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FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 180. 1889. 681 samepurpose, and subject to like terms and conditions as provided in said act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, for the Territory of Dakota. The enitentiary at Deer Lodge City, Montana, and all lands connected) therewith and set apart and re- M°¤°¤¤¤- served therefor, are hereby granted to the State of Montana. " Sec. 16. That ninety thousand acres of land, to be selected and m,,Lf";‘l§,cf°’s“g"°‘“° located as provided in sectio x ten of this act, are hereby granted to gc ` each of said States, except to the State of South.Dakota, to which · one hundred and twenty thousand acres are granted, for the use and sulgiort of agricultural colleges in Said States, as provided in the acts Vol-1¤,p·5o3. of ongress making donations of lands for such purpose. _ _ Sec. 17. That in ieu of the grant of land for purposes of internal ,mI·°¤‘L° *°*‘Mj¤°°¤'¤¤* improvement made to new States by the eighth section of the act of - September fourth, eighteen hundred and forty-one, which act is hereby repealed as to the States provided for by this act, and in lieu of any claim or demand by the said States, or either of them, under the act of September twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty, and V0, 9 5,0 section twenty four hundred and seventy-nine of the Revised Stat- R.S,,sldc.24'i9,p.453 utes, making a grant of swamip and overflowed lands to certain States, which grant it is hereby dec ared is not extended to the States provided for in this act, and in lieu of any grant of saline lands to said States, the following grants of land are hereby made, to wit z To the State of South Dakota: For the school of mines, forty South Dokotn. thousand acres; for the reform school, forty thousand acres; for the deaf and dumb asylum, forty thousand acres; for the agricultural college, forty thousand acres; for the university, forty thousand acres; for State normal schools, eighty thousand acres; for public buildings at the capital of said State, fifty thousand acres, and for such other educational and charitable ur oses as the legislature of said State may determine, one hundredpand seventy thousand acres; in all five hundred thousand acres. . To the State of North Dakota a like uantity of land as is in this North Dokow section granted to the State of South Dalkota, and to be for like purposes, and in like proportion as far as practicable. _ To the State of Montana: For the establishment and maintenance Mmmm of a school of mines, one hundred thousand acres; for State normal schools, one hundred thousand acres; for agricultural colleges, in addition to the grant hereinbefore made for that purpose, fifty thousand acres; for the establishment of a State reform schoo , fifty thousand acres; for the establishment of a deaf and dumb asylum, fifty thousand acres; for public buildings at the capital of the State, in addition to the grant hereinbefore made for that purpose, one hundred and fifty thousand acres. To the State of Washington: For the establishment and mainte- washington. nance of a scientific school, one hundred thousand acres; for State normal schools, one hundred thousand acres; for public buildings at the State capital, in addition to the grant hereinbefore made for that purpose, one hundred thousand acres; for State charitable, educational, penal, and reforinatory institutions, two hundred thousand acres. That the States provided for in this act shall not be entitled to any No further gruntsfurther or other grants of land for any purpose than as expressly >rovi<led in this act. And the lands granted by this section shall be To is for spociied held, appropriated, and disposed of exclusively for the purposes °S°S° y` herein mentioned, in such manner as the legislatures of the respective States may severally provide. Sec. 18. That all mineral lands shall be exempted from the grants Migrerai Mods ormade by this act, But if sections sixteen and thirty-six, or any sub- amp ' division or portion of any smallest subdivision thereof in any township shall be found by the Department of the Interior to be mineral lands, said States are hereby authorized and empowered to select, in legal subdivisions, an equal quantity of other unappropriated lands Lauclsin lieu