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 1806 PROCLANIATIONS, 1918. ,3,% **8**** "°* The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands ` which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or. defeat egal rights under suc appropriation, nor prevent the use for such pu{bli£<i1purpose of laréds so resegved, so long as such appropriation is eg y maintaine, or suc reservation remains in force. ¤u§§hiSl?;z:i::r°iil¤i° And I do further proclaim and make known that in my judgment · it is proper and necessary, in the interest of equal opportunity 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 in v°" 3°· P' m" 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 and the provisions of existing withdrawals, shall be Tl'“° °f°*’°°”‘g‘ opened to entry only under the rovisions of the homestead laws requirinlg residence, at and after, lint not before, nine o’clock a. m., standar time, Augpst 21, 1918, and to settlement and other disposition, under any pu lic land law applicable. thereto, at and after,. but not before, nme o’clock a. m., standard. time, August 28, · 1918. FT H t, Prospective applicants may, duringl the lperiod of twenty days preml mg °p° °°”°°S’ ceding the date on which the lan sha become subject to entry, ‘ §lec{;ion or location of Ehe fornr desired umgalr the provisions (pfdtllris roc amation execute their a ications in e manner rovi e y law and present the same, agclgimpanied by the required payments, to the proper United_States land office in person, bly mail, or otherwise, and all a phcations so filed,,together with suc as may be submitted at the Iiour fixed shall be treated as though simultaneously filgld and shalllbei disposled of the mgxélnerr préescrilgfd bly exisltiigg re ations. n er suc regu tions co `cts o equ rig ts wi e . i determined by a drawing. p¤igiL"21x§$1?•i°:£istpt?€: Warning is hereby given that no settlement initiated prior to seven "‘g‘ days after the date for homestead entry above named will be recognized, but all persons who go upon any of the lands to be restored heiieuider and perflorrg any agt of sett ement therepln prior to nine o’c oc a. m., stan` ar time, ugust 28, 1918, or w o are on or are occupyingany part of said lands at such hour except those having _ vah subsisting settlement rights mitiated prior to withdrawal from ’·¤*°“*‘“*’°"°¤d¤· settlement an since maintained, and those having preferences to vol 34 p 233 trpake entry tgnder time prlpviséong of (She A<ég4oié§‘<;ng1ée§§)appror;eg · » · · une e even, nme een un re an six a ., , entitle "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 rgghts whatever under such unlawful ,0,’E,‘,§{‘“"”°"°”“ °" settlement or occupancy; Provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall prevent persons from going upon and over the lands mm ummm to examine them with a view to thereafter appropriating them in ngmmec. accordance herewith. Persons having prior settlement rights or preferenies, as abope defiripd, will be allowed to make entry in accordance wit existing aw an re lations. IN WITNESS WHEREOIIZII have hereunto set mv hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. ` Done m the District of Columbia this 12th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-third. Woonnow Wn. - By the President: SO`: FRANK L. Pour · Acting Secretary of State.