BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS the Government of the Principality of Bulgaria has taken action, extending, on and after June 5, 1906, and until further notice, to the products of the soil or industry of the United States, the benefit of the Bulgarian conventional customs tariff rates, the same being the lowest rates applied by Bulgaria to the like products of any other country, by which action in the judgment of the President reciprocal and equivalent concessions are established in favor of the said products of the United States: September 15, 1906. Reciprocity with Bulgaria. Preamble. ties on Bulgarian Vol. 30, p. 203. Now, Therefore, be it known that I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Reduction of duPresident of the United States of America, acting under the authority products. conferred by the third section of the Tariff Act of the United States, approved July 24, 1897, do hereby suspend, during the continuance in force of the said concessions by the Government of the Principality of Bulgaria, the imposition and collection of the duties imposed by the first section of said Act upon the Articles hereinafter specified, being the products of the soil or industry of Bulgaria; and do declare in place thereof the following rates of duty provided in the third section of said Act to be in force and effect on and after September 30, 1906, of which the officers and citizens of the United States will take due notice, namely: Upon argols, or crude tartar, or wine lees, crude, five per centum ad valorem. Upon brandies, or other spirits manufactured or distilled from grain or other materials, one dollar and seventy-five cents per proof gallon. Upon still wines, and vermuth, in casks, thirty-five cents per gallon; in bottles or jugs, per case of one dozen bottles or jugs containing each not more than one quart and more than one pint, or twenty-four bottles or jugs containing each not more than one pint, one dollar and twenty-five cents per case, and any excess beyond these quantities found in such bottles or jugs shall be subject to a duty of four cents per pint or fractional part thereof, but no separate or additional duty shall be assessed upon the bottles or jugs. Upon paintings in oil or water colors, pastels, pen and ink drawings, and statuary, fifteen per centum ad valorem. ÎN 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 fifteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL.] six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-first. By the President: ROBERT BACON THEODORE ROOSEVELT Articles affected. Acting Secretary of State. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS, the public lands, in the State of Oregon, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as a public reservation; And 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 "; Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of land, in the State of Oregon, shown as the Fremont Forest Reserve on the diagram forming a part hereof. This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists. Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands 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 17th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first. By the President: ALVEY A. ADEE, Acting Secretary of State. THEODORE ROOSEVELT September 17, 1906. Tahoe Forest Reserve, Cal. and Nev. Preamble. 3184. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS, the Tahoe Forest Reserve, in the States of California and Nevada, and the Yuba Forest Reserve, in the State of California, Ante, pp. 3163, have been heretofore established by proclamations, under the provisions of the acts of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, "An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes," and June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled, "An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes"; Tahoe Forest Reserve established And whereas, it appears desirable that the area embraced in said forest reserves, with certain additions thereto, in the State of California, should be included in one reserve and be distinguished by one name; and it appears that the public lands in the States of California and Nevada, which are hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and that the public good would be promoted by setting apart the same as a public reservation; Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United in place of the Ta- States, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid acts of Congress, do proclaim that the proclamations heretofore issued respecting said forest reserves are hereby superseded, and the Tahoe hoe and Yuba forest reserves. Forest Reserve is hereby established in place thereof, with boundaries as shown on the diagram forming a part hereof. This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal, reservation, or claim exists. Warning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixt. Done at the City of Washington this 17th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first. By the President: ALVEY A. ADEE Acting Secretary of State. THEODORE ROOSEVELT Lands excepted. Reserved from settlement. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, Section two of the Act of June 5, 1906, (34 Stats., 213), directed that the four hundred and eighty thousand acres of grazing lands heretofore selected and set apart by the Secretary of the Interior in the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indian Reservations, in the Territory of Oklahoma, for the use in common of certain Indian tribes, pursuant to Article three of Section six of the Act of Congress, approved June 6, 1900, entitled, "An Act to ratify and confirm an agreement with the Indians of the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, in Idaho;" and the twenty-five thousand acres of land heretofore set apart by the Secretary of the Interior as a wood reservation in said Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indian Reservations, "shall be opened to settlement by proclamation of the President of the United States within six months from the passage of this Act, and be disposed of upon sealed bids or at public auction, at the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, to the highest bidder under the provisions of the homestead laws of the United States, and under the rules and regulations adopted by the Secretary of the Interior "; And, whereas, by Section six of said Act of June 5, 1906, it was declared that certain portions of said four hundred and eighty thousand acres of land should be allotted to certain Indians described therein; and by the Act of June 28, 1906 (34 Stats., 550), it was further declared that certain other portions of said four hundred and eighty thousand acres of land should be sold to certain lessees thereof: And, whereas, under the Act approved March 20, 1906 (34 Stats., 80), authorizing the establishment of townsites and the sale of lots within said four hundred and eighty thousand acres of land, the Secretary of the Interior was authorized to set aside and reserve such lands as he may deem necessary for the establishment of townsites; Proclamation opening lands for Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the said settlement. Act of Congress, approved June 5, 1906, do hereby declare and make known that all of said four hundred and eighty thousand acres of land, except such portions thereof as may be allotted, sold or reserved in the manner prescribed in said Acts of Congress, and all of said |