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 2996 PROCLAMATIONS, 1905. lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President ' shall, by public roclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof "; V<>1.30.n.36. And whereas, it is further provided by the not 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 "t e President is hereby authorized at any time to modify) any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made esta lishing 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, it appears that the public good would be promoted by releasing and excluding certain lands from the said forest reserve; m§°¤¤d%'*°¤ ¤°°i· Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United ` States, by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do hereby make known and proclaim that the boundary lines of the aforesaid Madison Forest Reserve are hereby modified so as to read as follows: De,cmm,,,_ Beginning at the point where the western boundary of the Yellow- , stone 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 its intersection with the range line between Ranges one (1) and two (2) East; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Township thirteen (13) South, Range one (1) East; thence westerly to the south—west corner of said townshi ; thence northerly to the south—east corner of Township twelve (12g South, Range one (1) West; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Township twelve (12) South, Range six (6) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township twelve (12) South, Range five (5) \Vest; thence northerly, allowing for the · proper offset on the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel South, to the ` north-west corner of Township ten (10) South, Range four (4) \Vest; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township nine (9) South, Range four (4) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence easterly to the south—east corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence northerly to the north—west corner of Section thirty (30), Township seven (7) South, Range three (3) \Vest; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence southerly to the south—east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence southerly to the south—east corner of said township; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Township eight 48) South, Range one (1) \Vest; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence easterly to the south—east corner of said township; thence southerly along the Principal Meridian to its intersection with the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel South; thence easterly along said parallel to its intersectionwith 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 o Montana and Idaho, the place of beginning; such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions