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office shall be administered by a register; said office to be located at the seat of government of the State of Louisiana.

SEC. 2. The governor, by and with the consent of the senate, shall appoint, under the provisions of this act, a register, who shall hold his office Register to be for the term of four years, whose annual salary shall be fifteen hundred appointed by dollars, in full compensation for his services as register, payable quarterly of office, salagovernor, term by the treasurer of the State, on the warrant of the auditor of public ac- ry, etc. connts; said salary to be paid out of the swamp land fund only. He shall take the oath prescribed by the constitution and laws, and give bond in favor of and to be approved by the governor of Louisiana, with one or more good and sufficient sureties, in the sum of five thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of his office, which bond, so approved, shall be filed by the register in the office of the secretary of State. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the register to keep accounts of the sales Duties of regof lands donated to the State, in well-bound books, with the number of the ister. certificate issued therefor, setting forth the section, parts of sections, township and range, district and parish, to whom and when sold, and for what price, and shall cause to be marked on the official plats or maps on file in his office the number of certificate, which books and maps shall be preserved as official records. It shall be the duty of the said register to furnish aunnally to the auditor of public accounts, on or before the twentieth day of December of each year, a descriptive list, by parish, of all lands sold during the preceding year, together with all data that may be afforded by his records.

Moneys arising

SEC. 4. All money arising from the sale of warrants or publie land shall from sale of be paid by the purchaser to the State treasurer, on the warrant at the audi- warrants or tor of public accounts, whose duty it shall be to warrant at once on the public lands, treasury of the State to receive said money within forty-eight hours after where paid. the issuance of the same by the auditor.

SEC. 5. The register of the State land office shall, on the sale of lands

when and

ister on sale of

Penalty.

or warrants, describe the same in his order on the treasurer of the State to Duties of reg. receive the money for said lands, and in no case shall an entry be made lands or warupon the books, maps or other official records until the receipt of the treas- rants. urer, also describing the land or warrants, has been submitted and filea in his office. A violation of this section shall be deemed a felony, and upon conviction the party offending shall pay a fiue of five thousand dollars and be imprisoned for a term not exceeding ten nor less than two years It shail be the duty of the auditor of public accounts to transmit, within forty days Duty of auditor. after the expiration of each fiscal year, the report of the register, mentioned in section three of this act, to the assessor of the parish wherein the lands may be situated, in order that they may be assessed for taxes. SEC. 6. The register shall collect from parties purchasing lands the sum of twenty-five cents for each certificate of forty acres, the sum of fifty cents for each certificate of eighty acres, the sum of one dollar for each certificate of one hundred and sixty acres, and the sum of two dollars for each certifi- lands. cate of three hundred and twenty acres, and the sum of four dollars for each certificate of six hundred and forty acres, whenever such certificates are lected for paissued by him; and he shall charge and collect the sum of two dollars for tents signed by each patent prepared by him and signed by the governor; and the governor. fees charged and collected by the said register, under this act, shall be re- Such rates to ceived by him for the use and benefit of the State, and shall be paid quar- be paid into terly by the said register to the treasurer, who shall credit the appropriate State treasury. land fund of the State with the same.

Rate of pur

chase by register from pur. chasers of

Rate to be col

SEC. 7. The treasurer, as receiver of the State land office, from and after Duties of treasthe promulgation of this act, shall deliver to the purchaser or his agent a urer in relation receipt, which shall contain a correct description, by section, township and to lands sold as range, of the lands sold by the State, for which said treasurer shall receive above provided. no extra compensation.

SEC. 8. Persons holding legally issued outstanding unlocated school, in- Right of perternal improvement or other State land warrants, or who have heretofore sons holding entered, located or purchased, or may hereafter locate or purchase, school or outstanding, unlocated internal improvement warrants of the State of Louisiana, legally issued, and where the location, entry or purchase has been rejected by the United improvement of States, on land belonging to the general government, he or they shall have

school, internal

other State land a right hereafter to locate said warrant on any lands belonging to the State.

warrants.

Attorney-gen. eral to give bis opinion to the register.

Public lands

donated to State by congress subject to entry, etc.

Public lands donated to State by congress, known as sea marsh or prairie lands, how entered,

etc. Proviso.

Register authorized to administer oaths. Salaries and expenses to be paid out of swamp land fand

SEC. 9. The attorney-general of the State of Louisiana shall give his opinion and counsel to the said register, whenever requested, in any matter pertaining to the duties or business of the said register's office.

