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 1068 PROCLAMATION. No. 48. [No. 48.] m,,.,,,,, mlm_ BY THE PRESIDENT on THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. • Pm•mM•. Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Conv°"°’“u°°‘ gross, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act m repeal timber-culturelaws, and for other purposes, " “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land 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 reservations and the limits thereof; " Iforest me-mm, And Whereas, the public lands in the State of California, within the °“*"°"’““· limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands a a public reservation; Now, Therefore, I, BENJAMIN HARRISON, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that 3,,,,,,,;,,.,,, there is hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of California, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows, to-wit: Beginning at the north-west corner of Township three (3) North, Range live (5) West, San Bernardino Meridian, California; thence southerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed range line between Ranges live (5) and six (6) West, to the north-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township one (1) North, Range live (5) West; thence easterly along the section line between Sections seven (7) and eighteen (18) to the western boundary of the “Rancho Muscnpiabe”; thence easterly, following the western and northern boundary of said rancho, to the point where said boundary intersects the section line between Sections nineteen (19) and thirty (30), Township one (1) North, Range three (3) West; thence easterly along the section lines to the north-east cornerof Section twenty-five(25), said townshipand range; thence southerly along the range line between Ranges two (2) and three (3) West, to the San Bernardino Base Line; thence easterly along said base line to the uorth·east corner of Section four (4), Township one (1) South, Range two (2) West, southerly along the unsurveyed and surveyed section lines to the north-east cornerof Section sixteen (16),easterly along the section lines to the north-east corner of Section thirteen (13) and southerly to the south—east corner of Section thirteen (13), all of said township and range; thence easterly to a point for the center of Township one (1) South, Range one (1) W'est; thence southerly to a point for the southwest corner of Section thirty-four (34), in said township and range; thence easterly along the surveyed and unsurveyed township line between Townships one (1) and two (2) South, to the San Bernardino Meridian; thence southerly along said meridan to the northeast corner of Township three (3) South, Range one (1) West; thence easterly through the Maronge Indian Reservation to the south-east corner of Township two (2) South, Range three (3) East; thence northerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed range line to the north-east corner of said township; thence easterly to a point for the south-east corner of Township one (1) South, Range four (4) East; thence northerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed range line between Ranges four (4) and live (5) East, to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township three (3) North, Range tour (4) East; thence westerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed section lines to the south—west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township three (3) North, Range (3) East; thence