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 1>RocLAMAT1oNs, 1923. 1927 V lands subject to disposition therein to entry b ex—service men in advance of the general ublic, in accordance withi existing law; Now, therefore, I, CKLVIN COOLIDGE, President of the United ${,‘{j‘2’g"‘;,‘fi{*fg’3; States of America, b virtue of the power in me vested b the Act of ' Co ess approved lziarch third, eighteen hundred andyninety-one (2d1§tat., 1095), entitled, "An Act To re eal timber-culture laws, V1 and for other purposes", and also by the Xct of Co ess approved °'°°’p‘3°' June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven (30uSlaat., 11 at 34 and 36), entitled, "An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the Bscal year ending June thirtieth, ` eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes," do roclaim that the boundaries of the Sitgreaves National Forest are hereby changed to include the area indicated as an addition upon the diagram hereto annexed and forming a part hereof and to exclude the areas indicated thereon as eliminations. The withdrawal made b this proclamation shall, as to all lands m1;c“,‘gf,f‘gh”·°‘°··““ which are at this date le alliy appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any pi§blic purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legs rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such pu lic 1p1u·pose of lands so reserved, so long as such apfpropriation is legal y maintained, or such reservation remains in orce. Em ml d _ And I do further proclaim and make known that pursuant to eam¤`ii¤rfy1i§·lsi¤(-Qtwx. Public Resolution Number Twenty-nine, approved February four- }§§ ‘,§‘f§§ysYV°'*d W°'· teenth, nineteen hundred and twenty (41 tat., 434), as amended §Zg{-g»1>- 4%:58 mw by the Resolutions approved January twenty-first and December. ’pp' ’ ‘ twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and twenty-two respectively (42 Stat., 358, 1067), it is hereby ordered that the public lands in the excluded areas, sub`ect to valid rights and the provisions of existi withdrawals, shall lbe opened o y to entry imder the homesteldd and desert-land laws by qualiBed ex—service men of the War with Germany, under the terms and conditions of said resolutions and the regulations issued thereunder, for a period of ninety-one days, beginning with the sixty-third day from and after the date hereof, Umntond In ds an thereafter any of said land remaining unentered will be subject opened to smiemlim to appropriation under any public land law applicable thereto by t °'°°“°'· the general public. Subsequent to the date hereof and prior to the date of restoration to general disposition as herein provided, no rights may be acquired to the excluded lands by settlement in advance of entry, or otherwise except strictly in accordance herewith. Prospective applicants may; during the period of twenty days atfmug °PP“"““°'“· preceding the date on which the lands shall become subject to entry, selection or location of the form desired under the provisions of this roclamation, execute their applications in the manner (provided by liaw and present the same, accompanied by the require payments, to the United States land office at Phoenix, Arizona, in person, by mail or otherwise, and all applications so Bled, together with such as may be submitted at nine o c ock a. m., standard time, on the dates fixed, shall be treated as though simultaneously Bled and shall be dis osed of in the manner prescribed by existing regulations. Under sucli regulations conflicts of equal rights will be determined by a drawin . IN XNITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this 13th da of Oct., in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twent —three, [SEAL.] and of the Inde endence of the United States of America the one hundred) and forty-eighth. CALVIN Coomnen By the President: CHARLES E. Huerms Secretary of State.