All common school, indemnity, and endowment lands shall be leased for pasturage, meadow, farming, the growing of crops of grain and general agricultural purposes, and at public auction after notice as provided in § 5-5-5 and amendatory acts and in tracts not greater than one section.

Source: SL 1949, ch 71, § 2; SDC Supp 1960, § 15.0405-2.