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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1907. 3301 BY THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES or AMERIGA M’“`°h 2· 1907- A PROCLAMATION WIHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Oregon, which are Ummuu Form hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears R°i·l·i¤itltb(f;°g` that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands ‘ as a public reservation; And whereas, it is provided b section twenty-four of the Act of V°l· 26· P- 11°3· Congress, approved March thirdi; 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 land bearing forest, 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 proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof ”; Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United Orggfgst ¤‘°°°"°· States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested b section ` · twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim tlsiat 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 Oregon, shown as the Umpqua Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof; _ Lua ted ‘ Exeepting from the orce and eifect 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 111 the proper United States Land Office, or u on 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, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent C0ntinues in force; not except- C°°1 l“’°" ing from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any land within the boundary herein describe , 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 recor subject to the creation of a permanent reservation. ' \¢Varning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon segfggrvep t r 0 ¤¤ the lands reserved bv this proclamation. °° ' IN `WITNESS IVHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aflixed. _ Done at the Citv of Washington this 2d day of March, in the year of our`Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [sean.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first. Trmonomz Roosavnm By the President: Enum Roor _ Secretary of State.