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public use may, from time to time, be examined, classified, and 

 listed under the supervision of the Secretary of Agriculture, 

 and lists thereof will be filed by him with the Secretary of the 

 Interior, who will then declare the listed lands subject to set- 

 tlement and entry. 



2. Any person desiring to enter any unlisted lands of this 

 character should present an application for their examination, 

 classification, and listing to " The Forester, Washington, D. C.," 

 in the manner prescribed by regulations issued by the Agricul- 

 tural Department. 



3. When any lands have been declared subject to entry under 

 this act the land office for the district in which they are located 

 will be furnished with a list thereof, and the register and re- 

 ceiver will immediately, upon receipt of such list, file it in their 

 office, and at the same time issue notices of such filing and name 

 therein the sixty-first day after the day on which the list is 

 filed by them as the date on which the lands listed therein will 

 be open to settlement and entry under the homestead laws. 



4. The notice mentioned in the preceding paragraph should be 

 substantially in the form of the notice hereto attached, and you 

 will keep a copy of the notice of the filing of each list promi- 

 nently posted in your onice during the sixty days following such 

 filing, and also publish a copy of the notice during that period 

 for not less than four weeks in a newspaper of general circula- 

 tion published in each county in which any of the lands are 

 located, and if there be no newspaper published in such county 

 you will publish the notice in a newspaper of general circulation 

 published nearest the land. 



5. The cost of publishing the notice mentioned in the preced- 

 ing paragraph will not be paid by the receiver, but the pub- 

 lisher's vouchers therefor, in duplicate, should be forwarded 

 through your office to this office, accompanied by a duly exe- 

 cuted proof of publication. 



6. In addition to the publication and posting, above provided 

 for, you will, on the day the list is filed in your office, mail a 

 copy of the notice to any person known by you to be claiming 

 a preferred right of entry as a settler on any of the lands de- 

 scribed therein, and also at the same time mail a copy of the 

 notice to the person on whose application the lands embraced 

 in the list were examined and listed and advise each of them of 

 their preferred right to make entry prior to the expiration of 

 sixty days from the date upon which the list is filed. 



7. Any person qualified to make a homestead entry who, prior 

 to January 1, 1906, occupied and in good faith claimed any 

 lands listed under this act for agricultural purposes, and who 

 has not abandoned the same, has a preferred right to enter such 



