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PROCLAMATIONS, 1918. 1893 SW}, W} SE} Sec. 25, E} NE}, E} NW} Sec. 26, E} NE}, NW} NE}, NE} NW}, SE} Sec. 36; In T. 14 N., R. 11 W., NW} Sec. 13, E} SW}, NW} SE} Sec. 26, SE} Sec. 33, SE} NE}, S} Sec. 34, E} W}, SW} SW} Sec. 35, S} NW'}, N} SW} See. 36; In T. 13 N., R. 12 W., W} NE}, E} NW}, SW} NW}, NW} SW}, N} SE}, SE} SE} Sec. 1, NW} ‘NE}, N} NW}, SW} NW}, W} SW}, SE} SW}, S} SE} Sec. 2, E} E}, E} NW}, NW} NW} Sec. 3; In T. 14 N., R. 12 W., NE} NE}, NW} SW}, SE} Sec. 19, S} NE}, NW}, NW} SE} Sec. 20, SW} NE}, NW}, W} SE} Sec. 22, S} NE}, E} NW}, W} SW} Sec. 25, W} NE}, S} SE} Sec. 26, W} SW}, SE} SW}, SW} SE} Sec. 27, NE} NE}, SW} NE}, E} NW}, SW} NW}, S} Sec. 28, NE}, S} NW}, NE} SE} Sec. 29, NE}, E} NW}, SW} NW}, SE} SW}, S} SE} Sec. 33, N} NE}, SW} NE}, NW}, S} SW}, W} SE}, SE} SE} Sec. 34, W} NE}, N} NW}, SE} NW}, NE} SW}, S} SW} Sec. 35, N} NE}, W} NW}, SW}, NW} SE} Sec. 36. Exc, ded I ds And I do further proclaim and make known that in my judgment stored iio semiiiumtioi it is proper and necessary, in the interest of equal opportunity and good administration, that all of the excluded land subject to disposition should be restored to homestead entry in advance of settlement or other forms of disposition, and pursuant to the authority reposed V0, 38 ,,3 in me by the aforesaid act of September thirtieth, nineteen hundred 'P` ' and thirteen, I do hereby direct and provide that such lands, subject to valid rights, shall be opened to entry only under the provisions of the homestead laws requiring residence, at and after, but not before, nine o’cloek, A. M., standar time, February 5, 1919, and to settle- T"“°°’°P°“*”g· ment and other disposition under any public land law applicable thereto, at and after, but not before, nine o’cl0ck A. M., standard __ _ _ time, February 12, 1919. Prospective applicants may, during the mmg°pph°°°°°S` period of twenty days preceding the date on which the lands shall ecome subject to entry, selection or location of the form desired under the provisions of this Proclamation, execute their applications in the manner dproviided by law and present the same, accompanied by the require payments, to the (proper United States land office in person, by mail, or otherwise, an al applications so filed, together with such as may be submitted at the hour fixed, shall be treated as though simultaneously filed and shall be disposed of in the manner rescribed by existing regulations. Under such regulations coniiicts of equal rights wi 1 be determined by a drawing. _ _ _ VVarning is hereby given that no settlement initiated prior to seven ,,Q'p§},Q" ,,‘}§,,‘}‘“€§ days after the date for homestead entry above named will be recog- openingnized, but all persons who go upon an of the lands to be restored hereunder and perform any act of settlement thereon prior to nine o'clo<·k A. M., standard time, February 12, 1919, or who are on or are occupying any part of said lands at such hour, except those having valid subsisting settlement rights initiated prior to withdrawal from settlement and since maintained, and those having preferences to _ make entry under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved ·{g“°““‘“`““““dS‘ June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six (34 Stat., 233) entitled "An ‘°l·i"*p·Z;3· Act To provide for the entry of agricultural lands within forest reserves and Acts amendatory, will be considered and dealt with as trespassers and will gain no rights whatever under such unlawful _ , I settlement or occupancy; Provided, however, that nothing here1n k,£§m‘“at‘°“S °` contained shall prevent persons from going upon and over the lands to examine them with a view to appropriating them thereafter in Prior wwemem accordance herewith. Persons having prior settlement rights or yightsyetct ` preferences. as above defined, will be allowed to make entry in accordance with existing law and regulations.