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 WHEREAS, it appears that the public good will be promoted by reserving and setting apart such lands wit other lands in the State of Alabama as a National Forest;

Now, therefore, I, WOODROW WILSON, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested. by section eleven of said act and by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An Act To repeal timber—culture laws, and for other purposes”, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved and set apart as a public forest reservation all lands in the State of Alabama included within the area shown upon the diagram forming a part hereof as the Alabama National Forest, and that all lands therein which have been or may be acquired by the United States under authority of the said Act of March first, nineteen hundred and eleven, shall be reserved and administered as part of the National Forest.

The withdrawal made by this Proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains force.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my-hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done in the District of Columbia this fifteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand and [SEAL.] eighteen and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-second.


 * By the President:
 * Secretary of State.
 * Secretary of State.

WHEREAS, the act of Congress approved October twentieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled “An Act To provide for the leasing of coal lands in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes” (38 Stat., 741), provides that the President of the United States shall designate and reserve from use, location, sale, lease or disposition not exceeding 5,120 acres of coal–bearing lands in the Bering River field and not exceeding 7,680 acres of coal–bearing lands in the Matanuska field, and not to exceed one–half of the other coal lands in Alaska, prior to the offering of the unreserved lands for coal leasing in said fields;

Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of said statute, do hereby designate and reserve from use, location, sale, lease or disposition the following described land in the Nenana coal field in the Teritory of Alaska, to wit:

Fairbanks Base and Meridian


 * T. 11 S., R. 7 W., Sec. 29, SE¼ of SE¼;
 * Sec. 32, all.
 * T. 12 S., R. 7 W., Sec. 4, S½ of NW¼, SW¼;
 * Sec. 5, all.

1560 acres in all.