Whereas, it is provided by section twentyfour of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, en titled, "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 pro moted 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 [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 con. tinues 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 twenty fifth 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. X. PROCLAMATIONS OF PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, APRIL 8, 1893-MAY 2, 1894. Warning All Persons Against Entering Behring Sea for the Purpose of Violating Section 1956 of the Revised Statutes, and Articles I., II. and III. of a Convention between the United States and Great Britain, April 8, 1893. kill any otter, mink, marten, sable or fur-seal, or other fur-bearing animal within the limits of Alaska Territory, or in the waters thereof; and every person guilty thereof shall, for each offense, be fined not less than two hundred more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months, or both; and all vessels, their tackle, apparel, furniture and nor BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES cargo, found engaged in violation of this section OF AMERICA. A Proclamation. The following provisions of the laws of the United States are hereby published for the information of all concerned. Section 1956, Revised Statutes, Chapter 3, Title XXIII., enacts that: "No person shall shall be forfeited; but the Secretary of the Treasury shall have power to authorize the killing of any such mink, marten, sable or other fur-bearing animal, except fur-seals, under such regulations as he may prescribe; and it shall be the duty of the Secretary to prevent the killing of any fur seal, and to provide for the execution of the provisions of this section until it is other wise provided by law; nor shall he grant any | for the purpose of violating the provisions of special privileges under this section." Section 3 of the act entitled "An Act to provide for the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska," approved March 2, 1889, provides that: "SEC. 3. That section nineteen hundred and fifty-six of the Revised Statutes of the United States is hereby declared to include and apply to all the dominion of the United States in the waters of Behring Sea; and it shall be the duty of the President, at a timely season in each year, to issue his proclamation and cause the same to be published for one month in at least one newspaper, if any such there be published, at each United States port of entry on the Pacific coast, warning all persons against entering said waters for the purpose of violating the provisions of said section; and he shall also cause one or more vessels of the United States to diligently cruise said waters and arrest all persons, and seize all vessels found to be, or to have been, engaged in any violation of the laws of the United States therein." Articles I, II. and III. of a Convention between the United States of America and Great Britain for the renewal of the existing modus vivendi in Behring Sea, concluded April 18, 1892, are published for the same purpose. "ARTICLE I. said section 1956 of the Revised Statutes, and of the said articles of said Convention; and I hereby proclaim that all persons found to be, or to have been engaged in any violation of the laws of the United States, or of the provisions of said Convention, in said waters, will be arrested, proceeded against, and punished as above pro|vided. 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 eighth day of April, one thousand eight hunpendence of the United States the one dred and ninety-three, and of the Inde [SEAL] hundred and seventeenth. GROVER CLEVELAND. By the President; Calling a Special Session of the FiftySecond Congress, June 30, 1892. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A Proclamation. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, D. C., June 30, 1893. Whereas the distrust and apprehension con "Her Majesty's Government will prohibit, during the pendency of the Arbitration, seal kill-cerning the financial situation which pervade all ing in that part of Behring Sea lying eastward of the line of demarcation described in Article No. I. of the Treaty of 1867 between the United States and Russia, and will promptly use its best efforts to ensure the observance of this prohibition by British subjects and vessels. "ARTICLE II. "The United States Government will prohibit seal killing for the same period in the same part of Behring Sea, and on the shores and islands thereof, the property of the United States (in excess of seven thousand five hundred to be taken on the islands for the subsistence of the natives), and will promptly use its best efforts to ensure the observance of this prohibition by United States citizens and vessels. "ARTICLE III. "Every vessel or person offending against this prohibition in the said waters of Behring Sea outside of the ordinary territorial limits of the United States, may be seized and detained by the naval or other duly commissioned officers of either of the High Contracting Parties, but they shall be handed over as soon as practicable to the authorities of the Nation to which they respectively belong, who alone shall have jurisdiction to try the offence and impose the penalties for the same. The witnesses and proof necessary to establish the offence shall also be sent with them." Now, therefore. I, GROVER CLEVELAND, President of the United States, hereby warn all persons against entering the waters of Behring Sea within the dominion of the United States business circles, have already caused great loss and damage to our people, and threaten to cripple our merchants, stop the wheels of manufacture, bring distress and privation to our farmers, and withhold from our workingmen the wage labor; of And, whereas, the present perilous condition is largely the