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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1917. 1649 Persons who go upon any of the lands to be restored as herein ro- tr;Yg{¤¤ eggi mg vided and perform any act of settlement thereon from and including opaimeng pmt the date of this Proclamation until nine 0’clock a. m., standard time, on the sixty-third day from and after the date hereof, or who are on or are occu ying any part of such lands at said hour, except thosehaving valid)subsisting settlement rights initiated prior to reservation Agricumml amiss and since maintained, and those having preferences to make entry vti. 34, p. zss. under the provisions of the Act of Congress a proved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six (34 Stat., 233), entitli-id "An Act To Provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves", and Acts · amendatory, will e considered and dealt with as trespassers and preference will be given the prior legal ap licant notwithstanding _ _ such unlawful sett ement or occupancy: lgmvided, however, that ;,,§$,,’§?m‘““t'°““ “l' nothing herein shall prevent persons from going upon and over the lands to examine them with a view to making entry thereof or settlement thereon when the lands shall become subject thereto in accordance with this Proclamation. Persons having rior settlement r,§’]1;°g&°**l°m°¤‘ rights or preferences, as above denned, will be allowed to make entry ` in conformity with existing law and regulations. 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 twenty-first day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [snail.] seventeen, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-first. Woonnow WrLsoN By the President: Ronnnr Lmsme Secretary 0] State. BY mn Pnnsmmrr or run Unrrnn Srmrms or Amrnron m”°’*’·’·m"· i A PROCLAMATION. YVHEREAS, by Article 5 of the Convention between the United mgiiiisgulilx mlm States and Denmark for the cession of the Danish West Indian {°,[)‘§°§,"¥j; ml Islands to the United States, the United States ages to pay, in full ' i consideration of the cession made by the said nvention, within ninety (90) days from the exchange of the ratifications of the said Convention, in the City of Washington, to the diplomatic relpresentative or other agent of His Majesty, the King of Denmar, dully authorized to receive the money the sum of twenty-five million do — lars ($25,000,000) in gold coin of the United States; AND WHEREAS, the ratifications of the said Convention were exchanged at the City of Washington on Januar? 17, 1917; V 1 39 lm AND ¥VHEREAS, by section 7 of the Act o Congress, approved °` ’p' ` March 3, 1917, entitled "An Act to rovide a temporary government for the \Ve<t Indian Islands acquired) b the United States from Denmark by the Convention entered into lietween the said countries on the fourth day of August, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and ratified by the Senate of the Ilnited States on the seventh day of September, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and for other purposes" the sum of twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) was appropriated to be paid in the City of Washington to the diplomatic representative or other agent of His Majesty the King of Denmark duly authorized to receive said money, in full consideration of the cession of the Danish West Indian Islands to the United States made by the said Convention; AX D `WHEREAS, in coriforniity with said Convention and said Act of Congress, the sum of twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) was on this da paid to Mr. Constantin Brun, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Denmark at Washington as the