shall not be entitled to select indemnity school lands for the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections that may be in said park reservation, as the same is now defined or may be hereafter defined.

Sec. 3. That until the next general census, or until otherwise provided by law, said state shall be entitled to one representative in the house of representatives of the United States, and the election of the representative to the fiftyfirst congress and the representative to the fifty-second congress shall take place at the time and be conducted and certified in the same manner as is provided in the constitution of the state for the election of state, district, and other officers.

Sec. 4. That sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six, in every township of said proposed state, and where such sections, or any parts thereof, have been sold or otherwise disposed of by or under the authority of any act of congress, other lands equivalent thereto, in legal subdivisions of not less than one quarter section, and as contiguous as may be to the section in lieu of which the same is taken, are hereby granted to said state for the support of common schools, such indemnity lands to be selected within said state in such manner as the legislature may provide, with the approval of the secretary of the interior: provided, that section six of the act of congress of August ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, entitled "An act to authorize the leasing of the school and university lands in the territory of Wyoming, and for other purposes," shall apply to the school and university indemnity lands of the said state of Wyoming, so far as applicable.

Sec. 5. That all lands herein granted for educational purposes shall be disposed of only at public sale, the proceeds to constitute a permanent school fund, the interest of which only shall be expended in the support of said schools. But said lands may, under such regulations as the legislature shall prescribe, be leased for periods of not more than five years, in quantities not exceeding one section to any one person or company; and such land shall not be subject to pre-emption, homestead entry, or any other entry under the land laws of the United States, whether surveyed or unsurveyed, but shall be reserved for school purposes only.

Sec. 6. That fifty sections of the unappropriated public lands within said state, to be selected and located in legal subdivisions as provided in section four of this act, shall be, and are hereby, granted to said state for the purpose of erecting public buildings at the capital of said state.

Sec. 7. That five per centum of the proceeds of the sales of public lands lying within said state which shall be sold by the United States subsequent to the admission of said state into the Union, after deducting all the expenses incident to the same, shall be paid to the said state, to be used as a permanent fund, the interest of which only shall be expended for the support of the common schools within said state.

Sec. 8. That the lands granted to the territory of Wyoming by the act of February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, entitled "An act to grant lands to Dakota, Montana, Arizona, Idaho, and Wyoming for university purposes, are hereby vested in the state of Wyoming to the extent of the full quantity of seventy-two sections to said state, and any portion of said lands that may not have been selected by said territory of Wyoming may be selected by the said state; but said act of February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, shall be so amended as to provide that none of said lands shall be sold for less than ten dollars per acre, and the proceeds shall constitute a permanent fund to be safely invested and held by said state, and the income thereof to be used exclusively for university purposes. The schools, colleges, and universities provided for in this act shall forever

'remain under the exclusive control of the said state, and no part of the proceeds arising from the sale or disposal of any lands herein granted for educational purposes shall be used for the support of any sectarian or denominational school, college, or university. The section of land granted by the act of May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, to the territory of Wyoming for a fish hatchery and other public purposes, shall, upon the admission of said state of Wyoming into the Union, become the property of said state.

Sec. 9. That the penitentiary at Laramie City, Wyoming, and all lands connected there with and set apart and reserved therefor, and the personal property of the United States now being in the territory of Wyoming, and which has been in use in the said territory in the administration of the territorial government, including books and records, and the property used at the constitutional convention which convened at Cheyenne, in the month of September, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, are hereby granted and donated, and unexpended appropriations of money therefor are hereby granted and donated, to the state of Wyoming.

Sec. 10. That ninety thousand acres of land, to be selected and located as provided in section four of this act, are hereby granted to said state for the use and support of an agriculture college in said state, as provided in the acts of congress making donations of lands for such purpose.

Sec. 11. That in lieu of the grant of land for purposes of internal improvement made to new states by the eighth section of the act of September fourth, eighteen hundred and forty-one, which section is hereby repealed as to the state of Wyoming, and in lieu of any claim or demand by the said state under the act of September twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty, and section twenty-four hundred and seventy-nine of the Revised Statutes, making a grant of swamp and overflowed lands to certain states, which grant it is hereby declared is not extended to the state of Wyoming, and, in lieu of any grant of saline lands to said state, the following grants of land are hereby made, to wit:

To the state of Wyoming: For the establishment and maintenance and support in the said state of the insane asylum, in Uinta county, thirty thousand acres; for the penal, reform, or educational institution in course of construction, in Carbon county, thirty thousand acres; for the penitentiary, in Albany county, thirty thousand acres; for the fish hatchery, in Albany county, five thousand acres; for the deaf, dumb, and blind asylum, in Laramie county, thirty thousand acres; for the poor farm, in Fremont county, ten thousand acres; for a hospital for miners who shall become disabled or incapacitated to labor while working in the mines of the state, thirty thousand acres; for public buildings at the capital of the state, in addition to those hereinbefore granted for that purpose, seventy-five thousand acres; for state charitable, educational, penal, and reformatory institutions, two hundred and sixty thousand acres,-making a total of five hundred thousand acres: provided, that none of the lands granted by this act shall be sold for less than ten dollars per acre.

Sec. 12. That the state of Wyoming shall not be entitled to any further or other grants of land for any purpose than as expressly provided in this act; and the lands granted by this section shall be held, appropriated, and disposed of exclusively for the purposes herein mentioned, in such manner as the legis lature of the state may provide.

