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 2170 PROCLAMATIONS, 1907. any part of the National Forest hereby enlarged which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any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 Bling, which may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation. Mgfjgggé "'°“‘ Warning is hereby given to al persons not to make settlement upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aiiixed. _ Done at the City of Washington this 23rd day of December, m 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., Tunonom: Roosavmxr By the President: ‘ Enum Roor Secretary of State. December 30. 1907- Br nu: Pnnsmaxr or rum UNrrr1o S·rA·r¤s or Amamca A PROCLAMATION _ Fofgt*A§,;**°¤¤l WHEREAS, the ppblic lands in the Territory of Arizona, which mime1e.` are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it a - pears that the public good would be promoted by utilizing said lands as a National Forest; ArmQgf*°' '°'°°‘· Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United von. 26, 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 or entry and set apart as a public reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the Territory of Arizona, shown as the Verde National Forest on the diagram formin a part hereof; ¥·•¤•*¤ •*°°¤*·¤· 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 Bling or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, i the statutory period within which to make entry or Bling 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 iiprpose with which this reservation for forest uses is inconsistent: rovided, 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, Bling or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in CMI lands. force; not excepting from the fol’C€ 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 Bling, which may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation; and provided also that since the withdrawal made by this proclama-