The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-01-07

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domain within said State in the man
ner as provided in this Act. and the
proceeds of all such lands shall con-
%stitute a permanent fund. TO be safe
ly invested and held by said State,
and the income thereof be used ex-
clusively for university nos The
schools. colleges. and universities pro
vided for in this Act shall forever re
main under the exclusive control of
the said State, and no part of the
proceeds arising from the sale or dis
posal of any lands herein granted for
educational urpos shall he used
for the support of n %sectarian or
UNCONVENTIONAL school. college or uni
versity.
Sec. 81. That nothing in this Act
shall be SO construed, except where
the same is so specifically stated, as
to repeal any grant of land heretofore
made by any Act of Congress to eth
er of said Territories, but such grants
are hereby ratified and confirmed in
n to said State. and all of the land
that m a not. at the time of the ad-
mission of said State into the Union.
have been selected and segregated
from the public domain, may be so
selected and segregated in the man
ner provided in this Act.
Sec. %. That five per centum of
the proceeds of the sales of public
lands lying within said State which
shall be sold by the United States
subsequent to the admission of said
State into the Union. after deducting
all the expenses incident to the same,
shall be paid to said State, to be used
as a permanent fund. the interest of
which only shall be expended Tor the
supper of the common schools with
in said State.
Sec. 20. That all lands herein
granted for educational may
be appraised and disposed Of only
at public sale, the proceeds to con-
sIitute a permanent school fund. the
income from which only shall be ex-
pended in the support of said schools.
But said lands may, under such regu-
atoms as the legislature shall pre-
scribe. be leased for periods of o
more h a five years. and such com
mon school land shall not be subject
to presumption, homestead entry, or
any other entry under the land laws
of the United States, whether sur
veyed or u~nsurveyed, but shall be re-
served for school only.
Sec. so. That in lieu of the grant
of land for the purposes Of internal
improvement made to new States by
the eighth section of the Act of Sep
TENDER fourth, eighteen hundred and
forty-one, which section. is hereby
repealed as to the proposed State.
and in lieu OF any claim or demand
by the said State under the Act Of
September tw~enty-eight, eighteen hun
dred and fifty, and section t~wenty-four
hundred and seventy-nine of the Re-
vised Statutes, making a grant of
swamp and overlooked lands to Ger
tain States, which grant it is hereby
declared is not extended to the said
State, and in lieu Of any grant of sa-
inc lands to said State, save as here
tofore made. the following grants OF
Ian from public ands of the United
States in his said State are hereby
made to wit:
For the establishment and mainte- !
nance and support of insane asylums
in the said State, two hundred thou
sand acres; for ~penitentiaries, two
hundred thousand acres for deaf. |
dumb, and blind asylums, two hun
dred thousand acres; for miners hos
pitfalls for disabled miners, one hun
dred thousand acres; for normal
schools, two hundred thousand acres;
for State charitable. penal, and refor-
matory institutions. two hundred thou
sand acres; for agricultural and me-
chanical colleges, three hundred thou
sand acres: for schools of mines, two
hundred thousand acres; for military
institutes, two hundred thousand
acres.
Sec. 81. That all lands granted in
quantity or as indemnity by his Act
shall be selected, under the direction
of the Secretary of the Interior, from
the Incorporated public lands of
the United States within the limits
of said State, by a commission COM
posed of h governor. s~urveyor-gen-
eral, and encouragement OF said
State; and no fees shall be charged
for passing the title to the same or
for the preliminary proceedings there
of.
Sec. 80. That all mineral lands
shall be exempted from the grants
made by this Act; but if any portion
thereof shall De found by the De-
partment of the Interior to be MINER
al lands, said State is hereby authoriz