ip; thence
northerly to the southwest corner of section nineteen (19), township
thirty-one (31) north, range thirty (30) west; thence easterly to the
southeast corner of said section; thence northerly to the northeast
corner of the southeast quarter of said section; thence easterly along
the quarter-section line to the southeast corner of the northwest
quarter of section twenty (20), said township; thence northerly along
the quarter-section lines to the northeast corner of the southwest
quarter of section thirty-two (32), township thirty-two (32) north,
range thirty (30) west; thence westerly to the northwest corner of
said quarter-section; thence northerly to the southwest corner of the
northwest quarter of section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence
easterly along the quarter-section lines to the southeast corner of the
northeast quarter of section twenty-eight (28), said township; thence
northerly to the southwest corner of section fifteen (15), said
township; thence easterly to the southeast corner of said section;
thence northerly to the northeast corner of section ten (10), 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.

The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Niobrara 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 sixteenth day of April, A.D. 1902,
and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and
twenty-sixth.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

By the President:
JOHN HAY,
_Secretary of State_

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the act of Congress,
approved Ma