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 p PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 27]] BY rmi: Pnnsinmrr or rim Umrmn Sryrizs or Ammmca ’¤¤°28= 19*0- A PROCLAMATION WIIEREAS an Executive Order dated July first, nineteen hun- F§;’{*‘§§;, N“"°““‘ dred and eight, directed that portions of the Helena, Hell Gate, and Pr¤>i¤b1c.` Big Hole National Forests should constitute the Deerlodge National Forest; and WHEREAS it appears that the public ood will be promoted by eliminating from the Deerlodge National Forest certain lands, and *’°"»*‘·’”*’·- transferring to the Beaverhead National Forest certain lands heretofore reserved as a picértion of the Deerlodge National Forest; Now, therefore, I, illiam H. Taft, President of the United States {*,f,‘{°3‘},‘“,;*'§,§h°d· of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Con- ' A gress~ approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled ‘An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal vear ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninetv-eight, and for other urposes," do roclaim that on and after July first, nineteen hundredp and ten, the boundaries of the Deerlodge National Forest shall be as indicated on the diagram . forming a part hereof. This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of any $§{f°3§‘°;*';,f3‘““ lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of i ` Congress a proved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled "An ict To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves." F · The lands eliminated in accordance with this proclamation from PuI;,*}{;d,’j°m',;•§_f°’°° *° the Deerlodge National Forest on July first, nineteen hundred and i ten, which are not embraced in withdrawals for administrative sites for use in the management of the Forest, or in any other reservation of appropriation, shall be restored to the public domain and become subject to settlement under the general provisions of the homestead laws on such date and after such notice yapublication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, but sh l not become subject to entry, filing, selection, or other form of aptproprmtmn until the expiration of thirty days from the date so fixe, except that on the same date as the lands eliminated become subject to settlement, the State mm<;;l·g;¤m·w ¤¤h¤¤l of Montana may, if the lands eliminated are subject to such selection, ` select as indemnity in the satisfaction of its common school grant, not to exceed two sections of land in each entire township restored, or one section in each fractional portion of a township where the restored area thereof exceeds five thousand (5,000) acres, and no person will be rmitted to acquire or exercise any right whatever under any settfgement or occupancy begun prior to such date, and all such settlement or occupation is hereby forbidden. It is not intended by this proclamation to release any land from ·*¤°=*¤¤¤¤°¤°~ reservation except the areas indicated on the diagram as eliminated, nor to reserve an land not heretofore embraced in a National Forest. 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 Washinlggon this Twenty-eighth day of June, in the year of our rd one thousand nine hundred and [snail.] ten, and of the Independence of the United States the one · hundred and thirty-fourth. WM H Tam By the President: Huxrmorox Wnsox Acting Secretary of State.