two sections for such townships containing five thousand seven hundred and sixty acres or more, nor one section for such townships 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 situated within said forest reserves, whether surveyed or unsurveyed, and for which no indemnity has been selected, may bear to the total 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. 25. 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 three, which grants are hereby declared not to extend to the said State, the following grants are hereby made, to wit:Allotment.
University.
State buildings, etc.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; Penitentiaries.for penitentiaries, one hundred thousand acres; Asylums.for insane asylums, one hundred thousand acres; for school and asylums for the deaf, dumb, and the blind, one hundred thousand acres; Miners’ hospital.for miners’ hospitals for disabled miners, fifty thousand acres; Normal schools.
Charitable, etc., institutions.
Agricultural, etc., colleges.
Appropriation 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 of said institution; School of mines.for school of mines, one hundred and fifty thousand acres; Military institutes.
Specified county bonds.for military institutes, one hundred thousand acres; and for the payment of the bonds and accrued interest thereon issues by Maricopia, Pima, Yavapai, and Coconino counties, Arizona, which said bonds were validated, approved, and confirmed Vol. 29, p. 262.by the Act of Congress of June sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six (Twenty-ninth Statutes, page two hundred and sixty-two), one million acres: Proviso.
Balance to common schools.Provided, That if there shall remain any of the one million acres of land so granted, or of the proceeds of the sale or lease thereof, or rents, issues, or other profits therefrom, after the payment of said debts, such remainder of lands and the proceeds of sales thereof shall be added to and become a part of the permanent school fund of said State, the income therefrom only to be used for the maintenance of the common schools of said State.
Control of schools, etc.
Sec. 26. That the schools, colleges, and universities provided for in this Act shall forever remain under the exclusive control of the
