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

acL OF FeDruary IL, 1881. An there is here
by granted to said states OF Dakota and
said states selected under said act OF Feb
ruary IS, 1881, as will give the full amount
OF seventy-twO entire sections, all of which
shall be held and used in accordance with
the provisions OF the act aforesaid. The
section of land granted by the act of June
Ii, 1880, to the territory of Dakota, for an
mission of said state of Dakota into the
union, become the property of said state.
SEC. II: That all mineral lands shall be
exempted from the operation and grants of
this act: Provided, That if section 16 and
50, or any subdivision thereof, in any town.
ship, shall be found to be mineral lands, or
disposed Of by the United States, the legis-
latures of said states are hereby author
lied and empowered to select, with the ap-
prOval of the president, any other unap-
propriated lands in said states in lieu there
of, for the use and benefit of the common
schools of said states.
lSections Is and 10 refer to the courts
and the transfer of cases now pendingl
SEC. 20. That the sum of $4,000, or so
much thereof as may be necessary, is here
by appropriated, out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated, to
each of said territories for defraying the eX-
penses of the said conventions, and for the
pay HIOAU VI UilC ulClIlDClS IllclcOl. ullucT Cue
same rules and regulations and at the same
rates as are now provided by law for the
payment Of the territorial legislatures:
Provided, That any money hereby appro-
prlated not necessary for such purpose
shall be covered into the treasury of the
United States.
SEC. 81. That the constitutional conyen-
tons may. by ordinance, provide for the
election of full state governments includ-
ing members of the legislatures and repre-
SentatlveS in congress; but said state gov
ernments shall remain in abeyance until
the constitutions framed by said conven-
tions shall have been approved by congress.
In case the constitution Of any Of said pro-
posed states shall be ratified by the people,
but not otherwise, the legislature thereof
may assemble, organize, and elect two
senators of the United States; and the gov
ernor and secretary of state of such proposed
state shall certify the election to congress;
and when the constitution so framed is ap-
proved by congress, and such state is adj
mitted into the union by special act of con-
gress therefor, the senators and representa-
lives shall be admitted to seats in congress,
and to all the rights and privileges of sena-
tors and representatives of other states in the
congress of the United States; and the state
governments formed in pursuance of said
constitutions, as provided by the constitu-
tional conventions, shall proceed to exer-
else all the functions of state officers; and
all laws in force made by said territories,
at the time of their admission into the
union, shall be in force in said states, ex-
cept as modified or changed by this act or
by the constitutions Of the states respect
lively.
SEC. %. That the conventions authorized
to frame constitutions as provided in this
act shall incorporate a provision in each
constitution abolishing all counties there
tofore established within the limits of said
territories respectively which contain less
than three thousand inhabitants, excluding
Indians not taxed, according to the census
OF 1885 or other reliable data, and shall con-
sOlidate the territory comprising the same
into new counties of not less than three
thousand inhabitants each, and shall fix
the county seats and names Of such new
counties until the same are changed in the
manner provided in the constitution. The
conventions shall provide in the constitu-
tiOns of said states such provisions as may
be necessary for the payment of the debts
of the counties so abolished, and for the
disposition of the property of such counties.
SEC. g. That all acts or parts of acts in
conflict with the provisions of this act,
whether passed by the legislatures of said
territories or by congress, are hereby re-
Dealed