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 PROCLAMATIONS. Nos. 19, 20. 1783 Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands PPM *=·¤·1 ¤¤*¤¤¤ which may have been, prior to the date hereoi embraced in any legal °x°°pt°d' entry or covered by any lawful Bling duly of record in the proper United States Land Onice, 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 conflict 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, Bling, settlement or location was made. Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to enter or B,,.,,,,; f,,,,,, ,,,. make settlement 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 ailixed. . _ Done at the City of Washington this seventeenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and ninety- [san.] eight, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-third. ` Wmmm MCKINLEY By the President: ‘ J. B. Moomz, Acting Secretary of State. [No. 20.} BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. g,Pmmm1g_1m_ A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, rmmme. approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, *¢An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” ·‘That the vera, Irma, 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 ”; And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved A•»¢•.r-¤¢- June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled, ••An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the tiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety- eight, and for other purposes ”, that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”;. And wherea, the public lands in the States of South Dakota and NVyoming, within the limit 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, William McKinley, President of the United States, S0{"}{,j°°°D§{*:tf*§gj, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid Acts of Congress, Wyman;. do hereby make known and proclaim that the boundary lines of the Forest Reservation in the State of South Dakota, known as •‘ The Black Hills Forest Reserve ”, created by proclamation of February vo1.z¤,p.¤u2. twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, are hereby so changed and enlarged as to include all those certain tracts. pieces or