ines of the Las Trampas, Las Truchas, and San Fernando
Santiago Grants to the point of intersection with the unsurveyed range
line between Ranges ten (10) and eleven (11) East; thence southerly
along the range line to the point for the southwest corner of Section
eighteen (18), Fractional Township sixteen (16) North, Range eleven (11)
East; thence easterly along the unsurveyed section line to the point for
the southeast corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence
northerly along the range line to the northeast corner of Township
seventeen (17) North, Range eleven (11) East; thence easterly along the
township line to the southeast corner of Township eighteen (18) North,
Range twelve (12) East; thence southerly along the range line to the
southwest corner of Township seventeen (17) North, Range thirteen (13)
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.

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 27th day of May, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, and of the
Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-second.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.

By the President:
J.B. MOORE,
_Acting Secretary of State_.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas pursuant to section 3 of the act of Congress approved July 24,
1897, entitled "An Act to provide revenue for the Government and to
encourage the industries of the United States," the Governments of the
United St