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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1906, 1907. 3267 to locate or settle upon any of the lands reserved and made a part of said monument by this proclamation. IN WVITNESS IVHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of \Vashington, this 8th day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six [sun.] and the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first. S ‘ Tmszonomz Roosnvnur By the President: Emnn ROOT Secretary of State. Br THE Pmzsronxr or THE Uivrrnn STATES or Aivmrucx -T¤¤¤¤ry 15. 1907. A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, the public lands in the States of Idaho and Wyo- Re§g;$;>°¤;dFh°¤¢¤(§ ming, which are hereinafter indicated, are in art covered with tim- Wyo. ’ B 0 an ber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation; ‘ And whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, . entitled, “An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes," “That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory havin public land bearin forests, in any part of the public lands wholir or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial · value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof ”; Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United Id§,,‘f,Q‘§,‘f,‘w*,$f,§§,§’!_‘;j 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 States of Idaho and Wyoming, shown as the Caribou Forest Reserve on the diagfram forming a part hereof; Excepting from the force and e act of this proc amation all lands ¥·¤¤**¤ °==¤¤l>*¤<*— which are at this date embraced in any lega entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection 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; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or ieservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: Provided, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entry- man. settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, 01* settlement Was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this €¤·=¤¤¤¤d¤- proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein described, which has been withdrawn to protect the coal therein but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection. entry or tiling, which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation- of a permanent reservation.