raoonamnious, 1905. 3121 prescribe suitable compensation for their services. Preparatory to this drawing the registration officers will, at the time of registering - each applicant who shows himself duly qualified, make out a card, which must be signed by the applicant, and giving such a description of the applicant as will enable the local land officers to thereafter identify him. This card will be subsequently sealed in a separate envelope which will bear no other distinguishing label or mark than such as may be necessary to show that it is to go into the drawing. These envelopes will be carefully preserved and remain sealed until opened in the course of the drawing herein provided. When the registration is completed, all of these sealed envelopes will be brought together at the place of drawing and turned over to the committee in charge of the drawing, who, in such manner as in their judgment will be attended with entire fairness and equality of opportunity, ‘ · shall proceed to draw out and open the separate envelopes and to give to each inclosed card a number in the order in which the envelope containing the same is drawn. The result of the drawing will be certified by the committee to the officers of the district and will determine the order in which the applicants may make homestead entry of , said lands and settlement thereon. Notice of the drawings, stating the name of each applicant and Notice number assigned to him by the drawing, will be posted each day at the place of drawing, and each a plicant will be notified of his number, and of the day upon which lie must make his entry, by a postal card mailed to him at the address given by him at the time of registration. The result of each day’s` drawing will also be given to the press to be published as a matter of news. Applications for homestead entry of said lands during the first sixty days followin the opening can be made only by registered applicants and in the ordir established by the drawing. Commencing on Monday, August 28, 1905, at 9 o’clock a. m., the Applications. applications o those drawing numbers 1 to 50, inclusive, must be pre- P°"* p' 3140* sented at the land office in the town of Vernal, Utah, in the land district in which said lands are situated, and will be considered in their numerical order during the first day, and the applications of those drawing numbers 51 to 100, inclusive, must be presented and will be considered in their numerical order during the second day, and so on at that rate until all of said lands subject to entry under the homestead law, and desired thereunder, have been entered. If any applicant fails to ap ear and present his application for entry when the number assigned) to him by the drawing is reached, his right to enter will be passed until after the other app ications assigned or that day have been dis sed of, when he will be given another opportunity to make entry, failing in which he will be deemed to have abandoned his right to make entry under such drawing. To obtain the allowance of a homestead entry, each applicant must m €{;t;3£§¤t¤¤ ¤f iersonally present the certificate of registration_theretofore issued to g ` him, together with a regular homestead application and the necessary accompanying (proofs, together with the regular land office fees. but an honorably ischarged soldier or sailor may file his declaratory statement through his agent, who can represent but one soldier or sailor as in the matter of registration. Persons who make homestead entry for any of these lands will be P”'m°“*“- required to pay therefor at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre when they make final lproof, but no payment, other than the usual fees and commissions wi l be required at the time the entry is made. Persons who apply to make entry of these lands prior to October d£<;s¤mi¤¤r¤1 M- 27, 1905, will not be required to tile the usual nonmineral aflidavit `
