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 2148 PROCLAMATIONS. 1907. JW! 2°· 1907- BY rua Pmzsromrr or rm; Uurmo Srrvrns or Axmnrca A PROCLAMATION 3};%**;.%;*;}; WHEREAS, it appears that the public (good would be promoted Forest, Alaska. by excluding certain lands from the Alexan er Archipelago National ${,Tl"§2°,l°,3, 2025, Forest, in the Territory of Alaska, established by proclamation issued August twentieth, nineteen hundred and two; ,,e§°“'”’“'*° '“°‘“‘ Now, therefore, I,- Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United Vol. 30. p. 36. States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled, “An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Govermnent for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other pur ses," do roclaim that P•»e¢.p.2226» the area of the said National Forest is hereby chanvedl and that it now contains Chicha f Island and the adjacent islands to the seaward thereof, Kupreanof gland, Kuiu Island, Zarembo Island, and Prince of Wales Island and the adjacent islands to the seaward thereof, in Alaska, exceptinv all that portion of Kasaan Peninsula, forming a part of Prince oFW'ales Island, which lies southeast of a line beginning at a point on Kasaan Bay due west of the United States Location Monument Number 5, and running thence, north 44° 42’ east, 6,996 feet (approximately) to the most southwesterly point on the Qgqffgightl not bay known as Lyman Anchora : Provided, that this proclamation armed. shall not be so construed as to diiprive any person of any valid right v°l‘ 15· "‘ 539* possessed under the Treaty for the cession. of the Rusian ssessions in North America to the United States, concluded at Washington on the thirtieth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, or Kcpulred under any act of Congress relating to the Territory of as a; I·¤¤d¤ ****1****- 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 Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if 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 with 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 c armant continues to comply with the law under which the entry. filing, or settlement was made. or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force: Coal lands not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation. however, any part of the aforesaid National Forest which may have 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 may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation. Lands ¤¤¤t<>r¤¤ to The lands hereby excluded from the aforesaid National Forest public domain. . . · ., which are not embraced in any other withdrawal. reservation. or appropriation, shall be restored to the public domain and become subject to settlement, appropriation, and disposition under the provisions, conditions. and restrictions applicable to such lands on such date and after such notice by publication as the Secretarv of the Interior may prescribe. and no person will be permitted td gain or exercise any right whatever under any settlement or occupation begun prior to such date and all such settlements and occupations are hereby forbidden. `