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 870 PBOCLAMATIONS. Nos. 3, 4. fogtg °;¤fl:¤g:i:¤· Notice, moreover, is hereby given that it is by law enacted that until pminbiieu. p g' said lands are opened to settlement by proclamation, no person shall be permitted to enter upon or occupy the same; and any person violat~ ing this provision shall never be permitted to make entry of any of said lands or acquire any title thereto. The officers of the United States will be required to enforce this provision. _ Land districts M- And further notice is hereby given that all of said lands lying north ‘g°"°d`of the township line between townships thirteen and fourteen north, are now attached to the Eastern Land l)istrict, the office of which is at Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory; and all of said lands lying south of the township line between townships thirteen and fourteen north are now attached to the Oklahoma land district, the office of which is at Oklahoma, Oklahoma Territory. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aiiixed. Done at the City of Washington this 18th day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, and [sE.·rL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and nineteenth. GRovE1z CLEVELAND By the President: Enwm F. UHL Acting Secretary of State. [No. 4.] June 12.1895. BY THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES. — A PROCLAMATION. ryeamtip. V\'hereas, the Island of Cuba is now the seat of serious civil disturb— ,,,‘§,f,},f_‘l‘“*"'b°""°* ances accompanied by armed resistance to the authority of the estab· Pm, p.sa1. lished Government of Spain, a power with which the United States are and desire to remain on terms of peace and amity; and, Whereas, the laws of the United States prohibit their citizens, as well as all others being within and subject to their jurisdiction, from taking part in such disturbances adversely to such established Government, by accepting or exercising commissions for war—like service against it, by enlistment or procuring others to enlist for such service, by fitting out or arming or procuring to be fitted out and armed ships of war for such service, by augmenting the force of any ship of war engaged in such service and arriving in a port of the United States, and by setting on foot or providing or preparing the means for military enterprises to be carried on from the United States against the territory of such Government ; Now, Therefore, in recognition of the laws aforesaid and in discharge of the obligations of the United States towards a friendly power, and as a measure of precaution, and to the end that citizens of the United States and all others within their jurisdiction may be deterred from subjecting themselves to legal forfeitures and penalties, cram. wamaiing I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States of America, do {fW`Q°m° ”°“"”l"’ hereby admonish all such citizens and other persons to abstain from every violation of the laws hereinbefore referred to, and do hereby warn them that all violations of such laws will be rigorously prosecuted; and I do hereby enjoin upon all officers of the United States charged with the execution of said laws the utmost diligence in preventing violations thereof and in bringing to trial and punishment any offenders against the same.