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July fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, upon the terms and conditions in said Act expressed, and agrees to comply

therewith.

315. SEC. 3. The State of Nevada hereby accepts all grants of public lands heretofore made by the government of the United States to this state, upon the terms and conditions so granted, as modified in the Act of July fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, above in this Act referred to.

Relative to accepting from the

two million

An Act accepting from the United States a grant of two millions or more acres of land, in lieu of the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections, and relinquishing to the United States all such sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections as have not been sold or disposed of by the state.

Approved March 8, 1879, 106.

316. SECTION 1. The State of Nevada hereby accepts from the United States not less than two millions of acres of land in United States the State of Nevada, in lieu of the sixteenth and thirty-sixth acres of land. Sections heretofore granted to the State of Nevada by the United States; provided, that the title of the state and its guarantees, to such sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections as may have been sold or disposed of by the state, prior to the enactment of any such law of Congress granting such two millions or more acres of land to the state, shall not be changed or vitiated in consequence of, or by virtue of, such Act of Congress granting such two millions or more acres of land, or in consequence of, or by virtue of, this Act, surrendering and relinquishing to the United States the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections, unsold or undisposed of at the time such grant is made by the United States.

The state re

and surrendering all

claim and

title to 16th

317. SEC. 2. The State of Nevada, in consideration of linquishing such grant of two millions or more acres of land by the United States, hereby relinquishes and surrenders to the United States all its claim and title to such sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections, and 36th sec- in the State of Nevada, heretofore granted by the United States, as shall not have been sold or disposed of subsequent to the The right of passage of any Act of Congress that may hereafter be made, granting such two millions or more acres of land to the State of Nevada; provided, that the State of Nevada shall have the right more acres of to select the two millions or more acres of land mentioned in

tions.

the state to

select two

million or

land.

this Act.

An Act fixing the price of lands within the limits of the Central Pacific Railroad grant, and requiring applicants to pay U. S. land office fees; also, defining the amount of land allowed to each applicant, and in relation to issuing patents and the purchase of township plats, and authorizing the State Land Register to perform certain duties.

318.

Approved March 3, 1881, 115.

Section 1 amended, Stats. 1883, 42; the amendatory Act repealed,
1885, 108.

SECTION 2. All applicants for the purchase of state Applicants to lands shall, at the time of making application, deposit with the deposit fees. State Land Register the amount of fees required for selecting the same in the United States local land office.

sold in sec

319. SEC. 3. All agricultural and grazing lands selected Land may be under the two-million-acre grant of June sixteenth, eighteen tion tracts. hundred and eighty, may be sold in tracts equal to one section to each applicant, notwithstanding such applicant may have heretofore purchased three hundred and twenty acres of the state.

320. SEC. 4. Patents shall invariably issue to the appli- Patents to be issued to apcant, and none other, except as may be otherwise ordered by a plicants. competent court having jurisdiction of the estate of a deceased applicant.

321. SEC. 5. The State Land Register is hereby authorized state Land to withdraw from the local and general land offices of the Register to United States all selections that have been or may be erroneously made.

withdraw erroneous selections.

land office on maps, etc.

322. SEC. 6. The impression of the seal of the state land seal of state office upon the original or copy of any paper, plat, map, or document, emanating from such office, shall impart verity to the same, and such paper, plat, map, or document, bearing the To be admit impression of such seal, shall be admitted as evidence in any dence when court in this state, and the use of such seal by the State Land bearing seal Register is hereby authorized.

ted in evi

to procure

323. SEC. 7. The State Land Register is hereby authorized Land Register to procure from the office of the United States Surveor-General plats. all plats of townships surveyed and not already purchased, at a price not to exceed six dollars per copy.

An Act to provide for the selection and sale of lands that have been or may hereafter be granted by the United States to the State of

Nevada.

Approved March 12, 1885, 101.

324. SECTION 1. For the purpose of selecting and dispos- state land ing of the lands that have been or may hereafter be granted by office created,

the United States to the State of Nevada, including the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections, and those selected in lieu thereof, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the several grants of land by the United States to the State of Nevada, a state land office is hereby created, of which the Surveyor-General shall be and is hereby made ex-officio Land Register. He shall, as such Land Register, be required to give bonds in the sum of ten thousand dollars for the faithful performance of his duties, which bonds shall be approved by the Governor and filed in the office of the Secretary of State. The Land Register shall keep his office at the seat of government, and the same shall be kept open on all legal days, between the hours of ten Office hours. o'clock A. M. and four o'clock P. M., for the transaction of business.

Township plats.

Public inspection.

Agricultural

lands.

325. SEC. 2. The Register shall procure from the United States Surveyor-General's office one copy of each township plat of the public surveys now approved or that may hereafter be approved by the proper United States authorities, unless the same shall have been previously obtained; provided, that the cost of the same shall not exceed six dollars each, and shall be made upon drawing paper. He shall keep a record of all applications, and of all lands which have been or may hereafter be approved to the state, and of all lands which have been sold by the state, which, together with all the plats, papers, and documents relating to the business of his office, shall be open to public inspection during office hours without fee therefor.

326. SEC. 3. The price of all agricultural and grazing and grazing lands applied for after the approval of this Act, whether within or without the limits of the Central Pacific Railroad grant, is hereby fixed at one dollar and twenty-five ($1 25) cents per acre; provided, that nothing in this Act shall invalidate or change the condition of any completed sale, or any contract which may have been heretofore entered into between the state and individual purchasers for the sale of any land; and the price of all lands within the limits of the Central Pacific Railroad grant, which have heretofore been or may hereafter be approved to the state as double minimum lands, shall remain fixed at two dollars and fifty ($2 50) cents per acre, notwithstanding such lands have been or may hereafter be forfeited to the state. But the Board of Regents of this state shall have power to fix a price upon any of said lands not settled upon or applied for by individuals prior to the date of such price having been fixed.

