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NEBRASKA. HER RESOURCES, ADVANTAGES ADVANCEMENT AND PROMISES.
ALSO THE SCHOOL LAND LAWS, 1885. (con't)

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His Excellency Hon. James W. Dawes, Governor, Crete.
Hon. H. H. Shedd, Lieutenant Governor, Ashland.
Hon. E. P. Roggen, Secretary of State, Lincoln.
Hon. Charles H. Willard, State Treasurer, Hebron.
Hon. H. A. Babcock, Auditor Public Accounts, Ord.
Hon. Jos. Scott, Commissioner Public Lands and Buildings, Kearney.
Hon. William Leese, Attorney General, Seward.
Hon. W. W. W. Jones, Superintendent Public Instruction, Lincoln.
  

Chief Justice - Amasa Cobb, Lincoln.
Judge - Samuel Maxwell, Fremont.
Judge - M. B. Reese, Wahoo.
Clerk and Reporter - Guy A. Brown, Lincoln,
   DISTRICT JUDGES.

First District - J. H. Broady, Brownville.
Second District - S. B. Pound, Lincoln.
Third District - James Neville, Eleazer Wakely, Omaha.
Fourth District - A. M. Post, Columbus.
Fifth District - Wm. H. Morris, Crete.
Sixth District - T. L. Norval, Seward.
Seventh District - J. C. Crawford, West Point.
Eighth District - William Gaslin, Jr., Alma.
Ninth District - F. B. Tiffany, Albion.
Tenth District - George F. Hamer, Kearney.

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First District - R. W. Sabin, Beatrice.
Second District - J. B. Strode, Plattsmouth.
Third District - Lee Estelle, Omaha.
Fourth District - William Marshall, David City.
Fifth District - George W. Bemis, Sutton.
Sixth District - Thomas Darnell, St. Paul.
Seventh District - W. F. Bryant, Ponca.
Eighth District - W. S. Morton, Arapahoe.
Ninth District - E. M. Coffin, Ord.
Tenth District - J. W. Bixler, North Platte.
  

United States Senator - Charles H. Van Wyck, Nebraska City.
United States Senator - Charles F. Manderson, Omaha.
Representative First District - A. J. Weaver, Falls City.
Representative Second District - James Laird, Hastings.
Representative Third District - Geo. W. E. Dorsey, Fremont.
  

C. H. Gere, Lincoln;
Leavitt Burnham, Omaha;
J. M. Hiatt, Alma;
E. P. Holmes, Pierce;
J. T. Mallalieu, Kearney;
M. J. Hull, Edgar.
  

Irving J. Manatt, Ph.D., Chancellor, and Professor of Political Science.
Henry E. Hitchcock, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics.
Hon. Oliver P. Mason, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence.
William S. Latta, M.D., Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine (Eclectic).
George McMillan, Ph.D., Dean of College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. Professor of Greek.
August H. Edgren, Ph.D., Professor of Modern Languages.
James H. Woodward, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics (Eclectic).

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Robert R. Livingston, M.D., Professor of the Principle and Practice of Surgery.
Lewis E. Price, Ph.D., Professor of Geology.
Frederick H. Righter, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children.
S. D. Mercer, M.D., Professor of Clinical Surgery.
Grove E. Barber, M.A., Professor of Latin.
Lucius A. Sherman, Ph.D., Professor of English.
William M. Knapp, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Children.
Clement L. Hart, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics (Homoepathic).
Charles E. Bessy, Ph.D., Dean of Industrial College, Professor of Botany and Horticulture.
Laureston A. Merriam, M.D., Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine.
Hamilton B. Lowry, M.A., M.D., Professor of Physiology.
Edgar S. Dudley, First Lieutenant U. S. Artillery, Professor of Military Science and Tactics.
Bartlett L. Paine, M.D., Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine (Homoeopathic).
George E. Howard, M.A., Professor of History.
Lynn B. Graddy, M.D., Professor of Diseases of the Eye and Ear.
Hudson H. Nicholson, M.A., Professor of Chemistry and Physics.
Albert R. Mitchell, M.D., Dean of College of Medicine, Professor of Anatomy.
Charles N. Little, A.M., Associate Professor of Civil Engineering.
Nathaniel J. Beachly, M.D., Demonstrator of Anatomy, and Lecturer on Orthopedic Surgery.
Elijah M. Whitten, M.D., Lecturer on Gynecology.
Charles M. Dinsmoor, M.D., Lecturer on Electro-Therapeutics (Homœopathic).
Geoge (sic) H. Parsell, M.D., Lecturer on Surgical Diseases of Women (Homœopathic).
Richard Carseadden, M.D., Lecturer on Organic Diseases of the Chest (Homœopathic),

