Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-24

VAN s<AbNA ~ w iStSoS SsiS clSuhISNA3 rSilu Z
tween the hours of 10 O'Clock a. IN. and 5
O'Clock p. m. only. Said leasing shall con
tlnue from day to day until all tracts or
parcels OF lands advertised for lease shall
have been leaseu or offered for lease; pro-
vided, that 1t may be adjourned over the
Sabbath or any legal holiday, In counties
where a large number of tracts of land are
to be leased the lands situated in certain
townships may be designated in the adver-
tisement to be leased on designated days,
and in such case said lands shall be leased
or offered for lease on such designated days,
or for want OF time for the leasing or offer
ing for lease of all such designated lands,
the leasing of those unOtfered may be ad-
journed until the following day or days,
when they must be the first lands offered
for lease. Such lands as shall not have
been specially subdivided shall be leased
or offered for lease in tracts of %One-Quarter
section each, and those so subdivided in the
smallest subdivision thereof. The rent in
all cases OF lease shall be payable annually
in advance.
SEC. 6. 1t shall be the duty Of the super
lntendent of schools and the county aud
itor of the respective counties in which the
leasing of such lands are to be made, to
conduct the leasing of said lands in ac-
cordance with the provisions of this act,
and such directions as shall be prescribed
therefor by the board of university and
school lands. After all such lands so adj
vertlstd Shall have been leased or offered
for lease, said superintendent and auditor
slial make in triplicate a certified state
ment of the tracts of lands so leased, the
time for which they were leased, the name
or the leSSetS, whether leased for cultiva-
ton or meadow and pa>tulage, and the
amount to be paid annually for such lease.
One copy OF this statement Shall he trans
mitted to the board of university and
school lands, one copy shall be delivereA to
the county treasurer, and the third copy
shall be filed in the office of the supcrin-
tendent OF schools OF the county.
SEC. Z. Within three days after the leas-
ing of each tract the lessee thereof and
the county auditor shall execute in dupIi-
cate a contract of lease IOr said tract in the
form prescribed by the board of university
and school lands, and the lessee shall pay
to the county treasurer the rental of said
tract OF land, liking his receipt therefor.
One copy Of said contract of lease shall be
retained by the lessee, and the county
auditor shall file the other copy of said
contracts of lease with the auditor of state,
who shall deposit them in the archives
of the b ard of university and school
lands. The county treasurer shall pay
for said lands, with an accurate statement
thereof, to the treasurer of the state, and
such amounts SO received as rem shall be
and constitute a part OF the interest and
income OF the permanent school fund Of
the state.
OF the common school lands of the state,
or his heirs or assigns, Shall cut down or
take from any such tract or tracts any
timber, trees OF wood, OF suffer or cause
the same to be done by any other person
or persons, except that such lessee may
cut down or use such an amour of dead or
PROSTATE trees or timber as may be Sutli-
rIpnt tb SnnnlV him with fl,nl for bic fn u,
lily or the families of his employees actually
residing upon such tract or tracts. Any
lessee violating the provisions of this sec
ton shall forfeit his lease and all rights
and interests hereunder, to possession or
use, and shall furthermore be liable to the
state for damages by such acts incurred,
and shall also be liable to criminal prose-
cutlon under the laws of the state.
Secs s. No lessee, or the heirs or as
signs of any lessee, of any tract or tracts
OF the common school lands of this state.
leased for meadow or pasturage purposes,
or lessee of any tract or tracts of school
lands leased for purposes of cultivation
winch may contain any uncultivated or
unbroken land, shall break, pillow or cult
vate any unbroken or uucultivated land in
any tract OF tracts of school lands, or
cause or suffer tito be done by any other
person. And any lessee. or his heirs or as
signs, who shall violate the provisions of
ollAo oCCtlull Sldll lllCut lllG SdIllc lOIltiIuICS
and the same liabilities as provided by the
preceding section.
SEC. 10. No lessee, or his heirs or assigns.
shall NOW or cut for hay or feed, any
grass on any uncuIlivated land, or I'M
broken land. or cause or suffer the same to
be done by any other person, any year be-
fore the 10th day of July therein. And
any lessee, or his heirs or assigns, who
shall violate the provisions of this section
shall incur the same forteitures and the
same liabilities as are provided by the pre-
ccding section.
SEC. II The county auditor shall
receive for his services i'll con.
lands, the execution of said leases with
the several %lessces; the making out of the
lists of said leased lands. the sum OF fifty
cents for the execution of the lease for each
tract of land leased as herein provided, to
be paid out of the interest and income Of
the permanent school fund by the stat
treasurer upon the warrant of the state
auditor. The county treasurer shall re-
ceive for his services in connection with
said leasing Of said lands one-half of one per
cent. upon the amOun of rent by him re-
ceived and paid over to the state treasurer,
to be by him reserved from such rent.
SEC. II. Between the first day of June
and the first day of July, 1890, the board of
appraisal OF the several counties shall ap-
praise at their actual cash value all the
common school lands lying within their
respective counties. Each quarter section
shall be separately appraised, except that
when such lands have been specially sub
divided, each smallest subdivision shall be
separately appraised. Each member of
said county board Of appraisal before en-
tering upon his duties shall take and sub
scribe an oath or affirmation just y and i'm
partially to perform the duties of his office
to the best of his judgment and ability,
which oath of office shall be filed in the
Office of the secretary Of state.
SEC. IL. Between the first day of July
and the first day of August. 1890, said
boards of appraisal shall make to the state
superintendent OF public instruction a GER
titled return of their appraisal Of said com
mon school lands in the manner and form
prescribed therefor by the board of univer-
sity and school lands, setting forth for each
tract of land so appraised its proper de-
scription, the number of acres therein, its
cash value per acre, together with such
facts and Information concerning the cul-
tivatiOn and occupancy of such tract, and
the kind and value OF the improvements
thereon, as the board OF university and
school lands may require.
SEC. IA. The board of university and
school lands shall designate for sale from
the most valuable lands so appraised in
their discretion, an amount not exceeding
in the aggregate II hundred thousand
acres, which land so selected and desig-
mated by said board shall be sold or offered