Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-03-27
AMENDING LAW PRONIDlNG FOR
LEASE AND SALE OF
SCHOOL LANDS.

S. Is. no. 123.
An Act to Amend Sections ,, :, &, and If of Chan.
ter lNi of the General Laws of the Year 1890, En-.
titled EAR Act to Provide for the Leasing and
Sale of the Common School Lands Of North
Dakota"
BE it Eunct"d hy tie Legislative assembly of the
State Of North Dnkofu:
SECTION |. That Section 9 of Chapter
JAG of the General Laws of the year 1890
b" amended SO as to read as follows LO-wil:
See LIST OF SCHOOL I..ANDS-IIOw
MADE. The superintendent OF schools of
each county of this State. in which the
common school lands have been surveyed
and designate Il. shall Immediately upon the
passage, approval and taking effect of tins
act. and in the manner and form prescribed
ny the Board of University aud School
Lands. make a complete list of the school
lands within his county, with such facts
and information concerning the occupancy
ana cultivation of the several tracts thereof
as SAID Board of University and School
Lands may require, and upon the compile
ton OF said list, Shall at once transmit Il
a copy thereof to the State Superintendent
OF Public instruction: PIuriirl, That it
shall br the duty of said Board of Univer-
SIty and School Lands, at such time each
year as they maj decide upon, to prepare a
list OF all the common school lands in the
several counties of this State that are in
tendr to be leased, and transmit Il crrti-
1lrd copy to the county board OF appraisal
OF each OF the several countir, in said State,
or 50 much thereof as rr!atr> to each OF
said counties, except tina, if an appraisal of
Sald landS has been made by any county
board OF appraisal. as provided BY law.
within two years next preceding the time
OF such appraisal herein contemplated.
such appraisal shall not be mad. by such
county board of appraisal: but the list of
lalldS herein contemplated shall be pre-
pared and rqualized by the Board of Uni
ver>lty and School Lands; PiUridCh FIR.
thcI, That the county board OF appraisal of
each county, or any two of its members.
shall, within ten days after the receipt OF
Sucl certified copy. proceed to appraise the
andsd described in said list at their cash
Value as near as can be determined, des-
crlblng each tract or subdivision in parcels
not greater than one hundred and sixty
acres, more or less, according to the gov
eminent survey, and they shall set oppo-
site each described tract or parcel of land
their appraised valuation thereof; and
when said list is completed, which shall
not be later than thirty days after the re-
celpt OF said certified copy, the county
board of appraisal, or the members Of the
same who made such appraispment, shall
certify to its correctness and make dupli-
cate copies, one of Which shall be tor
Wardrd immediately to the Board Of Uni
ver>ity and School Lands and the other TO
be filed in the office of the county auditor for
references; Ind be 1t turthcr DrUriletI,
That the Board of University and school
Lands shall proceed to equalize the lists SO
returned as to counties, by adding thereto
or taxing thrrefrom such an uniform per-
centage as may, in their judgment, seem
proper and fair, in order to arrive at a just
and equitable equalization between the sew
same for lease, they Shall set opposite
each description the value thereof. as
equalized by them, which valuation shall
form the basis for leasing the same.
SEC. 2. That Section S Of said Chapter
l46 be amended SO as to read as follows:
Sec. 5. LANDS. HOW LEAsED-ANNuAL
RENT, HOW PAlD.l The leasing Shall be
at public auction to the highest bidder, at
the court house of the county within
which the lands to be leased are situated,
and between the hours of 10 o'clock a. nj. |
n 5 O'Clock p. IN. only. Said leasing
shall continue from day to day until all
tracts or parcels of lands advertised for
lease shall have been leased or offered for
lease: Provided, That the time for leasing |
the same Shall not exceed ten days in any |
county, but that it may be adjourned over |
the Sabbath, or any legal holiday or to
such day or days as may be determined
upon by the Board OF University and
number OF tracts Of land are to be leased,
the lands situated in certain townships
may be designated in the advertisement to
be leased on designated days. and in such
case said lands snail be leased or offered
for lease ON such designated days. or for
want of time for the leasing or offering for
lease of all such designated lands, the
leasing of those unu1fercd may be adj
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 lie leased
or offered for lease in tracts of one-quarter
section each, and tho.e so Suhdivided in |
the smallest subdivision thereof. The an
nual rent in all cases of lease snail be pay
able, in advance; Provided, That in offer
ing any tract or parcel of land, no bid
shall be entertained until the bidder there |
for deposits so per cent. of the minimum
price, before said bidding is closed, which
deposit, should he be the successful bidder,
shall be applied as part pa! mtnt on the
land so leased by him, but should he fail
to pay the balance required ON his said
bid, he shall forfeit the money so depos-
tied. Should he not be the successful bid
der the money so deposited shall be re-
turned to him.
SEC. 8. That Section 6 of Chapter 146
be amended 30 as to read as follows:
E +. LEASING, 10 Conducted
MINIMUM vALUE-RECORD OF 1t shall
be the duty of the SUPERINTENDENT of