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Milton Lane, M.D., Lecturer on Materia Medica.
John F. Wayman, M.D., Lecturer on Physiology.
Ellen Smith, M.A., Registrar.
Mrs. Adelaide Dearborn, Instructor, in Elocution.
Howard W. Caldwell, B.S., Instructor in History.
Bion H. Culver, B.S., Instructor in Modern Languages.
Charles E. Bennett, B.A., Instructor in Latin and Greek.
T. Mowry Hodgman, B.A., Instructor in Physics and Astronomy.
Henry H. Wing, B. Ag., Instructor in Agriculture.
Sarah W. Moore, Teacher of Drawing and Painting.
  

     The following table shows the attendance during the two academic years mainly covered by this report, and the first term of the current academic year:

College of Literature, Science and the Arts -	1882-83.	1883-84.	1884.
Graduate students	2	2	1
Seniors	11	10	6
Juniors	11	5	7
Sophomores	9	10	24
Freshmen	20	22	26
Special students	40	55	37
Second year preparatory	48	68	52
First year preparatory	89	88	61
	230	260	214
Industrial College -
Graduate students	0	0	1
Seniors	4	3	0
Juniors	1	0	0
Sophomores	3	4	2
Freshmen	6	6	0
Preparatory	8	8	13
	22	23	16
College of Medicine -	0	52	52
Conservatory of Music -	52	25	0
Total	288	849	282

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PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.

Hospital for the Insane, Lincoln -
     H. P. Mathewson, Superintendent.

Institute for the Blind, Nebraska City -
     Principal, J. B. Parmelee.
     Teacher arid Matron, N. K. Parmelee.
     Teacher Literary Department, L. M. Hotchkiss.
     Teachers Musical Department: M. G. McGinnis, vocal; M. G. Parmelee, instrumental.
     Foreman of Shop, C. M. Scott.
     Physician, D. W. Hershey.

Institute for Deaf and Dumb, Omaha -
     Principal, J. A. Gillespie.
     Teachers of Sign Classes: J. A. McClure, F. L. Reid, Fannie M. Henderson, Mary E. Henderson, Lucy Butrick.
     Teachers Aural and Oral Classes: Otie Plum, Belle Hudson.
     Domestic and Industrial Department: J. A. Gillespie, Steward: Mrs. Helen Z. Gillespie, Matron; J. C. Denise, Physician; Marion S. Coe, Nurse.
     Instructors in Industries: S. F. Buckley, Class in Printing; F. E. Maynard, Class in Carpentry; Mrs. Annie Steele, Class in Sewing.

State Normal School, Peru -
     Geo. L. Farnham, Principal.

State Reform School, Kearney -
     Samuel C. Mullin, Superintendent.

State Penitentiary -
     O. J. Nobes, Warden.
     J. O. Carter, Physician.
     Rev. P. W. Howe, Chaplain.

State Fish Commission -
     R. R. Livingston, Plattsmouth.
     B. E. B. Kennedy, Omaha.
     W. L. May, Fremont.

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The following is the list of organized Counties and County Officers as officially reported for the years 1884 and 1885:

