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forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof";

And whereas, the public lands in the State of Utah, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;

Now, therefore, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United Forest reserve, Utah. States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Utah and within the boundaries particularly described as follows, to wit:

Beginning at the north-west corner of Section eleven (11), Township Boundarten. fourteen (14) South, Range five (5) East, Salt Lake Meridian, Utah; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), Township fourteen (14) South, Range six (6) East; thence northerly to the northwest corner of said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township thirteen (13) South, Range six (6) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section five (5), said township; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of Section three (3), said township; thence southerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section fourteon (14), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section one (1), Township fourteen (14) South, Range six (6) East; thence easterly to the northeast corner of Section six (6), Township fourteen (14) South, Range seven (7) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Section seven (7), Township fourteen (14) South, Range eight (8) East; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Township fifteen (15) South, Range eight (8) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly along the section lines, allow-, ing for the proper offset on the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel South, to the south-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), Township sixteen (16) South, Range eight (8) East; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly along the section lines to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section thirty-five (35), Township sixteen (16) South, Range seven (7) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township seventeen (17) South, Range seven (7) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence westerly along the section lines to the south-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township seventeen (17) South, Range six (6) East; thence southerly to the point for the north-west corner of Township nineteen (19) South, Range six (6) East; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of said township; thence southerly to the point for the Jouth-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section two (2), Township twenty (20) South, Range six (6) East; thence southerly to the point for the south-west corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township;

thence southerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset
on the Fourth (4th) Standard Parallel South, to the north-east corner
of Section thirteen (13), Township twenty-one (21) South, Range six
(6) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section;
thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence west-
erly to the point for the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21),
said township; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner
of said section; thence westerly to the point for the north-west corner
of Section thirty (30), said township; thence southerly to the point for
the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the point for
the south-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), Township twenty-
one (21), South, Range five (5) East; thence northerly to the point for
the north-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township;
thence westerly along the unsurveyed section lines to the point for the
north-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), Township twenty-one (21)
South, Range three (3) East; thence southerly to the point for the south-
west corner of said section; thence westerly along the unsurveyed sec-
tion lines to the point for the south-west corner of Section twenty-two
(22), Township twenty-one (21) South, Range two (2) East; thence north-
erly to the point for the north-west corner of Section ten (10), said town-
ship; thence easterly to the point for the south-west corner of Section
one (1), said township; thence northerly to the point for the north-
west corner of said section; thence easterly to the point for the south-
east corner of Township (20) South, Range two (2) East; thence north-
erly along the surveyed and unsurveyed range line to the south-west
corner of Township eighteen (18) South, Range three (3) East; thence
easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-two (32), said town-
ship; thence northerly to the point for the south-east corner of Sec-
tion seventeen (17), said township; thence easterly to the point for the
south-west corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence north-
erly to the point for the north-west corner of, said section; thence
easterly to the point for the north-east corner of said section; thence
northerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed range line to the north-
east corner of Section twelve (12), Township seventeen (17) South,
Range three (3) East; thence easterly to the point for the south-west
corner of Section three (3), Township seventeen (17) South, Range
four (4) East; thence northerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed
section lines to the north-west corner of Section twenty-two (22),
Township sixteen (16) South, Range four (4) East; thence easterly to
the point for the north-east corner of Section twenty-three (23), said
township; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of
Section one (1), said township; thence easterly along the Third (3rd)
Standard Parallel South to the south-east corner of Section thirty-four
(34), Township fifteen (15) South, Range five (5) East; thence north-
erly along the section lines to the north-west corner of Section eleven
(11), Township fourteen (14) South, Range five (5) East, the place of
beginning:

Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.

The reservation hereby established sball be known as The Manti

Lands excepted.

Reserved from settlement.

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 29th day of May, in the year

of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-seventh.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT
By the President:
John Hay

Secretary of State.

[No. 3.)
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

June 9, 1903.

A PROCLAMATION.

Preamble.
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Whereas, The Lewis and Clarke Forest Reserve and The Flathead Forest Reserve, in the State of Montana, were established by proclamations dated February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninetyseven, under and by virtue of 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 pur- : Vol. 26, p. 1108. poses”, which provides, "That the President of the United States may, from time to 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 covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof";

And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled, "An act

An act · Vol. 80, p. 36. making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninetyeight, and for other purposes”, tbat "The President is hereby authorized at any.time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve”;

And whereas, it appears proper that the areas embraced in said forest reserves, modified by various additions thereto and the elimination of certain lands, should be included in one reserve, and be designated by one name; and it appears that the public lands in the State of Montana, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;

Now, therefore, I, THEODORE ROO$EVELT, President of the United The Lewis and States, by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid acts of serve, Montana. Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that the proclamations heretofore issued respecting said forest reserves are hereby superseded, and The Lewis and Clarke Forest Reserve is hereby established in with. place thereof, with boundaries as follows, to wit:

Beginning at the south-west corner of Township thirty-three (33) New boundaries. North, Range twenty-five (25) West, Principal Meridian, Montana; thence northerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed range line between ranges twenty-five (25) and twenty-six (26) West, allowing for the proper offset on the Ninth (9th) Standard Parallel North, to the point

Clarke Forest

The Flathead Forest Reserve consolidated Vol. 29, p. 354.

