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 Q7 7 2 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. D°°·=¤¤'>°’ 2°·*°*°· BY THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES or AMERICA A A PROCLAMATION wfggf N““°”“ F°" WHEREAS it appears that the public good will be lpromoted by ' adding to the Modoc National Forest certain lands Wit in the State of California which are in part covered with timber, and by el1mmat— ing therefrom certain lands; _ Bmmdaries modified- Now, therefore, I, William H. Taft, President of the United States V°l‘ 30*** m' 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-eight, and for other rivurposes, " do proclaim that the boundaries of the Modoc National orest are hereby changed and that they are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof. Prior rights ¤<>¢ ¤f· The withdrawal made b this proclamation shall, as to all lands ‘°°°°d‘ which are at this date legally appropriated under the (public land laws or reserved for any public urpose, be subject to an shall not interfere with or defeat legal iiglits under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is Ilegally maintained or such reservation remains in force. — $g1¤3·_{1¢;)¤¤¤2l_3i¤¤d¤· This ggoclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of ' ` any lan 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. " _ pgaggdg F° The lands hereby eliminated from the Modoc 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, s all be restored to the public domain and become sulliject to settlement under the general provisions of the homestead laws on such date and after such notice sg Hublication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, but a not become subject to entry, filing, selection, or other form of appropriation until the Md ¤¤*¤¤¤¤¤¤· same date as the lands eliminated become subject to settlement, the State of California may,   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 ortion of a township where the restored area thereof exceeds five dliousand (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 settlement or occupation is hereby forbidden, ‘*’°°°”"°'°‘*· It is not intended by this proclamation to release any land from reservation except the areas indicated on the diagram as eliminated. 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 twenty-third day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred [SEAL.] and ten, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-fifth. WM H Tam By the President: HUN·rmo·roN Wmson Acting Secretary of State.
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