The National tribune., 1904-06-16
OPENING THE ROSEBUD RESERVATION.
Full Details of the Method Preference to Veterans
How is to be Man Can be Agent for More
than One Veteran.

will entitle him to go upon and examine
tho lands to be opened hereunder; but the
only purpose for which he can go upon and
examine said lands is that of enabling him
later on, as herein provided, to understand
ingly select the lands for which he will
make sptry. No one will be permitted to
make settlement upon any of said lands in
advance of the opening herein provided for,
and during the first 80 days following said
opening no one but registered applicants
will be permitted to make homestead set
tlement upon any of said lands, and then
only in pursuance of a homestead entry
duly accepted by such officers.
METHOD OF DRAWING
The order in which, during the first 60
days following the opening, the registered
applicants will be permitted to make home
stead entry of the lands opened here
under, will be determined by a drawing
for the district publicly held at Chamber
lain, 5. Dak., commencing at O'Clock a.
M, Thursday, July %, 1904, and continuing
plete the same. The drawing will be had
under the supervision and immediate OBJ
servance of a committee of three persons
whose integrity is such as to make their
control of the drawing guaranty of it's
fairness The members of this committee
will be appointed by the Secretary of the
Interior, who will prescribe suitable COM
pensation for their services. Preparatory
to this drawing the registration officers
will, at the time of registering each appli-
cant who shows himself duly qualified,
make out card, which must be signed by
of the applicant as will enable the lacal
land officers to thereafter identify him. This
card will be subsequently sealed in a sep
arate envelope which will bear no other
distinguishing label or mark than such as
may be necessary to show that it is to go
into the drawing. These envelopes will be
carefully preserved and remain sealed until
opened in the course of the drawing herein
provided. When the registration is COM
pleted, all of these sealed envelopes will be
brought together at the place of drawing
and turned over to the committee in charge
of the drawing, who, in such manner as in
their judgment will be attended with en-
tire fairness and equality of opportunity,
shall proceed to draw out and open the sep
arate envelopes and to give to each in
closed card a number in the order in which
the envelope containing the same is drawn.
The result of the drawing will be certified
by the committee to the officers of the dis
trict and will determine the order in which
the applicants may make homestead entry
OF said lands and settlement thereon.
NOTICE OF THE DRAWINGS,
stating the name of each applicant and
number assigned to him by the drawing,
will be posted each day at the place Of
drawing and each applicant will be noti-
fled Of his number and Of the day upon
which he must make his entry, by postal
card mailed to him at the address given
result of each days drawing will also be
given to the press to be published as a
matter of news. Applications for home
stead entry of said lands during the first
GU days following the opening can be made
only by registered applicants and in the
order established by the drawing.
The land officers for the district will re-
;. OAK. in their district, beginning Aug.
8. 1904, and until and including Sept 10,
1904. and thereafter at Chamberlain. Com
mencing Monday, Aug. 8, 1904, at o'clock
a. m, the applications of those drawing
numbers l to 100, inclusive, must be pre-
sented and will be considered in their nu-
merical order during the first day, and the
applications of those drawing numbers 101
to 200, inclusive. must be presented and
will be considered 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 desired there
under, have been entered. If any applicant
fails to appear and present his application
for entry when the number assigned to
him by the drawing is reached, his right
to enter will be passed until after the other
applications assigned for that day have
been disposed of, when he will be given
another opportunity to make entry, fail
abandoned his right to make entry under
such drawing.
TO OBTAIN THE ALLOWANCE
Of homestead entry, each appli-
cant must personally present the Ger
tificate of registration heretofore is
sued to him, together with regu-
lar homestead application and the neces-
sary accompanying proofs, and make the
first payment of 81 per acre for the land
embraced in his application, together with
the regular land office fees, but an honor
ably discharged soldier or sailor may file
his declaratory statement through his agent
who can represent but one soldier or sailor
as in the ma tier of registration. The pro-
duction of the certificate of registration
will be dispensed with only upon salts
factory proof of it's loss or destruction. If
at the time Of considering his regular ap-
plication for entry it appear that an appli-
cant is disqualified from making homestead
entry of these lands, his application will
be rejected, notwithstanding his prior regis
tration. IT any applicant shall register
more than once hereunder, or in any other
registration certificate, he will thereby 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 60 days
following said opening.
All persons are especially admonished
that under the said act of Congress ap-
proved April 23, 1904, it is provided that
no person shall be permitted to settle upon,
occupy, or enter any of said ceded lands
except in the manner prescribed i'm this
proclamation until after the expiration of
80 days from the time when the same are
opened to settlement and entry. After the
expiration of the said period of so days.
but not before, and until the expiration of
three months after the same shall have
been opened for settlement and entry, as
hereinbefore prescribed, any of said lands
remaining undisposed of may be settled
upon, occupied, and entered under the gem
eral provisions of the homestead and town
site laws of the United States in like man.
ner as if the manner of effecting such set
tlement, occupancy, and entry had not been
prescribed herein in obedience to law, SUBJ
ject, however, to the payment of 81 per
acre for the land entered, i'm the manner
and at the time required by the said act of
Congress above mentioned After the ex-
piration of three months, and not before,
and until the expiration of six months after
the same shall have been opened for settle
ment and entry, as aforesaid, any of said
lands remaining undisposed of may also be
settled upon, occupied, and entered under
the general provisions of the same laws
and in the same manner, subject, however,
to the ma Vment 0f %9 nor acro for tbo Iond