1724 PROCLAMATIONS, 1917. locate therein, subject to valid rights initiated prior to the date hereof and maintained pursuant to law: In T. 8 N., R. 16 W., N. M. P. M., &cs. 4 and 5; InT. 9 N., R. 16 W., N. M. P. M., Secs. 5, 6, 7, 8, 17, 18, 19, 20, 28, 29, 32 and 33· _ _ In T. 8 N., 17 W., N. M. P. M., Secs. 5 to 9, inclusive, 13 to 22, inclusive; _ In T. 9 N., R. 17 W., N. M. P. M., fractional Secs. 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, Secs. 11 to 16, inclusive, fractional Secs. 17, 18, Secs. 19 to 23, m- clusive, N § Sec. 24, Secs. 27 to 33 inclusive; _ _ In T. 8 N., R. 18 W., N. M. P. M., Secs. 1 to 18, inclusive, Sec. 24; In T. 9 N., R. 18 W., N. M. P. M., fractional Secs. 13, 22, 23, 24, Sew. 25, 26, fractional Secs. 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, Secs. 33 to 36, mclu— sive; _ InT.11N.,R. 18W.,N.M.P. M., Secs. 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 to 11, mclusive, 15 to 21, inclusive, 29 30 and 31; _ InT. 8 N., R. 19 W., N. M. P. M., fractional Secs. 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, Secs. 11 to 16, inclusive, fractional Secs. 17, 18, Secs. 20, 21, 22, 23, N ·} Sec. 24· ·_ In T. 9 R. 19 W., N. M. P. M., fractional Seo. 36. _ m’j§g‘§§§,,,§P_;‘j,_” And I do further proclaim and make known that in my gudlgment _ it is properand necessary,1n the mterest of equal opportunity an_ good administration, that the remainder of the exclu ed subyect to such disposition should be restored to homestead entry in advance of settlement or other forms of disposition, and pursuant to_ the v°*· 3*% P- m- authority reposed in me by the aforesaid act of September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, I do hereby direct and provide that such lands, sub'ect to valid rights and the provisions of existing with- T*"'°°"*’°"*"¢· drawals, shall lie opened to entry only under the provisions of the ~ homestead laws requiring residence at and after, but not before, nine o’clock a. m., February 11 1918, and to settlement and other disposition, under any pu lic land law applicable thereto, at and after, _ ut not before, nine o’clock a. m., stan ard time, February 18, 1918.
Prospective applicants may, during thelperiod of twenty days preceding the date on which the lan sh become subject to entry,
selection, or location of the form desired under the provisions of this Proclamation, execute their applications in the manner mprovided by law and present the same, accompanied by the requir lpayments, to the proper United States land offices, in person, by mai , or otherwise, and all applications so filed, together with such as may be submitted at the our fixed, shall be treated as though simultaneously Bled and shall be disposed of in the manner prescribed by existing regulations. Under such regulations coniiicts of equal rights will be determined by a drawing. ugly, °l;{,jj¤§,§ Warning is hereby given that no settlement initiated prior to seven creams. days after the date for homestead entry above named will be recogmzed, but all persons who go upon any of the lands to be restored hereunder and perform any act of sett ement thereon prior to nine o’clock_a. m., standard tune, February18, 1918, or who are on or are occupyingany part of said lands at such hour, except those having vali subsisting settlement rights initiated prior to withdrawal from settlement and since maintained, and those having preference to make
entry under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved June
eleventh mneteen hundred and six (34 Stat., 233), entitle<l)"An ActTo 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 settlement or m§v§eg_¤*¤°**°¤’ occupancy: Provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall prevent persons from going upon and over the lands to examine them with a View to thereafter appropriating them in accordance herewith
