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FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. Il. C11. 136. 1894. ]()9 commission, who shall cause the same to be canvassed, and if a majority of the votes cast on that question shall be for the constitution, shall certify the result to the President of the United States, together with U,,,,;,.,,,,, ,e,,,,l,_ a statement of the votes cast thereon, and upon separate articles or - propositions, and a copy of said constitution, articles, propositions, and ordinances. And if the constitution and government of said proposed State are republican in form, and i1` all the provisions of this Act have _ been complied with in the formation thereof, it shall be the duty of the President of the United States to issue his proclamation announcing Proclamation of su. the result of said election, and thereupon the proposed State of Utah ““"‘°" ">' P'°“‘“°“‘· shall be deemed admitted by Congress into the Union, under and by virtue of this Act, on an equal footing with the original States, from and after the date of said proclamation. ' Sec. 5. That until the next general census, or until otherwise pro- icepmemmve ni vided by law, said State shall be entitled to one Representative in the °°"¥"""· House of Representatives of the United States, which Representative in the Fiftyiburth Congress, together with the governor and other officers provided for in said constitution, may be elected on the same umass. day of the election for the adoption of the constitution; and until said State officers are elected and qualified under the provisions of the constitution, and the State is admitted into the Union, the Territorial officers shall continue to discharge the duties of the respective offices in said Territory. Sec. 6. That upon the admission of said State into the Union, see- Grant of sensor tions numbered two, sixteen, thirty-two, and thirty-six in every town- l““dP* °°°‘ ship of said proposed State, and where such sections or any parts thereof have been sold or otherwise disposed of by or under the authority of any Act of Congress other lands equivalent thereto, in legal subdivisions of not less than one quarter section and as contigu— ous as may be to the section in lieu of which the same is taken, are hereby granted to said State for the support of common schools, such indemnity lands to be selected within said State in such manner as the legislature may provide, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That the second, sixteenth, thirty-second, and {~>g·<¤-_ thirty-sixth sections embraced in permanent reservations for national ti0¤Z”s;ceLlZ,aY°s°rv°` purposes shall not, at any time, be subject to the grants nor to the indemnity provisions of this Act, nor shall any lands embraced in Indian, military, or other reservations of any character be subject to _ the grants or to the indemnity provisions of this Act until the reservation shall have been extinguished and such lands be restored to and become a part of the public domain. . Sec. 7. That upon the admission of said State into the Union, in Iflndn rm- purine accordance with the provisions of this Act, one hundred sections of the "“"‘“"¥°· unappropriated lands within said State to be selected and located in legal subdivisions as provided in section six of this Act, shall be, and are hereby, granted to said State for the purpose of erecting public buildings at the capital of said State, when permanently located, for legislative, executive, and judicial purposes. Sec. 8. That lands to the extent of two townships in quantity, author- g¤jv$¤i¢r6h;¤¤¤- ized by the third section of the Act of February twenty-one, eighteen P3', Q, ' hundred and fifty-five, to be reserved for the establishment of the Uni- P` ` versity of Utah, are hereby granted to the State of Utah for university purposes, to be held and used in accordance with the provisions of this section; and any portions of said lands that may not have been selected _ _ . by said Territory may be selected by said State. That in addition to the A""'“°"" $"""· above, one hundred and ten thousand acres of land, to be selected and _ located as provided in the foregoing section of this Act, a11d including _ all saline lands in said State, are hereby granted to said State, for the use of the said university, and two hundred thousand acres for the use _ of an agricultural college therein. That the proceeds of the sale of ,;{§jf’°°“ ‘° °° “" said lands, or any portion thereof, shall constitute permanent funds, to be safely invested and held by said State; and the income thereof to be