Resale on nonpayment. No restrictions, etc. Conditions. Rules, etc. Warning against conspiracies, etc. Punishment for hin dering, etc., sales. 434. If any person fails to make payment on the day required for the land purchased, the land will be reoffered for sale and the person so defaulting will not thereafter be permitted to bid for or purchase any other tract. No restriction will be made as to the number of tracts any person may purchase, and no showing will be required of purchasers as to age, citizenship or otherwise. Bids may be made either in person or by agent, but will not be considered if received through the mail. The Secretary of the Interior and the Superintendent of the sale may, as emergencies arise, make and prescribe such rules and regulations not in conflict herewith as the proper conducting of the sale may require; and the Superintendent may at any time suspend or indefinitely postpone the sale or adjourn it to such time or place as he may deem advisable; and he may reject any or all bids which in his opinion are less than the actual cash value at which any of the land offered should be sold. All persons are warned against entering into any agreement, combination, or conspiracy which will prevent any of said lands from selling advantageously, and all persons so offending will be prosecuted criminally under Section 2373 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, which reads as follows: "Every person who, before or at the time of the public sale of any R. 8., sec. 2373, p. of the lands of the United States, bargains, contracts, or agrees, or attempts to bargain, contract, or agree with any other person, that the last-named person shall not bid upon or purchase the land so offered for sale, or any parcel thereof, or who by intimidation, combination, or unfair management, hinders, or prevents, or attempts to hinder or prevent, any person from bidding upon or purchasing any tract of land so offered for sale, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than two years, or both." 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 twenty-sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixteen and [SEAL.] of the independence of the United States the one hundred and fortieth By the President: ROBERT LANSING WOODROW WILSON Secretary of State. May 3, 1916. 39 Stat., 1778. ervation, Wash. etc., lands in, opened to 34 Stat., 80, vol. 3, 163. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. A PROCLAMATION. Colville Indian Res- I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, by Unallotted irrigable, virtue of the power and authority vested in me by the Act of Conhomestead entry. gress approved March 22, 1906 (34 Stat. L., 80) do hereby prescribe, proclaim, and make known, that all the non-mineral, unallotted and unreserved lands within the diminished Colville Indian Reservation, in the State of Washington, classified as irrigable lands, grazing lands, or arid lands, shall be disposed of under the general provisions of the homestead laws of the United States and of the said Act of Congress, and shall be opened to settlement and entry and settled upon, occupied, and entered only in the manner herein prescribed: Provided, That all lands classified as timber or mineral, all lands designated for irrigation by the Government, and all lands within the following townships and parts of townships shall not be disposed of under this proclamation: Townships 31, 32, 33, and 34 north, range 35 east; township 30 Lands excepted. north, range 31 east; township 31 north, range 30 east; north half of township 31 north, range 28 east; townships 32, 33, and 34 north, range 28 east; south half and south half of north half of township 33 north, range 27 east; and fractional part north and east of Lake Omache of township 32 north, range 27 east. registration. 1. A registration for the lands will be conducted at the cities of Time and places for Spokane, Wenatchee, Colville, Wilbur, Republic and Omak, Washington, beginning July 5, and ending July 22, 1916, Sunday excepted, under the supervision of John McPhaul, Superintendent of the opening. Any person qualified to make entry under the general provisions of the homestead law may register. Applications 2. Any person who was honorably discharged after at least ninety soldiers and sailors. days' service in the United States Army, Navy or Marine Corps, during the Civil War, the Spanish-American War or the Philippine Insurrection (or the widow or minor orphan children of such person) may register either in person or by agent. Other persons will Others, not be permitted to register by agent. No person shall present more than one application in his own behalf and one as agent. Each application for registration must show the applicant's name, postoffice address, age, height and weight, and must be inclosed in an envelope bearing no distinctive marks or any paper other than the application. No envelope shall contain more than one application. Requirements. from Registration of ap 3. Each applicant must himself sign and swear to his application plications. on or after July 5, and not later than July 22, 1916, at Spokane, Wenatchee, Colville, Wilbur, Republic or Omak, Washington, before a notary public designated by the Superintendent: Except A soldier's or sailor's application and power of attorney appointing an agent may be signed and sworn to by the applicant at any time after the date hereof and prior to the close of the registration, but the agent must sign and swear to the application during the time, at one of the places and in the manner herein prescribed for the execution of other applications. After applications have been properly executed they must be delivered to the Superintendent or to some person designated by him to receive them. 4. Beginning at 10 o'clock