from the cash payment, and the same shall be in full compensation of their services.

D. Sec. 1817. Act 1859, p. 27.

in certain

cases.

Sec. 2962. Should a majority of the legal voters be against the sale of the lands, then it shall be the duty of the district Lands leased directors, where the same may be situated, to secure them from injury and waste, and prevent illegal possession or aggression of any kind, and, in conjunction with the parish treasurer, to lease the same, or any part thereof, for a term not exceeding four years, according to the provisions of the second section of the act of congress aforesaid, and to inform the State superintendent thereof.

Such lease shall only be made after due notice shall have been given by advertisement, for at least thirty days, at two or more public places in the township, of the time and place when the land will be offered for lease to the highest bidder. In all cases ample security shall be required not only for the punctual payment of the rent, but for the protection of the land from all and every kind of waste and injury.

D. Sec. 1318, 2655, 2743, No. 19. Act 1855, p. 422.

certain funds,

of.

Sec. 2963. All moneys that have been or may be hereafter received into the State treasury, and the interest that has or Interest on may accrue thereon from the sale of sixteenth section of school how disposed lands or the school land warrants belonging to the various townships in the State, shall be placed to the credit of the township, and, should the people of any township desire to receive for the use of the schools therein the annual interest payable by the State on funds deposited to their credit, or the annual proceeds of the loans, the parish treasurer shall, on the petition of five legal voters in any such township order an election to be held in the township, as provided for the sale of township lands; and if a majority of any number of votes above seven be in favor of receiving annually the accruing interest, as aforesaid, the same shall be paid to the treasurer of the parish for the use of the township or districts, otherwise the interest shall be an accumulating fund to their credit until called for.

D. Sec. 1319, 2656, 3814.

Sec. 2964. Property dedicated to the use and belonging Property of to public schools, or employed by municipal corporations for public schools that purpose, shall be and is hereby exempted from seizure. seizure.

D. Sec. 1320. Act 1855, p. 200.

exempt from

of lands to be annulled.

Sec. 2965. In all cases of the sale of the school lands known as sixteenth section, heretofore made, where the purchase Certain sales money has not been paid, the purchaser or purchasers shall have the right to annul the sale upon application to the district court of the parish where the land is situated; Provided, Provided. That the judgment of nullity shall be obtained at the cost of the applicant and contradictorily with the district attorney or district attorney pro tempore in conjunction with the school

Manner of

selling certain

tions.

directors of the district in which said land is situated, who shall be made a party defendant in such suit; Provided also, That it shall appear upon the hearing that the value of the land hast not been impaired by any act of the purchaser; And provided further, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to entitle the said purchaser to the repayment of any part of the purchase money already paid.

D. Sec. 1322, 2657. Act 1866, p. 156.

Sec. 2966. When the sixteenth section of any township is divided by a parish line, the treasurer of the parish in which a sixteenth sec- greater portion of the section may lie, shall proceed to take the sense of the people of the township, and to sell the same as provided by law, as if the whole section lay in the parish; Provided, That the sale shall be advertised at the court-houses of both parishes as provided by law.

Provided.

Penalty for trespassing

D. Sec. 1321. Act 1857, p. 136.

TRESPASSES UPON LANDS BELONGING TO THE STATE.

Sec. 2967. If any person or. persons shall cut, remove or otherwise dispose of, or be employed in cutting, removing or upon lands be- otherwise disposing of any timber or wood of whatever kind, longing to the from the lands belonging to this State, or donated to this State by the United States, unless duly authorized so to do by order of a competent officer of the State or the United States, such person or persons so offending and being thereof duly convicted before any court of competent jurisdiction, shall pay a fine not exceed ing five hundred dollars, and be imprisoned not exceeding one

year.

D. Sec. 819. Act 1855, p. 207.

Sec. 2968. It shall be the duty of the register of the State Duty of regis- land office to render such information as may tend to convict the aforesaid person or persons.

ter.

