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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1918. 1897 a. m., standard time, Februa 5, 1919: Provided that the hts of §fj**° °°'°°“°’!“ the State of Montana underrzhe provisions of tlie Act of Clgngress gc, mmmmbndgg approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninet —three (27 Stat., \°l‘27’p‘5°2‘ 592), shall not be abridge m so far as an of such lyands are affected thereby. Where the lands were surveyed and the plat thereof filed while the lands were withdrawn for forestry urposes, the preference accorded the State rmder said act, in the aqisence of a prior valid r1.ght,_w1ll attach immediately upon the restoration of the lands to se eiption and erétizy unger the gengral land lixaws on February 5, 1919, as erem provide an continue or sixt. Prospective applicants_ mag`, during tihe ggriod of twenty days F““’g“PP“°°“°"°‘· preceding the date on which e lands shall become subject to entry, selection or location of the form desired_under the provisions of this Proclamation, execute their apphcations in the manner provided by law and present the same, accompamed by the required payments, to the (prplper United States land office in person, by mail, or otherwise, an aplplications so filed, 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 mannerllaprescribed by existing regulations. Un er such regulations co cts of agual rights will be etermined by a drawing. arning is hereby given that no settlement initiated rior to eevgpgisiiizm rin-minis: seven days after the date for homestead entry above named) will be °P°¤i¤¤- recognized, but a.ll persons who go upon any of the lands to be restored hereunder and perform any act of settlement thereon prior to nine o’clock a. m., standard time February 5, 1919, or who are on or are occupying any part of said lands at such hour, except those havi1§ valid subsisting settlement rights initiated prior to with- _ draw from settlement and 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 provide for the entry of ve;$icultural lands within forest reserves", and Acts amendatory, be considered and dealt with as trespassers and will gain no rights whatever under such unlawful settlement or occupancy; Provided, however, that ,°§;,°¤i¤¤°*°¤* °·" nothing herein contained shall prevent persons from going upon ' and over the lands to examine them with a view to thereafter appropriating them in accordance herewith. Persons having prior settle- ,,gQ{_§f’_§,cf°"'°“‘°"‘ ment rights or dpreferences, as above defined, will be allowed to make ent in accor ance with existing law and regulations. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be ailixed. Done in the District of Columbia this 27th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [san.] eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-third. W W oonnow ILSON By the President: Roni-zur Limsmo Secretary of State. BY run PRESIDENT or THE Uxrrnn Srlrns or Ammrca A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, it appears that the public good will be promoted by F§§J"3§§;_ N““°"" excluding certain lands within the State of Oregon from the Deschutes P¤=¤¤=b¤¤·~ National Forest, and by restoring the public lands subject to disposi- 12080S°—vo1. 40, rr 2-39