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Messages and Papers of William McKinley V.2. by William McKinley

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Beginning at the northeast corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township
five (5) North, Range three (3) East, Black Hills Meridian; thence
westerly to the northwest corner of Section nineteen (19), said
township; thence southerly to the northwest corner of Section thirty-one
(31), said township; thence westerly to the northwest corner of Section
thirty-six (36), Township five (5) North, Range two (2) East; thence
southerly to the southwest corner of Section thirteen (13), Township
four (4) North, Range two (2) East; thence easterly to the southeast
corner of Section fifteen (15), Township four (4) North, Range three (3)
East; thence northerly to the southwest corner of Section two (2), said
township; thence easterly to the southeast corner of said section;
thence northerly to the northeast corner of said section; thence
easterly to the southeast corner of Township five (5) North, Range three
(3) East; thence northerly to the northeast corner of Section
twenty-four (24), said township, the place of beginning.

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.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 19th day of September, in the year
of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, and of the
Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-third.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.

By the President:
ALVEY A. ADEE,
_Acting Secretary of State._



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas by joint resolution "to provide for annexing the Hawaiian
Islands to the United States," approved July 7, 1898, the cession by the
Government of the Republic of Hawaii to the United States of America, of
all rights of sovereignty of whatsoever kind in and over the Hawaiian
Islands and their dependencies, and the transfer to the United States
of the absolute fee and ownership of all public, Government, or crown
lands, public buildings, or edifices, ports, harbors, military
equipment, and all other public property of every kind and description
belonging to the Government of the Hawaiian Islands, was duly accepted,
ratified, and confirmed, and the said Hawaiian Islands and their
dependencies annexed as a part of the territory of the United States and
made subject to the sovereign dominion thereof, and all and singular the
property and rights hereinbefore mentioned vested in the United States
of America; and

Whereas it was further provided in said resolution that the existing
laws of the United States relative to public lands shall not apply to
such lands in the Hawaiian Islands, but the Congress of the United
States shall enact special laws for their management and disposition;
and

Whereas it is deemed necessary in the public interests that certain lots
and plats of land in the city of Honolulu be immediately reserved for
naval purposes;

Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by
virtue of the authority in me vested, do hereby declare, proclaim, and
make known that the following described lots or plats of land be and the
same are hereby reserved for naval purposes until such time as the
Congress of the United States shall otherwise direct, to wit:

1st. The water front lying between the Bishop Estate and the line of
Richards Street including the site of prospective wharves, slips, and
their approaches.

2d. The blocks of land embracing lots No. 86 to 91, 100 to 131,
including Mililani Street to the intersection of Halekauwali Street; and
the Government water lots lying between the Bishop Estate and Punchbowl
and Allen Streets.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 2d day of November, in the year one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, and of the Independence of the
United States the one hundred and twenty-third.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.

By the President:
JOHN HAY,
_Secretary of State._



HAWAIIAN CABLE CONCESSION.

_To all to whom these presents shall come; greeting_:

Know ye, that: Whereas, by an Indenture made the 2d day of July, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight between
Sanford B. Dole, President of the Republic of Hawaii for and in behalf
of the Hawaiian Government of the one part and the Pacific Cable
Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the
State of New York of the United States of America, of the other part,
there was granted, conceded, and confirmed unto the party of the second
part and its successors and assigns the right and privilege to lay,
construct, land, maintain and operate telegraphic and magnetic lines or
cables from a point or points on the Pacific Coast of the United States
to a suitable landing place or places to be selected by the party of the
second part in the Hawaiian Islands with terminus at Honolulu, Island of
Oahu, and from and beyond the Hawaiian Islands to Japan and any islands
or places necessary for stations for such cables between the Hawaiian
Islands and Japan that lie north of the tenth degree or parallel of
north latitude in the North Pacific Ocean, as an exclusive right and
privilege together with an exemption from duties, charges, and taxes
for and during the term of twenty years from the date expressed in
said Indenture, to wit, the 21st day of June, A.D. 1898,--said right,
privilege, and exemption being subject to the terms and conditions set
forth in said Indenture;

