Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1858-09-22

| ii tracts.
IN LEHMAN COUNTY.
Sections and Fractional Sections numbered |
B. 3, rs, 10, IL, l6. II, 10. 90, "a, 90, %, 80,
80, 80, 81, 80. H. 43, 45, A. 40, so, SO, "a, SC,
81, 50, 81, Go and 65.-33 Sections-l32 Tracts.
TERMS OF SALE.
None Of said lands can be sold for less than
three dollars per acre. Scctions4 4, 5, II and ID
of the law are as follows:
SEC. 4. That the terms of such sale be n ere.
dit of twenty years, bearing interest at the rate
OF eight per cent. per annum, the purchaser to
pay, to the Treasurer of the State. at the end of
each year, after the day of sale, the interest due
on the purchase money and one-twentieth part
of 'he original purchase money. The purchaser
to give bond with two or more good securities
| for the amount of the purchase money and inter
est thereon after which he shall receive, from the
person making the sale. a certificate of his pur
chase, and the amount and terms thereof, and
whenever he shall have fully paid the principal
and interest of his purchase, the Commissioner
of the General Land Office shall issue to him and
his heirs and assigns, n patent Provided, That
nothing in this act shall be so construed as to
prevent any purchaser, his heirs. or assins of
su III lands from paying, Mt any time he may de-
sire, tie whole amount of the purchase money
and interest, and 80 doing he shall receive pa
tent for the same.
SEC 8. AS often as any purchaser of said
lands shall fail to pay the amount of and
installTent of his purchase, when the same ~
due, the Governor shall cause the same / be sold
again, after thirty days notice, by public auc-
ton, to the highest bidder, at the county seat of
the county where the land is situated, the terms
of such sale shall be that the purchaser shall pay
in ash the amount then due on tho land, and
the costs Of the sale, and for the residue of the
purchase money no shall have the same number
of years rs there remain to run on the original
credit, interest at eight per cent to be paid there
on annually, and the principal to be paid al
equal annual installments; the purchaser to give
a like bond and receive like certificate as at
original sales.
SEC IL. Each settler upon any of said tracts
of land offered for sale, shall have the right to
take the tract upon which his improvements, or
the greater part thereof shall he situated, at the
highest and the best bid that may be offered for
the same; prorided, that such bid shall not be
less than three dollars per acre,
Src. 10. That parties purchasing under the
provisions of this act shall have the right to sell
the land purchased by him or her. under the pro-
visions of this act, at any time, but the land so
sold shall in sll cases he held liable for the prn-
cipal and interest unpaid under any sale in favor
Of the State, and first lein or mortgage is here
by declared to exist in favor Of the State, as Sc
curity for the payment of principal and interest
TO ali lands sold as above prescribed.
Persons desiring further information nav an
ply at the General Land Office. or to the Survey.
ors Of the counties in which the lands are situa-
ted. or to me in person. at each place of sale
where shall be for several days previous to
opening the sales The sales will be made bv
TIE official map furnished from the General Land
Dfice.
Purchasers must be prepared to execute notes |
With two or more good securities. and receive |
heir titles-otberwisc, the land bid of BIZ them
I'LL be re-sold before the close Of the sale.
JOHN HENRY BROWN.
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