The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-05-02
Gives Information Regarding Govern
ment Property to Be Sold For De-
linquent Interest on Ditch Liens
CITES EXAMPLE OF PURCHASE
Purchasers Must Pay $1.25 Per Acre,
and in Addition Attached Fees if
Bid is Accepted @

the Government land sale for delin.
,quent interest on ditch liens which Is
to be held here on May II, will be
held, has given out the following in.
formation concerning the sale, tc
which it is estimated by Fred Sher-
man, immigration commissioner, and
w. R. Mackenzie, secretary of the
Northern Minnesota Development as
ISOLATION 1000 land seekers will at
tend:
After a ditch has been established
by the Court, the contract for con-
struction is let, and Lien is filed
against all the lands benefited by
the ditch, whether owned privately
or by the Government.
This Lien extends for twenty years,
the principal payable in fifteen an
nual installments after the first five
years, the interest on all unpaid bal
ance every year.
If the first years interest is not
paid, it becomes delinquent with
other taxes of that year, and is ad-
vertised with other taxes, and sold
at the annual Tax Sale, which takes
place on the second Monday of May
in each year.
Under the terms of the ''Volstead
Act" of May goth, 1908, purchasers
at this Tax Sale, may bid on these
Government lands, and are entitled
to file on the unentered lands for
homesteads, provided they possess
the required homestead qualifications
and pay to the Government the mini
mum price of $1.25 per acre, and the
Government fees, on presen tation of
the Tax Certificate at the Land Of
flee.
The Act also provided that any ex-
cess of money received by the Coun-
ty Auditor over and above the Total
Drainage Assessment shall be paid to
the Government as a bonus for the
land, before a patent shall be issued
In accordance with this provision,
bids for any amount will be consider
ed by the Auditor in making the sale.
This amount up to the amount of
the Total Drainage Assessment will
be credited to the Ditch Lien on the
land, and satisfaction filed with
the Register of Deeds to that effect.
All over and above the amount Of
the Total Ditch Assessment will be
paid to the Register of the Land Of
flee Of the district in which the land
is located.
For An Example
The sW1A of the NE1l of Section
%, Town 153, Range 50 is on the
delinquent tax list for $4.68, being
the amount of delinquent interest for
1912 against that tract, account of
Ditch No. 10 Lien.
forty is $116.SO from benefits deriv-
ed from that ditch, which with the
interest for 1913, being to June LIST
1914, and which amounts to $7.01,
would make a total of $123. 81.
Now if several parties interested
in this particular tract, should bid
it UP to 81 100. an acre over and above
the delinquent tax, the Lien would
be satisfied entirely, and the balance,
$36.19 would be paid to the Govern
ment as bonus.
Should the bids only reach 5000
an acre on this tract, the Lien would
be satisfied to the extent of $4,000
leaving a balance Of $43.81 to be
paid during the last years of the Lier
and on which interest would have tt
be paid every year. ~ T..
The County Auditor has nothing t
do with the Land Office end of tn
business. He issues the certificate
to the purchasers, but cannot tel
you whether you are bidding on tn
right piece of land or not. He doe
not know which of the description
advertised are vacant lands subjec
to entry; Entered lands not provet
UP; or lands proved up which hav'
not been reported at the time tn
list was published. The purchaser
must satisfy themselves as to thos
points. =
Some of the lands advertised wer
sold last year for the first years de
linquent interest, and are advertis
ed again this year for the secon
years interest. These lands hav
probably been filed on and proved uI
hut the owners have forgotten or ne
elected to pay the interest for tn
second year.
These matters can only be definite
ly ascertained by comparison of tn
Delinquent Tax list with the record
of the Land Offices at Cass Lake an
Crookston.
The Sale will open at ten o'cloc
on Monday II tn 1914, and the OF
der of sale will be the order in whic
the lands are listed whether Govern
ment or privately owned.
A statement of the amount to /
paid will be issued to the purchase