Applications

327. SEC. 4. All applications to purchase lands shall be for purchase. made in writing to the Land Register, and shall be signed by the applicant, his or her agent, and shall designate, in conformity with the United States survey, the tracts of land applied for, number of acres, price per acre and amount necessary to purchase such land, and the section of this Act under which the applicant wishes to purchase; also, residence, postoffice address, and county in which such land is located.

328. SEC. 5. Upon the application of any citizen of the

chase state

United States, or any person who has declared his intention to Persons enbecome such, to purchase land not previously selected by the led to purstate, the Land Register shall certify to the State Controller lands. that such person is entitled to apply for the land, describing the same as in the application, which shall accompany said certificate, and said certificate shall state the amount necessary to purchase said land. The Controller shall thereupon issue his order directing the State Treasurer to receive from such applicant said amount, placing the same in the proper school fund, and upon such payment being made the Treasurer shall issue his receipts in duplicate, describing the land applied for, and he shall at the same time enter in his abstract of applications the name or names of the citizen or citizens applying, number, description of land, date of receipt and amount paid by the applicant. Upon the return of the application, with the Treasurer's receipt, to the land office, the Register shall file the same, which shall complete such application. Whenever purchase

can be completed in whole or in part upon land thus applied for, the Land Register shall certify the same to the Controller and Treasurer cach, and shall at once proceed to perfect such sale. Should the Controller, upon the receipt of such certificate, find that any payment had been wrongfully apportioned, he shall issue his order directing the Treasurer to transfer such amount to its proper fund. If from the non-approval of the Refunding land to the state, or other cause, the contemplated sale cannot moneys to apbe perfected in whole or in part, then upon demand of the applicant, his or her agent, the Land Register shall certify to the Controller and Treasurer that such applicant is entitled to the amount paid by him or her, from the non-approval or other cause, as the case may be, and the Controller shall draw his warrant upon the proper school fund for the amount due such applicant, and the same shall be paid by the Treasurer.

plicants.

329. SEC. 6. Upon the application of any person or Controller to persons as described in section five of this Act, for the purchase certify. of land after the state has obtained title thereto, should such person or persons be entitled to purchase, the Land Register shall certify the same to the Controller. Said certificate shall be accompanied by such application, as provided in section five of this Act, whereupon the Controller shall issue his order directing the Treasurer to receive the amount necessary to purchase such land, placing the same in the fund specified in the order. Upon payment being made by the applicant, the Treasurer shall issue his receipt for the same, and on return of said application, with the receipt, to the state land office, the Register shall thereupon file the same and perfect such sale. 330. SEC. 7. All applicants for the purchase of state lands fees. shall, at the time of making application, deposit with the State Land Register the amount of fees required for selecting the same in the United States local land office.

United States

331. SEC. 8. In addition to the mode and manner of the contracts for sale of state lands, the State Land Register is hereby further sale of lands. empowered to sell and dispose of any agricultural or grazing

Revert to state.

Patents.

Present contracts.

Notice to applicants.

lands, payable as hereinafter specified; that is to say, with any party or parties as specified in section five of this Act, wishing to purchase lands under the provisions of this section, and who shall have made proper application therefor, and duly established his or her right to purchase under the provisions of this Act, the State Land Register is hereby authorized and required to enter into contract to sell such lands, after six months from the date of approval of such lands to the state, upon the following conditions, to-wit: One-fifth of the purchase price to be paid upon application, the remainder of the purchase price to be paid in twenty-five years from date of contract, with interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum, interest payable annually; provided, the applicant, his or her heirs or assigns, may at any time prior to the maturity of such contract make full payment and receive patent in the name of the applicant. All such contracts shall be entered into in writing with the party or parties so purchasing, in which the conditions shall be distinctly expressed, that upon the failure to pay the annual interest or principal, when due as stipulated, the land shall immediately and unconditionally revert to the state and be thereafter subject to sale in the same manner and under the same conditions as though no such prior contract of sale had been made. It shall be the duty of the Register to certify each sale and the terms thereof to the State Treasurer. The Register shall certify to the Controller each payment, and the Controller, upon the receipt of each of such certificates, shall issue his order to the Treasurer, apportioning the interest to the distributive school fund to which it may belong, as in section five of this Act, and upon payment being made by the applicant of the amount specified in the order, the Treasurer shall issue his receipts in duplicate, and when full payment shall have been made, patents shall issue to the purchaser as provided in section sixteen of this Act. No timber land shall be sold unless the whole purchase price shall be paid at the time of application.

332. SEC. 9. All contracts in existence at the time of the passage of this Act, may remain under the same conditions as stipulated in said contracts, or the unpaid principal may be made the subject of a new contract, under the provisions of the foregoing section, at the option of the holder of such contract.

333. SEC. 10. The State Land Register shall, with reasonable dispatch, cause proper notices to be prepared, requiring the applicant, his or her agent or attorney, to make full payment, or enter into contract with the State Land Register, as provided in section eight of this Act, for the purchase of the land applied for by said applicant, and shall inclose with such notice duly prepared contracts, in duplicate, for the applicant to sign, and shall address the same to such applicant, his or her agent or attorney, by mail in registered letter, and the Register shall file the postoffice receipts in his office. If, at the expiration of ninety days from the date of mailing such notices and contracts in duplicate, the party or person so notified, or his or her legal representative, shall fail to make the required full

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