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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1911. 1679 IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set m causedthesealof the United Statestobeamxed. y hmd md Done at the City of Washington this seventeenth da of April, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [smh.] eleven, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-fifth. _ Wu H Tarr By the President: P C Knox Secretary of State. Br rm: Pnnsmmrr or rm: Um·r1¤> Srracrrzs or Aumuoa, ¥•·!1• 1111- A PROCLAMA'I‘ION. , the unsurveyed tract of land contammg' an extraor· **1** ¤¤ ¤1•¤¤ dinarydimestone cavern and embracing one hundred and sixtyiii:¤=¤i»s,’ii:.i{°'. B¢Q$,_8ll5\l&i»0(I  township one northeange two wat of the Montana """""" Prmcxpal Meridian, Montana, and w 'ch was created the Lewis an Clark Cavern National Monument by proclamation dated the 11th V¤l-¤¤-1>·¤¤- day of May, 1908, has recently been dalinitig located   an omcial survey thereof, made under the direction of e Commissioner of the General Land Omce, and such survey having determined that the tract in q_p>estion lies wholg within the limits of the grant of the Northern aciiic Railway mpany but hm not yet been patented to that company _ AND EAS, by its quitclaim 'deed the said Northern Pacific Railway Company relinquished unto the United States all its right, title an interest to lot twelve section seventeen, township one north, range two west of the Montana Principal Meridian Montana, the same being the original_tract proclaimed a National Monument, for the purpose of maintamu¥ thereon the sand Lewis and Clark Cavern National Monument, un er the condition that the instrument of relinquishment shall become void and the premises immediately revert to the grantor should the Monument no longer be maintained;. _ Now, therefore, I, William H. Taft, President of the United States ,,rg·_*j,¤¤*•¤¤¤•¤•¤¤¤¤· of America by virtue of the `power in me vested by section two of v¤n.he,p.m. the act of Congress approved une 8, 1906, entitled, "An Act for the Preservation of American Anti uities", do hereby set aside and confirm as the Lewis and Clark Cavern National Monument the said tract, embracing one hundred and sixty acres of land, at and sur- 1>··¤¤1>¤¤·= rounding the limestone cavern in section seventeen, township one north, range two west, Montana, subject to the conditions set forth in the relinquishment and  deed No. 18129E, dated February 14, 1911, of the Northern Pacific Railway Company, the said tract being in square form and designated as lot twelve in the survey and deed, with side lines running north and south and all sides equidistant from the main entrance of the said cavern, the center of said entrance bearing north forty—mne degrees, forty-two minutes west, fifty-three and thirteen hundredths chams distant from the corner to sections sixteen, seventeen, twenty and twenty-0ne, as shown upon tlhe dgggram hereto attachetqll and made a part hereof. W ’ is ere_ resslygivento personsnottoa, ¤¤¤‘*•<*¤¤••¤1• injure or destro anyueirthe natural formations in the caviiiliiogbg °°i’°°°` declared to be National Monument, nor to locate or settle upon any of the lands reserved and made a part of sand Monument by this proclamation.