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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1906. 3209 AND, WVHEREAS, It was provided by said act of March three, tofggiffug °* l““dS nineteen hundred and five, that said unallotted lands ceded to the v61.§`a, p. 1021. United States under said agreement should be disposed of under the A"“’* *" S49‘ provisions of the homestead, townsite, coal and mineral land laws of the United States, and should be o ened to settlement and entry by pI‘OClamation of the President ofp the United States on June Date of opening. fifteenth, nineteen hundred and six. which proclamation shall prescribe the manner in which the lands shall be settled upon, occupied, and entered by persons permitted to make entry thereof, and no person shall be permitted to settle upon, occupy or enter said lands except as prescribed in said proclamation, until after the expiration of sixty days from the time when the same are open to settlement and entry; and the rights of honorably discharged soldiers and sailors of the late civil and Spanish wars, as defined and described in sections twenty-three hundred and four and twenty-three hundred and five of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the act of March one, nineteen hundred and one, shall not be abridged; AND, WVHEREAS, The time for the opening of said unallotted exg;1¤é$d°{0°g3¤**;€ lands was extended to the fifteenth day of August, nineteen hundred 15, 1906. gu and six, unless the President shall determine that the same may be opened at an earlier date, by Public Resolution of Con ess, approved- March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and six (Puilic Resolution Ame, p. 826. No. Twelve) ; _ NOVV, THEREFORE, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Presi— 0pgu°&°S2tQ,:¤{‘eg,S dent of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vox. sa, ¤.·1020.` vested by the said Act and Resolution of Congress, do hereby declare and make known that all the unallotted lands in the ceded portion of said reservation, except such as may at that time have been reserved ` for carrying out the provisions of said amended treaty relative to the rights of Asmus Boysen, allowing him to locate in accordance with the Government surveys not to exceed six hundred and forty acres in — the form of a square, of mineral or coal lands in said reservation, and to purchase the same, will, on and after the fifteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and six, in the manner hereinafter prescribed, and not otherwise. be opened to settlement, entry, and disposition under the general provisions of the homestead, townsite, coa, and mineral land laws of the United States.. And it is further directed and provided that commencing at nine Places or regiso’clock a. ni., on Monday July 16, 1906, and ending at six o’clock "“"°“· p. m., Tuesday. July 31, 1906. a registration will be meld at Lander, Shoshoni, and Thermopolis; also, at \Vorland, provided that the Big i·»·m»sq6. Horn Railroad, now in course of construction, shall he completed ,,,,${‘ "°"` M"' and doing a passenger traffic to that place on July 16. 1906, for the — purpose of ascertaining the names and qualifications of all persons who desire to enter, settle upon, or acquire title to any of said ceded lands under the homestead laws. To obtain registration for the purpose of making a homestead ent ry Applicants. of any of said ceded lands each applicant will be required to show himself duly qualified under the law to make such entry. and this showing must be made by the presentation of a sworn application for registration executed on a blank furnished by the Commissioner of the General Land Office which can be obtained only at the time and places of registration herein mentioned, and each person registering . must give the registering officer such appropriate matters of description and identification as will protect the applicant and the Government against any attempted impersonation. Registration can not be affected through the use of the mails or the Restriqtious on employment of an agent, excepting that honorably discharged soldiers "glS"‘“ °°‘ and sailors entitled to the benefits of Section twenty-three hundred voi. xxxiv, rr 3—~·—27