Sec. 7. DETERMINATION BY BOARD; PROCLAMATION; TIME FOR APPLICATION. The Land Board, upon the passage of this Act, is authorized to determine when such lands are available for purchase, and said Board shall by proper proclamation give notice to all persons desiring to file an application to purchase said land, by causing such proclamation to be published once each week for two consecutive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation in each county in which any part of said lands may be located, and by filing a copy of such proclamation with the County Clerk of each such county. Applications to purchase such lands shall be filed with the Commissioner of the General Land Office within four months from and after the last publication, and if said claims are not filed within said time an additional filing fee of Ten (10¢) Cents per acre shall be required. No land shall be patented or sold under the provisions of this Act unless claimed and applied for within twelve months after the publication of said proclamation, and the proclamation shall so state.

Acts 1931, 42nd Leg., p. 311, ch. 185. Amended by Acts 1941, 47th Leg., p. 242, ch. 170, Sec. 1; Acts 1951, 52nd Leg., p. 298, ch. 177, Sec. 1.

Sec. 6 amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1423, Sec. 21.54, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.