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 PROCLAMATIONS, isis. _ 1839 of the homestead laws requiring residence, at and after, but not before, nine o’clock a. m., standard time, October 17, 1918, and to settlement and other disposition, under any public land law applicable thereto, at and after, but not before, nine o’clock a. m., stand- _ _ _ ard time, October 24, 1918. Prospective applicants may, during the F‘H”g°pp1‘°°“°”‘ period of twenty days preceding the date on which the lands shall ecome subject to entry, selection or location of the form desired under the provisions of this Proclamation execute their applications in the manner provided by law and present the same, accom anied by the required payments, to the ro er United States land ogice in person, by mail, or otherwise, and) all) applications so filed, together with such as may be submitted at the hour fixed shall be treated as though simultaneously Bled and shall be disposed of in the manner prescribed by existing regulations. Under such regulations conflicts of Spual rights will be determined by a drawing. " arnjng is hereby given that no settlement initiated prior to seven W¥“"*”p§,g§°t*’;°f)g days after the date for homestead entry above named will be recog- nized, 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, October 24, 1918, or who are on or are occupying any part of said lands at such hour except those having vali subsistiug settlement rights initiated prior to withdrawal from settlement an since maintained, 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 rovide for the entry of agricultural lands within forest reserves", and Acts amendatori, will be considered and dealt with as trespasseis and will gain no rilg ts whatever under such unlawful settlement or occupancy; Provided, however, that nothing herein con- ,,dF”“’*“°“°"’ °“°"‘ tained shall prevent persons from going upon and over the lands to examine them with a. view to thereafter appro riating them in _ accordance herewith. Persons having prior settlement rights or ,,,g*;',§'m_ ’°‘“°“‘°"* preferences, as above defined, will be allowed to make entry in ' accordance with existing law and regulations. IN WITNESS WHIIREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done in the District of Columbia this 20th day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eiglhtoen, [sun.,] and of the Independence of the United States t o one hundred and forty-third. Woomzow Wrnsox. By the President: Romzirr Lausme Secretary of State. Br rm; Pnnsmmrr or mn Uxrrnn Srlvrns or Anmmcs A PROCLAMATION YVHEREAS, Section 2 of the act of Congress approved October 20, $°,2,l,l’,‘b£,lf‘“k“ 1914 (38 Stats., 741), authorizes the mining of coal from reserved V¤*~38·P·’“- areas in Alaska under the directon of the President, when necessary, by reason of the insufficient su ply, for national protection, or rehef from 0 ressive conditions, ami) WHEPEAS it appears that the available supply of coal for domestic and other uses in the Territory of Alaska is by reason of existing conditions inade nate and insufficient, _ inseam; me u N ow, therefore, I, WOODROW WILSON, President of the United mgcwxkmxg States of America, under and by virtue of said statute, do hereby see