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 PROCLAMATIONS. Nos. 36, 37. 2025 Rxceptingl from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands L“¤dS°**°€P***’· which may ave been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing dul of record in the pro er United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant- to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing ofrecord has not expired: 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, filing or settlement was made. Warning is hereby expressly given to all rsons not to make set- m§j”f,Y°" fm Ser ‘ tlement upon the lands reserved by this proclldemation. 6 ` The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Madison R,Q§§,}§“di“°“ F°’°*‘ 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 16th day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two, and [s24L.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-seventh. Tmcooonm Roosmvmnr By the President: Anvmr A. Amin Acting Secretary of State. [No. 37.] BY rms Pnnsrnmzr or trim Uxrmn Srrxms or Aumuca. A¤z¤¤¢ 20.1902- A PROCLALIATION. l Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Con- {’,{;°';,”f-lm ‘ gress, approved March t ird, 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 bearin forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered wit; timber or undergrowth, w ether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public procla— mation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof"; And whereas, the following described public lands in the Territory of Alaska are in (part covered with tim er, and it appears that the public good woul be promoted by setting apart an reserving said ands as a public reservation; Now, therefore, I, Trmoooiuz ROOSEVBLT, President of the United Mgkfst *"°"°· States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of ` the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from settlement, entry or sale, and set apart as a Public Reservation, Chichagof Island and the. adjacent islands to the seaward thereof, Kupreanof Island, Kuiu Island, Zarembo Island, and Price of Wales Island and the adjacent islands to the seaward thereof, in Alaska: Provided, that this proclamation shall not be so construed as to deprive any person of any valid right possessed under the Treatv for the cession of the Russian possessions in North America to the United States, concluded at Was ington-on the thirtieth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, or