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 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 South Dakota, 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, Theodore Roosevelt, 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 are 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 South Dakota and particularly described as follows:
In Township sixteen (16) North, Range two (2) East, the south-west quarter of the south-west quarter of Section two (2), the south half of the south-east quarter and the west half of Section three (3), Sections four (4) and five (5), the east half of the north-west quarter, the east half of the south-west quarter, and the east half of Section six (6), the east half of the north-east quarter of Section seven (7), the north half of Section eight (8), Sections nine (9) and ten (10), the west half of the north-west quarter and the west half of the south-west quarter of Section eleven (11), the west half of the north-east quarter, the west half of the south-east quarter and the west half of Section fourteen (14), Section fifteen (15), the north half of the north-west quarter and the east half of Section sixteen (16), the north half of Section twenty-two (22) and the north-west quarter of Section twenty-three (23); in Township seventeen (17) North, Range two (2) East, Sections eighteen (18) and nineteen (19), thesouth-west quarter of the south-east quarter, the west half of the north-west quarter, the south-east quarter of the south-west quarter and the west half of the south-west quarter of Section twenty-seven (27), Section twenty-eight (28), the south half of Section twenty-nine (29), Sections thirty (30), thirty-one (31), thirty-two (32) and thirty-three (33), and the north-east quarter and the west half of Section thirty-four (34);
Also; in Township sixteen (16) North, Range three (3) East, Sections one (1), two (2) and three (3), the east half of the north-west quarter, the east half of the south-west quarter and the east half of Section ten (10), Sections eleven (11), twelve (12), thirteen (13) and fourteen (14), the east half of the north-west quarter and the north-east quarter of Section fifteen (15), the north half of Section twenty-three (23) and the north-west quarter of Section twenty-four (24); in Township seventeen (17) North, Range three (3) East, the west half of the south-east quarter and the south-west quarter of Section twenty-five (25) and the west half of the north-east quarter, the west half of the south-east quarter and the west half of Section thirty-six (36); in Township sixteen (16) North, Range four (4) East, the west half of Sections six (6) seven (7) and eighteen (18); all of the Black Hills Meridian, South Dakota;
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 Short Pine Forest Reserve.
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 22d day of July, 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.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
By the President:
ALVEY A. ADEE,
Acting Secretary of State .
Theodore Roosevelt, Proclamation 584—Establishment of the Short Pine Forest Reserve, South Dakota Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/206449