Chapter 181. To reserve lands to the Territory of Alaska for educational uses, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 181.— An Act To reserve lands to the Territory of Alaska for educational uses, and for other purposes.March 4, 1915.[[S. 7515](/us/bill/63/s/7515).][[Public, No. 330](/us/pl/63/330).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Alaska.Public lands reserved for common schools when surveyed. That when the public lands of the Territory of Alaska are surveyed, under direction of the Government of the United States, sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six in each township in said Territory shall be, and the same are hereby, reserved from sale or settlement for the support of common For agricultural college and school of mines.schools in the Territory of Alaska; and section thirty-three in each township in the Tanana Valley between parallels sixty-four and 1215sixty-five north latitude and between the one hundred and forty-fifth and the one hundred and fifty-second degrees of west longitude (meridian of Greenwich) shall be, and the same is hereby, reserved from sale or settlement for the support of a Territorial agricultural college and school of mines when established by the Legislature of Alaska upon the tract granted in section two of this Act: *Provided*, *Provisos*.Lieu selections allowed.That where settlement with a view to homestead entry has been made upon any part of the sections reserved hereby before the survey thereof in the field, or where the same may have been sold or otherwise appropriated by or under the authority of any Act of Congress, or are wanting or fractional in quantity, other lands may be designated and reserved in lieu thereof in the manner provided by the Act of Congress of February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and Vol. 26, p. 791.ninety-one (Twenty-sixth Statutes, page seven hundred and ninety-one): *Provided further*, That the Territory may, by general law, provide Leases by Territory permitted.for leasing said land in area not to exceed one section to any one person, association, or corporation for not longer than ten years at any one time: *And provided further*, That if any of said sections, or Mineral lands.Use of proceeds for benefit of schools.any part thereof, shall be of known mineral character at the date of acceptance of survey thereof, the reservation herein made shall not be effective or applicable, but the entire proceeds or income derived by the United States from such sections sixteen and thirty-six and such section thirty-three in each township in the Tanana Valley area hereinbefore described, and the minerals therein, together with the entire proceeds or income derived from said reserved lands, are hereby appropriated and set apart as separate and permanent funds in the Territorial treasury, to be invested and the income from which shall be expended only for the exclusive use and benefit of the public schools of Alaska or of the agricultural college and school of mines, respectively, in such manner as the Legislature of Alaska may by law direct.
Sec. 2. That section numbered six, in township numbered one Agricultural college and school of mines.Sections reserved for site of.south of the Fairbanks base line and range numbered one west of the Fairbanks meridian; section numbered thirty-one, in township numbered one north of the Fairbanks base line and range numbered one west of the Fairbanks meridian; section numbered one, in township numbered one south of the Fairbanks base line and range numbered two west of the Fairbanks meridian; and section numbered thirty-six, in township numbered one north of the Fairbanks base line and range numbered two west of the Fairbanks meridian, be, and the same are hereby, granted to the Territory of Alaska, but with the express condition that they shall be forever reserved and dedicated to use as a site for an agricultural college and school of mines: *Provided*, That *Provisos*.Prior legal claims.nothing in this Act shall be held to interfere with or destroy any legal claim of any person or corporation to any part of said lands under the homestead or other law for the disposal of the public lands acquired prior to the approval of this Act: *Provided further*, That so much of Government agricultural experiment station continued.the said land as is now used by the Government of the United States as an agricultural experiment station may continue to be used for such purpose until abandoned for that use by an order of the President of the United States or by Act of Congress.
Approved, March 4, 1915.