result of a financial policy which the Executive Branch of the Government finds embodied in unwise laws which must be executed until repealed by Congress; Now, therefore, I, GROVER CLEVELAND, President of the United States, in performance of a constitutional duty, do by this proclamation declare that an extraordinary occasion requires the convening of both houses of the Congress of the United States at the Capitol in the city of Washington on the seventh day of August next, at twelve o'clock noon, to the end that the people may be relieved through legislation from present and impending danger and distress. All those entitled to act as members of the Fifty-Third Congress are required to take notice of this proclamation and attend at the time and place above stated. Given under my hand and the seal of the United States at the city of Washington on the thirtieth day of June, in the [SEAL] year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and seventeenth. GROVER CLEVELAND. By the President: Acting Secretary of State. Proclaiming Reciprocity of Wrecking Canada, July 17, 1893. consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: "1. United States vessels and wrecking appliances may salve any property wrecked, and BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES may render aid and assistance to any vessels OF AMERICA. A Proclamation. Whereas, an Act of Congress amendatory of an Act in relation to aiding vessels wrecked or disabled in the waters conterminous to the United States and the Dominion of Canada, was approved May 24, 1890,-the said Act being in the following words: "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That an Act entitled 'An act to aid vessels wrecked or disabled in the waters conterminous to the United States and the Dominion of Canada,' approved June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, be, and the same is hereby, amended so that the same will read as follows: wrecked, disabled, or in distress, in the waters "3. Nothing in the customs or coasting laws of Canada shall restrict the salving operations of such vessels or wrecking appliances. '4. This act shall come into force from and after a date to be named in a proclamation by the Governor-General, which proclamation may be issued when the Governor in council is advised that the privilege of salving any property wrecked or of aiding any vessels wrecked, disabled, or in distress, in United States waters contiguous to Canada, will be extended to Canadian vessels and wrecking appliances to the extent to which such privilege is granted by this act to United States vessels and wrecking appliances. "5. This act shall cease to be in force from and after a date to be named in a proclamation to be issued by the Governor-General to the effect that the said reciprocal privilege has been withdrawn, revoked or rendered inoperative with respect to Canadian vessels or wrecking appliances in United States water contiguous to Canada; And whereas, said proclamation of the Governor General of Canada was communicated to this Government by Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador on the 2d day of June last : "That Canadian vessels and wrecking appurtenance may render aid and assistance to Canadian or other vessels and property wrecked, disabled, or in distress in the waters of the United States contiguous to the Dominion of Canada: Provided, That this act shall not take effect until proclamation by the President of the United States that the privilege of aiding American or other vessels and property wrecked, disabled, or in distress in Canadian waters contiguous to the United States has been extended by the Government of the Dominion of Canada to American vessels and wrecking appliances of all descriptions. This act shall be construed to apply to the Welland Canal, the canal and improvement of the waters between Lake Erie and Lake Huron, and to the waters of the Saint Mary's River and canal: And provided further, That this act shall cease to be in force from and after the date of the proclamation of the Presi-States of America, in virtue of the authority condent of the United States to the effect that said reciprocal privilege has been withdrawn, revoked, or rendered inoperative by the said Government of the Dominion of Canada ;' And whereas, an act of Congress making appropriation for the legislative, executive and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and for other purposes, approved March 3, 1893, further amended the act of May May 24, 1890, as follows: "That an act approved May twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled 'An act to amend an act entitled "An act to aid vessels wrecked or disabled in waters coterminous to the United States and the Dominion of Canada," approved June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, be, and is hereby, amended by striking out the words 'the Welland Canal.'" And whereas, by an Order in Council dated May 17, 1893, the Government of the Dominion of Canada has proclaimed an act entitled "An act respecting aid by United States wreckers in Canadian waters," to take effect June 1, 1893, said act reading as follows: "Her Majesty, by and with the advice and Now, therefore, being thus satisfied that the privilege of aiding American or other vessels and property wrecked, disabled, or in distress, in Canadian waters contiguous to the United States has been extended by the Government of the Dominion of Canada to American vessels and wrecking appliances of all descriptions, I, GROVER CLEVELAND, President of the United ferred upon me by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved May 24, 1890, do proclaim that the condition specified in the legislation of Congress aforesaid now exists and is fulfilled and that the provisions of said act of May 24, 1890, whereby Canadian vessels and wrecking appliances may render aid and assistance to Canadian and other vessels and property wrecked, disabled or in distress, in the waters of the United States contiguous to the Dominion of Canada, including the Canal and improvement of the waters between Lake Erie and Lake Huron and the waters of the Saint Mary's River and Canal, are now in full force and effect. