Proclamation 509—Enlargement of the Payson Forest Reserve

Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, 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, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled, "An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes", that "The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve";

And Whereas, the public lands in the State of Utah, 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, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid Acts of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that The Payson Forest Reserve, in the State of Utah, established by proclamation of August third, nineteen hundred and one, is hereby so changed and enlarged as to include all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Utah, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows, to wit:

Beginning at the north-west corner of Section five (5), Township ten (10) South, Range two (2) East; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of Section four (4), Township ten (10) South, Range three (3) East; thence southerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed sections lines, allowing for the proper offset on the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel South, to the south-east corner of Section nine (9), Township twelve (12) South, Range three (3) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Township thirteen (13) South, Range two (2) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township twelve (12) South, Range one (I) East; thence westerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of the north-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of the south-west quarter of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of the south-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section nine (9), said township; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section two (2), Township eleven (11) South, Range one (1) East; thence easterly along the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel South to the south-west corner of Township ten (10) South, Range two (2) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section five (5), said township, 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 lands reserved by this proclamation.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington this 5th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

By the President:

JOHN HAY,

Secretary of State.