Sec. 13. That all mineral lands shall be exempted from the grants made by this act. But if sections sixteen and thirty-six, or any subdivision or portion of any smallest subdivision thereof, in any township, shall be found by the

department of the interior to be mineral lands, said state is hereby authorized and empowered to select, in legal subdivisions, an equal quantity of other unappropriated lands in said state in lieu thereof, for the use and the benefit of the common schools of said state.

Sec. 14. That all lands granted in quantity or as indemnity by this act shall be selected, under the direction of the secretary of the interior, from the surveyed, unreserved, and u[na]ppropriated public lands of the United States within the limits of the state entitled thereto; and there shall be deducted from the number of acres of land donated by this act for specific objects to said state the number of acres heretofore donated by congress to said territory for similar objects.

Sec. 15. That the sum of thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to said territory for defraying the expenses of the said convention and for the payment of the members thereof, under the same rules and regulations and at the same rates as are now provided by law for the payment of the territorial legislatures, and for the elections held therefor and thereunder. Any money hereby appropriated, not necessary for such purpose, shall be covered into the treasury of the United States.

Sec. 16. That the said state, when admitted as aforesaid, shall constitute a judicial district, the name thereof to be the same as the name of the state; and the circuit and district courts therefor shall be held at the capital of the state for the time being, and the said district shall, for judicial purposes, until otherwise provided, be attached to the eighth judicial circuit. There shall be appointed for said district one district judge, one United States attorney, and one United States marshal. The judge of said district shall receive a yearly salary of three thousand five hundred dollars, payable in four equal installments, on the first days of January, April, July, and October of each year, and shall reside in the district.

There shall be appointed clerks of said courts in the said district, who shall keep their offices at the capital of said state. The regular terms of said courts shall be held in said district at the place aforesaid on the first Monday in April and the first Monday in November of each year, and only one grand jury and one petit jury shall be summoned in both said circuit and district courts. The circuit and district courts for said district, and the judges thereof, respectively, shall possess the same powers and jurisdiction, and perform the same duties required to be performed by the other circuit and district courts and judges of the United States, and shall be governed by the same laws and regulations. The marshal, district attorney, and clerks of the circuit and district courts of said district, and all other officers and persons performing duties in the administration of justice therein, shall severally possess the powers and perform the duties lawfully possessed and required to be performed by similar officers in other districts of the United States; and shall, for the services they may perform, receive the fees and compensation allowed by law to other similar officers and persons performing similar duties in the state of Oregon.

Sec. 17. That all cases of appeal or writ of error heretofore prosecuted, and now pending in the supreme court of the United States, upon any record from the supreme court of said territory, or that may hereafter lawfully be prosecuted upon any record from said courts, may be heard and determined by said supreme court of the United States. And the mandate of execution or of further proceedings shall be directed by the supreme court of the United States to the circuit or district court hereby established within the said state from or to the supreme court of such state, as the nature of the case may re

quire. And the circuit, district, and state courts herein named shall, respectively, be the successor of the supreme court of the territory, as to all such cases arising within the limits embraced within the jurisdiction of such courts, respectively, with full power to proceed with the same, and award mesne or final process therein; and that from all judgments and decrees of the supreme court of the territory mentioned in this act, in any case arising within the limits of the proposed state prior to admission, the parties to such judgment shall have the same right to prosecute appeals and writs of error to the supreme court of the United States as they shall have had by law prior to the admission of said state into the Union.

Sec. 18. That in respect to all cases, proceedings, and matters now pending in the supreme or district courts of the said territory at the time of the admission into the Union of the state of Wyoming, and arising within the limits of such state, whereof the circuit or district court by this act established might have had jurisdiction under the laws of the United States, had such courts existed at the time of commencement of such cases, the said circuit and district court, respectively, shall be the successors of said supreme and district courts of said territory; and in respect to all other cases, proceedings, and matters pending in the supreme or district courts of the said territory at the time of the admission of such territory into the Union, arising within the limits of said state, the courts established by such state shall, respectively, be the successors of said supreme and district territorial courts; and all the files, records, indictments, and proceedings relating to any such cases shall be transferred to such circuit, district, and state courts, respectively, and the same shall be proceeded with therein in due course of law; but no writ, action, indictment, cause, or proceeding now pending, or that prior to the admission of the state shall be pending, in any territorial court in said territory, shall abate by the admission of such state into the Union, but the same shall be transferred and proceeded with in the proper United States circuit, district, or state court, as the case may be: provided, however, that in all civil actions, causes, and proceedings in which the United States is not a party, transfers shall not be made to the circuit and district court of the United States except upon written request of one of the parties to such action or proceeding filed in the proper court; and, in the absence of such request, such cases shall be proceeded with in the proper state courts.

Sec. 19. That the legislature of the said state may elect two senators of the United States as is provided by the constitution of said state, and the senators and representatives of said state shall be entitled to be admitted to seats in congress, and to all the rights and privileges of senators and representatives of other states in the congress of the United States.

Sec. 20. That, until the state officers are elected and qualified under the provisions of the constitution of said state, the officers of the territory of Wyoming shall discharge the duties of their respective offices under the constitution of the state, in the manner and form as therein provided.

Sec. 21. That, from and after the admission of said state into the Union, in pursuance of this act, the laws of the United States, not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the said state as elsewhere within the United States; and all laws in force made by said territory, at the time of its admission into the Union, until amended or repealed, shall be in force in said state, except as modified or changed by this act or by the constitution of the state, and all acts or parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act, whether passed by a legislature of said territory or by congress, are hereby repealed.