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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1909. 2245 Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled, “Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eiglht, and for other urposes," do proclaim that the sard lands are here y added to the Apache National Forest and that the boundaries of said National Forest are now as shown on the said_diagram, and such National Forest so enlarged shall, except as heremafter provided, be sub'ect to all the laws affecting Natrona] Forests including the mineral land laws of the United States; Pro- Qyxhdm mded, that nothing herein shall, for the term of 25 years from the I date hereof, operate to terminate or abridge the rights of the Secretary of the Interior and of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under existing laws, to allot to individual Indians an of such of the above described lands as were included in the said White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation by the said Executive orders modified as aforesaid; to use any of such lands or the timber thereon for Agency, school, or other tribal purposes; to permit the use of any o such lands for grazing puréposes; to permit the free use by individual Indians of timber an stone from any of said lands necessary for ddihestic use upon their allotments; to dispose of the proceeds arising from grazing as provided for by law for other Indian frmds; and to mm of .the dead timber standing or fallen upon such lands; Pro- ` d further, that said powers and rights of the Secretary of the B°¥“'°**°”»°°°· Interior and Commissioner of Indian Affairs or permittees rmder or through them or either of them, and of individual Indians, except as to allotments to such Indians, shall be subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture may from time to time prescribe for the protection of the National Forest; and said powers and , ritghts shall not be construed to apply to any land except such dparts o said Wlrite Mountain Apache Indian Reservation as are in uded in the Forest by this proclamation, and all said owers and rights except the rights of individual Indians and their lheirs to hold and enjoy their ahotments, shall cease and determine twent —five years after the date hereof, and thereafter the occupancy and, use of the unallotted parts of said lands shall in all respects e subject to the laws governing National Forests. The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands walz; **8**** **0* which are at this date lefgally approlpriated under the public land ` laws or reserved or used or ndian gency, school, or church purposes, or reserved for any ppblic purpose other than for Indian occupancy and use under such .xecutive Orders, be subject to, and shall not interfere with, or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, or prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such a;}propriation is legal y maintained, or such reservation remains m orce. This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of Q€f€_yj°:¤;g;¤d¤ , any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act’ ' of Congress approved une eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves." IN WITNESS WIJEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. _ Done at the City of Washington, this second day of March, rn the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine, and [s1¤.AL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third. Tunonoam Roosavmr By the President: Ronarrr Bacon Secretary of State.