Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1886-12-24

from taxing as other lands are taxed any
lands owned or held by any Indian who
has severed his tribal relations, and has OBJ
person title thereto by patent or other
grant, save and except such lands as have
been or may be granted to any Indian or
Indians under any act of congress contain
ing provision exempting the lands thus
granted from taxation; but said ordinances
Shall provide that all such lands shall be
exempt from taxation by said state so long
and to such extent as such act of congress
may prescribe; thirdly, that the bonded
debt of said territories incurred for the
erection of the public buildings of the ter
ritOrieS shall be assumed and paid by the
said states respectively.
SEC. g. That in case constitutions and
state governments shall be formed in COM
pliance with the provisions of this act, said
conventions forming the same shall pro-
vide by ordinances for submitting said con-
stitutions to the people of said states for
their ratification or rejection, at an election
to be held in each of said territories on the
first Tuesday after the first Monday of No
yember, 1888, at which election the quail
fed voters of said proposed states shall vote
directly for or against the proposed consti-
tutions, and for or against any provisions
separately submitted. The returns of said
elections shall be made to the secretary of
each OF said territories, who. with the gov
ernor and chief justice thereof, or any two
of them, shall canvass the same; and if
majority of the legal votes cast shall be for
the constitution, the governor shall certify
the result to the president of the United
States, together with a statement of the
votes cast upon separate propositions, and
a copy of said declaration, constitution and
ordinances.
Sec. That until the next general CEN
sus, or until otherwise provided by law, said
states shall be entitled to one representa-
tive in the house of representatives Of the
United States, except Dakota, which shall
be entitled to two, which representatives,
together with the governors and other Off
GERS provided for in said constitutions, shall
be elected ON the same day of the election
for the adoption of the constitutions: and
until said state officers are elected and
qualified under the provisions of each con-
spectively are admitted into the union, the
territorial officers shall continue to dis
charge the duties of their respective offices
in said territory.
SEC. g. That the counties of Grant, Rob-
erts, Day, Brown, Edmunds, Walworth,
part of the proposed state of Dakota north
thereof, shall constitute the first congress
sional district, and that portion of the pro
posed state of Dakota lying south of said
counties shall constitute the second con-
gressional district of said state: and in each
of said districts in Dakota, and in each of
the states of Montana, Washington and
New Mexico. one representative in con-
gress shall be elected until otherwise pro-
vided by law after the next decennial cen
sus of the United States, and at the time
prescribed by general law for such cleo
tions in other states.
SEC. 9. That sections numbered IL and
Sc in every township of said proposed STATE )
of Dakota, Montana, Washington and New
Mexico. and where such sections, or any
subdivision thereof, have been sold or 9TH
erWiSe disposed OF by or under the author
ity Of any act of congress, other lands
equivalent thereto, in legal subdivisions Of
not less than one quarter section, and as
contiguous as may be to the section in lieu
of which the same is taken, are hereby
granted to said states for the support of
common schools.
SEC. 10. That when either or any of the
proposed states shall be admitted into the
union in accordance with the provisions of
this act. fifty entire sections of the unap-
propriated public lands within said state,
to be selected and located by the direction
of the legislature thereof and with the ap-
proval of the president, on or before the
first day of January, 1890, shall be. and
are hereby, granted, in legal subdivisions
OF not less than One-quarter section, to said
state for the purpose of erecting public
buildings at the capital of Said state for
Legislative, executive, and judicial purposes
in such manner as the legislature may pre-
scribe.
SEC. II. That 80 much of the lands be-
longing to the United States as has been
acquired and set apart for the purpose
mentioned in can act appropriating money
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territory of Dakota" approved March 2,
be, and the same is hereby, granted, to-
gether with any unexpended balances of
the moneys appropriated therefor by said
act, to said state for the purposes
therein designated.
SEC. IL. That ninety sections of land, to
be selected and located as provided in sec
ton of this act. are hereby granted to
said states of Dakota, Montana, Washing
ton, and New Mexico for the use and sup
port of agricultural colleges in said states;
or the proceeds thereof, shall be used for
any other purpose than that for which the
grant is specifically made what ever.
[SectiOn 13 refers to salt springs.]
SEC IA. That per centum of the pro-
ceeds of the sales of public lands lying
within said states which shall be sold by
the United States subsequent to the admis-
ducting all the expenses incident to the
same, shall be paid to the said states, to be
used as permanent fund for the support
of the common schools within said states
respectively.
Sec Is. That all lands herein granted for
educational purposes shall be disposed of
only at public sale, and at price not less
than $40 per acre, the proceeds to consti-
tute permanent school fund, the interest
of which only is to be expended in the sup
port of said schools. But said lands may,
under such regulations as the legislatures
shall prescribe, be leased for periods of not
more than twenty-five years, in quantities
not exceeding one section to any one per-
son or company.
SEC II. That the lands granted to the ter
ritories of Dakota and Montana by the act
of February Is, 1881, entitled "An act to
grant lands to Dakota, Montana, Idaho,
and Wyoming for university purposes" SO
far as the same have been selected and To-
Gated in said territories of Dakota and
Montana, shall, under the provisions and
limitations of said act, be vested in the
proposed states of Dakota and Montana:
Provided, That none of said lands shall be
cold for laSc than 310 NOR anra S,,rh