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 2762 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. Done at the City of Washington this eighth day of December in the year of our Lor one thousand nine hundred and ten, [snail.] and of the Inde endence of the United States of America ~ the one hundred) and thirty-fifth. WM H TAFT By the President: P C Knox Secretary of Sta.te. D°°¤*¤*>·=*¤°»*m Br THE Pnnsmnnr or THE UNITED STATES or Amnuca · A PROCLAMATION °s,°hv•{,’j_{¤h_N°“°¤¤‘ F"' WIIEREAS it appears that the public good will be promoted by Preamble. eliminatin from the Chelan National Forest certain lan s within the ‘"‘"’p‘m7‘ State of Wgashington; {§;*;_¤3gi¤¤g*&=h°¢ Now, therefore, I, William H. Taft, President of the United States ’p° . of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Con— gress a proved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitledR‘An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal ear ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-e` ht, and {br other purposes/’ do proclaim that the boundaries of the (lghelan National Forest are hereby changed and ' that they are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof. $§§‘§,‘;**;,"*’;,[,'°”d& This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of ' ` any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled,"An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves." . p__{;g,!;d(g°£·€,1*°¤d *° The lands hereby eliminated from the Chelan National Forest ` which are not embraced in withdrawals for administrative sites for use in the management of the Forest or in any other reservation or appropriation, shall be restored to the public domain and become su ject to settlement under the general provisions of the homestead laws on such date and after such notice y ublication 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 thirty days from the date so fixed, except that on the same date as the lands eliminated become subject to settlement, the State of Washington may, if the lands eliminated are subject to such lndommpy school selection, select as indemnity in the satisfaction of its common school md ’°'°°“°“* 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 permitted to acquire or exercise any right whatever under any settlement or occupancy begun prior to such date, and all such sett ement or occupation is hereby forbidden. A¤‘=¤¤¤··<=*¤¤· 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 Washington this tenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ten, [sun.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-fifth. _ Wu H Tum By the President: P C Knox Secretary of State.