of the Revised Statutes are hereby made applicable thereto and to the selection of lands in lieu thereof to the same extent as if sections two and thirty-two, as well as sections sixteen and thirty-six, were mentioned therein: Provided, however, Provisos.
Restriction of indemnity selections.That the area of such indemnity selections on account of any fractional township shall not in any event exceed an area which, when added to the area of the above-named sections returned by the survey as in place, will equal four sections for fractional townships containing seventeen thousand two hundred and eighty acres or more, three sections for such townships containing eleven thousand five hundred and twenty acres or more, two sections for such townships containing five thousand seven hundred and sixty acres or more, nor one section for such township containing six hundred and forty acres or more: And provided further, Lands in national forests.That the grants of sections two, sixteen, thirty-two, and thirty-six to said State, within national forests now existing or proclaimed, shall not vest the title to said sections in said State until the part of said national forests embracing any of said sections is restored to the public domain; but said granted sections shall be administered as a part of said forests, and 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-school fund, such proportion of the gross proceeds of all the national forests within said State as the area of lands hereby granted to said State for school purposes which are situate within said forest reserves, whether surveyed or unsurveyed, and for which no indemnity has been selected, may bear to the total area of all the national forests within said State, the area of said sections when unsurveyed to be determined by the Secretary of the Interior, by protraction or otherwise, the amount necessary for such payments being appropriated and made available annually from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Lands in lieu of grants.
Internal improvements.
Vol. 5, p. 455
Swamp lands.
Vol. 9, p. 519.
R. S., sec. 2479, p. 453.
Agricultural college.
Vol. 12, p. 503.
Sec. 7. That in lieu of the grant of land for purposes of internal improvements made to new States by the eighth section of the Act of September fourth, eighteen hundred and forty-one, and in lieu of the swamp-land grant made by the Act of September twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty, and section twenty-four hundred and seventy-nine of the Revised Statutes, and in lieu of the grant of thirty thousand acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress, made by the Act of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, Twelfth Statutes at Large, page five hundred and three, which grants are hereby declared not to extend to the said State, and Saline lands.
Vol. 30, 484.in lieu of the grant of saline lands heretofore made to the Territory of New Mexico for university purposes by section three of the Act of June twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, which is hereby repealed, except to the extent of such approved selections of such saline lands as may have been made by said Territory prior to the passage of this Act, Allotment.the following grants of lands are hereby made, to wit:
State buildings.For university purposes, two hundred thousand acres; for legislative, executive, and judicial public buildings heretofore erected in said Territory or to be hereafter erected in the proposed State, and for the payment of the bonds heretofore or hereafter issued therefor, one hundred thousand acres; Insane asylums.for insane asylums, one hundred thousand acres; Penitentiaries.for penitentiaries, one hundred thousand acres; Schools for deaf, etc.for schools and asylums for the deaf, dumb, and the blind, one hundred thousand acres; Miners’ hospitals.for miners’ hospitals for disabled miners, fifty thousand acres; Normal schools.
Charitable, etc., institutions.
Agricultural, etc., colleges.
Annual appropriations continued.for normal schools, two hundred thousand acres; for state charitable, penal, and reformatory institutions, one hundred thousand acres; for agricultural and mechanical colleges, one hundred and fifty thousand acres; and the national appropriation heretofore annually paid for the agricultural and mechanical college to said Territory shall, until further order of Congress, continue to be paid to said State for the use
