The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-10-25
AMEND
MEMS TO THE CON-
STITUTI0N
Of the State Of North Dakota
10 be submitted to the Electors Of the state an.
to be voted upon at the General Election to II
held on Tuesday, November 5th, 1912
Governing Sale Of School Lands
Concurrent Resolution

C01cuffenI keS0lutl0Q
conc,7p IS 3; Nj sr lssIGi ~ oRRl al So.
ton is Of the Constitution q the State Of
North Dakota. Governing the Sale of School
Lands to Railroad Companies.
Be IT. Resolved by tho Senate of the State of
North Dakota. the House of Representatives
The following proposed amendment to the
adopted by the Eleventh Legislative Assembly
of the State Of North Dakota. and by it referred
to- the Twelfth Legislative assembly of said
to and such amendment shall he submitted to
the qualified electors of the state at the next
general election for approval or rejection iu &C.
the Constitution of the State of North Dakota.
Constitution OF the State Of North Dakota. is
Section 1853. No land shall be sold for less
less than ten dollars l per acre e.. The purchase
remaining four-hfths as follows:
One.tifth in five years. one fifth on or be-
fore the expiration 81 ten sears. and one-a lta
one-tifth on or before the expiration Of twenty
years, with interest at the rate Of not less than
five per cent per annum, payable annually in
made before due they shall be made at an in
terest paying date, and one years interest in
ALI sales shall be held at the county seat of the
county in which the land to be sold is situated,
and shall be at public auction and to the high.
est bidder. after sixty days advertisement of
same in q newspaper of general circulation in
the vicinity of the land to be sold. and one at
the seat Of government. Such lands as shall
not have been specially sub-divided shall be
offered in tracts of one.quarter section. and
those sub.divided in the smallest subdivision.
All lands designated for sale and not sold with
in two year; after appraisal shall be r%e.apprais:
for such lands shall issue until payment is
made for the same: provided, that the land CON
tracted to be sold by the state shall he subject
to taxation from the date Of contract. In case
the taxes assessed against an, OF said lands
for any year remain unnaid until tho first Mon
day in October of the following year. then
therenpon the contract of sale for such lands
shall, if the board of university and school
lands so determine, become null and void. Amy
lands under the provisions of Section 1853 OF the
Constitution of the State of North Dakota that
have heretofore been sold, may be paid for, ex-
cept as to interest. as provided, further, that
any school or institution lands that may be
required for townsite purposes. school house
church. sites, cemetery. sites. sites. for
other educational or charitable, institutions,
right of way. or for other railroad
uses and purposes. reservoirs for the storage OF
water for irrigation. drain bitches or irrigation
bitches, and lands that may be required for any
of the purposes over which the right of eminent
domain may be exercised under the Constitll-
tion aud the laws of the State of North Dakota,
may he sold under the provisions of this Sec
ton. and shall be- paid for. principle and in
forest. in full in advance, at the time OF sale or
at ans time thereafter. and patent iSsned there
when principal and interest are paid.