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for proposals for the letting of such other contracts. The advertisements shall briefly refer to said letting, stating the number of copies of the different kinds of work, the style and size thereof, the quality of paper and binding required, and samples of the same, and that copy of work to be done may be seen at the office of the secretary of state. The advertisement shall also state that the board reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

SEC. 5. [Duty of board.]--It shall be the duty of the board to decide on' the kind, style, and form, the amount of printed matter on a page, the kind and quality of paper, the size of type, the quality and style of binding, and all materials necessary for the publication of the laws, journals, reports of state officers, and bills, and also place samples and copy of work to be done of the same on exhibition in the office of the secretary of state, and all bids and contracts shall strictly conform thereto. Each bid shall state what the bidder is willing to do the work complete [for], including composition, paper, press work, stitching, binding, lettering, and all material entering into the work required.

SEC. 6. [Contracts for books and blanks.]-Within twenty days after adjournment of each regular session of the legislature, the officers in any department of the government, whose expenditures in any one year exceed the sum of one hundred dollars ($100), for blanks, blank books, or circulars, including revenue books and blanks, shall file with the secretary of state samples of the kinds and styles of work, with the number of copies of blank books, and number of quires of blanks required of each sample, and within ten days thereafter the furnishing of the same shall be let by contract under the direction of the board in the same manner as the other contracts herein provided for are let.

SEC. 7. [Proposals-Bond.]-The proposal or bid for any of the contracts aforesaid shall not be considered unless the same shall be accompanied by a bond in the sum of five thousand dollars, ($5,000) with two or more sureties, that in case the party proposing for any such contract shall be awarded the same such party will, within five days after the award to him of such contract, enter into bonds for the faithful performance thereof.

SEC. 8. [Bonds by Contractor.]-It shall be the duty of the secretary of state to give immediate notice to the successful bidder that his proposal has been accepted, and each successful bidder shall in five days thereafter enter into bonds to the state in the sum of not less than twice the amount of the contract price for each and every contract so awarded to him, with at least two good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by said board, conditioned for the faithful performance, pursuant to this act, of that contract for which he has been adjudged the successful bidder; and if he fail to so give bond within the time allowed, then the contract shall be given to the next lowest bidder who will give bond as aforesaid, or the board may in their discretion advertise anew and relet the contract in the manner hereinbefore provided.

SEC. 9. [Proof sheets.]-Each contractor, under the provisions of this act, shall furnish the proper officer with proof sheets in page form of any work required to be done under his contract, and immediately upon the completion thereof shall deliver the same without expense to the secretary of state, who shall deliver the work to the officer entitled thereto.

SEC. 10. [Duty of attorney general.]—It shall be the duty of the attor ney general to draw all contracts let under the provisions of this act, and each contract shall be signed by the members of the said board and the party to whom such contract has been awarded; and said contract and the bonds as herein before provided for shall be filed in the office of secretary of state. In case of the nonperformance of any contract by the contractor, whereby the state is damaged, and in case any successful bidder shall fail to enter into bond as heretofore provided, it shall be the duty of the attorney general, when so directed by the board, to bring suit upon the proper bond and contract for the recovery of any damage that the state may have sustained by reason thereof.

SEC. 11. [Payment of accounts.-Upon the completion of each contract or any particular job of work required under any of the provisions of this act, payment therefor shall be made to the proper contractor at the contract price upon vouchers certified to as "correct" by the printing board, in the same manner that other accounts against the state are paid, out of any funds appropriated for that purpose by the legislature.

SEC. 12. [Contract for printing bills.]-The contractor for the printing of bills or any matter printed in bill form shall promptly and without unnecessary delay execute all orders of the legislature, or either house thereof, for such printing, and for each failure to complete said printing within three days after receiving the order for the same the contractor shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twentyfive dollars, to be deducted from his account on settlement; and all contractors, under the provisions of this act, shall without unnecessary delay execute all orders issued to them by the printing board, and the contractor for printing and binding the laws shall deliver the same to the secretary of state within sixty days after the adjournment of each session of the legislature; and the contractor for printing and binding of the journals shall deliver the same to the secretary of state within ninety days after receiving the copy thereof.

