The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1909-02-11

10y iessecs having IN excess OF hlV
acres or attempt to transfer leate hold
ings i'm excess Of full section will result
in a charge Of felony punishable 10y not
more than three years confinement in
the state prison
Boualide residents Of the state hav-
ing lasting ard valuable improvements
On the land shall have the preference
right to purchase one quarter section
and any member of his family os law
fol age may purchase 100 acres and
during the period Of two years the pur-
chaser must reside on the land at
least six months each year.
All improvements on school lands
sold are to be sui. .ect to taxation,
whether title remains with the state or
not
All lands classed as agricultural
shall bc sold in tracts of not less than
100 acrcs unless government survey
indicates that they are fractional quar-
ter sections The exception to this
provision is that of two leases on the
same quarter section in which case
the department is permitted to have
two sales
Land classified as grazing can be sold
in lG0 acre tracts but it will be per-
missable for the lessee to purchase $40
! acres of this class of land Townsite
| lands shall be offered for sale for town
site purposes, the lessee having the
preference right and does not desire to
exercise IT, the land shall be sold and
| appraisers, one selected by the state,
| one 10y the lessee, and third by the
two named The appraisment of land
and Improvements being fixed and the
land sold the commissioners of the
land office shall pay the lessee for his
Improvements provided however, that
both the state and the lessee. if dis
satisfied with the appraisment, may
take the matter to the district court
The land is to be offered for sale as
soon as appraised.
The state will have the first lien on
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been made. The interests of the
Iessees are protected through giving
them the right to all improvements.
The lessee must purchase the land
ne has improved by paying the state
the highest price bid for the land, if
not the commissioner is authorized to
sell the land to the highest bidder and
! pay the lessee the appraised amount
of his improvements.
Ip addition to the value of improve
ments, five per cent OF the purchase
price of the land 81 all be paid at the
time of purchase, except where the
land sells for less than one thousand
dollars, in which case the annual pay
ment shall be fifty dollars per quarter
section The remainder of the pur-
chase price shall be paid in forty equal
payments, the purchaser having the
plete payment but he shall not have
the right TO sell the land until five
years from the date of purchase. Nio-
latiou of the bill will cause forfeiture
of said land with all appurtenance,
and the same escheat to the state upon
proof,
The purchaser of lands under the
provisions of the act shall have the
right to make transfer or assignments
provided that before delivery of patents
such assignments to be valid must be
duly recorded.
Preference rights under the act are
stated to mean and include right of the
lessee to the value of all improvements
on said land and the right to buy one
quarter section of agricultural land
subject to the conditions that such
lessee holding preference right shall
pay an amount equal to the highes,
public bid upon such land so held by
such lessee
All lands shall be sold at public auc-
ton, held in the county where the
lands are situated, at the county
court house, excepting those lands
reserved for lots, acreage tracts and
public parks, which shall be sold on
them The rules governing the sale OF
lands shall be framed by the commits
Sioncr of lands and the lessee shall
have the right to purchase first
Applicants for purchase of school
lands must make affidavit that the land
is FOR his personal use. wilfll viola
ton of the act 10y any state official will
result in conviction on charge OF fell
ony with punishment fixed at from one
to ten years in prison Hooker Ad.
vance,
Little Willie Fosher, youngest
daughter of Mr. and, Mrs. A. l. Fosher,
is reported as being quite III with
pneumonia