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 896 PROCLAMATIONS. NGS. 20, 21. the range line to the north-east corner of said township; thence easterly along the surveyed and unsurveyed township line between Townships two (2) and three (3) North, to its point of intersection with the Green River; thence in a southeasterly direction along the middle of the channel of said river to the point for the unsurveyed range line between Ranges twenty-two (22) and twenty-three (23) East; thence southerly along the unsurveyed and surveyed range line between said ranges to the point for the south-east corner of Township two (2) South, Range twenty-two (22) East; thence westerly along the unsurveyed and surveyed township line between Townships two (2) and three (3) South, to the north-west corner of Township three (3) South, Range nineteen (19) East; thence southerly along the west boundary of said township to its intersection with the east boundary of the Uintah Indian Reservation; thence northwesterly along said Indian reservation boundary to the north-east corner of said reservation; thence southwesterly along the north boundary of said Indian reservation to the intersection therewith by the range line between Ranges six (6) and seven (7) East; thence northerly along said range line, surveyed and unsurveyed, to the north-west corner of Township one (1) South, Range seven (7) East, the place of beginning. . Prior valid entries Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands °X°°Pt°d‘ which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and all mining claims duly located and held according to the laws of the United States and rules and regulations not in conilict therewith; Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, settlement or location was made. mfeggvsd from M- Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to enter or make msettlement upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation. 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 \Vashington this 22d day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and ninetyseven, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-iirst. GROVER CLEVELAND By the President: Rrcinnn OLNEY Secretary of State. [No. 21.] Fcbruary22.197. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. $,;<;¤?$b1·>-Hoa Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, ' ’P`approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, 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 iorests, 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 ";