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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1917. 1663 which entry may be made under the statement but will be returned as soon as possible thereafter if entry is not made. Moneys tendered with applications and statements which are rejected in whole, except fees for tiling declaratory statements will be returned. If an applicant or declarant fails to secure all the land applied for and amends his application or statement to embrace other lands, the moneys theretofore tendered will be applied on account of the required payment under the amended application. If it is not sufficient, the applicant or declarant will be required to pay the deficiency, and if it is more than sulhcient, the excess will be retumed. Mong returned to qpplicants or declarants will be returned by the o cial check o the Receiver. Moneys tendered with applications or statements presented after May 5, 1917, will be deposited by the Receiver in the usual manner. · 5. Form. of Entries. Entries embracing 160 acres must, as nearly F°'"‘°‘°“°"'°‘ as possible, embrace the northeast, northwest, southeast, or southwest quarter of a section· entries embracing as much as 320 acres, the north or south half of, a section. Persons desiring to enter less than a quarter section maiy apply for ang legal subdivision or subdivisions. In case part o a quarter or alf section, as above provided, is not subggct to disposition hereunder applicants may appl for adjacent lan in such manner as to affect the least possi ll; number of quarter or half sections as above described. P { _ 6. Deferred Payments. The purchase money not required at the ¤..{Lm°°t ° "°°'u“ time of entry may be paid in five equal, annual installments, unless commutation proof is made. These payments will become due at the end of one, two, three, four and five years after the date of entry. The time for the payment of one-half of any such installment may be extended for one year at a time, upon the payment of interest in F,m,m,mm_ advance at the rate of five per centum per annum· Provided, the last payment and all other payments must be made within eight Commmim years from the date of entry. If commutation proof is made, all the unpaid installments must be paid at that time. Where threeyear proof is submitted, the entryman may make payment of the unpaid installments at that time or at any time before they become duehand final clertificatedwill issue, in the absence of objection, upon suc ayment eing ma e. 7. %`o1y”e·it·u,re. Failure to make any payment that may be due, M °°°' unless the same be extended, or to make any extended payment at or before the time to which such payment has been extended, as herein provided, shall forfeit the entry and the same shall be canceled, and any and all éiayments theretofore shall be forfeited. b I 8. Settlement bqbre ntry. The lands will become subject to settle- may me zsfmfmidii ment before en;.3 on June 1, 1917, and not before then. *°"· 9. Desert La Entry. Lands of the character contemplated by ”"°"‘“’°‘*°““'*°‘· the desert land laws will be enterable under those laws and the aforesaid Acts of Congress on and after June 1, 1917,dprovided entry- men are able to full meet the requirements of the esert land laws and regulations. Iiy entered under the desert land laws, the alp- P‘Y“‘°"‘~‘· praised price of the land may be paid in annual installments, the same as in homestead cases, with the exceptions that no extensions of time for payments can be granted and that all unpaid installments of purchase money must be paid whenever Hnal proof is submitted. U cl mad MI 10. Ooal Lands not Olassajied and Apfpraised Without Regard to uma? .?§§¤.ia hog Uoal Deposits. The coal lands not classr ed and appraised without °“""’· regard to the coal deposits shall not become subject to settlement or entry imder agricultural laws until so provide by further Proclamation. 11. Rules and Regulations. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby R*‘“‘°“'” authorized to make and prescribe such rules and regulations as may