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On the recordSeptember 18, 1906
I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the said Act of Congress, approved June 5, 1906, do hereby declare and make known that all of said four hundred and eighty thousand acres of land, except such portions thereof as may be allotted, sold or reserved in the manner prescribed in said Acts of Congress, and all of said twenty-five thousand acres of land will be opened to settlement and disposition, under the provisions of said Act of June 5, 1906, and under the rules and regulations adopted by the Secretary of the Interior, at such time and in such manner as the said Secretary of the Interior may fix and prescribe.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Proclamation 653—Opening to Settlement Certain Lands in the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indian Reservations

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