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 PROCLAMATIONS. Nos. 23, 24. Q01 In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused theseal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this 22d day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and ninety-" (SEAL.] seven, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-nrst. Gnovmz CLEVELAND By the President: Brennan Ommr Secretary of State. [No. 24.] BY rim Pnnsrnrmcr or rm: Umrnn Srsrns or Ammucs. ‘ rsnmqzrnm. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, itis provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, rnmm. approved March third,eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An v°"°*““°°· 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 Y, 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"; And whereas, the public lands in the State of \Vashington, 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 as a public reservation; Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, Forest msnsmu, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the afore- w""“""’“· said Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that 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 Washiirgton, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows, to-wit: Beginning at the south-east corner ofTownship twenty-one (21) North, Boundaries. Range five(5) West, Willamette Base and Meridian, Washington ; thence northerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed range line between Ranges four (4)·and five (5) West, to the point for the north-cast corner of Township twenty-three (23) North, Range five (15) West; thence easterly along the unsurveyed and surveyed township ine to the point for the southeast corner of Township twenty-four (24) North, Range four (4) West; thence northerly along the unsurveyed range line to the point for the north-east corner of said township; thence easterly along the unsurveyed and surveyed Sixth (6th ) Standard Parallel North, to the south-east corner of Township twenty-five (25) North, Range three (3) West; thence northerly alou g the surveyed and unsurveyed range line between Ranges two (2) and three (3) West, to the north-east corner of Township twenty- nine (29) North, Range three (3) West; thence westerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed Seventh (7th) Standard Parallel North, to the point for the southeast corner of Township thirty (30) North, Range nine (9) West; thence northerly along the unsurveyed and surveyed range line to the north-east corner of said township; thence westerly along the township line between Townships thirty (30) and thirty-one (31) North, to the north-east corner of Township thirty (30) North, Range fourteen (14) West; thence northerly along the range line to its intersection with the shore of the Strait of Juan de Fuca; thence