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 2166 PROCLAMATIONS, 1907. 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 or entry and set apart as a public reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of l3Hd,'1I1 the State of Nevada, shown as the Vegas National Forest on the diagram forming a part hereof; _ L°“d“ °‘°°P*°"- 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 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 continues in force; C°°’ ““'d’~ not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby established which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein.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 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. Mgfgggsf *’_°¤ Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement ` upon any of the lands reserved by this 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 Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, VM- 34- Ii- 233· entitled, "An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.” IN IVITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be afiixed. Done at the City of WVashington this 12th day of December. in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [smh.] seven, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second. ’ Tnaonoxm Roosnvmrr By the President: Emur Roor Serwitary of State nq¢gmaq,r_1_g;,,iig>g. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE [INITED STATES or AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Aquarius Nation- NVHEREAS. it ap €€lI‘S that the public good would be rom U tah', by adding to the Aqu€II‘I\iS N21ti0HHlIForeStIcertain lands, wiithinoihg "°’·  ¤· “‘*°· State of Utah. which are in part covered with timber; , yogndanes en- Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United a\$§1.`so, p. ac. States of America. by virtue of the power in me vested bv the Act of 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