New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-19
IGENERAL NATURE-No. 5S.1


GENERAL NATURE-No. 5S.1
AN ACT amendatory of an act entitled
An act to further provide for giving
effect to the various grants Of public
lands to the State of Nevada" approved
June eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty
eight.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That sec
tion four of an act entitled " An act to fur
Their provide for giving effect to the various
grants of public lands to the State of Ne
vada." be and the same is hereby amended
so as to read as follows: And it is further
enacted that the lands granted to the State
of California for the establishment of an
agricultural college by the act of July
second eighteen hundred and sixty-twO,
and acts amendatOry thereto, may be
selected by said State from any lands
within said State, subject to presumption,
settlement, entry, sale, or location under
any laws of the United States. Such
selection may be made in any legal
subdivisions, adjoining by sides, so as
to constitute bodies of not less
than one hundred and sixty acres;
or they may be made in separate subdivi-
sions of forty, eighty or enc hundred and
twenty acres, respectively; provided, that
this privilege shall not extend to lands
upon which there may be rightful claims
under the pre-emptiOn and homestead laws,
nor to mineral lands; and provided further,
that if lands be selected as aforesaid; the
minimum price of which is two dollars and
fifty cents per acre, they shall be taken
acre for acre in part satisfaction of the
grant, and the State of California shall pay
to the United States the sum of one dollar
and twenty-five cents per acre for each acre
so selected when the same shall be patented
to the State by the United States; provided
further, that where lands, sought to be Sc
lected for the agricultural college, are I'M
surveyed, the proper authorities of the State
shall file statement TO that effect with the
register of the United States land office,
describing the land by township and range,
and shall make application to the United
States surveyor general for survey of
the same, the expenses of the survey
for field work to be paid by the State, pro
vided there be no appropriation by Con-
gress for that purpose. The United States
surveyor general, as soon as practicable,
shall have the said lands surveyed and the
township plats returned TO the United
States land Office, and lands so surveyed
and returned shall, for thirty days after
the fling of the plats in the United States
land office, be held exclusively for location
for the agricultural college, and within
said thirty days the proper authorities Of
the State shall make application to the
United States land office for the land sought
to be located by sections and parts of Sec
tions Provided, That any rights, under the
presumption or homestead laws, acquired
prior to the filing of the required statement
with the United States register, shall not be
impaired or affected by this act; And pro-
vided further, That such selections shall be
made in every other respect subject to the
/ conditions, restrictions and limitations con-
tanned in the acts hereby modified.
/ Approved March 3, 1871.