lands to examine them with a view to thereafter going upon and making settlement thereon when the lands shall become subject thereto in accordance with this proclamation. Persons having prior Prior settlement settlement rights or preferences, as above defined, will be allowed to make entry in conformity with existing law and regulations. rights, etc. It is not intended by this proclamation to reserve any land not Area affected. immediately heretofore embraced in a National Forest nor to exclude any land except the areas indicated as eliminations on the diagram hereto annexed. 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 ninth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-ninth. By the President: ROBERT LANSING, Secretary of State ad interim. WOODROW WILSON BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION June 9, 1915. Sequoia National For- Vol. 38, p. 113. WHEREAS it appears that the public good will be promoted by est, Cal. excluding from the Sequoia National Forest, California, certain areas, and restoring the public lands therein in a manner authorized by the Act of Congress approved September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, entitled "An Act To authorize the President to provide a method for opening lands restored from reservation or withdrawal, and for other purposes" Area diminished. Vol. 30, p. 36. Now, therefore, I, WOODROW WILSON, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven (30 Stat., 11 at 34 and 36), entitled "An 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 purposes", do proclaim that the boundaries of the Sequoia National Forest are hereby changed to exclude the areas indicated as eliminations on the diagram hereto annexed and forming a part hereof. And I do further proclaim and make known that in my judgment Excluded lands reit is proper and necessary in the interest of equal opportunity and good administration that all of such excluded lands subject to disposition should be restored to settlement in advance of entry, and pursuant to the authority reposed in me by the aforesaid Act of Septem- Vol. 38, p. 113. ber thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, I do hereby direct and provide that such lands, subject to valid rights and the provisions stored to settlement. of existing withdrawals, shall be open to actual settlers only under Time of opening. the provisions of the homestead laws for a period of twenty-eight days from and including nine o'clock a. m., standard time, on the sixty-third day from and after the date hereof, and thereafter to entry and disposition under any and all of the public land laws applicable thereto. Warning against Persons who go upon any of the lands to be restored as herein pro- trespassing prior to vided and perform any act of settlement thereon from and including opening. the date of this proclamation until nine o'clock a. m., standard time, on the sixty-third day from and after the date hereof, or who are on or are occupying any part of such lands at said hour, except those having valid subsisting settlement rights initiated prior to reserva Agricultural lands. lowed. tion and since maintained, and those having preferences to make entry under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six (34 Stat., 233), entitled “An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves", and Acts amendatory, will be considered and dealt with as trespassers and preference will be given the prior legal applicant, Examinations al- notwithstanding such unlawful settlement or occupancy: Provided, however, that nothing herein shall prevent persons from going upon and over the lands to examine them with a view to thereafter going upon and making settlement thereon when the lands shall become subject thereto in accordance with this proclamation. Persons having prior settlement rights or preferences, as above defined, will be allowed to make entry in conformity with existing law and regulations. Prior settlement rights, etc. Area affected. It is not intended by this proclamation to reserve any land not immediately heretofore embraced in a National Forest nor to exclude any land except the areas indicated as eliminations on the diagram hereto annexed. 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 ninth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-ninth. By the President: ROBERT LANSING, Secretary of State, ad interim. WOODROW WILSON BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, it appears that the public good will be promoted by transferring to the Wasatch National Forest, Utah, certain lands now embraced within the Uinta National Forest, in the same State; Now, therefore, I, WOODROW WILSON, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninetyseven (30 Stat., 11 at 34 and 36), entitled "An 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 purposes", do proclaim that on and after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, the boundaries of the Wasatch National Forest shall become modified and established as shown on the diagram hereto annexed and forming a part hereof. 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 23rd day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-ninth. By the President: ROBERT LANSING WOODROW WILSON Secretary of State, ad interim. |