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PROCLAMATIONS, 1905. 3 1 19 Lake Meridian; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township one (1) South, Range seven (7) East, the place of beginning; ~ such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys; Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands Lands °"’°p*"‘l· which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Pro vided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settleror claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made. IVarning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settle- SetI§§§§Q",§'l { "° m ment upon the lands reserved by this proclamation. i IN WVITNESS WVHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be allixed. Done at the City of Washington this 14th day of July, in the year it of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of [sun.,] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth. . THEODORE Roosnvmzr By the President: , ALVEY A. ADEE ‘ _ Acting Secretary of State. BY THE PRESIDENT or THE Uxrrnn STATES or AAIVIERICA. July 14, 1a05. A PROCLAMATION. WVhereas it was provided by the Act of Congrew, approved May Relje{.$n§{}”Q‘ l{}g;§° 27, A. D., 1902 (32 Stat., 203), among other things, that on October $¥'f¤§}_,bl¢¥·`o ' first, 1903, the unallotted lands in the Uintah Indian Reservation, in °° “’°‘ ‘°3‘ the State of Utah, " shall be restored to the public domain: Provided, That persons entering any of said lands under the homestead laws shall pay therefor at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre ". And, whereas, the time for the opening of said unallotted lands was extended to October 1, 1904, by the Act of Congress approved March 3, 1903 (32 Stat., 998), and was extended to lt arch 10. 1905, by the Vai-32.p.998. . Act of Congress approved April 21. 1904 (33 Stat., 207). and was Vet 3341 207. again extended to not later than September 1. 1905. by the Act of Congress, approved :March 3, 1905 (33 Stat., 1069) . which last named l’<>¤-33,x>-1¤69- act provided, among other things: That the said unallotted lands, excepting such tracts as may have been set aside as national forest reserve, and such mineral lands as were disposed of hy the Act of Congress of May twenty-seventh. nineteen hundred and two. shall be disposed of under the general provisions of the homestead and townsite laws of the United States. and shall be opened to settlement and entry by proclamation of the President, which proclamation shall prescribe the manner in which these lands may be settled upon. occupied. and entered by persons entitled to make entry thereof : and no person shall be permitted to settle upon. occupy. or enter any of said lands. except as prescribed in said proclamation, until after the expiration of sixty days from the time when the same are thereby opened to settlement and entry: Provided. That the rights of honorably discharged Union soldiers and sailors of the late civil and Spanish war or Philippine insurrection,