SEC. 13. [Copy of laws and journals.]—The secretary of state shall furnish a true and accurate copy of the laws and journals as they may be demanded by the printer thereof, and the clerks of the respective branches of the legislature shall each furnish to the printer, who is bound by his contract to print the same, copies of the journals, bills, reports, and other papers and documents, without unnecessary delay, and no contractor shall be accountable for any delay occasioned by the want of such copy.

SEC. 14. [Session laws.]-It shall be the duty of the secretary of state to classify and arrange for publication the laws, joint resolutions, and memorials passed at each session, and to make out a full index and marginal notes to the laws as fast as shall be necessary. The signatures of the speaker of the house, president of the senate, and governor, shall not be printed at the end of each law and chapter, but only at the end of the volume. The date of approval by the governor shall be affixed to each law, and there shall be prefixed to each volume of laws published the name and residence of the several state officers, the senators and members of the house of representatives, and the presiding officers and clerks of both branches of the legislature at the time of passing such laws.

SEC. 15. [Legislative printing.]-The foregoing provisions of this act shall not apply to the printing of work required during the session of the legislature other than bills, but any such printing shall be done under the supervision of the committee on printing of either house, in such manner and on such terms as they may deem best. The account therefor to be paid out of any money appropriated for the incidental expenses of the legislature.

SECTION 1. [Records.]-That it shall be and is hereby made the duty of the governor, immediately after the passage of this act, to cause true copies of all communications from the secretary of the interior department or the United States, now on file in any department of this state, in or by which any lands or selections thereof have been confirmed or certified to this state under or by virtue of any grant or act of congress, to be prepared and certified under the state seal, and recorded in each of the counties of this state in which any of the lands in such copy described are situated. [1872, 7. G. S. 868.]

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NOTE. "An act to provide for recording the state's title to certain lands." Laws 1872, 7 G. S. 868. effect Jan. 19, 1872. Provisions of the several acts relating to land grants, entry and selection of public lands, swamp lands, etc., collated in chap. 59, G. S. 858, omitted from this volume. See chap. 80 and article VII, chap. 83.

SEC. 2. [Same-Future communications.]-That whenever any communication shall hereafter be received by the governor, or at any of the departments of the state government from the secretary of the interior, when or whereby any lands or selection thereof shall be confirmed or certified to this state, under or by virtue of any grant or act of congress, it shall be the duty of the governor to cause a copy thereof to be prepared, certified and recorded in the manner specified in the first section of this act.

SEC. 3. [Record Fees.]-That it shall be the duty of the several county clerks to whom any such copy shall be presented, to record the same in the book or books in which land patents are or may be recorded, and in the order in which such copy may be received; and such clerks shall be entitled to the same fees for recording such copies as are allowed by law for recording deeds, which fees shall be paid them out of the general fund, upon the warrant of the auditor therefor. SEC. 4. [Same-Copies-Evidence.]--That each such copy, in this act provided for the record thereof, on a transcript of such record certified under the hand and seal of the county clerk in whose office the same shall be recorded and shall be received in all courts and places whatever as evidence of each and every fact and thing there in stated, as well as of the absolute title of the United States in and to the lands therein described, at the date of such communication.

SEC. 5. [Entry on state lands by mistake.]-That whenever any person has been allowed a homestead or pre-emption filing on land in any United States land office in the state of Nebraska, supposing the land to belong to the United States, or supposing the same to be open to homestead or pre-emption settlement because of being settled upon and improved before the survey thereof, and having made valuable improvements thereon, or any person having purchased the filing of any such lands, and afterwards ascertaining that the said lands belong to the state of Nebraska, the person entitled to said lands, shall be required to make a showing to the board of educational lands and funds, under oath, that his filing was made in good faith and not for the purpose of speculation, and that he supposed the land belonged to the United States at the time he made the homestead and pre-emption filing or purchased the said filing. [1881 § 1, chap. 58.]

