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  continues in force;, that the said strips, tracts, or parcels of land, reserved as aforesaid, may be used for public highways but for no other purpose whatever, so long as the reservation of same under this proclamation shall continue in force.

, I have hereunto set my band and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

at the City of Washington this 27th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first. [SEAL.] By the President: , Secretary of State.

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, it a pears that the public d would be romoted .}”‘*”‘°¤d ¥°°¤j by adding to the Digmond Mountairi, Natiofilzil Forest certalin lands, ist; ctiiuml · Fm within the State of California, which are in art covered with tim- vu. szliprsua, ber, and by excluding therefrom certain landg;

Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled, “An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes,” do proclaim that the boundaries of the Diamond Mountain National Forest are hereby changed and that they are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof;

Excepting from the force and elfect 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 a ply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, 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 continues in force; not excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation, how- CW l¤¤d¤- ever, 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 tiling, 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 Reserved from upon any of -the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and S°m°"°°"' until they are listed by the Secretary ,of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under