of school lands,

publication in some newspaper published in the county, or Notice of sale if no newspaper be published in said county, then by post- how given." ing five printed or written notices in the most public places 1869, § 1, 137. in the county, not less than forty days before the day of Gen. Stat, 993. sale, and in the month of June, 1869, and annually thereafter, offer at public auction, all the unsold school lands in the county, except such, as have been leased to the highest bidder: Provided, That the county clerk after giving notice and offering the said lands at public auction in the month of June, as above provided, may sell any lands remaining unsold, at private sale: Provided further, That no lands shall be sold for less than the appraised value, nor less than five dollars per acre in addition to the appraised value of the improvements on the land; and all. lands shall be offered for sale before the same shall be leased.

SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from

and after its passage.

Approven February 17, 1875.

To take effect.

SECTION 1. Payments for school lands, how made.

AN ACT

To amend section sixteen of chapter seventy of the general statutes entitled School Fund Lands."

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

SECTION 1. That section sixteen, of chapter seventy, of the general statutes be amended to read as follows: Sec. 16. Payments for lands sold under the provisions of this

Payment for chapter, shall be made as follows: for prairie lands one

school lands,

how made.

1869, § 2, 137.

tenth of the price, cash in hand, other lands one-half cash in hand, or cash down for either at the option of the purGen. Stat, 991. chaser, with a promissory note of the remainder, to mature ten years after date, bearing interest, payable annually in advance, at ten per cent. per annum; the first payment of interest being computed to the first day of January next after the date of the note; and in case of non-payment of interest or principal, the land shall be surrendered, with the improvements thereon, to the state: Provided, That when said note is given for the purchase of timber land, it shall be further secured by the endorsement of two freeholders of the county, to be approved by the county treasurer, and the county treasurers in their respective counties shall hold in trust all notes given for the purchase of school lands under this chapter, and shall endorse upon said notes all payments lawfully made thereon: Provided further, That nothing in this chapter shall be so construed as to prevent purchasers from making full or partial payment at any time during the year, and in case of such payment, so much of the interest already paid, to be computed from date of such payment to the next first day of January, shall be deducted from the amount of principal due from such purchaser.

To take effect.

SEC. 2. Section sixteen of said chapter as now existing shall be and the same is hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, February 11, 1875:

SECTION 1. Purchase of school lands.

AN ACT

Authorizing parties living on school lands selected in lieu of section sixteen and thirty-six, to purchase the same when the state acquires title.

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

may purchase

same.

SECTION 1. Any person or persons who shall have re- How persons residing on sided continously for a term of five years on lands selected school lands in lieu of sections sixteen and thirty-six for common school purposes, shall (unless the state acquires title thereto, when have the privilege of purchasing the same, on the same terms as other school lands are purchased from the state: Provided, That such land shall be appraised under direction of the county commissioners, at not less than seven dollars per acre: Provided further, That such appraisal shall not include any improvements placed on said lands by the person so purchasing the same.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from To take effect. and after its passage.

Approved, February 25, 1875.

SECTION 1. Persons commencing proceedings to prevent sale of school lands, shall enter into bond.

AN ACT

To provide the measure of damages in cases when proceedings are instituted to prevent the sale of school lands.

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

SECTION 1. That hereafter, when any person, or per

Persons com- sons, shall institute any proceeding to prevent the sale of

mencing pro.

ceedings to prevent sale of school lands

bond.

any of the school lands of this state, the judge, or other shall enter into person, before whom the proceedings shall be commenced, shall require the person instituting such proceedings to enter into a written undertaking with one or more good and sufficient sureties thereto, to the State of Nebraska, in the sum equal at least to fifteen per centum of the value of the lands, the sale of which is sought to be prevented, conditioned, that the plaintiff or person instituting such proceedings, shall pay all costs and damages which may accrue, if it shall finally be determined that such proceedings ought not to have been instituted.

To take effect.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, February 25, 1875.

Proceedings relative to

Buffalo county

confirmed.

Relating to the sub-division of section number thirty-six, in township number nine, north of range number sixteen, west of the sixth principal meridian, and for legalizing the same.

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

SECTION 1. That the sub-division heretofore made, school lands in surveyed and platted, of school section number thirty-six, in township number nine, north of range number sixteen, west of the sixth principal meridian, under resolution of the commissioners of the county of Buffalo, and also the

proceedings of the commissioners to secure purchasers the right of ingress and egress to the sub-division of said lands, as the same now appear by the records of said county of Buffalo, and by plats and copies on file in the office of the land commissioner, are in all things ratified and confirmed.

tion.

SEC. 2. The south west quarter of said section, shall Name of secbe known as school section addition to the city of Kearney.

Kearney City

SEC. 3. The ordinances of the city of Kearney, open- Ordinances of ing streets and alleys, through said south west quarter, is confirmed. hereby ratified and confirmed; and all claims for damages,

or for value of lands so appropriated, as public ways, is hereby released.

SEC. 4. That the sale of said school lands in accord- Sale legalized. ance with the sub-divisions heretofore mentioned, is hereby

legalized.

SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from To take effect. and after its passage.

Approved, February 25, 1875.

SECTION 1. Meetings of state's prison inspectors, and proceedings

thereat.

AN ACT

To amend section twenty-two of an act entitled an act to provide for the erection of a penitentiary and for the care and custody of state convicts, approved, March 4, 1870.

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

SECTION 1. That section twenty-two of an act entitled an act to provide for the erection of a penitentiary,