The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-02-06

ca 70 the state of Washington six hundred and
sixly-elght thousand t6S,6o0) acres OF the public
unoialn LOT certain public purposes as recited In
, me eIiaDilng act OF February - 1889 10 be Sc
iected from the surveyed. unsuryeyed and nm
appropriated public lands OF the United states
misalh tae limits OF our state. That there now
lA-sts ~ emergency demanding some legislation
ton. e 1oA"'
your memorinlists would represent that these
ii-n1s cannot be selected from the surveyed
anus OF our state, for the reason that they are
az pfasticaily taken up and otherwise appro-
p.lateo, as The records of the several United
states iand offices within the state will disclose
and further, that the state selection cannot wait
upon Inc extension of the SURVEYS. for the rea-
son mat the settlements anticipate the surveys,
ana tnus absorb all the valuable tracts. leaving
al best only a possible remnant and that in the
smallest legal subdivisions.
therefore your memorialists, acting within
the spirit OF our enabling act, respectfully re-
guest your honorable body without delay to
pass the following bill And the secretary of
STATE Is hereby directed TO at once mail certified
COPIES OF THIS memorial TO our representatives
IN congress- one copy each; TO the chairman OF
me committee on public lands in the House OF
Representatives,, one copy; to the chairman of
the committee on public lands In the senate,
one copy; to the secretary of the interior, one
copy TO the commissioner of the general land
ONCE, one copy.
An act authorizing the secretary of the interior
10 reserve the public lands granted to the
STATE OF Washington by the act of February
WHEREAS. Under the act OF February %. 1889.
which provided for the division of Dakota in
Two states and to enable the people OF North
tp a.l south Dakota, Montana and Washing
ton TO form constitutions and state governments
ana TO be admitted into the Union on an equal
footing with the original states, there was
granted to the state of Washington TO be Sc
ected under the direction OF the secretary of the
interior from the surveyed, Unreserved and un-
appropriated public lands OF the United States
within the limits of said state:
For erecting public buildings at the capital of
SAID state, 5000 acres.
For state university purposes, $4,000 acres.
For agricultural college, $1,000 acres
For scientific school, IeO,0O0 acres
For state normal school, 100000 acres.
For buildings at state capital, additional
grant OF 100 600 acres.
For state charitable educational. penal and re-
formatory institutions. 200,o COO acres: and
WHEREAS, In order TO secure to the state of
washington the lands thus granted, it is uecec-
sary TO create one or more reservations upon the
unsurveyed lands of the United States within
the territorial limits OF said state; therefore,
Be 10 Enacted, etc:
That the secretary of the interior be and is
hereby directed, within six months from the
GATE OF the passage OF this act TO establish by
metes and bounds upon the unsuryeyed lands of
the United States in the state OF Washington
one or more reservations, not exceeding in the
aggregate l,oo0,0oo acres as near as can be esti-
mated, 10 be designated as state reserve, and over
which the public land laws of the
United States shall be suspended and all settle
ment thereon Inhibited from and after the
date OF the filing of the diagram and notice
OF said reservation or reserya tons in the local
United States land Office OF the district wherein
the lands reserved, are situated: Provided.
That when the lands, thus reserved, are sur
veyed and the plats thereof madoof record, the
same shall be selected without unnecessary de-
lay under such rules and regulations as the Sec
rotary OF the interior may prescribe, but with
out fees or commissions to the United States;
and, Provided further, That as soon as the sew
eral grants are satisfied, the remaining portions
OF the reservation shall revert TO the public do
main and be subject to appropriation under the
existing land laws OF the United States.