North Dakota Constitution
Article IX - Trust Lands
Section 12
The seat of government at the city of Bismarck in the county of Burleigh.
The state university and the school of mines at the city of Grand Forks, in the county of Grand Forks.
The North Dakota state university of agriculture and applied science at the city of Fargo, in the county of Cass.
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.
The school for the deaf and dumb of North Dakota at the city of Devils Lake, in the county of Ramsey.
A state training school at the city of Mandan, in the county of Morton.
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.
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.