Proclamation 535—Establishment of the Modoc Forest Reserve, California

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, 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, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are 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:

Beginning at the north-west corner of Township forty-eight (48) North, Range ten (10) East, Mount Diablo Base and Meridian, California; thence easterly along the State Line between the States of California and Oregon, to the north-east corner of Lot three (3) of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence southerly to the northwest corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-five (25), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Township forty-seven (47) North, Range ten (10) East; thence southerly to the northwest corner of Section nineteen (19), Township forty-seven (47) North, Range eleven (11) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Lot three (3) of Section seven (7), Township forty-seven (47) North, Range twelve (12) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section eight (8), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section ten (10), said township; thence easterly along the quarter section lines to the point of intersection with the shore line of Goose Lake, in Section eight (8), Township forty-seven (47) North, Range thirteen (13) East; thence in a general southerly direction along the shore line of Goose Lake to the point of intersection with the section line between Sections twenty-seven (27) and twenty-eight (28), Township forty-five (45) North, Range thirteen (13) East; thence southerly along the section lines to the south-east corner of Section nine (9), Township forty-four (44) North, Range thirteen (13) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township forty-four (44) North, Range twelve (12) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township forty-four (44) North, Range eleven (11) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence northerly to the southeast corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township forty-four (44) North, Range ten (10) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the northwest quarter of the north-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of the north-east quarter of said section; thence Southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the northeast corner. of the south-west quarter of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the northeast quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the southeast corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section thirty (30), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the Ninth (9th) Standard Parallel North, to the northwest corner of Township forty-eight (48) North, Range ten (10) East, 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.

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

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 29th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

By the President:

JOHN HAY,

Secretary of State.