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. PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2687 Br rmt Pnmsmnur or rm: Uiwrmn Srrarns or Aumuca _ AP¥"2l»l9!0· A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, an Executive Order dated July second, nineteen afjg? N•¤¤¤¤¤ Fwhundred aud eight, directed that the Huachuca, Tumacacori, and linnmbb. Baboquivari National Forests be consolidated under the name of the Garces National Forest; _ _ And whereas it ap%ars that the public good will be promoted by adding to the (ilarces ational Forest certam lands within the Temtory of Arizona, which are in (part covered with timber, and by excludinghtherefrom certain lan ; Nqw, erefore, I, William H. Taft, President of the United States ¤£°¤¤d¤**¤ ¤¤°diof America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Con- v51.s4,p.aa gress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled, ‘An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other }iprposes", do proclaim that the boundaries of the Garces National orest are hereby changed and that they are now as shown on the two parts of the diagram forming a art hereof. The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands fg Helm M ¤f- which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land ' laws or reserved for any public Blpu se, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat leg jixts under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such lpublic purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is egally maintained, or such reservation remains in force. This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of $g,'f°,f,';*¤'mm“ any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act ` of Cortilgress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitle , "An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands _ within forest reserves". The lands hereby eliminated from the Garces National Forest pu'g{{g°g°m':•,_$f'°° *° which are not embraced in withdrawals for administrative sites for use in the management of the Forest, or in any other reservation, or appropriation, s all be restored to the public domain and become su ject to settlement under the general provisions of the homestead laws on such date and after such notice gaHl1bllC&l}l0I1 as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, but s not become subject to entry, film? selection, or other form of ggpropriation until the exp? ration of t 1rty days from the date so ed, and no (person will e permitted to gain or exercise any right whatever un er any settlement or occupation begun prior to such date, and all such settlement and océzppation are hereby forbidden. IN TNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seaI?p]f the United States to be ailixed. Done at the `ty of Washington this 21st day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ten, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-foU1'th. - Wu H Tam By the President: P C Knox Secretary of Stale.