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1748 PROCLAMATIONS, 1915. .*"*°‘ "“*°¤-‘°”* Persons ha rior settlement hts or references, as above {mm denned, willnhg &owed to make elnltgry in co1i)formity with existing law and regulations. ·*'°““'°°°°"· It is not intended by this proclamation to reserve any land not immediately heretofore embraced in a National Forest nor to exclude any land except the areas indicated as eliminations on the diagram hereto annexed. IN WITNESS 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 31st day of August, in the ·year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, [sun.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hrmdred and fortieth. Woonaow W1LsoN. By the President: Ronmrr Laxsme Secretary of State. “¤**¤¤‘**"·””· BY rm: Pnnsmmrr or mm Ummm Srrxrns A PROCLAMATION '°"“"’“""‘“”‘“'“‘ Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Act of Congress &·v|tim,N.D¤k. b¤¤¤11-¤¤s¤¤.•>r¤¤•¤ approved June 1, 1910 (36 Stat., 455), as amended by the Act apqmy. proved August 3, 1914 (38 Stat., 681), I, WOODROW WHJSO ,8’vl‘}¤,"{· P- *55; V°'· resident o the United States of America, do hereby procla1m that all the lands in the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, in North Dakota, which on accoimt of their containing coal were reserved from allotment and other dis osition imder the aforesaid Act of June 1, 1910, and which, under tlie provisions of the aforesaid Act of August 3, 1914, have been classified as agricultural lands of the first class, agricultural lands of the second class and grazing lands shall be disposed of under the general provisions of the homestead laws and of said Acts of Congress and be opened to settlement and entry and be settled upon, occupied and entered in the following manner and not num. md. otherwise: Promkied, That patents issued for such lands shall contain ° a reservation to the Unite States of any coal that such lands may contain, to be held in trust for the Indians belonging to and having tribal rights on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, but any entry- man sh l have the right at any time before making final proof of his entry, or at the time of making such final proof, to a hearing for the purpose of disproving the classification as coal land of the and imraced in his entry, and if such land is shown not to be coal land a wg:d¤¤¤¤¤¤1¤¤ ¤1- patentwithout reservation shall issue: Provaled further, That home- B,§l,.g¢_E)1,p,42l, stead settlers may commute their entries under Section 2301 of the Revised Statutes by paying for the land entered at the appraised price. Mmm °' "“ 1. All persons qualified to make a homestead entry for said lands may, on and after October 18, 1915, and prior to and including October 30, 1915, but not thereafter, present to John McPhaul, Superintendent of the opening, in erson, or to some erson designated by him, at the cities of Minot, Eismarck or Plaza, North Dakota, sealed envelopes containing their applications for registration, but no envelope must contain more than one a plication; and no person can present more than one application in firs own behalf and one as agent or a. soldier or sailor, or for the widow or minor orphan child of a soldier or sailor, as hereinafter provided.