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 1688 PROCLAMATIONS, 1917. In Township 9 South, Range 6 West: Of Section 21 the northeast quarter; In Township 9 South, Range 7 West: Of Section 3 the southwest guarter; Salt Lake Base an Meridian. _ _ Stggglyggmlgngtm And I do further proclaim and make known that m my ggudgment ` it is proper and necessary 111 the interest of equal opportunity and §<;>d administration that all of the excluded lands subject to such ' position should be restored to homestead entry 111 advance of settlement or other forms of dis osition, and pursuant to the authority V°*· 3% P- 118- reposed in me by the aforesaid) Act of September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, I do hereby direct and provide that such lands, sub`ect to valid rights and the provisions of existing with- Tm °‘°P°¤*¤¤· drawals, shall be opened to entry only under the provisions of the homestead laws requiring residence at and after, but not before, nine o’clock A. M., standard time, October 2, 1917, and to settlement and other disposition, under any public land law ap licable thereto, mms H gt and after, but not beforeh nine o’§lock A.dM¥ (i)ctoberd9, 1917. 8 **PP °‘**°”· ros ctive a licants ma, uring the rio o twenty ays rem cediri)g€ the digi; on whichythe land shallw become subject to enltiry, selection, or location of the form desired rmder the provisions of this Proclamation, execute their applications in the manner (provided by law and present the same, accompanied by the require _ payments, to the proper United States land office, in person, by mail, or otherwise, and all applications so filed, together with such as may be submitted at the our fixed, shall be treated as though simultaneously Hled and shall be disposed of in the manner proscribed by existing regulations. Under such regulations conflicts of equal rights will be wamm msrdetvcpmined byha dgawing. th 1 _ _ _ Bd _ . .*8**} ° aming is ere y given at no sett ement in1t1at prior to seven ` §. pm to cpm 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 settlement thereon prior to nine o’clock A. M., standard time, October 9, 1917, or who are on or are occupying any part of said lands at such hour, except those having vah subsisting settlement rights initiated prior to withdrawal from settlement an since maintamed, and those having preferences to ·*€"*°“““"°' buds- make entry under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved "°l-3*·P·*'””- “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 ,0§§B’f,fm’¤°‘*°¤’ °" settlement or occupancy; Prand ed, however, that nothing herein contained shall prevent persons from going upon and over the lands to examine them with a view to thereafter appropriating them in dg§',‘;'Etg°‘°‘°m°¤‘ accordance herewith. Persons having prior settlement rights or preferences, as above defined, will be allowed to make entry in accordance 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 in the District of Columbia this third da of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven- [ssrn,.] teen, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-second. _ Woonnow Wrrsox By the President: Faux L. Pour Acting Secretary of State.