Bisbee daily review., 1906-06-17
PUBLIC so HOOL s
 TO GET BIG SUM
STATEHOOD BILL GRANTS s5, ,O00, 900 TO sCHooLs-IM- MENsE PRESENTS OF BAND ARE OFFERED TO THE JOINT STATE AS INDUC EMENT TO STAND FOR
 MERGER, LlKELYT TO BE VOTED ON.

The bill fC~ the admission of Ari- lrha and New Mexico as reported by the cOnferees provides most liberally for the support Of tn: public insiitu- tiCns of the proposed state. Besides immense grants of land the measure appropriates five millions of dollars from tn" national treasury and sets aside per cent of the proceeds of the sales of public lands by the United
 States as a permanent fund. the inter- est of which is 10 be used to support the public schools of the new common wealth. Equally liberal provisions are mace for the other state institutions. The sections of the till making these
 grants follow
 See. 2S.-That upon the admission
 of said state into the Union there is
 hereby granted unto it, including the
 sections thereof heretofore granted, each township in the proposed state for the support of free public non-sec-
 tartan common schools. to-wit: Sec tIChS numbered thirteen. sixteen. thir- ty-three and thirty-Six. and where such sections or any parts thereof have i been sold or otherwise disposed of by
 or under the authority of any act of congress other lands equivalent there 10. in legal subdivisions of not less than one-CuarIer section and as con t;guOus as may be to the section ill
 lieu of which he same is taken ;' such i indemnity lands to be selected within said respective portions of said state in the manner provided in this act; provided. that the thirteenth, six k
 sections embraced in permanent reser-
 varlons for national purposes shall not
 at any time be subject to the grants
 TOT to the indemnity provisions of this act, but other lands equivalent there to may be selected for such school purposes in lieu thereof;
 nor shall any lands embraced in In. | dian, military. or other reservations of ! any characterize subject te the grants of this act, but such reservation lands shall be subject to the indemnity pro.
 visions of this act; provided. chat noth. | ing in this act contained shall repeal
 or affect any act of congress relating i to the Casa GTande ruin as now de. l fired or as may be hereafter defined
 or extended. or the power of the Unit. l ed States over it, or any other lands | embraced in the state hereafter set ! aside oy congress as national iark ! game preserve, or for the preservation
 of objects of archaeological or eth. Iological interest; and nothi lg con- | tained in this act shall interfere ith
 the rights and ownership of the Unit sd i States in any land hereafter set aside | by congress as national park, game preserve. or other reservation. CT in ! the said Casa Grande ruin as 1t HOW is l or may be hereafter define1 C ex
 tended by law, but exclusive l. gisla tion in all cases whatsoever. shall be
 exercised by the United States. waich | shall have exclusive coItrcl and juris ! diction over the same. but nothing ir i this proyiso contained shal! be con
 strued to prevent the service within l said Casa Grande ruin. or national
 parks, game preserves and other reser
 yations hereafter established by law
 Of civil ard criminal processes lawful