Arizona republican., 1910-06-27

time are needed for irrigation works
 in connection with any such govern
 ment project. And other lands in lieu
 thereof are hereby granted to said
 state, to be selected from lands of the
 character named and in the manner
 prescribed in section tWenty-four of
 this act
 THE GOVERNMENT WITHHOLDS.
 There is hereby reserved to the Unit
 ed States and excepted from the Op-
 eration of any and all grants made or
 confirmed by this act to said proposed
 state all land actually or prOspectively
 valuable for the development of water
 power or power for hydrO-electric use
 or transmission and which shall be aS-
 certained and designated by the secre-
 tary of the interior within five years
 after the proclamation of the presi-
 dent declaring the admission of the
 state; and no lands so reserved and excepted shall be subject to any dispO-
 sition whatsoever by said state, and any conveyance or transfer of such
 land by said state or any officer
 thereof shall be absolutely null and
 void within the period above named: and in lieu of the land so reserved to the United States and exempted from the operation of any of said grants there be, and is hereby, granted to the proposed state an equal quantity of land to be selected from land of the character named and in the manner prescribed in section twenty-four of this act.
 A separate fund shall be established for each of the several objects for which the said grants are hereby made or confirmed, and whenever any mOn-- eys shall be in any manner derived from any of said land the same shall be deposited by the state treasurer in the fund corresponding to the grant under which the particular land pro ducing such moneys was by this act conveyed or confirmed. The state treasurer shall keep all such moneys invested in safe, interest-bearing se- curities, which securities shall be ap proved by the governor and secretary of state of said proposed state, and shall be at all times under a good and sufficient bond or bonds conditioned for the faithful performance of his du- ties in regard thereto, as defined by this act and the laws of the state not in conflict herewith.
 Every sale, lease, conveyance. or con- tract of or concerning any of the lands hereby granted or confirmed, or the use thereof or the natural produces thereof not made in substantial conformity to the provisions of this act shall be null and void. any provision of the cOnsti- tuition or laws of the said state to the contrary notwithstanding.
 It shall be the duty of the attorney general or the United States to pros ecute. in the name of the United States and in it's courts, such proceedings at law OF in equity as may from time to time be necessary and appropriate to the provisions hereof relative to the application and disposition of the said lands and the products there of and the funds derived therefrom.
 Nothing herein contained shall be taken as in limitation of the power of the state or of any citizen thereof to enforce the provisions of this act.
 Section 29. That all lands granted in quantity, or as indemnity. by this act. shall be selected, under the direc- ton and subject to the approval of the secretary of the interior, from the sur veyed, unreserved, unapprOpriated. and l non mineral public lands of the United l States within the limits of said state | by a commission composed of the gov | ernor, surveyor general or other off l ger exercising the functions of a sur ,eyor- general, and the attorneys gen eral of the said state; and after its | admission into the union said state | may procure public lands of the Unit l ed States within its boundaries to be l surveyed with a view to satisfying | my public land grants made to said | state in the same manner prescribed | 'or the procurement of such surveys | 1y Washington, Idaho, and other states by the act of congress approved | August eighteenth, eighteen hundred | md ninety-four (twenty- eighth stat ltes at large, page three hundred and | linety-four), and the provisions of ;aid act, in so far as they relate to uch surveys and the preference right If selection, are hereby extended t0 the aid state of Arizona. The fees to be aid to the register and receiver for each inal location or selection of one hun fred and sixty acres made hereunder hall be one dollar.
 Section 30. That all grants of lands heretofore made by any act of con- ,ress to said territory, except to the xtent modified or repealed by this ct, are hereby ratified and confirmed O said state, subject to the provisions f this act: Provided, however, that lOthing in this act contained shall, irectly or indirectly, affect any liti- ,ation now pending and to which the Jnited States is a party, or any right r claim therein asserted.
 THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM.
 Section S1. That the said state, Fhen admitted as aforesaid, shall con titute one judicial district, and the ircuit and district courts of said dis rict shall be held at the capital of aid state, and the said district shall, or judicial purposes, be attached to he ninth judicial circuit. There shall e appointed for said district one dis rict judge, one United States attorney, udge of said district shall receive a early salary the same as other sim ar judges of the United States. pay ble as provided for by law, and shall eside in the district to which he is ppointed. There shall be appointed Jerks of said courts, who shall keep heir offices at the capital of said tate. The regular terms of said courts hall be held on the first Monday in