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 3044 raoo1sAMAT1oNs, 1905. (6th) Principal Meridian. lVyoming; thence westerly to the southwest corner of said township; thence northerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the Fourth (4th) Standard Parallel North, to the north—west corner of Township seventeen (17) North, Range ei<rhty-one (81) West the placefof beginning- L¤¤d¤ excepted- Excepgng from the force and effect of thi; proclaination all lands ‘ which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement l1as 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 pnless tihe entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the aw un er which the entry filing or settlement was made. f " ° m Warning is hereby expreissly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation. IN WITNESS WVHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal. of the United States to aflixed. Done at the City of Washington this 17th day of May, in the _ year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and five, . [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth. ' ’ T. Roosnvuixr By the President: F. B. Loomrs Acting Secretary of State. MW 22·19°5· BY THE iPRESIDENT or THE [INITEU STATES or AMr:moA., 1 A PROCLAMATION. Fffg £“‘§‘Q,B§,‘{,‘§ Whereas, The Bitter Root Forest Reserve, in_ the States of Idaho 1<1¤b¤ ¤¤d M•>¤*· and Montana, was established by roclamation dated Februar Preamble. . 5) . y V0l;__29. g. $00; twenty-second, eighteen hundred an nmety-seven, under and by V‘{};,,j’§gi*},_j%§; virtue of section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, "An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes ", which provides, " 'I hat the Presideiitof the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, IH any State or Territory having public land bearing forfts, itne any pagt of thtil public lands wholly or in part covered wit tim r or un ererowt whether of commercial value or not. as public reservations, ahd the ’President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof ”; V°‘·3°·¥’·36· And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress. ap- ’ proved June fourth, eigliteen 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 " the President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lint? of such’ reserye. OI};l·f§121}’ vacate altogether any order creating A suc reserve ’ ; unc er w 1C 1 provision the boundary lines of the said V¤¥·33»D·i’373· forest reserve were changed and the area reduced by proclamation dated June fourteenth, nineteen hundred and four: And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted