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18. Thence along a 8° 20' curve to the right, of a radius of 210 meters, to station 294 plus 18.72 meters, a distance of 129.26 meters, the last named station being the point where the new avenue meets the existing road 49 meters west of the entrance to San Antonio Bridge, the total length being 2,958.72 meters. The transfer of the lands above described is made subject to the condition that the road or highway shall be so located that the edge of same passing the north tower of the naval radio station shall be at least fifteen feet distant from the nearest leg of that tower and shall be so constructed as not to interfere with the use of the target range or necessitate the removal or abandonment of any permanent structure on said reservations and in the event that said lands shall cease to be used as a public road or boulevard or devoted to any other than highway purposes the same shall revert to the United States.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

DONE in the District of Columbia this 14th day of February, in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and forty-fifth.

By the President:

BAINBRIDGE COLBY

Secretary of State.

WOODROW WILSON

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, it appears that certain lands immediately heretofore embraced in the Gila National Forest, in New Mexico, should be transferred to and made a part of the Datil National Forest, and that certain lands heretofore forming part of the Datil Forest should be transferred to the Gila Forest;

AND WHEREAS, it appears that the public good will be promoted by excluding certain lands from the said Gila Forest and restoring the public lands subject to such disposition therein in the manner authorized by Public Resolution Number Twenty-nine approved February fourteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, WOODROW WILSON, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress approved June fourth eighteen hundred and ninetyseven (30 Stat., 11 at 34 and 36), 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", do proclaim that the boundaries of the Gila National Forest are hereby changed and that they are now as indicated upon the diagram hereto annexed and forming a part hereof; and that this proclamation and that changing the boundaries of the Datil Forest, which I have also signed this same day, are made and are intended to be and shall be considered as one act to become effective simultaneously.

Conditions as to location.

March 3, 1921.

Gila National For

est, N. Mex.
Preamble.

Ante, p. 434.

Area modified.
Vol. 30, p. 36.

Post, p. 1816.

Excluded lands

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And I do further proclaim and make known that pursuant to the opened to settlement aforesaid Public Resolution, it is hereby ordered that the public lands World War for 63 in the excluded areas, subject to valid rights, shall be opened only to days. entry under the homestead and desert land laws by qualified ex-service men of the War with Germany, under the terms and conditions of said

thereafter.

resolution and the regulations issued thereunder, for a period of sixtythree days beginning with the sixty-third day from and after the date Under general laws hereof, and thereafter to appropriation under any public land law applicable thereto by the general public. Subsequent to the date hereof and prior to the date of restoration to general disposition as provided herein, no rights may be acquired to the excluded lands by settlement in advance of entry, or otherwise, except strictly in accordance herewith.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done in the District of Columbia this 3rd day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one bundred and forty-fifth.

By the President:

BAINBRIDGE COLBY

Secretary of State.

WOODROW WILSON

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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, an Executive Order signed July third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, excluded a certain tract from the Datil National Forest, in New Mexico;

WHEREAS, it appears that certain lands immediately heretofore embraced in the Datil National Forest should be transferred to and made a part of the Gila National Forest, and that certain lands heretofore forming part of the Gila Forest should be transferred to the Datil Forest;

AND WHEREAS, it appears that the public good will be promoted by adding certain lands to the said Datil Forest, and by excluding certain areas therefrom and restoring the public lands subject to disposition therein in the manner authorized by Public Resolution Number Twenty-nine, approved February fourteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, WOODROW WILSON, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one (26 Stat., 1095), entitled, "An Act To repeal timberculture laws, and for other purposes," and also by the Act of Congress approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven (30 Stat., 11 at 34 and 36), 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," do proclaim that the boundaries of the Datil National Forest are hereby changed and that they are now as indicated upon the diagram hereto annexed and forming a part hereof; and that this proclamation and that changing the boundaries of the Gila Forest, which I have also signed this same day, are made and are intended to be and shall be considered as one act to become effective simultaneously.

The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws, or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so

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