Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-02-20
SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT REPORT.
s.perintepdenrs Ro,ort-Continued.

shall prescribe such regulations as shall secure Just
valuation for taxation Of alIproperty. real, personal.
procceds OF Which, alone, shan b taxed"
I understand this section toplace both. surface and
mining property, on an exact eQuaLltya a. regafas inc
them consists In this: Surface property Was 70 be
taxed upon It's assessed valuation, o definite And
nxed per cent-while the mines and mining claims
but Section " Of The Revenue law leyies tax on The
proceeds Of the mines, OF enc hundred cents on each
ono hundred dollars: and then Section III OF ths
7 moneys arising from the tar from the pro-
ceeds Of INC mines. as provided In this Act zoo cenN
on each SOD. after paying the expenses OF assessing
The State. andonehalfs shall go into the General Fund
Of the county,
This gives the cold shoulder to the State School
Five per cent. or the mesp pr &C y ss y tSe y tSs o ,nat ne
mhiess belong equitably and. ! think. legally, 70 the
STATE School Fund. This is q fund that springs d.
designed for the benefit Tor nsei Ks. s SGasc Z, of T Z MINNIE was
College,: Yet the Legislature has Ignored this pro.
vision HltosetheT.and according to the proceedings
Of Inc Uniye.isyssI 4 shall 'G ssSe an n sHias. nrsneI,
tqSss t ~ h yon Wili br lLSH III ssr mss, property n2erS alone. !
fore the next Legislature, and claim nom the min
Ing tax; not only security for the future, but indem-
nifty for the past. al-H# I'd .HI END. "
AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE.
The last Legislature, In providing for the establish
ment and location OF an Agricultural and Mechani-
cal COlege.' DICTATES lCtCuOU lol IDnL- I0P LERtA-
iaturc shall provide, at It's next regular session, for
the paymentof said Board OF Professors"
The next Legislature will have the undoubted
5 light to- TO- app pro 2ns 9s any amoae OF M %o hssi,t y %sy
which had rs origin In q certain general grant ofpub-
lilo lands, BY the Federal Congress In July. 1852, but
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after tho said Mining branch OF the University shall
be established, and In q working condition, however
the said Agricultural and Mechanical College"
may be. iHt
think the future will domonstr,ts that the Or;
was premature. It must be some time yet before
any proceeds can be realized from the grant OF lands
which was originally designed forits foundation. ~
THE 10 AND IS SECTIONS,
81 1t occurs to mt as important, that GU. Legislature
should bring one matter, touching the 10th and 36th
Sections OF each township, donated BY Congress for
I trust that yon viii not fall TO press this matter
earnestly upon the consideration OF the next Legis'
lature. E~gF EEI ,GasliIst.L 3t4lyayI = -h
Valley States, with their immense tracts OF agricul.
tnrul iRnds, possess great value, and constitute
sFsss soSSSs q rs even .ss sG Gtt tss S ~ 90 n aTpas " ~ ,n r.
General Government, and open 70 entry and sale.
But with those elevated and almost barren lands OF
the mineral States, between the Rocky and Sierra
veyed 10 any great extent, or to be entered or sold,
the matter Is essentially different. They cannot
have. under the present regime OF the Federal Gov
ALnth bLuStt W H'eaeSt
our Public School system. 90.
To place these mineral States upon an equality
with those Of the Atlantic, In regard to these 10Th and
36th Sections OF ench townshIp-hnd no doubt Con-
gress 30 designed, In mixing the donation, it should
survey and open our mineral lands for entry and
sale, (Which, Il IL not possible. win be doneD or allow
the State tho minimum value, the Government Axes
upon newly surveyed lands open for SALE - money.
or else create boating land warrants. that the State
Board OF Education can locate upon any uhiocated
public lands In the Union. The reasonAbleness Of
this suggestion would, I am confident, challenge the
assent and secure the cooperation OF q majority OF
that body, whose generous action. In. behalf OF public
education, has ever been q marked Characteristic.
LIQUIDATION on THE 10TH AND 18Th sEcTIo1s.
~ I confess my astonishment that our sharpsighted.
courageous and worthy Governor. did not interpoa
his veto to the bill Of the last Legislature, TO ALLEVIATE
about ten thousand acres Of the very best school
lands In the State, located In the agricultural valleys
OF Carson, Eaglc. WAshoe. Steamboat and Tfuckee.
for the paitry sum OF i've dollars an acre, about the
price. OF halfbreed scrip, and probably q little more
than the annual rental these alienated schooi lands
would It was o nice job for the owners
but as 10 the justice OF this legislation, I am unable
TO comprehend, with tho limited Information l pos
sess on the suhectrd, 10 .gGg ILTu ausf ,0.:
Its devoutly TO be hoped. that r. any more yalu.
able school lands remain uutakun,G they will be dis
posed Of In O manner more consistent with the In.
terest Of the School Fund, than intersections aien-
ated by the law under confederation.
-|.U-tIH I am. my dear sir, f. Ffl...sI .Ias jon.