SEC. 6. [Duties of board of educational lands-Deed.]—That upon receiving such a showing the said board shall examine into said showing, and if it is satisfied that said claim is a just and proper claim, and made in good faith, and that the United States will deed to the state of Nebraska, land in place of that upon which the appliant has filed or purchased a filing, the said board shall order à deed executed by the governor of the state of Nebraska to the United States, for said lands, to allow said party to complete his title under the United States laws, and thereupon the governor shall execute a deed of relinquishment to the United States for the said lands. [Id. § 2.]

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ACTICLE II.-SALINE LANDS.

SECTION 1. [Appraisement.]-That the board of public lands and buildings of the State of Nebraska are hereby directed to adopt such measures within sixty days after this act has become a law as will authorize and require the commissioner of public lands and buildings to make careful appraisement of all the saline lands owned by the state on the 1st day of March, 1885, and separately appraise any and all improvements thereon, except that portion of section 21 now owned by the state, and all of section twenty-two, and the south half of section 15, all in township number ten, north of range six, east of the sixth principal meridian; and also except each and all of the salt springs owned by the state, and forty acres of land with each spring upon which the same is situated. The expense of said appraisement shall be audited by the board of public lands and

ABT. II. "An act to provide for the sale and leasing of the saline lands and the development of the saline interests of the State of Nebraska."

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buildings, and paid out of the saline fund, created as hereinafter stated, and as nearly as may be as provided in section 8 of this act. [1885, chap. 91.]

SEC. 2. [Advertisement-Sale.]-That said commissioner of public lands and buildings, when the said lands have been appraised, shall make a report of the same with the appraised value thereof to the board, and also the appraised value of the improvements on said land and keep a record thereof in his office, and the said board, upon receiving such report, shall at once direct the said commissioner to advertise the lands appraised as aforesaid for sale in at least three newspapers in the state for thirty days before the day of such sale, and on the day mentioned in such advertisement the said lands shall be offered for sale at public auction, and sold to the highest bidder therefor; Provided, Said lands shall be offered in tracts not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres at one time, and shall not be sold at less than the appraised value thereof, exclusive of the appraised value of the improvements on said land, and for the purpose of making such sale the commissioner aforesaid is hereby authorized to employ a competent crier or auctioneer, who shall be paid from proceeds of sales at a rate not to exceed three dollars per day. The said lands, remaining unsold, after having been offered at public sale as aforesaid, shall be kept in the market for private sale at the office of said commissioner for such time as the board may deem proper, not to exceed one year subsequent to such sale; when the residue, if any, shall be advertised in like manner and again offered at public sale. And in case any of said lands shall remain unsold after having been offered at public sale the second time, such remaining lands shall be re-appraised and again offered for sale at public auction, upon notice of such sale being given as above provided, and the lands remaining unsold after having been offered at public sale under the appraisement shall be kept in the market at private sale, at the office of the commissioner for such time as the board may deem proper, but in no case shall any of said lands be sold for less than the appraised value thereof in addition to the appraised value of the improvements thereon, and all the proceeds realized from such sales shall be deposited by the commissioner of public lands and buildings in the state treasury, (except the amount realized for the improvements upon said lands, which amount shall be immediately paid to the owner or owners of said improvements,) making also a detailed statement to the board of the lands sold, and the funds received therefor, and such moneys when deposited with the treasurer, shall constitute what shall be known as the saline fund of the state, and disbursed in the manner hereinafter set forth and no other; Provided, That only so much of said lands shall be sold as may be necessary to raise the amount hereby appropriated, and that none of said lands shall be sold for less than seven ($7) dollars per acre.

