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 2152 PROCLAMATIONS, 1907. 1907, except those making entry in accordance with the terms of this Proclamation. Regulations. The Secretary of the Interior shall make and publish such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper to carry into full force and effect the manner of settlement, occupation, and entry as herein rovided for. IN VQYITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be ailixed. Done at the city of lVashington this 12th day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven and of [emu.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second. Tmxonomc Roosnvnur By the President: Anvmr A. Anm-: Acting Secretary of State. September 10.1907- By run Pmzsxnzzxr or run Uxrmn S·rin·r·:s or Anmmcx A PROCLAMATION Fo¤;g;¤¤ ·y:*°¤** YVHEREAS, the_ public lands in the Territory [of Alaska, which Preamble.are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good wou d be promotedrby utilizing said lands as a National Forest; M§§§°““‘ ‘°"°"· Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United von. he, p. 1103. States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested 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,” do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from settlement, entry, or sale, and set apart as a public reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of pm, p. 2226. land in the Territory of Alaska, shown as the Tongass National Forest on the diagram forming a part hereof: gm-ua. Provided, that this proclamation shall not be so construed as to Walid rights not . _ . . meme. deprive any person of any valid right possessed under the Treaty "°l· *5- P· 53** for the cession of the Russian ossessions in North America to the United States, concluded at Vyashington on the thirtieth day of . March, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. or acquired under any act of Congress relating to the Territory of Alaska: · !·¤¤¢*¤ ¤¤¢v*¤•*· 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 entry- man. settler. or claimant 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 Coal lanes. continues in force: not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation. however. any part of the National Forest herebv established 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 applv to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, which may have