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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1907. _ 2153 been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation. \Varning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement se$Ff,,§,{,‘§:d “°’” upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until vm. ::4,'p. ass. they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred. and six, entitled, "An Act To provide for the entry of Agicultural lands within forest reserves :" Provided, That lands heretofore re- ¥·¤¤¤¤ ¤¤¤¤¤*¤¤· stored to settlement or entry under the provisions of the foregoing act shall be excepted from the force and effect of this proclamation. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. , Done at the City of Washington this 10th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [san.,] seven, and of the Independence of the United States the · one hundred and thirty-second. I · Tumonoam Roosnvmm. By the President: , ALv1:Y A. Anna Acting Secretary of State. BY cum Pnmsmmrrr or THE Unrmo Sraras or Ammuoa september 1s,1s0·r. A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, it appears that the public good would be promoted Chu8¤chNationa1 by excluding certain lands from the Chugach National Forest, in F°i>i—i£mAdi·in' the Territory of Alaska, established by proclamation issued July g};;-;,};?- twenty-third, nineteen hundred and seven;` ` Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United nmmames mei. States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of mit:. so, p. sc. Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled. "An Act Making appropriations for sundrv civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes," do proclaim that Description. the area of the said National Forest is hereby changed to exclude therefrom a tract of land extending one mile back from the tide line, on both sides of the bay known as Valdez Arm, following the tide line from its intersection with the line of 146° 30' longitude west from Greenwich, easterly around the head of the Valdez Arm: and that the aforesaid National Forest now contains, with the exception of the lands hereby excluded, all of the tracts of land, in the Pbrritory of Alaska, shown as the Chugach National Forest on the diagram forming a part hereof; and further described as follows: All of the public land lying within a line beginning at the southern extremity of Cape Puget, Alaska, on the east coast of Kenai Peninsular; thence in a general northerly direction, following the coast line, to the western extremity of Portage Bay; thence northwesterly to the divide between Turnagain Arm and Portage Bay: thence in a general northerly direction along the divide between Knik Arm and Port Welles and in a general easterly direction along the main divide of the (`hugach Mountains, continuing thence to a point on left bank of Copper River opposite the northern extremity of Cottonwood Island; thence southerly. down left bank of said Copper River, to its southern extremity; thence in a southwesterly direction to the southern extremity of Cape Cleare: thence in a northwesterly direction to the southern extremity of Cape Puget, the place of beginning, and embracing all islands within said described line; excepting from S0893—vo1. 35, rr 2—09—67