confirmed on the part of the
Muscogee Nation and on the part of the Muscogee or Creek tribe of
Indians constituting said Nation, as provided in said act of Congress
and as provided in the Constitution of said Nation, and the Principal
Chief is hereby authorized to transmit this act of the National Council
ratifying said agreement to the President of the United States as
provided in said act of Congress.

And whereas paragraph thirty-six of said agreement contains a provision
as follows:

This provision shall not take effect until after it shall have been
separately and specifically approved by the Creek national council and
by the Seminole general council; and if not approved by either, it shall
fail altogether, and be eliminated from this agreement without impairing
any other of its provisions.

And whereas there has been presented to me an act of the Creek national
council entitled "An act to disapprove certain provisions, relating to
Seminole citizens, in the agreement between the Muscogee Nation and the
United States, ratified by Congress March 1, 1901," approved the 25th
day of May, 1901, by which the provisions of said paragraph thirty-six
are specifically disapproved:

Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, do
hereby declare said agreement, except paragraph thirty-six thereof, duly
ratified and that all the provisions thereof, except said paragraph
thirty-six which failed of ratification by the Creek national council,
became law according to the terms thereof upon the 25th day of May,
1901.

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 25th day of June, A.D. 1901, and of
the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-fifth.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.

By the President:
DAVID J. HILL,
_Acting Secretary of State._

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas the Cascade Range Forest Reserve, in the State of Oregon,
was established by proclamation dated September 28, 1893, under and
by virtue of section twenty-four of the act of Congress, approved
March 3, 1891, entitled, "An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and
for other purposes," which provides, "That the President of the United
States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or
Territory having public lands wholly