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 3166 - PROCLAMATIONS, 1905. october 3,1905. Br THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES or AMERICA. 1, A PROCLAMATION. ”r'§‘:‘f,°,,,Ef"°'* R°‘ WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Preamble- Congress, approved March thir, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, v°]'26'°‘u03' entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes ", “That the President of the United States may, from time time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lan s 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 Territory of Arizona, 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; _ nm? *°¤°*"°· Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United ` 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 Territory of Arizona, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:. I D¤¤¢1’iv¤¤¤l Beginning at the north-west corner of Townshi twelve (12) North, Range seven (7) East, Gila and Salt River lllderidian, Arizona; thence southerly to the south—weSt corner of Section six (6), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section . eight (8), said township; thence southerly to the south—east corner of » Section seventeen (17), said township; thence westerly to the northwest corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section nineteen (19), Township. eleven and one-half (111}) North, Range seven (7) East; thence westerly to the north—west corner of Section thirty (30), said township; · thence southerly to the south—west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township eleven (11) North. Range seven (7) East: thence easterly to the north—east corner of Section twenty-n, ine (29), said township; thence southerly to the south—west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence southerly to the southwest corner of Township eleven (11) North, Range eight (8) East: thence easterly to the north—east corner of Section five (5), Township ten (10) North, Range eight (8) East.; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section four (4). said township; thence easterlv to the north—east corner of Section nine (9), said township: thence southerly to the south—west corner of Section ten (10). said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section fourteen (14), said township: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the north·west corner of Township nine (9) North, Range eight (8) East: thence southerly, allowing for the proper offset on the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel North, to the south-west corner of Township eight (8) North, Range eight (8) East: thence easterly to the north·east corner of Section four (4), Township seven ( 7) North, Range eight (8) East; thence southerly to the south—west corner of Section thirtvfour (34), said township: thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section three (3), Township six (6) North, Range eight (8) East;