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 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 819. 1888. 393 _ CHAP. §19.—An act to authorize the leasing of the school and university lands A¤€¤S*¤ 9, 1888- ID the Territory of \Vy0n1ing, and for other purposes. L vBe zi enacted by the Senate and House of Represemafives of the Lmfed States of America in Congress assembled, That the county wyoming. commissioners of each of the counties organized or hereafter organ- k§’§§,°°ll“““Sm“Yb° ized in the Territory of \Vyoming are hereby authorized to lease the ` lands devoid of timber and known mineral deposits heretofore reserved or that may hereafter be reserved for school pur oses in their respective counties, in such manner as may be provided by the laws of the said Territory. Sec. 2. That all moneys derived from the leasing of the lands as USG of funds. provided by the first section of this act shall become art of the school funds of the county where such lands are situated; and shall be used for the building of school-houses and the support of public schools in such county, and for no other urpose. Sec. 3. That the overnor, su erintendent of public instruction, U¤iv¢¤·Si¢y1¤¤~1S and auditor of the ']§erritory of tv oming are hereby constituted a mayb6]°”°d‘ board, with authority to lease the lands heretofore selected, or that may be hereafter se ected, for university purposes, under the provisions of the act of Congress entitled "An act to grant lands to V°1-2i·P-3% Dakota, Montana, Arizona, Idaho, and Wyoming for university purposes," approved February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, in the said Territory of Wyoming, in such manner as may be provided by the laws of the Territory of Wyoming: Provided, Prvviso That until the legislature of said Territory shall rovide by law for a.?]§i°s md "°""1°" the leasing of said university and school lands tihe said governor, superintendent of public instruction, and auditor are authorized, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, to make the necessary rullds and regulations to carry out the provisions of this section. » Sec. 4. That all moneys derived from the leasing of the said univer- Um or mms. sity lands, as provided by the third section of this act, shall become a part of the university fund of said Territory, and shall be used for the support of the university of Wyoming, a11d for no other purpose. Sec. 5. That no lease under the provisions of this act shall be made Term or imes. for a term exceeding live years, and all leases shall ex ire within six months after the Territory is admitted as a State into tffe Union: Pro- iwmq. vided, That the Secretary of the Interior may at any time in his dis- ‘““““‘“* ‘°°““· cretion annul an lease made under the provisions of this act. Sec. 6. That where lands in the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections, Lymrns muwnema in the Territory of Wyoming, are found upon survey to be in the oc- i“ “"“ °*“"*‘°°“‘“"‘“· cu ancy, and covered by the improvements of an actual preemption ordiomestead settler, or where either of them are fractional in quantity, in whole or in part, or wanting because the townships are fractional or have been or shall hereafter be reserved for public purposes, or found to be mineral in character, other lands may be se ected by an agent appointed by the governor of the Territory in lieu thereof, from the surveyed public ands within the Territory not otherwise legally claimed or appro riated at the time of selection, in accordance with the principles of adjustment prescribed by section twenty-two hundred and seventy-six of the Revised Statutes of the United States, R.s.,sec.mrs,p.4iv. and upon a determination by the Interior Department that a portion of the smallest legal subdivision in a section numbered sixteen. or thirty-six, in Wyoinin, is mineral land, such smallest legal subdi- mimi mus. vision shall be excepted from the reservation for schools, and indemnity allowed for it in its entirety, and such subdivisions, or the portions of them remaining after segregation of the mineral lands or claims, shall be treated as other public lands of the United States. Approved, August 9, 1888.