PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2735 BY nm Pansmmivr or me Unrrmn Sryrss or Amnares *“¤“"‘5"°*°·` A PROCLAMATION fi" WHEREAS an_Executive Order dated July first, nineteen hu‘n— F§‘,§;',f°g,,“$f“°"”“
and eight, directed that plarts of the Ouray and Montezuma Preamblefjiational Forests be known as the Montezuma National Forest; and it appears that the Ipublic ngood will be romoted by
transfemrig from the Montezuma ation Forest to the San Juan *’°"·P·“’°°- National orest the area indicated bg-*0the shaded portion of the attached diagram, and by eliminating m the Montezuma National Forest certain lands; _ Now, therefore, I, William H. Taft, President of the United States $r·;¤3 ¤•¤· of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Con- ° ’°` ‘ greas epipproved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitl ‘An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and or other p1§poses," do proclaim that the boundaries of the ontezuma National orest are hereby changed and that the are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof. This gsrocimation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of ¢,%¤¤¤*m_¤•¤¤¤- any lan heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act ’P` of Coyes approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, . entitl "An ct To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands _ within forest reserves." · The lands hereby excluded from the Montezuma National Forest bigxdg ¤••¤¤•¤, •• which are not embraced in withdrawals for administrative sites for N ` use in the mangriement of the Forest, or in any other reservation or appropriation, all be restored to the public domain and become suliiject to settlement under the general provisions of the homestead laws on such date and after such notice Slyupublication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, but not become subject to entry, Bling, selection, or other form of appropriation until the expiration of thirty days from the date so Exed, except that on the same date as the lands eliminated become subject to settlement, the State of Colorado may, if the lands ehmmated are subject to such ,u{g¤;*g{gN_ ¤¤¤¤·>¤ selection, select as indemnity in the satisfaction of its common » school grant not to exceed two sections of land in each entire township 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 right whatever under any settlement or occupanci begun prior to such date, and all such settlement or occupation is ere y forbidden. It is not intended by this proclamation to release any lands from AM ¤¤·=¤*•¤· reservation except the areas indicated, nor to reserve any land not heretofore embraced in a National Forest. 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 15th day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ten, [sman.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-fifth. Wu H Tam ‘ By the President: Huiwrrucrorz Wrnsox Acting Secretary of State.
