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Woodrow Wilson: “I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power and authority vested in me by the…”

On the recordMay 2, 1916
I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power and authority vested in me by the Act of Congress approved March 22, 1906 (34 Stat. L., 80) do hereby prescribe, proclaim, and make known, that all the non-mineral, unallotted and unreserved lands within the diminished Colville Indian Reservation, in the State of Washington, classified as irrigable lands, grazing lands, or arid lands, shall be disposed of under the general provisions of the homestead laws of the United States and of the said Act of Congress, and shall be opened to settlement and entry and settled upon, occupied, and entered only in the manner herein prescribed
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey
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Proclamation 1333—Opening of Lands Within the Diminished Colville Indian Reservations

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