ALASKAN LANDS
FOR UNIVERSITY
Section   No.   33  of  Every  Surveyed   Township   to   Be   Set
Aside for Territorial School--
To the University of Alaska, additional grants of land in all parts of the
public domain in the territory are
made in a bill that was introduced in
Congress by Delegate Anthony J. Dimond. The measure provides that the
University shall be given Section 33
of all public lands in Alaska as fast
as government surveys of townships
are extended.
--Informed   by   Associated   Press--
Information relative to th
duction of the bill was received in
an Assocated Press dispatch from
Washington.
The University, as successor to the
Agricultural College and School of
Mines  had  already been granted  Sec
tion 33 of all public lands in the
Tanana Valley, under the Act of Congress of March, 1915, reading in effect
as follows:
"That Congress reserves from sale
or settlement for the Alaska College
and School of Mines Section 33 in each township in the Tanana Valley 
between Parallels 64 and 65 North
Latitude and between the 145th and
the 152nd degrees of West Longitude."
A section is 640 acres. A township
is practically six miles square and
contains 36 sections.
Dr. Charles E. Bunnell, president of
the University, expressed gratitude
today over the introduction of the bill
for additional  land  grants.
"Delegate Dimond and I had discussed the matter of asking Congress
to apply the Section 33 grant to all
townships in public lands as the public
survey is extended," Dr. Bunnell said.
"In the last mail, I received a letter
from him saying he would introduce
bill providing for the additional
grant immediately after the opening
of Congress. I feel confident the
measure will be enacted without much,
if any,  opposition."