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 1744 PROCLAMATION S, 1919. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aflixed. DONE this 8th day of April, in the year of our Lord One 'l`housand. Nine Hundred and Nineteen, and of the Indepexgegce of [sun.] the United States the One Huncirved and Foxy}-;0;·. OODBOW 1 By the President: FRANK L. Pom: Acting Secretary of State. A PROCLAMATION “¥’°N°“°§$“"°”“· WHEREAS, it a ears that the public ood will be romoted b callnreaaxiillillg excluding certain lgiids from the ilnyo 1% ational Foriist,  Cali fornia and Nevada, and by restoring the public lands subject to V°L 3*** "3‘ disposition in the excluded areas in a_ manner authorized by the Act of Congress approved September thirtieth, nineteen hundred_ and thirteen (38 Stat., 113), entitled "An Act To authorize the President to gprvidgl a mgtlpod fcgi- opening  restored from reservation or .. wi aw ,an oro er oses ;  New, therefore, 1, wooiiiibpvv wn.soN, resident er eee United States of America, b virtue of the plower in me vested by the Act of Co ess approved Jyune fo1u·th, ei¤· teen hundred and ninety-seven (3(l1§tat., 11 at 34 and 36), entitled "An Act Malrmigwaagipropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the gear ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, an for other purposes", do lproclaim that the boundaries of the Inyo National orest are here y changed to exclude the areas indicated as eliminations on the disgram hereto annexed and forming a part hereof. ¤§,gg‘$,§;g,}g;*,§§,,f* And I do fur er proclaim and make known that in my judgment it is proper and necessary, in the interest of equal o portunity and good administration, that all of the excluded lands suliiyect to disposition should be restored to homestead entry in advance of settlement vol M P U3 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, sub'ect Tim <>¢¤1>¤¤1¤z. to valid rights and the provisions o existing withdrawals, shall be opened to entry only under the rovisions of the homestead laws requiring residence, at and after, gut not before, nine o’clock a. m., standar time, on the eighty-fourth day after the date of this Proclamation, and to settlement and other disposition under any public land law applicable thereto, at and after, but not before, nine o’clook __ _ _ a. m., stan ard time, on the ninety-first day after said date. Prosming “*’pL‘°““"“’· pective applicants may, durin the period of twenty days preceding the date on which the lands sgall become subject to entry selection o_r location of the form desired under the provisions of this l’ro<·lamation, execute their applications in the manner provided by law and present the same, accom anied by the required payments to the proper  mted 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 ihall be disposed of in the manner prescribed by existing regulations. 3 nggxgpgh regulations conflicts of equal rights will be determined by Warning against _ ‘ ?“"°"`““‘ W"' ‘° Wmies is h€‘I‘€l> `Veu that no settle ‘ ‘ ‘ * - p°°mg` days} af ter the date lizgdin prescribed for hldihregtleilddueiziilaiiypvlrlicllllie)riizlogi mae, but all persons who go upon any of the lands to be restored
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