The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-07-08
WILL BE OPENED AUGUST 16
DAY FOR SETTLEMENT OF NEW
 OKLOHOM4 LANDS.

ton Given to the Public Yesterdny- Conditions Governing the Selection of Homestead-Instruc to Those Contemplating Making Application.
 Washington, July 7.--The proclama- settlement the lands ceded by Indians in tehe territory of Oklahoma was giv- en to the public to-day. The proclama- tion covers the sessions made by the Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians in accordance with the act of March 7, 1895, and those made by the Com manche, Kiowa and Apache tribes in pursuance of the act of June s, 1900.
 The proclamation provides for the opening of the lands in these reserva- tions which are not reserved at g o'clock a. m. on the 9th of August next, the lands to be open to settlement under the homestead and town site laws of the United States.
 The proclamation says that beginning on the 10th instant and ending on the 26th those who wish to make entry ot land under the homestead law shall be registered The registration will take place at the land offices at Reno and Lawton The registration at each of flee will be for each land district.
 To obtain registration each applicant will be required to show himself duly qualified to make homestead entry or these lands under existing laws and to give the registering office such appro- priate descriptions as will protect the applicant and the government from any attempted impersonation.
 Registration cannot be effected through the use of the mails or the em- ployment of an agent, excepting that honorably discharged soldiers and sail ors may present their applications through an agent, no agent being allow ed to represent more than one soldier. No person will be allowed to register more than once. After being register ed applicants will be given certificates allowing them to go upon the ceded lands and examine them in order to aid them in making an intelligent selection. It is explicitly stated that mo one Will be permitted to make settlement upon any of the lands in advance ot the opening provided for, and the state ment is added that during the hrst sixty days following said opening no one but registered applicants will De permitted to make homestead settie- ment upon any of said lands, ana then only in pursuance of a homestead en- try duly allowed by the local land ofl- ears ar of a soldiers declaratory state ment duly accepted by such officers.
 The order of the applications is to be determined by drawing, the plan Tor which is described as follows:
 The order in which, during the hrst sixty days following the opening, the registered applicants will be permitted to make homestead entry of the lands onened hereunder will be determined by drawings for both the districts publicly held at the United States land office at El Reno. o. T., commencing at 9 o'clock m. Monday, July 29 1901 and con tinuing for such period as may be nec- essarv to complete the same. The draw ines will be held under the supervision and immediate observance of commit fee of three persons whose integrity is s,ch as to make their control Of the CN
 The members of this committee will be onnointed by the secretary of the in terior. who will prescribe suitable com pensation for their services. Prepara- torv to these drawings the registration officers will, at the time Of reglsterlne each applicant who shows himselt duly qualified, make out card, which mlgh' he signed by the applicant stating the land district in which he desires tc make homestead and giving such de- scription of the applicant as will enable , the local land officers to thereafter identify him. This card will be al once sealed in a separate envelope which will bear no other distinguishing label or mark than such as may DC necessary to show that it is to go into the drawing for the land district 1T which the applicant desires to make en- try. These envelopes will be separated according to land districts and will De carefully preserved and remain sealed until opened in the course of the draw inc. as herein provided. When the reg istration is completed all of these seal ed envelopes will be brought together at the place of drawing and turned oVel +o the committee in charge of the draw inc who. in such manner as in theil iudpment will be attended with entire fairness and equality of opportunity .bou nroceed to draw uut and open the sanarate envelopes and to give to eacf anclosed card a number in the order 4. which the envelope containing the same is drawn,
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