rights. Prior settlement 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. 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 tenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fortieth. By the President: ROBERT LANSING Secretary of State. WOODROW WILSON May 30, 1916. Flag day. Celebration of an United States flag. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES A PROCLAMATION. My Fellow Countrymen: Many circumstances have recently conniversary of adopting spired to turn our thoughts to a critical examination of the conditions of our national life, of the influences which have seemed to threaten to divide us in interest and sympathy, of forces within and forces without that seemed likely to draw us away from the happy traditions of united purpose and action of which we have been so proud. It has therefore seemed to me fitting that I should call your attention to the approach of the anniversary of the day upon which the flag of the United States was adopted by the Congress as the emblem of the Union, and to suggest to you that it should this year and in the years to come be given special significance as a day of renewal and reminder, a day upon which we should direct our minds with a special desire of renewal to thoughts of the ideals and principles of which we have sought to make our great Government the embodi General observance with patriotic exercises requested. ment. I therefore suggest and request that throughout the nation and if possible in every community the fourteenth day of June be observed as FLAG DAY with special patriotic exercises, at which means shall be taken to give significant expression to our thoughtful love of America, our comprehension of the great mission of liberty and justice to which we have devoted ourselves as a people, our pride in the history and our enthusiasm for the political programme of the nation, our determination to make it greater and purer with each generation, and our resolution to demonstrate to all the world its vital union in sentiment and purpose, accepting only those as true compatriots who feel as we do compulsion of this supreme allegiance. Let us on that day rededicate ourselves to the nation, "one and inseparable", from which every thought that is not worthy of our fathers' first vows of independence, liberty, and right shall be excluded and in which we shall stand with united hearts, for an America which no man can corrupt, no influence draw away from its ideals, no force divide against itself,-a nation signally distinguished among all the nations of mankind for its clear, individual conception alike of its duties and its privileges, its obligations and its rights. 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 thirtieth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, [SEAL.] and of the independence of the United States of America 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 June 30, 1916. Teton National Preamble. Vol. 38, p. 113. Vol. 30, p. 36. WHEREAS it appears that the public good will be promoted by excluding from the Teton National Forest, Wyoming, certain areas, and restoring the public lands therein in a manner authorized by the Act of Congress approved September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen (38 Stat., 113), entitled "An Act To authorize the President to provide a method for opening lands restored from reservation or withdrawal, and for other purposes;" Now, therefore, I, WOODROW WILSON, President of the United Area diminished. 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 ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes," do proclaim that the boundaries of the Teton National Forest are hereby changed to exclude the areas indicated as eliminations on the diagram hereto annexed and forming a part hereof. stored to settlement. 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 Vol. 38, p. 113. September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, I do hereby direct and provide that such lands, subject to valid rights and the provisions of existing withdrawals, shall be opened and become Time of opening. subject to settlement only, under the general provisions of the homestead laws, at and after, but not before, nine o'clock a. m., standard time, on the sixty-third day after the date of this proclamation; and to entry and other disposition, under any public land law applicable thereto, at and after, but not before, nine o'clock a. m., on the ninetyfirst day after said date. passing prior to settle Agricultural lands. Persons who go upon any of the land to be restored as herein Warning against tresprovided and perform any act of settlement thereon from and includ-ment. 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 To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest Vol. 34, p. 233. 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,, Examinations al however, that nothing herein shall prevent persons from going upon and over the lands to examine them with a view thereafter to going upon and making settlement thereon when the lands shall become subject thereto in accordance with this proclamation. Persons hav-rights, etc. ing prior settlement rights or preferences, as above defined, will be allowed to make entry in conformity with existing law and regulations. lowed. Prior settlement It is not intended by this proclamation to reserve any lands 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 thirtieth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fortieth. By the President: ROBERT LANSING, Secretary of State. WOODROW WILSON June 30, 1916. Bridger National Forest, Wyo. Area enlarged. 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 Bridger National Forest, Wyoming, certain lands now embraced within the Washakie 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 July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, the boundaries of the Bridger 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 thirtieth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fortieth. By the President: ROBERT LANSING Secretary of State. WOODROW WILSON June 30, 1916. 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 Washakie National Forest, Wyoming, all the lands now embraced within the Bonneville National Forest, in the same State, and by transferring to the Bridger National Forest, Wyoming, certain other lands now embraced within the Washakie 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 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 on and after July first, nineteen |