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 1>u0oLAMA·r1oNs, 1907. 2135 which may have been withdrawn to protect the coal therein, but this proclamation does not vacate any such coal land withdrawal; and provided that these·exceptions shall not a ply to any land embraced in any selection, entry, or filing, whicih may have been permitted to remain of record subject to the creation of a permanent _ reservation. Warning is hereby given to al1_ persons not to make settlement  f¤’¢>¤ 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 To provide for the entry of Agri- V°‘- 3*- P- 283- cultural lands within forest reserves.’ IN WITNESS WHER.EOF, I have hereunto set my hand and ` caused the seal of the United States to be ailixed. Done at the City of Washington this 25th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thou ¤ nd nine hundred and seven, ·_ [sun]. and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first. Timononm Roosmvmzr By the President: ’ Enum Room Secretary of State. BY rrnn Pmnsmmrr or rm: Uivrrmo Srsrus or Aumuca Ihr2S. 1001. A PROCLAMATION “ WIIEREAS, the public lands in the Territory of Arizona, which F D¤{¤<>Xg,N¤¤¤¤¤* are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it ap- °i>°¤$ém¤1¤l' pears that the public good would be promoted by utilizing said lands · as a National Forest; Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United M,lf.Qf,}:“l '°'°”· States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section von. E6. p. ues. 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 Dragoon National Forest on the diagram forming a part hereof; Excepting from the orce and effect of this proclamation all lands Lands exceptedwhich are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered b any lawful filing or selection duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or u on which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, if the statutory riod within which to make entrylor filing of record has not expired`; and also excepting all lands, w "ch at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or urpose 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 claim- / ant 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; not except- cm umn. in from the force and effect of this proclamation, however, any part ofahe 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 excep-