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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1905. 3147 BY THE PaEsmEN·r or THE Uxrrnn STATES or AMERICA. ,9§§P*°ml"’” 25· A PROCLAMATION. WVHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the act of S€£;‘i§tE§f°St R°` Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, Preamble- _ entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other pur- V°l'26’p'110`l' poses ", “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 State of Utah, within the E 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; Now therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United Ut§g'°“* "“°"'°» States, b 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 State of Utah, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows: A Beginnin at the north—east corner of Section seventeen (17), D¢=¢¤‘i1>’¢i¤¤· Township tiirty-eight (38) South, Range thirteen (13) West, Salt ~ Lake Meridian, Utah; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence easterly to the northeast corner of Township thirty-nine (39) South, Range thirteen (13). ` YVest; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township forty (40) South, Range thirteen (13) )Vest; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Township fort (40) South, Range fourteen (14) )Vest; thence westerly along the highth (8th) Standard Parallel South, allowing for the proper offset, to the south-west corner of Township forty (40) South, Range sixteen ( 16) WVest; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence westerly to the boundary line between the States of Nevada and Utah; thence northerly along said state boundary line to the township line between Townships thirty-six (36) and thirty- seven  South; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township thirty-seven (37) South, Range nineteen (19) \Vest; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township thirty-seven (37) South, Range eighteen (18) )Vest; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township thirty-seven (37 ) South, Range sixteen (16) \Vest; thence southerly to the south·west corner of Township thirty-seven (37) South, Range fifteen (15) WVest; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township thirty-eight (38) South. Range fourteen (14) Wlest; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section eighteen ( 18), Township thirty-eight (38) South, Range thirteen (13) )Vest; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section seventeen 17), said township. 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