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be hereunto affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this seventeenth day of July, 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 eighteenth. By the President: GROVER CLEVELAND. W. Q. GRESHAM, Secretary of State. Proclaiming an International Copyright [eth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four" the as to the Subjects of Portugal. July 20, 1893. Cherokee Nation of Indians, by a written agreement made on the seventeenth day of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, has ratified BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES the agreement for the cession of certain lands, OF AMERICA. A Proclamation. Whereas it is provided by section 13 of the act of Congress of March 3, 1891, entitled "An Act to amend title sixty, chapter three, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to copyrights," that said act "shall only apply to a citizen or subject of a foreign state or nation when such foreign state or nation permits to citizens of the United States of America the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as its own citizens; or when such foreign state or nation is a party to an international agreement which provides for reciprocity in the granting of copyright, by the terms of which agreement the United States of America may, at its pleasure, become a party to such agreement;" And whereas it is also provided by said section that "the existence of either of the conditions aforesaid shall be determined by the President of the United States by proclamation made from time to time as the purposes of this act may require;" And whereas satisfactory official assurances have been given that in Portugal the law permits to citizens of the United States the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as to the subjects of Portugal: Now, therefore, I, GROVER CLEVELAND, President of the United States of America, do declare and proclaim that the first of the conditions specified in section 13 of the act of March 3, 1891, now exists and is fulfilled in respect to the subjects of Portugal. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to hereinafter described, as amended by said act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninetythree, and thereby ceded, conveyed, transferred, relinquished and surrendered all its title, claim, and interest of every kind and character in and to that part of the Indian Territory bounded on the west by the one hundredth degree (100°) of west longitude; on the north by the State of Kansas; on the east by the ninety-sixth degree (96°) of west longitude; and on the south by the Creek Nation, the Territory of Oklahoma and the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Reservation created or defined by Executive order dated August tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine: Provided, That any citizen of the Cherokee Nation, who, prior to the first day of November, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, was a bona fide resident upon and further had, as a farmer and for farming purposes, made permanent and valuable improvements upon any part of the land so ceded and who has not disposed of the same, but desires to occupy the particular lands so im proved as a homestead and for farming purposes, shall have the right to select one-eighth of a section of land, to conform however to the United States surveys; such slection to embrace, as far as the above limitations will admit, such improvements. The wife and children of any such citizen shall have the same right of selection that is above given to the citizen, and they shall have the preference in making selec tions to take any lands improved by the husband and father that he can not take until all of his improved land shall be taken; and that any cit izen of the Cherokee Nation not a resident within the land so ceded, who, prior to the first day of November, eighteen hundred and ninetyone, had for farming purposes made valuable and permanent improvements upon any of the land so ceded, shall have the right to select oneeighth of a section of land to conform to the United States surveys; such selection to embrace, as far as the above limitation will admit, such improvements; but the allotments so provided for shall not exceed seventy (70) in number, and the land allotted shall not exceed five thousand and six hundred (5,600) acres; and such allotments shall be made and confirmed under such rules and regulations as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and when so made and confirmed shall be conveyed to the allottees respectively by the United States in fee simple, and from the price to be paid to the Cherokee Nation for the cession so made BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES there shall be deducted the sum of one dollar OF AMERICA. A Proclamation. Whereas, pursuant to section ten, of the act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, entitled "An act making appropriations for current and contingent expenses, and fulfilling treaty stipulations with Indian tribes, for fiscal year ending June thirti and forty cents ($1.40) for each acre so taken in allotment; and Provided, That D. W. Bushyhead, having made permanent or valuable improvements prior to the first day of November, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, on the lands so ceded, he may select a quarter section of the lands ceded, whether reserved or otherwise, prior to the opening of said lands to public settlement; but he shall be required to pay for such selection, | year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and