The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-03-02
SCHOOLS WIN.
stead Entries on Indem-
rity Land Rejected.
DECISION AFFIRMED.

- NeSls Approves the Rejection
- Eseal Omcs Of Entries On
1901 Indemnity Lands.
! 49, 70 the register and receiver Of
isrrl land Office. received yesterday.
r.. Noble, secretary Of the interior,
lse decision Of the Seattle Office by
ito applications on appeal Of six
Mo desired to make homestead
~ q school indemnity land.
= s6nlicants we're Levi Jerome, Sam
ekins, Arthur Daniels, s. r. Hor-
o. Abbott, G. w. Smith, Otto
~ and John C. Corwin. The land
! nIIsd to file on il situated in King
- "a the decision Of the secretary
RI s6nent to the county At large.
S ~ decision the secretary deals
80 With the school land indemnity
1S1 Ind questions, and sets forth his
1or rejecting the appeal clearly.
= flhlon Is given here verbatim:
- s nsidesed the appeals Of the following
15roooa from the decision of your once
IN, rejecting their applications to
s1ea1 entry OF the tracts respectively
-, southeast quarter section 8, town.
rorfh Of range west, Seattle, Wash.
s. KutcAins, northwest quarter section
- 81 north OF range west.
- bouieIa, east hall Of the northeast
nefioo 8 township 50, north of range /
q Icr>uu, southwest quarter section 8.
81 north OF range west
k ~ 7&Eue& west half Of northwest quarter.
S~M All 81 southwest quarter, section II.
Il nosfh OF range east
=, 18th, southeast quarter section To-
n north OF range cast
S 5fkx, south half of the northeast
! - = s. township 50, north of range j
{ 5sSa6 CSu1n, northwest quarter Of section
III ~ r ucFth Of range l west
~ v applications herein described
- aRsil: 1852 and rejected BY the
%{2 q error are the same q alleged
= RI r 4 H. Wheeler, tfnfr0). who made
I - licetton for the ne3< Of section Is,
- e 1oeth, range east, Seattle, Wash.
. ~ ~ 70 those several appeals were filed the
49, - rs pending Al appeal in this de-
q ona copy OF the argumenta and
s 49, 81 error in the Wheeler case d
onn16osutiOu in these cases.
4 ~ Nlee3@ case was decided by this depart
ollsbsr y, 1880, and the following state
8 ~ 3 f&6Ro Nn1e:
~ D6epou0eutly OF this, the act Of Febfu-
III -. rsxised statutes, rs. = 2 general
an1 this provision 10 not repealed as
40 ~ II Warrington BY the 18th section OF
1ou111ng ~ Of February p, 1859, but is re-
~ - fart q the grant for school purposes
- - section Of said act. Therefor the
- 1ndc BY the selection Of said tracts,
E1n5 - territorial government existed, still
Dues until said selection shall be cancelled"
ossa Of March 2 1858, establishing the
~ ~ IL purpose Of being applied to the
- 1ehoose In the territory, section Is
- II III cases where said sections or
&H & any Of them shall Be occupied prior
mwheze the lands were situated were
u1 - locate other lands. to an equal
II Hen Of the sections % occupied.
f1en1 q February Is. 1850, other lands
peiated to compensate deficiencies
Mg1 purposes where sections Is aud IS
onal In quantity, or where one or both
- u1ng b. reason OF the township being
= nom any natural cause whatever"
smeral oct, applying 70 AZ the states
- Warrington territory were authorized
0tNm lands from additional bases. The
appropriated ~ lieu lands for Sec
I'd IS were reserved from al other
NptlA section Of the act Of February 2,
1fning the territory of Washington and
1eOries to statehood II % follows:
upon the admission Of each Of said
u1o the Union, sections numbered nix
- - thirty-six in every township Of said
u9 states. and where such sections or any
U1geOf have been sold or otherwise dis
Is. b. or under the authority of any act of
Subdivisions Of not less than one-quarter
~ and 40 contiguous - may be to the SEC
III leu OF which the same was taken, are
granted to said states for the support Of
- be selected within said states in such
- the Legislature may provide, with
proval of the secretary Of the interior"
!: n6urth paragraph OF section IL OF the said
1T the states provided for by this act shall
~ - entitled to any further or other grants of
1I II any purpose than a. expressly provided
~ IT. set; and the lands granted by this Sec
lIdn1ively for the purposes herein mentioned,
As1eA manner as the legislatures of the re-
avs states may :everally provide
-: agricultural lands; iands for internal
11geM ion scientific school, for . state normal
4eeol. public buildings at the state capital and
- Z sEnte charitable, education. penal and re-
s$scsasU nstitution-aggregating 500 goo acres.
SI9an q land for purposes of internal i'm
yuyona1k made to new states by the eighth
ecSaeo q the act of september 4, 1871, and in
, nsg = ~ saim or demand under the swamp
~ that the states provided for in this act
oehl ~ b entitled TO any further or other
-. g land for any purpose than as expressly
sov1ded IN this act, relates more directly to
~ ss!eral grants made 70 the four states adj
otlee INTO the Union, in lieu OF the provisions
eaafnine4 in the act OF September 4, lS4l, and Of
- g Of September ., 1850
Y Me Get Of March >, 1858, lsupro,, to establish
W7ntof1ai government OF Washington. pro-
y sMe1 was made for the reservation of sections
ma % for the purpose OF being applied to the
sScaAoo schools, and express authority was
49, gwen 70 the county commissioners to To-
~ ueu lands, where such sections were filed
sSlon prior TO survey. Congress afterward en-
49, the reservation in the words Of the act,
ss1 otner lands are hereby appropriated 10 COM
icsete oefciencies for school purposes" etc.
lifting these states into the union, restricted
80 OF 1853 and 1852
The act OF 1858 does not grant the lands
- ZEN described. II only reserves sections six
- % the common schools, In contemplation
efutnre grant
Ihe lands were frrt granted to the states
ssn !neir admission to the union, and Ger
~ sauH y vas not intended by congress, in the
q kzsnung the lands. to annui the provisions
s.,s. made Tor rese.ving the lands 10. school
:. e ct Of February %, 1859. was a general
- Qpaicable alike to all the states and terri
-. md to eonstrue the act admitting the
49, - into the union Ms restricting the lieu
~ school purposes, provided for in the
SsA y M, would be to assume that congress
- - - provision for the four new states than
- 81 sne cher states in the union.
1Mu until the legislature Of the state of Wash.
s.ssoa sasli provide the manner in which in.
$500 LANDS for school purposes shall be Sc
- -. ana such manner shall be approved by
- sec1etary OF the interior. under the act of
49, tsspro) the reservation made by the selec-
n]s ~ Gaa tracts while the territorial govern
= .s exisfed will continue, until IL be shown
-. ~ iand was not subject TO selection by
-. " o. adverse rights acquired prior 10 eelec-
Fos the reasons above given. the several apnli-
~ .s,ns TO make homestead entries must be, and