The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1903-01-28
REPRESENTATIVE BRYAN INTRO
DUCES BILL TO REPEAL ABB
SOLUTE LEASE LINE.
FOR SETTLEMENT.
Makes Provisions for the Sale and
Lease of the Public Free School
and Asylum Lands.

I'm PLAIN old Saxon, it is II
measure favoring the actual set
Element of the West and placing
conditions there favorable to the
man who wants to become an ac-
tual settler. Necessarily it is
very drastic, for the passage of
such an act would reverse the poll
lev under which the West has
been living for several years.
1T is no personal pleasure for
me to get into this scrap. The |
people of our senatorial and rep
resentative district have spoken
out very plainly on the question.
1t is my purpose to serve them
along this line 20 the very best of
my ability. That is al that
have to say regarding the bill,
save that it is not my bill alone
Several gentlemen have become
Interested in it and have joined
me for its passage. "
A bill TO be entitled IAN act !
to abolish the absolute lease line,
to provide for the sale and lease
of the public free school and asy-
lum lands of the State, to provide
a remedy for The cancellation of
sales heretofore or hereafter made
of said lands for fraud, collision,
non-settlement or failure to con-
tinue settlement and to amend
section 1, ) and 6 of an act en-
titled An act relating to the sale
and lease of public free school
and asylum lands and to repeal
all laws in conflict herewith en-.
acted by the regular session of
the Twenty-Seventh Legislature
of Texas and approved April 10,
1901" and to ad to said act Sec
tions "a and 3a.
Be it enacted by the Legisla-
ture of the State of Texas:
Section /. That Sections 4, .
and 6 of an act entitled "Ar. act
relating to the sale and lease of
public free school and asylum
lands and to repeal all laws and
parts of laws in conflict herewith,
enacted by the regular session of
the Twenty-Seventh Legislature
of the State of Texas and approx
ed April 10, 1901" be 50 amend
ed as to hereafter read as follows !:
Sec. 4. Any person desiring to
lease any portion of the lands be-
longing to any of the funds men-
toned in this act shall make APP
plication in writing to the Com
missioner of the General Land
Office, specifying and describing
the particular lands he desires to
lease, and thereupon the Com
missioner, if the lands applied
for are subject to lease and not in
immediate demand for actual set
Element, shall notify the appli-
cant in writing who first filed
written application therefor, that
his proposition to lease is accept
ed, and thereupon he shall exc
cute to the lessee in the name OF
and by the authority of the State
of Texas, lease of SAID land fol
such time as may be agreed upor
not to exceed five years, and wheI
satisfied that the lessee has palt
to the Treasurer of the State the
rent for one year in advance, III
shall deliver said lease to thu
, Clerk of the County Court of thu
county in which the lands is sit
uated, or go to the county t.
, which said county is attached 70
judicial purposes, and it shall b.
the duty of the Clerk to record il
a we'll bound book, kept in his of
! flee, open to public inspection,
= memorandum or abstract of sal,
= lease, showing the number Of sur
vey or surveys leased, the nam
of the original grantee the amour
: leased, the name of the lessee
j, the date of the lease and the mum
-, Der of years that it is to run, an
, for entering said memorandur
the clerg shall be entitled to a fe
of 25c. Upon payment of sal
fee the Clerk shall deliver tn
lease to the lessee and no othe
record of lease here after mad
shall be required except sal
memorandum. When any {
A such leases are filed for record tn
n Clerk shall make the memorar
dun or abstract above provide
- for. All lands which may
o leased shall be subject to sale {
d any time. This provision in I,
n gard to the sale of leased lane
Ia shall apply to leases heretofol
~ made as well as TO those hereaftt
, to be made, and when any lease
d lands are sold during the life {
said lease, the lessee shall be Ell