State ex rel. Greenbaum v. Rhoades’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions

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1. ““Taking, then, all the acts of Congress into consideration, it would seem that the state stands in the situation of an ordinary trustee as to all these lands, except the ninety thousand acres granted fon the purpose of establishing an agricultural or mining college. In regard to this particular grant, the state has assumed not only the burdens of an ordinary trustee, but has also undertaken to bear the expense of converting the trust land into interest-hearing bonds, without calling on the trust fund for reimbursement. In other cases, where the state stands in the place of an ordinary trustee, there could be but little doubt that she would have the right to make the trust land bear the expense of conversion into stocks or other interest-bearing funds, unless there is something in our own Constitution requiring the Legislature to pay the expenses of this conversion out of other funds. * * * “In holding that the Legislature may use a part of the proceeds of the land granted to this state to make the remainder available, wé refer to other lands than the 90,000 acres granted to establish an agricultural or mining college. So far as these 90,000 acres are concerned, the Legislature, by the terms of its compact with the general government, must provide the means from its ordinary sources of revenue to pay the expenses of selling the same and investing the proceeds in bonds. In the meantime the state may select all its other lands, and the cost of selecting and selling those lands, ”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Swope

2. “All lands ... donated for the benefit of public schools ... to enable the people of Nevada territory to form a State government, ... and all proceeds of lands that have been, or may hereafter be granted ... by the United States to this State, provided, ... the same are hereby solemnly pledged for educational purposes, and shall not be transferred to any other fund for other uses; ... provided, that the interest only of the aforesaid proceeds shall be used for educational purposes, and any surplus interest shall be added to the principal sum; and provided further, that such portions of said interest as may be necessary, may be appropriated for the support of the State university.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rumery v. Baier