Theodore Roosevelt said...

The order in which, during the first sixty days following the opening, the registered applicants will be permitted to make homestead entry of the lands opened hereunder, will be determined by a drawing.

Context

Proclamation 581—Opening of Uinta Indian Reservation lands, Utah

07/13/1905

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