W.Q. GRESHAM,
_Secretary of State_.



A.


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 MAKING A HOMESTEAD ENTRY.

No. ----.

BOOTH IN T. ---- N., R. ----, ----, _1893_.

I, ----, of ----, being desirous of occupying or entering upon the lands
opened to settlement by the President's proclamation of August 19, 1893,
for the purpose of making a homestead entry, do solemnly declare that I
am over 21 years of age or the head of a family; that I am a citizen of
the United States (or have declared my intention to become such); 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 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