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 rnocLAMAr1oNs,·1e17. 1727 on which the land shall become subject to ent, selection, or loca.- tion of the form desired under the provisions df this Proclamation execute their applications in the manner provided by law and present the same, accomganied by the required palyments to the prodper United States lan office, in person, by ma', or otherwise an all applications so Bled, 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 prescribednbiy existing regulations. Under such regulations conflicts of eq rights will be determined by a drawing. W tm Warning is hereby given that no settlement initiated mfnrior to '6$°i'$°¤p.¤. seven days after the date for homestead entry above nam will be · recognized, but all persons who go upon any of the lands to be restored hereimder and perform any act of settlement thereon prior to nine o’clock a. m., standard time, February 21 1918, or who are on or are occupying any part of said lands at such hour, except those having valid subsisting settlement rights initiated prior to with- mmmds drawa from settlement and since maintained, and those having pref- fr§l1€:`l{p.m. erences 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 aud will gain no rights whatever under E. H B, such unlawful settlement or occupancy; Provided, however, that newer ` nothing herein contained shall prevent persons from going upon and over the lands to examine them with a view to thereafter appropri- mx M t ating them in accordance herewith. Persons havixfesrior set ent ima, .$ °m°° rights or preferences, as above defined, will be allo to make entry in accordance with existing law and regulations. Am It is not intended by this Proclamation to reserve any lands not "°°°°d’ immediately heretofore embraced in a national forest, nor to exclude any lands excedpt the areas indicated as eliminations on the diagram hereto annexe . IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aiixed. Done in the District of Columbia this 5th day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven- [sun.,] teen and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-second. Woomzow Wrnson By the President: Rosmvr Limsmo Secretary of State. Br rm: Pnnsmmrr or rim Unrrmn Srrarns or Aumuca A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, the Act of Congress approved October 20, 1914 (38 ·;{g,ggf"*°"’· Stat., 741), entitled "An Act to provide for the leasing of coal lands V¤l·38»P-7*2- in the Territory of Alaska, and or other purposes," authorizes the President of the United States to designate and reserve from use, location, sale, lease or disposition, not exceeding 7680 acres of coalbearingllands in the Matanuska field in Alaska; and 39. 1;%}:;;% WH REAS, b proclamation heretofore issued, a total of 3806.17 ’p° acres of land hasheen reserved under authoritykof said act. Awami mm H Now, therefore, I, WOODROW WILSO, President of the ¤a-v¤uu¤m1m¤,•¤- United States of America, under and by virtue of said statute, do hereby designate and reserve from use, location, sale, lease or dispo-