PROCLAMATION. N0. 40. 1053 [No. 40.] BY THE PRESIDENT or THE UNIEED STATES or AME RICA. Decemm-24.1ss2. A PBOCLAMATION. VVhereas, it is provided by section twenty-four, of the Act of Con- $f,‘(“’§,"‘°· ,,,,3 gress, approved March thiI·d, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, en- l `pl ` titled, "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, 1D 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 there0f;" _ And whereas, the public lands in the State of Colorado, 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 re— serving said lands as a public reservation. Now, Therefore, I, BENJAMIN HARRISON, President of the United C§§§§f,f,'°“°"“‘l““· 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 is 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 Colorado, and particularly described as follows, to-wit: ' Beginning at the north-east corner of Township seven (7) South, B<>¤¤<1¤·¤·i¤¤- Range ninety-three (93) West of the Sixth (6th) Principal Meridianthence westerly along the township line between Townships six (6) and ‘ seven (7) South, to the north~west corner of Township seven (7) South, Range ninety-three (93)West; thence southerly along the range line between Ranges ninety-three (93) and ninety~four (94) West, to the north·west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township seven (7) South, Range ninety-three (93) West; thence westerly along the unsurveyed section line between Sections thirteen (13) and twenty-four (24), fourteen (14) and twenty-three (23), fifteen (15) and twenty-two (22), sixteen (16) and twenty-one (21), seventeen (17) and twenty (20), and eighteen (18) and nineteen (19), Township seven (7) South, Range ninety-four (94) West, to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19) of said township and range; thence southerly along the range line between Ranges ninety-fouI· (94) and ninety-Eve (95) West, to the northwest corner of Township eight (8) South, Range ninety-tour (94) West; thence westerly along the township line between Townships seven (7) and eight (8) South, to the north-west corner of Section three (3), Township eight (8) South, Range ninety-tive (95) West; thence southerly along the section line between Sections three (3) and tour (4), nine (9) and ten (10) and fifteen(15) and sixteen (16),to the north-west corner of Section twenty-two (22) of said township and range; thence westerly along the section line between Sections sixteen (16) and twenty-one (21), seventeen (17) and twenty (20) and eighteen (18) and nineteen (19) of said township and range, and Sections thirteen (13) and twenty-four(24), tburteen (14) and twentythree (23) and iitteen (15) and twenty-two (22), Township eight (8) South, Range ninety-six (96) ¥Yest, to the northwest corner of Section twenty-two (22) of said township and range; thence southerly along the section line between Sections twenty-one (21) and twenty-two (22), twenty-seven (27) and twenty-eight (28) and thirty-three (33) and thirty-four (34) of said township and range, to the northwest corner of Section three ,_3),,Township nine (9) South, Range ninety-six (96) West; thence westerly along the township line between Townships eight (8) and nine (9) South, to the north-west corner of Section three (3), Township nine (9) South, Range ninetvseven (94) \Vest; thence southerly along the section line between Sections three
