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 1896 PROCLAMATIONS, 1918. ,,,§j""° °‘ ’°‘°°““‘· Provided, that all selections bz. the State of Montana hereunder must be fled within ninety days om the date of  proclamation, or within ninety days from the approval of the official plat of survey of any unsurveyed land embraced within the areas to be selected b the State and the lands embraced in selections made by the State oi, Montana hereunder, to the extent that such selections receive the final approval of the Secretary of the Interior, be, and the same are, hereby declared eliminated from the Blackfeet and Flathead National Forests, liuch eliminations to become effective from the date of such a rova. Pl)N WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done in the District of Columbia this 27th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [smn.] eighteen, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-third. W oonnow 11.soN By the President Ronmrr Lmsme Secretary of State.  Br rmi: Pnnsmmrr or rm: Uivrrmn Srarns or Aimmcs A PROCLAMATION °“‘°°"N““°"" F"' WHEREAS it appears that the public od will be romoted b Mont. 1 “§’¤¤¤¤¤¤1¤- exc1udingFcertain lands within the Sptate ofgllllontana frogi the Custei National crest and by restoring the public lands sub`ect to disposi- W- 3* P- 1*3- tion in the excluded areas in a manner authorized by the Act of Congress apgnroved September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen (38 tat. 113), entitled "An Act To authorize the President to provide a method for opening lands restored from reservation or _ wit drawal, and for other oses"; Am ‘”'°“‘“h°"· Now, therefore, I, WOOl§ll.l8W WILSON, President of the United V¤1·80, p. 36. States of America, b virtue of the ower in me vested by the Act of Congress approved fine fo1u·th, e` Iliteen hundred and ninety-seven (30 tat., 11 at 34 and 36), entitleltl "An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil ex nses of the Government for the fiscal ear ending June thirtietllii eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, andy for other pu11poses", do proclaim that the boundaries of the Custer National orest are hereby changed to exclude the areas indicated as isimugations on the diagram hereto annexed and forming a part ereo . ,,£§§"§§§2,,{§“¤2§,_'° _ And I do further proclaim and make known that in my judgment it is proper_and necessary, m the interest of equal o portunity and good administration, that all of the,excluded lands suiiject to disposition should be restored to homestead entry in advance of settlement V0! 38 P I 13 or other forms of disposition, and pursuant to the authority reposed ` ’ ' in 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, and where _ _ lands withdrawn or classified as coal are involved subject to the ““’°"‘°¥’°“*“g· conditions apphcable thereto, shall be opened to entry only under the provisions of the homestead laws requirin residence, at and after, but not before, nine o’clock a. m., standa1§i time, January 29 1919, and to settlement and other dis osition under any public land law applicable thereto, at and after, but not before, nine o’clock