Adams	Hastings	Geo. Spicknall	Jas. B. McCleery
Antelope	Oakdale	Robt. Wilson	J. M. Collman
Boone	Albion	John Peters	S. H. Bollman
Brown	Ainsworth	B. H. McGrew	J. A. Plympton
Buffalo	Kearney	G. H. Cutting	H. J. Allen
Butler	David City	James Evans	John Harper
Burt	Tekamah	A. A. Thomas	A. T. White
Case	Plattsmouth	J. W. Jennings	W. H. Newell
Cedar	St. Helena	B. Joestin	Thos. Ebinger
Cheyenne	Sidney	J. J. McIntosh	Jas. Sutherland
Cherry	Valentine	G. A. Paxton	C. H. Cordell
Clay	Clay Center	L. F. Fryar	G. F. Dickson
Colfax	Schuyler	T. W. Whitman	John Lapache
Cuming	West Point	F. W. Ragoss	P. W. Clancy
Custer	Broken Bow	Wilson Hewitt	R. C. Talbot
Dakota	Dakota City	Henry Stott	Pius Neff
Dawson	Plum Creek	T. J. Hewitt	W. J. Fleming
Dixon	Ponca	E. M. Bisbee	C. T. Bario
Dodge	Fremont	Geo. H, Forney	E. N. Morse
Douglas	Omaha	H. T. Leavltt	John Rush
Fillmore	Geneva	Edward K. Cobb	Austin Adams
Franklin	Bloomington	Wm. A. Cole	C. Hildreth
Frontier	Evansville	L. Westgate	John L. Sanders
Furnas	Beaver City	W. H. Phelps	A. C. Corbin
Gage	Beatrice	A. J. Pethoud	J. F. King
Gosper	Dayiesville	S. J. Mooman	F. A. Salisbury
Greeley	Scotia	Lewis Herbert	T. P. Lanigan
Hall	Grand Island	Frank Sears	E. Hooper
Hamilton	Aurora	W. F. Peck	J. H. Paris
Harlan	Alma	J. A. Piper	J. W. Burnside
Hitchcock	Culbertson	H. L. Perry	A. D. Young
Holt	O'Neill City	M. D. Long	David L. Darr
Howard	St. Paul	C. C. Robinson	Charles Jackson
Jefferson	Fairbury	J. T. Thompson	Geo. H. Turner
Johnson	Tecumseh	W. L. Dunlap	D. R. Bush
Kearney	Minden	J. H. Jensen	F. Taylor
Keith	Ogalalla	H. C. Bleasdale	L. Aufdengarten
Knox	Niobrara	Vac Randa	Charles J. Kadish
Lancaster	Lincoln	J. H. McClay	H. B. Graham
Lincoln	North Platte	Wm. Grady	Lester Eells
Loup	Taylor	F. H. Sawyer	Ben Johnson
Madison	Madison	F. H. L. Willis	F. W. Richardson
Merrick	Central City	W. H. C. Rice	W. H. Webster
Nance	Fullerton	J. W. McClelland	J. M. Jackson
Nemaha	Brownville	E. B. Hubbard	H. P. Snyder
Nuckolls	Nelson	V. P. Britts	J. Van Valin
Otoe	Nebraska City	W. Stevenson	O. W. Simpson
Pawnee	Pawnee City	W. B. Raper	W. J. Halderman
Phelps	Phelps	P. O. Hedlund	Peter Peerson
Pierce	Pierce	W. B. Chilvers	A. Steinkraus

Platte	Columbus	John Stauffer	C. A. Newman
Polk	Osceola	I. F. Kelly	N. C. Foy
Richards'n	Falls City	M. W. Mussleman	J. R Cain
Red Willow	Indianola	C. D. Cramer	J. H, Goodrich
Saline	Wilber	Edward Beck	John P. Clarey
Sarpy	Papillion	L. Lesieur	Jas. K Campbell
Saunders	Wahoo	W. C. Kirchman	Chas Perky
Seward	Seward	J. W. Dupin	R. T. Cooper
Sherman	Loup City	John Wall	W. A. Wilson
Stanton	Stanton	Tobias Mack	Adam Pilger
Thayer	Hebron	A. F. Clemons	H. C. Bigelow
Valley	Ord City	A. H. Schaefer	A. D. Robinson
Washington	Blair	J. S. Cook	F. Harriman
Wayne	Wayne	Theo. J. Steele	P. W. Britton
Webster	Red Cloud	J. P. Bayha	Chas. Buschow
Wheeler	Cedar City	T. G. Hemmitt	H. McClimans
York	York	M. Sovereign	J. W. Bennett

     In concluding this plain statement of the great advantages offered by Nebraska, to both capital and labor; skilled labor to produce those products of the soil which capital can manufacture

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with profit along all her water-courses, and for which markets are open both East and West; there is one plain fact in evidence to which allusion has not been made. Hundreds of men and their wives have visited this Exposition who, only a few short years ago, commenced on the bare prairie with nothing but a sod house and perhaps not even a team. To-day, they are able to leave in the well trained hands of the boys and girls, the cares of the farm, the household, and the dairy, and for a time enjoy the reward which is due every man and woman who toils in the valley of labor, and that reward is leisure. Opportunity is here offered to broaden and deepen those ideas of progress in every branch of life's work which will bring an increased profit without an increase of labor.

