PROCLAMATIONS, 1914. 2029 AND WHEREASinthisasin allthingsitisour rivilegeand duty to seek counsel and succor of Almighty God, humbling ourselves befpge Him, confessing our weakness an our lack of any wisdom equal to ese ; AND AS it is the especial wish and longing of the people of the United States, in prayer and counsel and all riendliness, toserve the cause of geace; . THEREF RE,I, WOQDROW 'WILSON, President of the United ,, l’:',Q; State of America, do designate Sunday, the fourth daaly of October ·Jm¤•g:r next, a day of prayer and supplication and do request God—fearing pew. persons to repair on that day to their places of worship there to unite their petitions to Almighty God that, overruling the counsel of men, setting straight the y cannot govern or alter, takingpity on the nations now in the of conflict, in His mercy and goodness showing a way where men can see none, He vouchsafe His children healing peace aglain and restore once more that concord among men and nations wit out which there can be neither happiness nor true friendship nor any wholesome fruit of toil or thoug t in the world; Eaying also to this end that He forgive us our sins, our ignorance of is ho y will, our wilfulness and mandy errors, and lead us m the paths of obedience to places of vision an to thoughts and counsels that purge and make wise. In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aflixed. ` Dorm at the City of Washington this eighth day of September in · the year o our Lord one thousand nme hundred and fourteen [anna] and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-ninth. _ Woonnow Winsor:. By the President: Wmum Jmmmes Barn Secretary of State. Br rm: Pnnsmnur or run UNITED Srurms ¤•v*>•¤=¤¤ *8.1*14- A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Act of Congress directing the disposal of lands °*g;*!¤¤¤•¤ R••¤· within a specified part of the Crow Indian Reservation, in the State “i>i¤•i¤»iii:°` of Montana, approved April 27, 1904, provides among other things; v°'··”·’·’“· That when, in the judgment of the President, no more of the land herein ceded can be disposed of at said price, he may by proclamation, to be re ated at his discretion, sell from time to time the remaining llfnd subject to the provisions of the homestead law or otherwise as he may deem most advantageous, at such price or prices, in such manner, upon such conditions, with such restrictions, and upon such terms as he may deem best for all the interests concerned; AND WHEREAS Proclamations issued on Selptember 9, 1910, 3,V;*·,§g}>·"*¤= V°*~ and An st 9, 1912, under said Act, directed the sa e of certain lands, ` all of which have not been disposed of; _ AND WHEREAS, in my judgment, the imdisposed of lands affected by said Proclamaticns can_be most advantageously disposed of in the manner hereinafter prescribed; _ Now therefore, I, WOODROW W'lISON,_President of the United °t§ff¤g°,{•*°d,•;{1dgf·=°ld· States of America, do hereby proclaim and direct that all the unsold, unentered, nonmineral, unreserved lands affected by sand Act, which are not withdrawn under the Reclamation Act, shall be of in the following manner and not otherwise:
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