"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 Territory of New Mexico, 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, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, 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 Territory of New Mexico and particularly described as follows, to wit:

Township seven (7) South, Ranges eleven (11) and twelve (12) East, New Mexico Principal Meridian, New Mexico; sections thirteen (13) to thirty-six (36), both inclusive, Township seven (7) South, Range thirteen (13) East; Township seven (7) South, Ranges fourteen (14) and fifteen (15) East; Sections thirteen (13) to thirty-six (36), both inclusive, Township seven (7) South, Ranges sixteen (16) and seventeen (17) East; Township eight (8) South, Ranges eleven (II) and twelve (12) East; Sections one (1) to ten (10), both inclusive, and fifteen (15) to eighteen (18), both inclusive, Township eight (8) South, Range thirteen (13) East; Sections one (1) to twenty (20), both inclusive, and the North half of Sections twentynine (29) and thirty (30), Township eight (8) South, Range fourteen (14) East; Township eight (8) South, Ranges fifteen (15), sixteen (16) and seventeen (17) East; Township nine (9) South, Ranges ten (10), eleven (11) and twelve (12) East; Township nine (9) South, Range seventeen (17) East; Township ten (10) South, Ranges nine (9), ten (10), eleven (11) and twelve (12) East; Sections seventeen (17) to twenty (20), both inclusive, and twenty-nine (29) to thirty-two (32), both inclusive, Township ten (10) South, Range thirteen (13) East; Township eleven (11) South, Range nine and one-half (92) East; all of Township eleven (11) South, Range ten (10) East, which is not included in the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation; Sections five (5) to eight (8), both inclusive, Sections seventeen (17) to twenty (20), both inclusive, and Sections twentynine (29) to thirty-two (32), both inclusive, Township eleven (11) South, Range thirteen (13) East; Township twelve (12) South,

Range ten (10) East; Township thirteen (13) South, Ranges ten (10) and eleven (11) East.

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 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.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.

The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Lincoln Forest Reserve.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

DONE at the City of Washington this 26th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-seventh.

By the President:

DAVID J. HILL,

THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

Acting Secretary of State.

By the President of the United STATES OF America.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas, it is provided by 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," "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 Territory of Arizona, 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, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, 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 Territory of Arizona, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows, to wit:

Beginning at the north-east corner of Section three (3), Township sixteen (16) South, Range twenty-nine (29) East, Gila and Salt River Meridian, Arizona; thence easterly along the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel South to the north-west corner of Township sixteen (16) South, Range thirty-one (31) East; thence southerly along the range line to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township seventeen (17) South, Range thirty-one (31) East; thence easterly along the section lines to the north-east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence southerly along the section lines to the southeast corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence easterly along the township line to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence southerly along the unsurveyed section lines to the point for the south-east corner of Section nine (9), Township nineteen (19) South, Range thirty-one (31) East; thence westerly along the unsurveyed section lines to the point for the southwest corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence southerly along the unsurveyed section lines to the point for the south-east corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly along the range line to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), Township twenty (20) South, Range thirty (30) East; thence westerly along the section lines to the north-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly along the section lines to the south-west corner Section eighteen (18), said township; thence northerly along the range line to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-four (24), Township nineteen (19) South, Range twenty-nine (29) East; thence westerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed quarter-section lines to the point for the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of Section twenty (20), said township; thence northerly along the unsurveyed quarter-section lines to the point for the south-east corner of the southwest quarter of Section eight (8), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed section lines to the north-west corner of Section. thirty-two (32), Township eighteen (18) South, Range twenty-nine (29) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the northeast corner of Section twenty-one (21),

said township; thence easterly to the point for the south-west corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the southeast corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly along the quarter-section lines to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section seven (7), said township; thence northerly along the range line to the north-west corner of the southwest quarter of Section eighteen (18), Township seventeen (17) South, Range twenty-nine (29) East; thence easterly along the quarter-section lines to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly along the section lines to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section ten (10), said township; thence easterly along the quarter-section lines to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section eleven (11), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of the south-west quarter of Section twelve (12), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the southeast quarter of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly along the range line to the north-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty-six (36), Township sixteen (16) South, Range twenty-nine (29) East; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence northerly along the section lines to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the northeast corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence northerly along the section lines to the north-east corner of Section three (3), 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 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.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.

The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Chiricahua Forest Reserve.

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 30th day of July, [SEAL.] in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-seventh.

By the President:

DAVID J. HILL,

THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

Acting Secretary of State.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas the act of Congress entitled "An Act to ratify and confirm a supplemental agreement with the Creek tribe of Indians, and for other purposes," approved on the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and two, contains a provision as follows:

That the following supplemental agreement, submitted by certain commissioners of the Creek tribe of Indians, as herein amended, is hereby ratified and confirmed on the part of the United States, and the same shall be of full force and effect if ratified by the Creek tribal council on or before the first day of September, nineteen hundred and two,

And whereas the principal chief of the said tribe has transmitted to me an act of the Creek national council entitled "An Act to ratify and confirm a supplemental agreement with the United States" approved the twenty-sixth day of July, nineteen hundred and two, which contains a provision as follows:

That the following supplemental agreement by and between the United States and the Muskogee (or Creek) Tribe of Indians, in Indian Territory, ratified and confirmed on the part of the United States by Act of Congress approved June 30, 1902 (Public-No. 200.), is hereby confirmed on the part of the Muskogee (or Creek) Nation,

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And whereas paragraph twenty-two provides as follows:

The principal chief, as soon as practicable after the ratification of this agreement by Congress, shall call an extra session of the Creek Nation council and submit this agreement, as ratified by Congress, to such council for its consideration, and if the agreement be ratified by the National council, as provided in the constitution of the tribe, the principal chief shall transmit to the President of the United States a certified copy of the act of the council ratifying the agreement, and thereupon the President shall issue his proclamation making public announcement of such ratification, thenceforward all the provisions of this agreement shall have the force and effect of law.