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Show LAND BOARD PLANS SALARY REVISION i Changes in Connection With Methods of Renting and Sales Discussed. At an executive session, held behind closed doors yesterday, the state board of land commissioners considered a schedule of salaries for its employees. The land board was not In session and did not present a revised list of employees to the state board of examiners at the same time as the oLher state offices. Effort is be-ing be-ing made at the capitol to get salaries of employees on something like a uniform basis, considering the duties and the length of time the employee has been In the service of the state. f The board also went over the rules and regulations of tho department, revising them to conform to the new land laws passed at the last legislature. The most important changes will be in connection with the rental and sale of state lands, since mineral rights may. not be sold by the state and must be rented now on a minimum rental and royalty basis. Plow-ever, Plow-ever, in revising these rules the board is considering all the rules of the board, which have been amended considerably at times during the past years, until they have become rather "patchy" in character. charac-ter. It it announced that the board has leased about 553 acres of alfalfa lands under the former Hatch town project to former contract holders from the state, the lease to run for the remainder of the present year at $2 an acre, and to Include In-clude the benefit of such improvements and fences as have been erected on the remainder of the tract by the former settlers. set-tlers. Owners of some of the 'lands leased have not yet accepted the settlement offered of-fered by the last legislature, but the lessees les-sees promise to make satisfactory arrangements ar-rangements for the period of the lease and to keep the canal and ditches in shape. |