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

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Beginning at a point on the boundary line between New Mexico and Arizona
where it is intersected by the north line of Township five (5) South,
Range twenty-one (21) West, New Mexico Principal Meridian, New Mexico;
thence easterly along the township line to the northeast corner of
Township five (5) South, Range sixteen (16) West; thence southerly along
the range line between Ranges fifteen (15) and sixteen (16) West, to the
southeast corner of Township eight (8) South, Range sixteen (16) West;
thence easterly along the township line to the northeast corner of
Township nine (9) South, Range fifteen (15) West; thence southerly along
the range line to the southeast corner of said township; thence easterly
along the township line to the northeast corner of Township ten (10)
South, Range ten (10) West; thence southerly along the First Guide
Meridian West, between Ranges nine (9) and ten (10) West, to its
intersection with the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel South, between
Townships fifteen (15) and sixteen (16) South; thence westerly along the
said Third (3rd) Standard Parallel South to the southwest corner of
Township fifteen (15) South, Range sixteen (16) West; thence northerly
along the range line to the northwest corner of said township; thence
westerly along the township line to the northeast corner of Township
fifteen (15) South, Range nineteen (19) West; thence southerly along the
range line to its intersection with the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel
South; thence westerly along the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel South to
its intersection with the boundary line between New Mexico and Arizona;
thence northerly along said boundary line to the point where it
intersects the north line of Township five (5) South, Range twenty-one
(21) 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 second day of March, 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.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas by a proclamation of the President of the United States, dated
the second day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety one, upon proof
then appearing satisfactory that no tonnage or lighthouse dues or other
equivalent tax or taxes were imposed upon American vessels entering the
ports of the Island of Tobago, one of the British West India Islands,
and that vessels belonging to the United States of America and their
cargoes were not required in the ports of the said Island of Tobago to
pay any fee or due of any kind or nature, or any import due higher than
was payable by vessels from ports or places in the said Island of
Tobago, or their cargoes, in the United States, the President did
therefore declare and proclaim, from and after the date of his said
proclamation of December second, eighteen hundred and ninety one, the
suspension of the collection of the whole of the duty of three cents per
ton, not to exceed fifteen cents per ton per annum, imposed upon vessels
entered in the ports of the United States from any of the ports of the
Island of Tobago by section 11 of the act of Congress approved June
nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty six, entitled "An act to abolish
certain fees for official services to American vessels and to amend the
laws relating to shipping commissioners, seamen, and owners of vessels
and for other purposes."

And whereas the President did further declare and proclaim in his
proclamation of December second, eighteen hundred and ninety one, that
the said suspension should continue so long as the reciprocal exemption
of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States and their cargoes
should be continued in the said ports of the Island of Tobago and no
longer;

And whereas it now appears upon satisfactory proof that tonnage or
light-house dues, or a tax or taxes equivalent thereto, are in fact
imposed upon American vessels and their cargoes entered in ports of
the Island of Tobago higher and other than those imposed upon vessels
and their cargoes entered in ports of the Island of Tobago, or
their cargoes, entered in ports of the United States, so that said
proclamation of December second, eighteen hundred and ninety one, in its
operation and effect contravenes the meaning and intent of said section
11 of the act of Congress approved June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and
eighty-six;

Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States of
America, by virtue of the aforesaid section 11 of the act aforesaid, as
well as in pursuance of the terms of said proclamation itself, do hereby
revoke the said proclamation of December second, eighteen hundred and
ninety-one suspending the collection of the whole of the duty of three
cents per ton, not to exceed fifteen cents per ton per annum (which is
imposed by the aforesaid section of said act) upon vessels entered in
the ports of the United States from any of the ports of the Island of
Tobago; this revocation of said proclamation to take effect on and after
the date of this my 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 13th day of March, 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.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas by a proclamation of the President of the United States,
dated April seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-five upon proof then
appearing satisfactory that upon vessels of the United States arriving
at the Island of Trinidad, British West Indies, no due was imposed by
the ton as tonnage or as light money and that no other equivalent tax on
vessels of the United States was imposed at said island by the British
Government, the President did declare and proclaim from and after the
date of his said proclamation of April seventh, eighteen hundred and
eighty-five, the suspension of the collection of the tonnage duties of
three cents per ton, not to exceed fifteen cents per ton per annum,
imposed upon vessels entered in ports of the United States from any of
the ports of the Island of Trinidad by section 14 of the act of Congress
approved June twenty-six, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, entitled
"An act to remove certain burdens on the American merchant marine and
encourage the American foreign carrying trade and for other purposes;"

