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An act providing for the presentation and cancellation of unlocated school land warrants of the state of Callfornia, issued under the act of the state of California, approved May 3, 1852, providing for the disposal of the five hundred thousand acres of land donated to the state of California by the government of the United States, and authorizing the controller of this state to draw his warrant on the state treasurer for the sum of two dollars per acre, in favor of any bona fide owner and holder of any such land warrant, for every acre represented by any such land warrant [Approved March 23, 1893. Stats. 1893, p. 181.]

ACT 3827.

An act to provide for the applications for purchase of sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections, and to regulate the application for purchase of such sections, and requir ing a deposit to accompany all applications for the purchase of the same.

[Approved March 20, 1889. Stats. 1889, p. 434.] Purchase of sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections.

Section 1. Every application to purchase any portion of the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections shall be accom panied by a deposit of twenty dollars, in addition to the fee for filing now required by law, for which the surveyorgeneral shall give the applicant a receipt, which receipt shall be accepted by the county treasurer in part payment of the purchase price of said land. If the applicant shall abandon or forfeit his said application, or shall fail to make proper proof as to the character of the said land, or as to his residence thereon, within the time allowed by law, or if his application shall be rejected by reason of any false statement in the affidavit herein contained, the twenty dollars thus paid shall go to the state school fund. If it is found that the surveyor-general erred in receiving the application, or that the state cannot make a good title to the land, then the applicant or his assigns may surrender to the surveyor-general the said receipt, and receive in exchange therefor a certificate showing the amount so paid, and the reason why the application could not be

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approved or perfected, and the controller, upon the surrender to him of the said surveyor-general's certificate, shall issue to the applicant, or his assigns, a warrant for the said amount.

Filings.

Sec. 2. Any number of filings on any section of land is hereby permitted and allowed under the provisions of this act. Should the first filing be abandoned by the applicant, the next filing on such section, in order, shall have the same right as if it had been the first filing. Moneys to go to school land deposit fund.

Sec. 3. The moneys received by the surveyor-general under the provisions of this act, except the moneys forfeited under section one, shall be paid to the state treasurer at the close of each month, and must be placed in a fund, to be called "School Land Deposit Fund," to the credit of the county in which the lands applied for are situated. When any moneys are placed in "The School Deposit Fund" to the credit of a county, the controller, at the next settlement with the controller by the treasurer of such county, must draw his warrant upon the state treasurer for the amount in the fund to the credit of the county; provided, that the direction herein to the controller is exempted from the operations of section six hundred and seventy-two of the Political Code.

ACT 3828.

An act respecting the payment in full by holders of certificates of purchase for lands sold by the state of California prior to March 27, 1872, and for which the said state has at any time heretofore issued certificates of purchase to subsequent purchasers.

[Approved March 20, 1889. Stats. 1889, p. 428.]

When holders of certificates of purchase of state lands deemed to have forfeited their rights therein. Section 1. Whenever application has been made to purchase land from this state, and payment only in part has been made to the treasurer of the proper county for the game, and a certificate of purchase has been issued to the applicant prior to the twenty-seventh day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and whenever such apGen. Laws-52

plicant, his assignee or assignees, shall have failed for five years to pay to the state the arrears of principal er of interest due to the state for said land, and the state shall at any time heretofore have issued a certificate of purchase for the same land, or any part thereof, to a subsequent purchaser, then, unless the holder or holders of such prior certificate shall pay the entire residue of the interest remaining unpaid for such purchase within six months from and after the passage of this act, such holder or holders shall be deemed to have lost all right to the land described in said certificate, or to complete the pur chase of such land, and all moneys heretofore paid to the state of California on such purchase shall be deemed and taken to be forfeited to the state. Nothing herein contained, however, shall be deemed or taken to give to or con fer upon the holder or holders of such prior certificates, or any of them, as against the state of California, or any subsequent purchasers therefrom, or against the holders of subsequent certificates of purchase, any other or greater right to the lands herein referred to than is now held by the holder or holders of such prior certificates, or to confer upon such holder or holders any new right, or to affect or impair the rights of such subsequent purchases or their assigns.

