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 rRooLAMATIoNs, 1907. 327 1 Br THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES or AMERICA F°l"“°'§Eg EQ A PROCLAMATION _ WVHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Colorado, which are Outer Forest Rvhereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears wiY¤?éa(¤ii)1ii)é. 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 V°*· 26· P- 1106 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 having public e land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public procla- Iplatioi;. declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits t ereo ’ ; Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United C(§`0Q,§‘§(§" R°S°F'°’ States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested. by section ` twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congrew, 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 Colorado, shown as the Ouray Forest Reserve on the diagram formin a part hereof; »· Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands L¤¤d¤ excepted- ‘ which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered bv 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 reservation 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 entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, tiling, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not except- com mms. ing from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein describet, 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 filing. which has been allowed or permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation. \Varning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon Reserved from the lands reserved by this proclamation. S"“'°"‘°‘“· IN IVITNESS \VHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aflixed. Done at the city of lvasliington this 2nd day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, ` [sexi,.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first. Tnnonom; R0SE\'ELT By the President : Emuix RooT Scr·2·etw·y of State.