Woodrow Wilson actually said...

upon failure to pay any installment on or before the day the same becomes due, all rights under this application, together with the payments theretofore made, may be forfeited to the United States by the Secretary of the Interior.

Context

Executive Order 2418—Alaska—Regulations for Sale of the Federal and Cliff Additions to Seward Townsite, Alaska

07/10/1916

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