for other purposes;' except as to so much of said acts and sections as may conflict with the provisions of this act. Each settler on the lands so to be opened to settlement as aforesaid shall, before receiving a patent for his homestead, pay to the United States for the lands so taken by him, in addition to the fees provided by law, the sum of two dollars and fifty cents per acre for any land east of ninety-seven and one-half degrees west longitude, the sum of one dollar and a half per acre for any land between ninety seven and one-half degrees west longitude and ninety-eight and one-half degrees west longitude, and the sum of one dollar per acre for any land west of ninety-eight and one-half degrees west longitude, and shall also pay interest upon the amount so to be paid for said land from the date of entry to the date of final payment therefor at the rate of four per centum per annum. That said lands, except the portion to be allotted as provided in said agreement, shall, upon the payment of the sum of two hundred and ninety-five thousand seven hundred and thirty-six dollars, herein appropriated, to be immediately paid, become and be taken to be and treated as a part of the public domain. But in any opening of the same to settlement, sections sixteen and thirty-six in each township, whether surveyed or unsurveyed, shall be, and are hereby reserved for the use and benefit of the public schools to be established within the limits of such lands, under such conditions and regulations as may be hereafter enacted by Congress. **** "Sections thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, "No person shall be permitted to occupy or twenty one, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty- enter upon any of the lands herein referred to, four, twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, except in the manner prescribed by the proclatwenty-eight, and the east half of sections seven-mation of the President opening the same to teen, twenty and twenty-nine, all in township settlement; and any person otherwise occupying numbered twenty-nine north, of range numbered or entering upon any of said lands shall forfeit two east of the Indian Meridian, the same being atl right to acquire any of said lands. The lands reserved by Executive Order dated July Secretary of the Interior shall, under the directwelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, for tion of the President. prescribe rules and regulause of and in connection with the Chilocco In- tions, not inconsistent with this act, for the dian Industrial School, in the Indian Territory, occupation and settlement of said lands, to be shall not be subject to public settlement, but shall incorporated in the proclamation of the Presi until the further action of Congress, continue to dent, which shall be issued at least twenty days be reserved for the purposes for which they were before the time fixed for the opening of said set apart in the said Executive order. And the lands;" and President of the United States, in any order or proclamation which he shall make for the opening of the lands for settlement, may make such other reservations of lands for public purposes as he may deem wise and desirable. Whereas, by a written agreement, made on the twenty-first day of October, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, the Tonkawa tribe of Indians, in the Territory of Oklahoma, ceded, conveyed, and forever relinquished to the United States all their right, title, claim and interest of every kind and character, in and to the lands particularly described in Article I of the agreement, Provided, That the allotments of land to said Tonkawa tribe of Indians theretofore made, or to be made under said agreement and the provisions of the general allotment act approved February eighth, eighteen hundred and eightyseven and an act amendatory thereof, approved February twenty eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, shall be confirmed, and Provided, That in all cases where the allottee has died since land has been set off and scheduled to such person, the law of descent and partition in force in Oklahoma Territory shall apply thereto, any existing law to the contrary notwithstanding; and "The President of the United States is hereby authorized, at any time within six months after the approval of this act and the acceptance of the same by the Cherokee Nation as herein provided, by proclamation, to open to settlement any or all of the lands not allotted or reserved, in the manner provided in section thirteen of the act of Congress approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, entitled 'An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and for other purposes,' (Twenty-fifth United States Statutes, page ten hundred and five); and also subject to the provisions of the act of Congress approved May second, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled 'An act to Whereas, by a certain other agreement with provide a temporary government for the Territory the Pawnee tribe of Indians, in said Terriof Oklahoma, to enlarge the jurisdiction of the tory, made on the twenty-third day of NovemUnited States court in the Indian Territory, and ber, eighteen hundred and ninety two, said tribe for other purposes;' also, subject to the second ceded, conveyed, released, relinquished, and proviso of section seventeen, the whole of section surrendered to the United States all its title, eighteen of the act of March third, eighteen claim, and interest, of every kind and character, hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An act mak-in and to the lands particularly described in ing appropriations for the current expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the Article I of the agreement, Provided, That an allotment made or to be made to said Indians in the manner and subject to the conditions con |