Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1909-05-27
TAFT ISSUES
PROCLAMATION
REGARDING the Opening of the Flathead and
Several Other Fine Reservations.

ton must be sworn to at the following
places and not elsewhere: Application.
for Flathead lands must be sworn tt
at either Kalispeli or Missoula, Mont
for Spokane lands, at Spokane Wash.
and for Occur d 'Alene lands, at Coeul
d'Alene, Idaho.
tFourth-Persons who were honor
ably discharged after 80 days service
in the army or the navy of the United
States during the war of the rebellion,
the Spanish-American war or the
Philippine insurrection or their wild
ows, or minor orphan children, may
present their applicants for registra-
tion, either in person or through their
duly appointed agents, but no person
can act as agent for more than one
such applicant and all applications
presented by agents must be signed,
sworn to and presented by them at
the same places and in the same man
ner in which applicants are required
to present their applications.
'Fifth-Beginning at 10 o'clock a.
m. on Aug. 6, 1909, at the city of
Occur d'Alene, in the state Of Idaho,
and continuing thereafter from day
to day, Sundays excepted, as long as
may be necessary, there shall be i'm
partially taken and selected indis-
criminately, from the whole number
of envelopes so presented, such num-
bers thereof as may be necessary to
carry into effect the provision of this
proclamation, and the applications
for registration contained in the en-
velopes SO selected shall, when cor
rect in form and execution, be num-
bered serially in the order in which
they are selected, beginning with No.
! for the lands within each of said
reservations, and the numbers thus
assigned shall fix and control the order
in which the persons named therein
may make entry after the lands shall
become subject to entry.
tsSixth-A list of the successful ap-
plicants, showing henumber assigned
to each Of them, will be conspicuously
posted and furnished to the press for
publication as matter of news and
a proper notice will be promptly mail
ed to each person to whom number
is assigned.
Seventh Beginning at 9 o'clock
a. m. on April 1, 1909, and continuing
thereafter on such dates as may be
fixed by the secretary of the interior,
persons holding numbers assigned to
them under this proclamation will be
permitted to present their applications
to enter Tor file their declaratory
statements in cases where they are
to file declaratory statements)
at the land Office for any land district
in which their numbers entitle them
to make entry, in the order in which
their applications for registration were
and numbered, but no person
can present more than one application
Oh enter or file more than one declara-
tory statement.
Eighth If any person fails to apply
to enter or to file a declaratory state
nent (if he is entitled to do sol on the
day assigned him for that purpose, or
if he presents more than one applica-
tion in any other but his true name
ne viii forfeit his right to make entry
Or filing under this proclamation.
ssNinth-None of the lands opened
to entry under this proclamation shall
become subject to settlement or entry
prior to the 1st day of September,
1910, except in the manner prescribed