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2182 PROCLAMATION S, 1908. eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other pu1;poses,” do proclaim that the aforesaid proclamation is hereby mo ified and that the boundaries of the aforesaid Lincoln National Forest are hereby changed to exclude therefrom such lands, and are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof. _ _ _ ugggdgoggggfed ¤> The lands hereby excluded from the Lincoln National Forest which Dare not embraced in other withdrawals, including withdrawals for administrative sites for use in the management of the Forest, or which are not embraced in any other reservation, or appropriation, shall be restored to the public domain and become subject to settlement under the general provisions of the homestead laws on such date and after such notice b publication as the Secretary of the Interior may rescribe, but shallynot become subject to entry, filing, selection, or other form of appropriation until the expiration of thirty days from the date so fixed, and no rson wiH be permitted to gain or exercise any right whatever undg; any settlement or occupation begun prior to such date, and all such settlement and occupation are hemrby forbidden. b H . k 1 B¢¤¢¤‘*¢¤ f Mm arnin is here y 'ven to a persons not to ma e sett ement u n °°m°m°°f any of the lands in §e National Forest as reduced by this procplinvon. 24, p. 233. mation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of _ the Interior under the Act of Con ess, a proved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, "g Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves." IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be ailixed. · Done at the City of Washington this 3rd day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, and [snr,.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second. Tnmonoxm Roosmvmm By the President: Romznr Bacon Acting Secretary of State. mu-cn c, mos. Br rm: Pnmsrnnnr or me Umrnn Srrxms or Aumuca A PROCLAMATION Fo¢_}:;rkA“N¤¢¤¤¤¤! WHEREAS, the (public lands in the State of Arkansas, which are rnimuni hereinafter indicate , are in part covered with timber, and it a pears that the public good would be promoted by utilizing said lands as a National Forest; A xyammax mm. Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United rVblls2?g;p.1103. States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, "An Act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from settlement or entry and set apart as a public reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of) land, in the State 1>m,p.2zsa. of Arkansas, shown as the Ozark National Forest on the diagram forming a part hereof; I•¤¤¤ ¤¤¤¤¤¢¢¢ Excepting from the force and effect of this roclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal) entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made