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pay to the proprietor interest upon all deferred pay- 

 ments at the lowest rate paid on the bonds of the 

 general government, at the time of the passage and 

 approval of the law under which the proceedings are 

 taken. A tender of the payments therein provided 

 for, if refused, should be deemed full satisfaction to 

 the amount of the tender. Whenever a tenant should 

 show to the satisfaction of any court of record, that , . 

 the provisions of the act had been complied with, and j' 

 the payments for the farm, or a portion thereof, had 

 been fully made as provided therein, such court should 

 issue an order to the proprietor of the said farm, to 

 make a conveyance of the same to the said tenant ; 

 and from the time of the issuance of said order the 

 said farm should be deemed in law the property of the 

 tenant so purchasing. 



Provision should also be made, that on and after the 

 first day of January, 1890, all payments, without in- 

 terest, for rents of tenant farms, should be deemed in 

 law payments made for the purchase of the farm occu- 

 pied by the tenant so paying or tendering ; and that 

 when an amount had been so paid, equaling the as- 

 sessed value of the said farm for purposes of taxation, 

 or for a portion thereof, the whole farm, or such part 

 as may be fully paid for, to be selected by the tenant 

 from the outer boundaries thereof, should be made 

 over to the tenant under the conditions above stated. 



The provisions of this proposed law are designed to 

 suggest a system of summary actions, by which the 

 tenant farmers may become proprietors of the lands 

 they occupy at a fair valuation, and upon such terms 

 as would come within their ability to meet. The 



