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 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. Il. Ch. 489. 1898. 485 with the provisions in this section; and any portions of said lands that ‘ may not have been heretofore selected by said Territory may be selected now by said Territory. That in addition to the above, sixty-five thousand acres of non-mineral, unappropriated and unoccupied public land, to be selected and located as hereinafter provided, together with all saline lands in said Territory, are hereby granted to the said Territory for the use of said university, and one hundred thousand acres, to he in like manner selected, for the use of an agricultural college. That S¤1c‘<·fla¤<ls to conthe proceeds of the sale of said lands, or any portion thereof, shall 2§,},{_‘f,{§ *‘°""‘”“"'“ constitute permanent funds, to be safely invested, and the income thereof to be used exclusively for the purposes of such university and agricultural college, respectively. ’ Sec. 4. That five per centum of the proceeds of the sales of public Schmlrund. lands lying within said Territory which shall he sold by the United States subsequent to the passage of this Act, after deducting all, expenses incident to the same, shall be paid to the said Territory, to be used as a permanent fund, the interest of which only shall be ` expended for the support of the common schools within said Territory. Sec. 5. That the schools, colleges, and university provided for in this spimis. em., to rs. Act shall forever remain under the exclusive control of said Territory, {{?§§}§,‘,§’,Q°” °"“"`°*°’ and no part of the proceeds arising from the sale or disposal of any lands herein granted for educational purposes, or of the income thereof, Funds not available shall be used for the supportof any sectarian or denominational school, f‘{§_ "°’““““ “°"°°’°· college, or university. ’ Sec. 6. That in lieu of the grant of land for purposes of internal _ Gram of land for improvement, made to new States by the eighth section of the Act of §,,‘},I,{’,r§,*{,},u‘]f}·p§§’•;fQ September fourth, eighteen hundred and forty-one, which section is s¤g¤{¤5 455 hereby repealed as to New Mexico, and in lieu of any claim or demand V °` ’p`· of the State of New Mexico under the Act of September twenty-eighth, V<>1-¤.1>·5l¤- eighteen hundred and fifty, and section twenty~four hundred and. twenty-nine of the Revised Statutes, making a grant of swamp and n.s.,m.24:9,p.449. overilowed lands, which grant it is hereby declared is not extended to _ said State of New Mexico, the following grants of non-mineral, and unappropriated land are hereby made to said Territory for the purposes indicated, namely: For the establishment of permanent water reservoirs for irrigating purposes, five hundred thousand acres; for the improvement of the Rio Grande in New Mexico, and the increasing of the surface flow of the water in the bed of said river, one hundred thousand acres; for the establishment and maintenance of an asylum for the insane, fifty thousand acres; for the establishment and maintenance of a school of mines, fifty thousand acres; for the establishment and maintenance of an asylum for the deaf and dumb, fifty thousand acres; for the establish— ment and maintenance of a reform school, fifty thousand acres; for the . establishment and maintenance of normal schools, one hundred thousand acres: for the establishment and maintenance of an institution for the blind, fifty thousand acres; for a miners’ hospital for disabled miners, fifty thousand acres; for the establishment and maintenance of a military institute, fifty thousand acres; for the enlargement and maintenance of the Territorial penitentiary, fifty thousand acres. The building known as the Palace, in the city of Santa Fe, and all lands and appurtenances connected therewith and set apart and used therewith, are hereby granted to the Territory of New Mexico. Sec. 7. That this Act is intended only as a partial grant of the lands Act to be s partial to which said Territory may he entitled upon its admission into the g'“"° °“‘Y’°°°‘ Vnion as a State, reserving the question as to the total amount of lands to be granted to said Territory until the admission of said Territory as a State shall be determined on by Congress. Sec. 8. That all grants of land made in quantity or as indemnity by commission tblé se this Act shall be selected by the governor of the Territory of New l°°"°“ds mnt ` Mexico, the surveyongeneral of the Territory of New Mexico, and the solicitor-general of said Territory, acting as a commission, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, from the unappropriated