D. Sec. 819.

Sec. 2969. It shall be the duty of the several district judges Duty of judges of the State, at each regular session of their courts, to charge the grand juries specially to inquire into the trespasses upon public lands belonging to this State; Provided, That if any person shall cut for his own use, he shall not come under this act.

to charge grand juries. Provided.

The price of public lands situated in certain parishes, how graduated.

D. Sec. 819.

GRADUATION OF THE PRICE OF PUBLIC LANDS.

Sec. 2970. All the public lands donated by congress to the State of Louisiana, situated in the parishes of Claiborne, Bienville, Jackson, Union, Winn, Washington, St. Helena and St. Tammany, designated as "swamp and overflowed lands," within the intent and meaning of the several acts of congress relating thereto, which shall have been surveyed and returned to and approved by the authority of the general government, shall

have been in market for five years or upwards, prior to the time of application to enter the same under the provisions of this act, and still remaining unsold shall be subject to entry and sale at the price of seventy-five cents per acre; and all the lands aforesaid which shall have been in market for ten years or upwards as aforesaid, and still remaining unsold, shall be subject to entry and sale at the price of fifty cents per acre; and all the lands aforesaid which shall have been in market for fifteen years or upwards as aforesaid, shall be subject to sale and entry at the price of twenty-five cents per acre; Provided, Provided. That this section shall not be so construed as to extend to lands reserved for or dedicated to railroad or educational purposes, or to mineral lands.

Act 1857, p. 191.

Sec. 2971. It shall not be lawful for any person or corpora

land that may

tion to enter in his, her, or its own name, or otherwise for his, Quantity of her, or its own use, more than three hundred and twenty acres be entered. of land under the provisions of the foregoing section.

Sec. 2972. All lands in the parishes in the United States land districts north of Red river, be and the same are Lands in cerhereby included in the provisions of the preceding sections, tain parishes except the lands overflowed by the Mississippi, Red and

Ouachita rivers.

Sec. 2973. The public lands donated by congress to the State of Louisiana, and which are subject to regular tidal overflow Lands subject to graduation. designated as "swamp and overflowed lands," within the intent and meaning of the several acts of congress relating thereto, and which have been approved and patented to the State of Louisiana by the general government as "swamp and over- Rate of graduflowed lands," shall be subject to entry and sale at twenty-five cents per acre; Provided, That satisfactory proof be shown to Provided. the register and treasurer, ex-officio receiver of the State land office, that any land sought to be purchased under the provisions of this act is actually subject to regular tidal overflow.

Act 1859, p. 159.

ation.

for

swamp lands

ishes offered

certain num

to be made ac

Sec. 2974. All the public lands donated by congress to the State of Louisiana, situated in the parishes of Bossier, De Soto, Graduating Sabine, Claiborne and Natchitoches, designated as "swamp and self overflowed lands," within the intent and meaning of the several in certain paracts of congress relating thereto, which have been surveyed and for sale for returned to, and approved by the general government, and have ber of years, been in market for five years or upwards, prior to the time of entries thereof application to enter the same under the provisions of this act, cording to that and still remaining unsold, shall be subject to entry and sale at the price of seventy-five cents per acre; and all the lands aforesaid which have been in market for ten years or upwards, as aforesaid, and still remaining unsold, shall be subject to entry and sale at the price of fifty cents per acre; and all the lands aforesaid which have been in market for fifteen years or upwards,

scale.

ed from the

as aforesaid, shall be subject to entry and sale at the price of Lands except- twenty-five cents per acre; Provided, This act shall not be so effects of this construed as to extend to lands overflowed by the waters of Red or Sabine rivers, or reserved for railroad or educational or mineral lands.

act.

acres allowed

Act 1859, p. 112.

purposes,

Sec. 2975. It shall not be lawful for any person or corpora Number of tion to enter in his, her, or its own name, or otherwise for his, to be entered her, or its own use, more than three hundred and twenty acres Vidual or cor- under the provisions of this act, so far as it relates to graduated

by each indi

poration. lands.

ap

APPEALS FROM THE DECISIONS OF THE REGISTER OF THE

LAND OFFICE.

