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 1710 PROCLAMATIONS, 1917. good administration, that the excluded lands subject to disposition should be restored to homestead entry in advance of settlement or other forms of disposition, and pursuant to the authority reposcd in me "°l·38·P·m· by the aforesaid act of September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, I do hereby direct and provide that such lands, subject to valid rights and the provisions of existing withdrawals, shall be "`i”°° °‘°P°¤*°€- opened to entry only under the provisions of the homestead laws requir` residence at and after, but not before, nine o’clock a. m., standaliig time, December 12, 1917, and to settlement and other disposition, under any public land law applicable thereto, at and after, riimgappucauous. ut not before, nine o’clock a. m., December 19, 1917. Pros}pective applicants may, d the period of twenty days receding the date on which the land shal become subject to entry, selbction, or location of the form desired under the provisions of this Proclamation, execute their applications in the manner rovided by law and present the same, accompianied by the required payments, to the proper United States land office, in erson, by mail, or otherwise, and a l 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 regulations. Under such regulations conflicts of equal rights will be determined by a drawing. ’j”*tgSf,;’;j Warning is hereby given that no settlement initiated prior to seven mz. 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, December 19, 1917, or who are on or are occupying any part of said lands at such hour, except those having vali subsistinfg settlement rights initiated prior to withdrawal from settlement an since maintamed, and those having preferences to _ 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 be considered and dealt with as trespassers and will gain no hts whatever imder such unlawful E xs mu 3 t, OM sett ement or occupancy: ProvEd` , however, that nothing herein conaucwed. tained shall prevent persons from upon and over the lands to Prim SB t t ,8 me n thexamine them with a view to there ter appropriating them in accordngms. ance herewith. Persons having prior sett ement rights or preferences, as above defined, will be allowed to make entry m accordance with existi.n%law and  tions. IN TNESS REOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done in the District of Columbia this Twenty-third da of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL.] seventeen, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-second. Woomzow WIIBON By the President: Roannr Laxsrxe Secretary of State. O°*°b¤"”·'°*’· BY rim Pnnsrnnxr or rm: Uxrrnn Srarss or Azsmmoa A PROCLAMATION F££;l¤,lj$a,L N¤°*¤¤e* WHEREAS, an Executive Order dated An st twenty-fourth, ijmisme. nineteen hundred and fourteen, restored, under ti; act of September WL 38*p‘“3‘ thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen (38 Stat., 113), the public