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PROCLAMATION S, 1919. 1767 but not before, nine o’clock a. in., standard time, October 13, 1919, and to settlement and other disposition under any public land law apphcable thereto, at and after, but not before, nine o’clock a. m., _ standard time, October 20, 1919: Provided, that the rights of the m§§";'§§‘§,’}l,,’,}§;‘d*§°' State of 1daho_under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved Vol 2,, M March third, eighteen hundred and mnety-three (27 Stat., 592), shall ’p` ' not be abridge in so far as any of such lands are affected thereby. Unsurveyed ands are not subject to the tpxrovisions of said act, but in glietgbiepgehof tri; prior aciversezhright, hm; pgefergence accordeid the a o ao erey,were etowns as eensurvee,and the plat thereof filed while the lands were iieserved for foresjtrydpun poses, will attach immediately upon the restoration of such lan s to selection and entry under the general land laws of the United States on October_20, 1919, as herein provided, and continue for sixty days. _ _ Prospective applicants maly, during the period of twenty days pre- www “’P1‘°““°“‘• ceding the date on which the lands shall become subject to entry, selection or location of the form desired under the provisions of this llglroclaxfliation, eérzplute their applicatiogsi the mannezprovided by w an presen _ e same, accompam e re uir ayments, to the proper United_States land office in gerson, lily mail?or otherwrse, and all applications so filed, together with such as may be submitted at the our fixed, shal1_ be treated as though simultaneously filed and shall be disposed of m_the manner prescribed by existing 3egulation3.b Ungpr such regulations conflicts of equal rights will be etermme y a awmg. . Warning is hereby given that no settlement initiated prior to seven W?ml3¥;o°$°i§s$§*¢°Z'· days after the date for homestead entry above prescribed will be rec- ogmzed, but all persons who go upon any of the lands to be restored hereunder and perform any act of settlement thereon prior to nine o’clock_a. m., standard time October 20, 1919, or who are on or are occupymgany part of said lands at such hour, except those having vah subsisting settlement rights initiated prior to withdrawal from settlement an since maintained, and those having preferences to make entry under the provisions of the Act of Con ess approved June eleventh, nineteen undred and six (34 Stat., 233% entitled "An ‘ ’p' ` Act To provide for the entry of agricultural lands within forest reserves", and Acts amendatory, wi be considered and dealt with as trespassers and will gain no rights whatever under such unlawful settlement or occupancy; Provided, however, that nothing herein con- ,°§;{,¤¤¤'¤¤“°¤¤ M- tained shall prevent persons from going upon and over the lands to ` examine them with a view to thereafter appropriating them in ac- mor mlmm cordance herewith. Persons_hav1ngpr1or settlement rights or pref- ,m,L.,,,,c_ erences, gs above dlgfinedh will beta lowed to make entry in accordance wit existin w an re a ions. IN have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE in the District of Columbia this 21st day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine- [anu,.] teen, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-fourth. W W OODROW 1Ls0N By the President: Ronnnr Laxsmo Secretary of State.