Arizona republican., 1910-06-27
THE STATEHOOD BILL
 AS T BECAME A LAW
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Vided for in the preceding section, at which election of officers for a full state government, including a governor, members of the legislature one representative in Congress, and such other officers as the constitu- tional convention shall prescribe shall be chosen by, the people. Such election shall be held, the returns thereof made. canvassed and certified to by the secretary of said territory, in the same manner as in this act prescribed for the making of the returns, the canvassing and certification of the same of the election for the ratifica- ton or rejection of said constitution, as hereinbefore provided, and the qualification of voters at said election for all state officers, members of the legislature, county officers, and repre- sentative in congress, and other off cers prescribed by said constitution shall be made the same as the qualifi- cations of voters at the election for the ratification of said constitution as hereinbefore provided When said cleo tiOn of state and county officers, mem bers of the legislature and representa- tive in congress, and other officers above provided for shall be held and the returns thereof made, canVassed and certified, as herein provided, the governor of the territory of Arizona shall certify the result of said election as canvassed and certified, 2s herein provided. to the president of the Unit ed States, who thereupOn shall imme- idately issue his proclamation an nouncing the result of said election so ascertained, and upon the issuance of said proclamation by the president of the United States the proposed state of Arizona shall be deemed admitted by congress into the Union by virtue of this act and on an equal footing with the other states. Until the issuance of said proclamation by the president of the United States, and until the said state is so admitted into the Union and said officers are elected and quali- fled under the provisions of the con- stitution, the county and territorial of ficers of said territory, including the delegate in congress thereof elected in the general election in nineteen hun dred and eight, shall continue to dis
  offices in and for said territory: Pro- vided, that no session of the territorial legislative assembly shall be held in nineteen hundred and eleven.
 THE LAND GRANTS.
 Section 24 That in addition to sec tions sixteen and thirty-six, heretofore reserved for the Territory of Arizona, sections two and thirty-two in every township in said proposed state not otherwise appropriated at the date of the passage of this act are hereby granted to the said state for the sup port of common schools; and where sections two, sixteen, thirty-two and or any parts thereof, are or have been sold, reserved, or otherwise appropriated or reserved by or under the authority of any act of congress-. or are wanting or frac- tional in quantity. or where settlement thereon with a view to pre- -emption or homestead or improvement thereof with a view to desert land entry has been made heretofore or hereafter, and b61ole the survey thereof in ths field the rroViSiOns of sections tWenty-two hundred and seventy-five and twenty two hundred and seventy-siX of the 1 revised statutes, and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, are hereby made applicable thereto and to | the selection of lands in lieu thereof to the same extent as if sections two and | as well as sections sixteen | and thirty-siX, were mentioned there 1 in: Provided, however. that the area of such indemnity selections on ac- | count of any fractional township shall | not in any event exceed an area which, | when added to the area of the above | sections returned by the survey | IS in place, will equal four sections for | fractional townships containing seven ] teen thousand two hundred and eighty | acres or more, three sections for such | townships containing eleven thousand | i've hundred and twenty acres or more, | TWO sections for townships containing | i've thousand seven hundred and sixty | lcres or more, nor one section for such | townships containing six hundred and | orty acres or more: And provided, further, that the grants of sections | wo, sixteen, thirty-two and thirty-six o said state, within national forests low existing or proclaimed, shall not rest the title to said sections in said 'tste urtii the part of said national orests embracing any of said sections II said state is restored to the public lomain; but said granted sections shall DC administered as a part of said for sts, and at the close of each fiscal ear there shall be paid by the secrc- ary of the treasury to the state, as in- Dme for its common school fund, such 'ropOrtion of the gross proceeds of all he national forests within said state IS the area of lands hereby granted o said state which are situated within l aid taIest reserves, whether surveyed IT unsul veyed, and for which no in has been selected, may bear to he total area of said sections when nsurveyed to be determined by the ecretary of the interior, by protraction r otherwise, the amount necessary or such payments being appropriated I nd made available annually from any honey in the treasury np. otherwise appropriated.
 'oR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES.
 Section 25.-That in lieu of the rant of land for purposes of internal made to new states by he eighth section of the act of Sep tmber fourth, eighteen hundred and il ,rty zone, and in lieu of the swamp
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