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 1976 rRocLAMAT1oNs. NOS. 13,14. P‘°°1“m““°°· And Whereas said Convention has been duly ratified on the part of His Most Faithful Majesty, official notice whereof has been receivcd by the President, Now Therefore, be it known that I, WILLIAM MGKINLEY, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority conferred by said Act of Congress, do hereby suspend during the continuance in force of said Agreement the imposition and collection of the duties mentioned in the first section of said Act and heretofore collected upon the specified articles of Portuguese origin as described in said Agreement, and do declare in place thereof the rates of duty provided in the third section of- said Act as recited in said Agreement to be in full force and eifect from and after the date of this Proclamation, of which the officers and citizens of the United States will take dueuotice. e In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be afiixed. Done at the City of Washington, this Twelfth day of June A. D. one thousand nine hundred, and of the Independence of [SEAL.] the United States of America the one hundred and twenty-fourth. WILLIAM MoK1NLEY By the President: J om: HAY Secretary of State. [No. 14.] J¤¤¢29.1900- BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. P"·’”·““’1‘°· Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, V°1‘26**’·“°3‘ 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 bearin forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part ° covered witi 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" ; \Y°l·3°·p·36· And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled, "An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal 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 whereas, the public lands in the State of Wyoming, 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 reservin said lands as a public reservation; Now, tierefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by virtue of thewpower in me vested by the aforesaid Acts of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that the boundary lines of the