Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 34 Part 3.djvu/393

 3210 PROCLAMATIONS, 1906. {*Q;§·· M- 230*% and four of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by p`_ the Act of Congress approved March one, nineteen hundred and one V°l- 3% P- 847- (31 Stat., 847), may present their applications for registration for the purpose of making a homestead entry and make due proof of their qualifications through an agent of their own selection having_a_duly executed power of attorney on a blank furnished by the Qommissioner of the General Land Office, but no person will be permitted to act as agent for more than one soldier or sailor. No person will be permitted to register more than once, nor will he be permitted to register in any other than his true name. _ _ _ m§§‘;:{§,f,f*° °’ Each applicant who shows himself duly qualified will be registered and given a non—transferable certificate to that effect, and each person holding such certificate will be entitled to go upon any ceded lands subject to entry hereunder and examine such lands, but the only purpose for which he can go upon and examine such lands is to enable him later on, as herein provided, to understandingly select the lands for which he may make entry. . { D'“‘"”g“· The order in which during the first sixty days following the opening the registered applicants will be permitted to make homestead entry of lands.opened hereunder will be determined by a drawing for the district, held at Lander, Wyoming, commencing at nine o’clock a. m., Saturday, August 4, 1906, and continuing for such period neces- V sary to complete the same. The drawing will be had under the super- V vision and immediate observance of a committee of three persons K ‘ · whose integrity is such as to make their control of the drawing a ‘_ guaranty of its fairness. The members of this committee will be _ compensation for their services. Preparatory to this drawing the registration officers will, at the time of registering each applicant who shows himself duly qualified, make out a card which must be signed by the applicant, and give such a description of the applicant as will enable the local land officers to thereafter identify him. This card will be subsequently sealed in a separate envelope wh_ich will bear no other distinguishing label or mark than such as may be necessary to show that it is to go into the drawing. These envelopes will be carefully preserved and remain sealed until opened in the course of the . drawing herein provided. WVhen the registration is completed all of these sealed envelopes will be brought together at the place of drawing and turned over to the committee in charge of the drawing who, in such manner as in their judgment will be attended with entire fairness and equality of opportunity. shall proceed to draw out and open the separate envelopes and to give to each inclosed card :1 number in the order in which the envelope containing the same is drawn. The result of the drawing will be certified to the officers of the district and will determine the order in which the applicants may make _ homestead entry of said lands and settlement thereon. i °‘°“°°· Notices of the drawing. stating the name of each applicant and the number assigned to him by the drawing, will be posted each da at the place of the drawing, and each applicant will be notified ofyhis number and the day upon which he must make his entry, by a postal card mailed to him at the address given by him at the tiine of the registration. The result of each day`s drawing will also be given to the press and published as a matter of news. Applications for homestead entry during the sixty days following the opening can be made _ only by registered applicants and in the order established by the drawing. · ' §§,§§,"’;“§,§§·2_ Commencing August fifteenth. nineteen hundred and six, at nine o’clock a. m., the applications of those persons drawing numbers 1 to 100, inclusive, entitling them to make homestead entries. must he
 * appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, who will prescribe suitable