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. PROCLAMATIONS, moe. 3197 and for other purposes," that “The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may t hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve ”; And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted by adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, within the State of Oregon, which are in part covered with timber; Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United or§§;§S‘;,5§§§ej,V°· States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the afore- i ` said act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do proclaim that the aforesaid Ashland Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are, accordingly, now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof; Excepting from the force and edect of this proclamation all lands Lands excepted. which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful tiling duly of record in the proper 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, filing, or settlement was made. Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settle- Segélzsuegged f¤‘¤¤¤ ment upon the lands 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 24th day of April, in the year of our Lordone thousand nine hundred and [s1=;A1..] six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth. Tuaononn Roosavmxr By the President: Enum Roor Secretary of State. BY run Pxnsimzivr or rin: Uxrrnn Smrns or JXMERICA. April jj:_g>Q_6;_ A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS, it is provided bv section twenty-four of the Act of m};¤;r·{sl¤;,¤;¤re¤¢He— Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, P,,,§,,,,,,,,,Q_ entitled, "An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other pur- van.2e,p, 1103, poses," “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory havinv public land bearin forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowt, 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 ”; I And whereas, the public lands, in the State of Utah, which are . hereinafter indicated, are in gut covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would promoted by setting apart said lands ° as a public reservation; _ Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, Ptesldent of the United Ufgrest reserve, States of America, by. virtue of the power in me vested by section a ' twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do proclaim that there