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 PnooLAMA·r1oNs, 1909. 2497 forming a part hereof; and that all those lands within the area of the Grand Canyon National Game Preserve, as indicated on the attached diagram, are designated and set aside for the protection of game animals, and shall be reco ized as a breeding place therefor, and that the hunting, trap ing, Eillling, or capturin of game animals upon the lands of the United States within the Emits of said area is unlawful, except under such regulations as may be prescribed from time to time b the Secretary of Algriculture. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I ave hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this 3rd da of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundyred and nine, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third. WM H TAr··r By the President: P C KNox Secretary of State. BY THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES or AmmrcA J¤|y12,1909· A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, certain natural caves, known as the OREGON ,,§,Q,‘ig°§, ,§{‘,‘;°,§‘, E'}? CAVES, which are situated upon unsurveyed land within the Siskiyou 0gz- bl National Forest in the State of Oregon, are of unusual scientilic inter- mm °' est and importance, and it appears that the public interests will be promoted bv reserving these caves with as much land as may be necessary for the proper protection thereof, as a National Monument; Now, therefore, I, William Howard Taft, President of the United or1§¤g:>M¤M¤¤¤m¢¤¤ States of America, by virtue of the fewer in me vested by section two g ` of the Act of Congress, approved une eight, nineteen undred and V°'·3·*·P-225- six, entitled, "An Act For the preservation of American antiq}uities," do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from all forms o appropriation under the public land laws, subject to all priorvalid adverse claims, and set apart as a National Monument, all the tracts of land in the State of Oregon shown as the OREGON CAVES NATIONAL MONUMENT on the diagram forming a part hereof. The reservation made by this proclamation is not intended to pre- ,€,§gé°S‘ ms ¤°* at vent the use of the lands for National Forest purposes under the proc- ` Ianiations and Executive Order establishing the Siskiyou National Forest, but the two reservations shall both be effective on the land withdrawn, but the National Monument hereby established shall be the dominant reservation, and any use of the land which interferes with its preservation or protection as a National Monument is hereby ‘ forbidden. VVarning is hereby given to all unauthorized rsons not to appro- mglefgémfmmwtwr priate, injure, remove, or destroy any feature offhis National Monu· ’ ` ment, or to locate or settle on 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 affixed. DONE At the City of Washington this 12th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-fourth. ` Wm H Tam By the President: P C Kzvox Secretary of State.