Description. Placed under control of Secretary of the Navy. Adjustment of compensation. which said tract of land is more particularly described by metes and bounds as follows: All that tract of land in the County of Norfolk, State of Virginia, situate on Hampton Roads and Willoughby Bay beginning at the point of intersection of the north line of Algonquin Street produced in an easterly direction with the line of low water mark on the west side of the main channel of Boush Creek; Thence north eight-two degrees (82°) west two thousand one hundred and fifty-seven feet (2157'), more or less, along the north line of Algonquin Street; Thence south eighty-eight degrees (88°) six minutes (6') west three thousand four hundred and eighty-two and nine-tenths feet (3482.9') continuing along the north line of Algonquin Street to the east line of Maryland Avenue; Thence south eighty-eight degrees (88°) six minutes (6') west one thousand seven hundred and twenty feet (1720') along the north line of Ninety-ninth Street to the east line of Maryland Circle; Thence crossing Maryland Circle north seventy-four degrees (74°) forty-eight minutes (48') west one hundred and thirty-six feet (136') to the point of intersection of the west line of Maryland Circle prolonged with the north line of Ninety-ninth Street prolonged; Thence south eighty-eight degrees (88°) six minutes (6') west six hundred feet (600), more or less, along the north line of Ninetyninth Street to the point of intersection with the line of low water mark of Hampton Roads; Thence in a general northerly and easterly direction following the meanders of the line of low water mark of the waters of Hampton Roads and Willoughby Bay to the southeast end of the spit of land at the mouth of Boush Creek; Thence following the line of low water mark of the main channel of Boush Creek to the point of beginning, which line of low water mark on Boush Creek has approximately the following courses and distances: Beginning at the southeast end of said spit of land; thence north sixty-eight degrees (68°) west one thousand eight hundred and forty feet (1840'), more or less; thence south thirty-nine degrees (39°) west four hundred feet (400') more or less; thence south thirty-eight degrees (38°) east one thousand and thirty feet (1030'), more or less; thence south sixteen degrees (16°) west six hundred and fifty feet (650'), more or less, to said point of beginning; Containing in all four hundred and forty (440) acres, more or less; Together with all riparian rights, privileges, easements, and other rights whatsoever appurtenant or appertaining in any way to said above described tract of land in the waters lying between the low water line of said tract and the bulkhead or Port Warden's line to the west of said tract, as said line is now or may hereafter be established, and in the waters lying between the low water line of said tract and a bulkhead or Port Warden's line to the northerly and easterly of said tract, as said line may hereafter be established, the said tract of land being shown in outline on the map or drawing attached hereto and made a part of this proclamation. The said land above described, together with all the aforesaid rights and privileges appurtenant or appertaining thereto, is hereby declared to be, and the same is set aside for use for naval purposes and is placed under the exclusive control of the Secretary of the Navy, who is authorized and directed to take immediate possession thereof in accordance with the terms of said act on behalf of the United States for the purposes aforesaid. The Secretary of the Navy is further authorized and directed to take such steps as may in his judgment be necessary for the purpose of conducting negotiations with the owners of property or rights whatsoever therein within the said tract of land for the purpose of VERENDRYE NATIONAL MONUMENT NORTH DAKOTA Embracing the SE, the SE of SW and lots 4 and 5 containing 253.04 Acres. ascertaining the just compensation to which said owners are entitled in order that payment therefor may be made in accordance with the provisions of the act aforesaid. All persons residing within said tract of land or owning movable Residents notified to property therein are hereby notified to vacate the said tract of land vacate, etc. and to remove therefrom all movable property prior to the first day of August, nineteen hundred and seventeen. 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 twenty-eighth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL.] Seventeen and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-first. By the President: ROBERT LANSING Secretary of State. WOODROW WILSON. