The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-02-05

| slderdtlOn OF the school land Dill
in committee of the whole, and rec
commended 1t for passage without op-
position. A number of important
changes were made today. including
the elimination of any attempt to
define the preference right of the
lessee. allowing that matter TO rest
on the definition of the enabling act.
and the cutting out of the provision
which allowed married sons and
daughters Of a lessee the preference
right to purchase any lands which
he had held and improved in ex.
cess Of the l60 acres which he is al
| lowed to purchase himself
Before the lessee can acquire 10
title TO land purchased under this
act. he is required to waive all
/ right of purchase on all other lands
in excess of one quarter section,
and accept thel and which ne does
| buy with the condition Of such waiv-
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is 10 be yielded up TO the state foi
disposition as it sees fit, and any at
| tempt to dispose OF excessive hold
ings in violation OF this section is
made a felony.
| In regard to the amount of lands
which can be purchased. Il Is pro
/ vided that no person can purchase
more than 100 acres, except as pro
| vtded by the enabling act The en-.
| abling act lands are, however, TO be
! classified as agricultural and graz
! ing. with the restriction that no one
can purchase more than 100 acres
of agricultural land or go acres of
grazing land.
The special committee to which
! was given the consideration Of the
! question as to how the state could
! get immediate cash out of the public
lands for the purchase of buildings.
in the face of the provision of the
! 'iIi 'hdl 'h' laHuS are 10 uS Solu
on long time and annual payments,
| reported that that matter could not
! be taken care of in this bill. and
that the provisions of the bill had
been allowed to stand as they were.
with the understanding that an.
| other bill was to be introduced pro-
viding for the issuance OF deLenture
! bonds basel on the purchase of
notes. II would not be necessary
to submit the question of issuing
such bonds to vote Of the people
and the money could be raised in
that way
The provisions in regard to ad-
! vertising the sale of the lands were
changed to require notice TO be
/ printed in three agricultural jour
nails of national circulation, one
newspaper of general state circula.
ton and one county paper in each
| county whore land Is to be sold
| These notices are TO contain the
terms and conditions on which the
land is to be sold, the amount OF
| the land, and announcements that
! full descriptions can be had on ap-
| plication to the school land commits.
sioners. The commissioners are also
instructed to publish in pamphlet
form a list of the lands by coun-
ties and townships with descrip.
tion OF the lands and their improve
ments and the appraisement.
An amendment by Brownlee to al,
low cities. towns and church or
cemetery associations to purchase
school land for cemeteries was with.
drawn because it was decided that
it could be better taken care of in
a separate bill.
An attempt to aid an emergency
section failed.
The bill as recommended for pass
age provides only for the sale of
the indemnity lands, public lands
and new college lands granted by
the enabling act.
Ex-Governor Thomas b. Fcrgu-
son and wife were present at this
afternoons session and at the r.,
quest of the senate Governor Fo.
guson made a short address, in
which he said that the people were
expecting good results from the
present legislature, and that he was
for whatever was right and good
for the people of the state, whether
it came from a democratic legisla.
ture or republican legislature. He
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