Arizona republican., 1915-06-17
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vision for the appointment of two of the appraisers by the commission CT and one by the board of superVis- ors of the county in which the land
 to be appraised is situated. The amendment fixes the remuneration of the appraisers at $4.00 a day for the time employed and payment is to
 be made out of the land funds.
 Under the head of leasing, Mr Claridge moved for q reduction of the minimum consideration for d lease, from $10 to $2.50 to meet q condition in the small town of San Jose. Graham county, which is situ
 ;tted on school land. The town lots are small and the people are poor SO that such a minimum rental as is proposed would work a hardship on them. That change will be made in such d way as 10 relieve that condition without being applied to leases of larger tracts of land
 Under the head of lands subject to sale, Mrs. Munds precipitated a de
 bate by introducing an amendment providing that miners hospital lands should not he sold. II was argued ! that all other lands designed to ere ate funds might with as great pro- priety he retained and withheld from sale. It was brought out that Mrs. Munds was acting on the request of the miners organization The amendment was al first defeated but
 the vote was reconsidered and the Amendment was finally adopted.
 ! It was expected that there would 1 be q difference of opinion in the senate over the important provision ! relating to the manner of making payment for improvements on leased | land when the purchaser is other
 than the owner of the improvements.
 But there was no disposition mani 1 tested to change the purpose of that 1 section. MT Webb however raised : the point that as drawn the owners of the improvements might be a long
 time getting their pay "out of any moneys in the general fund not otherwise appropriated There is he said. seldom any such money in the
 general fund. This section was re- ferred to the judiciary committee
 to amend it in this respect and that lamendemnt will be presented today
 II was suggested that a provision be
 included for the payment of the
 money already on hand in the uni versity land fund.
 The committee of the whole was under the guidance of MT. Karns
 who kept things moving throughout
 the day The reading of the bill will probably be finished before noon.
 County Division
 The whole time of the house was
 taken ~p with the consideration in
 the committee of the whole of the
 Newbury county division bill which
 at the close of the day was sent to 1 the committee on enrolled and en- i grossed bills. It was further agreed
 that the committee might be in ; structed to make other amendments
 other than those that have already been adopted. As amended the bill 1 was made to meet the sectional ob- jections offered by the representa- | tiVes from Graham, Maricopa and Yavapai. As it now stands, the bill l provides that the percentage of the ] total vote that must be filed with
 the board of supervisors of county
 must be twenty instead of fifteen
 as at first proposed. TO carry | a division election seventy five per cent. of the vote cast in the pro posed new county must be in favor of the division and fifteen percent. of the vote in the other part of the county must be cast in it's favor. This arrangement satisfied the re- presentatives from this county. To
 meet the objections of the Yavapai representatives another amendment provides that at least sixty per cent. of the taxable wealth must remain in the old part of the county As has been stated. this bill was pro posed chiefly to meet a condition in Cochise county and under this amendment it would happen that a movement for county division there would have to originate in the north ern part of the county.
 This bill may he disposed of today
 and after that the Mahoney miners hospital bill will be taken up.