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 3198 PROCLAMATIONS, 1906. ` are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and beneBt of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Utah, shown as the Vernon Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof; _ ‘ L¤¤d° °¤°°P*°d· Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal ° entry or covered by ang lawful filing duly of record in the proper » United States Land O ce, or upon which any valid settlement has A been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or Bling of record has not expired: !)7‘0?}’ld€d, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any_part1cular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, Bling, or settlement was made. Reserved f¤‘¤¤¤ Warning is hereby expressl given to all persons not to make settle- °°m°m°°t’ ment u n the lands reserved, by this proclamation. . l IN $l[TNESS `WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. _ Done at the City of Washington this 2¤¤¤¤¤¤ WHEREAS, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of fiilizit Rcserm Ne Con ess, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, $§`,§"§lfl§j 1103_ entigllad, "An act to repeal timber—culture laws, and for other purposes ", “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territorv havin public · land bearin forests, in any part of the public lands whollly or in part covered with timber or undergrowtli), whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public roclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof ”; And whereas, the public lands, in the State of Nevada, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation; N§‘Q§{,°;‘ "°""°· Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Nevada, shown as the Ruby Mountains Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof; L'“‘d“ °‘°°p'°d- Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful Bling 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 Bling 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.