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 1>RocLAM.u*1oNs, 1907. 2121 additional lands, and that the boundaries of the aforesaid National Forest are now as shown on the dia ram forming a part hereof; Excepting from the force and egect bf this proclamation all lands Lands excepted. 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 entr, filing, or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdiiawal with which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force; not except- com mnas. ing from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part of the National Forest hereby established which has been withdrawn to rotect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any suclh coal land withdrawal; and provided that these exceptions shall not apply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or Hling, which has been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent reservation. Waming is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement Eggs;;;? from 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, _ entitled, "An Act 'Fo provide for the entry of Agricultural Lands von. 34, p. zag. within forest reserves." 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 6th day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and [snail.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first. Tunononn Roosrzvmxr By the President: Romtirr BAcox Acting Secretary of Sfate. Br run Pimsinmvr or rm: Unrrnn Srxrms or Ammuoe. April 1:, 1907. A PROCLAMATION IVHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Nevada, which are roqunga National hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it a pears F°{J§.§§,§,*jQ_ that the public good would be promoted by utilizing said lands as a Postr. 2228. National Forest; Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United _ xmenai imrest, States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section M§’j,f“;,6 v_1mg twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen ’ I 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 State of Nevada, shown as the Toquima National Forest on the diagram forming a part hereof; 80893-voL 35, rr 2-09--62