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set apart Saturday, October 9, 1920, as Fire Prevention Day, and to request the citizens of their States to plan for that day such instructive and educational exercises as shall bring before the people the serious and unhappy effects of the present unnecessary fire waste, and the need of their individual and collective efforts in conserving the natural and created resources of America.

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 7th day of September, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and [SEAL.] Twenty and of the Independence of the United States, the One Hundred and Forty-fifth.

By the President:

BAINBRIDGE COLBY

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 State of California from the Trinity National Forest, and restoring the public lands subject to disposition in the excluded areas in the manner authorized by Public Resolution Number Twenty-nine, approved February fourteen, nineteen hundred and twenty.

October 1, 1920.

Trinity National

Forest, Calif.
Preamble.

Ante, p. 424.

Area diminished.

Now, therefore, I, WOODROW WILSON, President of the Vol. 30, p. 36. 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 Trinity National Forest are hereby changed to exclude the areas indicated as eliminations on the diagram hereto annexed and forming a part hereof.

Excluded lands

World War, for 63

Ante, p. 424.

And I do further proclaim and make known that pursuant to the opened to settlement aforesaid Public Resolution of February fourteen, nineteen hundred by ex-service men of and twenty, it is hereby ordered that the public lands in the excluded days. areas, subject to valid rights and the provisions of existing withdrawals or reservations, shall be opened only to homestead and desert land entry by qualified ex-service men of the War with Germany, under the terms and conditions of said resolution and the regulations issued thereunder, for a period of sixty-three days beginning with the sixty-third day from and after the date hereof.

Unentered lands

Vol. 38, p. 113.

And I do also hereby direct and provide, under the authority re- opened to settlement posed in me by the Act of September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thereafter. thirteen (38 Stat., 113), that for a period of seven days following the expiration of such sixty-three day preference period, any of said lands remaining unentered shall be opened to homstead entry only by any qualified entryman; and thereafter to appropriation under any public land law applicable thereto.

Prospective applicants may, during the period of twenty days etc. preceding 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 other

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Filing applications,

October 1, 1920.

Modoc National For

est, Calif.

Preamble.

Vol. 40, p. 1316.

Area enlarged.
Vol. 40, p. 1316.

Vol. 30, p. 36.

Prior legal rights not affected.

Vol. 40, p. 1316.

wise, 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.

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

Done this first day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty, and of the Independ[SEAL.] ence of the United States the one hundred and forty-fifth. WOODROW WILSON

By the President:

BAINBRIDGE COLBY

Secretary of State.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS, it appears that certain lands within the area described in the Act of Congress approved March third, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen (40 Stat., 1316), which have been found under the terms of said act to be available for the regulation and improvement of the grazing thereon, should be added to the Modoc National Forest, in the State of California; and

WHEREAS, it appears that certain lands immediately heretofore forming a part of the Shasta National Forest, in California, should be transferred to and made a part of the Modoc National Forest;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, WOODROW WILSON, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid Act of Congress, entitled, "An Act To include certain lands in the Counties of Modoc and Siskiyou, California, in the Modoc National Forest, California, and for other purposes", and also by the Act of Congress approved June fourth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven (30 Stat., 11 at 34 and 36), do proclaim that the Modoc National Forest is hereby enlarged to include the areas indicated in color on the diagram hereto annexed and forming a part hereof.

The withdrawal made by this proclamation shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws, or embraced in a proper application to enter under the provisions of the Stock-Raising Homestead Law filed prior to May 4, 1919, the date the lands were temporarily withdrawn for the classification contemplated by the above-mentioned Act of March 3, 1919, or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to, and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the designation of the lands embraced in such application and allowance thereof, nor the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as such claims are legally maintained, or such reservation remains in force.

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 first day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-fifth.

By the President:

BAINBRIDGE COLBY

Secretary of State.

WOODROW WILSON

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