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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2747 · The lands hereby eliminated from the Apache National Forest ‘;°u';dg ¤;{l°'°'l *° which are not embraced in withdrawals for administrative sites for use pu ° ` in the management of the Forest, or in any other reservation or a propriation, shall be restored to the public domain and become suI>ject 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 shall not become subject to entry, filing, selection, or other form of appropriation until the expiration of thirt days from the date so iixed, except that on the same date as the landli. . eliminated become subject to settlement, the Territory of Arizona ,s,{g*§;'{;c¤{§;1;_°”°°‘ 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 rson will be permitted to acquire or exercise any riglht whatever undglf any settlement or occupancy begun prior to suc date, and all such settlement or occulpation is hereby for idden. ` All the rights, powers, and duties of the Secretary of the Interior _§$§,'f° ’*¤'”¤ ’¤· and the Commissmner of Indian Affairs, and all riights and privileges V¤l·35.P·2244· of their permittees and the Indians, reserved an confirmed by the proclamation of the President of the United States of March second, nineteen hundred and nine,· enlarging the Apache National Forest, shall remain in full force and effect, notwithstanding anything in this proclamation contained. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aflixed. Done at the City of Washington this 265*3 day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [san.,] ten, and of the Indep-cfndence of the United States the one hundred and thirty- h. Wm H Tam By the President: Anvnr A. Annu Acting Secremrj of State. BY rm; Pnnsrnmrr or THE UNITED STATES or Ammuca ¤¤v¢¤¤·¥>¤¤`~· me A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Mount Graham National Forest, within the Terri- ,,,g'§'}§?’°°'°““' F"' tory of Arizona, was established by proclamation dated July twenty- ¤*¢~ wr, second, nineteen hundred and two and was enlarged to embrace a ’p` " portion of the Fort Grant Military Reservation byuExecutive Order dated October sixth, nineteen hundred and six, w `ch also (provided for the unhampered use by the War Department of the land escribed in such Executive Order; and _ _ WHEREAS a proclamation dated July first, nineteen hundred and "°*·35·l»2¤9*· eight, consolidated portions of the Mount Graham and Tonto National Forests, together with certain unreserved areas, under the name of the Crook National Forest; and the area of said Crook National Forest was reduced by an Executive Order dated August twenty- seventh, nineteen hundred and nine; and WHEREAS it a pears that the public good will be promoted by adding to the Crooli National Forest certain lands within the Terntory of Arizona which are in part covered with timber or undergrowth, and by eliminating from said Forest certain lands; and