The Bozeman courier., 1927-10-28
Notice of Sale Of State Lands in GaIatn County, Montana

option pay a larger portion of the purchase
price. He shall also pay the sum of $500 as
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 $50 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
S3-year plan each annual installment includ-
ing interest amounts to practically 6A%o on
such balance; under the 20-year plan each an
nual installment amounts to a little over
so.
All sales are made subject to the approval
and confirmation of the State Board of Land
Commissioners. No sale shall be deemed COM
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,
herein described, and the purchaser shall
acquire no right, title interest in or to
any of such deposits. The state also reserves
for itself and its iessees 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
reason OF Sucn entry upon the land and the
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
prOvements upon the lands SO sold and also
upon all crops growing upon any of these
lanos and also upon such crops after they
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
/ stalments becoming due during The calendar
year in which the crop is harvested.
The lands will be sold subject to rieht-of-
way easements granted for railroads, pubic
/ highways and other purposes, and no dedue-
/ ton Wiz be made from the acreage Of the
lands over or through which such right Of
ways nave been granted except for railroad
/ right Of ways.
Lands located within the boundaries Of
federal irrigation projects viii be sold in
conformity with the classification of farm
units as made BY the United States, and all
such lands viii be liable for their proper
share of the reclamation charges.
LaSeas located within, the limits of any
town or city, or within three mile Of such
limits which have noa been laid off into
blocks and lots, win be sold in alternate lots
OF not more than acres each.
A lessee Of any State land need not make
higher bid than others but shall If bidding
an equal amount be given the preference If
another person than the lessee becomes the
purchaser, he must pay to such lessee the
reasonable value Of the improvements on the
land determined as provided by the statutes.
In the case Of lands under lease the pur.
chaser shall be given possession BY the state
on March LIST next succeeding the date of
sale and not before unless the lease expires
prior TO that date, except through special
agreement between the purchaser and the
lessee The state VIII fefunE 70 the lesses
any rentals paid By him beyond March i
1925
L M. BRANDJ0RD.
Commissions Of State Lands and Invest
. ments Of the State Of Montana.
tFirst publication October q 1921
vn.t rps,;e.t;o, o..,hs. % 1907,