, 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 any State or Territory having public land bearing
forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with
timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public
reservations; and the President shall by public proclamation declare
the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof.

And whereas the public lands in the State of California within the
limits hereinafter described are in part covered with timber, and it
appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and
reserving said lands as a public reservation:

Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States,
by virtue of the power in me vested by section 24 of the aforesaid act
of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby
reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a public reservation
all those certain tracts, pieces, or parcels of land lying and being
situate in the State of California and within the boundaries
particularly described as follows, to wit:

Beginning at the northwest corner of township three (3) north, range
five (5) west, San Bernardino meridian, California; thence southerly
along the surveyed and unsurveyed range line between ranges five (5) and
six (6) west to the northwest corner of section eighteen (18), township
one (1) north, range five (5) west; thence easterly along the section
line between sections seven (7) and eighteen (18) to the western
boundary of the "Rancho Muscupiabe;" thence easterly, following the
western and northern boundary of said rancho, to the point where said
boundary intersects the section line between sections nineteen (19)
and thirty (30), township one (1) north, range three (3) west; thence
easterly along the section lines to the northeast corner of section
twenty-five (25), said township and range; thence southerly along
the range line between ranges two (2) and three (3) west to the San
Bernardino base line; thence easterly along said base line to the
northeast corner of section four (4), township one (1) south, range two
(2) west, southerly along the unsurveyed and surveyed section lines to
the northeast corner of section (16), easterly along the section lines
to the northeast corner of section thirteen (13), and southerly to the
sout