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sale, lease, conveyance or contract as therein provided, and makes null and void any other manner of disposition, notwithstanding any contrary provision in either the constitution or laws of the state. The laws so transferred and confirmed were hedged about with the strictest precautions as to alienation, in the interest ofthe trust they were intended to serve. For a discussion of and decisions upon various phases of the problems that have arisen over this trust, see State ex rel Otto v. Field, supra; State v. Llewellyn, 23 N. M. 43, 167 P. 414; Elliot v. Rich, 24 N. M. 52, 172 P. 194; Dallas v. Swigart, 24 N. M. 1,  P.  ; American Mfg. Co. v. White, 34 N. M. 602, 287 P. 702; Hart v. Walker, 40 N. M. 1, 52 P. 2d 123; Lea County Water Co. v. Reeves, 43 N. M. 221, 89 P. 2d 607; Terry v. Midwest Refining Co., 64 Fed. 2d 428.
Appellee argues that to permit the use of the state lands in any other method than through sale, contract to sell or lease for value by the State Land Commissioner and as provided by the said organic act and onr constitution would be violative of both instruments and therefore a nullity. The Constitution (Sec. 2, Art. XIII) provides:
"The Commissioner of Public Lands shall select, locate, classify and have the direction, control, care and disposition of all public lands, under the provisions of the acts of Congress relating thereto and such regulations as may be provided by law."
We said in State ex rel Otto v. Field, 31 N. M. 120, 154, 341 P. 1027:
"What was the object to be accomplished by the grant to the state of these lands and by our public land legislation? Unquestionably the object in the grant of lands to the state, and the constitutional and statutory provisions relative thereto, was the augmentation of the school fund of the state."
The Commissioner has the power to alienate these particular public lands which are held in trust for the public schools within the limits, and under the terms, of the Enabling Act, the Constitution and the laws of the state; but no right to such lands can be acquired by the circumventing and or by any indirect method such as the Commissioner attempted in 1936.