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 3122 1>aoo1,AMAT1oNs, 1905. with their applications to enter, but such aiiidavit must be filed before linal proof is accepted under their entries; but all persons who malxe entry after that date will be required to file that ailidavit -with their · a lications to enter. E¤¤’|¢¤- pghe production of the certificate of registration will be dispensed with only upon satisfactory proof of its loss or destruction. If at the time of considering his regular application for entry it appear . that an applicant is disqualified from making homestead entry of these lands, his application will be rejected, notwithstanding his prior registration. If any applicant shall register more than once hereunder, or in any other than his true name, or shall transfer his registration certificate, he will thereby lose all the benefits of the registration and drawin herein provided for, and will be precluded · from entering or setging upon any of said lands during the first sixty days following said opening. - Townsium Any person or persons desiring to found, or to suggest establishm{§_“* m’“ 3 1 3°’ ing, a townsite upon any of the said lands, at any point, may, at any written application to that eifect, describing by legal subdivisions 1 the lands intended to be affected, and stating fully and under oath the necessity or profpriety of founding or establishing a town at that place. The local officers will forthwith transmit said petition to the . V Commissioner of the General Land Office with their recommendation in the premises. Such Commissioner, if he believes the public interests will be snbserved thereby, will, if the Secretary of the Interior approve thereof, issue an order withdrawing the lands described in ` such petition, or any portion thereof, from homestead entry and settlement and directing that the same be held for the time being for Y disposal under the townsite laws of the United States in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior may from time to time direct; U and, if at any time after such withdrawal has been made it is determined that the lands so withdrawn are not needed for townsite purposes they may be released from such withdrawal and then disposed of undeishe general provisions of the homestead laws in the manner prescri herein. p£g§fgf,2§d;¤¤d*S· All persons are especially admonished that under the said act of ` Congress approved March 3, 1905, it is provided that no person shall be permitted to settle upon, occupy, or enter any of said lands except in the manner prescribed in this proclamation until after the expiration of sixty days from the time when the same are opened to settlement and entry. After the expiration of the said period of sixty days, but not before. as hereinbefore prescribed, any of said lands remaining undisposed of may be settled upon. occupied. and entered under the general provisions of the homestead and townsite laws of the United States in like manner as if the manner of etiecting such settllement, oecupancy. and entry had not been prescribed herein in o>e¢ nence to aw. Regulations. The Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe all needful rules and regulapons necessary to carry into full effect the opening herein provit ed or. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be ailixed. Done at the city of Wvashington this 1-lth July, in the vear of our Lord 1905. and of the Independence of the United States [snail.] the one hundred and thirtieth. Tnrzonoan Roosrzvnnr By the President : AXLVEY A. Anna Acting Secretary of State.
 * . time before the opening herein provided for, file in the land office a