Bisbee daily review., 1909-02-21

tary. or other reservations. except national forests, at the date of the
 passage of this Act, CT prior to the
 survey of said sections, shall not be subject to this grant. but ot1er lands
 cf equal area are hereby granted to be
 selected for school purposes in lieu
 thereof And the Secretary of the In-
 terior. without awaiting the extension
 of the public surveys, shall ascertain and determine, by protraction or oth-
 erwise, the area of said sections two, sixteen. thirty-two and thirty-six in- eluded with in such Indian. military, or other reservations, including na- tsonal forests, and shall certify to the
 State the area thus determined. where upon the State shall select indmnfls
 lands to tn extent of the area thus certified: And provided, That the grants of sections two, sixteen, thirty
 two, aud thirty-six to said State within
 national forests now existing or pro claimed before Identification Cf said
 sections by survey shall not vest the
 title to said sections in said State un- til the part of said national forests embracing any of said sections Is I=
 stored to the public domain, but ih the meantime said State shall have the option of making indemnity seiSN
 tons for any or all Of said sectiuns or of leaving any or all of them to remain part of the respective na-
 t'onal forests; and said sections so
 left in national Forests shail be admin
 istered as part of said forests, but a, the close of each fiscal year there shall paid by tn Sertary of the
 Teasury to the State as income for :1s
 common-school fund twenty per centumof the gross proceeds of all
 the national forests within said State,
 said twenty per centum, however. tC be reduced at the end Of each fiscal
 year in proportion to the reduction of
 the area of said sections, originally .n
 national forests by all indemnity se- lections which may have been made by the State for said sections in saiu forests prior to the close of the re spective- fiscal years. the area of said sections when unsuryeyed to be oe- termined by the Secretary of the h. terior by protraction or otherwise. the
 amount necessary for such payments being hereby appropriated and made
 available annually from any money in
 the Treasury not otherwise approprs- ated.
 Sec. g. That where settlement | with a view to desert-land entry, made
 heretofore or heresieter before survey.
 ar found to have been made on sec | tions two, sixten, Unity two, or thirty l six, those sections or the portions thereof settled upon or improved shall | be subject to the claims of such set | tiers or desert-land claimants who | r.%, EnI quirements of the preemptIon.' home. stead, and desert-land Acts, respective | ". and other lands of equal acreage
 are hereby granted in lieu thereeI. | And other lands are hereby granted 10 and may be selected by sad State as indemnity where upon survey sec tions two. sixteen, thirty two, and thirty-six are found to be entirely
 wanting or fractional in quantity by
 reason of the township being fraction al. or from any natural cause what ever, except that the area of such indemnity selection rlght in any sucn | Ifractional township shall not ' any ! event exceed an area which when l added to the area of the above-named i. sections returned by the survey as
 in place will equal four sections for l fractional townships containing seven teen thousand two hundred and eighty | acres or more. three sections for such townships containing eleven thousand five hundred and twenty acres or
 more, two esections for such town
 ships containing five thousand seven durdred and sixty acres or more. nor
 one section for such townships con tain'ng six hundred and forty acres or more
 Sec. 2s. That .n lieu of the grant
 of laud for purposes Cf internal i'm
 provements made to new States by the
 eighth section of the Act of Septem- Der fourth, eighteen hundred and | forty-one, which section Is hereby re
 nealed as to the proposed State. and in | lieu of any claim or demand by sad State under the Act of September Itwenty-e' 'ghtth. eighteen hundred and 1 fifty. and section twenty-four hundred
 and seyenty-nine Of the Revised Stat
 ptes. making a grant of swamD and | ove' Flowed lands to certain States, which grant 1t is hereby declared as not extended to the said State, the l following grants of land are hereby
 made. to-wit:
 For university purposes. one hun | @red and twen-v tNcueaud acrss: for | Legislative. executive. and judicial pub i lie buildings heretofore erected in inc 1 State, and for the payment of toe | bonds heretofore or hereafter issued ltherefoT. n'nty-six thousand acres: IUi
 insane asylums. one hundred thou
 sand acres: for penitentiaries. one l hundred thousand acres: for schools
 and asylums for the deTf dumb. and he blind. one hundred thousand ac1vs. for miners hospitals for disabled
 miners. fifty thousand acres; for nV.. nal schools. two hundred thousand acres: for state charitable. penal. ana ireforInatory institutions. one huudreu thousand acres: for agricultural and mechanical colleges, one hundred and
 fifty thousand arres. and the national Appropriation heretofore annually paid for the agricultural and mechan!cai
 rcl'ege to said Territory shall. untii lfurther crder cf Congess, continue to
 be paid 10 said State for the use ol said institution; fer school of mint-. lone hundred thousand acres: for nil'- tary institutes. one hundred tAousand acres; for irrigation fer public pur-
 roses and for improvement of rivers
 by eonfining them within thei banks land preventing destruc'ye overflow Iof streams, six hundred thousand lacres; and for the payment ck the
 debts of said Territory and of such valid county and other public debts lexist'ng at the date of the applOs.., Of this Act as said Territory may have