The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-09-28

teenN l7)west of the fourth, principal
merldlan, containing thirty-six and
slxty-fve one-hundredths (36-65-1OO)
acres according to the United States
government survey, and she having
duly3paid to the State treasurer the
sumZof twenty-five dollars, that being
the Nll amount required by law to be
pald as aforesaid, for the purposes
hereof:
NOW, Therefore, In consideration
OF the premises, the undersigned, as
commissioner of the State land Office,
and pursuant to the statute aforesaid,
hereby leases unto said Mabel Evans
for the period of one year from the
date hereof, the premises aforesaid,
for the purposes only of prospecting
thereon during said term for iron ore:
it being understood by said lessee
that she secures no rights hereby not
expressly authorized by the statute
aforesaid.
This lease will expire at five (5)
O'Clock, p. NJ, on December Both, A.
D. 1903.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed my official
seal this thirtieth day of December,
A. D. 1902, at four clock, p. m.
~. r. c.. DUNN.
State Auditor and ex-oficio Land
Commissioner of the State of Mime
sota:'' =
(ssal.) 80.
That said land commissioner for
warded the said mineral lease to the
said Mabel Evans by mail to her ad-
dress at Princeton, Minnesota, as
given in her said application, the said
sum #of twenty-five dollars (s25.OO)
forwarded by said Mabel Evans, as
aforesaid, having, prior to the issu-
anceEsof said mineral lease, been paid
into the State treasury of the State
of Minnesota.
4. That on the 10th day of Novem-
Der, 1908, the State auditor, acting as
State land commissioner, on behalf
of the State of Minnesota entered into
a certain contract with the defendant
Mabel Evans, number 61S, which said
contract is commonly known as
ffty-year mineral contract. and which
contract was in the form prescribed by
Chapter %, laws of 1889, and the acts
amendatory thereof, which said con-
tractSwas duly delivered to the said
NATL Evans upon the payment by
said M abel Evans tiaeasunrofsone
hundred dollars (s100.00), required to
be paid upon the execution and de-
livery thereof, and which sum. prior
to the delivery of said contract, was
paid into the treasury of the State of
Minnesota.
5. That said mineral contract
above mentioned was recorded in the
Office of the State land commissioner.
in book "B" of records of mineral
leases, on page 2s7, and was also on
the 18th day Of December, 1908, re-
corded in the Office of the register of
deeds of St. Louis county, Minnesota,
in book Of agreements, on page 5.
6. That the defendant Mabel Evans,
on December 10, 1904, duly assigned
to the defendant Coryate S. Wilson
an undivided five-eighteenths (5-lSths)
interest in said mineral contract num-
Der 6lS, and on the same date assigned
to the defendant B. E. Baker an I'M
divided three-eighteenths (3-1Sths) in
terest in and to said contract: that
said assignments were approved by,
and fled and recorded in the Office of
the State auditor and land commits
sioner of the State of Minnesota on
the 22nd day of December, 1904, and
filed and recorded in the Office of the
register of deeds of St. Louis county,
Minnesota, on the oath day of Deem
Der, 1904.
7. That the said mineral lease and
said mineral contract were both en-
tered into, issued and delivered at the
Office of the State auditor and ex-
officio State land commissioner of the
State of Minnesota at the capitol
building in the city of St. Paul, Min
nesota, and by the said State auditor
and ex-oficiO State land commits
sioner in behalf of said State, and
without any appraisement of said land
being made prior to the execution and
delivery of said instruments, nor was
there any advertisement or public no.
tice given that either such mineral
lease or mineral contract would be
entered into, but such lease and con-
tract were issued pursuant to the
usual known course of business of
said Office relative to the issuance of
such leases and contracts: that there
was no public cutlery or auction for
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