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 · PROCLAMATIONS, 1906. 3233 Forest Reserve is hereby established in place thereof, with boundaries as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof. This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or Laude excepted. reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists. Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon Reserved f r 0 m the lands reserved by this proclamation. A s°m°m°°t‘ IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aiiixt. Done at the City of lVashington this 17th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, [sean.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first. l Tnnooonn Roosnvmzr By the President: • Anvnr A. Aman { ‘ Acting Secretary of State. BY mm Pizmsmrnnrr or mem Uivitrnn Swans or Ammuca. A PROCLAMATION. VVhereas, Section two of the Act of June 5, 1906, (34 Stats., 213), agf,*‘j;'¤·c,§g¤;;g§;¤: directed that the four hundred and eighty thousand acres of grazing neserviiixom, omg. lands heretofore selected and set apart by the Secretary of the Inte- ,,,,3* §,`f,,‘§,f° 'md rior in the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indian Reservations, in §*‘°,*;¤¤*>*¢£,13 the Territory of Oklahoma, for the use in common of certain Indian ” ’ p' ` tribes, pursuant to Article three of Section six of the Act of Congress,. approved June 6, 1900, entitled, "An Act to ratify and confirm Vei- 31- P- 677- an agreement with the Indians of the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, in Idaho; ” and the twenty-five thousand acres of land heretofore set apart by the Secretary of the Interior as a wood reservation in said Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indian Reservations, ` " shall be opened to settlement by proclamation of the President of the United States within six months from the passage of this Act, ` and be disposed of upon sealed bids or at public auction, at the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, to the highest bidder under the provisions of the homestead laws of the Unite States, and under the rules and regulations adopted by the Secretary of the Interior ”; And, whereas, by Section six of said Act of June 5, 1906, it was Ame, p. 214. declared that certain ortions of said four hundred and eighty thousand acres of land slilould be allotted to certain Indians described therein; and by the Act of June 28, 1906 (34 Stats., 550), it was fur- *****6- ¥*· 550- ther declared that certain other portions of said four hundred and_ eighty thousand acres of land should be sold to certain lessees thereof: And, whereas, under the Act approved March 20, 1906 (34 Stats. Town mes. em. 80), authorizing the establishment of townsites and the sale of lots A”'”· *’· 8°· within said four hundred and eighty thousand acres of land, the Secretary of the Interior was authorized to set aside and reserve such lands as he may deem necessary for the establishment of townsites· Ndw, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United 0 glggciiluigyst *;:,1; States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the said sgnieugenc. Act of Congress, approved June 5, 1906, do hereby declare and make known that all of said four hundred and eighty thousand acres of land, except such portions thereof as may be allotted, sold or reserved in the manner prescribed in said Acts of Congress, and all of said