      Nature's offerings here are wondrous, wide, and free; lands with soil rich, deep, and lasting, which, covered with the rich verdure of spring, look as if the gentle undulation of the ocean had stood still, pastures of millions of acres of rich grasses, wide meadows without an obstruction invite the hay-maker, and pasturage of limitless extent the stock grower and dairyman.

      The settler accepts what nature has offered, and at once commences to improve her work and listen to her teachings. Along her numerous streams, protected from the prairie fires, he finds a natural growth of the finest native woods. He has planted on the highest table land groves and forests of the same kinds, and to-day they are a waving wealth seventy feet in height, giving the assurance that the whole State will be transformed from a "treeless plain" to a land with the fullest protection from summer's sun or winter's blasts. He has planted orchards and vineyards, and to-day presents her beautiful fruit in successful competition with the world. He has produced a wealth of those essential things the world wants, and this is causing the continual building of branch railways, who are seeking to carry these products to markets of which from the central standpoint of the continent, he has a choice east or west. The great agricultural production has caused the successful operations of the numerous flouring mills, woolen mills, linseed oil works, creameries, packing houses, paper mills, canning factories, and other works, with a demand for more to utilize her almost unlimited water power. No Western State can offer such a combination of requisites for acquiring health, independence, comfort, and wealth as Nebraska does to-day.
  

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     AN ACT to provide for the registry, sale, leasing, and general management of all lands and funds set apart for educational purposes, and for the investment of funds arising from the sale of such lands, and to repeal an act entitled "An act to provide for the registry, sale, and leasing, and general management of all lands and funds set apart for educational purposes, and for the investment of funds arising from the sale of such lands," approved February 24th, 1883.

      Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska:

      SECTION 1. That the board of commissioners provided for in section 1, article VIII., of the Constitution, consisting of the governor, secretary of state, treasurer, attorney general, and commissioner of public lands and buildings, shall cause all school, university, normal school, and agricultural college lands, now owned by, or the title to which may hereafter vest in the state, to be registered, sold, and leased, and the funds arising from the sale thereof to be invested in the manner provided by this act.

      SEC. 2. The commissioner of public lands and buildings shall, under the direction of the board, cause suitable abstracts to be made of all the lands owned by the state for educational purposes, and entered in suitable and well bound books. Such abstracts shall show in proper columns and pages, the county in which each tract is situated; the section, part of section, township, and range; whether timber or prairie; whether improved or unimproved; the value per acre; the value of improvements, and total value. In another book or books shall be shown the date of sale, name of purchaser, price per acre, amount paid in cash, amount unpaid, amount of annual interest, names of sureties on notes, date of lease, name of lessee, amount of annual. rental, date of patent and when recorded, and such other Columns. as may be necessary to show full and complete abstract of the condition of each tract of land, from the time title was acquired by the state until final payment by the purchaser, and the issue of a deed for the land.

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      SEC. 3. When the abstracts provided for in section two are made by the commissioner of public lands and buildings, the board of educational lands and funds shall cause the lands described in such abstracts to be forwarded to the chairman of the board of county commissioners or supervisors as the case may be, and the lands embraced in said list shall be appraised in the same manner as provided in section fifteen of this act in the case of private sale, and the said appraiser shall subscribe to an oath before some proper officer to properly appraise the prairie lands in tracts not to exceed forty acres each, the timber lands in tracts not to exceed ten acres each, and to appraise any improvements thereon, and to make due and prompt return to the commissioner of public lands and buildings, who shall enter the appraisement upon said abstracts. Provided, That the lands in any of the organized counties of this State not now appraised shall be ordered appraised upon a petition signed by not less than one hundred of the tax payers residents of said county, approved and certified by the board of commissioners in such county to the board of public lands and buildings, asking that the lands in such county shall be appraised for the purpose of lease and sale as provided by this act.