a. m. on July 27, 1916, at the said city of Spokane and continuing thereafter, from day to day, Sundays excepted, as long as may be necessary, there shall be impartially taken and selected indiscriminately from the whole number of envelopes presented, such number thereof as may be necessary to carry the provisions of this proclamation into effect, and the applications for registration contained in the envelopes so selected, shall, when correct in form and execution, be numbered serially in the order in which they were selected, beginning with number one, and the numbers thus assigned shall fix and control the order in which the persons named therein may make entry of the lands. Drawings. Notice of successful 5. A list of the successful applications showing the number assigned applicants. to each will be conspiciously posted and furnished to the press for publication as a matter of news and a proper notice will be promptly mailed to each of these applicants. Presentations of ap 6. Beginning at 9 o'clock, a. m., on September 5, 1916, and con- plications to enter. tinuing thereafter on such dates as may be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, persons holding numbers assigned to them under this Selections, etc. proclamation will be permitted to select and enter the tracts they desire as follows: A map room will be established at such place as shall be decided upon by the Secretary of the Interior, where numbers assigned will be called in their numerical order. When an applicant's number is called, he must at once select the tract he desires to enter and will be allowed ten days following the date of selection within which to complete entry at the proper land office. etc. Payment of first fees, Declaratory state ments. Payments by installments. Restriction. Forfeiture. Occupancy. Undisposed of lands. During such period he must file a homestead application at the land office, accompanying the same with the usual filing fees and commissions and in addition thereto one-fifth of the appraised value of the tract selected. If the lands are in the Spokane, Washington, land district, entry must be made at the Spokane land office; if in the Waterville, Washington, land district, entry must be made at the Waterville land office. To save the expense incident to a trip to the land and to return to the land office, he may, following his selection, execute his homestead application for the tract selected within the land district and file same in the land office, where it will be held awaiting the payment of the fees and commissions and one-fifth of the appraised value of the land. In that event, the payment must be made within ten days following the date of selection. Payments can be made only in cash, by certified checks on national and state banks and trust companies, which can be cashed without cost to the Government, or by postoffice money orders made payable to the receiver of the land office. These payments may be made in person, through the mails or any other means or agency desired, but the applicant assumes all responsibility in the matter. He must see that the payments reach the land office within the ten days allowed, and where failure occurs in any instance where the application has been filed in the land office without payment, as herein provided for, the application will stand rejected without further action on the part of the local officers. In case of declaratory statements, allowable under this opening, the same course may be pursued, except that the filing fees must be paid within the ten days following date of selection, the party having six months after filing within which to complete entry. Soldiers or sailors or their widows or minor orphan children making homestead entry of these lands must make payment of fees, commissions and purchase money as is required of other entrymen. The purchase money not required at the time of entry may be paid in five equal installments. These payments will become due at the end of one, two, three, four and five years after the date of entry, unless commutation proof is made. If such proof is made, all the unpaid installments must be paid at that time. Where three-year proof is submitted, the entryman may make payment of the unpaid installments at that time or at any time before they become due and final certificate will issue, in the absence of objection, upon such payment being made. If any entryman fails to make any payment when it becomes due, all his former payments will be forfeited and his entry will be canceled. 7. No person will be permitted to select more than one tract, present more than one application to enter, or file more than one declaratory statement in his own behalf. 8. If any person fails to select the tract he desires to enter on the date assigned to him for that purpose, or if, having made such selection he fails to perfect it by making entry or filing and payments as herein provided, or if he presents more than one application for registration or presents an application in any other than his true name, he will forfeit his right to make entry or filing under this Proclamation. 9. None of the lands opened to entry under this Proclamation will become subject to settlement or entry prior to 9 o'clock a. m. October 18, 1916, except in the manner prescribed herein; and all persons are admonished not to make any settlement before that time on lands not covered by entries or filings made by them under this Proclamation. All the said lands not then entered by persons assigned numbers hereunder, will, at that hour, become subject to settlement and entry under the general provisions of the homestead laws and the aforesaid Act of Congress. 