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purposes", do proclaim that there are hereby excluded from the Paulina National Forest the areas indicated as eliminations upon the diagram hereto annexed and forming a part hereof, and that the remaining areas heretofore constituting the Paulina National Forest are in several portions transferred to and made a part of the Crater, Ante, pp. 15–17. Deschutes and Fremont National Forests, respectively, as shown upon the diagram forming a part hereof and upon the diagrams forming parts of the proclamations for the above-mentioned Forests which I have also signed this same day; and that this proclamation and the said other above-mentioned proclamations are and 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 abovementioned 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 Fremont Forests.

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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 pursuant to the authority reposed in me by the aforesaid Act of Vol. 38, p. 113. September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen (38 Stat., 113), I 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.

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Persons who go upon any of the lands to be restored as herein trespassing prior to provided and perform any act of settlement thereon from and includ- opening. ing 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 vol. 34, p. 233. 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, notwithstanding such unlawful settlement or occupancy: Provided, however, that noth-lowed. ing 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, etc. rights or preferences, as above defined, will be allowed to make entry in conformity with existing law and regulations.

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,

Secretary of State.

WOODROW WILSON.

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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS it appears that the public good will be promoted by adding certain lands within the State of Nebraska to the Nebraska National Forest;

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 March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one (26 Stat., 1095), entitled "An Act To repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes," and also 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 Nebraska National Forest are hereby changed and that they are now as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof. The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.

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

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS Executive Orders signed October twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and ten, and June twenty-second, nineteen hundred and fifteen, eliminated certain lands from the Chugach National Forest; and

WHEREAS it appears that the public good will be promoted by adding to the Chugach National Forest within the Territory of Alaska certain lands, and by excluding certain areas therefrom 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";

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