PRGCLAMATIONS, 1923. 2297 selection or location of the form desired under the provisions of this proclamation, execute their applications in the manner rovided by aw and present the same, accompanied by the required payments, to the proper United States land office in person, by mail, or otherwise, and all a plications so filed, together with such as may be submitted at the lhour 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 dra . IN WITNESS `, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this ninth da of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty- [SEAL.] three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and forty-seventh. WARREN G. Hannmc By the President: Cnanrns E. Huorms Secretary of Stale. Br rim Pnnsmnm or rm: Urrrrmn Sryras or Anmmoa; A PROCLAMATION · WHEREAS it is rovided by the Act of Congress a roved °°PP,mYm"§ March 4, 1909, (35 Stsilt. L. 1075) entitled "An Act to Amgiid and V¤l.36.P·W7$· Consolidate the Acts Respecting Coplyright", that the provisions of Section 1 (e) of said Act, ‘ so far as they secure copyright controlling the arts of instruments sewing to reproduce mec anically the musicalp work, shall include only compositions published and copy; ' hted after this Act goes into effect, and shall not include the wor life. foreign author or composer unless the foreign state or nation of which such author or composer is a citizen or subject grants, either by treaty, convention, agreement, or law, to citizens of the United States similar ri§hts": AND, WHER AS it is further provided that the copyright secured by the Act shall extend to the work of an author or proprietor who is a citizen or subject of a foreign state or nation, only upon certain conditions set forth in Section 8 of said Act, to-wit: "°*·35·P·‘°'”· (a) When an alien author or proprietor shall be domiciled within the United States at the time of the first ublication of his work; or (b) When the foreign state or nation oi) which such author or proprietor is a citizen or subject {grants, either by treaty, convention, agreement, or law, to citizens o the United States the benefit of copy- right on substantially the same basis as to its own citizens, or copy- right protection substantially equal to the protection secured to such foreign author under this Act or by treaty; or when such foreign state or nation is a party to an international agreement which provides for reciprocity in the anting of copyright, by the terms of which agreement the UnitedglStates may, at its pleasure, become a party thereto; AND, WHEREAS, it is also provided by said Section that "the existence of the reciprocal conditions aforesaid shall be determined by the President of the United States, by proclaimation made from time to time, as the purposes of this Act may require"; AND, WHEREAS, the President of the United States in a Procla- V°*- 3°· P- mi mation dated A ril 9, 1910 (36 Stat. L. 2685) proclaimed that subjects of the Netlilerlands since July 1, 1909, have been entitled to all
