The National tribune., 1906-06-14
THE PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION,
Opening the Shoshone Reservation to SettIetaent

| In their judgment VIII be attended Win
entire fairness and equality of oppor-
| turity, 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
/ of the district and will determine the
| order in which the applicants may make
homestead entry of said lands and set
tlement thereon.
Notice of the Drawing.
Notices of the drawing, stating the
name of each applicant and the num-
ber assigned to him by the drawing,
will be posted each day at the place of
the drawing, and each applicant will
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 matter of news. APP
plications for homestead entry during
the 60 days following the opening can
be made only by registered applicants
and in the order established by the
drawing.
The Drawing.
Commencing Aug. Is, 1906. at 3
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. 25, 1906;
on and after Aug. 81, 1906, such appli-
cations will be considered in like man
ner at the rate of 120 per day, Sundays
excluded, until and including Sept. g.,
1906; on and after Sept. 7, 1906. such
applications will be considered at the
rate of 140 per day, Sundays excluded.
until and including Sept. IS, 1906; on
and after Sept. 10, 1906, such applica-
tions will be considered at the rate of
160 per day, Sundays excluded. until and
including Sept. %, 1906; and on and
after Oct l, 1906, such applications
will be considered at the rate of 10 per
day, Sundays excluded, until and includ-
ing Oct. 13, 1906, the expiration of the
go day period.
If any applicant fails to appear and
present his application to make home
to him by the drawing is reached, his
application to enter will be passed until
after the other applications assigned 10
that day have been disposed of, when
he will on that day be given another op-
portunity to make entry, and If he fails
to do so he will be deemed to have
abandoned his right to make entry un-
der such drawing.
Certificate Must BE Personally Pre-
sented.
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 honorably-disch SOL
dier 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.- IT, at the time of consider
ing the regular application to enter, 1t
appears that the applicant is disquali-
fled from making homestead entry on
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. ne VIII
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
for any of the ceded lands within two
years after the opening of the same to
entry shall pay s1.50 per acre for the
lands embraced in their entries and for
ali of the ceded lands thereafter entered
under the homestead laws the sum of
s125 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 25 cents per acre
each year thereafter until the price per
acre hereinbefore provided shall have
been fully paid. Upon all entries the
usual fees and commissions shall be
paid as provided for in the homestead
laws on lands the price of which is S1.25
per acre.
In case any entryrnan fails to make
the payments hereinbefore provided for
under homestead entries within the
time stated, the right of said entryman
TO the lands covered by his or her entry
shall be forfeited and the entry will be
Cancelled.
Town Sites.
ANY person or persons desiring to-
found or to suggest establishing a
townsite upon any of the said lands, at
any point may, at any time before the
opening herein provided for. file in the
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
establishing a town at that place. The
local officers will forthwith transmit
said petition TO the Commissioner of the
General Land Office with their recon-
mendations in the premises. Such
Commissioner. If he believes the public
interests will be subserved thereby, will.
If the Secretary of the Interior approve
thereof issue an order Withdrawing the
lands described in such petition, or any
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
United States in such manner as the
| Secretary of the Interior may from time
! to time direct: and, If at any time after
such withdrawal has been made it is
| determined that the lands so withdrawn
| are not needed for townsite purposes,
they may be released from such with
/ drawal and then disposed of under the
general provisions Of the homestead
/ laws in the manner prescribed herein.
| The lands entered under the townsite,
cool and mineral land laws shall be