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regulations necessary to carry into full effect the opening herein provided for.

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 fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and one, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth.

By the President:

WILLIAM MCKINLEY

DAVID J. HILL,

Acting Secretary of State.

[No. 7.]

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas, the Olympic Forest Reserve, in the State of Washington, was established by proclamation dated February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, under and by virtue of section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, "An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes", which provides, "That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public lands bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof";

And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled "An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninetyeight, and for other purposes", that "The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve"; under which provision, certain lands were withdrawn and excluded from the said forest reserve by proclamation dated April seventh, nineteen hundred;

July 15, 1901.

Preamble.
Vol. 29, p. 901.
Vol. 31, p. 1962.

Vol. 26, p. 1103.

Vol. 30, p. 36.

Olympic Forest Re

Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United serve, Washington. States, by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do hereby make known and proclaim that the boundary lines of the aforesaid Olympic Forest Reserve are hereby further changed so as to read as follows:

Beginning at the north-east corner of Township twenty-one (21) North, Range five (5) West, Willamette Meridian, Washington; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township twenty-three (23) North, Range five (5) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the northwest corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of section twenty-three (23), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west

New boundaries.

north-west corner of section ten (10), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township twenty-three (23) North, Range four (4) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township twenty-four (24) North, Range three (3) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township; thence northerly to the southwest corner of Township twenty-eight (28) North, Range two (2) West; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence northerly along the quarter-section lines to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-one (21), Township twenty-nine (29) North, Range two (2) West; thence westerly along the section lines to the point for the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), Township twenty-nine (29) North, Range five (5) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Township thirty (30) North, Range eight (8) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence westerly to the point for the north-east corner of Section thirteen (13), Township thirty (30) North, Range ten (10) West; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Township thirty (30) North, Range eleven (11) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19) said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-three (23), Township thirty (30) North, Range ten (10), West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section three (3), Township twenty-nine (29), Range eleven (11) West; thence southerly to the point for the north-east corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence westerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Township twenty-eight (28), Range twelve (12) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township twenty-seven (27) North, Range eleven (11) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section one (1), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section ten (10), Township twenty-seven (27) North, Range twelve (12) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township twenty-seven (27) North, Range eleven (11) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township twenty-five (25) North, Range eleven (11) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township twenty-four (24) North, Range eleven (11) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence westerly along the township line to its point of intersection with the north boundary of the Quinaielt Indian Reservation; thence southeasterly along the north boundary of said Indian Reservation to the eastern point of said reservation and southwesterly along the east boundary thereof to the point of intersection with the township line between Townships twenty-one (21) and twenty-two (22) North; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township twenty-one (21) North, range

(1) said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), Township twenty-one (21) North, Range eight (8) West; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of Section four (4), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section six (6), Township twenty-one (21) North, Range seven (7) Wést; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section sixteen (16), Township twenty-one (21) North, Range six (6) West; thence northerly to the point for the north-east corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), Township twenty-one (21) North, Range five (5) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township, the place of beginning.

Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.

Lands excepted.

Reserved from settlement.

stored lands.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation. That the lands hereby restored to the public domain shall be open Settlement to settlement from date hereof, but shall not be subject to entry, filing or selection until after ninety days notice by such publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.

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 fifteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and one, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth.

JOHN HAY

By the President:

Secretary of State.

WILLIAM MCKINLEY

of re

[No. 8.]

[A PROCLAMATION.]

July 25, 1901.

Preamble.
Vol. 31, p. 78.

Cessation of tariff.

Whereas, by an Act of Congress, approved April 12, 1900, entitled "An Act Temporarily to Provide Revenues and a Civil Government for Porto Rico and for other Purposes," it was provided that, "whenever Porto Rico. the legislative assembly of Porto Rico shall have enacted and put into operation a system of local taxation to meet the necessities of the government of Porto Rico, by this Act established, and shall by resolution duly passed so notify the President, he shall make proclamation thereof, and thereupon all tariff duties on merchandise and articles going into Porto Rico from the United States or coming into the United

Porto Rican revenues.

Act of Porto Rican Assembly.

Porto Rico civil goverument organized.

