Executive Order 2212

by President of the United States

Under authority of the Act of Congress approved June 4, 1897 (30 Stat., 11, 34-36), and on the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture, it is hereby ordered that the boundaries of the White River National Forest, as modified by the Proclamation of October 17, 1912, be further modified by eliminating therefrom the following described lands, in the State of Colorado:

In T. 1 S., R. 86 W., all Sec. 22; NE¼ NE¼, S½ NE¼, NW¼ NW¼, S½ NW¼ and S½ of Sec. 23; Secs. 24, 25, 26, 27, 34, 35 and 36;
In T. 2 S., R. 86 W., Secs. 1 and 12;

Sixth Principal Meridian.

It appearing proper and necessary, in the interest of equal opportunity and good administration, that all of such excluded lands subject to disposition should he restored to settlement in advance of entry, it is hereby ordered, pursuant to the authority reposed in me by the Act of September 30, 1913 (38 Stat., 113), that such lands, subject to valid rights and the provisions of existing withdrawals, shall be open to actual settlers only under the provisions of the homestead laws for a period of twenty-eight days from and including 9 o'clock a. m., standard time, on the sixty-third day from and after the date of this order, and thereafter to entry and disposition under any and all of the public land laws applicable thereto.

Persons who go upon any of the lands to be restored hereunder and perform any act of settlement thereon from and including the date of this order until 9 o'clock a. m., standard time, on the sixty-third day from and after the date hereof, or who are on or are occupying any part of such lands at said hour, except those having valid subsisting settlement rights initiated prior to reservation and since maintained, and those having preferences to make entry under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved June 11, 1906 (34 Stat, 233), entitled "An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves", and Acts amendatory, will be considered and dealt with as trespassers and preference will be given the prior legal applicant, notwithstanding such unlawful settlement or occupancy: Provided, however, that nothing herein shall prevent persons from going upon and over the lands to examine them with a view to thereafter going upon and making settlement thereon in accordance with this order. Persons having prior settlement rights, or preferences, as above defined, will be allowed to make entry in conformity with existing law and regulations.

Woodrow Wilson.

The White House,

15 June, 1915.