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 1726 PROCLAMATIONS, 1917. from damage or in`, or to prevent damage or injury to any harbor or waters of the  States, or to secure the observance of the riglits and obligations of the United States, to take, for such &urposes, f possession and control of such vessel and remove erefrom the officers and crew thereof and all other persons not specially authorized b§ him tltiéo or remain on board thereof. . IN WITN SS W REOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aiiixed. DONE in the District of Columbia, this third dlaly of December, in _ the year of Our Lord One Thousand ine Hundred and [SEAL.] Seventeen, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the One Hundred and Forty-Second. Woonnow WILSON By the President: Ronmnr Lzmsme, Secretary of State. Br rms Piznsmnrrr orrjrim Uxrrnn Srrxrns or Aimiuca A PROCLAMATION F§€ng;j°g,}*¤**°¤¤* WHEREAS, an Executive Order effective July first, nineteen hunrmmua. and fifteen,  that all   include within the boimdanes of the Kern National Forest, California, be transferred to and adriiiiéiistered ais a part of the Sequoia National Forest also within sai tate; an WHEREAS, it appears that the public gplod will be promoted by excluding certain areas from the Sequoia. ational Forest, in Cahfornra and by restoring the public lands subject to disposition in the V°'- *-1*-*- excluded areas in a manner authorized by the Act of Congress approved September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen (38 Stat., 113), entitled "An Act To authorize the President to provide a xgqthodtior opening lands restored from reservation or withdrawal, an or o er purposes"; Now, therefore, 1 wooouow wnsou, President of me United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety- seven (30 Stat., 11 at 34 and 36), entitled "An Act Makin appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for tie fiscal year ending June t irtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and or other gurposes", do proclaim that the boundaries of the Sequoia National crest are hereby changed to exclude the areas indicated is elipiinations on the diagram hereto annexed and forming a part ereo. . ¤e£€;<ili1<ii$lz1?¤ii¤iile.r°° And I do further proclaim and make known that in my judgment it is proper and necessary, in the interest of equal opportunit and good administration, that all of 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 reposed V°'·38·P· 1** in me by the aforesaid Act of September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, I do hereby direct and provide that such lands, sub`ect 'i‘i¤¤¤<>f<>i>¤¤i¤s· to valid rights and the provisions o existing withdrawals, shall be opened to entry only under the {provisions of the homestead laws requiring residence, at and after, ut not before, nine o’clock a. m., standar time, February 14, 1918, and to settlement and other dispo- _ sition, under any public land law a licable thereto, at and after, ,,§:“‘“‘ °P¥’H°*“°"’* but not before, nine o’clock a. m., Bleliruary 21, 1918. Pros tive apphcants may, during the period of twenty days preceding th? date