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 3276 PROCLAMATIONS, 1907. Febmrv 14» 190* Br THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES or AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. ,, §‘§‘,,S';,‘},$l,'jt(-"§,,fj°r` WVHEREAS, the San Jacinto Forest Reserve, in the State of $g$¤*gg*°l3 893 California, was established by proclamation dated February twenty- `'second, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and was subsequently reduced in area by Executive order dated October seventeenth, nineteen hundred and one; · _ And whereas, it appears that the public good would be promoted _ by adding to the said forest reserve certain lands, within the State of California, which are in part covered with timber; V¤1-30»¤- 36- And whereas, it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled, “An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety- eight, and for other purposes," that ." The President is hereby authorized at an time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establis ing any forest reserve, and by ‘such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines _ ‘ of such reserve, oi· may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve "; lmg§d¤¤d¤**€¤ °¤· Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United ` States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the said act of Congress, do proclaim that the aforesaid San Jacinto Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof. . L¤¤d¤ *¤°°P*°d· Excepting from the force and effect. of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land OHIce, 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 exceptin all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawag v_ 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 entry- man. settler, or c annant continues to comply with the law under which the entry. filing. or settlement was made. or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force: not exceptingfrom the force and effect of this 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; Coullauds. 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: and provided further. that nothing herein shall operate to interfere with or terminate the right of the Interior Department, under existing laws. to allot to individual Indians any of the land hereby reserved which may be determined by the Secretary of Agriculture to be chiefly valuable for agricultural purposes. i Seglifnigged from lVarning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation. IN YVITNESS lVHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.