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 3010 rRocLAMAT1oNs, 1905. 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 of record 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, tiling or settlement was made. “°“‘ IVarning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation. · IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aiiixed. Done at the City of Washington this 6th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and five, and of [sun.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth. (_ Tunonoizn Roosnvnm By the President: . FnANc1s B. Loomis · Acting Secretary of State. . M¤v12,19°5· BY THE PRESIDENT or THE U NITED STATES or AMERIGA. A PROCLAMATION. . Tm wemma Fm-- WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Con- 3% §F:§{Y°· °“’g‘ gress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-—one, enti- {,’r;>¤&!>1•·· 1103 tled, "An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes ", pliiéz, ;3.pe27a.` “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 the public 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 proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof "; And whereas, the public lands in the States of Oregon and \Vashington, 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; Forest reserve. Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt. President of the United g”§§§°,,'T md wm" 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 entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the States of Oregon and WVashington, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows: Description. Beginning at the north—west corner of Township nine (9) North, Range forty-one (41) East, Willamette Meridian, \Vashington; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Township nine (9) North, Range forty-three (43) East; thence southerly to the south—west corner of Section seven (T). said township; thence easterly to the southeast corner of said section: thence northerly to the noi·th—east corner of said section: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township: thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (SG). said township: thence westerlv to the north-west corner of said section: thence southerlv to the south-west corner of said section: thence easterly along the Second ('Qnd) Standard Parallel North to the north—east corner of Section six(t5) ,Township