Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-12-07

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Congress other lands equivalent there
to, in legal subdivisions of not less
than one-quarter section and as con
tignous as may be to the section in
lieu of which the same Is taken; such
indemnity lands to be selected within
said respective portions Of said state
in the manner provided In this act:
Provided, That the thirteenth, six
teenth, thirty-third, and thirty-sixth
sections embraced in permanent res
ervations for national purposes shall
not at any time be subject to the
grants nor to the indemnity provi
sions of this act, but other lands
equivalent thereto may be selected
for such school purposes in lieu there
of; nor shall any lands embraced in
Indian, military, or other reserva
tons of any character be subject to
the grants of this act, but such reser
vation lands shall be subject to the
indemnity provisions of this act.
Sec. z. That three hundred sec
tions of the unappropriated non-min
eral public lands within said state
to be selected and located in legal
subdivisions, as provided in this act
are hereby granted to said state fol
the purpose of erecting legislative
executive, and judicial public build
ings in the same and for the payment
of the bonds heretofore or hereafter
issued therefor.
Sec. s. That nothing in this ACT
shall be so construed except where
the same is so specifically stated, as
to repeal any grant of land hereto
fore made by any act of Congress te
said Territory, but such grants are
hereby ratified and confirmed In and
to said state, and all of the land that
may not, at the time of the admission
of said state into the Union, have
been selected and segregated from
the public domain may be so selected
and segregated in the manner provid
ed in this act
Sec. 8. That ten per centum of the
proceeds of the sales or public lands
lying within said state which shall be
sold by the United States subsequent
to the admission Of said state in the
Union, after deducting all the ex-
penses incident to the same shall be
paid to the said state to be used as q
permanent fund, the interest of which
only shall be expended for the support
of the common schools within said
state. And there is hereby appropria
ted, out of any moneys in the treas
ury not otherwise appropriated, the
sum of five million dollars for the
use and benefit of the common schools
Of the said state. Said anprnpr! ton
shall he paid by the treasurer of the
United States at such time and tc
such person or persons as may be all
thorized by said state to receive the
same under the laws to be enacted by
said state, and until said state shall
enact such laws said appropriation
shall not be paid Said appropriation
Of five million dollars shall be held
inviolable and invested by said state
in trust, for the use and benefit OF
said schools.
Sec. 10. That all lands herein
granted for educational purposes may
be appraised and disposed of only al
public sale, the proceeds to constitute
a permanent school fund, the income
from which only shall be expended In
the support of said schools. But sait
lands may, under such regulations as
the Legislature shall prescribe, be
leased for periods of not more than
ten years, and such common school
land shall not be subject to pre-emp
ton, homestead entry, or any Other
entry under the land laws or the Uni
ted States, whether surveyed or un
surveyed, but shall be reserved fol
school purposes only.
Sec. II. That in lieu of the grant
of land for purposes of internal i'm
provement made to new states by
the eighth section of the act of Sep
tember fourth, eighteen hundred an(
forty-one, which section is hereby re
pealed as to the proposed state, ant
in lieu Of any claim or demand by the
said state under the act of Septem
Der twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred
and fifty, and section twenty-four hun
dred and seventy-nine of the Revised
Statutes, making a grant Of swamp
and overfowed lands to certain states
which grant it is hereby declared is
not extended to said state, save as
heretofore made, the following grants
Of land from public lands of the Uni
ted States within said state are here
by made, to-wit:
For the establishment and mainten
ance and support of insane asylums
in the said state, two hundred thou
sand acres; for penitentiaries, two
hundred thousand acres; for schools
for the deaf, dumb, and blind, two
hundred thousand acres; for miners
hospitals for disabled miners, ont
hundred thousand acres; for norma
schools, two hundred thousand acres
for state charitable, penal, and reform
atory institutions, two hundred thou
sand acres; for agricultural and me
chanical colleges, three hundred thou