North Dakota Constitution

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=== Section 12. ===

The following public institutions of the state are permanently located
at the places hereinafter named, each to have the lands specifically
granted to it by the United States in the Act of Congress approved
February 22, 1889, to be disposed of and used in such manner as the
legislative assembly may prescribe subject to the limitations provided
in the article on school and public lands contained in this
constitution.

1. The seat of government at the city of Bismarck in the county of
Burleigh.

2. The state university and the school of mines at the city of Grand
Forks, in the county of Grand Forks.

3. The North Dakota state university of agriculture and applied science
at the city of Fargo, in the county of Cass.

4. A state normal school at the city of Valley City, in the county of
Barnes, and the legislative assembly, in apportioning the grant of
eighty thousand acres of land for normal schools made in the Act of
Congress referred to shall grant to the said normal school at Valley
City, as aforementioned, fifty thousand (50,000) acres, and said lands
are hereby appropriated to said institution for that purpose.

5. The school for the deaf and dumb of North Dakota at the city of
Devils Lake, in the county of Ramsey.

6. A state training school at the city of Mandan, in the county of
Morton.

7. A state normal school at the city of Mayville, in the county of
Traill, and the legislative assembly in apportioning the grant of lands
made by Congress in the Act aforesaid for state normal schools shall
assign thirty thousand (30,000) acres to the institution hereby located
at Mayville, and said lands are hereby appropriated for said purpose.

8. A state hospital for the insane at the city of Jamestown, in the
county of Stutsman.  And the legislative assembly shall appropriate
twenty thousand acres of the grant of lands made by the Act of Congress
aforesaid for other educational and charitable institutions to the
benefit and for the endowment of said institution, and there shall be
located at or near the city of Grafton, in the county of Walsh, an
institution for the feebleminded, on the grounds purchased by the
secretary of the interior for a penitentiary building.