Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1899-04-15
New School Land Law.

1853 of the Compiled Laws OF 1889,
and to provide for the leasing and
sale of unoccupied school lands, and
providing a penalty for failure of
county clerks to issue the notice
provided in section 57S2 of the Com
piled Laws of 1889, and to repeal
section u, chapter 162, of the Laws
1895, and all acts and parts of acts
in conflict herewith.
SECTION /. That section 5767 of the
Compiled Laws of 1889 be amended so
as to read as follows: Whenever a
majority of the househOlders of any
organized township In which the land
is situated shall petition the superin-
tendent of public schools of such
county to expose for sale any portion
or portions of said lands, describing
the same, he shall, by and with the
consent of the county commissioners
of his county, appoint, in writing,
three disinterested houSeholders, re-
siding in the county in which said
land is situated, who, being first duly
sworn, by an officer authorized to adj
minister oaths, to faithfully perform
subdivision of said land separately at
It's real value and return their APP
praisements in writing. signed by
them, to the clerk of the county; and
in case any parcel of the said lands
shall have been improved, the said
appraisers shall, in addition to the
appraiSement of the land, return and
file with the same separate appraise-
ment of the improvements upon the
land; provided, that no appraiSement
of land for less than three dollars per
acre shall be of any validity or entitle
any person to the provisions of this
act.
SEC. ?. That section 5769 of the
Compiled Laws of 1889 be amended to
read as follows: Any person who has
settled upon any portion of school
land and has actually resided thereon
continuously for "A period of six
months, and has made it his only
home for said period, and has improv-
ed said land to the amount of one
hundred dollars. including a perma-
nent dwelling, prior to the appraise-
ment, NAV, within sixty days after its
appraisement, file in the probate court
of the county a verified petition stat
ing that he has settled upon said Iand
and resided thereon continuously for |
period of not less than six months |
Immediately prior to said appraise-
ment: that he has permanently i'm
proved said land to the amount of one
hundred dollars; that said improve
ment consists of d permanent dwell |
ing and such other improvements as |
show an intention to make a pefma- |
nent home thereon; that said lana |
has been appraised, and the amount |
thereof; that he has not heretofore
taken school land to the amount oil |
one quarter section under the provi-
sions of this act, or of the act of which
this is amendatory; that he has given
ten days public notice through a news
paper OF general circulation in the
county where said land is situated,
setting forth in such notice descrip-
tIon of the land, the names and resi-
denceS of two witnesses by whom he
expects to prove said settlement ana
improvements: the time when 1.-THE
time to be fixed by the probate judgel
said petition will be heard by the
probate court, and asking that he be
to purchase said land; Pro-
vided, that any person who has pur-
chased land to the amount of one
quarter section. under the provisions
of this act. shall not again be per-
mitted to purchase school land under
the provisions of this act: provided
further, that the heirs of deceased
persons who have made improvements
upon school land shall be entitled to
all rights accruing to actual residents
thereon; provided further, that school
land that has a settler actually resid-
ing upon and improving said land. in
with the provisions of this
act, shall not be brought into market
until six months after the commenc-
ment of said settlement and improve
ments: provided further, that any
person who has resided on school land
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