Setting Apart the Afognak Forest and December 24, 1892. day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to enter upon, or to occupy, the tract or tracts of land or waters reserved by this pro BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES clamation, or to fish in, or use any of the waters OF AMERICA. A Proclamation. Whereas, it is provided by Section 24, 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 lands 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 provided by Section 14, of said above mentioned Act, that the public lands in the Territory of Alaska, reserved for public purposes. shall not be subject to occupation and sale. And whereas, the public lands in the Territory of Alaska, known as Afognak Island, are in part covered with timber, and are required for public purposes, in order that salmon fisheries in the waters of the Island, and salmon and other fish and sea animals, and other animals and birds, and the timber, undergrowth, grass, moss and other growth in, on, and about said Island may be protected and preserved unimpaired, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation. one mile from the shores thereof, as a reserve herein described or mentioned, and that all persons or corporations now occupying said Island, or any of said premises, except under said Treaty, shall depart therefrom. 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 Twentyfourth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun[SEAL] dred and ninety-two, and of the Independence of the United States, the one hundred and sixteenth. By the President: BENJ. HARRISON. Proclaiming a Notification of the Tariff BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES A Proclamation. Whereas, pursuant to Section 3 of the Act of Congress approved October 1, 1890, entitled, "An Act to reduce the revenue and equalize duties on imports, and for other purposes," the Secretary of State of the United States of America communicated to the Government of Salvador the action of the Congress of the United States of America, with a view to secure reciprocal trade, in declaring the articles enumerated in said Section 3 to be exempt from duty upon their importation into the United States of America; And whereas, the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries has selected Afognak Bay, River and Lake, with their tributary streams, And whereas, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the sources thereof, and the lands including for the Republic of Salvador has communicated the same on said Afognak Island, and within to the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenifor the purpose of establishing fish culture potentiary of the United States to Salvador that stations, and the use of the United States Com-the Congress of Salvador has by due legal missioner of Fish and Fisheries, the boundary lines of which include the head springs of the tributaries above mentioned, and the lands, the drainage of which is into the same. Now, therefore, I, BENJAMIN HARRISON, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by Sections 24 and 14, of the aforesaid Act of Congress, and by other laws of the United States, do reserve and do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby reserved from occupation and sale, and set apart as a Public Reservation, including use for fish culture stations, said Afognak Island, Alaska, and its adjacent bays and rocks and territorial waters, including among others the Sea Lion Rocks, and Sea Otter Island: Provided, That this proclamation shall not be so construed as to deprive any bona fide inhabitant of said Island of any valid right he may possess under the Treaty for the cession of the Russian possessions in North America to the United States, concluded at Washington, on the thirtieth conclude a definitive commercial arrangement enactment authorized the executive power to with the United States to supersede the existing. provisional arrangements; into the United States of America free of all And whereas, in reciprocity for the admission said Act, the Government of Salvador will admit duty of the articles enumerated in Section 3 of free of all duty from and after December 31, 1892, into all the established ports of entry of the following schedule, provided that the same is the manufacture or product of the United Salvador the articles or merchandise named in States. PRODUCTS AND MANUFACTURES OF THE UNITED STATES TO BE ADMITTED INTO SALVADOR I. Cotton seed oil. 3. Tar, vegetable and mineral. going schedule are imported shall be free of duty if they are usual and proper for the purpose. And whereas, the Government of Salvador has further stipulated that the laws and regulations, adopted to protect its revenue and prevent | fraud in the declarations and proof that the articles named in the foregoing schedule are the product or manufacture of the United States of America, shall impose no additional charges on the importer nor undue restrictions on the articles imported; And whereas, the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Salvador, has informed the Government of Salvador that its action in granting freedom of duties to the products and manufactures of the United States of America on their importation into Salvador, is accepted as a due reciprocity for the action of Congress as set forth in Section 18. Guano and other fertilizers, natural and 3 of said act; artificial. 19. Guys for mining purposes. 20. Hay and straw for forage. Now, therefore, be it known that I, BENJAMIN HARRISON, President of the United States of America, have caused the above stated modifi 21. Furnaces and instruments for assaying cations of the tariff laws of Salvador to be made metals. 