Local taxation established.

such merchandise and articles shall be entered at the several ports of entry free of duty;" and

Whereas by the same act it was provided, "that as soon as a civil government for Porto Rico shall have been organized in accordance with the provisions of this act, and notice thereof shall have been given to the President, he shall make proclamation thereof, and thereafter all collections of duties and taxes in Porto Rico under the provisions of this act shall be paid into the treasury of Porto Rico, to be expended as required by law for the government and benefit thereof, instead of being paid into the Treasury of the United States;" and

Whereas the legislative assembly of Porto Rico has enacted and put into operation a system of local taxation to meet the necessities of the government of Porto Rico as aforesaid, and has passed and caused to be communicated to me the following resolution:

A JOINT RESOLUTION of the Legislative Assembly of Porto Rico, notifying the President of the
United States that the Legislative Assembly of Porto Rico has enacted and put into operation a
system of local taxation to meet the necessities of the Government of Porto Rico, established by
Act of Congress, entitled "an Act temporarily to provide revenues and a Civil Government for
Porto Rico, and for other purposes," duly approved April 12th, 1900:

Be it Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of Porto Rico:

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Whereas: A civil government for Porto Rico has been fully and completely organized in accordance with the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled An Act temporarily to provide revenues and a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes," duly approved April 12th, 1900, and:

Whereas: It was provided by the terms of said Act of Congress, that whenever the Legislative Assembly of Porto Rico shall have enacted and put into operation a system of local taxation to meet the necessities of the Government of Porto Rico, by the aforesaid Act established, and shall by resolution duly passed so notify the President, he shall make proclamation thereof, and thereupon all tariff duties on merchandise and articles going into Porto Rico from the United States, or coming into the United States from Porto Rico shall cease, and from and after such date all such merchandise and articles shall be entered at the several ports of entry free of duty: Now Therefore: The Legislative Assembly of Porto Rico in extraordinary session duly called by the Governor and held at San Juan, the Capital, on July fourth, A. D. 1901, acting pursuant to the authority and power in it vested by the provisions of the said Act of Congress above referred to, does hereby notify the President of the United States that by virtue of an Act of the Legislative Assembly of Porto Rico, entitled "An Act to provide revenue for the people of Porto Rico, and for other purposes," duly approved January 31st, A. D. 1901, and of other acts of the Legislative Assembly duly enacted at the first session of the Legislative Assembly of Porto Rico, duly held at San Juan, Porto Rico, commencing December 3rd, 1900, and ending January 31st, A. D. 1901, it has enacted and put into operation a system of local taxation to meet the necessities of the Government of Porto Rico, by the aforesaid Act of Congress established.

The Legislative Assembly of Porto Rico hereby directs that a copy of this joint resolution be presented to the President of the United States, and hereby requests the Governor of Porto Rico to deliver the same to the President, to the end that proclamation may be made by him according to the provisions of the said Act of Congress, and if it shall seem wise and proper to the President, that such proclamation may issue on the twenty-fifth day of July, the said day being a legally established holiday in Porto Rico commemorating the anniversary of the coming of the American flag to the Island.

MAN. F. Rossy,

Speaker of the House of Delegates.
Approved, July 4th, A. D. 1901.

WILLIAM H. HUNT, President of the Executive Council.

CHAS. H. ALLEN,
Governor.

Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, in pursuance of the provisions of law above quoted, and upon the foregoing due notification, do hereby issue this my proclamation, and do declare and make known that civil government for Porto Rico has been organized in accordance with the provisions of the said act of Congress;

And I do further declare and make known that the Legislative

of local taxation to meet the necessities of the government of Porto Rico.

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 twenty-fifth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL.] one, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth.

By the President:

DAVID J. HILL,

Acting Secretary of State.

[No. 9.]

WILLIAM MCKINLEY

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

August 3, 1901.

Vol. 26, p. 1103.

Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Con- Preamble. gress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes", "That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof":

And whereas, the public lands in the State of Utah, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;

Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Utah and particularly described as follows, to wit:

Forest Reserve, Utah.

Beginning at the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township Boundaries. ten (10) South, Range three (3) East, Salt Lake base and Meridian, Utah; thence westerly along the township line to the north-west corner of Section five (5), Township ten (10) South, Range two (2) East; Thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly along the range line to the south-west corner of Township twelve (12) South, Range two (2) East; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township eleven (11) South, Range three (3) East; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence northerly along the section line to the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township ten (10) South, Range three (3) East, the place of beginning.

Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to

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