An act forfeiting to the state of California all payments for state lands where a fraudulent title was sought to be obtained thereto.

[Approved March 20, 1905. Stats. 1905, p. 388.]

Section 1. Whenever it shall appear by final decree of any court of competent jurisdiction that title to any lands subject to sale by the state of California was obtained, or sought to be obtained, by fraudulent means, or in any manner contrary to the laws of this state relating to the acquisition of its public domain, all payments made in the interest of said fraudulent title shall revert to the state of California without suit, and it shall thereupon become the duty of the state surveyor-general and ex-officio register of the state land office to cancel all evidence of title to any land embraced in such fraudulent or invalid location, and to restore said land to public entry.

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from and after the date of its passage.

АСТ 3826.

An act providing for the presentation and cancellation of unlocated school land warrants of the state of California, 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 requiring 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 po the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections shall be acco by a deposit of twenty dollars, in addition to the filing now required by law, for which the surveyo shall give the applicant a receipt, which receipt accepted by the county treasurer in part payment purchase price of said land. If the applicant shall or forfeit his said application, or shall fail to mak proof as to the character of the said land, or a residence thereon, within the time allowed by law, application shall be rejected by reason of any fal ment in the affidavit herein contained, the twenty thus paid shall go to the state school fund. If it that the surveyor-general erred in receiving the app or that the state cannot make a good title to the la the applicant or his assigns may surrender to the s general the said receipt, and receive in exchange th certificate showing the amount so paid, and the rea the application could not be approved or perfected, controller, upon the surrender to him of the said s general's certificate, shall issue to the applicant, of signs, a warrant for the said amount.

Filings.

Sec. 2. Any number of filings on any section is hereby permitted and allowed under the provi this act. Should the first filing be abandoned by plicant, the next filing on such section, in order, sh 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 surveyo under the provisions of this act, except the mor feited under section one, shall be paid to the sta urer at the close of each month, and must be p a fund, to be called "School Land Deposit Fund, credit of the county in which the lands applied situated. When any moneys are placed in "Th Deposit Fund" to the credit of a county, the e at the next settlement with the controller by the of such county, must draw his warrant upon th treasurer for the amount in the fund to the credi county; provided, that the direction herein to the c

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 same, 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 applicant, his assignee or assignees, shall have failed for five years to pay to the state the arrears of principal or 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 certificates 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 purchase 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 confer 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 purchasers or their assigns.

Previous part payment confers no special rights-D apply.

Sec. 2. The mere fact of previous part paymen not of itself confer on such prior purchaser or his any right to complete the purchase, if he or they otherwise entitled so to do, as against the state, subsequent purchaser or his assigns; provided, that shall not apply to any action now pending commence in five years.

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

In addition consult the following acts:

АСТ 3829.

Ceding to the United States of America jurisdictio all lands within this state which have been hereafter be acquired by the United States for purposes. [Approved March 2, 1897.

51.]

ACT 3830.

Stats.

Ceding to the United States of America, jurisdictio

lands in this state ceded to the United States proved March 31, 1891. Stats. 1891, p. 262.]

ACT 3831.

Relinquishing to the United States of America the this state to certain lands. [Approved March States. 1897, p. 74.]

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

АСТ 3832.

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

ACT 3833.

To legalize applications heretofore made for the p of lands belonging to this state, and to confi 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.

АСТ 3834.

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.

АСТ 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.

See ante, Act 2872.

ACT 3836.

To provide for an examination into the sale and disposal of state lands. [Approved April 1, 1876. Stats. 1875-6, p. 798.]

АСТ 3837.

To protect bona fide settlers upon public lands.

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

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

АСТ 3838.

[Approved

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. 18756, p. 679.]

АСТ 3839.

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

the state.

327.]

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

ACT 3844.

TITLE 467.

STATE LIBRARY.

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 resolution No. 10 of March 4, 1881 (1881, 102); transferred to Crocker Art Gallery, 1887, 74, chap. LX."-Code Commissioners' Note,