Act No. 4016

Section 1. Section one of Act Numbered Thirty-three hundred and twenty-seven is hereby amended to read as follows:

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Section 2. Section seven of Act Numbered Thirty-three hundred and twenty-seven, as amended by section three of Act Numbered Thirty-four hundred and fifty-two, is hereby further amended to read as follows:

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Section 7. The Director of Lands is hereby authorized, with the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources, to grant loans to corporations of private surveyors to whom cadastral surveys have been assigned in accordance with this Act, out of the fund created by the preceding section, with legal interest, on the security of the fees remaining to be collected by the municipal treasurers from the occupants or claimants of the lots included in cadastral proceedings submitted to and approved by the Bureau of Lands: Provided, That such loans shall not in any case exceed fifty per centum of the total of such fees, except when the. lots have been decreed as private property, in which cases the loan may be increased to not more than seventy-five per centum of the total of the fees remaining to be collected from the owners of such lots, as provided in this section, and shall be repaid with the fees remaining to be collected by said municipal treasurers in connection with said cadastral proceedings: Provided, further , That in case the fees owing by the owners of the lots comprised in any cadastral proceeding or proceedings shall for unavoidable cause not be collected or be difficult to collect, the corporation concerned may request the Director of Lands, and the latter, with the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources, may consent, that the loan granted to such corporation, not exceeding thirty per centum of the total of its uncollected fees, shall, with the interest thereon, be charged to such fees, the balance of said fees to be paid in the manner prescribed herein: And provided, further, That these provisions shall be applicable to loans heretofore granted under the provisions of this section: And provided, finally, That with the written consent of the corporation or corporations desiring to take advantage of the benefits of this Act, the Director of Lands may order that a sum not to exceed five per centum of the uncollected fees of said corporations be used to pay the salaries or commissions of such employees to be appointed by him, as may in his judgment be necessary for the collection of the fees owing by the landowners to said corporations."

Section 3. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

This Act shall take effect on its approval

Section 4. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, December 7, 1932.