      SEC. 4. The said board may, when they deem it to the best interest of the state, cause any unsold lands, the sale and leasing of which is regulated by this act, to be reappraised, and the reappraised value thereof entered upon the abstract hereinbefore provided for.

      SEC. 5. In all counties where the educational lands or portion thereof have been appraised, the commissioner of public lands and buildings shall, in person or by agent, attend at such times as the board may direct, but not more than once in one year, and offer at public auction all the unsold lands, except such as have been leased to the highest bidder; Provided, No person can purchase more than six hundred and forty acres; Provided, That the agent herein provided for shall be the county treasurer of the county in which such lands be situated; Provided, That notice of such sale, and the time when and the place where the same shall be held, shall be given by publication made four consecutive weeks in some newspaper published in the county, or in case no

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newspaper is published in the county, then in some newspaper of general circulation therein; and proof of such publication shall be made by the affidavit of the printer, his foreman, or principal clerk, or other person knowing the same, which shall be filed in the office of the commissioner of public lands and buildings.

      Provided further, That no lands shall be sold for less than the appraised value thereof, or sold for less than seven dollars per acre, in addition to the improvements on said land.

      SEC. 6. Payments for land sold under the provisions of this act shall be made as follows: For prairie lands at least one-tenth of the price cash in hand, or such other sum more than one-tenth as the purchaser may desire; other lands one-half cash in hand; or cash down for either at the option of the purchaser.

      The unpaid principal of all lands sold on time shall be due in twenty years from the date of sale unless at the option of the state the same shall sooner fall due by reason of the failure of the purchaser to perform the covenants of his contract. The rate of interest on all unpaid principal shall be six per cent per annum, arid shall apply to all past or future sales of educational lands made by this state.

      Provided, That nothing in this act shall be construed as to prevent purchasers from making full payments at any time during the year.

      SEC. 7. Payments made at such sale shall be made to the county treasurer, who shall deliver to the person making such payment a receipt therefor, and any person making full payment shall, upon the presentation of his receipt therefor to the board, be entitled to receive a deed from the state.

      SEC. 8. When the educational lands or portion thereof in any county shall have been appraised by order of the board of educational lands and funds, it shall be the duty of the commissioner o public lands and buildings to prepare a list of all the educational lands in that county, and transcribe them in a well bound book, which list shall show essentially the same statements as are shown by the original list kept in the office of the commissioner of public lands and buildings, with the appraised value entered, which book shall be forwarded to the county treasurer before the

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day set for sale, and shall be by him kept as of record in his office, and in which shall be kept a record of all sales or leases thereafter issued or made in that county, and the said treasurer shall use due diligence to collect all money by his books or the records of the commissioner found to be due. When payments are made he shall deliver a receipt therefor to the person paying the same, a duplicate of which he shall file in the office of the county clerk, to be by him transmitted to the commissioner of public lands and buildings, and when by said commissioner found correct and entered of record, shall be filed with the auditor of public accounts, and the original receipts shall be countersigned by said clerk and returned to the party making such payment, and no receipt shall be held valid unless countersigned by said clerk.

      SEC. 9. Any person purchasing lands upon which improvements have been made by any other person, the purchaser shall pay the full price of said land and improvements to the county treasurer, and the treasurer shall pay the appraised value of the improvements in cash to the person owning the same, and any person having made improvements on any land sold to-another, may at any time before receiving the appraised value thereof from the county treasurer, and within six months from the day of sale, remove such improvements from said land, and upon such removal the said treasurer shall return to the purchaser the appraised value of the improvements.

      Provided, That any person that has heretofore occupied or improved any of the educational lands that have not been appraised, may apply in writing to the chairman of the county board to have such land appraised for the purpose of lease or puchase (sic), and such land may then he leased or purchased the same as the other land under the provisions of this act

      Providing, That such appraisal shall be made within six months from the taking effect of this act.

      SEC. 10. Upon any public or private sale of lands had under this act upon which full payment has not been made as herein provided, the commissioner of public lands and buildings shall issue a certificate of purchase with the seal of his office thereto attached, showing the land purchased, the amount paid, the

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amount due, and the time when the interest and principal are due, and upon payment of such amount according to law, the purchaser or his assignee shall be entitled to a deed of said land;

      Provided, The commissioner of public lands and buildings shall cause to be furnished the necessary blanks and reasonable rules and regulations to carry this act into effect.