SEC. 10. The public lands donated by congress to the State of Louisiana shall be subject to entry and sale, at the rate of seventy-five cents per acre for any number of acres. And any person making affidavit that he or she enters for his or her own use, and for the purpose of actual settlement and cultivation, and, together with the said entry, he or she has not acquired from the State of Louisiana, under the provisions of this or any act graduating State land, more than one hundred and sixty acres, according to the established surveys, shall be allowed to enter one hundred and sixty acres at the rate of twelve and one-half cents per acre.

SEC. 11. The public lands donated by congress to the State of Louisiana, designated as sea marsh or prairie, subject to tidal overflow so as to render them unfit for settlement and cultivation, shall be subject to entry and sale at the rate of twelve and a half cents per acre; provided, that satisfactory proof of said fact be filed with the register of the State land office.

SEC. 12. The register of the State land office shall be authorized and it shall be his duty to administer any oath or oaths which may be required by law in connection with the duties of his office.

SEC. 13. All salaries and expenses incurred under the provisions of this act shall be paid the treasurer of the State of Louisiana, on the warrant of the auditor of public accounts, out of the swamp land fund, and no other. SEC. 14. It shall be the duty of the governor, when applied to, to issue patents for all lands sold, on presentation of the treasurer's receipt, and for issued by gov lands located by warrants, wh never he shall be satisfied that the same ernor upon pre- have been legally sold and located.

Patents to be

sentation of the governor's receipt.

Register and clerk not au

ceive fees for

their own use.

SEC. 15. All Laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect from and after its promulgation. [See Act 1870, Ex. S., p. 89, No. 35.]

SEC. 2927. It shall not be lawful for said register or for any clerk employed in said office to charge, retain or apply to his own use or thorized to re- benefit, any fee or fees which he may by law be allowed to charge or receive for the use and benefit of the State, under the penalty prescribed by law for malfeasance in office; nor shall he have or receive any compensation or reward, either directly or indirectly, for his services as such register, beyond the salary prescribed in this act, under the penalty as aforesaid.

Penalty for receiving fees.

Registerauthorized to sell warrauts for one million acres of land.

SEC. 2928. Whenever it shall appear at the end of the fiscal year that the fees paid into the treasury shall not amount to the sum of ten thousand dollars, then the deficiency shall be transferred by the treasurer from the general funds of the State and shall be charged to the swamp land fund.

PROVISION FOR THE SALE AND LOCATION OF ONE MILLION ACRES
OF SWAMP AND OVERFLOWED LANDS.

SEC. 2929. Land warrants for one million acres of the swamp and overflowed lands, authorized to be issued and sold by the first section of the act entitled "an act to provide for the sale of one million acres of the swamp and overflowed lands," approved March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, so far as they have already been issued,

warrants to be

shall be located on the swamp or overflowed lands donated by acts of congress of second March, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, and For what quantwenty-eighth September, eighteen hundred and fifty; the warrants to tity of land said be issued for not more than six hundred and forty nor less than forty issued. acres, according to the laws regulating the surveys and legal subdi- . vision of sections adopted by the United States. Any shallow lakes Certain shallow lakes may be which have become the property of the State, and are susceptible of sold under the being reclaimed wholly or in part, and not navigable, the area of provisions of which has been ascertained by survey recognized by the State, may Minimum price also be sold under the provisions of this section. No lands shall be of said lands. sold for less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre.

Act 1855, p. 306; Act 1871, No. 104; Act 1870, Ex. S., p. 89, No. 38, sec. 12-23.

this section.

made threon

SEC. 2930. The register of the State land office shall procure plats or maps of all the swamp lands donated to Louisiana, certified to by Certain maps to be kept and the surveyor-general, and shall mark thereon, on each tract of land entries to be purchased, the number of the certificate issued therefor, and shall by register. keep a well bound book in his office, in which shall be entered, in proper form, all the lands thus sold, to whom sold and for what price, which book and map shall be carefully preserved and shall be deemed official records.

lists to be fur

nished annually by register.

SEC. 2931. It shall be the duty of the register to furnish annually Descriptive to the auditor of public accounts, on or before the first day of October, a descriptive list of all lands sold by him during the preceding year.

sning false cer

SEC. 2932. The issuing of any false or fraudulent certificate of en- Penalty for istry or for purchase of land shall be deemed a felony, and upon con- tificates of enviction thereof the party so offending shall be sentenced to pay a fine try. of five thousand dollars, and be imprisoned for a term not exceeding ten nor less than two years.

SEC. 2933. The net proceeds of the sales from swamp and overflowed lands shall be held by the State as a special fund, to be applied to such leveeing and draining as may be necessary for the reclamation of the swamp and overflowed lands, in conformity with the terms of donation.

