Time of opening. Preferential rights of Vol. 27, p. 592. subject to valid rights and the provisions of existing withdrawals, shall be opened to entry only under the provisions of the homestead laws requiring residence, at and after, but not before, nine o'clock a. m., standard time, October 14, 1919, and to settlement and other disposition under any public land law applicable thereto, at and after, but not before, nine o'clock a. m., standard time, October 21, 1919: Provided, that the rights of the State of Montana under the pro- Montana not abridged. visions of the Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three (27 Stat., 592), shall not be abridged in so far as any of such lands are affected thereby. Unsurveyed lands are not subject to the provisions of said act, but in the absence of a prior adverse right, the preference accorded the State of Montana thereby, where the township has been surveyed, and the plat thereof filed while the lands were reserved for forestry purposes, will attach immediately upon the restoration of such lands to selection and entry under the general land laws of the United States on October 21, 1919, as herein provided, and continue for sixty days. Pros- etc. pective applicants may, during the period of twenty days preceding the date on which the lands shall become subject to entry, selection or location of the form desired under the provisions of this proclamation, execute their applications in the manner provided by law and present the same, accompanied by the required payments, to the proper United States land offices in person, by mail, or otherwise, and all 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 prescribed by existing regulations. Under such regulations conflicts of equal rights will be determined by a drawing. Filing applications, Warning against to Agricultural lands. Warning is hereby given that no settlement initiated prior to trespassing prior seven days after the date for homestead entry above prescribed will opening. be recognized, 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 21, 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 Vol. 34, p. 233. June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six (34 Stat., 233), entitled "An 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 settlement or occupancy: Provided, however, that nothing herein ed. contained shall prevent persons from going upon and over the lands to examine them with a view to thereafter appropriating them in accordance herewith. Persons having prior settlement rights or rights, etc. preferences, as above defined, will be allowed to make entry in accordance with existing law and regulations. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE in the District of Columbia this 3rd day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine[SEAL] teen, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-fourth. By the President: ROBERT LANSING, WOODROW WILSON Examinations allow Prior settlement BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS it appears that the public good will be promoted by adding certain lands to the Prescott National Forest, Arizona, by excluding certain land therefrom, and by transferring thereto certain lands heretofore forming a part of the Coconino National Forest within the State of Arizona; Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninetyone (26 Stat., 1095), entitled “An Act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes," and also by the Act of Congress approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven (30 Stat., 11 at 34 and 36), entitled "An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year endng June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes," do proclaim that the Prescott National Forest is hereby changed and that its boundaries are now as shown upon the diagram hereto annexed and forming a part hereof; and that this proclamation and that changing the boundaries of the Coconino National Forest, which I have also signed this same day, are made and are intended to be and shall be considered as one act to become effective simultaneously. The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws, or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved; so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE in the District of Columbia this 29th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine[SEAL.] teen, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-fourth. By the President: ROBERT LANSING WOODROW WILSON. September 29, 1919. Coconino National Area modified. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS it appears that the public good will be promoted by adding certain areas to the Coconino National Forest, Arizona, by excluding certain lands therefrom; and WHEREAS it appears that certain lands immediately heretofore embraced in the Coconino National Forest, within the State of Arizona, should be transferred to and made a part of the Prescott National Forest, Arizona: Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one (26) Stat., 1095), entitled "An Act To repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes," and also by the Act of Congress approved June Vol. 30, p. 36. Ante, p. 1770. fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven (30 Stat., 11 at 34 and 36), entitled "An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes," do proclaim that the Coconino National Forest is hereby changed and that its boundaries are now as shown upon the diagram hereto annexed, and forming a part hereof; and that this proclamation and that changing the boundaries of the Prescott National Forest, which I have also signed this same day, are made and are intended to be and shall be considered as one act to become effective simultaneously. The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands, Prior rights not af which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such appropriation is legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE in the District of Columbia this 29th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL.] nineteen, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-fourth. By the President: ROBERT LANSING WOODROW WILSON. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. The Season of the year has again arrived when the people of the United States are accustomed to unite in giving thanks to Almighty God for the blessings which He has conferred upon our country during the twelve months that have passed. A year ago our people poured out their hearts in praise and thanksgiving that through divine aid the right was victorious and peace had come to the nations which had so courageously struggled in defense of human liberty and justice. Now that the stern task is ended and the fruits of achievement are ours, we look forward with confidence to the dawn of an era where the sacrifices of the nations will find recompense in a world at peace. But to attain the consummation of the great work to which the American people devoted their manhood and the vast resources of their country they should, as they give thanks to God, reconsecrate themselves to those principles of right which triumphed through His merciful goodness. Our gratitude can find no more perfect expression than to bulwark with loyalty and patriotism those principles for which the free peoples of the earth fought and died. During the past year we have had much to make us grateful. In spite of the confusion in our economic life resulting from the war we have prospered. Our harvests have been plentiful, and of our abundance we have been able to render succor to less favored nations. Our democracy remains unshaken in a world torn with political and social unrest. Our traditional ideals are still our guides in the path of progress and civilization. These great blessings, vouchsafed to us, for which we devoutly give thanks, should arouse us to a fuller sense of our duty to our 44282°-VOL 41-PT 2-23 fected. |