line between ranges four (4) and five (5) east, subject to the
proper offset on the first (1st) standard parallel north, to the point
for the southwest corner of township four (4) north, range five (5)
east; thence easterly along the unsurveyed and surveyed township line
between townships three (3) and four (4) north to the southeast corner
of township four (4) north, range nine (9) 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 make entry or filing of
record has not expired, and all mining claims duly located and held
according to the laws of the United States and rules and regulations not
in conflict therewith.

_Provided_, That this exception shall not continue to apply to any
particular tract of land unless the entry man, settler, or claimant
continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing,
settlement, or location was made.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to enter or make
settlement upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation.

Whereas a portion of the land embraced within the limits above described
was reserved by proclamation of February 20, 1893, and designated as
"The Pacific Forest Reserve," and whereas it appearing proper that the
entire area herein described should be distinguished by the name of the
most notable landmark within its boundaries, the title "The Pacific
Forest Reserve" is hereby abolished, and the reservation established by
this proclamation shall be known as "The Mount Rainier 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 22d day of February, A.D. 1897, and
of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and
twenty-first.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

By the President:
RICHARD OLNEY,
_Secretary of State_.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas it is provided by section 24 of the act of Congress approved
March 3, 1891, entitled "An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for
other purposes"--

That the President of the United States may from time to tim