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 2776 PROCLAMATIONS. 1911. ¤¤¤¤=¤>’ 3°· 191*- BY THE Piznsrnmrr or- THE UNITED STATES or AMERICA A PROCLAMATION ,S§°€§.li_ N°"°°°` F"` WHEREAS it appears that the apublic good will be (Eromoted by limmbla- eliminating from the Kern Nation Forest certam lan withm the _ _ State of California; _ Am d““"“’“°d‘ 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, V°'·3°·P·°°· entitled ‘An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending Jime thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-e` ht, and for other purposes," do proclaim that ·‘"“**’·2"“°· the boundaries of thelI{em National Forest are hereby changed and _ that they are now as shown on the diagram forming apart hereof. $g;‘;,“‘“""z;;,'““d’· This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of °’ ’p` any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled "An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands . within forest reserves," and Acts amendatory thereof. ‘ I$;d(#i·°m8f¤1:`¥¤¢¤¤ W The lands hereby eliminated from the Kern National Forest which pu are not embraced in withdrawals for administrative sites for use in the management of the Forest, or in any other reservation or a propriation, shall be restored to the public domain and become suibject 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, except that on the same date as the lands h;gds%pjj_:¤¤;_sc¤¤¤¤ eliminated become subject to settlement, the State of California may, if the lands ehminated 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 person will be permitted to acquire or exercise any right whatever under any settlement or occup_ancy begun prior to such date, and all such settlement or occu ation is herebryi for idden. IN VFITNESS REOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aflixed. Done at the City of Washington this thirtieth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand mne hundred and [SEAL.]. eleven, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty~fifth. _ _ WM H Tarr » By the President: _ P C Knox Secretary of State. _ Br rum PaEsmEN*r or THE UNITED Srrvrns or Amzsrcrx A PROCLAMATION *`°"**· wnmznas an Executive Order dated rluly eeeerrd, rrsrrereerr her- ‘ dred and e1§ht,_ directed that the Ingo National Forest and a art of {Phe Sgerrad ational Forest should e known as the Inyo Niitional ores ; an WHEREAS it a ears that the public ood will be romoted b adding to the Inyo [National Forest iiertainlands within lthe States BE