Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

Persons who make homestead entry for any of these lands will be required to pay therefor at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre when they make final proof.

Context

Proclamation 581—Opening of Uinta Indian Reservation lands, Utah

07/13/1905

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