1044 rnocLAMAT1oNs. Nos. ac, 2.7. [No. 36.] November MM- BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERIGA. A PROCLAMATION. The gifts of God to our people during the past year have been so `abundant and so special that the spirit of devout thanksgiving awaits not a call, but only the appointment of a day when it may have a common expression. He stayed the pestilence at our door; He has given us more love for the tree civil institutions in the creation of which His directing Providence was so conspicuous; He has awakened a deeper reverence for law; He has widened our philanthropy by a call to succor the distress in other lands; He has blessed our schools and is bringing forward a patriotic and God-fearing generation to execute His great and benevolent designs for our country; He has given us great - increase in material wealth and a wide diffusion of contentment and comfort in the homes of our people; He has given His grace to the sorrowin . . I:L’{,$b" gg1mg} Whgrefoie, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States, do ’°£°¤k·°€“’*¤8- call upon all our people to observe, as we have been wont, Thursday, the twenty-fourth day of this month of November, as a day of thanks- ` giving to God for His mercies and of supplication for His continued care and grace. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be afiixed. Done at the City of Washington this fourth day of November one SEAL 1 thousand eight hundred and ninety two, and of the Independ- [ence of the United States the one hundred and seventeenth. BENJ. Hanuison. By the President: Jour: W. FOSTER, Secretary of State. [No. 37.] D°°°""’°' °· lm- BY rim Pnmsrnnnr or Tr-IE UNITED Srnns or Amimcn. A PROCLAMATION. $§`,‘§?€}fk;;_um_ Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-fo1u·, of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An act to repeal timber culture laws, and for other purposes," “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 \\`hereas, it is made to appear by petition and otherwise, that the interests of the public and the welfare of the people of the State of Colorado will bematerially benefitted and subserved by the reservation of the public and forest lands hereinafter described. Form mamma Now, therefore, I, Bnruanrrz Hannisoiv, President of the United cameo. “States, by virtue of the power in me vested by said act, do hereby set apart. reserve and establish as a public reservation, all that tract of land in the State of Colorado. embraced in the ibllowing boundary and _ description, to-wit: B‘““‘°‘“°“‘ Beginning at the confluence of the North Fork of the South Platte River with the South Platte River; thence up the middle of the channel
