That in lieu of the grant of land for purposes of internal improvement made to new states by the eighth section of the Act of September 4, 1841, which act is hereby repealed as to the states provided for by this act, and in lieu of any claim or demand by the said states, or either of them, under the Act of September 28, 1850, and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 states provided for in this act, and in lieu of any grant of saline lands to said states, the following grants of land are hereby made, to wit:

To the state of South Dakota: For the school of mines, forty thousand acres; for the reform school, forty thousand acres; for the deaf and dumb asylum, forty thousand acres; for the agricultural college, forty thousand acres; for the university, forty thousand acres; for state normal school, eighty thousand acres; for public buildings at the capital of said state, fifty thousand acres, and for such other educational and charitable purposes as the Legislature of said state may determine, one hundred seventy thousand acres; in all, five hundred thousand acres.

To the state of North Dakota a like quantity of land as is in this section granted to the state of South Dakota, and to be for like purposes, and in like proportion as far as practicable.

To the state of Montana: For the establishment and maintenance of a school of mines, one hundred thousand acres; for state normal schools, one hundred thousand acres; for agricultural colleges, in addition to the grant hereinbefore made for that purpose, fifty thousand acres; for the establishment of a state reform school, fifty thousand acres; for the establishment of a deaf and dumb asylum, fifty thousand acres; for public buildings at the capital of the state, in addition to the grant hereinbefore made for that purpose, one hundred fifty thousand acres.

To the state of Washington: For the establishment and maintenance of a scientific school, one hundred thousand acres; for state normal schools, one hundred thousand acres; for public buildings at the state capital in addition to the grant hereinbefore made for that purpose, one hundred thousand acres; for state, charitable, educational, penal, and reformatory institutions, two hundred thousand acres.

That the states provided for in this act 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 purposes herein mentioned, in such manner as the legislatures of the respective states may severally provide. In General. The power to determine the manner of the use of public lands granted by the Enabling Act is purely legislative and cannot be delegated to a commission. State ex rel. Rusk v. Budge, 14 N.D. 532, 105 N.W. 724 (1905), distinguished, More v. Western Grain Co., 37 N.D. 547, Charitable Purposes. The words "charitable purposes" should be construed in a broad, and not limited meaning, to include acts of public benefaction which are done for public purposes, as well as mere almsgiving or benefaction to the poor, and, as so construed, the section authorizes the maintenance of an institution which shall care for all classes of aged and infirm soldiers, irrespective of their monetary worth. State ex rel. Skeffington v. Seigfried, 40 N.D. 57, Governor's Residence. The erection of a resident for the governor at the capital is within the purposes of the grant of land made by congress to the state for public buildings at the capital under the Enabling Act. State ex rel. Rusk v. Budge, 14 N.D. 532, 105 N.W. 724 (1905), distinguished, More v. Western Grain Co., 37 N.D. 547, 164 N.W. 294 (1917). Limitation on Legislative Disposal of Lands. The Montana legislature must act in subordination to the state Constitution in executing the authority entrusted to it in section 17 of the Enabling Act. Montana ex rel. Haire v. Rice, 204 U.S. 291, 27 S. Ct. 281, 51 L. Ed. 490 (1907).