New Mexico Territorial Laws and Treaties NM TERR LAWS ENABLING ACT § 7

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, and in lieu of the swampland grant made by the Act of September twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty, and Section Twenty-Four Hundred and Seventy-Nine of the Revised Statutes, and in lieu of the grant of thirty thousand acres for each senator and representative in congress, made by the Act of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, Twelfth Statutes at Large, page five hundred and three, which grants are hereby declared not to extend to the said state, and in lieu of the grant of saline lands heretofore made to the territory of New Mexico for university purposes by Section Three of the Act of June twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, which is hereby repealed, except to the extent of such approved selections of such saline lands as may have been made by said territory prior to the passage of this act, the following grants of lands are hereby made, to wit:

for university purposes, two hundred thousand acres; for legislative, executive and judicial public buildings heretofore erected in said territory or to be hereafter erected in the proposed state, and for the payment of the bonds heretofore or hereafter issued therefor, one hundred thousand acres; for insane asylums, one hundred thousand acres; for penitentiaries, one hundred thousand acres; for schools and asylums for the deaf, dumb and the blind, one hundred thousand acres; for miners' hospitals for disabled miners, fifty thousand acres; for normal schools, two hundred thousand acres; for state charitable, penal and reformatory institutions, one hundred thousand acres; for agricultural and mechanical colleges, one hundred and fifty thousand acres; and the national appropriation heretofore annually paid for the agricultural and mechanical college to said territory shall, until further order of congress, continue to be paid to said state for the use of said institution; for school of mines, one hundred and fifty thousand acres; for military institutes, one hundred thousand acres; and for the payment of the bonds and accrued interest thereon issued by Grant and Santa Fe counties, New Mexico, which said bonds were validated, approved and confirmed by Act of congress of January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven (Twenty-Ninth Statutes, page four hundred and eighty-seven), one million acres: provided, that if there shall remain any of the one million acres of land so granted, or of the proceeds of the sale or lease thereof, or rents, issues or profits therefrom, after the payment of said debts, such remainder of lands and the proceeds of sales thereof shall be added to and become a part of the permanent school fund of said state, the income therefrom only to be used for the maintenance of the common schools of said state.