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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1924. 1963 BY Tun Pansmmwr or rms: UNITED Sryrns or Aunmoa A PROCLAMATION Whereas, it a ears that the public ood will be romoted by g#*¤¤¤*¤ N;**°¤¤' excludin certairlipareas from thepLincol€1 National Flirest, in the F1>r$»ii¤Ii»ield ' State of gNew Mexico, and restoring the public lands subject to disposition therein to entry by ex-service men in advance of the general public in accordance with existing law; Now, therefore, I, CALVIN COOLIDGE, President of the United ·*’°°"“”“”""°"· States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act "°‘·3°·P·"·°- of Congress approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety- seven (30 Stat., 11 at 34 and 36), entitled, "An Act Makingl ap£ro— priations for sund.i·_y;u-civil expenses of the Government for the cal ear ending June t tieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other 1u·poses", do proclaun that the boundaries of the Lincoln National £`orest are hereby changed to exclude the areas indicated as eliminations upon the diagram hereto annexed and forming a part thereof. And I do further proclaim and make known that pursuant to up-‘§,}°g'“,*},°*;xj,:r*;{*°j Public Resolution No. 29 of February fourteenth nineteen hundred mm erwona warm and twentg (41 Stat., 434), as amended by Public Resolutions °l$:{°,, p_ M, V0, Nos. 36 an 79 approved January twenty-first and December twenty- 42, mask, mw. ' eighth, nineteen nmdred and twently-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 existing withdrawals, shall be opened only to entry under the homestead and desert-land laws by qlualified ex-service men of the war with Germany, under the terms an conditions of said resolutions and the regulations issued thereunder, for a dperiod of 91 days, beginning wit the 63rd day from and after the ate hereof, and thereafter any of said m{§*§,{§,'{*,‘,§f"‘°"’°¤°”‘ lands remaining unentered will be sub'ect to appropriation under any public land law applicable thereto by tlhe genera public. Subsequent to the date hereo and prior to the date of restoration to general disposition as herein provided, no rights may be acquired to the exc uded lands by settlement in advance o entry, or otherwise exippt strictly in aizlcordance hereivith. h ‘ d f d Fm wm ros ctive ap `cants ma, l11'|D.g' the erio o twenty ays , _ ‘ ’“’ °”‘· precediifg the datg on which the lands shall biicome subject to entry, B c 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 United States land offices at Roswe, New Mexico, in person by mail or otherwise, and all applications so filed, together with such as may be submitted at 9 0 c ock a. m., standard time, on the dates fixed, shall be treated as though simultaneously filed and shall be disposed of in the manner prescribed by existing regulations. gndegrsuch regulations conflicts of equal rig ts will be determined y a awmg. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the Ciiioof Washington this 17 ’ ’ da of Jul , in the ear of our rd one thousand nine bundled andYtwenty-flour, [SEAL.] and of the Inde endenoe of the United States of America the one hundred and forty-ninth. CALVIN Coonmon By the President: Josmur C. Gumw Acting Secretary of State.