The Bozeman courier., 1927-10-21
Notice Of Sale Of State Lands innGaatin COun Montana

option pay a larger portion of the purchase
price. He shall also pay the sum of $500 as
a fee for each certificate of purchase to be
issued to him. The entire balance of the
purchase price shall draw interest at the rate
of SO per annum and will be payable on
the amortization plan in 33 annual INSTALL
ments in the case of agricultural and graz
ing lands and in 20 annual installments in
the case of town and city lots. Under the
23-year plan each annual installment includ-
ing interest amounts to practically $40 on
such balance; under the 20-year plan each an
nual installment amounts TO a little over
s%.
All sales are made subject to the approval
and confirmation of the State Board of Land
pleted until after such approval and cOnfirma-
tiOn and the issue of the certificate of pur-
chase.
The state expressly reserves to itself all
coal, OIL oil shale, gas, phosphate, sodium and
other mineral deposits, except sand, gravel,
building stone and brick clay, in the lands
herein described, and the purchaser shall
acquire no right. title or interest in to
any of such deposits. The state also reserves
for itself and its lessees the right to enter
upon such lands to prospect for, develop,
mine and remove such deposits and to occupy
and use so much of the surface of the said
lands as may be required for all purposes
reasonably extending to the exploring for
mining and removal of such deposits there
from, but the lessee shall make Just payment
TO the purchaser for all damage done by
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use and occupancy OF the surface thereof.
The State shall have a lien prior and
superior to all other liens except liens of
threshermen and seed liens upon all the
buildings, structures, fences and all other i'm
1 prOVements upon the lands so sold and also
upon all crops growing upon any of these
/ lands and also upon such crops after they
4 have been separated from the lands for all
due and delinquent installments of principal
/ and interest and penalty interest under the
certificate of purchase and also for all in
| stallments becoming due during the calendar
year in which the crop is harvested.
The lands viii be sold subject to right-Of-
way easements granted for railroads. pubic
| highways and other purposes, and no deduc-
tion viii be made from the acreage Of the
lands over or through which such right of
ways have been granted except for railroad
right Of ways.
Lands located within the boundaries of
federal irrigation projects win be sold in
conformity with the classification of farm
units as made by the United States, and al
such lands win be liable for their proper
share Of the reclamation charges.
Lands located within the limits Of any
town or city, or within three miles Of such
limits which have not been laid off inte
blocks and lots. viii be sold in alternate lot.
OF not more than s acres each.
lessee Of any State land need not max,
higher bid than others but shall II biddinf
an equal amount be given the preference. i
another person than the lessee becomes tn
purchaser, he must pay TO such lessee tn
reasonable value Of the improvements on th
land determined as provided By the statutes
, In the case Of lands under lease the pur
chaser shall be given possession BY the stat
on March 1st next succeeding the date o
sale and not before unless the lease expire
s prior to that date, except through specia
agreement between the purchaser and tn
n lessee The state viii refund to the lesse
{ any rentals paid BY him beyond March
!. 1928.
T. ~ BRANDJoRD
! y Commissioner Of State Lands and Inves
e ments Of the State Of Montana
= y tzirst publication October 2. ls2D