The Socorro chieftain., 1907-12-14
THE STATEHOOD BILL
Makes Very Liberal Donations for
the Support Of the Various
Educational Institutions.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS ss.OOO,OOO
The School of Mines Remembered in
Grant of Two Hundred Thou
sand Acres.

IN order that the readers OF
The Chieftain may know what
provision the statehood bill in
troduced by Delegate Andrews
makes for education, the provis-
ions of the bill upon that subject
are here quoted:
Sec. 3. That provisions shall
be made for the establishment
and maintenance of a system of
public schools, which shall be
open to all the children of said
state and free from sectarian
control, and that said schools
shall always be conducted in
English; Provided. That this
act shall not preclude the teac h
ing of other languages in said
public schools.
Sec. b. That upon the adj
mission of said state into the Un-
ion there is hereby granted unto
1t, including the sections thereof
heretofore granted, four sections
of public land in each township
in the proposed state for the sup
port of free public nonsectarian
common schools, to-wit: Sec
tions numbered thirteen, sixteen,
thirty-three, and thirty-six.
Sec. .. That ten 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 in the
Union, after deducting all the
expenses incident to the same,
shall be paid to the said state to
be used as a permanent fund, the
interest of which only shall be
expended for the support of the
common schools within said
state. And there is hereby APP
propriated, out of any moneys in
the treasury not otherwise APP
prOpriated, the sum of five mill
lion dollars for the use and benz
eft of the common schools of the
said state. Said appropriation
shall be paid by the treasurer of
the United States at such time
and to such person or persons as
may by authorized 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 appro-
priation of five million dollars
shall be held inviolable by said
state, in trust, for the use and
benefit of said schools.
Sec. 10. That all lands here
i'll granted for educational pur-
poses may be appraised and dis
posed of only at public sale, the
proceeds to constitute a perma-
nent school fund, the income
from which only shall be expend-
ed in the support of said schools.
But said lands NAV, under such
regulations as the Legislature
shall prescribe, be leased for per-
iods 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
of the United States, whether
surveyed or unsurveyed, but shall
be reserved for school purposes
only.
Sec. II. That in lieu of the
grant OF land for purposes of in
ternal improvement made to new
states by the eighth section OF
the act of September fourth,
eighteen hundred and forty-one,
which section is hereby repealed
as to the proposed state, and in
lieu of any claim or demand bv
the said state under the act oil
September twenty-eighth, eigh-
teen hundred and fifty, and sec.
tion twenty-four hundred aud
seventy-nine of the Revised
Statutes, making a grant OF
swamp and overflowed lands to
certain states, which grant it is
hereby declared is not extended
to said state, save as heretofore
made, the following grants ol
land from public lands of the
United States within said state
are hereby made, to-wit:
For the establishment and
maintenance and support of in
sane asylums in the said state
two hundred thousand acres; fol
penitentiaries, two hundred
thousand acres; for schools fol
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