10. The Secretary of the Interior shall make and prescribe such Regulations. rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper to carry the provisions of this Proclamation and of the said Act of Congress into full force and effect and is hereby authorized to prescribe the time when and the manner in which lands in any or all the townships temporarily withheld from disposal, as herein provided, may be opened to settlement and entry. 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 third day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fortieth. By the President: ROBERT LANSING, Secretary of State. WOODROW WILSON BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. September 1, 1916. 39 Stat., 1803. Tahoe National For Whereas, it appears that the southeast quarter of section twentyone, township thirty-six north, range five west, Mount Diablo Merid- est, Cal. and Nev. ian, California, patented to the Central Pacific Railroad Company under its grant on March eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety six, has been occupied for over five years by an Indian entitled to receive the tract in allotment if it were not for the grant to the Railroad Company; 560. 366, 473. Whereas upon request of the Secretary of the Interior the said Railroad Company has agreed to reconvey the tract so occupied to the United States under the provisions of the Act of Congress ap-37 Stat, 1007, vol. 3, proved March fourth, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, entitled "An Act For the relief of Indians occupying railroad lands in Arizona, New Mexico, or California", as amended by the Act 39 Stat., 48; ante, approved April eleventh, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, in order that it may be available for allotment to said Indian, provided that the said Railroad Company may be permitted to select in lieu thereof under the provisions of said Acts, the tract of 160 acres within the Tahoe National Forest in California, hereinafter described; and Whereas it appears that the relinquishment is sought for the benefit of the Indian and that the tract desired in exchange by said company is of the character contemplated by the aforesaid Act of March fourth, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and equal in area and value to that to be relinquished; 30 Stat., 36. Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United Area diminished. States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninetyseven (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 boundaries of the Tahoe National Forest in California are hereby changed to exclude therefrom the following area, to wit: The south half of the northeast Description. quarter and the south half of the northwest quarter of section twentyfour, township seventeen north, range fourteen east, Mount Diablo Meridian. 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 first day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-first. [SEAL.] By the President: JOHN E. OSBORNE Acting Secretary of State. WOODROW WILSON March 21, 1917. 40 Stat., 1646. Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Mont. Preamble. 377. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas the act of Congress approved May 30, 1908 (35 Stat., 558), providing for the survey and allotment of lands within the 35 Stat., 558, vol. 3, former Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana, and the sale and disposal of all the surplus lands after allotment, among other things directed that prior to the disposition of the surplus lands, such lands should be classified and appraised by three commissioners as agricultural land, grazing land, arid land and mineral land, the mineral land not to be appraised; 39 Stat., 944; ante, 105. 35 Stat., 561, vol. 3, 377. And whereas the commissioners appointed for the purpose of making the classifications and appraisals in some cases designated and appraised lands as agricultural or grazing which the United States Geological Survey classified as coal lands; And whereas a number of homestead entries have been made for such lands, although the lands were not subject to such disposition when the entries were allowed; And whereas the Act of Congress approved February 27, 1917. entitled "An Act To authorize agricultural entries on surplus coal lands in Indian reservations", provides that restored surplus coal lands within such reservations may be classified, appraised and disposed of in the manner prescribed by law for the noncoal lands, the coal deposits to be reserved to the United States; And whereas the said Act of May 30, 1908, directed that surplus 38 Stat., 1952; post, lands within the Fort Peck Indian Reservation shall be opened to settlement and entry by proclamation of the President: 1192. Agricultural entries may be perfected. Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States classified as coal lands of America, by virtue of the power and authority vested in me by the aforesaid acts of Congress do hereby prescribe, proclaim and make known that the agricultural entries heretofore allowed for said coal lands classified and appraised as aforesaid, may be perfected by the respective entrymen, subject to the provisions of the said act of February 27, 1917. If any such entry is canceled, the lands will be subject to re-entry in the same manner. No further entries permitted. The said coal lands not heretofore entered under agricultural laws will not become subject to disposition hereunder. A proclamation 40 Stat., 1660, 1754; will hereafter issue prescribing the time when and the manner in which agricultural entries may be made for such lands. post, 978, 986. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to make and prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry this proclamation into full force and effect. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set may hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. |