Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 35 Part 2.djvu/1004

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1>RooLAMAT1oNs, 1907. 2143 ment or occupation begun prior to such date, and all such settlement and occupation are hereby forbidden. lliarning is hereby given to all persons not to make settlement segfjggftd "°'“ · upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation, unless and until i i they are listed by the Secretary of Agriculture and opened to homestead settlement or entry by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, V°‘· 3* ¥’· 232* entitled, "An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves.’ 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 lVashington this 6th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of [sam,.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first. Trmooonn Roosizvnur By the President: ELIHU Roorr Secretary of State. BY THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES or AML1x10A, J¤¤¤ 8- 1907- A PROCLAMTATION. VVhereas, the Act of Congress approved April 27, 1904, (33 dimviig L=k¢uI¤— Stats., 319, 324) providing for the disposition of lands in the former xaiiiak. °S°mi °°’ Devil’s Lake Indian Reservation in North Dakota, under the general V"' 33* *’· 31** provisions of the homestead and townsite laws of the United States, at the price of Four Dollars and Fifty Cents per acre, which lands were opened by Proclamation of June 2, 1904, (33 Stats., 2368, 2372), V°'· 33· P- 2368- provides that when in the judgment of the President no more of the lands can be disposed of at the said price, he may by proclamation, sell the remaining lands under such laws, at such price and upon such terms as he may deem best for all interests concerned. And. lVhereas, it appears that such tracts of said lands now remaining undisposed of. are small in acreage, or hilly and stony and cannot be disposed of at the price named: Now. therefore, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT. President of the Disposal or amen United States, by virtue of the authority in me vested by said Act of {f‘,,‘;‘{,`{d_‘““‘ '°“""“ April 27, 1904, do hereby declare and make known that such of ‘ said lands as are unreserved and undisposed of shall on and after date hereof be subject to disposition under the general provisions of Price pei- acre the homestead, townsite laws and of Sec. 2-455 R. S., as amended by '°dl§°°§_· sm M55_ Act of Congress, approved June 27, 1906, (34 Stats., 517), at the ¤·`?g{*·34 517 . price of not less than Two Dollars and Fifty Cents per acre in cash’ p` ' payable at date of final proof upon entries made under the homestead and townsite laws and at time of sale under Sec. 2455. Amended. In addition, entrymen must pay the same fees and commissions now Feesrequired by said laws where the price of land is One Dollar and Twenty Five (`ents per acre. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aiiixed. Done at the ("ity of lYashington this Sth day of June, in the year · of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven. and of [seat.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first. Tnnooom-1 Roosizvrzrzr By the President: Hunt: Roor Secretary of State.