The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1909-09-09
RULES FOR


ington has issued the following rules
and regulations for the opening of
the Cheyenne River and Standing
Rock Indian reservations:
1. Applications for registration and
power of attorney for the appoint
ment of agents by soldiers or sailors
or their widows or minor orphan chill
dren must be made on blank forms
prescribed by the superintendent.
2. No notary public shall be desig-
mated for the purpose of administer
ing oaths to applicants for registra-
ton who was not appointed prior to
July |. 1909, and on that date a resi-
dent of the county in which he shall
act, and the superintendent is hereby
authorized and directed to prescribe
such plans, rules and regulations gov
erning the action of such ~notaries
public. in relation to the registration,
as may in his judgment be necessary.
3. Envelopes used in presenting APP
plications for registration should be
three and one-half inches wide and
six inches long, and they must all be
plainly addressed to james w. Wit
ten, Superintendent, Aberdeen, South
Dakota" and the words Registration
Application must be plainly written
or printed across the front at the
left end of the envelope.
4. Blank form of application for
r gistration and addressed envelopes
to be used in forwarding applications
to the superintendent will be furnish
ed to each applicant by the superin-
tendent, through the nOtaries public
before whom the applicants are
sworn. Blank powers of attorney to
be used by soldiers or sailors, or their
widows or minor orphan children, in
the appointment of agents may be OBJ
tanned from the superintendent at
Washington, d. c., prior to September
%, 1909, and after that date from him
at Aberdeen, South Dakota.
5. No envelope should contain more
than one application for registration
or contain any other papers than the
application. Proof of naturalization
and of military service and other
proof required Gas in case Of second
homestead entries), will be eXacted
before the entry is allowed, but should
not accompany the application for
registration.
6 Method of receiving and handling
applications.-As SOC as the super
intendent of the opening receives an
envelope addressed to him, with the
words Registration Application" en-
dorsed thereon, he will (f such en-
velope bears no distinctive marks or
words indicating the name of the per-
son by whom it was presented) de-
post it in a metal can set apart for
the reception of such envelopes. The
cans used for this purpose must be so
constructed as to prevent envelopes
deposited therein from being removed
therefrom, without detection, and they
must be safely guarded by represen-
tatives of the government until they
are publicly opened ON the day when
the selections authorized by the proc
lamation are to be made. All envel-
opes which show the name of the per-
son by whom they were mailed will
be opened as soon rs they are receip-
ed by the superintendent, and the ap-
plications therein will be returned to
the applicants.
7. Method of assigning numbers to
applicants.-On October 26, 1909, the
cans containing the applications for
registration will be publicly opened
and all envelopes contained therein
will be thoroughly mixed and distrib-
uted preparatory to the selection and
numbering thereof in the manner d.
rected by said proclamation.
s. Numbers will not be assigned to
a greater number of persons than will
be reasonably necessary to induce the
entry of all the lands subject to en-
try in said reservation under said
proclamation. The applications for
registration presented by persons to
whom numbers are not assigned will
be carefully arranged and inspected,
and if it is found that any person has
presented more than one application
for registration in his own behalf and
one application as agent, or presented
his own application in any other than
his true name, IT in any other manner
than that directed by said proclama-
ton, he will be denied the right to
make entry under any number assign
ed him.
9. When an application for registra-
ton has been selected and numbered,
as prescribed by said proclamation,