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 2740 PROCLAMATION S, 1910. A¤:¤¤¢¤4.1¤1¤- BY TEE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES OF Amnmca A PROCLAMATION _f°g,*°*u§{**°¤·‘ F°*· WHEREAS an Executive Order dated June twenty-sixth, nineteen éiumme. hundred and eight, directed that a portion of the Jemez National Forv°" °5"‘m°‘ est (Proclamation of April 24, 1908) should constitute the J emez National Forest; and WHEREAS it appears that the public good will be promoted by adding to the J emez National Forest certain lands within the Territory of New Mexico which are in part covered with timber, and by i B,md,,,,m,,dm,d_ eliminating therefrom certam lands; V¤1·¤0.1>·¤¤» Now, therefore, I, William H. Taft, 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-e' ht, and or other purpcses," do proclaim that the boundaries of the iimez National Forest are hereby changed and that they are now as shown on the diagram formin a part hereof. rm: rights not as- The withdrawal madealily this proclamation shag, as to all lands '°°'°°‘ which are at this date leg y appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to andp shall not inter. fere with or defeat legal rig ts under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such pub ic purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such pppropriation is egally maintained 0l‘ such reservation remains in orce. v°L 3°'p'm any langs heretofore <3pened tolbettlement and entry under thd`yAci of Con ess approved une eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, enti- orest reserves}? Ind: nncwi to The lands hereby eliminated iI°0¤l tllé Jemez National Forest which ’°w° °°'"m' are not embraced in withdrawals for administrative sites for use in the managlement of the Forest, or in any other reservation or appropriation, s all 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 by {publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, but sha not become subject to entry filing selection, or other form of appropriation until the expiration oi thirt 7 days from the date so fixed, except that on the same date as the land; immense; eliminated become subject to settlement, the Territo of New Mexico °“‘° may, if the lands eliminated are subject to such sdiiiction select as indemnity in the satisfaction of its common school grarit not to exceed two sections of land in each entire townshi restored or one i section in each fractional portion of a township wxliere the xiestored area thereof exceeds five thousand (5,000) acres, and no erson will be permitted to acquire or exercise any right whatever undiizr any settlement or occupancy begun rior to such date, and all such settlement or occiepittion is hereby foiibidden. IN TNESS 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 249 day of August in the year [ I ig] oiiflgnord éme t <}usgndLnine hundred anditen and of SEAL. e e en ence o the lnited Stat i and thirtguifth- es the one hundred By the President: WM H TAM HUNTINGTON WILSON Acting Secretary of Slate.
 * ¤'*°¤*¤¤*“*°d¤- This roclamation shall not revent the settlement and ent o
 * led "gh Act o provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within