The Estancia news. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1904-1912, 1910-06-24
Committee.

state and county officers, members of
the Legislature, and representatives in
congress, and oth4r officers atove pro.
vided for shall be held and the re-
turns thereof made, canvassGd and
certified as hereinDefore provided, the
governor of the territory of New Mex
leo shall certify the result Of said
election, as canvassad and certified as
herein provided, TO the president OF
the United States, who thereupon shall
Immediately issue his proclamation
announcing 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 New Mexico shall be deemed
admitted by congress into the union,
by virtue of this act, on an equal foot
ing 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 in
to the union and said officers are
elected and qualified under the pro
visions of the constitution, the county
and territorial officers of said terri
tory, including the delegate in con
gress thereof elected at the genera
election in 1908, shall continue to dis
charge the duties of their respective
| offices in and for said territory: Pro
vided That no session of the terri
torial legislative assembly shall bo
| held in 1911.
Section 6. That in addition to sec
| tions 16 and 36, heretofore granted tt
the territory of New Mexico, section
2 and 32 in every township in salt
proposed state not otherwige apprc
| priated at the date of the passage o
this act are hereby granted to the sait
state for the support OF common
schools; and where sections 2, 16, 3:
and Sc, or any parts thereof, are min
| eral, or have been sold, reserved, o
otherwise appropriated Or reserved b.
or under the authority of any act o
congress, or are wanting or fractiona
| in quantity, or where settlement there
on with a view to pre-emption o
homestead, or improvement thereof
with view to desert land entry IA:
been made heretofore or hereafter
and before the survey thereof i'll TIN
field, the provisions of sections 2.27'
and 2,276 of the Revised Statutes arr
hereby made applicable thereto and t
the selection of lands in lieu thereo
to the same extent as if sections
and 32, as we'll as sections 16 and 81
were mentioned therein: Provilet
however, that the area of such Il
demnity selections ON account VI an
fractional township shall not in an
event exceed an area which, when a.
ded to the area of the above-name
sections returned by the survey as
place, will equal four sections for fra
tional townships containing 17,2S
acres or more, three sections for SUE
townships containing 1880 acres
more, two sections for such township
containing $3.50 acres or more, NJ
one section for such township contai
, ing $40 acres or more: And provid
further, that the grants of sections
: 16, 80 and SO to said state, within Il
, /, tional forests now existing or pl
claimed, shall not vest the title
! said sections in said state until u
part Of sail national forests embrt
ing any of said sections is restor
. !, to the public domain; but said grahts
q sections shall be administered as
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