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Show county treasurer throughout the State has on hand, ready ,for distribution, dis-tribution, a larpo number of printed print-ed blanks designed for the sole use of these "preference' right" applicants and which they can readily obtain by writing for - or applying in person. The provision of the law not generally understood is the limit of tira3 fixed in the act for the filing of these applications. . Six months time from the dae of the filing of school land plats, with .the various county treasurers was i id lowed wherein all 'preference right" claimants were to file their applications and as these plats were filed with the county treasurers treas-urers on or about July 13th of this year, the timo in' this county will expire on January , 13, 1897. The serious part of ;th matter ia that ir an applicant does not apply for bis land, with tho fctaie board of land commissioners, commis-sioners, on or before said date, he will lose his right to purchase pur-chase his home at private sale and be compelled to enter the market r.t the public sale and bid on the same at public auction, This will prove a hardship, as the price of his land may be run up over the appraised price ad . in no event can lands be sold either at public or private sale for less than the appraised price per acre. So it will readily be seen that failure to file hit application in time may cost much more money to retain his home than if be used the right granted him by the Jjegiiiature and placed a written claim at the proper office inside the time limit. This statement of fact "is designed des-igned to warn the occupants of school land thoughout 4 the State of the great danger to them o delaying this matter and in the hope that it may result in. the saving of money to those s "who possess this right but who are not cognizant of the restrictions and limits coupled with it In counties outside of Washington county, the time limit expires December De-cember 25, 1896. ., , Important I SCHOOL LAND TITLS- Inquiry at the office of the State board of land comissioners develops devel-ops the fact that applications for school lands in this State, under what is termed the "preference right," are not being filed as rapidly rap-idly as they should when the magnitude mag-nitude of the holdings is considered. c This is doubtless due to the lack - W familiarity with the provisions of the law on tha part of the persons who possess this valuable right The. Enabling act design ated as '.' school lands sections 2, 10, 32 and 36, in every township iu the State, and the last Legislature, recognizing recogniz-ing the injustice which would lesult in not protecting actual and $ bonafide ettlers on these sections ; who had settled upon, occupied or . 7 cultivate small tracts, ignorant of the fact, that they were scehool ' ', lands, and they could not obtain ! , title thereto until they became the . , property of the fcitate, passed a ; . .' law which will be found in the taws of Utah, 1896, and designated as chapter 80. . Section 19 of . this ' t act grants what has been termed ' r ' a "preference right" to settlers or '.x,y. occupants,, who have improved ' j State lands and were on January 1, 1894 actual settlers or occupants thereon whereby these settlers 1 could apply for their exact hold- ings and thus bo enabled .to pur- 4 chase them from the State at the appraised price at private sale without being compelled to com-' com-' pete with any other peisona who might desire to obtain these improved lands. The actual settler I on school land, prior to January 1, j 1894, has only to apply to the State ij ' board of land commissioners . ? through the county trtasurer of I this city for the particular tract, ' describing the same, and ho will be granted the opportunity of pur- x chasing it at the appraised price and on ten vears time, with h-tarest VJ on deferred payments at 5per cent : V i Eer annum. This is a v$xy simple ' j matterfJand; especially so as every r i I 't |