Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 38 Part 2.djvu/842

 1>RocLAMA·rioNs, ieia 2043 BY ran Piznsrnnmr or THE Unrrnn Sryrns or Amnmca N¤v¤¤1b¢r23» 1914- A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS it ap ears that the public good will be promoted by Km N¤¤¤¤¤1 F¤¤· excluding from the gem National IForest, California, certain areas, wiigiiiiiie. and restoring the public lands therein in a manner authorized b the ""‘°· 1’· H3- Act of Congress approved Se tember thirtieth, nineteen hundred, and thirteen, entitled "An Act 'iio authorize the President to provide a method for opening lands restored from reservation or withdrawal, and for other purposes" ; Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States $§‘f_° of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Con- I i gross approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven (30 tat., 11 at 34 and 36), entitled "An Act Making a propriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the iigcal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes", do lproclaim that the boundaries of the Kern National Forest are here y changed to exclude the areas indicated as elimina»- tions on the diagpam hereto annexed and forming a part hereof. And I do furt er proclaim and make known t at in my judgment ,,§,,‘§1‘,},“°s‘§,u‘€'},_‘l},,t_” it is proper and necessary in the interest of equal op ortunity and good administration that all of such excluded lands sullgect to disposition should be restored to settlement in advance of entry, and pursuant to the authority reposed in me by the aforesaid Act of Septem-, Am, p. 113. ber thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, I do hereby direct and provide that such lands, subject to valid rights and the revisions of existing withdrawals, shall be open to actual settlers only under the provisions of the homestead laws for a period of twenty-eight days "'“" °' °P“"“‘· rom and includin nine o’clock a. m., standard time, on e fifty- sixth day from and after the date hereof, and thereafter to entry and disposition imder any and all of the public land laws applicable t ereto. Persons who o u on an of the lands to be restored as herein ro- ug §§,}‘,,‘“g vided and erfoiiim zihy act? of settlement thereon from and including ¤¤=¤i)¤¤¤¤¤5 P to the date ofp this reclamation until nine o’ clock a. m. standard time, on the fifty-sixtii day from and after the date hereof, or who are on or are occu ying any part of such lands at_ said hom; except those having valid) subsisting settlement rights initiated pmor to reservation · and since maintained, and those having preferences to make entry under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved June eleventh,  `ii°$i°d°` nineteen hundred and six (34 Stat., 233), entitled "An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultiual lands within forest reserves", and Acts amendato, will be considered and dealt with as trespassers and preference willrbe iven the prior legal aplplicant, notwithstanding _ such unlawful settlement or occupancy: rovided, however, that ,,,,",i,,§f‘“""°"°“‘ “‘ nothing herein shall prevent persons from ageing upon and over the lands to examine them with a view to there ter going upon and making settlement thereon when the lands shall becomesubject thereto in accordance with this proclamation. Persons having prior settle- dghPg1_;¤e;¤¢11¤¤¤¤¢ ment rights or preferences, as above defined, will be allowed to make ` entry in conformity with existing law and regulations. It is not intended by this proclamation to reserve any land not ·¤¤¤¤11¤¤*·>¢ heretofore embraced in a National Forest nor to exclude ani land except the areas indicated as eliminations on the diagram ereto annexed. ·