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Show DAY MORNING, JANUARY 23, 1927. TEXT OF SHCOOL LAND BILL GIVEN Measure Passes House of Representatives and Is Accepted by the Senate. The full text of the school land bill, which passed the house of representatives last Monday and was accepted without amendment by the United States senate Thursday night, is printed herewith: Be it enacted, etc., That, subject to the provisions of subsections (a), (b), and (c) of this section, the several grants to the states of numbered sections in place for the support or aid of common or public schools be, and they are hereby, extended to embrace numbered school sections mineral in character, unless land has been granted to and or selected by and certified or approved, to any such state or states as indemnity for or in lieu of any land so granted by numbered sections. That the grant of numbered mineral sections under this act shall be of the same effect as prior grants for the numbered nonmineral sections, and titles to such numbered mineral sections shall vest in the states at the time and in the manner and be subject to all the rights of adverse parties recognized by existing law in the grants of numbered nonmineral sections. That the additional grant made by this act is upon the express contion that all sales, grants, deeds, or patents for any of the lands so granted shall be subject to and contain a reservation to the state of all the coal and other minerals in the lands so sold, granted, deeded, or patented, together with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same. The coal and other mineral deposits in such lands shall be subject to lease by the state as the legislature may direct, the proceeds of rentals and royalties therefrom to be utilized for the support or in aid of the common or public school; provided, that any lands or minerals disposed of contrary to the provisions of this act shall be forfeited to the United States by appropriate proceedings instituted by the attorney general for that purpose in the United States district court for the district in which the property or some part thereof is located. (c) That any lands included within the limits of exis.ting reservations of or by the United States, or specifically reserved for water-power purposses, or included in any pending suit or proceedings in the courts of the United States, or subject to or included in any valid application, claim, or right initiated or held under any of the existing laws of the United States, unless or until such application, claim, or right is relinquished or canceled, and all lands in the territory of Alaska, are excluded from the provi- tions of this act. Sec. 2. That nothing herein contained is intended or shall be held or construed to increase, diminish, or affect, the rights of states under grants other than for the support of common or public schools by numbered school sections in place, and this act shall not apply to indemnity or lieu, or lieu selections or exchanges or the right hereafter to select indemnity for numbered school sections in place lost to the state under the provisions of this or other acts, and all existing laws governing such grants and indemnity or lieu selections and exchanges are hereby continued in full force and effect. CIRCULAR SAW CUTS. Special to The Tribune. LAYTON, Jan. 22,-Richard Sedgwick cut four fingers on his left hand severely in a circular saw Friday, He was doing some carpenter work on the new addition to the West Layton meeting house. |
