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 1780 PROCLAMATIONS, 1916. m§n°g¤¤*°'Y “**°· In case of declaratory statements, allowable under this opening, ` the same course may be pursued, except that the tiling fees must be paid within the ten days ollowing date of selection, the party having six months after Bling within which to complete ent. Soldiers or sailors or their widows or minor orphan children making homestead entry of these lands must make payment of fees, commissions and purchase money as is required of other entrymen. m;*,g¤°¤*S "Y *"$°°“‘ The purchase money not rwired at the time of entry may be paid ` in five equal installments. ese payments will become due at the end of one, two, three, four and five years after the date of entry, unless commutation proof is made. If such proof is made, all the unpaid installments must be paid at that time. Where three-year proof is submitted, the entryman may make payment of the unpaid installments at that time or at any time be ore they become due and final certificate will issue, in the absence of objection, upon such pa ent being made. If any entryman fails to make andy pa ent whrdii it becomes due, all his former payments will be fo eiterlqsilnd his entry will be canceled. R°*¤*°**°¤· 7. No person will be permitted to select more than one tract, present more than one application to enter, or file more than one declaratory statement in his own behalf. . F°"°**°*°- 8. If any person fails to select the tract he desires to enter on the date assigned to him for that purpose, or if, having made such selec- - tion he fails to perfect it by making entry or filing and payments as herein provided, or if he presents more than one application for registration or presents an application in any other than his true name, he will forfeit his right to make entry or filing under this Proclamation. °°°“P°°°Y· 9. None of the lands opened to entry under this Proclamation will become subject to settlement or entry prior to 9 o’clock a. m. October 18, 1916, except in the manner prescribed herein; and all persons are admonished not to make any settlement before that time on lands not covered by entries or filings made by them under this Proc- U'“““P°s°d °‘ "“‘°‘$·lamation. All the said lands not then entered by persons assigned numbers hereunder, will, at that hour, become subject to settlement and entry under the general provisions of the homestead laws and _ the aforesaid Act of Congress. R°g“'““°°*‘· 10. The Secretary of the Interior shall make and prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary and {proper to carry the provisions 0 this Proclamation and of the said ct of Congress into ull force and effect and is hereby authorized to prescribe the time when and the manner in which ands in any or all the townships temporarily withheld from disposal, as herein provided, may e opened to settlement and entry. In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. ` Done at the City of Washington this third day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, [sian,.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fortieth. Woonnow Wmsoiw By the President: Ronmrr Limsme, Secremry of State.