And whereas it now appears upon satisfactory proof that tonnage or
light-house dues, or a tax or taxes equivalent thereto, are in fact
imposed upon American vessels and their cargoes entered in ports of the
Island of Trinidad higher and other than those imposed upon vessels from
ports in the Island of Trinidad or their cargoes entered in ports of the
United States, so that said proclamation of April seventh, eighteen
hundred and eighty-five, in its operation and effect contravenes the
meaning and intent of section 14 of the act of Congress approved June
twenty-six, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as amended by section 11
of the act of Congress approved June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and
eighty-six, entitled "An act to abolish certain fees for official
services to American vessels and to amend the laws relating to shipping
commissioners, seamen, and owners of vessels and for other purposes;"

Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States of
America, by virtue of the aforesaid section 14 of the act of Congress
approved June twenty-six, eighteen hundred and eighty-four as amended by
the aforesaid section 11 of the act approved June nineteenth, eighteen
hundred and eighty-six, do hereby revoke the said proclamation of April
seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, suspending the collection of
the whole of the duty of three cents per ton, not to exceed fifteen
cents per ton per annum (which is imposed by the aforesaid sections of
said acts), upon vessels entered in the ports of the United States from
any of the ports of the Island of Trinidad; this revocation of said
proclamation to take effect on and after the date of this my
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 13th day of March, 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.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas, it is deemed necessary in the public interests that certain
lands lying to the eastward of the city of San Juan, in Puerto Rico, 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 lands 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 public land, natural, reclaimed, partly reclaimed, or which
may be reclaimed, lying south of the Caguas Road, shown on the U.S.
Hydrographic Map No. 1745 of July, 1898, and for 250 feet north of said
Caguas Road, to be bounded on the west by a true north and south line
passing through the eastern corner of the railway station shown on said
map, on the south by the shore of the harbor, and to extend east 2,400
feet, more or less, to include 80 acres.

2nd. The entire island lying to the southward of the above-described
land, and described on the U.S. Hydrographic Map No. 1745, of July,
1898, as Isla Grande, or Manglar.

The Military Governor of the Island of Puerto Rico will make this
transfer through the representative of the Navy, the Commandant of the
United States Naval Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico, who will present
this proclamation.

_March 29, 1899._

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 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 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 California and particularly described as
follows, to wit:

Townships eleven (11), twelve (12) and thirteen (13) North, Range
sixteen (16) East, Mount Diablo Base and Meridian, California; Townships
eleven (11), twelve (12) and thirteen (13) North, Range seventeen (17)
East; and so much of Township eleven (11) North, Range eighteen (18)
East, as lies west of the summit of the Sierra Nevada Range of mountains
in El Dorado County, California.

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.

The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Lake Tahoe
Forest Reserve.

