DECLARATION REQUIRED BY PRESIDENT’S PROCLAMATION OF AUGUST 19, 1893,
  PREPARATORY TO OCCUPYING OR ENTERING UPON THE LANDS OF THE CHEROKEE
  OUTLET FOR THE PURPOSE OF FILING A SOLDIER’S DECLARATORY STATEMENT IN
  PERSON.

  No. ——.

  BOOTH IN T. ——­ N., R. ——­, ——­, 1893.

I, ——­, of ——­ County and State or Territory of ——­, do solemnly declare that I served for a period of ——­ in the Army of the United States during the War of the Rebellion and was honorably discharged therefrom, as shown by a statement of such service herewith, and that I have remained loyal to the Government; that I have not perfected a homestead entry for 160 acres of land under any law except what is known as the commuted provision of the homestead law contained in section 2301, Revised Statutes, nor have I filed a declaratory statement under sections 2304 and 2309 of the Revised Statutes or made or commuted a homestead entry since March 2, 1889;[*] ——­ that I have not entered since August 30, 1890, under the land laws of the United States or filed upon a quantity of land agricultural in character and not mineral which with the tracts now desired would make more than 320 acres; that I am not the owner in fee simple of 160 acres of land in any State or Territory; that I have not entered upon or occupied, nor will I enter upon or occupy, the lands to be opened to settlement by the President’s proclamation of August 19, 1893, in violation of said proclamation; that I intend to file a soldier’s declaratory statement upon said lands, which location will be made for my exclusive use and benefit, for the purpose of my actual settlement and cultivation, and not, either directly or indirectly, for the use and benefit of any other person.

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I certify that the foregoing declaration was made and subscribed before
me this ------ day of --------, 1893.

-------- ----------, Officer in Charge.

* NOTE.—­If the party has made an entry or filing since March 2, 1889, to which he is unable to perfect title because of a valid adverse claim or other invalidity existing at the date of its inception, strike out the words “filed a declaratory statement under sections 2304 and 2309 of the Revised Statutes, or made or” and insert in the blank space that I have made an entry or filing since March 2, 1889, but have failed or am unable to perfect title to the land covered thereby because of a valid adverse claim or other invalidity existing at the date of its inception.

C.

  DECLARATION REQUIRED BY PRESIDENT’S PROCLAMATION OF AUGUST 19, 1893,
  PREPARATORY TO ENTERING UPON THE LANDS OF THE CHEROKEE OUTLET FOR THE
  PURPOSE OF FILING A SOLDIER’S DECLARATORY STATEMENT AS AGENT.