of township thirty (30) north, range
fourteen (14) west; thence northerly along the range line to its
intersection with the shore of the Strait of Juan de Fuca; thence
northwesterly along said shore line to the east boundary of the Makah
Indian Reservation; thence southerly along the east boundary to the
southeast corner of said reservation and westerly along the south
boundary thereof to the high-water mark on the Pacific coast; thence
southerly along said coast line to the north boundary of the Quinaielt
Indian Reservation; thence southeasterly along the north boundary to
the eastern point of said reservation and southwesterly along the south
boundary thereof to the point of intersection with the fifth (5th)
standard parallel north; thence easterly along said parallel to the
southeast corner of township twenty-one (21) north, range five (5) west,
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 a
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