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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1918. 1833 shall be opened to entry only under the provisions of the homestead '*`**¤¤°’°P¤¤*¤¤=· laws requiring residence, at and after, but not before, nino o’clock a. rn., standard time, October 9, 1918, and to settlement and other disposition under any public land law ap licable thereto, at and after, but not before, nine o clock a. m., standhrd time, October 16, 1918. Prospective applicants may, during thedperiod of twenty days pre- mF‘“¤¢ °¥’P“°°“°¤¤i ceding the date on which the lan sh become subject to entry, ` selection 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, accompanied by the required 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 filed and shall be disposed of in the manner-prescribed by existing regulations. Under such regulations conflicts of equal rights will be determined byla drawing. Warning is ereby given that no settlement initiated prior to seven Wp¤¤¤¤z_¤e¤·i¤m¤»- days after the date for homestead entry above named will be recog— {gms p"°° t° °°°°` nized, but all persons who go upon an of the lands to be restored hereimder and perform any act of settlement thereon prior to nine o’clock a. m., standard time, October 16, 1918, or who are on or are occupying any part of said lands at such hour, except those having vali subsistinlg settlement rights initiated prior to withdrawal from settlement an since maintained, and those having preferences to Agricultural was make entry under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved "°‘·“·P·”’· June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six (34 Stat., 233) entitled "An Act To provide for the entry of agricultural lands  forest reserves", and acts amendatory, will e considered and dealt with as trespassers and will gain no rights whatever under such unlawful settlement or occupancy; Provided, however, that nothing herein ,¤§;{¤“¤”°¤¤ •'· contained shall prevent persons from going upon and over e lands to examine them with a view to thereafter agpropriating them in accordance herewith. Persons having prior set ement rights olrdpref- d§1g°;tc_“'°*°m°¤* erences, as above denned, will be allowed to make entry in acco ance ’ with existirlrg law and regulations. IN WIT ESS WHE EOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done in the District of Columbia this ninth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-third. Woonaow WHBON By the President: FRANK L Pom: Acting Secretary of State. Br THE Pnnsmmvr or rrm Umrnn S·rA·rr:s or Amrsmoa A¤z¤¤’¢10,1918- A PROCLAMATION Whereas, section 2 of the Act of Congress entitled, "An Act To ,,,,'f,§,?§}”g "““ “‘° define, regulate, and unish trading with the enemy, and for other Pmmblepurposes/’ approved October 6, 1917, known as the "TI8(l1Dt§1¥V1tl1 the enemy Act", provides that the word "enemy" as used erein shall be deemed to mean for the purposes of such trading and of said Act- Statutory authorim- "Such other individuals, or body or class of individuals,_as u°_§‘;,,,,,,_ m_ may be natives, citizens, or subjects of any nation with which the United States is at war, other than citizens of the United States, wherever resident or wherever doing_busmess, as the President, if he shall find the safety of the United_States or the successful prosecution of the war shall so require, may, by proclamation, include within the term ‘enemy’ ;’