Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1908-10-23
Statehood Bill.


GRANTING AN ENABLING ACT
TO THE TERRITORY OF NEW
MEXICO INTRODUCED IN THE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
BY DELEGATE w. II. ANDREWS
AND IN THE u. S. SENATE BY
UNITED STATES SENATOR BOIES
PENRoSE, OF PENNSYLVANIA,
AND NOW PENDING IN THE
SENATE AND HOUSE COMMIT.
TEES ON TERRITORIES IN THE
SlXTIETH CONGRESS-; WILL
COME UP FOR ACTION DURING
THE COMING SESSION OF CON
GRESS. THE REELECTION OF
DELEGATE ANDREWS Is AL
MOST CERTAIN TO BRING ABOUT
THE PASSAGE OF THE MEA SURE
Section 3. That the capital Of said
state shall temporarily be at the city
of Santa Fe, in the present territory
Of New Mexico, and shall not be chang
ed therefrom previous to Ammo Domni
nineteen hundred and twenty, but the
location of said capital may, after said
year, be fixed by the electors of said
state, voting at an election to be pro-
yIded for by the legislature.
Section G. That upon the admission
of said state into the Union there is
hereby granted unto it, including the
sections thereof heretofore granted,
four sections Of public land in each
township in the proposed state for the
support of free public nonscctarian
common schools, to-wit: Sections num-
bered thirteen, sixteen, thirty-thrcc
and thirty.siX, and where such sections
or any parts thereof have been sold or
otherwise disposed OF by or under the
authority Of any act Of Congress, other
lands equivalent thereto, in legal sub
divisions of not less than one-quartcr
section and as contiguous rs may be to
the section in lieu of which the same is
taken; such indemnity lands to be se-
lccted within said respective portions Of
said state in the manner provided in
this act.
Section T. That three hundred Sec
tons Of the Incorporated non-min-
eral public lands within said state TO
be selected and located in legal sub
divisions, as provided in this act, are
hereby granted to said state FOR the
purpose Of erecting legislative, execu-
tive and judicial public buildings in the
same and for the payment Of the bonds
heretofore or hereafter issued therefor.
Section 3. That ten per centum of
the proceeds Of the sales Of public lands
lying within said state which shall be
sold 10y the United States subsequent 10
the admission Of said state into the
Union, after deducling all the expenses
incident to the same shall be paid to
the said state to be used as a pcrma.
nent fund, the interest Of which only
shall be expended for the support Of
the common schools within sqid state.
And there is hereby appropriated out
Of any moneys in the treasury not 9TH
wise appropriated, the sum Of five
million dollars for the use and benefit
of the common schools of said state.
Said appropriation shall he paid by the
treasurer OF the United States at such
time and to such person or persons as
may be authorized hy said state to re-
ceive the same uajcr the laws to hc
enacted 10y said state. and until said
state shall enact such laws said appro-
priatior shall not he paid. Said appro
priation of five million dollars shall be-
held involable and invested by said
state, in trust for the use ard benefit
of said schools,
Section II. In addition TO the lands
granted by this act and which have
been granted heretofore 10y any prior
law, two million acres of land are here.
by granted to the said state, to be Sc.
lccted and segregated as heretofore
provided for other lands granted under
this act, the proceeds from said two
million acres of land, when disposed Of
by said state, to be applied in the dis
charge Of the outstanding indehtedness
owing and due from the counties of
Santa Fe and Grant, in said territory
of New Mexico, which said indebted.
ness was created by subscription by
said counties, in aid of the construc.
ton of railroads in said counties, and
which said Indebtedness congress vail
dated notwithstanding the fact that It
had been decided by the supreme court
of the United States that it was not
valid, and the said state shall issue
bonds to take up said Indebtedness to
fund and pay Off and discharge said
Indebtedness, said bonds to run for
period of thirty years, and title shall
be held by said state in trust for the
final payment and discharge of said
bonds when so issued.
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