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2738 PROGLAMATIONS, 1910. WHEREAS it ap ears that the public good will be promoted by adding to the Kaibali National Forest certain lands within the Territory of Arizona which are in part covered with timber, and by el1m1- nating from said Forest certain lands; _ _ $g}‘¤3*},“*;°¤3{,”°d*°°d· Now, therefore, I, William H. Taft, President of the United States ` ` of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and mnety-seven, entitled "An Act Making] a propriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the Escal year ending June thirtieth, eig teen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other pulréposes/’ do_ proclaim that the boundaries of the Kaibab National orest are hereby changed and that they are now as shown on the diagram formin a part hereof. Prkir rights mt ¤f· The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands t°°t°d` which are at this date le a y appropriated under the dpublic land laws · or reserved for any public plurpose, be subject to an shall not interfere with or defeat le al rig ts under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such pppropriation is egally maintained or such reservation remains in orce. \»}sfiqg¤¢¤¤2g,3¤¤¤¤¤· This roclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of ° " ’ p` any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress a proved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled "An Act Tg provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves." Iéejadg rggervd ¢¤ The lands hereby eliminated fron the Kaibab National Forest which Pu °m are not embraced in withdrawals for administrative sites for use in the ` management of the Forest, or in any other reservation or appropriation, shall be restored to the public domain and become suliject to settlement under the general provisions of the homestead laws on such date and after such notice by publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, but shall not become subject to entry, filing, selection, or other form of appropriation until the expiration of thirt ,,,d,m¤,,y ,,,,0,,, days from the date so fixed, except that on the same date as the land; ¤¤¤·=i¤•=l¤¤¤¤¤¤- eliminated become subject to settlement, the Territory of Arizona may, if the lands eliminated are subject to such selection, select as indemnity in the satisfaction of its common school grant, not to exceed two sections of land in each entire township restored, or one section in each fractional portion of a township where the restored area thereof exceeds five thousand (5,000) acres, and no rson will be permitted to acquire or exercise any right whatever until; any settle- ‘ ment or occupanply bigup pgiplxé to suc date, and all such settlement or occupation is ere y or 1 en. §:{*§5¥=¢:;¤ém mz It is not intended by this proclamation to modify the proclamations ’ ’ heretofore issued establishing the Grand Canyon National Game Freserve and the Grand Canyon National Monument both of which ppclucize lands embraced in the boundaries of the Kaibab National ores . IN WITNESS WHEIQEOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the Citygf Washington this 23d day of August, in the year of our rd one thousandnine hundred and ten, and of the [SEAL.] Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-fifth. Wu H Tnrr By thegresidentz W Uxrxxerou ILSON _ Acting Secretary ofStatc.