The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1916-05-26

they desire, as follows: A map room
Iwill be established at such place as
shall be decided upon by the secere-
tary OF the interior, where numbers
assigned will be called in their mum
erical order.
When ap applicants number is call
led, he efmust at once select the tract he
ldesires to enter and will be allowed
ten days after the date of the selection
in which to complete entry at the
proper land office.
During such period he must file a
homestead application at the land Of
flee, accompanying the same with the
usual Fling fees and commissions, and
in addition thereto, one fifth of the ap-
praised value of the tract selected. If
the lands are in the Spokane (Wash. }
land district entry must be made at
the Spokane land office; if in the
WaterYille, Wash, land district, entry
must he made at the Waterville land
office.
TO save the expenses incident to a
trip to- the land and a return to the
land office, he may following his Sc
lection,' execute his homestead appli-
cation for the tract selected within the
land district and file same in the land
office, where it will be held awaiting
the payment of the fees and commits
sions and one-fifth appraised value of
the lana In that event the payment
must besmade within 10 days following
the date of selection.
Payments can be made only in cash,
by certified checks on national and
state banks and trust companies, which
can be eashed without cost to the gov
ernment, or by post office money or
ders made payable to the receiver of
the land office.
These payments may be made in
person, through the mails or any 9TH
er means or agency desired but the
applicant assumes all responsibility in
the matter. He must see that the pay
ments reach the land office within 10
days allowed, and when failure occurs
in any instance where the application
has been filed in the land office with
out payFent, AS herein provided for
the application will stand rejected
without further action on the part of
the local land officers.
In case of declaratory statements
allowable under the, opening. the same
course may be pursued, except that the
filing fees must be paid within 10 days
following date of selection, the party
having six months after filing within
which to complete entry. Soldiers or
sailors or their widows or orphan chill
dren making homestead entry of these
lands must make payment of fees,
commissions and purchase money as is
required of other entrymen.
If such proof is made all the unpaid
installments must be paid at that time.
Where three year proof is submitted,
the entryman may make payment of
the unpaid installments at that time or
at any time before they become due
and final certificate will be issued, in
the absence of objection, upon such
payment being made. If any entryman
fails to make any payment when It be-
comes due, all his former payments
will be forfeited and his entry will be
cancelled.
Z. No person will be permitted to
select more than one tract, present
more than one application for entry
nor file more than one declaratory
statement in his own behalf
s. If any person fails to select the
tract he desires to enter on the date
assigned to him for that purpose or if
having made such selection he fails to
perfect it by making entry or filing
and payments as herein provided, or
if he presents more than one applica-
ton for registration or presents an ap-
plication in any other than his true
name he will forfeit his right to make
entry or filing under this proclamation.
O. None of the lands opened to entry
under this proclamation will become
subject to settlement or entry prior to
a. m. October IS, 1916, except in the
manned prescribed herein; and all
persons are admonished not to make
any settlement before that time on
lands not covered by entries or filings
made by them under the proclamation.
All the said lands not then entered by
persons assigned numbers hereunder
will, at that hour, become subject to
settlement and entry under the general
provisions of the homestead laws and
the aforesaid act of congress
. 10. The secretary of the interior
shall make and prescribe such rules
and regulations as may he necessary
and proper to carry the provisions of
this proclamation and of the said act
of congress into full force and effect
and is hereby authorized to prescribe
the time when and the manner in
which lands in any or all the town
ships temporarily withdrawn from dis
posal, as herein provided, may be OPEN
ed TO settlement and entry.
In witness whereof | have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed
Done at the city of Washington this
day of May, in the year of our Lord