      SEC. 11. Whenever payments of interest are made to the county treasurer, as herein provided, he shall endorse the amount paid upon such certificate of purchase.

      SEC. 12. When the board becomes satisfied that full payment has been made upon any tract of land heretofore or hereafter sold, the governor shall, under the great seal of the state, issue a deed therefor to the purchaser or his assignee, and all deeds so issued shall be attested by the commissioner of public lands and buildings, and a record thereof kept in his office.

      SEC. 13. Any person purchasing land under the provisions of this act may at any time pay any portion of the principal thereon to the county treasurer of the county in which the land is situated, who shall give the same receipt as he is required to give when payment of interest is made, and the county clerk shall transmit one of said receipts to the commissioner of public lands and buildings, and the said commissioner shall credit the amount of principal so paid upon the account of said sale contract, and file said receipt with the auditor of public accounts as in other cases.

      SEC. 14. Immediately after the close of the sale provided for in section five, all unsold lands shall be subject to lease at a rental of six per cent on the appraised value. Applications for the lease of any such lands shall be made to the county treasurer at the county seat, and shall contain an affidavit that the applicant is not the owner of a lease of more than 640 acres of state educational lands, including the amount called for in the application, and desires' the lease for, his own use and benefit; and such application shall be accompanied by the amount due as rental to the first day of July or January, as the case may be; Provided, That If two or more parties desire to lease the same land, the treasurer, or commissioner of public lands and buildings, if he be present, shall proceed to auction the same off and

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lease the same to that person who, in addition to the six per cent rental, will pay the highest rate per cent on the appraised value of said land for said lease. If improvements are shown by the appraisal to be located upon said land, the person, other than the owner of them, who is the highest bidder shall deposit with the county treasurer the appraised value of said improvements in addition to said premium, and first payment of rental; the value of said improvements to be paid to the owner of them, or if said owner is dissatisfied with such amount be may within six months remove the said improvements. Upon the payment to the treasurer of the rental, and premium if any, he shall issue his receipt in duplicate, specifying on what account the money is paid; and the application for lease and duplicate receipt for money paid shall be transmitted by the treasurer to the commissioner, who shall, if the foregoing proceedings appear to be regular, issue a contract of lease in duplicate and transmit the same to the county treasurer for the signature of the lessee, after which one copy shall be delivered to the. lessee, and one copy returned to the commissioner, who shall enter the same upon the books of his office. Each lease shall contain a covenant or contract that the board of educational lands and funds shall, during the year 1888, and every five years thereafter, provide for the reappraisal of such lands, the lessee will promptly pay the rental semi-annually in advance; that no waste shall be committed upon the land, and that the premises shall be surrendered at the expiration of twenty-five years from the first day of January next ensuing after the date of the lease, or sooner, with the consent of the commissioner; that the lessee will pay for the use of said lands the annual rate of six per cent per annum upon the appraised value, and that upon a failure to pay the agreed rental for the period of six months from the time said payments are due, the said lease may be forfeited and fully set aside as provided in section sixteen of this act, and no assignment of such lease contract shall be valid unless the same be entered of record in the office of the commissioner of public lands and buildings. The premiums paid into the state treasury shall be credited to the temporary school fund; Provided, The said board shall have a reviewing power over the acts of appraising under this section.

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      SEC. 15. Any lessee of any educational land may apply in writing to the chairman of the board of county commissioners, or supervisors, as the case may be, to have the land embraced in his lease appraised for the purpose of sale; and it shall be the duty of said county commissioners, or a majority of them, or if the county is under township organization, three of the supervisors, to be designated by said board from among their number, as a majority of such designated supervisors, to view the land so desired to be purchased by such lessee, and return a true and correct value of said land, under oath. The material facts of such return shall be reported to the said board of county commissioners or supervisors, and entered upon the record book of their proceedings. After the foregoing proceedings have been had, the applicant to purchase may pay to the county treasurer the appraised value of said land, and shall then be entitled to receive the deed for the same upon forwarding the proper evidence of such appraisal and payment of the purchase price to the commissioner of public lands and buildings; Provided, That such applicant to purchase may, at his option, pay any sum not less than one-tenth of said purchase price if the land be prairie land, nor less than one-half of said purchase price if the land be timber land, and upon the forwarding of such application to purchase, abstract of sale showing 'description of land, amount of sale, amount paid, amount unpaid, and name of purchaser, with a duplicate of all receipts issued by the county treasurer to such applicant to purchase, to the commissioner of public lands and buildings, the said applicant shall be entitled to a contract of sale as provided in section 10 of this act; Provided further, That no land shell be sold for less than seven dollars per acre, and the applicant to purchase shall pay the sum of three dollars per day and five cents per mile for each mile necessarily traveled to each appraiser in the making of such appraisal.

