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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1915. 1749 2. Each ?plication for registration must show the applicant’s R°q‘“'°‘“°‘“S· name, posto ce_address, age, eight and weight, and be sworn to by him at Minot, Bismarck or Plaza, North Dakota, before some notary public designated by the Superintendent. 3._ Persons who were honorably discharged after ninet days’ s0i},§§,§§§,*_§°§_?u0B”°m service in the Army, Nav or Marine Corps of the UniteclT States ` during the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, or the Philippine Insurrection, or their widows or minor orphan children, may resent their applications for registration either in person or through their duly appointed agents, but no plerson can act as a ent for more than one suc applicant, and all app `cations presented {lay agents must be signed and swom to by them at one of the places named and in the same gnarmer in which other applications must be sworn to and presente. 4. Beginning at 10 o’clock a. m. on November 4, 1915, at the said Dmwmgl city of Minot, and continuing thereafter from day to day, Sunda s excepted, as long as may be necessary, there shall be impartiall taken and selected indiscriminately from the whole number of enveli olpes so presented such number thereof as may be necessary to carry t e provisions of this Proclamation into effect, and the a plications 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. _ 5. A list of the successful applicants, showing the number assigned sp:flf$§T°¤[°f Smmm to each, will be conspicuously posted and furnished to the press for _ publication as a matter of news, and a proper notice will be promptly mailed to each of these applicants. mmm, I 6. Beginning at 9 o’clock a. m. on Ma 1, 1916, and continuing plications ufiilmii. W thereafter on such dates as may be fixed, by the Secretarglsof the Interior, persons holding numbers assigned to them under t Proclamation will be permitted to designate and enter the tracts they desire as follows: S mm t Ylfhen a person’s name is called, he must at once select the tract he ° °S’° °' desires to enter and will be allowed ten days following date of selection to complete entry at the land office. Durinig such period, he must file his homestead a plication at the land office, accompanying the same with the usuall Hling fees and commissions and in ad `tion thereto one-fifth of the appraised value of the tract selected. To save expense incident to an additional trip to the land and to retiun to the land office, he may, following his selection, execute his homestead application for the tract selected within the land district and file same in the land office, where it will be held awaiting the pay- ment of the fees and commissions and one-fifth of the appraised value of the land. In that event, the payment must be made within _ _ the ten days following the date of selection. Payments can be made I“‘“’“ "°""‘°"'“· only in cash, by certified checks on national and state banks and trust com anies, which can be cashed without cost to the Government, or fly ostoffice money orders made payable to the receiver of the land ofllce. These payments may be made m person, through the mails or any other means or agency desired, but the applicant assumes all responsibilit in the matter. He must see that the pxay- ments reach the land office within the ten davs allowed, and w ere failure occurs in any instance where the application has been filed in the land ofhee without payment, as herein provided for, the application will stand rejected without further action on the part of the local officers.