2734 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. A¤g¤=’·* 1°· *91**- BY THE Pansrnmzr or THE Umrnn STATES or Amnnroa A PROCLAMATION Fjrgfvélgg) N°°'°¤°‘ WHEREAS an Executive Order dated July first, nineteen hundred 1>r¤ai¤b1e.` and eight, directed that Ifarts of the Leadville, Pikes Peak, Gunnison, Cocheto a, and oly Cross National Forests should constitute the Leadville National Forest; and WHEREAS it a pears that the public good will be promoted by eliminating from the Leadville National Forest certain ands withm the State of Colorado; • _ ${,•{°3*},*¤I§";_*gf*°“· Now, therefore, I, William H. Taft, President of the United ` ` States of America, b virtue of the plower in me vested by the Act of Congress up-proved Jyune fourth, eig teen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled “Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other p oses," do proclaim that the boundaries og the Leadville Natioiihl) Forest are hereby changked argd that they are now as shown on the diagram forming a art ereo . ¢§{f°3j‘*;}f°2}g$°d¤- P This proclamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of ’ any lands heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the _ Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entgdei "An Act il`o,provide for the entry of Agricultural lands wit `n orest reserves.’ Igpds mrguwrsd tv The lands hereby eliminated from the Leadville National Forest pu ° ° which are not embraced in withdrawals for administrative sites for use in the management of the Forest, or in any other reservation or appropriation, shall be restored to the public domain and become su ject to settlement under the general provisions of the homestead laws on such date and'after such notice by publication as the Secretary of the_Inter1or may prescribe, but shall not become subject to entry, filing, selection, or other form of a propriation until the expiration of thirty days from the date so diced, except that on the same date as the lands eliminated become subject to settlelaggdggerziggm whwl ment, the State of Colorado may, if the lands eliminated are subject ` to such selection, select as indemnity in the satisfaction of its common school grant, not to exceed two sections of land in each entire town hip restored, or one section in each fractional portion of a township where the restored area thereof exceeds five thousand · (5,000) acres, and no person will be permitted to acquire or exercise any rivht whatever under any settlement or occupancy begun prior {pdsiueh date, and all such settlement or occupation IS hereby for- 1 en. ·*¤*¤°°"¤*· It is not intended by thiaproclamation to release any land from reservation except the areas indicated on the diagram as eliminated, ger to reserve any land not heretofore embraced in a National orest. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set m hand and - Y caused the seal of the United States to be aflixed. Done at the City of Washington this tenth dav of August in the vear of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ten, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-fifth. Wm By the President: H TAN Htmrnverox WrLsoN Acting Secretary of State.
