Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 34 Part 3.djvu/471

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PROCLAMATIONS, 1906. 3251 BY THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES or AMERICA N°"°m1’°” 19°§ A PROCLAMATION IVHEREAS, the public lands in the Territorv of Arizona, which B¤1><>¤¤¤1V¤¤‘1 Forare hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it estriiéisiilliligi Arm appears that the public good would be promoted byisetting apart said lands as a public reservation; And whereas, it is provided b section twenty-four of the Act of V°1·26·P· 1103- Congress, approved March thirdi; eighteen hundred and ninetv-one, entitled, "An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” “That thedPresident of the United States may, from time to .1me, set a art an reserve, in an State or Territor havin ublic land beari1i)g forests, in any part of the public lands vgholly orgig part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not,_as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclan£at1o1;,’;·leclare the establishment of such reservations and the limits i ereo ; Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United A1;`°*°¤* ¤>¤°"¢· States of America, b virtue of the power in me vested by section Hom twenty-four of the afiiresaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there • are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set a art as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the Territory of Arizona, shown as the Baboquivari Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof. This proclamation will not take eifect upon any lands withdrawn 1·¤¤<1¤ ¤¤¤¢1>¢¢d- / or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered biy any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or c aim exists. ¥Varning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon Reserved le I- 0 m the lands reserved by this proclamation. °°m°'“°“t‘ IN WITNESS IVHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt. Done at the City of \Vashington this 5th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and [SEAL.] of éhehlndegendence of the United States the one hundred an t irtv— rst. ‘ U THEODORE ROOSEVELT By the President : ROBERT Bacon . Acting Secretary of State. · Br THE PRESIDENT or THE Uxrmn STATES or Amnmcn November 5.1f{Q§;_ A PROCLAMATION VVHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Nevada, which are F ruaepeuaeuee hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and itappearg N§vf°S * R°S"“· that the public good would be Dromoted by setting apart said lands 1’¤¢·¤¤¤¤1¤- as a public reservation; Ani:] whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Val-26·¤· 1103- Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, "An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other pup. pcSes," “That the Pf€S1d€Ht·Of the United States may, from time tc time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part