The Russellville Democrat., 1875-11-18

aL SucH SaIe tilt IIiSuc.>u PilO1 io any tract, being more than fifty cents per acre, shall be the pur chaser thereof; and the commis sioner, immediately on the filing of a receipt in his office showing that the amount of purchase msn ey and fees have been raid into the state treasury, shah execute and deliver to the purchaser, his heirs and assigns, deed on be half of the state to said land, The sale shall be continued from day to day until each tract has been offered for sale. If no per. son shall offer fifty cents per acre for any tract, the commissioner shall place the same on the plats and books of his office as vacant land, and after the close of said public sale the same shall be sub jcct to entry at private sale at a price not less than hereinafter specified; provided, that the for mer owner, or the assignee of such former owner, of any tract of land which may have been for l feited to the state, may at any time before the same is offered at public sale, apply to the commis- sioner. specifying the lands in writing, to repurcllase the same, and upon the payment into the state treasury of the amount fixed by law as the price of said land, the said commissioner shall execute to said former owner a deed to said land in the same manner herein after provided.
 SEC. 3. That all town lots for feited to the state for the non payment of taxes, shall be adver- tised in the same manner as re- quired by section two of this act, and shall be sold at public sale at the same time provided fer the sale of lands forfeited to the state, at a price not less than the taxes, penalty and costs due thereon, the commissioner of state lands executing a deed for the same in the same manner as provided for the sale of forfeited lands. If any of said town lots shall remain unsold, for want of a bidder, at the close of said sale the same shall be placed on the books Of the commissioner and disposed oi by him at private sale at q price not less than the taxes, penalty and costs due thereon-the com missioner executing a deed for the same as in the case of forfeit ed lands.
 SEC. 1. That on failure of any person bidding for any land or town lots at the public sale men tioned in the preceding sections of this act, to pay the amount bid by him into the state treasury be- fore the resumption of the sale on the succeeding day, or before the close of the public sale, as the commissioner may require; the commissioner shall immediately offer such land or town lots again, as if no such bid had been made.
 SEC. 5. That all deeds execut- ed by said commissioner as au- thorized by the preceding see tions of this act, shall be under his hand and official seal, and shall convey to the purchaser, his heirs and assigns all the right, title and interest of the state to said lands and town lots, and such deeds shall be received as evidence in any court of this state.
 SEC. 6. That all lands forfeited to the state for the non payment of taxes, and which now appear upon the books of the commits sioner of state lands as vacant, shall be disposed of by said com missioner at private sale at fifty cents per acre, and all town lots shall be disposed of for the taxes, penalty and costs due thereon; the commissioner executing to the purchaser (upon the filing in his office of a receipt showing that the amount of the purchase money has been paid into the state treas ury) a deed such as is required by the preceding sections of this act.
 SEC '. That county clerks, in certifying to the commissioner of state lands list of the lands for. ieited to the state for non pay ment of taxes, shall not be requir- ed to certify the amount of taxes, penalty and costs due on the same, as now required by law, except in the case of town lots.
 SEC. s. That the commissioner of state lands shall give notice of any additional confirmation of swamp lands by advertising the same for two insertians in some newspaper published in the coun- ty in which the lands are situate, if any there be, and also in some newspaper published at the capi- tai of tho state, setting out the lands as they are described in the list of combinations or other list referred to in the law authorizing their sale, and notifying preempt- OTIS of their rights, and requiring all persons claiming the right of preemption upon any of said lands