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:
Beginning at a point where the northwestern boundary of the rancho Santa
Ana intersects the township line between Townships four (4) and five (5)
North, Range twenty-three (23) West, San Bernardino Base and Meridian,
California; thence westerly along the township line to the southwest
corner of Township five (5) North, Range twenty-four (24) West; thence
northerly along the range line to the southeast corner of the rancho Los
Prietos y Najalayegua; thence in a general northwesterly direction along
the southern boundaries of the ranchos Los Prietos y Najalayegua, San
Marcos, Tequepis, Lomas de la Purificacion and Nojoqui to the eastern
boundary of the rancho Las Cruces; thence in a general southerly
direction along the eastern boundary of the said rancho Las Cruces to
the northern boundary of the rancho Nuestra Senora del Refugio; thence
in a general southeasterly direction along the northern boundaries of
the ranchos Nuestra Senora del Refugio, Canada del Corral, Los Dos
Pueblos, La Goleta, Pueblo and Mission Lands of Santa Barbara and the
rancho El Rincon (Arellanes) to its most eastern point; thence in a
southwesterly direction along the southern boundary of said rancho to
the point where it intersects the township line between Townships three
(3) and four (4) North, Range twenty-five (25) West; thence easterly
along the township line to the western boundary of the rancho Santa Ana;
thence northeasterly along the western boundary of said rancho to its
intersection with the township line between Townships four (4) and five
(5) North, Range twenty-three (23) West, the place of beginning.
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