subject to valid rights and the provisions of existing withdrawals, shall be opened to entry only under the provisions of the homestead laws requiring residence, at and after, but not before, nine o'clock a. m., standard time, on the sixty-third day after the date of this proclamation, and to settlement and other disposition, under any public land law applicable thereto, at and after, but not before, nine o'clock a. m., standard time, on the seventieth day after said date. Prospective applicants may, during the period of twenty days preceding the date on which the land shall become subject to entry, selection or location of the form desired under the provisions of this Proclamation execute their applications in the manner provided by law and present the same, accompanied by the required payments, to the proper United States land office in person, by mail, or otherwise, and all applications so filed, together with such as may be submitted at the hour 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 drawing. Time of opening. Filing applications. Warning against opening. Vol. 34, p. 233. Warning is hereby given that no settlement initiated prior to seven trespassing prior to days after the date for homestead entry above named will be recognized, but all persons who go upon any of the lands to be restored hereunder and perform any act of settlement thereon prior to nine o'clock a. m., standard time, on the seventieth day from and after the date hereof, or who are on or are occupying any part of said lands at such hour except those having valid subsisting settlement rights initiated prior to withdrawal from settlement and since maintained, and those having preferences to make entry under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and Agricultural lands. six (34 Stat., 233), entitled "An Act To provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within forest reserves", and Acts amendatory, will be considered and dealt with as trespassers and will gain no rights whatever under such unlawful settlement or occupancy; Provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall prevent persons from going upon and over the lands to examine them with a view to thereafter appropriating them in accordance herewith. Persons having prior settlement rights or preferences, as above defined, will be allowed to make entry in accordance with existing law and regulations IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done this twelfth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, and of the Independence of [SEAL.] the United States the one hundred and forty-third. WOODROW WILSON Examinations al lowed. Prior settlement rights. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS, it appears that the public good will be promoted by excluding certain lands within the State of Utah from the La Sal National Forest, and by restoring the public lands subject to disposition in the excluded areas in a manner authorized by the Act June 19, 1919. La Sal National Forest, Utah and Colo. 1 Area diminished. Excluded lands restored to settlement. Vol. 38, p. 113. Time of opening. of Congress approved September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen (38 Stat., 113), entitled "An Act To authorize the President to provide a method for opening lands restored from reservation or withdrawal, and for other purposes"; Now, therefore, I, WOODROW WILSON, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninetyseven (30 Stat., 11 at 34 and 36), entitled "An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes", do proclaim that the boundaries of the La Sal National Forest are hereby changed to exclude the areas indicated as eliminations on the diagram hereto annexed and forming a part hereof. And I do further proclaim and make known that in my judgment it is proper and necessary, in the interest of equal opportunity and good administration, that all of the excluded lands subject to disposition should be restored to homestead entry in advance of settlement or other forms of disposition, and pursuant to the authority reposed in me by the aforesaid act of September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, I do hereby direct and provide that such lands, subject to valid rights and the provisions of existing withdrawals, and where lands withdrawn as coal are involved subject to the conditions applicable thereto, shall be opened to entry only under the provisions of the homestead laws, requiring residence, at and after, but not before, nine o'clock a. m., standard time, on the sixty-third day after the date of this proclamation, and to settlement and other disposition under any public land law applicable thereto, at and after, but not before, nine o'clock a. m., standard Filing applications. time, on the seventieth day after said date. Prospective applicants may, during the period of twenty days preceding the date on which the lands shall become subject to entry, selection or location of the form desired under the provisions of this proclamation, execute their applications in the manner provided by law and present the same, accompanied by the required payments, to the proper United States land office in person, by mail, or otherwise, and all applications so filed, together with such as may be submitted at the hour 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 drawing. Warning against trespassing prior to opening. Agricultural lands. Warning is hereby given that no settlement initiated prior to seven days after the date herein prescribed for homestead entry will be recognized, but all persons who go upon any of the lands to be restored hereunder and perform any act of settlement thereon prior to nine o'clock a. m., standard time, on the seventieth day from and after the date hereof, or who are on or are occupying any part of said lands at such hour, except those having valid subsisting settlement rights initiated prior to withdrawal from settlement and since maintained, and those having preferences to make entry under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six (34 Stat., 233), entitled "An Act To provide for the entry of agricultural lands within forest reserves", and Acts amendatory, will be considered and dealt with as trespassers and will gain no rights whatever under such unlawful settlement or occupancy: Provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall prevent persons from going upon and over the lands to examine them with a view to thereafter appropriating them in accordance herewith. Prior settlement Persons having prior settlement rights or preferences, as above defined, will be allowed to make entry in accordance with existing laws and regulations. Examinations al lowed. rights. |