334 ACTS OF CONGRESS 



SEC. 590 ENABLING ACT. 



of March 2, 1887, above referred to, providing for the establishment of experi- 

 ment stations, were accepted by the State of Washington by act approved 

 Mar. 28, 1890 (Laws '89-'90, p. 429). 

 Cited: 24 L. D. 486; 30 L. D. 369. 



SEC. 590. GRANTS FOR SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL; NORMAL SCHOOL; 

 CAPITOL BUILDINGS; INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS. 



In lieu of the grant of land for purposes of internal improvements 

 made to new states by the eighth section of the act of September fourth, 

 eighteen hundred and forty-one, which act is hereby repealed as to 

 the states provided for by this act, and in lieu of any claim or demand 

 by the said states, or either of them, under the act of September 

 twenty-eight, 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 states provided for in this chapter, 

 and in lieu of any grant of saline lands to said states, the following 

 grants of lands are hereby made, to-wit: * * * To the State of 

 Washington: For the establishment and maintenance of a scientific 

 school, one hundred thousand acres; for state normal schools, one hun- 

 dred thousand acres; for public buildings at the state capital, in addi- 

 tion to the grant hereinbefore made for that purpose, one hundred thou- 

 sand acres; for state charitable, educational, penal and reformatory 

 institutions, two hundred thousand acres. That the states provided for 

 in this chapter shall not be entitled to any further or other grants of 

 land for any purpose than as expressly provided in this chapter. And 

 the lands granted by this section shall be held, appropriated and dis- 

 posed of exclusively for the purposes herein mentioned, in such manner 

 as the Legislatures of the respective states may severally provide. 

 (Act Feb. 22, '89; 25 Stat. L., p. 681, sec. 17; 6 Fed. Stat. Ann., p. 476.) 



Assignment of certain of these lands for support of University : sec. 442 

 et seq., ante. 



Grant for Capitol Buildings : sec. 586, ante. 



Integrity of funds : sec. 41, ante. 



Disclaimer of swamp and overflowed lands : Const., Art. XVII, sec. 2, ante. 



NOTE : Section 8 of the act which is expressly repealed by this section, so 

 far as material, reads as follows : 



"There is granted, for the purposes of internal improvement, to each new 

 state hereafter admitted into the union, upon such admission, so much public 

 land as, including the quantity that was granted to such state before its 

 admission and while under a territorial government, will make five hundred 

 thousand acres." -(Act Sept. 4, '41; 5 Stat. L., p. 455; sec. 8; sec. 2378 R. S. ; 

 6 Fed. Stat. Ann., p. 465.) 



The act of Sept. 28, 1850, (9 Stat. L., p. 520 ; sec. 2479 et seq., R. S. ; 6 

 Fed. Stat. Ann., p. 399 et seq.), which act is by the above section declared not 

 to extend to the State of Washington, granted to the several states, with 

 certain exceptions, all swamp and overflowed lands within their respective 

 borders, as an aid to the reclamation thereof. Grants or reservations of saline 

 lands in states upon their admission into the union will be found in all or 

 nearly all enabling acts, both prior and subsequent to this act. 



Cited : 204 U. S. 291 (51 L. Ed. 490) ; 11 Land Dec. 307, 381 ; 12 L. D. 

 165 ; 13 L. D. 380 ; 18 L. D. 477 ; 34 L. D. 139 ; 37 L. D. 387. 



