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UNIVERSITY LANDS. SECS. 587-588 



SEC. 587. UNIVERSITY GRANT LI IMITATIONS ON DISPOSAL 

 AND USE. 



Such quantity of the lands authorized by section 579 of this code to 

 be reserved for university purposes in the Territory of Washington, 

 as, together with the lands confirmed to the vendees of the Territory 

 by section 580 hereof, will make the full quantity of seventy-two entire 

 sections, are hereby granted to the State of Washington for the pur- 

 pose of a university in said state. None of the lands granted in this 

 section shall be sold at less than ten dollars per acre, but such lands 

 may be leased in the same manner as provided for in section 585 

 of this code. The proceeds [of sale] shall constitute a permanent fund 

 to be safely invested and held by said state, and the income thereof 

 [shall] be used exclusively for university purposes. (Adapted from Act 

 Feb. 22, '89; 25 Stat. L., p. 680, sec. 14; 6 Fed. Stat. Ann., p. 474.) 



Additional lands granted by sec. 590, post, assigned to university : sec. 442 

 et seq., ante. 



Disposition of proceeds of sale : sec. 41, ante. 



Provisions as to minimum appraisement executed by Const., Art. XVI, sec. 

 1, and statute, sec. 69, ante. 



Cited : 26 Wash. 376 ; 12 L. D. 89 ; 14 L. D. 143. 



The adoption of the constitution and the acceptance thereof by the Federal 

 government modified this section to the extent of confirming sales made prior 

 thereto for less than price named : Romaine v. State, 1 Wash. 215. 



University lands sold prior to the admission of the state into the Union, under 

 grant of sec. 579, for less than ten dollars per acre were valid sales. State 

 v. Maynard, 31 Wash. 132. 



The grant herein provided for university purposes does not preclude a portion 

 of the grant named in section 590 from being set aside for the university. State 

 v. Callvert, 34 Wash. 58. 



An act providing for the use of proceeds of the sale of lands is void ; only 

 the Interest can be used. State v. Maynard, 31 Wash. 132. 



SEC. 588. GRANT FOR PENITENTIARY. 



So much of the lands belonging to the United States as have been 

 acquired and set apart for the purpose mentioned in "An act appropriat- 

 ing money for the erection of a penitentiary in the Territory of Dakota," 

 approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, together 

 with the buildings thereon, be and the same is hereby granted, together 

 with any unexpended balances of money appropriated therefor, by 

 said act, to the said State of South Dakota, for the purposes therein 

 designated; and the States of North Dakota and Washington shall, 

 respectively, have like grants for the same purpose, and subject to like 

 terms and conditions as provided in said act of March second, eighteen 

 hundred and eighty-one, for the Territory of Dakota. (Act Feb. 22, '89; 

 25 Stat. L., p. 680, sec. 15; 6 Fed. Stat. Ann., p. 475.) 



The act referred to is Chap. 108 of 21 Stat. L., p. 378, appropriating 

 $30,000.00 for the "purchase of the necessary grounds and the erection of a 

 penitentiary in said Territory" of Dakota. 