SEC. 3. [Certificate of purchase.]-Whenever any of the lands shall be sold and the purchase price paid, the commissioner of public lands and buildings shall issue a voucher to the purchaser under his seal, showing the name of the purchaser, the description of the land sold, the purchase price, and that the same has been duly paid. The purchaser, his agent, or attorney, shall file said voucher in the office of the governer, and the governor shall thereupon issue to the purchaser a deed or patent from the state of Nebraska, conveying to him the land described in the voucher, which deed or patent shall be duly countersigned by the secretary of state, and shall then be entitled to be recorded in the record of deeds of the county in which the lands are situated.

SEC. 4. [Contracts with private parties.]-The said board of public lands and buildings may order the commissioner to make a contract on the part of the state, subject to the approval of the board, to such persons or corporations that are residents of this state or incorporated under the laws thereof, as will first at their own expense prove to the satisfaction of the board that the brine now obtained is of sufficient quantity, quality and strength to justify the state in the expenditure for the dykes and ditches hereinafter named, by actually manufacturing from said brine one hundred barrels of salt per day for thirty consecutive days. [Amended 1887, Chap. 56.]

SEC. 5. [Same-Dykes and ditches.1-After the said persons or corporations shall have manufactured one hundred barrels of salt per day for thirty consecutive days, it shall be the duty of the board to direct the said commissioner to make such contract or contracts on the part and behalf of the state, as may be necessary, subject to the approval of the board, for building all dykes, and digging all ditches which may be necessary, to prevent what is known as the big salt basin, situated on sections twenty-one (21) and twenty-two (22), in township ten, north of range six, east of the sixth principal meridian, from being flooded with fresh water, and the said commissioner is hereby authorized to employ a suitable and skillful engineer and necessary assistants to examine the grounds, estimate the work, and ascertain and report what dykes and ditches are necessary for the purpose aforesaid, and the estimated cost of the same, and said board are authorized to audit and allow a reasonable compensation for the services of such engineer and his assistants. [Id.]

SEC. 6. [Manufacture of salt.]-Whenever such persons or corporations shall have proved to the satisfaction of the board that they have manufactured from the brine in the basin one hundred barrels of salt per day for thirty consecutive days, then the said board may order the commissioner to enter into contract with such persons or corporations for the manufacture of salt; Provided, however, That such persons or corporations shall be at all the expense incurred in the manufacture of salt, except as provided in section 5; And provided further, That the lessee shall at all times continue in operations and manufacture of salt, and said contract shall provide that if said persons or corporations shall fail, neglect or refuse to manufacture salt for the period of six months, that the contract may, at the option of the board, be forfeited. [Id.]

SEC. 7. [Geological record.]-It shall be the duty of the board for the purpose of developing the geological formation of the state to continue the sinking of the well now in operation until the depth of two thousand (2,000) feet has been reached, and to provide for keeping a correct geological record of all strata passed through, and for this purpose they are hereby authorized to employ a competent geologist to keep such record and to pay him therefor out of the saline fund a reasonable compensation, not to exceed one hundred ($100) dollars per month. [Id.]

SEC. 8. [Expenditures.]-The board shall from time to time as the work progresses and the money is being expended by them in carrying out the provisions of this act, issue vouchers to the persons entitled to the same, and the auditor is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant on the treasurer against the saline fund of the state for the amount of said voucher: Provided, however, That in cases when work is being done under contract, the board shall, in issuing the voucher, retain twenty per cent. of the estimated amount of labor done under said contract, and only issue a voucher for eighty per cent, of the same, until the whole contract shall have been complied with, and the work shall have been accepted by said board, and after such acceptance the board shall issue a voucher for the whole balance remaining unpaid on said contract. [Id.]

SEO. 9. [Leasing for manufacture.]-The said board are hereby authorized and directed to enter into such contract or contracts and lease or leases on the part of the state with persons or corporations who have complied with the conditions contained in section 4, in reference to the manufacture of one hundred barrels of salt per day for thirty consecutive days, for the manufacture of the brine which flows on the big salt basin, or which may be pumped thereon, into salt, as will best secure the manufacture of salt on the largest scale and insure the permanent development of the saline interests of the state of Nebraska, and