Sec. 6. [Grant of land for internal improvements in lieu of other grants.]

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states by the eighth section of the act of September fourth, eighteen hundred and forty-one, which section is hereby repealed as to New Mexico, and in lieu of any claim or demand of the state of New Mexico under the act of September twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty, and section twenty-four hundred and twenty-nine of the revised statutes, making a grant of swamp and overflowed lands, which grant it is hereby declared is not extended to said state of New Mexico, the following grants of non-mineral, and unappropriated land are hereby made to said territory for the purposes indicated, namely: 

For the establishment of permanent water reservoirs for irrigating purposes, five hundred thousand acres; for the improvement of the Rio Grande in New Mexico, and the increasing of the surface flow of the water in the bed of said river, one hundred thousand acres; for the establishment and maintenance of an asylum for the insane, fifty thousand acres; for the establishment and maintenance of a school of mines, fifty thousand acres; for the establishment and maintenance of an asylum for the deaf and dumb, fifty thousand acres; for the establishment and maintenance of a reform school, fifty thousand acres; for the establishment and maintenance of normal schools, one hundred thousand acres; for the establishment and maintenance of an institution for the blind, fifty thousand acres; for a miners' hospital for disabled miners, fifty thousand acres; for the establishment and maintenance of a military institute, fifty thousand acres; for the enlargement and maintenance of the territorial penitentiary, fifty thousand acres. The building known as the Palace, in the city of Santa Fe, and all lands and appurtenances connected therewith and set apart and used therewith, are hereby granted to the territory of New Mexico.