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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1911. 2777 California and Nevada which are in part covered with timber, and by eliminatin therefrom certain lands within the States of California and Nevada; _ » Now, therefore, I, William H. Taft, President of the United States B°““°“"°““°‘““°"· of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Con- V<>¤·30yv.36 gress approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled ‘A.n 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 purposes," do proclaim that the boundaries of the Inyo National Forest are hereby changed and ` that they are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof. The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands fec§;§;>* HSM ¤°* =*'· which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land ` laws or reserved for any ubhc purpose, be sub`ect to and shall not interfere with or defeat liegal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such publiglpurpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is leg y maintained or such reservation remains in force. This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of ·'*¤="°¤'¤¤' '¤¤d¤· any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act "°*-MP-M- of Con ress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitledg "An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves/’ and Acts amendatory thereof. _ ` The lands hereby eliminated from the Inyo National Forest which p‘};)*{g{;‘g°, *° 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 subject 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 eliminated·lands become subject to settlement, the State of California m[{;<{_*;{?_9jh;*m¤¢¤¤°' may, if the lands eliminated in that State are subject to such selec— ` tion, 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 an settlement or occupancy begun prior to such date, and all such settlement or occu ation is hereby forbidden. IN WITNESS WH1?i)REOF, 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 February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred [sem.,] and eleven, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-fifth. WM H Tarrr By the President: P C Knox · Secretary of State.