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3282 rRooLAMAT1oNs, 1907. March 1- *907- Br rms Pnmsmrzivr or mm UNrr.¤·:n S·rA·rns or Aunmce A PROCLAMATION U¤¢°¤¤¤h¤*'° WHEREAS the Uncom ah e Forest Reserve, in the State of Eiiiiiit B""ve’ Colorado, was iestablished li)y fiiroclamation dated June fourteenth, §f,$"g,f",';l°gm9_ nineteen hundred and five; _ And whereas, it a pears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the said) orest reserve certain lands, within the State of Colorado, which are in part covered with timber; V°*· 3°· P- 36- And whereas, it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved June i fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled, “An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for . the iiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety- eight, and for other purposes," that “The President is hereby authorized at an time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modi- . iication may reduce the area or change the boundary ines of such p reserve, or ma vacate altogether any order creating such reserve; " ~ m?"{_“°”’°“ °“° Now, therefbre, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the said act of Congress do proclaim that the aforesaid Uncompahgre Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are now as shown on the diagram _ forming a part hereof. V uma; excepted. Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered b any · lawful filing or selection 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; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or puerpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provid , that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or c aimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; €°¤l kms- not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and rovided that these exceptions shall not appli to any land embraced) in any selection, entry or filing, which has n allowed or permitted to remain of record sub`ect to the creation of a permanent reservation. Reserved from Vilarning is hereby given to all lpersons not to make settlement “’““"“"”*· upon the lands reserved by this proc amation, IN WITNESS WVHE EOF, I have hereunto set my hand and I caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of lVashington this lst day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [sean.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first. Tnnononn Roosnvmir By the President: ELIHU Roo·r Secretary of State.