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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2773 By run Pnnsinsnr or rim Umrnn Srarns or Anmiuoa D°°°¤*"°' 2*:’°'°· A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS an4Executive Order dated June twenty-sixth, nineteen “§*;*g;h§***°*’*' *`°’· hundred and eight, directed that certain portions of the Sawtooth Iinaamble. National Forest should be known as the Boise National Forest; and WHEREAS it alppears that the public good will be romoted by eliminating from the Boise N ational) Forest certain landls within the State of I aho; _ _ 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, entitle ‘An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal {year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eiilg, and or other purposes/’ do proclaim that the boundaries of the ise National Forest are hereby changed and that they are now as shown on the diaigun forming a part hereof. ’ This proclamation shall not prevent t settlement and entry of any $ “"“· lands heretofore opened to sett ement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled ‘ ‘An . ct To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves. ‘ The lands hereby eliminated from the Boise National Forest which ,,,,l§§,"§,®"f,,°f'°" ‘° are not embraced in withdrawals for administrative sites for use in the management of the Forest, or in any other reservation or appro- · priation, 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 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 thirty days from the date so fixed, 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, nor to reserve any land not heretofore embraced in a National Forest. IN WITN 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-fourth day of December, in the ear of our Lord one thousand nine hundred [ann,.] and ten, and, of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty- fth. Wu H Ta1··r By the President: HUNTINGTON W1LsoN Acting Secretary of State.