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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2753 o_f (`alifornia may, if the lands eliminated are subject to such selec- ,mI';‘;;§;c“Q,§’¤§°h°°' tron, select as indemnity in the satisfaction of its common school ` grant, not to exceed two sections of land in each entire township l restored, or one section in each fractional ortion of a township where the restored area thereof exceeds five tlliousand (5,000) acres, and no (person will be permitted to acquire or exercise any right whatever un er any settlement 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 A‘°““°°°**"·l· reservation exceént the areas indicated on the diagram as eliminated. IN WITNES 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 12% day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ten, [sEAr..] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-fifth. Wm H TAF]? By the President: ALVEY A. ADEE Acting Secretary of State. BY THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES or AMERICA 0¤t·>b¤r12.1910;_ A PROCLAMATION VVHEREAS an Executive Order dated July second, nineteen F§,§;’,‘*“@;§{° N°“°“°' hundred and eight, directed that parts of the Stanislaus and Sierra Pr¤ai¤b1¤· Naponal Forests should be known as the Stanislaus National Forest; B,l`l.( WHEREAS it appears that the public good will be promoted by adding to the Stanislaus National Forest certain lands within the State of California which are in part covered with timber, and by eliminating from said Forest certain lands; Now,.tl1erefore, I, William I-I. Taft, President of the United States {’,§}f'};l“‘;{f$,{§f°"'“‘“'· 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 fiiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other pu oses," do proclaim that the boundaries of the Stanislaus National Illgorest are hereby changed lalnd tihat they are now as shown on the diagram forming a part ereo . The withdrawal made b this proclamation shall, as to all lands ,m§;‘;' dglm ¤°° °‘· which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such pppropriation is egally maintained or such reservation remains in orce. This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of $g{f°3';'*;,jf°2f,,‘°“d* any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act ’ ` of Congress a proved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled "An Kct To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves} _ The lands hereby eliminated from the Stanislaus National Forest ,,,,I{,g‘§°§,m'§,‘,§_°'°° °° which are not embraced in withdrawals for administrative sites for use in the man ement of the Forest, or in any other reservation or appropriation, ziall be restored to the public domain and become