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 1934 PROCLAMATIONS, 1919. n_§§§‘{g°§§,t$,f* _ And I do further proclaim and make known that in my judgment it IS proper and necessary, in the mterest 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 ve1.ss,p.11:4. 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 existin withdrawals, shall be opened to entry only under the provisions of the homernueorepmmg. stead laws requiring residence, at and after, but not before, nine o’clock a. m., standard time, on the sixt -third day after the date of this proclamation, and to settlement andy other disposition under any public land law applicable thereto, at and after, but not before, nine o’clock a. m., standard time, on the seventieth day after said date: Sm., ,,;,m.,,,,, I, Provided, that the rights of the State of Montana imder the provisions u{';})j’§'?,i,* ';{'g,§f*d€°‘{ of the Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and ’ ninetiglhree (27 Stat., 592), shall not be abridge in so far as any of such ds are affected therebg. Unsurveyed lands are not subject to the provisions of said act, ut in the a sence of a prior adverse right, the preference accorded the State of Montana thereby where the township has been s1n·veyed and the plat thereof filed while the lands were reserved for forestry purposes, will attach immediately upon the restoration of such lands to selection and entry under the general land laws of the United States en the seventieth day after the date hereof, as herein provided, and continue for sixty days. pm¤g,ppu¤e.m,, Prospective applicants may, during the alperiod of twenty days preceding the date on which the lan s 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 aw and present the same, accompanied by the required) payments, _ to the proper United States land offices in person, by mail, or otherwise, and all ap lications 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 manner prescribed by existin regulations. Under such regulations conflicts of equal rights be determined by a drawing. Warning szuinsr Warning is hereby given that no settlement initiated prior to seven §'£}”‘ °"°' ‘° days after the date erein prescribed for homestead entry will be recognized, but all 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, on the seventieth day from and after the date hereof, or who are on or are occupying any part of said lands at such hour, except those having valid subsisting settlement ' rights initiated prior to withdrawal from settlement and since main- Agxcuimmx lands. tamed, and those having preferences to make entry under the pro- V°"°*’ "‘m‘ visions of the Act of ongress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six (34 Stat., 233), entitled "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 rights whatever under such unlawful settlement or occupancy: 0W§§,{’m‘°““°“’ “*‘ Provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall pxrevent persons from going upon and over the lands to examine them witi a view to thereafter appropriating them in accordance herewith. Pernijgregca ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤= sons having prior settlement rights or preferences, as above defined, g ’ will be allowed to make entry in accordance with existing law and re lations. Mae ¤’*=°*°d· lit is not intended by this proclamation to reserve any lands not immediately heretofore embraced in a national forest, nor to exclude any lands except the areas indicated as eliminations on the diagram hereto annexed.