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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1924. 1935 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this seventh day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [smL.] twenty-four and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and forty-eighth. CALVIN Coounen. By the President: Cnxams E. Huomcs Secretary of State. Br THE Pansmnnr or rim Unrrnn S·rA·ri:s or Ammnrox A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, by Proclamations, the President of the United States ¤€hv$l:s°;§°u°°°l F°°' has, at various times, created certain National Forests, within the mmm. State of Washington; and WHEREAS, n order to provide for a Dproper 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 22, 1914, between the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture and the State of Washington, whereby it was agreed that the said State should relinquish all its title or,_cla1m under its grant in aid of common schools to the whole or parts of certain sections sixteen and thirty-six included within the said National Forests prior to survey, or u on which homesteadsettlements had been made prior to surve ang inclusion within such reservations and legally maintained andybe allowed to select other lands equivalent in acreaglle and value l ing along and within the boundaries of said National orests in such, position that, when eliminated therefrom, all of said selected lands will lie outside the new exterior boundaries of the National Forests; and WHEREAS, It appears that the public interests would be promoted by modifying xecutive order of December 31, 1920, No. 3380, affecting the boundaries of the Chelan National Forest, so as to exclude the areas first hereinafter described, and also so as to allow the State of Washington, in.furtherance of the aforesaid agreement, to make selections o the lands agreed upon for selection, and hereinafter described, as indemnity in satisfaction of 'the aforesaid portions of its common school (grant; Am cd Now, therefore, I, alvin Coolidge, President of the United States von. so, p. au. ' of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress a proved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitledp ‘An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal ear ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight andy for other p1u·poses", do proclaim that the boundaries of the Chelan National Forest are hereby modified to exclude therefrom the following areas, to wit: In T. 38 N., R. 23 E., Sec. 36; 1>¤¤1p¤¤¤. In T. 39 N., R. 23 E., Sec. 36; In T. 33 N., R. 24 E., Secs. 16 and 36; In T. 34 N., R. 24 E., Sec. 36; In T. 37 N., R. 24 E., Secs. 16 and 36; In T. 38 N., R. 24 E., Secs. 16 and 36; In T. 39 N., R. 24 E., Sec. 36; In T. 40 N., R. 24 E., Secs. 16 and 36; In T. 38 N., R. 25 E., SWM NEM, W}6 NWM and 8%, Seo. 16; In T. 39 N., R. 25 E., Seo. 16; Willamette Meridian.