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WHEREAS, a high and imposing butte, locally known as Crowhigh Mountain, located in Township 192 North, Range 93 West, of the Fifth Principal Meridian, North Dakota, was discovered and utilized between 1738 and 1742 by Verendrye, an explorer of New France and the first white man known to have entered upon the territory now embraced within the present State of North Dakota, as an observation station from which to spy out the farther and unknown west, and WHEREAS, this lofty, natural summit, both because of its usefulness as stated and because it marks the spot where the Verendrye party first crossed the Missouri River in their journey to the Rocky Mountains, thus giving the place great historic interest, and it appears that the public interests will be promoted by reserving the lands upon which Crowhigh Mountain is located as a National Monument; June 29, 1917. Verendre National National Monument, North Dakota. NOW, THEREFORE, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power and authority in me vested by Section two of the act of Congress entitled, "An Act for the Preservation of American Antiquities," approved June 8, 1906 (34 Stat., 225), do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws, and set apart as the Verendrye National Monument, all the tracts of land in the State of North Dakota shown upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part hereof, and more particularly described as follows, to wit: the Description. southeast quarter, the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter, and lots four and five, in section fourteen, township one hundred and fiftytwo north, range ninety-three west, of the Fifth Principal Meridian. Warning is hereby given to all unauthorized persons not to appro- ment, etc. priate or injure any natural feature of this Monument, or to occupy, exploit, settle or locate upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation. 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 June, in the year By the President: ROBERT LANSING, Reserved from settle Secretary of State. June 30, 1917. Palisade National Forest, Idaho and Wyo. Preamble. Vol. 38, p. 113. Area diminished. Vol. 30, p. 36. Excluded lands restored to settlement. Vol. 38, p. 113. Time of opening. by Idaho not abridged. Vol. 27, p. 592. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, it appears that the public good will be promoted by excluding certain lands within the States of Idaho and Wyoming from the Palisade National Forest, and by restoring the public lands subject to disposition in the excluded areas in a manner authorized by the Act of Congress approved September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen (38 Stat., 113), entitled "An Act To authorize the President to provide a method for opening lands restored from reservation or withdrawal, and for other purposes"; NOW, THEREFORE, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven (30 Stat., 11 at 34 and 36), entitled "An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes", do proclaim that the boundaries of the Palisade National Forest are hereby changed to exclude the areas indicated as eliminations on the diagram hereto annexed and forming a part hereof. And I do further proclaim and make known that in my judgment it is proper and necessary in the interest of equal opportunity and good administration that all of the excluded lands subject to such disposition should be restored to homestead entry in advance of settlement or other forms of disposition, and pursuant to the authority reposed in me by the aforesaid Act of September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, I do hereby direct and provide that such lands, subject to valid rights and the provisions of existing withdrawals, shall be opened to entry only, under the provisions of the homestead laws requiring settlement, at and after, but not before, nine o'clock a. m., standard time, September 11, 1917, and to settlement and other disposition, under any public land law applicable thereto, at and after, Rights of preference but not before, nine o'clock a. m., September 18, 1917: Provided, that the rights of the State of Idaho under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three (27 Stat., 592), shall not be abridged in so far as any of the excluded lands in that State are affected thereby. Unsurveyed lands are not subject to the provisions of said Act, but in the absence of a prior valid adverse right, the preference accorded the State thereby, where the township has been surveyed and the plat thereof filed while the lands were reserved for forestry purposes, will attach immediately upon the restoration of such lands to selection and entry under the general land laws of the United States September 18, 1917, as herein Filing applications, provided and continue for sixty days. Prospective applicants may, during the period of twenty days preceding the date on which the land shall become subject to entry, selection, or location of the form desired under the provisions of this Proclamation, execute their applications in the manner provided by law and present the same, accompanied by the required payments, to the proper United States land office, in person, by mail, or otherwise, and all applications so filed, together with such as may be submitted at the hour fixed, shall be treated as though simultaneously filed and shall be disposed of in the manner prescribed by existing regulations. Under such regulations conflicts of equal rights will be determined by a drawing. etc. Warning against trespassing prior to opening. Warning is hereby given that no settlement initiated prior to seven days after the date for homestead entry above named will be recognized, but all persons who go upon any of the lands to be restored hereunder and perform any act of settlement thereon prior to nine o'clock a. m., standard time, September 18, 1917, or who are on or are |