241.160. Sale of public lands by county commission--procedure.
Sale of public lands by county commission--procedure.
241.160. Whenever, in the judgment of said countycommission, it shall be to the interest of said counties to doso, they shall order the sheriff to sell the same at publicvendue to the highest bidder, after giving sixty days' notice, bypublication in some newspaper published in the county, if therebe one, or if there be no such paper published in the county,then by at least ten written or printed handbills put up at tenpublic places within the county, containing a general descriptionof the lands to be sold, by section, township and range. Suchlands shall be sold in such quantities, at such times and places,and on such terms as they may think proper, and as set forth insuch notice, with or without draining or reclaiming the same, asin their discretion they may think most conducive to the interestof their respective counties; and all sales made under theprovisions of sections 241.010 to 241.280 shall conform to thesubdivisions prescribed by the laws of the United States;provided, however, that no land shall be sold under theprovisions of said sections for less than one dollar andtwenty-five cents per acre; and provided further, that the countycommissions of the several counties in this state may, if intheir judgment it is deemed advisable, sell any of the swamp oroverflowed lands in their counties at private sale, withoutadvertisement as provided in this section, at a price not lessthan one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre; provided further,that in all cases where the county commissions of this statehave, prior to 1880, sold or disposed of any such swamplands intheir respective counties and issued, or caused to be issued,patents for the same, and the patentees, or those holding underthem, have been claiming such lands and paying county and statetaxes thereon for more than twenty years, such grant shall bedeemed and held to be good and valid, and no action shall bemaintained for the purpose of setting aside or calling inquestion such patent or patents.
(RSMo 1939 § 12754)Prior revisions: 1929 § 11130; 1919 § 6994; 1909 § 7997