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 1894 PROCLAMATIONS, 1918. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aflixed. _ · Done in the District of Columbia this 27th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [sam,.] eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-third. " 'Woonnow Winsor:. By the President: Ronnnr Lansnm, Secretary of State. Br run Pmzsmmrr or 1-rm Uivrrnn Srnns or Aimmca A PROCLAMATION uiidiwml F°m¤' WHEREAS, By Proclamations, the President of the United States P"°““"*°· has, at various times, created certain National Forests, within the State of Montana; and WHEREAS, In order to provide for a 1`proper adjustment of the claims of the State to lands within said ational Forests, in satisfaction of its common school grant, a memorandum of agreement was entered into under date of December 23 1912, between the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture and, the Governor of the State of Montana, whereby it was eed that the said State should relinquish all its title or claim unfii; its grant in aid of common schools to lands included within the said National_ Forests prior to survey, being the whole or parts of certain sections sixteen and thirty-six, and be allowed to select other lands equivalent in acreage and value 1 along and within the boundaries of said National Forests in such osition that, when eliminated therefrom, all of said selected lands will lie outside the new exterior boundaries of _ _ the National Forests; and "”’“· p*’· "$’· "°°‘ WHEREAS, It appears that the public interests would be promoted by modifying the proclamations of June third, nineteen hundred and eighteen, affecting the Blackfect and Flathead National Forests, so as to exclude the areas first hereinafter described, and also so as to allow the State of Montana, in furtherance of the aforesaid agreement, to make selections of the lands agreed upon for selection, and hereinafter described, as indemnity in satisfaction of the aforesaid portions of its common school g€€.nt· B{;;,•g;6·;*¤}%·;l<§,¤d  Now, therefore, I, WOQDRO WILSON, President of the United me mmusxrerss. States of America, by virtue of the power m me vested by the Act of Congress approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety- seven, entitle "A.n Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Govemment for the fiscal ear ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, andy for other pnrpeses", do reclaim that the boundaries of the Blackfeet and Flathead National Forests are hereby modified to exclude therefrom the following areas, to wit: In T. 23 N., R. 17 W., Secs. 16 and 36; In T. 24 N., R. 17 W., Secs. 16 and 36; In T. 23 N., R. 18 W., Sec. 16; In T. 24 N., R. 18 W., Sec. 36; In T. 33 N., R. 23 W., Sec. 16; In T. 34 N., R. 23 W., Wg Sec. 16; In T. 33 N., R. 24 W., that portion of Sec. 16 east of Still- Water River; In T. 34 N., R. 24  Secs. 16 and 36; Montana Principal Meridian.