the southeast corner of said township; thence easterly
along the township line to the northeast corner of Township ten (10)
South, Range ten (10) West; thence southerly along the First Guide
Meridian West, between Ranges nine (9) and ten (10) West, to its
intersection with the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel South, between
Townships fifteen (15) and sixteen (16) South; thence westerly along the
said Third (3rd) Standard Parallel South to the southwest corner of
Township fifteen (15) South, Range sixteen (16) West; thence northerly
along the range line to the northwest corner of said township; thence
westerly along the township line to the northeast corner of Township
fifteen (15) South, Range nineteen (19) West; thence southerly along the
range line to its intersection with the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel
South; thence westerly along the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel South to
its intersection with the boundary line between New Mexico and Arizona;
thence northerly along said boundary line to the point where it
intersects the north line of Township five (5) South, Range twenty-one
(21) 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; _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 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 second day of March, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, and of the
Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-third.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.

By the President:
JOHN HAY,
_Secretary of State._

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas by a proclamation of the President of the United States, dated
the second day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety o