The age-herald., 1901-07-08
THE PRESIDENT ISSUES HIS
 PROCLAMATION OPENING THE
 INDIAN LANDS TO SETTLEMENT

and will be considered in their numerical order during the first day, and the ap- plications of those drawing Nos 125 to 25O inclusive must be presented and con- sdered in their numerical order during the second day, and so on at that rate until all of said lands subject to entry under the homestead law and described hereunder have been entered. If any ap- plicant fails to appear 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 af- ter the other applications 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 application. To obtain the allowance of a homestead en- try each applicant must personally pre- sent the certificate of registration there tofore issued to him, together win reg ular homestead application and the neces- sary accompanying proofs, and with the regular land office fees; but an honor ably discharged soldier or sailor may file his declaratory statement through the agent representing him at the regfstra- tion. If any applicant shall register more than once hereunder or in any other than his true name, or shall transfer ms registration certificate, he will therepy lose all the benefits of the registration and drawing herein provided for and Will be precluded from entering or settling upon any of said lands during the first sixty days following said opening"
 The Neutral Strip.
 Lands in the neutral strip are to pc reserved for location by settlers on those lands for thirty days.
 Provision is made for locating town sites Town site applicants are required to file before the opening lands "a writ- ten application to that effect, descrlplng by legal subdivisions the lands intended to be affected and stating fully and unoer oath the necessity or propriety ot 1ouno- ing or establishing a town at that place.
 The local officers will forthwith trans init said petition to the commissioner or the general land office with their recom- mendations in the premises Such com missioner, if he believes the public inter- ests will be subserved thereby, will II the secretary of the interior approves thereof, issue an order withdrawing the lands de- scribed in such petition, or any portion thereof from homestead entry and set clement and directing that the same be held for the time being for town site set clement, entry and disposition only. In such event the lands so withheld from homestead entry and settlement will at the time of said opening and not before become subject to settlement, entry and disposition under the general town site laws of the United States None of the said ceded lands will be subject to settle ment, entry or disposition under such general town site laws except in the man. ner herein prescribed until after the ex- piration of sixty days from the time of said opening.
 The future disposal of lands is provided for as follows:
 After the expiration of the said period of sixty days. but not before, any of said lands remaining undisposed of may be set- tied upon, occupied and entered under the general provisions of the homestead and town site laws of the United States in like manner as if the manner of effecting such settlement. occupancy and entry had not been prescribed herein, in obedience to law"