ny 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.

The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Payson Forest
Reserve.

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 3d day of August, A.D. 1901, and of
the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.

By the President:
ALVEY A. ADEE,
_Acting Secretary of State._

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas notice has been given me by the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Commission, in accordance with the provisions of section 9 of the act
of Congress, approved March 3, 1901, entitled "An act to provide for
celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the purchase of the
Louisiana territory by the United States by holding an international
exhibition of arts, industries, manufactures, and the products of the
soil, mine, forest and sea, in the city of St. Louis, in the State of
Missouri," that provision has been made for grounds and buildings for
the uses provided for in the said act of Congress:

Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by
virtue of the authority vested in me by said act, do hereby declare and
proclaim that such International Exhibition will be opened in the city
of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, not later than the first day of
May, 1903, and will be closed not later than the first day of December
thereafter. And in the name of the Government and of the people of the
United States, I do hereby invite all the nations of the earth to take
part in the commemoration of the Purchase of the Louisiana Territory,
an event of great interest to the United States and of abiding effect
on their development, by appointing representatives and sending such
exhibits to the Louisiana P