      SEC. 16. If any lessee of educational lands shall be in default of the semi-annual rental due the state for the period of six months, or any purchaser of educational lands be in default of the annual interest due the state for one year, the commissioners of public lands and buildings may cause notice to -be given to such delinquent lessee or purchaser that, if such delinquency is

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not paid within six months from the date of the service of such notice, his lease or sale will be declared forfeited by the board of educational lands and funds. If after such notice the amounts due are not paid within six months from the date of the service of such notice thereof, the said contract of lease or sale may be declared forfeited; and the lands therein described shall revert to the state the same as though such lease or sale had never been made; and the order making such forfeiture shall be spread upon the records of the board of educational lands and funds. In case the owner of such contract of sale or lease be a non-resident of this state, or his address be unknown, the notice herein contemplated shall be published three weeks in some newspaper published, or of general circulation in the county where the land is situated. The forfeiture may be entered by said board after ninety days from the date of such published notice. The provisions of this section shall apply alike to all the lands heretofore sold or leased, and to all lands hereafter sold or leased as educational lands of this state; Provided, The owner of any contract of sale or lease so forfeited may redeem the same by paying all delinquencies and costs at any time before such land is again sold or leased.

      SEC. 17. If any person shall commit waste or trespass, or other injury, upon any of the lands herein referred to, the person so offending shall, on conviction thereof; be fined in a sum not less than twenty-five dollars, nor exceeding one thousand dollars.

      SEC. 18. If any purchaser of timber land shall, before receiving his title in fee simple therefor, cut or destroy any timber on said land, any further than may be actually necessary for the building and repairing of fences, and for the family of the occupant, he or she shall be liable, in a civil action, for the recovery of the amount of damages done to the land.

      SEC. 19. All civil officers, upon information on oath, or of their own knowledge shall cause any person committing any of the offenses mentioned in section seventeen of this act, to be brought before them by a like process as in criminal cases, and to enter into recognizance for his appearance at the district court of the state, to be held in the county where said lands are located, on the first day of the next term thereof, and in default of such

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recognizance they shall commit such person to the jail of the county.

      SEC. 20. The judges of the district court shall give the seventeenth section of this act in special charge to the grand jury at each term, who are required to especially inquire into and make presentment of all offenses committed against the provisions of the same.

      SEC. 21. All fines and penalties accruing under the provisions of this act shall be paid into the county treasury by the officer collecting the same, who shall take duplicate receipts therefor, one of which he shall file in the office of the county clerk, and such funds shall be apportioned among the schools of the county where the same accrued, on the same basis as other moneys applicable to the support of schools are required by law to be apportioned.

      SEC. 22. All moneys received as advance or full payment by the purchaser of land heretofore sold or hereafter sold under the provisions of this act, together with all the forfeitures arising under this act, shall be paid by the officers receiving said moneys to the treasurer of the state, specifying whether said money is for the common schools or university, normal school or agricultural college; and such money shall be held as the principal of the university, normal school, agricultural college, or permanent school fund, as the case may be.

      SEC. 23. The appraisers of any land under this act shall be allowed the sum of three dollars per day for their services. The publisher of any advertisement for the sale of lands shall be allowed the fees fixed by law for publishing legal advertisements. The commissioner of public lands and buildings shall be re-imbursed his actual traveling expenses incurred, not exceeding five cents per mile, in making sale of lands. All accounts for any such service shall be examined and approved by law; and said accounts shall be audited by the board of educational lands and funds, and paid by warrants drawn upon the appropriation placed at their disposal.

