st corner of township eight (8) north, range sixteen (16) east;
thence easterly along the unsurveyed township line to the point for the
southeast corner of township eight (8) north, range seventeen (17) east;
thence southerly along the unsurveyed and surveyed range line between
ranges seventeen (17) and eighteen (18) east, subject to the easterly
offset on the first (1st) standard parallel north, to the southeast
corner of township four (4) north, range seventeen (17) east; thence
easterly along the township line to the northeast corner of township
three (3) north, range eighteen (18) east; thence southerly along the
range line to the southeast corner of said township; thence easterly
along the township line between townships two (2) and three (3) north to
the southeast corner of township three (3) north, range twenty-four (24)
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 entryman, 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.

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 time set
apart and reserve in any State or Terri