The Green Forest tribune., 1901-07-13
NEW LAND OPENING.
Text of the Presidents Message
 Just Issued.

Tn the presidents proclamation opening the Kiowa- -Commanche lands to settlement these three features of the opening occur in regular order: First, the regis tration which will continue from 9, a. m., Wednesday, July 10, to 6 p. m., Friday, July 26; second, the drawing, which will com mence Monday, July 29, at9, a. m., and continue until Monday, August 1, and third, the actual making of homestead entry at the local land office, which begins at 9, a. m. Tuesday, August 6, and will continue from day to day thereafter for 50 days if nec- essary.
 The order of the applications is to be determined by drawing, the plan for which is described as follows:
 "The order in which during the first sixty days following the opening the registered applicants will be permitted to make home- stead entry of the lands opened hereunder will be determined by drawings for both the Fl Reno and Lawton districts publicly held at the United States land office at Fl Reno, o. T., com mencing at 9 o'clock a. m., July 29, 1901, and continuing for such period as may be necessary to complete the same. The draw ings will be held under the super vision and immediate observation of a committee of three persons whose integrity is such as to make their control of the drawing a guaranty of it's fairness.
 Subsequent proceedings are provided for as follows:
 Applications for homestead en- try of said lands during the first 60 days following the opening can be made only by registered applicants and in the order estab- lished by the drawing. At each land office commencing Tuesday, August 6, 1901, at 9 o'clock, in elusive, for that district must be presented the applications of those drawing numbers 1 to 125 inclusive, and will be considered in their numerical order the sec- ond day, and so on, at that rate until all of the said lands subject to entry under the homestead law, and desired hereunder, have been entered.
 If any applicant fails to ap- pear and present his application for entry when the number as- signed to him by the drawing is reached, his right to enter will be passed until after the other ap- plications assigned for that day have been disposed 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 personally present the certificate of registra- ton heretofore issued to him, to- gether with a regular homestead application and the necessary ac- companying proofs, and with the regular land office fees, but an honorably discharged soldier or sailor may file his declaratory statement through the agent rep- resenting him at the registration, If any applicant shall register more than once hereunder, or in any other than his true name or shall transfer his registration certificate he will thereby lose all the benefits of the registration and drawing herein provided for and will be precluded from en- tering or settling upon any of said lands during the first sixty days following said opening.'
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