PART THREE. 



ACTS OF CONGRESS RELATING TO GRANTS, SELECTION, 

 RESERVATION AND RECLAMATION. 



CHAPTER 41. 



EARLY GRANTS AND RESERVATIONS OF LAND. 

 SEC. 578. School Lands Reserved. 



579. University Lands Reserved. 



580. Early Sales Confirmed. 



Cross-Reference: GRANTS TO STATE: sec. 581 et seq., post. 



SEC. 578. SCHOOL SECTIONS RESERVED LIEU LANDS. 



When the lands in said territory [of Washington] shall be surveyed 

 under the direction of the government of the United States, preparatory 

 to bringing the same into market or otherwise disposing thereof, 

 sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six in each township in said 

 territory shall be, and the same are hereby, reserved for the purpose 

 of being applied to common schools in said territory. And in all cases 

 where said sections sixteen and thirty-six, or either of them, shall be 

 occupied by actual settlers prior to survey thereof, the county com- 

 missioners of the counties in which said sections so occupied as afore- 

 said are situated be and they are hereby, authorized to locate other 

 lands to an equal amount in sections, or fractional sections, as the case 

 may be, within their respective counties, in lieu of said sections so 

 occupied as aforesaid. (Act Mar. 2, '53; 10 Stat. L., p. 179, sec. 1947 

 R. S.; 6 Fed. Stat. Ann., p. 461.) 



Grant of the lands so reserved : sec. 583, post. 



Selection of lieu lands : compare sec. 593, post, and original act in note 

 thereto. 



Confirmation of title to lands so selected : sec. 603, post. 



Cited: 190 U. S. 179 (47 L. Ed. 1008) ; 39 Wash. 276; 5 Wash 711; 2 Land 

 Dec. 626 ; 4 L. D. 391 ; 5 L. D. 217 ; 6 L. D. 73 ; 8 L. D. 497 ; 11 L. D. 383 ; 

 13 L. D. 380 ; 15 L. D. 387 ; 36 L. D. 93. 



ORIGIN OF LAND GRANT. 



"Our permanent school fund, - as is well known, is derived in its greater part 

 from lands granted the state by the general government. The practice of reserv- 

 ing and setting apart for the use of the public schools certain portions of the 

 public domain had its origin in the earliest times. By the ordinance of May 20, 

 1785, which was the first enactment that authorized the disposal by sale of the 

 public lands in the Northwest Territory 'Lot No. 16' in each township was re- 

 served for the use of schools. 



"Article 3 of the ordinance of July 13, 1787, declared that 'religion, morality 

 and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of man- 

 kind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged' ; and by 