Proceeds of

sale of swamp

lands, how to

be applied.

en to persons,

cases, have en

SEC. 2934. All persons who have heretofore entered or located, or may hereafter enter or locate school warrants or intercal improve- Preference givment warrants on the lands donated to this State by the United who, in certain States, shall have a preference right to purchase the lands from the tered or located school or interState at the minimum price of one dollar and twenty-five cents per nal improve. acre, whenever the entries or locations made under the warrants shall ment warrants. have been rejected by the secretary of the interior, on the ground that the lands so entered, purchased or located, have inured to the

Extension of

actual settlers

State under the acts of congress donating the swamp lands to this State, approved March second, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, and September twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty; but the above preference right shall not affect the right that preemptors or other persons may have already acquired.

PREEMPTION RIGHTS.

SEC. 2935. Any person or persons who would have been entitled to a preëmption right to any swamp and overflowed lands under the time granted to provisions of the above entitled acts, approved March sixteenth, in certain cases. eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and April twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and who may have been prevented from making the application, proof and payment within the twelve months, as therein required, because the lists of selections were not approved and returned to the State land office, shall be entitled to make application therefor and proof of settlement at any time after the promulgation of this act, and to make payment therefor at any time within ninety days after the publication and notice hereinafter provided for, or within six months after the lands shall have been surveyed and returned to the State land office.

Notice to be

given by regis

ter and adver

tisement to be made by him.

Price of lands per acre.

Act 1870, Ex. S., p. 92, No. 38, sec. 16; Act 1871, p. 55. No. 21; Act 1855, p. 260; Act 1871, No. 104.

SEC. 2936. It shall be the duty of the register of the State land office hereafter, when any lists o. selections of said lands shall have been approved and returned to his office, to advise all applicants under the provisions of this act, for any part thereof, by mail, by letter addressed to each, directed to the postoffice nearest their respective residences or nearest the land claimed, and by advertising in the offi cial newspaper published in the parish in which the land may be situated, describing the township only, and advising the preemptors under the provisions of this act to make payment within ninety days after said publication.

Act 1871, p. 55, No. 21-homesteads.

SALE OF INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT AND SCHOOL LANDS.

SEC. 2937. The price of the internal improvement land which has been located, and the location of which has been approved, shall be one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, and the price of land warrants to locate upon the remaining portion of the land granted by act of congress, and which has not been located by the State, shall be one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre.

Act 1855, p.401; Act 1871, No. 104; Act 1880, p. 85, No. 75, sec. 10.

SEC.. 2938. It shall be the duty of the governor of the State to issue patents to purchasers on the payment of the purchase money, in case of preemption or private entry of lands already located; and on the approval of the location, in case of purchase of a land warrant.

Maiso Rouge

leges to persons

emptions.

SEC. 2939. If the location of the Maison Rouge grant, made under special instructions from Governor Mouton, bearing date eighteen grant, privi hundred and forty-five, shall hereafter be perfected, and the title of claiming prethe same be declared to vest in the State, each and every individual entitled by the laws of the United States to a right of preemption thereon shall be entitled to the same preëmption right under the laws of the United States; and when any individual shall prove to the satisfaction of the State register and receiver that he is entitled to a preemption right under the laws of the United States on the location aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the State receiver to allow such individual to purchase the same at one dollar and twenty-five cents per

acre.

SEC. 2940. Any individual having, at the date of such location, a farm in cultivation on the Maison Rouge grant shall be entitled to a Relative to preemptors settled right of preemption on one hundred and sixty acres; embracing his on the Maison Rouge grant. settlement, at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre; and shall have the further privilege of purchasing the remainder of the tracts, as purchased from D. W. Cox, at the minimum price of the State lands; and on sufficient proof being made to the register of the State land office, entitling any person to purchase under this section, he shall allow the same to be made as contemplated therein. This section shall not affect the right of any preemption allowed by the preceding section; and to prevent conflict between individuals on account of the lot lines by which the sales were made to them by D. C. Cox, on the United States land surveys, the purchases from the State in such case shall be made jointly by them according to the United States surveys, and afterwards the lands shall be divided between them, according to the lot lines, by each paying pro rata for the amount of land received. SEC. 2911. The same privilege guaranteed to the claimants under the Maison Rouge grant shall be extended to claimants under the grant to Baron de Bastrop. No person shall have benefit of this act claiming the same privi the right of preemption who is settled on lands claimed by other persons under Spanish grants, until the lands are declared by law to belong to the United States or to the State of Louisiana.

SEC. 2012. Settlers on the sixteenth sections, who settled prior to the extension of the public surveys over the township, with the Maison Rouge and Bastrop grants, shall be entitled to pay for their improve ment made before the survey, as hereinafter provided.

Act 1855, p, 277.

Claimants under the Bastrop grants to enjoy

leges as those on the Maison Rouge grant.

Certain settlers on sixteenth sections entitled to pay for their improve.

ments.

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