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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1915. 1747 Br THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES or AMERICA A°F°S““»*°*6· A PROCLAMATION VVI-IEREAS it appears that the public ood will be promoted by F,f§,j,‘{°*,’§§{‘ N°“°“"‘ excluding from the Cleveland National lgorest California, certain 1>mim»1é. areas, and withdrawing a portion thereof for Mission Indian purposes, and by restoring the public lands subject to disposition in the remaining excluded areas in a manner authorized b the Act of V°’·3"·*’·“3· Congress approved September thirtieth, nineteen hundyied and thirteen, entitled "An Act To authorize the President to provide a method for opening lands restored from reservation or withdrawal, and for other purp0ses' ’; _ Now, therefore, I, WOODROW WILSON, 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 V°‘·3°·*’·3°· ninety-seven (30 Stat., 11, at 34 and 36), entitled "An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June t irtieth, 61 hteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other pi1§r1poses," do procgim that the boundaries of the Cleveland Nation Forest are hereby changed to exclude the areas indicatled asfeliminations on the diagram hereto annexed and forming a part ereo . _ _ And I do also proclaim that the South half of Section twenty (20), $,,,’§*,,;,’f‘*° '°‘ in Township three (3) South, Range one (1) East San Bernardino Meridian, excluded from the Cleveland National Forest by this proclamation shall be and is hereby withdrawn from settlement, · entry, sale or other disposition under the public land laws of the · · United States and set aside for Mission Indian  ‘ And I do further proclaim and make known t t in my judgment  ‘ it is proper and necessary in the interest of equal oplportunity and good administration that aH of the remaining exclude lands subject to disposition should be restored to settlement in advance of entry, and pursuant to the authority reposed in me by the aforesaid Act v°*·°“·P·““· of September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, I do hereby _ direct and provide that such lands, subject to valid lgglhts and the provisions of existing withdrawals or reservations, s be opened T*“"°'°""“*"“‘ and become subject to settlement only, under the general provisions of the homestead laws, at and after, but not be ore, nine o’cloclt a. m., on the sixty-third day after the date of this proclamation, and to entry and other disposition, under any public land law applicable thereto, at and after, but not before, nine o’clock a. m., on the ninety-first day after said date. _ _ _ Persons who go upon any of the lands to be restored as_here1n  ;§f},‘,"i§ provided and perform any act of settlement thereon from and includ- ¤¤•¤i¤s· mg the date of this proclamation until nine o’clock a. m., standard time, on the sixty-tbird day from and after the date_hereof, or who are on or are occupyinrr any part of such lands atsaid hour, except those having valid subsisting settlement rights initiated prior to reservation and since maintained, and those having pre erences to make ent under the pxrovisions of the Act of Congress approved ·*j¤i¤¤\*¤¤¤ *****5- June elevenliii, nineteen undred and six (34 Stat., 233),_ent1tled "°L“·P·“"’· "An Act To provide for the entry of éviiincultural lands within forest reserves", and Acts amendatory, be considered and dealt with as trespassers and preference will be given the prior legal applicant, notwithstanding such unlawful settlement or occupancy: __ Provided, however, that nothing herein shall plrevent pprsons from ,°_·‘_E;,f*“*“‘*·""" °*‘ going upon and over the lands to examine them wit a view to thereafter going upon and making settlement thereon when the lands shall become subject thereto in accordance with this proclamation.