The National tribune., 1906-06-14
THE PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION


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turned over to the committee in charge
q Of the drawing who, in such manner as
! in their judgment will be attended with
entire fairness and equality of oppor-
tunity. shall proceed to draw out and
open the separate envelopes and to give
to each enclosed card number in the
order in which the envelope containing
the same is drawn. The result of the
drawing will be certified to the officers
i of the district and will determine the
i order in which the applicants may make
homestead entry OF said lands and set
Element thereon.
l Notice Of the Drawing.
/ Notices of the drawing. stating the
i name of each applicant and the num-
Der assigned to him by the drawing,
| will be posted each day at the place of
the drawing, and each applicant will
4 be notified of his number and the day
! upon which he must make his entry,
by postal card mailed to him at the
address given by him at the time Of the
registration. The result of each days
/ drawing will also be given to the press
and published as a matter of news. APP
/ plications for homestead entry during
i the 60 days following the opening can
! be made only by registered applicants
and in the order established by the
| drawing.
The Drawing.
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o'clock a. M. the applications of those
| persons drawing numbers l to 100. in
elusive, emitting them to make home
stead entries, must be presented at the
Land Office at Lander, Wyo., in the land
district in which the said lands are sit
/ uated and will be considered in their
numerical order during the first day,
and the applications of those drawing
numbers 101 to 200, inclusive. emitting
them to make homestead entries. must
| be presented and will be considered in
| their numerical order during the second
| day, and so on, Sundays excluded, at
the rate of 100 such applications per
day until and including Aug. Is, 1905,
| on and after Aug. q, 1906. such appli-
| cations will be considered in like man
ner at the rate Of 120 per day, Sundays
excluded, until and including Sept. 6,
1906; on and after Sept. 7, 1906. such
applications will be considered at the
rate of lao per day. Sundays excluded.
until and including Sept. Is, 1906; on
and after Sept. 10. 1906, such applica
tons will be considered at the rate of
so per day. Sundays excluded. until and
after Oct. 1, 1905, such applications
will be considered at the rate Of 10 per
| day, Sundays excluded, until and includ-
ing Oct. 10. 1906, the expiration of the
| 60 day period.
If any applicant fails to appear and
present his application to make home
stead entry, when the number assigned
| to him by the drawing is reached his
| application to enter will be passed until
| after the other applications assigned TO
/ that day have been disposed of. when
| he will on that day be given another op-
| portunity to make entry. and IL he fails
| to do so he will be deemed to have
abandoned his right to make entry un-
| der such drawing.
| Certificate Must He Personally Pre-
scented.
To obtain the allowance OF a home
| stead entry each applicant will person.
| ally present the certificate of registra-
| ton heretofore issued to him, together
! with a regular homestead application
and the necessary accompanying proofs,
| together with the regular Land Office
| fees but an honorabIy-d ischarged SOL
der or sailor may file his declaratory
statement through his agent. who can
represent but one soldier or sailor as In
the matter of registration.
/ The production OF the certificate Of
| registration will be dispensed with only
| upon satisfactory proof of its loss or de-
| struction.- If, at the time Of consider
ing the regular application to enter. 1t
appears that the applicant is disquali-
| fled from making homestead entry Oh
these lands his application will be re-
jected notwithstanding his prior regis
| tration. If any applicant shall register
| more than once hereunder or in any
other than his true name, or shall trans
/ fer his registration certificate. he will
thereby lose all the benefits of the reg
istration and drawing herein provided
| for and will be precluded from entering
! or settling upon any of said lands dur
! ing the first 60 days following the open
/ ing.
! Persons who make homestead entries
/ In \ ~
I years after the opening Of the same to
entry shall pay $3.50 per acre for the
| lands embraced in their entries and for
all of the coded lands thereafter entered
under the homestead laws the sum of
s1.25 per acre shall be paid. payment
in all cases to be made as follows:
/ Fifty cents per acre at the time OF
making entry and IS cents per acre
i each year thereafter until the price per
acre hereinbefOre provided shall have
/ been fully paid. Upon all entries the
i usual fees and commissions shall be
| paid as provided for in the homestead
laws on lands the price Of which Is $1.25
| per acre.
In case any entryman fails to make
| the payments hereinbefore provided for
| under homestead entries within the
| time stated, the right of said entryman
shall be forfeited and the entry will be
i Cancelled.
/ Town Sites.
| Any person or persons desiring to
/ found, or to suggest establishing
l townsite upon any Of the said lands. at
any point may, at any time before the
/ opening herein provided for. file i'm the
4 Land Office a written application to
that effect, describing by legal subdi-
visions the lands intended to be affected
and stating fully and under oath the
necessity or prOpriety Of founding or
I establishing a town at that place. The
local officers will forthwith transmit
/ said petition to the Commissioner Of the
y General Land Office with their recon-
mendations in the premises. Such
/ Commissioner. If he believes the public
interests will be subserved thereby, will.
}, il the Secretary of the Interior approve
: thereof issue an order withdrawing the
lands described in such petition, or any
I portion thereof, from homestead entry
! and settlement and directing that the
} same be held for the time being for dis
posal under the townsite laws Of the
i United States in such manner as the
: Secretary of the Interior may from time
to time direct. and, il at any time after
such withdrawal has been made 1t is
determined that the lands so withdrawn
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