresaid act of Congress, 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 peo le, all the tracts of ‘· land, in the Territory of New Mexico, shown as the Magdalena Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof. This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn Lands exceptedor reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered x by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or ' A claim exists. lVarning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon segfggggi Y M ¤¤ 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 aflixt. Done at the City of \Vashington this 5th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, [sEA1..] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first. Timonoms: Roosmvrzm By the President: _ Rommr Bacon Acting Secretary of State. Br THE PRESIDENT or THE Uxrrnn STATES or Azxmiucx N°"°“‘*’°' “‘°“· A PROCLAMATION . WVHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Montana, which are Reiggfgkqioggresf hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears rreaiiitie. ` that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation; _‘ _ V And 'whereas, it is provided section twenty-four of the Act of *0*-%-1*-1103- Congress, approved March thir , eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other pur- - poses,” “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or_Terr1tory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part V vox. xxxiv, rr 3——33