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 *¤¢¤¤°*°· *°°°· BY THE Pansrnnivr or THE UNITED STATES. A PROCLAMATION. R§,§§“‘§§,{"%'}§¥,$,’}§§ I, William H. Taft, President of the United States of America, by Rock 1¤<ii¤¤ R¢¤¤=v¤- virtue of the ower and authority vested in me by the Act of Conii°§'i€’ S' mh md N' gress approved May 29, 1908, (35 Stat. L., 460), do hereby prescribe, V°‘·35·P·“*°· proclaim and make known that all the nonmineral, unallotted unreserved lands within the Che enne River and Standing Rock Indian Reservations in the States ofy South Dakota and North Dakota which have been or may be classified under said Act of Congress into agricultural land of the first class, agricultural land of the second class, grazing land and timber land shall be disposed of under the general provisions of the homestead laws of the United States and of said Act of Congress, and be opened to settlement and entry, and be settled upon, occupied and entered in the following manner, and not otherwise: Rezisunthn- 1. All persons qualiéed to make a homestead entry may, on and after October 4, 1909, but not theretofore, and prior to and including · October 23, 1909, but not thereafter, present to James W. Witten, Superintendent of the opening, at the City of Aberdeen, South Dakota, by ordinary mail, but not in person or by registered mail or otherwise, sealed envelopes containing their applications for registration but no envelope must contain more than one application; and no person can present more than one application in his own behalf and one as pgent forda dsoldier, sailor, wi ow or minor orphan child, as hereina ter rovi e. Applk=•¤¤¤•- 2. All apggications for registration must show the applicants name, posto ce address, age, height and weight, and be sworn to by them at either Aberdeen, LeBeau, Lemmon, Mobridge or Pierre, South Dakota, or at Bismarck, North Dakota before some Notary Public designated by the Superintendent. soldrpxmd sailors 3. Persons who were honorab?} discharged after ninety days’ serv- °”"°° ° ice in the Army or Navy of the nited States, during the War of the Rebellion, the Spanish-American War, or the Philippine Insurrec— tion, or their widows or minor orphan children, may make their applications for registration, either in person or through their duly appointed agents, ut no person can act as agent for more than one such applicant and all applications presented b agents must be signed, sworn to and presented by them at one ofy the places named and in the same manner in which other applicants are required to swear to and present their applications. mmap. _4. Beginning at ten o’cloc a. m. on October 26, 1909, at the said City of Aberdeen and continuing thereafter from day to day, Sunda s excepted, as long as may be necessary, there shall be impartially taken and selected indiscriminately from the whole number of envelopes so presented such number thereof as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this Proclamation, and the applications for registration contained in the envelopes so selected shall, when correct in form and execution, be numbered serially in the order in which they are selected, beginning with number one and the numbers thus assigned shall fix and control the order in which the persons named therein may make entry after the lands shall become subject to entry. 2500