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 PBOCLAMATIONS. Nos. 3, 4. 1025 had no claim or color of title made or acquired in good faith, or an asserted right thereto by or under claim made in good faith with a view to entry thereof at the proper land office, and which statute also prohibited any person, by force, threats, intimidation or by any fencing or inclosure or other unlawful means, from preventing or obstructing any person from peaceably entering upon, or establishing a settlement or residence on, any tract of public land, subject to settlement or entry under the public land laws of the United States, and from preventing or obstructing tree passage and transit over or through the public lands : And whereas, it is by the fifth section of said act provided as follows: “ That the President is hereby authorized to take such means as shall be necessary to remove and destroy any unlawful inclosure of any of said lands, and to employ civil or military force as may be necessary for that purpose! · And whereas, it has been brought to my knowledge that unlawful inclosures, and such as are prohibited by the terms of the aforesaid statute, exist upon the public domain, and that actual legal settlement thereon is prevented and obstructed by such inclosures and by force, threats and intimidation, Now therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, do hereby order and direct that any and every unlawful inclosure of U¤l¤Wf¤1_i¤<>l<>¤· the public lands, maintained by any person, association or corporation, ;1,'§,;if;gh°1"““ be immediately removed; and I do hereby forbid any person, associa- ' tion or corporation, from preventing or obstructing by means of such inclosures or by force, threats or intimidation, any person entitled thereto, irom peaceably entering upon and establishing a settlement or residence on any part of such public land which is subject to entry and settlement under the laws of the United States. And I command and require each and every officer of the United States, upon whom the duty is legally devolved, to cause this order to be obeyed, and all the provisions of the act of Congress herein mentioned to be faithfully enforced. ‘ In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be amxed. Done at the City of Washington this seventh day of August, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, and of the Inde- [U' S' SEAL'] pendence of the United States of America the one hundred and tenth. GBOVER CLEVELAND. By the President: T. F. Bavlmn, Secretary of State. No. 4. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF nmmca, s,,,,,,,,,,;,,, 9'lE_ A PROOLAMATION. Whereas satisfactory evidence has been received by me that upon preamble, vessel of the United States arriving at the port of Boca del Toro, United States of Colombia, no duty is imposed by the ton as tonnage tax or as light money, and that no other equivalent tax on vessels of the United States is imposed at said port by the Colombian Government, and whereas by the provisions of section fourteen of an Act ap- v01_ g;;,p_51_ proved June 26th 1884, “to remove certain burdens on the American merchant marine and encourage the American foreign carrying trade, and for other purposes” the President of the United States is authorized to suspend the collection in ports of the United States from vessrar L-von xxrv-65