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Previous part payment confers no special rights-Does not apply.

Sec. 2. The mere fact of previous part payment shal not of itself confer on such prior purchaser or his assigns any right to complete the purchase, if he or they be not otherwise entitled so to do, as against the state, and a subsequent purchaser or his assigns; provided, that this act shall not apply to any action now pending commenced within five years.

Sec. 3. This act shall take effect from and after the date of its passage.

In addition consult the following acts: ACT 3829.

Ceding to the United States of America jurisdiction over all lands within this state which have been or may hereafter be acquired by the United States for military purposes. [Approved March 2, 1897. Stats. 1897, P

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ACT 3830.

Ceding to the United States of America jurisdiction over lands in this state ceded to the United States. [Approved March 31, 1891. Stats. 1891, p. 262.]

ACT 3831.

Relinquishing to the United States of America the title of this state to certain lands. [Approved March

9, 1897. Stats. 1897, p. 74.]

This act relinquished the title to tide lands adjacent to lands held by the United States for military purposes.

ACT 3832.

To authorize the governor and surveyor-general to sell and convey the state's interest in certain lands. [Approved March 31, 1891. Stats. 1891, p. 251.]

ACT 3833.

To legalize applications heretofore made for the purchase of lands belonging to this state, and to confirm the title of the purchasers under such applications.

proved March 27, 1872.

Stats. 1871-2, p. 622.]

Cal.Rep.Cit. 69, 426; 69, 438; 75, 454; 117, 463.

ACT 3834.

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For the relief of purchasers of state lands. [Approved March 27, 1872. Stats. 1871-2, p. 587.]

Amended 1877-8, 914.

Cal. Rep.Cit. 46, 26; 62, 259; 63, 30; 74, 112.

ACT 3835.

Entitled "An act to enable purchasers of state lands to redeem the same, where their titles have been or may hereafter be foreclosed for non-payment of interest." [Approved March 7, 1881. Stats. 1881, p. 65.] Cal.Rep. Cit. 115, 333.

ACT 3836.

To provide for an examination into the sale and disposal of state lands. [Approved April 1, 1876. Stats. 1875-6,

p. 798.]

ACT 3837.

To protect bona fide settlers upon public lands. [Approved

March 23, 1874. Stats. 1873-4, p. 543.]

Cal.Rep.Cit. 105, 150; 105, 151.

ACT 3838.

To reserve from sale the north half of section sixteen in township seven south and range three east, Monte Diablo meridian. [Approved April 1, 1876. Stats. 1875-6, p. 679.]

ACT 3839.

For the protection of settlers on public lands claimed by the state. [Approved March 10, 1874. Stats. 1873-4, p.

327.]

Amended 1881, 72. See Political Code, secs. 3441, 3443.

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State library, establishing cabinet department in. [Stats. 1871-2, p. 824.]

"Further duties of librarian terminated by transfer of the mineral specimens to the mining bureau by senate concurrent resolu tion No. 10 of March 4, 1881 (1881, 102); transferred to Crocker Art Gallery, 1887, 74, chap. LX."-Code Commissioners' note.

ACT 3849.

TITLE 468.

STATE PRINTER.

Relating to. [Stats. 1871-2, p. 871.]

Superseded by Political Code, sec. 540, subd. 4, relating to superintendent of state printing.

ACT 3850.

State printing office, establishing. [Stats. 1871-2, p. 554) Superseded and repealed by Political Code, secs. 526-540.

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To define, regulate, and govern the state prisons of Ca fornia. [Stats. 1880, p. 67.1

Amended 1881, 79. Superseded by 1889, 404, chap. CCLXIV. ACT 3856.

To regulate and govern. [Stats. 1889, p. 404.] This act is in full in the Penal Code, Appendix, p. 691. ACT 3857.

Branch state prison near Folsom, erection and maintenance

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This act is in full in the Appendix to the Penal Code, p. 705.

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