Year: 1867

vices:


Sec. 10. Upon the reception Of the
report of the appraisers. the county clerk
shall prepare rough abstract thereof,
and lay it before the county commits
sioners. When a rough abstract has
seen corrected If need be, and app pfoVed
By the commissioners, the county Clerk
shall copy II into his "School Land Rec
orc, /" putting the several items of Hp-
reports under their appropriate
headings; and shall forthwith forward
copy from said book to the Land Com
and thereafter no erasure or
alteration Of any WORD or figure IN said
School Land Record" shall be made
without the written authority of the
Land Commissioner.


Sec. /. If any purchaser of timber
lands shall before receiving his tile in
fee simple therefore cut or destroy any
timber upon said land any farther than
may be actually necessary for the build
ing and repairing Of fences upon the
land, and for fuel for the family Of the
he or she shall be liable, in a
civil actions for the recovery. of twice the
amount of damages done to the land.


Sec. -. The County Clerk shall give
notice by publication, in some Newspaper
published in the county, or, if no News
paper be published in said county then
by posting at least FIVE written or printed
notices, in the most public places in
the county, that upon some day named,
not less than seventy days from the
date of the notice, at 10 o'clock A. NJ.
all of the School lands within the county,
will be offered at public sale to the highest
bidder, Provided, That no lands shall be
sold for less than seven dollars per acre
in additionto the appraised value Of the
Improvements on the land.


Sec. Is. The Co1nty Clerk shall be
the crier at such sale, and the County
Treasurer shall attend TO receiving mon
eys and give receipts therefor. The off
ering shall begin with the lands in the
Southwest corner of the county and all
school lands in each Range shall be off
cred before that in the next range east
is put up, and none shall be offered for
less than seven dollars per acre. The
Clerk shall name the appraised value
if over seven dollars per acre, and the
appraised value of improvements, if any,
and shall first demand who will gi7e for
the land the appraised value thereof, and
If anv person shall offer to take it, then
the Clerk shall use his best effort 10 OBJ
tain a greater price; and if after due dill
igence in this respect no greater bid
can be obtained, the Clerk shall declare
the land sold, and the name the bidder
to the Treasurer. And the Clerk and
Treasurer may at IL o'clock noon, ad-
journ the sale until the next day at 10
O'Clock A. NJ, and they shall continue
to offer at 10 O'Clock A. NJ, every day
untiE all the school land advertised shall
have been offered.


Sec. Ia. When any purchaser at
such sale shall pay to the county Treas
urer. the purchase money, the county
Treasurer shall deliver tc such person a
receipt and duplicate. the prosecution of
either of which, to the Land Commis-
sioner. after fifteen days from its date,
shall entitle said purchaser to title in
fee simple from the State, and upon the
delivery of such deed he shall surrender
either his receipt or duplicate, as the
others shall have already been given,
TO the Land Commissioner. Any occu-
pant of said lands sold under the provis-
ions of this act may remove within six
months after the sale, the improvements
he may have put thereupon.


Sec. Is. Within three days after the
receipt of any purchase money for land;
sold as above the Treaurer shall notify
county Clerk. and the county Clerk shat
make the proper entries upon his" SchOo
Land Record, aud forward an abstrac
thereof to the Land Commissioner.


Sec. Is. Payments for land sold IN
der the provisions of this act shall be
made as follows: For prairie land:
one tenth of the price cash in hand, and
ror other lands one half cash in hand


with promissory note for the remainder
10 mature on the lst day Of January
| 1880 bearing intreSte payable annually


the first payment Of Unrest being compu


ted to the lst of January next after th'


date of the note: such nole to be secures


by the endorsement of two freholders O
the county, and Of one additional endors


er for every FIVE hundred dollars of th'


principal of the note alter the first fivt
hundred: the note to be accompanied b,


a contract which shall specify the time


and terms of payment; that no vast
shall be committed upon the lands an


that in case of non, payment of interest 0


principal the land shall be surrendere


with the Improvements thereon to In


State.


4 Sec. II, The county commissioner


Of the several organized counties ar,


hereby authorized and directed to leas


the common school and university Ian


within their jurisdiction al any liae-ex


cept that timbered lands and lands bel
| by resident occupants shall not be lease


until after they shall been offered fo


sale as herein before provided-upo


the following terms The lessee sha


give his or her obligation and cOniTac


that the lease money shall be fully an
promptly paid annually. in advance, ( sh


first payment being computed 10 the fir:


of January, next ensuing ;thas no vast


shall be committed upon the land, an


tha. the premiums shall be surrendere