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but not before, nine o'clock a. m., standard time, October 13, 1919, and to settlement and other disposition under any public land law applicable thereto, at and after, but not before, nine o'clock a. m., standard time, October 20, 1919: Provided, that the rights of the Idaho not abridged. State of Idaho under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three (27 Stat., 592), shall not be abridged in so far as any of such lands are affected thereby. Unsurveyed lands are not subject to the provisions of said act, but in the absence of a prior adverse right, the preference accorded the State of Idaho thereby, where the township has been surveyed, and the plat thereof filed while the lands were reserved for forestry purposes, will attach immediately upon the restoration of such lands to selection and entry under the general land laws of the United States on October 20, 1919, as herein provided, and continue for sixty days. Prospective applicants may, during the period of twenty days pre- etc. ceding the date on which the lands shall become subject to entry, selection or location of the form desired under the provisions of this Proclamation, execute their applications in the manner provided by law and present the same, accompanied by the required payments, to the proper United States land office in person, by mail, or otherwise, and all applications so filed, together with such as may be submitted at the hour fixed, shall be treated as though simultaneously filed and shall be disposed of in the manner prescribed by existing regulations. Under such regulations conflicts of equal rights will be determined by a drawing.

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Warning is hereby given that no settlement initiated prior to seven passing prior to opendays after the date for homestead entry above prescribed will be rec-ing. ognized, but all persons who go upon any of the lands to be restored hereunder and perform any act of settlement thereon prior to nine o'clock a. m., standard time, October 20, 1919, or who are on or are occupying any part of said lands at such hour, except those having valid subsisting settlement rights initiated prior to withdrawal from settlement and since maintained, and those having preferences to make entry under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved Agricultural lands. June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six (34 Stat., 233), entitled "An Act To provide for the entry of agricultural lands within forest reserves", and Acts amendatory, will be considered and dealt with as trespassers and will gain no rights whatever under such unlawful settlement or occupancy; Provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall prevent persons from going upon and over the lands to examine them with a view to thereafter appropriating them in accordance herewith. Persons having prior settlement rights or pref- rights, etc. erences, as above defined, will be allowed to make entry in accordance with existing law and regulations.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

DONE in the District of Columbia this 21st day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine[SEAL.] teen, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-fourth.

By the President:

ROBERT LANSING
Secretary of State.

WOODROW WILSON

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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

Whereas Congress on April 5, 1918, enacted a law known as "The War Finance Corporation Act;"

And Whereas, under Section 206 of said Act, it is provided that the President may at any time by proclamation declare that the Title relating to the Capitol Issues Committee is no longer necessary and that thereupon it shall cease to be in effect:

Now Therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, by virtue of the authority in me vested, do hereby proclaim and declare that Title Two of said War Finance Corporation Act relating to the Capitol Issues Committee, is no longer necessary, and I further direct that the Committee shall close up its affairs and that all the records, including letters, correspondence and testimony in the possession of said Committee be turned over to the Federal Trade Commission.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done this thirtieth day of August in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Nineteen, and of the inde[SEAL.] pendence of the United States of America the One hundred and forty-fourth.

By the President:

ROBERT LANSING,
Secretary of State.

WOODROW WILSON

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, it appears that the public good will be promoted by excluding certain lands within the States of South Dakota and Montana from the Sioux National Forest, and by restoring the public lands subject to disposition in the excluded areas in a manner authorized by the act of Congress approved September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen (38 Stat., 113), entitled "An Act To authorize the President to provide a method for opening lands restored from reservation or withdrawal, and for other purposes";

Now, therefore, I, WOODROW WILSON, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninetyseven (30 Stat., 11 at 34 and 36), entitled "An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes", do proclaim that the boundaries of the Sioux National Forest are hereby changed to exclude the areas indicated as eliminations on the diagram hereto annexed and forming a part hereof.

And I do further proclaim and make known that in my judgment it is proper and necessary, in the interest of equal opportunity and good administration, that all of the excluded lands subject to disposition should be restored to homestead entry in advance of settlement or other forms of disposition, and pursuant to the authority reposed in me by the aforesaid act of September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, I do hereby direct and provide that such lands,