Chapter 20.
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CHAP. 20.— An act to enable the State of Colorado to take lands in lieu of the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections found to be mineral lands, and to secure to the State of Colorado the Irene fit of the act of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled “An act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts.”Apr. 2, 1884. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,12 Stat., 503. 18 Stat., 474.
State of Colorado, authorized to select certain lands other than mineral lands. That an act entitled “An act to enable the people of Colorado to form a constitution and State government, and for the admission of the said State into the Union on an equal footing with the original States”, approved March third eighteen hundred and seventy-five, shall be construed as giving 10 the State of Colorado the right to select for school purposes other lands in lieu of such sixteenth and thirty sixth section as may have been or shall be *Proviso*.found to be mineral lands: *Provided*, That such selections shall be made from lands returned as agricultural, and upon which at the date of selection no valuable mineral discoveries have been made; and all such selections shall be reported to the Secretary of the Interior, who shall, if ‘he is satisfied such lands so selected are not mineral, so certify, and thereupon the right of said State to such selected lands shall finally attach; and the Secretary of the Interior shall also ascertain whether any of such sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections are mineral lands, and shall certify their character, which certificate shall determine the matter.
Sec. 2. Deputy surveyor, duty of. That it shall be the duty of the deputy surveyor, at. the time of executing the survey of any township, to make a critical examination of the character of sections sixteen and thirty-six, and to embrace in his field notes a full report of any and all mineral discoveries found to the surveyor-general, who shall report to the Secretary of the Interior whether the whole or any part of either of said sections is mineral in character. Sec. 3. 14 Stat., 208.
That the State of Colorado, in selecting lands for agricultural-college purposes under the acts of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, may select an amount of land equal to thirty thousand acres for each Senator and Representative which said State is entitled to in Congress, from any public land in said State not double-minimum priced land; or selections may be made from said double-minimum lands, but in the latter case the lands are to be computed at the maximum price and the number of acres proportionally diminished; but no mineral lands shall be selected.
Approved, April 2d, 1884.