22. Scientific instruments. 23. Lodestones. public for the information of the citizens of the United States of America. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my 24. Bricks, fire bricks, and crucibles for hand, and caused the seal of the United States melting. 25. Hops. 26. Printed books, pamphlets and newspapers, bound or unbound, maus, photographs, printed music and paper for music. 27. Corn, rice, barley and rye. 28. Marble, dressed, for furniture, statues, fountains, gravestones and building purposes. 29. Machinery of all kinds, including sewing machines; and separate or extra parts for the same. 30. Materials of all kinds for the construction and operation of railroads. 31. Materials of all kinds for the construction and operation of telegraphic and telephonic lines. 32. Materials of all kinds for lighting by electricity and gas. 33. Materials of all kinds for the construction of wharves in ports, lakes or rivers. 34. Wood of all kinds for building, in trunks or pieces, beams, rafters, planks, boards, shingles and flooring. 35. Moulds for making sugar. 36. Models of machinery and buildings. 37. Printing materials, including presses, ink, and all other accessories. 38. Samples of merchandise the duties on which do not exceed $1.00. 39. Gold and silver in bars, dust or coin. 40. Preparations of flour in biscuits, crackers not sweetened, macaroni, vermicelli, and tallarin. 41. Plates of iron for building purposes. 42. Kettles for making sugar. 43. Sulphate of quinine. 44. Tubes of iron and all other accessories for water supply. 45, Wagons, carts and carriages of all kinds, and separate parts for the same. to be affixed. Whereas, Congress, by a statute approved March 22, 1882, and by statutes in furtherance and amendment thereof, defined the crimes of bigamy, polygamy and unlawful cohabitation in the Territories and other places within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States and prescribed a penalty for such crimes; and Whereas, on or about the 6th day of October, 1890, the Church of the Latter Day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon Church, through its President, issued a manifesto proclaiming the purpose of said Church no longer to sanction the practice of polygamous marriages and calling upon all members and adherents of sad Church to obey the laws of the United States in reference to said subject matter; and Whereas, it is represented that since the date of said declaration the members and adherents of said Church have generally obeyed said laws and have abstained from plural marriages and It is understood that the packages or cover-polygamous cohabitation; and ings in which the articles named in the fore Whereas, by a petition dated December 19, 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 1891, the officials of said Church, pledging the Now, therefore, I, BENJAMIN HARRISON, 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 Whereas, the Utah Commission, in their re port bearing date September 15, 1892, recommend that said petition be granted and said am-known and proclaim that there is hereby renesty proclaimed, under proper conditions as to the future observance of the law, with a view to the encouragement of those now disposed to become law-abiding citizens; and Whereas, during the past two years such amnesty has been granted to individual applicants in a very large number of cases, conditioned upon the faithful observance of the laws of the United States against unlawful cohabitation; and there are now pending many more such applications; Now, therefore, I, BENJAMIN HARRISON, President of the United States, by virtue of the powers in me vested, do hereby declare and grant a full amnesty and pardon to all persons liable to the penalties of said Act by reason of unlawful cohabitation under the color of polygamous or plural marriage, who have, since November 1, 1890, abstained from such unlawful cohabitation; but upon the express condition that they shall in the future faithfully obey the laws of the United States herein before named, and not otherwise. Those who shall fail to avail themselves of the clemency hereby offered will be vigorously prosecuted. 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 fourth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and [SEAL] ninety-three, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and seventeenth. Whereas, it is provided by section twenty served 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: [The Lines are here given.] * 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; and all mining claims duly located and held according to the laws of the laws of the United States and the rules and regulations not in conflict therewith: 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, settlement or location was made. Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to enter or make settlement upon the tract of land 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 fourteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred [SEAL] and ninety-three, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and seventeenth. four of the Act of Congress, approved March BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 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;" OF AMERICA. A Proclamation. 