STATE LAND LAWS 

 RECLAIMED LANDS SALE. SECS. 402-404 



as limiting the right of any party to have a receiver appointed 

 as is in other cases provided by law. (Laws '03, p. 302, sec. 9 ; 

 sec. 6714 Rem.-Bal.; 477 sec. 319 Pierce.) 

 Former Laws: See note to sec. 393, ante. 



SEC. 402. STATE NOT LIABLE. 



Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as authorizing the 

 Commissioner of Public Lands to obligate the state to pay for 

 any work constructed under any contract or to hold the state 

 in any way responsible to settlers for the failure of contractors 

 to complete the work according to the terms of their contracts 

 with the state. (Laws '03, p. 303, sec. 10; sec. 6715 Rem.- 

 Bal.; 477 sec. 321 Pierce.) 



Former Laws: See note to sec. 393, ante. 



SEC. 403. LANDS OPEN PUBLISH ED. 



Immediately upon the withdrawal of any land for the state 

 by the department of the interior and the inauguration of work 

 by the contractor, it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of 

 Public Lands, by publication once a week in one newspaper of 

 the county or counties in which said land is situated, and such 

 further notice as he may deem necessary, for a period of four 

 weeks, that said land is open for settlement ; the price for which 

 said land will be sold to settlers by the state, the contract price 

 at which settlers can purchase a perpetual water right, and the 

 cost of an annual maintenance fee. (Laws '03, p. 303, sec. 11 ; 

 sec. 6716 Rem.-Bal. ; 477 sec. 323 Pierce.) 

 Former Laws: See note to sec. 393, ante. 



SEC. 404. WHO MAY PURCHASE. 



Any citizen of the United States, or any person having de- 

 clared his intention to become a citzen of the United States (ex- 

 cepting married women not the heads of families) over the age 

 of twenty-one years, may make application under oath, to the 

 Commissioner of Public Lands, to enter any of said lands in 

 any amount not to exceed one hundred and sixty acres for any 

 one person ; such application shall set forth that the person de- 

 siring to make such entry does so for the purpose of actual 



