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 1660 PROCLAMATIONS, 1917. $“¥’Pl,, ."’“’“’Y The erformance of any act or the ublication of statements or with m¥1;gmmu’ mi informsgion which will give or supply, ih any way, aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States ; S0;};’,*jf,f§;§;_°“°·¤ “"*" The direction, aiding, counseling, or countenancing of any of the ` foregoing acts. _ _ _ w,Q,§§·V;;§§H§g,{;§8gl° Such acts are held to be treasonable whether comm1tte_d_with1n the United States or elsewhere; whether committed by a citizen of the United States or by an alien domiciled, or residing, in the United States, inasmuch as resident aliens, as well as citizens, owe allegiance C mlm fm I to the United States arpd its lpwlsp kn I d f h f 9** 5 P? ’°"‘ An such citizen or aien w 0 as owe ee o the commission o gfnegsliiiif mspmm of such {acts and conceals and does not make known the facts to the v°l‘ 35’ p' 1°88‘ officials named in Section 3 of the Penal Code is guilty of misprision of _ treason. .g¥f§€1£§;£fo,Y§”°ns And I hereby proclaim and warn all citizens of the United States, and all aliens, owing allegiance to the Government of the United _ States, to abstain from committing any and all acts which would P°°°°°°°°°s' constitute a violation of any of the laws herein set forth; and I further proclaim and warn all persons who may commit such acts that they will be orously rosecuted therefor. IN WPINESS VFHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aiiixed. Done at the City of Washington this sixteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL.] seventeen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the hundred and forty-first. Woonnow WHJSON By the President: Ronmrr Lensnwe, Secretavy of State. BY mn Pnnsrnnxr or rim Unrrnn S*rA*r1¤;s. A PROCLAMATICN. B;,°",f,,,,§,;’,'f‘§,,0f,i}f*‘*‘“ WHEREAS the Act of Congress approved May 30, 1908 (35 gzpangbls-W Stat., .558), providing for the survey an allotment of lands within ‘ ’p‘ the former Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana, and the sale and disposal of all the surplus lands after allotment, among other things directed that prior to the disposition of the surplus lands, such lands should be classified and appraised by three commissioners as agricultural land, grazing land, arid land and mineral land, the mineral land not to be appraised; AND WHEREAS the commissioners appointed for the purpose of making the classifications and appraisals in some cases designated and ap raised lands as agricultural or azing which the United States Geological Survey c-assiHed as coailrlands; v»1.zg,p.sm. AND WHEREAS certain homestead entries theretofore er- "”"·"·‘6“’ roneously allowed for the said classified and a praised coal lands were validated, under the provisions of the Act ol') February 27, 1917 (Public No. 3585, by Proclamation of March 21, 1917, which also provided that a Proclamation should thereafter issue prescribing the time when and the manner in which the coal lands not embraced in such homestead entries should become subject to agricultural disposition; AND WHEREAS there are a niunber of homestead applications for the coal lands which were filed at the Glasgow, Montana, land office, on and before November 19, 1916, on which date the