Teddy Roosevelt: “By virtue of the power and authority vested in me by said Act of Congress, do hereby prescribe, proclaim and make known…”

“By virtue of the power and authority vested in me by said Act of Congress, do hereby prescribe, proclaim and make known that all of said lands which shall remain unallotted to Indians, unselected by said state and unreserved for townsites, on the first day of March. A. D. 1909, will be opened to settlement and entry, under the general provisions of the homestead laws, and of said Act of Congress, in the manner herein prescribed as follows, and not otherwise:”