And whereas among said terms and conditions it is declared and agreed by
said Indenture that the party of the second part within two years from
the approval (within eighteen months from the date of said contract) of
an act by the Congress of the United States authorizing the party of the
second part to construct and operate a submarine cable line between the
United States and the Hawaiian Islands shall construct, lay in proper
working order, and establish a submarine telegraph cable from a point or
points on the Pacific coast of the United States to a landing place or
places in the Hawaiian Islands with terminus at Honolulu, Island of
Oahu, according to the specifications of said Indenture, and further,
within three years from the approval of such act by the Congress of the
United States, shall in like manner construct, lay in proper working
order, and establish a submarine telegraph cable from a point or points
at or near said Honolulu to Japan;

And whereas it is provided by said Indenture that the contract therein
made and set forth shall not take effect, if at any time within six
months from the date thereof, to wit, the 2d day of July, A.D., 1898,
"the United States State Department" shall express its disapproval
thereof;

And whereas, pursuant to a Joint Resolution of the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
approved July 7, 1898, to provide for annexing the Hawaiian Islands to
the United States, the sovereignty of the said Hawaiian Islands was
yielded up to the United States on the 12th day of August, A.D., 1898,
becoming thenceforth vested in the United States of America.

And whereas, in view of the provisions of said Joint Resolution for the
determination by the Congress of the United States of all matters of
municipal legislation concerning the Hawaiian Islands, and because the
subject matter and provisions of said Indenture are deemed to be proper
subjects for the consideration and determination of the Congress of the
United States, it is deemed expedient and necessary that the Congress of
the United States consider and adopt such legislation, especially in
regard to grants and contractual obligations to be controlled by and
rest upon the United States of America as vested with sovereignty over
said Hawaiian Islands, without let or hindrance by reason of any action
of the Government of the Republic of Hawaii in respect to such grants
and contractual obligations initiated by the said Government of the
Republic of Hawaii prior to and incomplete at the time of the yielding
up of the sovereignty of the Hawaiian Islands to the United States;

Now, therefore, I, John Hay, Secretary of State of the United States, do
hereby express on the part of "the United States State Department" its
disapproval of the contract stipulated in the said Indenture to the end
that the same shall not take effect.

[SEAL.]

Given under my hand and the seal of the Department of State of the
United States, in the city of Washington, D.C., this thirty-first day of
December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-eight.

JOHN HAY.



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 it is further provided by the act of Congress, approved 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," that "The President is hereby authorized at any
time to modify any executive order that has been or may hereafter be
made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may
reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may
vacate altogether any order creating such reserve;"

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, William McKinley, President of the United States, by
virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid acts of Congress, do
hereby make known and proclaim that the boundary lines of the Forest
Reservation in the State of California, known as "The Trabuco Canon
Forest Reserve," created by proclamation of February twenty-fifth,
eighteen hundred and ninety-three, are hereby so changed and enlarged as
to include 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 northeast corner of Section thirteen (13), Township
five (5) South, Range six (6) West, San Bernardino Base and Meridian,
California; thence westerly along the section line to the southeast
corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence northerly along the
section line to the northeast corner of Section four (4), said township;
thence westerly along the township line to the northwest corner of
Section three (3), Township five (5) South, Range seven (7) West; thence
southerly along the section line to the southwest corner of Section
thirty-four (34), said township; thence easterly along the township
line to the southeast corner of said township; thence southerly
along the range line between Ranges six (6) and seven (7) West, to its
intersection with the northern boundary of the Rancho Mission Viejo or
La Paz; thence along the northern and eastern boundary of said rancho
to its intersection with the northern boundary of the Rancho Santa
Margarita y Las Flores; thence along the northern boundary of said
rancho to its intersection with the range line between Ranges four
(4) and five (5) West; thence northerly along said range line to its
intersection with the southern boundary of the Rancho Santa Rosa; thence
in a northwesterly and northeasterly direction along the southern and
western boundary of said rancho to its intersection with the township
line between Townships six (6) and seven (7) South; thence westerly
along said township line to the southeast corner of Township six (6)
South, Range six (6) West; thence northerly along the range line to the
northeast corner of Section thirteen (13), Township five (5) South,
Range six (6) West, the place of beginning.

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 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.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 30th day of January, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, and of the
Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-third.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.

