convention which convened at Boise City in the month of July, 1889, are hereby granted and donated to the State of Idaho.

SEC. 10. That 90,000 acres of land, to be selected and located as provided in section 4 of this Act, are hereby granted to said State for the use and support of an agricultural college in said State, as provided in the acts of Congress making donations of lands for such purposes.

SEC. 11. That in lieu of the grant of land for purposes of internal improvement made to the new States by the eighth section of the act of September 4, 1841, which section is hereby repealed as to the State of Idaho, and in lieu of any claim or demand by the said State under the act of September 28, 1850, and section 2479 of the Revised Statutes,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 State of Idaho, and in lieu of any grant of saline lands to said State, the following grants of land are hereby made, to-wit: To the State of Idaho: For the establishment and maintenance of a scientific school, 100,000 acres; for State normal schools, 100,000 acres; for the support and maintenance of the insane asylum, located at Blackfoot, 50,000 acres; for the support and maintenance of the State university, located at Moscow, 50,000 acres; for the support and maintenance of the penitentiary, located at Boise City, 50,000 acres; for other State, charitable, educational, penal and reformatory institutions, 150,000 acres. None of the lands granted by this act shall be sold for less than $10 an acre.

SEC. 12. That the State of Idaho shall not be entitled to any further or other grants of land for any purpose than as expressly provided in this act. And the lands granted by this section shall be held, appropriated, and disposed of, exclusively for the purpose herein mentioned, in such manner as the Legislatue of the State may provide.

SEC. 13. That all mineral lands shall be exempted from the grants by this act. But if sections 16 and 36, or any subdivision, or portion of any smallest subdivision thereof, in any township, shall be found by the Department of the Interior to be mineral lands, the said State is hereby authorized and empowered to select, in legal subdivisions, an equal quantity of other unappropriated lands in said State, in lieu thereof, for the use and the benefit of the common schools of said State.

SEC. 14. That all lands granted in quantity or as indemnity by this act shall be selected, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, from the surveyed. unreserved, and un

appropriated public lands of the United States, within the limits of the State entitled thereto. And there shall be deducted from the number of acres of land donated by this act for the specific objects to said State the number of acres heretofore donated by Congress to said Territory for similar objects.

SEC. 15. That the sum of $28,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for defraying the expenses of said convention and for the payment of the members thereof, under the same rules and regulations and at the same rates as are now provided by law for the payment of the Territorial Legislatures, and for elections held therefor and thereunder. Any money hereby appropriated not necessary for such purpose shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States.

SEC. 16. That the said State shall constitute a judicial district, the name thereof to be the same as the name of the State;. and the circuit and district courts therefor shall be held at the capital of the State for the time being, and the said district shall, for judicial purposes, until otherwise provided, be attached to the ninth judicial circuit. There shall be appointed for said district one district judge, one United States attorney, and one United States marshal. The judge of the said district shall receive a yearly salary of $3,500, payable in four equal installments on the first days of January, April, July and October of each year, and shall reside in the district. There shall be appointed clerks of said courts in the said district, who shall keep their offices at the capital of said State. The regular terms of said courts shall be held in said district, at the place aforesaid, on the first Monday in April and the first Monday in November of each year, and only one grand jury and one petit jury shall be summoned in both said circuit and district court. The circuit and district courts for said district, and the judges thereof, respectively, shall possess the same powers and jurisdiction and perform the same duties required to be performed by the other circuit and district courts and judges of the United States, and shall be governed by the same laws and regulations. The marshal, district attorney, and clerks of the circuit and district courts of said district, and all other officers and persons performing duties in the administration of justice therein, shall severally possess the powers and perform the duties lawfully possessed and required to be performed by similar officers in other districts of the United States: and shall, for

the services they may perform, receive the fees and compensation allowed by law to other similar officers and persons performing similar duties in the State of Oregon.

SEC. 17. That all cases of appeal or writ of error heretofore prosecuted and now pending in the Supreme Court of the United States upon any record from the supreme court of said Territory, or that may hereafter lawfully be prosecuted upon any record from said court, may be heard and determined by said Supreme Court of the United States; and the mandate of execution or for further proceedings shall be directed by the Supreme Court of the United States to the circuit or district court hereby established within the said State from or to the supreme court of such State, as the nature of the case may require. And the circuit, district, and State courts herein named shall, respectively, be the successors of the supreme court of the Territory, as to all such cases arising within the limits embraced within the jurisdiction of such courts. respectively, with full power to procced with the same and award mesne or final process therein; and that from all judgments and decrees of the supreme court of the Territory mentioned in this act, in any case arising within the limits of the proposed State prior to admission, the parties to such judgment shall have the same right to prosecute appeals and writs of error to the Supreme Court of the United States as they shall have had by law prior to the admission of said State into the Union.

SEC. 18. That in respect to all cases, proceedings and matters now pending in the supreme or district courts of the said Territory at the time of the admission into the Union of the State of Idaho and arising within the limits of such State, whereof the circuit or district courts by this act established might have had jurisdiction under the laws of the United States had such courts existed at the time of the commencement of such cases, the said circuit and district courts, respectively, shall be the successors of said supreme and district courts of said Territory; and in respect to all other cases, proceedings and matters pending in the supreme or district courts of said Territory at the time of the admission of such Territory into the Union, arising within the limits of said State, the courts established by such State shall, respectively, be the successors of said supreme and district Territorial courts; and all the files, records, indictments, and proceedings relating to any such cases shall be transferred to such circuit, district, and State courts,

respectively, and the same shall be proceeded with therein in due course of law; but no writ, action, indictment, cause or proceeding now pending, or that prior to the admission of the State shall be pending, in any Territorial court in said Territory, shall abate by the admission of such State into the Union, but the same shall be transferred and proceeded with in the proper United States circuit, district, or State court as the case may be: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That in all civil actions, causes, and proceedings in which the United States is not a party, transfers shall not be made to the circuit and district courts of the United States, except upon written request of one of the parties to such action or proceeding filed iu the proper court; and in the absence of such request such cases shall be proceeded with in the proper State courts.

SEC. 19. That from and after the admission of said State into the Union, in pursuance of this act, the laws of the United States not locally inapplicable shall have the same force and effect within the said State as elsewhere within the United States.

SEC. 20. That the Legislature of the said State may elect two Senators of the United States as is provided by the Constitution of said State, and the Senators and Representative of said State shall be entitled to seates in Congress and to all the rights and privileges of Senators and Representatives of other States in the Congress of the United States.

SEC. 21. That until the State officers are elected and qualified under the provisions of the Constitution of said State, the officers of the Territory of Idaho shall discharge the duties of their respective offices under the Constitution of the State, in the manner and form as therein provided; and all laws in force made by said Territory, at the time of its admission into the Union, shall be in force in said State, except as modified or changed by this act or by the Constitution of the State.

SEC. 22. That all acts or parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act, whether passed by Legislature of said Territory or by Congress, are hereby repealed.

Approved July 3, 1890.