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 r1i0eLAMA*r10Ns. Nos 16 17. 1995 Section twenty-eight (28), said township- thence northerly to the _ south-west corner of Section Bfteen (15), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the northeast corner of Section ten (10), said township, the place of be innin¤·. Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation Ell lands Buds °¤°°P*°d· which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered bg ang lawful Bling duly of record in the pro r United States Lan O ce, or upon which any valid settlement hss been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or Bling of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to a ply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or ciaimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, Bling or settlement was made. Warning is hereby expressly given to all rsons not to make set- ,,gn°;;*2'°d "°’¤ ¤°*· tlement upon the lands reserved by this proeEmation. The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Niobrara afgggmm FM- Forest Reserve._ _ ` In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the · seal of the United States to be aflixed. _ Done at the City of Washington this 16th da of A ril, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two and of the [sun..] Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-si;th._ Tnmonoam Roosnvam By the President: _ _ _ ‘ Jomr Har ‘ Secretary of State. f [No. 17.] _ BY Trim Pxmsrnnur or mn Umrmo Srarms or Anmizfca. Ax>r¤1¤.1W& A PROCLAMATION. _ Vi/hereas, it is rovided b section twenty-four of the Act of Con- li*°•·¤P'*'°· gress, approved ldarch third? eighteen hundred and ninety-one, enti- WL ”'P'um` tled, "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 aving public land bearing forests, in any part of the plublic lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, w ether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by (public proclamation; declare the establishment of such reservations an the limits tbereof"; And whereas, the public lands in the State of Nebraska, 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, Theodore Roosevelt. President of the United Forest reserve, No States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of b"”k°` the aforesaid 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 living and being situate in the State of Nebraska and within the boum aries particularly described as follows, to wit: Beginning at the north-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), B<>¤¤d¤'l¤¤· Township twenty-two (22) North, Range twenty-tive (25) West, Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian, Nebraska; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence northerly to the