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 1982 PROCLAMATIONS. Nos. 17, 18. ,,§§§$,QY°d *'°”* °°*‘ Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the tract of land reserved by this roclamation. m§‘;,*§m0 of ’°’*°"”*· The reservation hereby established shall he known as The Crow Creek Forest Reserve. \ 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 Washington this 10th day of Oct., in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred, and of the Inde- [SEAL.] fpgrildence of the United States the one hundred and twenty- t . WILLIAM MCKLNLEY By the President: . J 0HN HAY Secretary of State. [No. 18.] 00*006* 20-1000- A PROCLAMATION. O ~ T 0 the People of the Matted States: m§§f*"h of ·’°h“ Sim" In the fullness of years and honors, John Sherman, lately Secretary of State, has passed away. Few among our citizens have risen to greater or more deserved eminence in the national councils than he. The story of his public life and services is as it were the history of the country for half a century. In the Congress of the United States he ranked among the foremost in the House, and later in the Senate. He was twice a member of the Executive Cabinet, first as Secretary of the Treasury, and afterwards as Secretary of State. Whether in debate during the dark hours of our civil war, or as the director of the country’s finances during the period of rehabilitation, or as a trusted councillor in framing the nation’s laws for over forty years, or as the exponent of its foreign policy, his course was ever marked by devotion to the best interests of his beloved land, and by able and conscientious effort to uphold its dignity and honor. His countrymen will long revere his memory and see in him a type of the patriotism, the uprightness and the zeal that go to moulding and strengthening a nation. In iittin expression of the sense of bereavement that afilicts the Republic,T direct that on the day of the funeral the Executive Offices of the United States dis lay the national ilag at half mast and that the representatives of the Uifiited States in foreign countries shall pay in like (ganner appropriate tribute to the illustrious dead for a period' of ten s. Doni at the City of Washington, this 22nd day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand and nine hundred and of the [SEAL.] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and twenty-fifth. WILLIAM MCKINLEY By the President: L J om: HAY Secretary of State.