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 lands bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or | apart and reserve, in any State or Territory havnot, 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 Washington, 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. ing 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 Territory of Arizona, 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 twenty-four 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 Washington, and within the bound-served from entry or settlement, and set apart aries particularly described as follows, to wit: [The Lines are here given ] 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; and all mining claims duly located and held according to the laws of the United States and rules and regulations not in conflict therewith: 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, settlement or location was made. Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to enter or make settlement upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my By the President: BENJ. HARRISON. Setting Apart the Grand Canon Forest February 20, 1893. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES A Proclamation. Whereas, it is provided by section twentyfour 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 Now, therefore, I, BENJAMIN HARRISON, 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 is hereby re as a Public Reservation, all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the Territory of Arizona, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows, to-wit: * * * * [The Lines are here given.] * 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; and all mining claims duly located and held according to the laws of the United States and rules and regulations not in conflict therewith; 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, settlement or location was made. Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to enter or make settlement upon the tract of land 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 twentieth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and [SEAL] ninety-three, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and seventeenth. By the President: BENJ. HARRISON. Suspending a Part of the Proclamation of A Proclamation. Whereas, by my proclamation of August 18, 1892, and in pursuance of the authority conferred on me by an Act of Congress approved July 26, Setting Apart a Timber Reservation in 1892, entitled An Act to enforce the reciprocal California, February 25, 1893. commercial relations between the United States OF AMERICA. A Proclamation. and Canada, and for other purposes," I directed | BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES "that from and after September 1, 1892, until further notice, a toll of twenty cents per ton be levied, collected, and paid on all freight of whatever kind or description passing through the St. Mary's Falls Canal in transit to any port of the Dominion of Canada, whether carried in vessels of the United States or of other nations;" and to that extent thereby suspended from and after said date the right of free passage through said St. Mary's Falls Canal of any and all cargoes or portions of cargoes in transit to Canadian ports," and 66 Whereas, the above order was issued in consequence of the imposition by the Government of the Dominion of Canada of a discriminating toll whereby unjust and unreasonable burdens were placed, in violation of article 27 of the Treaty of Washington, upon the carrying of passengers and cargoes through the Welland Canal in transit to ports of the United States, as is fully set forth in the said proclamation; and Whereas, by an Order in Council dated Feb. ruary 13, 1893, the Governor-General of the Dominion of Canada has directed that "for the season of 1893, the canal tolls for the passage of the following food products, wheat, Indian corn, peas, barley, rye, oats, flax seed and buckwheat, for passage eastward through the Welland Canal be 10 cents per ton; and for passage westward through the St. Lawrence Canals only 10 cents per ton; payment of the said toll of 10 cents per ton for passage through the Welland Canal to entitle these products to free passage through the St. Lawrence Canals; " and Whereas, I have received satisfactory assurances that this order revokes during the season of 1893 the discriminating provisions above referred to, and secures to citizens of the United States equality with British subjects as regards the use of said canals: Now, therefore, I, BENJAMIN HARRISON, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the said Act of Congress approved July 26, 1892, do hereby declare and proclaim that from and after the date hereof, and until further notice, the provisions of my said procla mation of August 18, 1892, are suspended, in so far as they direct that a toll of 20 cents per ton be levied, collected, and paid on all freights of whatever kind or description passing through the St. Mary's Falls Canal in transit to any port of the Dominion of Canada, whether carried in vessels of the United States or of other nations. In testimony 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 twentyfirst day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventeenth. By the President: BENJ. HARRISON. Whereas, it is approved by section twentyfour 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, BENJAMIN HARRISON, 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 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 (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," etc., etc. * * 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; and all mining claims duly located and held according to the laws of the United States and rules and regulations not in conflict therewith; 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, settlement or location was made. Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to enter or make settlement upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation. |