By the President:
JOHN HAY,
_Secretary of State._



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas satisfactory proof has been given to me by the Government of
Mexico that no discriminating duties of tonnage or imposts are imposed
or levied in the ports of Mexico upon vessels wholly belonging to
citizens of the United States, or upon the produce, manufactures, or
merchandise imported in the same from the United States, or from any
foreign country:

Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States
of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section four
thousand two hundred and twenty-eight of the Revised Statutes of the
United States, do hereby declare and proclaim that, from and after
the date of this, my proclamation, so long as vessels of the United
States and their cargoes shall be exempt from discriminating duties as
aforesaid, any such duties on Mexican vessels entering the ports of the
United States, or on the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported
in such vessels, shall be suspended and discontinued, and no longer.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, the 9th day of February, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, and of the
Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-third.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.

By the President:
JOHN HAY,
_Secretary of State._



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 Montana, 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 public reservations;

Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, 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 Public Reservations
all those certain tracts, pieces, or parcels of land lying and being
situate in the State of Montana and particularly described as follows,
to wit:

Sections fourteen (14), twenty-four (24), twenty-six (26), and
thirty-six (36), Township three (3) South, Range five (5) East; Sections
two (2), twelve (12), fourteen (14), twenty-four (24), twenty-six (26),
and thirty-six (36), Township four (4) South, Range five (5) East;
Sections two (2), twelve (12), fourteen (14), and twenty-four (24),
Township five (5) South, Range five (5) East; Sections fourteen (14),
sixteen (16), eighteen (18), twenty (20), twenty-two (22), twenty-four
(24), twenty-six (26), twenty-eight (28), thirty (30), thirty-two (32),
thirty-four (34), and thirty-six (36), Township three (3) South, Range
six (6) East; Sections two (2), four (4), six (6), eight (8), ten (10),
twelve (12), fourteen (14), sixteen (16), eighteen (18), twenty (20),
twenty-two (22), twenty-four (24), twenty-six (26), twenty-eight (28),
thirty (30), thirty-two (32), thirty-four (34), and thirty-six (36),
Township four (4) South, Range six (6) East; Sections two (2), four (4),
six (6), eight (8), ten (10), twelve (12), fourteen (14), sixteen (16),
eighteen (18), twenty (20), twenty-two (22), and twenty-four (24),
Township five (5) South, Range six (6) East; Sections eighteen (18), and
thirty (30), Township three (3) South, Range seven (7) East; Sections
six (6), eighteen (18), and thirty (30), Township four (4) South, Range
seven (7) East; and Sections six (6) and eighteen (18), Township five
(5) South, Range seven (7) East, Principal Meridian, Montana.

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 tracts 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.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 10th day of February, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, and of the
Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-third.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.

By the President:
JOHN HAY,
_Secretary of State._



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 Utah, 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, William McKinley, 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 Utah and within the boundaries particularly
described as follows, to wit:

Beginning at the northeast corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township
twenty-four (24) South, Range two (2) East, Salt Lake Base and Meridian,
Utah; thence southerly along the range line to the northeast corner of
Section thirteen (13), Township twenty-five (25) South, Range two (2)
East; thence easterly along the section line to the northeast corner of
Section eighteen (18), Township twenty-five (25) South, Range three
(3) East; thence southerly along the section line to the Fifth (5th)
Standard Parallel South; thence westerly along said parallel to the
northeast corner of Township twenty-six (26) South, Range two (2) East;
thence southerly along the range line to the southeast corner of said
township; thence westerly along the township line to the southwest
corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township twenty-six (26) South,
Range one (1) East; thence northerly along the section line to the Fifth
(5th) Standard Parallel South; thence easterly along said parallel to
the southwest corner of Township twenty-five (25) South, Range two (2)
East; thence northerly along the range line to the northwest corner of
Section nineteen (19), Township twenty-four (24) South, Range two (2)
East; thence easterly along the section line to the northeast corner of
Section twenty-four (24), said township, the place of beginning.

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 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.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington this 10th day of February, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, and of the
Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-third.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.

By the President:
JOHN HAY,
_Secretary of State._



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 Territory of New Mexico, 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, William McKinley, 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 Territory of New Mexico and within the boundaries
particularly described as follows, to-wit:

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