Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1880-12-17

tuition, shall be elected on day subse-
quent to the adoption of the constitutions
and to be fixed by said constitutional
convention; and until said state officers
are elected and qualified under the pro-
visions of the constitution, the territori-
al officers shall continue to discharge the
duties OF their respective Offices.
SEC. 4. That sections numbered six
teen and thirty-siX il every township,
and where such sections have been sold
or otherwise disposed of by any act Of
congress other lands equivalent thereto,
in legal subdivisions OF not more than
one quarter-section, and as contiguous as
may be, are hereby granted to said state
for the support OF common schools.
SEC. s. That provided the state OF
Dakota shall be admitted into the union
i'll accordance with the foregoing provi-
sions OF this act, fifty entire sections OF
the unappropriated public lands within
said state, to be selected and located by
direction of the Legislature thereof. on or
before the first day OF January, eighteen
hundred and eighty-two, shall be, and
are hereby, granted, in legal subdivisions
of not less than one-qnarter section, to
said state, for the purpose of erecting
public buildings at the capital of said
state Tor legislative and judicial pur-
poses, in such manner as the Legislature
shall prescribe.
SEC. g. That fifty other entire
sections Of land as aforesaid, to
be selected and located as afole-
said, in legal subdivisions as aforesaid,
shall be, and they are hereby, granted
to said state for the purpose OF erect
ing suitable building for peniten-
tiary or state prison in the manner atore-
said.
SEC. 10. That seventy-two other Sec
tions of land shall be set apart and re-
served for the use and support Of state
university, to be selected in manner as
aforesaid and to be appropriated and
applied as the Legislature of said state
may prescribe, for the purpose named,
and for no other purpose.
SEC. IL. That all salt springs within
said state, not exceeding twelve in num-
Der, with six sections Of land adjoining,
or as contiguous as may be to each,
shall be granted to said state for its use
the said land to be selected by the gov.
ernor of said state within two Years after
the admission of the state, and when sc
selected to be used and disposed of on
such terms, conditions and regulations
as the legislature may direct; Provided
That no salt spring or lands the right
whereof is now vested in any individual
or individuals, or which shall hereafter
be confirmed or adjudged to any indivi
dual or individuals, shall by this act be
granted to said state.
SEC. u. That five per centum of the
proceeds Of the sales Of public
lands lying within said state whicl
have been or shall be sold by til,
United States prior or subsequent to tn,
admission OF said state into the union
after det!ncting all the expenses inciden
to the same, sl!all be paid to the sal.
state for the purpose OF making sucl
internal improvements within sal,
state as the legislature thereof ma,
direct.
Sec. 10. That the eighth section o
the act of congress entitled can act t!
appropriate the proceeds OF the sales o
the public lands. and to grant pre-e1np
ton rights approved the fourth day o
September, eighteen hundred and iorty
one, shall be, and is hereby, declared ap
plicable to the state OF Dakota when ad
mittcd into TIE union as herein pro
vided.
SEC. is. That any balance of the ar
propriations for the legislative expense
Of said territory of Dakota remaining
unexpenaed shall be applied TO an
used Tor deiraying the expenses Of til
said convention, and for the payment c
the members thereof, under the sam
rules and regulations and rates as az
now provided by law for the payment {
the territorial legislature.
SEC. Is. That the two sections OF Ian
in each township herein granted for til
, support OF common schools shall be tii
posed OF only at public sale, and at
price not less than two dollars and fit
cents per acre, the proceeds to eonstitu.
Il permanent schoot fund, the interest
which is to be expended i'll the suppol
of common schools.