INDIAN AFFAIRS: LAWS AND TREATIES

Vol. III, Laws     (Compiled to December 1, 1913)

Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1913.

PART II.—PROCLAMATIONS RELATING TO INDIAN LANDS AND RESERVES.

A Proclamation

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A PROCLAMATION
By the President of the United States of America.
Aug. 14, 1905. | Proclamations. 34 Stat., Part 3, 3142.

WHEREAS, it is believed that the following described lands, to-wit:

Lots three, five, and eight, of section twenty-five, and lot one of section twenty-six, in township three south, of range two west of the Uintah special meridian; and also the southwest quarter of southwest

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quarter of section nineteen, the northwest quarter of section twenty-nine, and the north half of section thirty, in township three south, of range one west of the Uintah special meridian, in the State of Utah, situate adjacent to other lands in said reservation which were reserved by my proclamation of July 31, in the year of our Lord 1905, are natural and prospective centers of population:

Now therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the act of Congress, entitled “An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department and for fulfilling the treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred and six, and for other purposes,” approved March 3, 1905, and by sections 2380 and 2381 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, do hereby declare and make known that the lands above described are hereby reserved as town-sites, to be disposed of by the United States under the terms of the Statutes applicable thereto, in connection with other lands reserved for that purpose by my said proclamation of July 31, 1905.

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 August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth.

T. ROOSEVELT [SEAL.]

By the President:
      ALVEY A. ADEE
          Acting Secretary of State.

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