Except as to the register or the acting register, the official character of any officer not using a seal of office must be certified to under seal by the clerk of court having the record of his appointment and qualifications. To all Field Officers: GENERAL LAND OFFICE, Washington, September 28, 1928. By departmental order of September 25, the following changes in designations were made, effective October 1, 1928: Old designation: Inspection service. Division inspector.. Inspector (formerly special agent)_ Carey Act inspector. Timber cruise____. Hearings officers_ New designation: - Field Service, General Land Office. Mining engineer (authorized by Irrigation engineer. Timber cruiser. District law officer. All communications to the Chief of Field Service and to the Chiefs of Field Divisions will be addressed as follows: Chief of Field Service, General Land Office, Washington, D. C. Chief of Field Division, General Land Office, WILLIAM SPRY, Commissioner. OKLAHOMA LANDS CIRCULAR NO. 8521 REGULATIONS FOR THE OPENING TO ENTRY OF LANDS IN THE EASTERN SALINE RESERVE, OKLA. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, GENERAL LAND OFFICE, Washington, September 22, 1922. REGISTER AND RECEIVER, Guthrie, Okla. GENTLEMEN: Executive Order No. 2685 of August 16, 1917, temporarily withdrew under the authority of the act of June 25, 1910 (36 Stat. 847), as amended by the act of August 24, 1912 (37 Stat. 497), certain lands in Oklahoma, pending determination as to the advisability of reserving said lands for military purposes. Executive Order No. 3705, approved July 1, 1922, revoked said order of August 16, 1917, and the lands withdrawn thereunder were returned to the Department of the Interior for disposition as may be provided by law. Under date of July 24, 1922, copies of said Executive Order No. 3705 were sent your office and you were informed that you would be later advised of the disposition to be made of said lands. The records of this office show that the Easterr Saline Reserve, located in Alfalfa County, Okla., was made pursuant to the act August 7, 1882 (22 Stat. 349), by presidential proclamation dated August 19, 1893 (28 Stat. 1222). This reservation was restored to the public domain by presidential proclamation of July 27, 1898 (30 Stat. 1779), to be disposed of under the laws relating to the public lands in the Cherokee Outlet, subject to the policy of the Government in disposing of saline lands. The lands in the Cherokee Outlet were subject to disposition under section 10 of the act of March 3, 1893 (27 Stat. 612, 640). Said act provided for the disposition of said lands under section 13 of the act of March 2, 1889 (25 Stat. 1005), said act providing for the disposition thereof to actual settlers under the homestead and townsite laws only. The act of January 31, 1901 (31 Stat. 745), provides that all unoccupied lands of the United States containing salt springs or deposits of salt in any form, and chiefly valuable therefor, are declared to be subject to location and purchase under the provisions of the law relating to placer mining claims. By instructions of November 14, 1901 (31 L. D. 131), local offices were instructed to require an affidavit showing that the lands applied for contained no salt springs or deposits of salt in any form sufficient to render said land chiefly valuable therefor, The lands in said Eastern Saline 1Amended by instructions of Feb. 19, 1929, p. 1041. Reserve, in so far as they are chiefly valuable for salt springs or deposits of salt, are subject to disposition only under said act of January 31, 1901. All withdrawals affecting these lands having now been revoked, these lands will now be opened to entry in accordance with departmental regulations of May 17, 1917 (46 L. D. 121), and departmental decision of May 6, 1919 (47 L. D. 141). (List of lands omitted.) In the absence of other withdrawals or valid adverse claims, all of the vacant, unappropriated public land therein not chiefly valuable for salt will become subject to entry under the homestead laws only with a preference right to qualified ex-service men of the World War, who have been honorably discharged or separated from the service, under the provisions of the act of February 14, 1920 (41 Stat. 434), as amended. Preference to ex-service men.-1. From November 13, 1922, to February 10, 1923, both dates inclusive, lands may be entered under the homestead laws only, by ex-service men of the World War who have been honorably discharged or separated from the service or placed in the Regular Army or Navy Reserve, provided that from October 23, 1922, to November 11, 1922, both dates inclusive, applications may be presented by such persons under said laws, such applications to be treated as simultaneously filed and disposed of before action is taken on other preference applications. General disposition.-2. The lands, if any, not disposed of during said preference period will become subject to appropriation under any applicable land laws, including settlement under the homestead law in advance of entry, by any qualified persons, on March 5, 1923, and not before then, provided that from February 12, 1923, to March 3, 1923, both dates inclusive, any qualified persons may present applications for said land under the homestead laws only, such applications to be treated as simultaneously filed and disposed of before action is taken on other nonpreference applications. The preference rights above provide for are subject to valid settlement rights or equitable claims recognized by existing laws, and such claims should be asserted during the 20-day period provided in paragraph 1. In the event conflicts appear between applications treated as simultaneously filed, as herein provided, drawings will be held to determine the order in which the conflicting applications will be acted upon. Homestead entrymen will be required to comply with the usual requirements, pay the usual fees and commissions required by law and also to make payment for the land embraced in this Eastern Saline Reserve, at the rate of $1.50 per acre. This money may be paid in full at the date of the allowance of the entry or acceptance of final proof, with interest upon the amount so to be paid for said land from date of entry to date of final payment therefor at the rate of 4 per cent per annum. After acceptance of final proof and pay. ment in full for the land, a final certificate may be issued. You will make proper notations relating to this opening upon your records, post a copy in your office, and give as much publicity 2 See amendment, p. 1041. as possible, as a matter of news, without expense to the Government, by forwarding copies hereof to the post office nearest the land for posting therein for the information of the public, and by transmitting copies or items concerning same to the newspapers published nearest the land, being careful not to send such copies or items without calling the particular attention of the publishers to the fact that it is sent as a matter of news and that the Government will not be responsible for the cost of any publication thereof. Acknowledge receipt hereof and promptly report your compliance with the instructions herein contained.. Very respectfully, Approved September 22, 1922. WILLIAM SPRY, Commissioner. E. C. FINNEY, First Assistant Secretary. [From Land Service Bulletin, May, 1928, p. 47] ISOLATED TRACT LAW EXTENDED TO OKLAHOMA [PUBLIC NO. 313-70TH CONGRESS (45 STAT. 457)] [S. 2725] AN ACT To extend the provisions of section 2455, United States Revised Statutes, to certain public lands in the State of Oklahoma Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the provisions of section 2455, United States Revised Statutes (section 1171, Title 43, United States Code), as amended, be, and they are hereby, extended to surveyed, unreserved, unappropriated nonmineral public lands in that part of the State of Oklahoma formerly comprised in Oklahoma Territory: Provided, That this Act shall not apply to any such area where under existing law such lands are now subject to public or private sale: Provided further, That the proceeds of all sales hereunder shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of such fund or funds as may be provided by existing law for the disposition of such lands. Approved April 24, 1928. Applications under this act will be governed by the regulations contained in Circular No. 684, copies of which and forms of application may be obtained of the General Land Office, Washington, D. C. PAYMENT FOR EASTERN SALINE RESERVE LANDS, OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, The SECTETARY OF THE INTERIOR. GENERAL LAND OFFICE, Washington, February 13, 1929. SIR: The third paragraph from the end of Circular 852, dated September 22, 1922, being Regulations for the Opening to Entry of |