State of Montana and the British Possessions; thence easterly along
said boundary line to the north-west corner of the Blackfeet Indian
Reservation; thence south-easterly along the western boundary of said
Indian reservation as defined and described in the Act of Congress
approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, entitled, " An
Act making appropriations for current and contingent expenses of the
Indian Department and fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian
tribes for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and
ninety-seven, and for other purposes”, to the south-west corner of said
reservation; thence in a general easterly direction along the southern
boundary of said reservation to the point due north of the point for
the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township twenty-
eight (28) North, Range ten (10) West; thence southerly along the unsur-
veyed section lines to the point for the south-east corner of said See-
tion thirty-three (33); thence easterly to the point for the north-east
corner of Township twenty-seven (27) North, Range ten (10) West;
thence southerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section
seven (7), Township twenty-seven (27) North, Range nine (9), West;
'thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of Section dine
(9), said township; thence southerly to the point for the north-west
corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; thence easterly to
the point for the north-east corner of Section twenty-three (23), said
township; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of
Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence easterly to the point for
the north-east corner of Township twenty-six (26) North, Range nine
(9) West; thence southerly along the surveyed and unsurveyeď range
line, allowing for the proper offsets on the Sixth (6th) and Fifth (5th
Standard Parallels North to the point for the north-west corner of
Township eighteen (18) North, Range eight (8) West; thence easterly
to the point for the north-east corner of said township; thence southerly
to the point for the south-east corner of said township; thence easterly to
the point for the north-east corner of Township seventeen (17) North,
Range seven (7) West; thence southerly, allowing for the proper offset
on the Fourth (4th) Standard Parallel North, to the point for the south-
east corner of Township sixteen (16) North, Range seven (7) West;
thence westerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed township line,
allowing for the proper offsets on the range lines, to the south-east cor-
ner of Townsbip sixteen (16) North, Range thirteen (13) West; thence
northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said
township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen
(19), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Town-
ship sixteen (16) North, Range fourteen (14) West; thence westerly
along the surveyed and unsurveyed township line to the point for the
intersection with the eastern boundary of the Flathead Indian Reser-
vation; thence in a general north-westerly direction along said bound-
ary to the north-east corner of said Indian reservation; thence westerly
along the northern boundary of said reservation to the point of inter-
section with the eastern shore of Flathead Lake; thence northerly along
the shore of said lake to the point for the intersection with the town-
sbip line between Townships twenty-five (25) and twenty-six (26) North;
thence easterly along said surveyed and unsurveyed township line to the
south-west corner of Section thirty-four (34), Township twenty-six (26)
North, Range eighteen (18) West; thence northerly along the unsurveyed
section lines to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said town-
ship; thence westerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed township line
to the south-east corner of Township twenty-seven (27) North, Range
nineteen (19) West; thence northerly alo"g the surveyed and unsurveyed
range line to the point for the south-east corner of Section twenty-four
(24), Township twenty-eight (28) North, Range nineteen (19) West;

said township; thence northerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the Seventh (7th) Standard Parallel North, to the point for the north-west corner of Section twenty-two (22), Township thirty-two (32) North, Range nineteen (19) West; thence westerly along the unsurveyed section lines to the point for the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township thirty-. two (32) North, Range twenty-one (21) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Township thirty-two (32) North, Range twentytwo (22) West; thence westerly along the Eighth (8th) Standard Parallel North to the north-east corner of Township thirty-two (32) North, Range twenty-four (24) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of Township

thirty-two (32) North, Range twenty-five (25) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence westerly along the Eighth (8th) Standard Parallel North to the south-west corner of Township thirty-three (33) North, Range twenty-five (25) West, the place of beginning.

Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands Lands excepted. which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, That this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land 'unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.

Provided further, That nothing herein shall give any force or effect to any claim or right to any of the lands heretofore embraced within the reserves hereby consolidated which would not have been entitled to recognition if said reserves as heretofore established had been continued in force without being merged into a single reserve as hereinbefore provided.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation. The lands hereby eliminated from the reserve shall be open to

Date of opening to settlement from the date hereof, but shall not be subject to entry, filing or selection until after ninety days notice by such publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.

The rights and privileges •reserved to the Indians of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation by Article 1 of the agreement set forth in, and accepted, ratified, and confirmed by, the Act of Congress approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, hereinbefore referred to, Vol. 29, p. 264. respecting that portion of their reservation relinquished to the United States by said Article 1, shall be in no way infringed or modified by reason of the fact that a part of the area so relinquished is embraced within the limits of the boundaries herein described and set apart as a forest reservation; nor shall the right of occupation, location, and purchase of said relinquished lands under the provisions of the mineralland laws, accorded by said Act of Congress, be abridged.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of tbe United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this 9th day of June, in the year

of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and three, and of (SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one wundred and twenty-seventh.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT By the President:

JOHN HAY

Secretary of State.

Reserved from settlement.

settlement.