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 13th day of April, 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.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas, by the provisions of an act approved February 20, 1895,
entitled "An act to disapprove the treaty heretofore made with the
Southern Ute Indians to be removed to the Territory of Utah, and
providing for settling them down in severalty where they may so elect
and are qualified and to settle all those not electing to take lands
in severalty, on the west forty miles of present reservation and in
portions of New Mexico, and for other purposes, and to carry out the
provisions of the treaty with said Indians June fifteenth, eighteen
hundred and eighty," the agreement made by the commissioners on the part
of the United States with the Southern Ute Indians of Colorado bearing
date November thirteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, was
annulled and the treaty made with said Indians June fifteenth, eighteen
hundred and eighty, was directed to be carried out as therein provided
and as further provided by general law for settling Indians in
severalty; and

Whereas it was further provided by said act that within six months
after the passage thereof, the Secretary of the Interior should cause
allotment of land, in severalty, to be made to such of the Southern Ute
Indians in Colorado, as might elect and be considered by him qualified
to take the same out of the agricultural lands embraced in their present
reservation in Colorado, such allotments to be made in accordance with
the provisions of the act of Congress approved June fifteenth, eighteen
hundred and eighty, entitled "An act to accept and ratify the agreement
submitted by the confederated bands of Ute Indians in Colorado for the
sale of their reservation in said State and for other purposes, and to
make the necessary appropriations for carrying out the same," and the
amendments thereto, as far as applicable, and the treaties theretofore
made with said Indians; and

Whereas it was further provided that for the sole and exclusive use of
such of said Indians as might not elect or be deemed qualified to take
allotments in severalty as provided, there should be set apart and
reserved all that portion of their reservation lying west of the range
line between ranges thirteen and fourteen west of the New Mexico
Principal Meridian, and also all of townships thirty-one and thirty-two
of ranges fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen west of the New Mexico
Principal Meridian and lying in the Territory of New Mexico, subject
to the right of the Government to erect and maintain agency buildings
thereon, and to grant rights of way through the same for railroads,
irrigation ditches, highways and other necessary purposes; and

Whereas under the provisions of section four of said act it was made the
duty of the President of the United States to issue his proclamation
declaring the lands within the reservation of said Indians except such
portions as might have been allotted or reserved under the provisions of
the preceding sections of said act, open to occupancy and settlement,
said unallotted and unreserved lands to be and become a part of the
public domain of the United States and to become subject to entry, under
the desert, homestead, and townsite laws and the laws governing the
disposal of coal, mineral, stone and timber lands, but providing that no
homestead settler should receive a title to any portion of such lands at
less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, and such settlers
should be required to make a cash payment of fifty cents per acre at the
time filing is made upon any of said lands; and providing that before
said lands should be open to public settlement the Secretary of the
Interior should cause the improvements belonging to the Indians on the
lands then occupied by them to be appraised and sold at public sale to
the highest bidder, except improvements on lands allotted to the Indians
in accordance with this act; and providing that no sale of such
improvements should be made for less than the appraised value and that
the several purchasers of said improvements should, for thirty days
after the issuance of the President's proclamation have the preference
right of entry of the lands upon which the improvements purchased by
them should be situated, but that the said purchase should not exceed
one hundred and sixty acres and that the proceeds of such improvements
should be paid to the Indians owning the same; and

Whereas it is further provided that the provisions of said act should
take effect only upon the acceptance thereof and consent thereto by a
majority of all the male adult Indians then located or residing upon the
reservation, which acceptance should be at once obtained under such
regulations as the Secretary of the Interior might prescribe; and

Whereas allotments have been made as provided for in said act, and
all the other terms and considerations as required therein have been
complied with, precedent to opening the unallotted and unreserved
lands in said reservation to settlement and entry, except the sale of
improvements on the NE 1/4 NW 1/4, S 1/2 NW 1/4 and NW 1/4 SW 1/4 Sec.
1, T. 33 N., R. 9 W., belonging to Ignacio, an Indian, but said sale
will be immediately ordered and the rights of the purchaser thereof will
be protected for thirty days from date of this proclamation, as provided
by the act, by instructions to the register and receiver of the local
land office having jurisdiction over the same, and as this exception is
not considered a bar to the opening of the unallotted and unreserved
lands to settlement; and

Whereas I issued a proclamation on the 29th day of March, last, intended
to open the lands to settlement and entry as authorized in said act, but
as some question has arisen as to the boundaries proclaimed being
sufficiently definite to cover the lands intended to be opened,

Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States,
for the purpose of removing any doubt and making the boundaries of said
lands more definite, by virtue of the power in me vested by said act,
do hereby issue this, my second proclamation, and do hereby declare and
make known that all of the lands embraced in said reservation, saving
and excepting the lands reserved for and allotted to said Indians, and
the lands reserved for other purposes in pursuance of the provisions of
said act, will, at and after the hour of twelve o'clock noon (mountain
standard time) on the 4th day of May, A.D., eighteen hundred and
ninety-nine, and not before, be open to settlement and entry under the
terms of and subject to all the conditions, limitations, reservations
and restrictions contained in said act, and the laws of the United
States applicable thereto.

The lands to be opened to settlement and entry are described as lying
within the following boundaries: Beginning at the point established by
S.S. Gannett, Special Indian Agent, in June, 1897, at the intersection
of the 107th meridian and the 37th parallel of latitude; thence north
15 miles along the eastern boundary of the reservation; thence westerly
along the north boundary of the Southern Ute Indian Reservation to its
intersection with the range line between ranges thirteen and fourteen
west of the New Mexico Principal Meridian; thence south fifteen miles on
said range line to the south boundary of the State of Colorado; thence
easterly along the south boundary of the State of Colorado to the place
of beginning.

The survey of the east boundary of the above tract through townships 32,
33, and 34 N., R. 1 W., and of that part of the north boundary in Tps.
34 N., Rs. 1 and 2 W., being in process of correction owing to errors
found in said survey, notice is hereby given to all parties who may
elect to make entries of lands adjoining the boundary lines subject to
correction, that their entries will be at their own risk, and subject
to such changes as to the boundaries of the several tracts so entered
as may be found necessary in the progress of the correction of the
erroneous survey, and that without recourse to the United States for
any damage that may arise as the result of the correction survey.

The lands allotted to the Indians are for greater convenience
particularly described in the accompanying schedule entitled "Schedule
of lands within the Southern Ute Indian Reservation allotted to the
Indians and withheld from settlement and entry by proclamation of the
President dated April 13, 1899," and which schedule is made a part
thereof.

An error having been made in 1873 in the survey and location of the
eastern boundary of the reservation hereby opened to settlement and
entry whereby certain lands constituting a part of the reservation were
erroneously identified as being outside of the reservation, by reason
of which several persons in good faith settled upon said lands under
the belief that the same were unappropriated public lands open to
settlement, and have since improved and cultivated, and are now residing
upon the same with a view to the entry thereof under the public land
laws, notice is hereby given that in so far as said persons possess the
qualifications required by law, and maintain their said settlement and
residence up to the time of the opening herein provided for, they will
be considered and treated as having initiated and established a lawful
settlement at the very instant at which the lands become open, and as
having the superior right and claim to enter said lands, which right
must be exercised within three months from the time of said opening.

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 13th day of April, 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._



SCHEDULE OF LANDS WITHIN THE SOUTHERN UTE INDIAN RESERVATION ALLOTTED
TO THE INDIANS AND WITHHELD FROM SETTLEMENT AND ENTRY BY PROCLAMATION
OF THE PRESIDENT DATED APRIL 13, 1899.

_In Township 32 North, Range 3 West._

Southwest quarter of southwest quarter of section 4; south half of
southeast quarter and southeast quarter of southwest quarter of section
5; north half of northeast quarter, east half of northwest quarter, east
half of southwest quarter and southwest quarter of southwest quarter of
section 8; north half of northwest quarter and southeast quarter of
northwest quarter of section 9; southeast quarter of southwest quarter
and south half of southeast quarter of section 10; southwest quarter of
southwest quarter of section 11; northwest quarter of northwest quarter
of section 13; north half of northeast quarter and north half of
northwest quarter of section 14; northeast quarter of northeast quarter
of section 15; northwest quarter of northwest quarter of section 17; and
northeast quarter of northeast quarter of section 18.

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