      SEC. 24. The board for the sale, management, and leasing of lands under the provisions of this act shall meet on the second Tuesday of each month; the governor shall be chairman, and the

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commissioner secretary of the board. They shall keep a record of all proceedings and orders made by them. No order shall be made except upon the concurrence of at least three members of said board.

      SEC. 25. The said board shall, at their regular meetings, make the necessary orders for the investment of the principal of the fund derived from the sale of said lands then in the treasury, but none of said funds shall be invested or loaned except on United States or state securities and registered county bonds.

      SEC. 26. The provisions of this act in relation to the payments of interest upon the purchase money of any lands sold as herein provided, shall apply to all future payments of interest upon sales of lands heretofore made in this state, and the said board shall, in their entries made under section six of this act, compute interest due according.

      SEC. 27. Any portion of the lands of this state, governed by this act, adjoining the site of any city or town may be subdivided into lots and sold as herein provided. The board being satisfied that by a division of any such tract into lots the sale of the same can be made for a greater amount than if sold in tracts of forty acres as herein provided, shall have the authority to employ the necessary surveyors, and cause such tracts to be subdivided into lots and tracts of such size as they may determine, and a plat of the same shall be made and filed for record in the office of the county clerk. Tracts of laud so subdivided shall not be leased, but each lot situated therein shall be sold at public auction at such time as the board shall direct, and sold as other lands are sold; such lots shall be appraised by the appraisers to be appointed by the board, none of whom shall be occupants of the lands so sold. The commissioner of public lands and buildings shall give thirty days' notice of such sale, and publish the same in three newspapers of general circulation throughout the state, one of which shall be published in that county, and if no newspaper is published therein, notices of such sale shall be posted in five of the most public places in the county. Each notice shall contain a list of the land to be sold, and the appraised value of each. The sale of such lots shall take place on the day appointed under the direction of the commissioner, and the same shall be sold to

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the highest bidder, but in no case for less than the appraised value. Lots remaining unsold shall be again offered for sale at public auction, at such time as the board shall direct; Provided, That the said commissioner may adjourn the sales from day to day until all the lots be offered.

      SEC. 28. The expenses attending such sale shall be paid as other expenses of sale of school land as hereinbefore provided.

      SEC. 29. The auditor of public accounts shall charge each of the county treasurers in the state the amount of money received as principal and interest, separately from the sale or lease of lands in their respective counties, as shown by the receipts for warded by the clerks of the several counties, and upon payment of the same to the state treasurer, and the presentation of the state treasurer's receipt, shall credit the several county treasurers with the amount of the same.

      SEC. 30. School lands sold under the provisions of this act, or such as have been heretofore sold shall not be taxable until the right to a deed shall have become absolute, except for the value of the interest of such purchasers, which interest shall be determined by the amount paid and invested in improvements on such lands.

      SEC. 31. Any school district in which there may be any school or other land belonging to the state, subject to disposition under this act, is hereby empowered to purchase from the state any portion of such land not exceeding forty acres for school purposes, at not less than seven dollars per acre, nor less than the appraised value, such appraisement to be made in the same manner as provided for in section three of this act.

      SEC. 32. Any church or cemetery association or corporation having control of a cemetery in a school district where there is any such land, may purchase from the state any portion of said lands not exceeding ten acres for church or cemetery purposes, at not less than the price at which said lands may be purchased by individuals under the provisions of this act.

      SEC. 33. In the event of there being a school house, cemetery, or church located upon any such land, which has been or may hereafter be sold to any individual, corporation, or parties, such school district or school officers thereof, church or association,

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with the consent of the purchaser or occupant in writing, may purchase land for the purposes specified. in section 31, and obtain a deed from the state at the price the purchaser or occupant is to pay, and the sum so paid for the tract obtained for such special purpose shall be deducted from the price the original purchaser was to pay.

      SEC. 34. Sale of land made for the special purposes contemplated in section 31, shall be the same as provided for in section 6 of this act, on the terms provided, and if there be buildings on such lands belonging to the state, such buildings shall be appraised separately.

      SEC. 35. An act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to provide for the registry, sale, leasing, and general management of all lands and funds set apart for educational purposes, and for the investment of funds arising from the sale of such lands, being article one of chapter eighty, Compiled Statutes; also to repeal article 8 of said chapter eighty," approved Feb. 24, 1883, is hereby repealed.

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