Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-03-08
State Lands.
FULL TENT OF PROVISIONS IN THE
ENABLING ACT.

tlOnS numbered 10 ana 80 III every
township OF said proposed State and
where such sections, or any parts
there f, have been sold or otherwise
disposed of by or under the authority
OF any act Of Congress, o. her lands
equivalent thereto, in legal subdivi-
s;Ons of not less than one quarter Sec
ton, and as contiguous rs may be the
section in lieu of which the same is
taken, are hereby granted to said State
for the support of common schools,
such indemnity lands to be selected
within said State in such manner as
the Legislature may provide, with the
approval of the S Gre ary of the Inter
ior: Provid d, That the sixteenth
and thirty-six,h sections embraced in
permanent reservations for national
purposes shall not, at any time, be
subject to the grants or to the indem-
nifty provisions of this act until the
reservation shall have been extin-
guished aud such lands be restored to,
and become part of, the public do
main.
SEC. IL. That all land herein granted
for educational purposes shall be dis
posed of only at public sale, and at Il
price not less than $40 per acre, the
proceeds 10 constitute permanent
school fund, the interest of which only
shall be expended in the support OF
said schools. But said lands may, un-
der such regulations as the legislature
shsll prescribe, be leased for periods oi
not more than five years, in quantities
not exceeding ! section to any one
person or company; and such land
shall not be subject to pre-emption,
homestead entry or any other entry
under the land laws OF the United
States, whether surveyed or unsur-
veyed, but shall be reserved for school
purposes only.
Sec. IL. That upon the admission
of sl d State into the Union, in accord
ance with the provisions of this act, 80
sections of the unappropriated public
lands within said State, to be selected
and located in legal subdivisions as
provided in section 10 of this act, shall
be, and are hereby granted to said
State fer the purpose of erecting pub
lie buildings at the capital of said
State for legislative, executive and ju-
dicial purposes.
SEC. 13. That per cent. OF the
proceeds of the sales of public lands
lying within State which shall be sold
by the United States subsequent to
the admission Of said State into the
Union, after deducting all the expen-
ses incident to the same, shall be paid
TO said State, to be used as perma-
nent fund, the interest of which shall
only be expended for the support Of
the common schools within said State,
respectively.
SEC. IA. That such quantity of the
lands authorized by the fourth section
of the act of July II, 1854, to be re-
served for university purposes in the
Territory of Washington, as, together
with the lands confirmed to the ven-
dees of the Territory by the act of
March IA, 1864, will make the full
quantity of y entire sections, are
hereby granted to the State of WASH
ington for the purposes of a university
in said State. None of the lands
granted in this section shall be sold at
less than $40 per acre; but said lands
may be leased in the same manner as
provided in section IL of this act.
The schools, colleges and universities
provided for in this act shall forever
remain under the exclusive control of
the said State, and no part of the pro-
ceeds arising from the sale or disposal
of any lands herein granted for educa-
tional purposes shall be used for the
support of any sectarian or denomina-
tiona) school, college or university.
Sec. 15 provides for the setting spart
of certain quantity of land and the
appropriating of money for the erec-
ton of q penitentiary under the same
provisions OF the law passed March 2,
1881, for the Territory OF Dakota.
"SEC. II. That in lieu of the grant
of land for purposes of internal i'm
ment made to new States by the
eighth section Of the act of september
4, 1841, which act is hereby repealed
as to the State provided for by this
act, and in leu of any claim or de-
mand by the said State of Washing
ton, under the act of September %,
1850. and section 2.479 of the Revised
Statutes, making a grant of swamp
and overfowed lands to certain States,
which grant it is hereby declared is
not extended 10 the State provided for
in this act, and in lieu of any grant of
saline lands to said State, the follow
ing grants of land are hereby made,
to-wit:
Ito the State of Washington For
the establishment and maintenance
of a scientific school, 100000 acres
for public buildings at the State capi-
tol, in addition to the grant herein-be-
fore made for that purpose, 100000
acres; for State, charitable, education
al penal and reformatory institutions,
2OO, 900 acres.
"That the State provided for in this
act shall not be entitled to any fur
ther or other grants Of land for any
purpose than as expressly provided
in this act. And the lands granted
by this section shall be held, appro-
priated and disposed of exclusively for
the purposes herein mentioned, in
such manner as the Legislature of the
State may severally provide.
SEC. Is. That all mineral lands
shall be exempted from the grants
made by this act. But if sections 16
and 36, or any subdivision or portion
of any smallest subdivision thereof in
any township shall be found by the
department of the interior to be min
eral lands, said State is hereby author
lied and empowered to select, in legal
subdivisions, an equal quantity Of un-
appropriated lands in said State, in
lieu thereof, for the use and benefit of
the common schools of said State.
SEC. 10. That all lands granted in
quantity or as indemnity by this act
shall be selected, under the direction
of the Secretary of the Interior, from
the surveyed, unreserved, and un-
appropriate pu. lie lands of the
United States within the limits OF the
State entitled thereto. And there
shall be deducted from the number of
acres of land donated by this act for
specific objects to said State the num-
ber Of acres heretofore donated by
Congress to said Territory for similar