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I>nooLAMAT1oNs, 1906. 3249 - part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public progapfatioipéleclare the establishment of such reservations and the 1mi s iereo ; Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United NY"°§°S.* '°$°"°· States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section yew mm twenty-four of the aforesaid 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 people, all the tracts of land, in the Territory of New Mexcio, shown as the Peloncillo Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof. This proclamation will not take eiliect upon any lands withdrawn Lands excepted. 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. Warning is hereby given to ail persons not to make settlement Ffservvgi from upon the lands reserved by this proclamation. S° themu ` 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 Washington this 5th day of November, 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. - A TI1EonoRE ROOSEVELT ` By the President: ‘ Roenncr BACON V ‘ Acting Secretary of State. BY THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES or AIHERICA November 5- 1996- A PROCLAMATION WVHEREAS, the public lands in the Territory of New Mexico, mSQg,sQ;¥@g°§,_§g;· which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, andi i it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a pub IC reservation; _ _ 0 _ And whereas, It isxprovided by section twenty-four of the Act of ""··“· "· “°·‘· Congress, approved I arch third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, "An act to repeal timber—culture laws, and for other purposes," “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 art of the public lands wholly or in part covered wigi timber or undbrgrowth, 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 N§,°)§g;,f,0}‘°S°"*~ 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 Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the Territory of New Mexico, shown as the San Mateo Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof. . This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn Lands ¤¤¤¤·I>¤=¤· or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered