The Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1852-1872, 1853-05-07

Synopsis of Act 10 proUide for The Surveys Of the
Pn6iic Lands IN California. the granting Of pre-
emption rights Meres11, and Jor other purposes.
The act provides for the appointment of Re-
sister of the Land Office and Receiver of Public
Money for California, with each salary OF three
thousand dollars per annum and the President
may If he should deem it necessary, divide Cal
ifornu into two or three Land Districts and APP
point Register and Receiver tor each District.
All the public lands ia Calitnruia whether sur
veyed or unsurveyed. with the exception Of
sections 10 and Sc, which granted 10 the
State for the purposes OF public schools in each
township, aud with the exception OF lands APP
proprated under the authority of this act or re-
served by competent authority, and excepting
also the lands claimed under any foreign grant
or title, and the mineral land, shall be subject
TO the presumption laws of the 4lh of September,
1871 with all the exceptions, conditions and
limitations therein. except rs herein otherwise
provided aud SHALL after the plats thereof
returned to The Office of the register, be offered
for sale after six months public notice in The
State. Of the time and place of sale under The
laws, rules and regulations now governing snch
xales or such as NAV be hereafter prescribed:
Prorided, That, where unsurveyed lands
clnimed by pre-empiion, the usual notice of such
claim shall be filed within three months after
the at the plats surveys TO the land office,
and proof and payment shall be made prior to
the day appointed by the Presidents proclama
ton for the commencement of the sale, including
such Iauds, the euiry of such claims To be made
by legal subdivisions, according TO the United
States survey. and ia the most compact FORM
And provided further. That the iaci of persons
having heretofore had the benefit OF said act OF
the 4ih of September. 1871, shall iuterpose no
bar TO their obtaining the benefits of this act;
and all Of said lands that shall remain unsold al
Ter having been proclaimed and offered shall be
subject to- entry at private sale other public
land. and at the same minimum price per acre
and thu. Register and Receiver shall not be emit
tied 10 auy per centage or fees except for decd-
ing prescription cases, when each ut them shall
b., allowed the same fees allowed TO other
like officers; but he Receiver shall be entitled
10 his actual necessary expenses going and re-
turning IN making his deposits P,ocided That
nothing in this act shall be construed TO author
Ise any settlement 10 be made any public
lands not surveyed, unless the be made
witllin one year from the passage uf this act
nor shall any isht OF such settlers he recognised
by virtue OF any settlement Improvement
made uf such unsurveye ed lands subsequent To
that day; 1ad rrorided further, That this act
shall not be construed a,thorise any settle
lncnt to be made any tract of land i'll the &C.
cupation possession OF any Indian tribe, or to
grant any presumption light to the same.
Where any settlement, by the erection of a
OF the land shall be made upon the sixteenth
and tliirtv-sxtli sections, before the same shall
lie surveyed. where such sections may be
serve ed tor public USES taken by private claims.
either lands shall be selected hy the p, oper an
thurities of the State in lieu thereof agreeablv
To tbs. provisions Of the ar; of Congress- appro-
we'd the 20h Of May, 1926, entitled-"An ACT
10 appropriate lands for the support OF schools
III certain townships and fractional townships,
hot before provided for and which shall be sub
jrct approval by the Secretary OF the Interior
Aud person shall make settlement or loca-
ton upon auy tract parcel of land selected for
Il military post, within mile of such post
or on any other lands reserved by competent
authority; shall anv person obtain the bene-
fits OF this act by settlement location on
mineral lands
The public lands. not being mineral lands oc
cupis,,i towns villages, shall not be subdi
vidcd, subject % sale, or be appropriated by
tiers under the provisions of this act; but the
whole of such lands whether settled upon be-
tnre after the survey of the same, shall be
subject to the provisions OF the act entitled " An
act for the relief of the citizens of towns upon
the lands of the United States, under certain cir
cumstauces," approved May 90. 1914, except
such towns as are located on mineral |
lands, the inhabitants of which shall have the
right of occupation and cultivation only until
such tiue Congress shall dispose of the same
shall any lands. specially reserved for pub |
slc uses, be appropriated under the provisions OF
this act.
The quantity of two entire townships or
scventy-two sections, shall be granted 10 the
State OF California for the use of a seminary of
learning.
And ten entire sections, for the purpose of
erecting the public buildings of This State.