Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-28
STATEHOOD BILL INTRODUCED BY
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 prescribe, hut at not less than $25 per acre; and all lands herein or heretofore granted for purposes other than educa tional shall be disposed of as the legis lature of said state may prescribe
 Survey Provided For
 Sec. 13. That all lands granted in quantity or as indemnity by this act shall be selected, under the direction of the secretary of the interior, from the unreserved, unappropriated, and non mineral public lands of the United States within the limits of said state by commission composed of the gov ernor, surveyor general, or other officer exercising the functions of surveyor general, and attorney general of the said state; and the fees to be paid to the register and receiver collectively for each final location or selection Of one hundred and sixty acres made here under shall be one dollar: Provided That if the above commission selects any tract of unsurveyed boundaries thereof and file with the department oi the interior a map and description of such boundaries by metes and bounds or otherwise, and the fling of such selection map and description shall op- crate to defeat any right within said area sought to be initiated thereafter by location, settlement, or improvement under any but the mineral land laws; and there is hereby appropriated, o,t of any funds in the tcrasury not other wise appropriated, the sum of fifty thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be used by the secretary of the interior for such cx- animation and survey of said land as he may deem necessary for purposes of patenting the land so selected to the state.
 Sec. 14. That all grants of lands heretofore made by any act of congress to said territory, except to the extent modified or repealed by this act, are hereby ratified and confirmed in and to said state.
 Judicial Provisions
 Sec. 15. That the said state, when admitted as aforesaid, shall constitute one judicial district, and the circuit and district courts of said district shall be held at the capital of said state, or at such other place or places as tho court itself may designate, and tho said district shall, for judicial purposes, until otherwise provided, be attached to the ninth judicial circuit. There shall be appointed for said district one district judge, one United States at torney, and one United States marshal. The judge of said district shall receive a yearly salary the same as other sim. liar judges of the United States, pa, able as provided for by law, and shall reside in said district. There shall be appointed clerks of said courts, who shall keep their offices at the capital of said state. The regular terms of said courts shall be held in said dis. trict, at the place or places aforesaid, on the first Monday in April and the first Monday in October of each year, and one grand jury shall be summoned in each year in each of said circuit and district courts. The circuit and district courts for said district and the judges thereof, respectively, shall pos sess the same powers and jurisdiction and perform the same duties required to be performed by the other circuit and district judges of the United States, and shall be governed by the same laws and regulations. The mar shal, district attorney, and clerks of the circuit and district courts of said district, and all other officers and per sons performing duties in the admin istration of justice therein, shall sever ally possess the powers and perform the duties lawfully possessed and re quired to be performed by similar of fcers in other districts of the UniteG States, and shall, for the services they may perform, receive the fees and com pensation now allowed by law to of ficers performing similar services for the United States in the territory of Arizona.
 Sec. l6. That all cases of appeal CT writ of error heretofore prosecuted and now pending in the supreme court of the United States upon any record from the supreme court of said territory. or that may hereafter lawfully be prose cuted upon any record from said courts may be heard and determined by said supreme court of the United States And the mandate of execution or of further proceedings shall be dir6c en by the supreme court of the United States to the circuit or district court hereby established within the said state or to the supreme court of such state, as the nature of the case may require. And the circuit, district, and state courts herein named shall, respectively, be the successors of the supreme court of the said territory as to all such eases arising within the limits embraced within the jurisdiction of such rcue respectively, with full power to proceed with the same and award pesne or final process therein; and that from all judgments and decrees of the SUI preme court of the said territory, in any case arising within the limits of the proposed state prior to admission, the parties to such judgment shall have the same right to prosecute appeals and writs of error to the supreme court of the United States or to the circuit court of appeals as they shall nave had by law prior to the admission of said state into the Union, and as in other states of the Union.
 Succession of Courts
 See. r. That in respect to all cases, proceedings, and matters now pending in the supreme or district courts of the