Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 39 Part 2.djvu/553

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1738 PROCLAMATIONS, 1915. Tm { do hereby direct and fprovide that such lands, subject to valid rights ° °"°"i""‘ and the provisions 0 existing withdrawals, shall be open to actual settlers only under the provisions of the homestead laws for a period of twenty-eight days from and including nine o’clock a. m., standard time, on the sixty-third day from an after the date hereof, and thereafter to entry and disposition under any and all of the public land laws applicable thereto.

 $$,2} njg _ Persons who go upon any of the lands to be restored as herein (proopenmg. vided and {perform any act of settlement thereon from and inclu ing

the date o this proclamation until nine o’clock a. m., standard time, on the sixty-third day from and after the date hereof, or who are on or are occupying any part of such lands at said hour, except those having vali su sisting settlement rights initiated rior to reservation and since maintained, and those having preferences to make $§{f?;}*°,*}f°’m‘?“°*· entry under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved June ` eleventh, nineteen hundred and six (34 Stat., 233) _, entitled "An Act To dprovide for the entry _0f Agricultural lands withm forest reserves ", an Acts amendatorg; will be considered and dealt with as tres assers _ and preference will e given the prior legal a plicant, notwitliixtand- ,O§a*,°}“"“°°*°“$ °" mg such unlawful settlement or occupancy; Iprovided, however, that ' nothing herein shall prevent persons from go` upon and over the lands to examine them with a view to therelidfter going upon and making settlement thereon when the lands shall become subject thereto r,g*§{°'9,g_°*'*°m°°“ in accordance with this proclamation. Persons having prior settle- ' ment rights or preferences, as above defined, will be allowed to make eng? in conformity with existing law and regulations. WITNESS REOF, have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the Cit of Washington this nineteenth da of Jul , in the year of, our Lord one thousand nine hundred and? iiftccn, [sean.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fortieth. Woonnow Wnsox By the President: Ronnnr Lxxsrxc, Secretary of Stale. my 19,191.}. BY THE l)Rl·IS[l)EN'l’ 01* TUE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION rssim. National WHEREAS it appears that the public good will be promoted by F‘§Q;,f{§‘f‘ excluding from the Paulina National Forest. within the State of ‘”' " **1*-* Oregon, certain areas, and restoring the public lands therein in a manner authorized by the Act of Congress approved September thirtieth, nmeteen hundred and thirteen, entitled "An Act To authorize the President to provide a method for opening lands restoged from reservation or withdrawal, and for other purposes"; an _W}IEREAS it appears that the remaining areas heretofore const1tut1ng_)the Paulina National Forest shou d be included in the __ Crater, eschutes and Fremont National Forests; ,,j}g§" ’*"*'*’" "“m" Now, therefore, I, WOODROW WILSON, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the ower in me vested by the Act of Congress approved June fourth, e' llxteen hundred and ninety-seven (30 Stat., 1 l_ at 34 and 36), entitle? "An Act Making a propriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the Hscal ear ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other