Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-28
Would Enable People of Arizona to Form Constitution and State Government and Enter Union on Equal
 Footing with Other Commonweaths

UcerS as SalQ constitutional convention
 shall preseribe; and in case said state
 shall be declared to be admitted Inlo the Union in accordance with the pro. visions of section four of this act, such
 election shall be held on the first Tues day after the first Monday in Noven-
 Der, l9l0 and the said state govern
 ment shall remain in abeyance until
 said election shall be had and the re
 turns thereof certified as the eonstitu tional convention shall provide. Tba legislature of said state may then as- semble at Phoenix, organize, and elect
 two senators of the United States m the manner now prescribed by the Constitution and laws of tine United States; and the governor and the see retary of the state shall certify the election of the senators and the repre- i sentatives in the manner required by law, and the senators and the represent
 ative shall be entitled to be admitted Ito seats in congress and to all rights and privileges of senators and repre- sentatives of other states in the con
 gress of the United States. And unuI said state officers and representative in congerss shall be elected and quali- utu iUt ltIIllOIldi OlDCtTS Ol Sdlu ter
 ritory, including the delegate to con gress, shall continue to hold and dis
 charge the duties of their respective
 officers. And all laws of said territory in force at the time of its admission
 into the Union shall be in force in said
 state until changed by the legislature
 of said state, except as modified CT 1 changed by this act or by the constitu- | tion of the state; and the laws of the United States shall have the same [ force and effect within the said state as elsewhere within the United States. Disposal of School Lands
 Sec. :. That sections sixteen and ! thirtysix, heretofore reserved for the l territory of Arizona, and, in addition ! thereto, sections two and thirtytwo are
 hereby granted to the said state for the support of common schools, and where sections two, sixteen, thirty-two, and thirtysix, or any parts thereof,
 are mineral, or have been sold re-
 served, CT otherwise disposed of by or
 under the authority of any act ot con. gress, other lauus equivalent thereto in
 acreage are hereby granted to the said
 state for the support of common
 schools: Provided, That any such sec
 tions two, sixteen, thirty-two, and thir- | ty six, or parts thereof, embraced m
 any Indian. military, or other rcscrva.
 tioDs, except national forests, at the date of the passage of this act, or prior to the survey Of said sections, shall
 not be subject to this grant, but other ] lands of equal area are hereby grant
 ed to be selected for sc.sooi purposes
 in lieu thereof And the secretary Of the interior, without awaiting the ex- | tension of the public surveys, shall as certain and determine, by protraction
 or otherwise, the area of sad sections
 two, sixteen, thirty-two, and thirty six | included within such Indian, military, or other reservations. and shall certify | to the state the area thus determine |, whereupon the state shall be entitled to select indemnity lands to ,he extent
 of the area thus certified: And pro.
 vided, That the grant to said state of sections two, sixteen, thirty-two, and thirty-six within national forests new
 existing shall not vest the title to any of said sections in said state ,ntil
 the part of said national forests em-
 bracing the same shall be rest. r.. 10 the public domain, but ,n the meantime
 said state shall have ;Ec uDtlon of
 making indemnity selections for any or all ot' said sections; and any of said
 sections as to which said state may Bot
 have exercised such option of indem
 nifty selection shall he admin,y,n
 i q part of said forests, but at the close of each fiscal year there shall be paid ] by the secretary of the treasury to the state as income for its common schooi 1 fund 20 per centum Of the gross pro
 ceeds of all the national forests within
 said state, said 20 per centum, however, to be reduced at the end of each fiscal | year in proportion to the reduction of
 the area of said sections originally in
 national forests by all indemnity selec- | tions which may have been made by
 the state for said sections m said for
 ests prior to the close of the respective
 fiscal years, the area of said sections when unsurveyed to be determined by the secretary of the interior by pro.
 traction or otherwise, and, the amount
 necessary for such payments is hereby
 appropriated and made available an-
 nually from any money in the treasury
 not otherwise appropriated.
 Sec. x. That where settlement with
 view to the pre- emption or homestead or improvement with view to desert
 land entry, made heretofore or here
 after before survey, are found to have | been made on sections two, sixteen,
 thirtytwo or thirty-six, those sections
 or the portions thereof settled upun or improved shall be subject to the claims
 of such settlers or desert land claim
 ants who have or shall have other.i ise
 complied with the requirements of the pre-emption, homestead, and desert-
 land acts, respectively, and other lands fof equal acreage are hereby granted in 1 lieu thereof. And other lands are here.
 by granted to and may be selected by said state as indemnity where. upon | survey, sections two, sixteen, thirty
 two, and thirty.six, are found to be en.
 tireiy wanting or fractional in quanti. | ty by reason of the township being { fractional, or from any natural cause
 whatever, except that the area of such
 indemnity selection right in any such
 fractional township shall not in any event exceed an area which, when add
 cd 10 the area of the above named sec ' tions returned by the survey as m