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 2168 ruocLAMAT1oNs, 1907. served from settlement or entry and set apart as a public reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Arkansas, shown as the Arkansas National Forest on the diagram forming a part hereof; L“""’ “°°P*°"· Lxcepting 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 CW !¤¤¤¤~ continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereb established which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any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. "°'“ _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 . V0'- 3* P- 233- the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineten hundrd and six, entitled, "An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves} IN WITNESS WHEREOF. I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be atlixed. Done at the City of Washington this 18 day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, [snr.] and of the Independence of the United States the one — hundred and thirty second. THe0D0m: ROOSEVELT By the President: Enmu Room- Secretary of State. D¢<>¤¤¤*><>¤‘,¤9· 1907- Br 'mn Pm·:sn>m~z·r or Tum Unrmn Srrvms or Ammuca, ‘ A PROCLAMATION Mglgglggt Ngggnei WHEREAS, two prehistoric ruins of ancient cliff dwellings sitmeambit.uated upon public lands of the United States, and located in the region commonly known as the Tonto Drainage Basin, about two miles south of the Salt River Reservoir, Gila County, Arizona, are of great ethnologic, scientific and educational interest, and it appears that the public interests would be promoted by reserving these relics of a vanished people as a National Monument with as much land as may be necessary for the roper protection thereof; Natidmxl menu- Now, therefore, I, Theodore HOOS6V5i, President of the United """“• ‘“"°"* States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section two