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 PROcLAMATi0Ns, 1910. 2725 it appears that the public lgood will be promoted by eliminating from the Chiricahua National crest certain lands within the .Territor1es of Arizona and New Mexico, and by adding to said ,§orest certain public lands within the Territory of Arizona which rare m part covered with timber, together with certain lands which uiere made a art of the Coronado National Forest, Arizona, by an ,,$xecut1ve Order dated July second, nineteen hundred and eight;. Now, therefore, I,- William H. Taft, President of the United States $*,;’”,,%”,f°3,g'j°"*“°"· of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Con- ' gress approved June_fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled ‘An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Govemment for the fiscal {year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and or other urposes," do proclaim that the boundaries of the hiricahua National) Forest are hereby changed and tgrat they are now as shown on the diagram forming a part · ereo . ` The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands 1;;* *‘*¢¤*= ¤¤* ·*· which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land ' laws or reserved for any ubl1c p'l1I'p0S6, be subject to and shall not interfere with or defeat lhgpl rights imder such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such pu liedpurpose of lands so reserved, so long as such ap}>ropriation is leg y maintained or such reservation roc ama ion s a no ven e se emen en o wTlih`Sml)me·t' hll tpre tth ttl tand t f *¤'*°'““"‘“""‘*’· any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under thy Act v°L“'P°m` of Congress a proved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled "An get To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands ·within forest reserves." The lands hereby eliminated from the Chiricahua National Forest ,,,,I,g‘},';,°,{0,,{,F’;,'{"°" ‘° which are not embraced in withdrawals for administrative sites for use in the man ment of the Forest, or in any other reservation or appropriation, gligll 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 y publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, but shal not become subject to entry, filing selection, or other form of appropriation until the expiration of thirty days from the date so fixed, except that on the same date as the lands eliminated become subject to settlement, the Qgggsms whwl Territories of Arizona and New Mexico may, if the lands eliminated ' are subject to such selection, select as indemnity in the satisfaction of their common school grants, 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 lpermitted to acquire or exercise any right whatever imder any sett ement or occupancy begnm prior to such date, and all such settlement or occupation IS hereby forbidden. 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 lst day of July, in the year of our ord one thousand nine hundred and ten, and of [sum.,] the Independence of the United States the one hundred · and thirty-fourth. . _ WM H Tam By the President: HUNTINGTON WrLsoN Acting Secretary of Sta¢e.