Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 34 Part 3.djvu/293

 1>RocLAMAT1oNs, 1905. 3131 IN WVITNESS WVHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be afiixed. Done at the City of Washington this 22d day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and live and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth. IIHEODORE Roosiazvnur By the President:. ALVEY A. Aman Acting Secretary of State. BY THE Pansinnnr or THE UNITED STATES or AM1·;1ucA. -T¤iy25.1905. A PROCLAMATION. VVHTEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Con- _G¤rde¤ Ciligv Forgress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety—0ne, enti— ° i»§§,S§.i,l§f °°°‘ tled, "An act to repeal timber—culture laws, and for other purposes ", V°*· 2** P- u°3· " 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, eclare the establishment of such reservations and) the limits thereof "; ~ And whereas, the public lands in the State of Kansas, within the limits hereinafter described, are in art covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would ge promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation; Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United Kai;g;s°¤* 1'°¤°"°· 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 a.s a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, {pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Kansas, and within the 1 boundaries particularly described as follows: Beginning at the north-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), D‘*¤°*‘*P**°¤· Township twenty-four (24) South. Range thirty-three (33) West, Sixth (6th) Princi al Meridian, Kansas; thence southerly to the north-west corner ofp Section twelve (12). Township twenty—3ve (25) South, Range thirty-three (33) \Vest; thence easterly to the northeast corner of said section; thence southerlv to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the s0uth—west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty- two (22), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33). said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section five (5), Township twenty-six (26) South. Range thirty-three (33) )Vest; thence southerly to the south—east corner of Section seven (7), said township: thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township twenty-six (26) South, Range thirty-four (34) \Vest; thence westerly to the north—west corner of