Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-12-07
Statehood Bill Introduced in House
BY Representative Hamilton


twenty per cehtnm OF the gross PFC
ceeis OF all the national forest With
said state. said twenty per entuu
however. to be reduced at the end q
each fiRcal year in proportion to IN
reduction OF the area Of said section
originally ia national forests. by all In
demnity selections which may hnvi
been made by the state for said sec
tinns IN said forests prior 70 the clos
OF the respective fiscal years. the arrf
ut slid sections when unsuryeyed Il
lie determined by the secretary OF
the interior. by protractlon or other
Wise, the amount necessary Tor sucl
payments being hereby Appropriated
and made available annually from any
moncv Ia the treasury not otherwise
appropriated.
sec That where settlement with
a view ia presumption or homestead
or Improvement with Il view 70
descent land entry. made hereto
fore or hereafter, before the sur
WY of the lands N the field are
found u have been made on sections
two. sixteen. thlrty-two or %thirty-slx.
those sections or portions thereof get
Tied upon or improved shall be sub
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desert land claimants who have other
wisn complied with the requirements
OF the pre.emption. homestead and
desert land acts, respectively. and
other lands Of equal acreage are here
by granted in lieu thereof. And other
lands are hereby granted to and may
be selected by said state as indemnity
where upon survey sections two, six.
teen. thirty-two and thlrty-six are
found 10 he entirely wanting or frac-
tioual in quantity by reason OF the
township being fractional. or from
any natural cause whatever, except
ihat the area OF such indemnity selec-
ton right In n such fractional town
ship shall not in any event exceed an
area which. when added TO the area Of
the abOve-named sections returned by
the survey as in place, will equal four
sections for fractional townships on
tanning 1880 acres or more. three
sections for such townships contain
ing ll,s20 acres or more, two sections
for such townships containing 5.7G0
or more. nor one section for
such townships containing $40 acres
or more.
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for IMPOSES OF internal improve-
made to new states by the
section Of the act OF Septem.
ber 4. 1S4i, which section is hereby
repealed mn to the proposed state, and
n lieu Of any claim or demand by said
under the net OF September 2S
$50. and section 2i1a OF the revised
making a grant OF swamp
nycrfiowed lands 60 certain states
which grant II In hereby declared Is
Tot extended to the said state, and in
leu of the grant OF snline lands here.
oforc made to the territory Of New
for university purposes by sec
ion three OF the act Of June 81, 1898,
which In hereby repealed except as 20
luch portions Of such saline lands ns
nay have been selected by said terri
DRY prior to the passage of this act
he following grants of land are here
~ made. to-wit:
For university purposes, one hun-
lrrd and twenty thousand acres. for
executive and Judicial pub
&c buildings heretofore erected in
'aid territory or to be hereafter erect
"a In the state, and Tor the payment
II the bonds heretofore or hereafter
ssued therefor, ninety-six thousand
,rres. for insane as,lums. one hum {
ired thousand acres, for p~cnitentiur-
IS, one hundred thousand acres for
and asylums for the dear. {
iumb and the blind, one hundred {
thousand acres, for miners hospitals {
OF disabled miners, fifty thousand
ieres, for normal schools. two hum d
tired thousand acres; for state char :
table, penal ana reformatory institu-
ions. n hundred thousand acres
or agricultural and mechanical coll {
one hundred and fifty thousand J
Icrcs. and the national appropriation
heretofore annually paid FOR the agri- !
cultural ana mechanical college to :
territory shall, uutil further or :
Ter OF congress. continue to he paid :
- said state for the use of said IN =
titution FOR school OF mines, one hum
lred and nifty thousand acres and FOR
ne payment of the valid and subsist- !
nR debts OF said territory and of the
lehts of the counties thereof which Z
.ye valid and subsisting at the date J
" tho approval of this act, and which |
aid territory may have assumed or |
aid state shall assume, three million J
.crcs. provided. that II there shall re- !
main amy OF the three million acres of >
and so granted or of the proceeds of
sale or lease thereof. or rents. is- y
ues or other profits thorofrum. after "a
he payment OF said debts. such re- "a
or ands and the proceeds Of 9
,,les thereof shan bo added ga and {
.ccome a part of the permanent b