PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2727 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 1st day of July, in the year of " our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ten, and of the [SEAL.] Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-fourth. M H Tam By' the President: Hunrmeron Winsor: Acting Secretary of State. · BY um Pnnsmmrr or THE Umrnn S·rA·rns or Ammuca T¤1y1,191¤- A PROCLAMATION I WHEREAS it aplpears that the public good will be promoted by F§,°,‘g§°§,”a,“°‘*°°*‘ eliminating certain ands from the Sequoia National Forest, adding Pr¤¤i¤¤b1é· to said Forest certain lands within the State of California which are A”u’p'm°' in part covered with timber or under owth, and giving by proclama—— ‘ _ tion of this date, the name of Kern National Forest to certain lands geretofore reserved and proclaimed as a part of the Sequoia National orest; I · Now, therefore, I, William H. Taft, President of the United States §gy¤:g¤¤¢S3¤g¤¤¤¤¤¢ of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Con- 'P` ' gress alpproved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitle "An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal fyear ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and or other purposes," do roclaim that on and after July first, nineteen hundred and ten, the boundaries of the Seqgoia National Forest shall be as shown on the diagram forming 8 gghrt €r60f' - - Prior rights n t ale withdrawal made b this proclamation shall, as to all lands aaai. K ° which are at this date legally appropriated under the dpublic land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to an shall not inter·‘ fere with or defeat le al rig its under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is egally maintained or such reservation remains in force: Promkled, That all the rights, powers, and duties of the Seem- {.23;;:;*- mgm "_ tang of the Interior and the Commissioner of Indian Afl`airs, and all served. rig ts and privileges of their permittees and the Indians, reserved V°l‘°5""22*°‘ and confirmed by the proclamation of the President of the United · States dated March second, nineteen hundred and nine, enlargin · the Sequoia National Forest, shall remain in full force and effect, and the Secretary of the Interior shall, for a term of twenty-five years from the date hereof, have the same power as existed heretofore to allot to individual Indians any of the lands shown on the attached diagram as the Sequoia National Forest, formerl * a part of the public domain, which are chiefly valuable for agricultural urposes, notwithstandin anything in this proclamation containecii This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of $§{*§,‘§';"*,},§“¤d—‘· any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act ' ` of Con ess approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitledgi‘An Act to (provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves," an Acts amendatory thereo . A rtion of the land eliminated from the Sequoia National Forest E“‘“"‘““°”S· on £l0y first, nineteen hundred and ten, in accordance with this proclamation, is shown on the diagram forming a part hereof; the 4¤¢¢»1>-ma remainder is shown on the diagram forming a part of the proclama-
