nor by any other of the above-mentioned proclamations 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 diagrams forming parts of the proclamations for the said Paulina, Crater and Fremont Forests. 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 nineteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL.] fifteen, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fortieth. By the President: ROBERT LANSING, Secretary of State. WOODROW WILSON BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA July 19, 1915. A PROCLAMATION Fremont National Vol. 38, p. 113. WHEREAS it appears that the public good will be promoted by Forest, Oreg. excluding from the Fremont National Forest, within the State of Oregon, 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"; and WHEREAS a portion of the area heretofore constituting the Pau- Post, p. 18. lina National Forest should be transferred to and made a part of the Fremont National Forest; Area modified. Now, therefore, I, WOODROW WILSON, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by Vol. 30, p. 36. 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 Fremont National Forest are hereby changed to exclude the areas shown as eliminations upon the diagram hereto annexed and forming a part hereof, and to include the portion of the Paulina National Forest indicated thereon and upon the diagram forming part of the proclamation signed this date excluding certain lands from the Paulina National Forest and transferring the remaining portions thereof in several parcels to the Fremont, Deschutes and Crater National Forests respectively; and that this proclamation and the proclamations for the said Paulina, Crater and Deschutes Forests are and Ante, pp. 15, 16, shall be considered as one act to become effective simultaneously; and that it is not intended by this proclamation, nor by any other of the above mentioned proclamations 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 forming a part hereof and on the diagrams forming parts of the proclamations for the said Crater and Paulina Forests. Post, p. 18. Area affected. Excluded lands re And I do further proclaim and make known that in my judgment stored to settlement. it 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 pur suant to the authority reposed in me by the aforesaid Act of Sep- Vol. 38, p. 113. tember thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen (38 Stat., 113), I Time of opening. Warning against trespassing prior to opening. Agricultural lands. do hereby direct and provide that such lands, subject to valid rights and the provisions of existing withdrawals, shall be open to actual settlers only under 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. Persons who go upon any of the lands to be restored as herein provided and perform any act of settlement thereon from and including 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 reservation 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, notwithstandExaminations al ing 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 Prior settlement 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. lowed. rights, etc. 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 nineteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fortieth. By the President: ROBERT LANSING, WOODROW WILSON July 19, 1915. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS it appears that the public good will be promoted by excluding from the Paulina National Forest, within the State of Oregon, 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"; and WHEREAS it appears that the remaining areas heretofore constituting the Paulina National Forest should be included in the Crater, Deschutes and Fremont National Forests; 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 |