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 2024 1>RocLAMAT1oNs. Ne. ze. [N0. 36.] A¤K¤S*16·1°°’· BY mma PRESIDENT or rim Uivrrao STATES or Ammucs. A PROCLAMATION. \0]` 2G' 1mm` gress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, 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 bearing forests, in any part of e public lands wholly or in part covered wit timber or under owth, whether of commercial value or not, as dpublic re ervations, anddzhe President shall, by public proclamation, eclare the establishment of such reservations and) the limits thereof"; And whereas, the public lands in the State of Montana, 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; Mg;;?;; *°¤·"°· Now, therefore, I, Tumononn Roosnvmzr, President of the United ` States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby ma e 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 l ing and being situate in the State of Montana, and within the boundyaries particularly described as follows, to wit: B°“°""·'*°'* Beginning at the point where the western boundary of the Yellowstone National Park intersects the boundary line between the States of Montana and Idaho; thence in a general north-westerly and southwesterly direction along said state boundary line to the point for its intersection with the range line between Ranges one (1) and two (2) East; thence northerly alongrthe unsurveyed ran e line to the point for the southeast corner of ownshi thirteen (13% South, Range one (1) East; thence westerly to the south—west corner of said township; thence northerly to the south—east corner of Township twelve (12) South, Range one (1) West; thence westerly alon the township line to the south-east corner of Township twelve (12) South, Ran six (6) West; thence northerly to the north-cast corner of said 'lgnewnship; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of Township twelve (12) South, Range five (5) West; thence northerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed range lane, allowing for the proper offset on the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel South, to the north·west corner of Township ten (10) South, Range four (-1) West; thence easterly to the southeast corner of Section thirty-three (33), Townshi nine (9) South, Range four (4) ¥Vest; thence northerly to the north)—west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence easterly to the southeast corner of Section twelve (12), said townshi ; thence northerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed range line to the north-west corner of Township seven (7) South, Range three (3) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence easterl to the nortl1—west corner of Township eight (8) South, Range one (1) {Vest; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence easter] to the south-east corner of said township; thence southerly alon tlie Principal Meridian to its intersection with the Second (2mg Standard Parallel South; thence easterly along said surveyed and unsurveyed parallel to the point for its intersection with the western boundary of the Yellowstone National Park; thence southerly along the western boundary of said park to its intersection with the boundary line between the States of Montana and Idaho. the place of beginning.
 * Z’°”“'°*°· Vlrhereas, it is rovided b * section twenty-four of the Act of Con-