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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1915. 1739 puignoses", do proclaim that there are hereby excluded from the _a ina National Forest the areas indicated as eliminations u on the diagram hereto annexed and forming a part hereof, and that the remaimng areas heretofore constituting the Paulma National Forest are in several portions transferred to and made a part of the Crater, AM¢.pp-1*35.1*37- Deschutes and Fremont National Forests, respectively, as shown upon the diagram forming a part hereof and upon the dia ams formin parts o the proclamations for the above-mentioned Fgfrests whichI ave also si¤·ned this same day; and that this proclamation and the said other aj>ove—mentioned proclamations are and shall be consid- A ered as one act to become effective simultaneously; and that it is not r°°°¤°°l°d‘ intended by this proclamation, nor by an other of the abovementioned proclamations to reserve any landy not immediately heretofore embraced 111 a National Forest, nor to exclude any land except the areas indicated as eliminations on the di am forming a part hereof and on the diagrams forming parts ofatgie proclamations for the said Crater and Fremont Forests. And I do further proclaim and make lmown that in my judgment m'§*§;*§m_";§, '* it is proper and necessary in the interest of e ual opportunity and ` good administration that all of such excludedqlands subject to disposition should be restored to settlement in advance of entry, and gnrsuant to the authority renlosed in me byutthe aforesaid Act of V,,,_38 p_m_ ptember thir·tieth, nineteen undred and theen (38 Stat., 113), ’ I do hereby direct and provide that such lands, sub`ect to valid T,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,g_ rights and the provisions of existing withdrawals, shall be open to actual settlers only under the provisions of the homestead laws for a period of twenty-eight days from and includinlg nine o’clock a. m., standard time, on the sixty-third day from and ter the date hereof, and thereafter to entry and disposition under any and all of the public land laws applicable thereto. W i Persons who go upon any of the lands to be restored as herein  °§-TJ2, provided and perform any act of settlement thereon from and includ- °P°“*”¢~ mg the date of this proc amation until nine o’clock a. m., standard time, on the sixty-third day from and after the date_hereof, or who are on or are occupying any part of such lands at sa1d hour, except those having valid subsisting settlement rights initiated prior to reservation and since maintainerhfang thpse hfawgng preferences tg inake entry under the rovisions o the ct 0 ongress a rove une eleventh, nineteenphundred and six (34 Stat., 233}, entitled "An Act To rovide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves", and) Acts amendatory, will he considered and dealt with as trespassers and preference will be given the prior legal applicant, notwithstanding hmm mm N such unlawful settlementoroceupancy: Prov1ded,h0wever, thatnoth- iw?.,d_ ° S ' ing herein shall prevent persons from going upon and over the lands to examine them with a view to thereafter going upon and making settlement thereon when the lands shall become subject thereto in mor Mmmm accordance with this proclamation. Persons having `prior settlement riginaeee. rights or preferences, as above defined, will  allowe to make ent-ry in conformity with existm law and regulations. IN WITN ESS WHERFOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the Cit of Washington this nineteenth dav of July, in the year ofy our Lord one thousand mne hundred an fifteen, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fortieth. W W oormow rrisox. By the President: Ronnnr Laxsixo, Secretary of State.