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 2156 PROCLAMATIONS, 1907. suant 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 reservatioin 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 com ly with the law under which the entry, iilmg, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with CM! l¤¤¤¤· which this reservation is inconsistent continues in- force; 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from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the aforesaid National Forest which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any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. L:gg¤d°$—¤:h_*f*°* The lands hereby excluded from the Medicine Bow National m P Forest which are not embraced in any other withdrawal, reservation, or appropriation, shall be restored to the public domain and become subject to settlement nmder the general provisions of the homestead laws on such date and after such notice by publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, but shall not become subject to entry, filing, selection, or other form of appropriation until the expiration of thirty days from the date so Gifted? and no person will be permitted to gain or exercise any right whatever under any settlement or occupation begun prior to such date, and all such settlement and occupation are hereby forbidden. nmma fr om Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon ‘“*"'°“‘°"‘· any of the lands reserved by t is proclamation, unless and until they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the "°‘- **4- ¤’· 23* Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, "An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands L°¤“ °’°°¤*°"· within forest reserves :" Provided, that lands heretofore restored 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 27th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [snan.] seven, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second. Tmzoooan Roosnvmir By the President: Anvav A. Aman Acting Secretmjq of State. ocmim 25. 1907. Br THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES 0I-' AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. mamuxe. Once again the season of the year has come when. in accordance _ with the custom of our forefathers for generations past, the President appoints a day as the especial occasion for all our people to give praise and thanksgiving to God. During the past ypar we have been free from famine, from estilence, from war. Ye are at lpeace with all the rest of manlcind. Our natural resources are at east as great as those of any other