and appropriate to enforce the provisions hereof relative to the application and disposition of the said lands and the products thereof and the funds derived therefrom.
Rights of State and citizens, 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.
Commission to select granted lands. Sec. 11. That all lands granted in quantity or as indemnity by this Act shall be selected, under the direction and subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, from the surveyed, unreserved, unappropriated, and nonmineral public lands of the United States within the limits of said State, by a commission composed of the governor, surveyor-general, or other officer exercising the functions of a surveyor-general, Surveys.and the attorney-general of the said State; and after its admission into the Union said State may procure public lands of the United States within its boundaries to be surveyed with a view to satisfying any public-land grants made to said State in the same manner prescribed for the procurement of such surveys by Washington, Idaho, and other States by the Act of Congress approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four Vol. 28, p. 394.(Twenty-eighth Statutes at Large, page three hundred and ninety-four), and the provisions of said Act, in so far as they relate to such surveys and the preference right of selection, are hereby extended to the said State of New Mexico. The fees to be paid to the register and receiver for each final location or selection of one hundred and sixty acres made hereunder shall be one dollar.
Territorial grants confirmed to State.
Sec. 12. That all grants of lands heretofore made by any Act of Congress to said Territory, except to the extent modified or repealed by this Act, are hereby ratified and confirmed to said State, subject to the provisions of this Act: Provided, however, Proviso.
Pending litigation.That nothing in this Act contained shall, directly or indirectly, affect any litigation now pending and to which the United States is a party, or any right or claim therein asserted.
Judicial district created.
Courts.
In eighth circuit.
Sec. 13. That the 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, and the said district shall, for judicial purposes, be attached to the eighth judicial circuit. Judge, attorney, and marshal.There shall be appointed for said district one district judge, one United States attorney, and one United States marshal. The judge of said district shall receive a yearly salary the same as other similar judges of the United States, payable as provided for by law, and shall reside in the district to which he is appointed. Clerks.There shall be appointed clerks of said courts, who shall keep their offices at the capital of said State. Terms.The regular terms of said courts shall be held on the first Monday in April and the first Monday in October of each year. Jurisdiction, etc.The circuit and district courts for said district, and the judges thereof, respectively, shall possess the same powers and jurisdiction and perform the same duties required to be performed by the other circuit and district courts and judges of the United States, and shall be governed by the same laws and regulations. The marshal, district attorney, and the clerks of the circuit and district courts of said district, and all other officers and persons performing duties in the administration of justice therein, shall severally possess the powers and perform the duties lawfully possessed and required to be performed by similar officers in other districts of the United States, and shall, for the services they may perform, receive the fees and compensation now allowed by law to officers performing similar services for the United States in the Territory of New Mexico.
Determination of pending appeals and writs of error.
Sec. 14. That all cases of appeal or writ of error and all other proceedings heretofore lawfully prosecuted and now pending in the Supreme Court of the United States or in the proper circuit court of