Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-12-28

nave passed Dy congress mas Deeii
drawn up in Colorado and sent to SEN
ator Wolcott to be introduced. The bill
provides that the register and receiver
Of the land offices may lease grazing
and agricultural lands, and outlines the
duties and methods of those officers.
The main provisions of the bill follow:
That said lands shall be leased at an
annual rental of not less than 2 per cent
per annum on the valuation of said
lands, as fixed and determined by the
board of appraisers established for the
purpose Of valuing and appraising said
land, as hereinafter provided.
Said lands shall be leased for a period
of not less than five nor more than
twenty years from date of lease,
Fol the purpose of carrying into effect
the provisions of this act, and no other,
the board of county commissioners,
board of supervisors or other county
board of managers (under whatever
name designated by the state or terri
torial statute where situated) Of the
county wherein said lands are situate,
shall be and are hereby constituted e
board of appraisers for the purpose of
valuing and a%ppraising said lands, with
power and duties as hereinafter provid-
ed.
Said appraisers shall be allowed the
sum of IS per day for the time actually
employed in making said examination,
appraisement and report, together with
Is cents per mile for distance actually
travelled in making said examination
and appraisement, to be paid out of the
treasury of the United States.
Said register and receiver may re-
quire additional appraisement of said
land, or any portion thereof remaining
~undisposed of whenever, in their judg-
ment, there has been a material change
in the value of said land since the last
appraisement thereof, but mot more
than one appraisement shall be had Of
the same land in n one year.
Any citizen or citizens of the United
States, or any person or persons who
have declared their intentions to become
such, or any company, association or
corporation organized under the laws Of
the United States, OF the laws of any
state or territory therein, or any for
eign corporation having complied with
the local laws of the state or territory
as to foreign corporations, wherein it
may be doing business, may apply to
any local land office, in writing, to lease
any portion Of the lands within said
district; said applicant shall describe
in his said application by sections or
legal subdivisions thereof the lands
sought to be entered, also the purposes
for which the same is intended to be
used, and that it is the intention of the
said applicant in good faith to use the
said land for such purpose.
Tt shall be the duty of the register Of
the land office or receiving said applica-
ton to file the same and make entry
thereof on the tract book in his Office
opposite the description Of each tract of
land included in said application, and
also enter the same upon the proper
plat book Of his office over each Of said
tracts of land, and t%hereupon the said
land so applied for shall be withdrawn
from entry under any other public land
law during athe life of the lease for
which the same is granted, excepting
for mining purposes, providing the lease
for the same is entered into within six
months from the date of said applica-
ton.
If, ait the time the said application for
have been appraised and reported, as
herein above provided, the applicant
shall deposit with the receiver Of said
land office the first years rent for said
land SO applied for, together with a
bond running to the United States, with
good and sufficient sureties, to be APP
proved by the said register and receiver,
conditions for the prompt and faithful
payment of the annual rent thereafter
to become due and the faithful compli-
uponthe part Of the applicant with
all the terms of the said lease. If, at
the time the said application is made,
the said a~ppraisement has not been SO
made and reported, as above provided,
them the said applicant shall deposit, as
aforesaid, the sum Of 1 cent per acre
for the lands included in said applica-
tion, to be applied on the first years
rent, If the said applicant shall enter
into a lease for the said lands within
sixty days after the report of said ap-
~, ,.oS copoav,N orJ al Ila Io,J r. ,fo.o
said provided for, at the time Of enter
ing into said lease, or one-fourth of the
sum so deposited to be forfeited to the
government If the said applicant shall
for any reason fail to enter into said
lease, within the time above mentioned.
Every citizen of the United States, or
any person who has declared his inten-
tion to become such, owning land in fee
owning any interest therein by virtue
of the homestead or desert land laws of
the United States, within the territory
to which this act is applicable, is hereby
granted the preferred right, for the pc
rioG of one year from the taking effect
of this act, to lease, at the minimum
price. any lands lying adjacent to the
lands so owned by him in fee, or In
which he Is interested as above mem
TONED, to an amount not exceeding ten
acres for one Of the lands SO owned in
fee by him, or in which he is interested
as aforesaid, and this right shall be
transferable by assignment, extending
to the assignee thereof, all the rights
hereby reserved to the a~ssignor. Any
one awaiting himself of the provisions
of this section shall be in no way there
by abridged as to his general rights and
privileges as a citizen otherwise extend
ed by this act.
When lands owned in fee by different