Excerpt from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Vol. 16: Prepared Under the Direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, of the House and Senate, Pursuant to an Act of the Fifty-Second Congress of the United States Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Con gress, 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 for ests, 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.