Sec. 2976. In all conflicting claims of preference of right to Right to the any land granted to the State by acts of congress, after they shall decision of the have been decided by the register, and after he shall have assessed register. the same to the person first locating or settling thereon, the claimTime in which ant aggrieved by the decision shall have the right within six may be taken. months after the decision of the register, to appeal from the same to the district court of the parish in which the land is situated.

the appeal

ter when ap

appeal is made.

D. Sec. 53, 1974. Act 1857, p. 192.

Sec. 2977. As soon as an application for an appeal is made to Duty of regis- the register, it shall be his duty to deliver to the party applying plication for for such appeal a certified transcript or copy of all the proceedings had in his office relative to the conflicting claims, and such party shall forthwith file the same in the office of the clerk of the party of the parish in which the land is situated, and give security for costs as in ordinary cases, and the matter shall be tried by the court de novo.

Duty

ing.

appeal

of courts.

D. Sec. 54, 1975.

Sec. 2978. As soon as such transcript is filed, together with Duty of clerks an accompanying petition, in which the alleged errors of the regis ter must be set forth, it shall be the duty of the clerk to issue citation to the other party according to existing laws, and all proceedings had subsequent thereto shall be the same as in ordinary cases.

D. Sec 55, 1976.

and,

Sec. 2979. In all appeals taken before the district court, the Appeals may parties shall be entitled to trial by jury as in other cases; be tried by ju- from judgment rendered by said district court, they shall have Appeals to the the right to appeal to the supreme court, upon strict compliance with existing laws on the subject.

ry.

supreme court granted, etc.

Duty of the

clerk after

D. Sec. 56, 1977.

Sec. 2980. As soon as a final judgment shall have been rendered by the district or supreme court, upon appeal, it shall be final judgment the duty of the clerk of the said district court to forward a has been ren- certified copy of said judgment to the register, and the same shall

dered.

be filed in the office of such register, and when so returned and filed, it shall be final and conclusive between the parties.

D. Sec. 57, 1978.

by United

Sec. 2981. An act of congress of the United States approved July second, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled "An Accepting act donating public lands to the several States and territories grant of land which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and Siates for benmechanic arts," and the grant of land and land scrip thereby made, be and the same is hereby accepted on the part of the State of Louisiana.

Act 1869, p. 62.

Sec. 2982. The said grant of land and land scrips hereby accepted for the purpose and upon the conditions in said act of congress specified, and the assent of the State of Louisiana to the several conditions and provisions in said act contained is hereby signified and expressed.

efit of colleges.

to receive

Sec. 2983. The governor of the State, together with the chief justice of the supreme court, and a commissioner to be duly Commissioners appointed by them, are hereby appointed commissioners to re- land scrip, etc. ceive from the secretary of the interior, or other officer of the United States, the land scrip to which the State of Louisiana is or may be entitled under the act of congress aforesaid, and to sell and dispose of the same, and upon said sale being made by said commissioners, they are authorized to appoint one person to assign said land scrip in accordance with the rules of the department of the interior.

lands sus

Sec. 2984. The officers of the State land office are directed to suspend the sale of such public lands as have already been entered Sale of public by any parties since the outbreak of the late civil war; and in all pended. cases where a second entry has been made before the promulgation of this act, to suspend the issuance of the patent in the name of the State for said second entry.

Act 1866, p. 50.

Sec. 2985. The offices of State surveyor-general and of regis

Winnsborough

ter and receiver of the branch land office at Winnsborough, Lou- Land office at isiana, are abrogated, and the records and duties thereof trans- abolished. ferred to and devolved upon the register of the State land office.

Act 1866, p. 48.