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 1686 1>rrooLAMA·rroNs, 1917. Act To authorize the President to rovide a method for opening lands _ restored from reservation or withdiawal, and for other purposes"; mf§*““"’“““* "°‘ Now, therefore, I, WOODROW WHJSON, President of the United V<>L 30, 1>- sa States of America, b virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress approved Jsirne fourth, eighteen hundred_ and ninety-seven (30 tat., 11 at 34 and 36), entitle "An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-e§ht, and for other V°‘·"*i‘·P·’2°"· purposes ", do hereby vacate the reclamation of ovember twenty- ourth,_nineteen lnmdred and ei lit setting apart and reserving the following described lands as the gakota National Forest: In Township 136 North, Range 102 West: ~ Of section 10 the south half; Sections 14 to 22, inclusive; Section 28; Of section 30 the north half; In Township 136 North, Range 103 West: ggcczions 10 to 15, inclusive; ions 22 to 26, inc usive; * Fifth Princi al Meridian. _ ;nIr“rl$i€r°st°r°dt°S°t' _ And I do futher proclaim Isind make known that in my judgment rt is prope1·_and necessary, in the interest of equal opportunity and good admmrstration, that all of the above described lands subject to disposition should be restored to homestead entry in advance of settlement or other forms of disposition, and pursuant to the authority V°l·”» P- 1***- reposcd in me by the aforesaid Act of September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, I do hereby direct and provide that such lands, subject to valid rights, shall be opened to entry only under the provisions of the homestead laws re turing residence at and after, but not Timo, °pm,m_ before, nine o’clock a. m., standard time, September 19, 1917, and to settlement and other disposition, 1mder_ any public land law applicable F _ _ _ thereto, at and after, but not before, nine o’clock a, m. September 26, ,,,,,“”‘g °°¥"‘°“"°“S· 1917. Prospective apphcants may, during the period of twenty days preceding the date on which the and shall become subject to entry, selection, or location of the form desired under the provisions of this Proclamation, execute their applications in the manner provided by law {rind pgegent this salmefhaccomganlied by t§e reprlgreid payments, to t e United States an office at ic inson, ort sr ·ota, in person, by mail, or otherwise, and all applications so filed, together with such as may be submitted at the hour fixed, shall be treated as though simultaneously filed and shall be disposed of in the manner prescribed by existing) relgulations. Under such regulations coniiicts of equal _ p rigpts will e etermrned by a drawing, _ _ _ _ trgegigg =;_§g:¤z$ Varnrng is hereby given that no settlement- initiated prior to seven opening. days after the date for homestead entry above named will be recognized, but all persons who go upon an of the lands to be restored hereunder and perform any act of settllenrent thereon prior to nine o'clock_a. m., standard time, September 26, 1917, or who are on or are occupy1ng_any part of said lands at such hour, except those having valid subsistrng settlement rights initiated prior to withdrawal from _ settlement and since maintained, and those having preferences to $§‘§‘§{°;,‘{'“,{,§?”d5· make entry under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six (34 Stat., 233), entitled "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 will gain no rights whatever under such unlawful m`¤_f€fie¤¤i¤¤¤i¤¤S ei- sett ement or occupancy; Provided, however, that nothing herem ' contained shall prevent persons from going upon and over the lands to examine them with a view to thereafter appropriating them in