Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 39 Part 2.djvu/569

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1750 PROCLAMATIONS, 1915. mii.°i?°"t°'y s““°' In case of declaratory statements, allowable under this opening, " the same course may be pursued, except that the filinglfees 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. _ ,,,i{’,§f‘°"-“°“‘ P"' 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 two, three, four, five and six 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 fpayment of the unpaid installments at that time or at any time be ore 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. — R°S“"°"""· 7. No person can select more than one tract rgdpresent more than one application to enter or iile more than one d aratory statement in his own behalf. ‘ I"°‘“'“‘”°· 8. If any person fails to designate the tract he desires to enter on the date assigned to him for t at purpose, or if, having made such designation he fails to perfect it by making entry or filing and pay- ments as herein provided, or if he yi-`resents more t an one application for registration orlzfpresents an app `cation in any other than his true name, he will fo eit his right to make entry or Bling under this Proclamation. °°°“*‘“‘°’· 9. None of the lands opened to entry nmder this Proclamation shall become subject to settlement or entry prior to 9 0’cl0ck a. m. on June 1, 1916, except in the manner prescribed herein; and all persons are admonished not to make any settlement prior to that m{>_?gi¤%é>f*¤¤d= ¤¤¤ our on lands not covered by entries or made by them under - ' this Proclamation. At 9 o’clock a. m. on une 1, 1916, all of said lands which have not then been entered under the (provisions of this Proclamation will become subject to settlement an entry under the ggneral provisions of the homestead laws and the aforesaid Acts of n s. R*“"“°“ lg!-8'I'he Secretary of the Interior shall make and prescribe such rules and refulations as may be necessary and proper to carry the purlqvisions o this Proclamation and of the said Acts of Congress into force and effect. In Witness Whereof I have herexmto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be ailixed. Done at the City of Washington this seventeenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hun ed and Ismr.] fifteen, and of the Inde endence of the United States the one hundred and fortietih. Woomzow Wnsou By the President: Fmmx L. Pom: Acting Seerezary of State.