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 1052 PROCLAMATION. No. 39. [No. 39.] Memwr 24-1892- BY THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES or Amnmca. A PROCLAMATION. rmmtie. Whereas, it is provided by Section 24, of the Act of Congress, ap- V°" 2°· *‘· “°°· proved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An Act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purp0ses"; that “The President of the United States may irom time to time set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public lands bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly, or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations- and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservation, and the limits thereof." And whereas, it is provided by Section 14, of said above mentioned Act, that the public lands in the Territory of Alaska, reserved for public purposes, shall not be subject to occupation and sale. And whereas, the public lands in the Territory of Alaska, known as Afognak Island, are in part covered with timber, and are required for public purposes, in order that salmon fisheries in the waters of the Island, and salmon and other tish and sea animals, and other animals and birds, and the timber, undergrowth, grass, moss and other growth in, on and about said Island may be protected and preserved unimpaired, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation. And whereas, the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries has selected Afognak Bay, River and Lake, with their tributary streams, and the sources thereof, and the lands including the same on said Afognak Island, and within one mile from the shores thereof, as a reserve for the purpose of establishing fish culture stations, and the use of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, the boundary lines of which include the head springs of the tributaries above mentioned, and the lands, the drainage of which is into the same. Jgmrgg ¤¤*E- Now, therefore, I, BENJAMIN Huuuson, President of the United n. °°’ States, by virtue of the power in me vested by Sections 24 and 14, of the aforesaid Act of Congress, and by other laws of the United States, do reserve and do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby mgfgggmljggd rv- reserved from occupation and sale, and set apart as a Public Reserva- ‘ tion, including use for iish culture stations, said Afognak Island, Alaska and its adjacent bays and rocks and territorial waters, includ- ""”’*°· ing among others the Sea Lion Rocks, and Sea Otter Island: Provided, That this proclamation shall not be so construed as to deprive any B¤¤¤¤d¤i¤¤¤bi¤=¤¤- bona iide inhabitant of said Island of any valid right he may possess under the Treaty for the ce sion of the Russian possessions in North America to theUnited States, concluded at Washington, on the thirtieth dayvof March, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. mfmngpot to en- arning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to enter upon, to uq,,,;, "°"°“' or to occupy, the tract or tracts of land or waters reserved by this proclamation, or to iish in, or use any of the waters herein described or mentioned, and that all persons or corporations now occupying said Island, or any of said premises, except under said Treaty, shall depart therefrom. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this Twenty-fourth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and [SEAL.] ninety- two, and of the Independence of the United States, the one hundred and sixteenth. _ mxJ. Humrson. By the President. J om: W. Fosrnn, Secretary of State.