Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-01-09

The following isa copy of BILL introduced BY Hon.
D. s. MORRILL,, Representative in Congress from this
District, and referred to the Committee on Public
Lands. 1t is designated
"A BILL Donating public lands to the several States
and Territories which may provide Colleges for the
benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts" and is
as follows:
SEC. l. Be it enacted by The Senate and House of
Representatives ofhe United States of 4,neiica in C5
yress assembled That there be granted 10 tile several
States and Territories for the pupose hereinafter men
toned, six millions three hundred and forty thousand
(6,34O OOOl acres of land TO be apporoned to each
state quantity equal 10 twenty thousand (2O,OO0)
acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress
TO when the States are now pectivey entitled and
to each Territory sixty thousand (60,O0O)
SEC. 2. .ANd be il further enacted That the land
aforesaid after being surveyed, shall be apportioned
to the several States and Territories sections or sub
division of sections, less than one quarter of sec
uoni ana wherever there are public lands in State
or territory worth one dol mr. and TWENTY-FIVE cents
per acre. the value of said lands 10 be determined by
the Governor of said State Territory shall be ell
titled shall be selected from such lands and the Sec
rotary OF the Interior is hereby directed to issue to
those States in which there public lands of the
value Of one dollar and twenty five cents per mere land
scrip 10 the amount of their disributve shures in
acres, under the provisions of this act said scrip be
sold by said States and the proceeds thereof applied
to the uses and purposes prescribed in this act and
Tor no other use or purposes whatsoever; Prorided
nat III no case shall any State Territory to which
land scrip may thus be issned be allowed to locate
the same within the limits of any other State or of
any organized Territory OF the United States but their
assigiees may thus loo tie said land scrip upon any
Of the Incorporated lands Of the United States sub
! ject 10 private entry.
SEC. 8. And BE- further enacted, That all the ex-
peiiSes OF management aud supervision Of said lmds
previous 10 thei: sales, and all expenses incurred in
the management and disbu, sement OF the moneys
when may be received thereirom, shall be paid by
the States to which they Lcong out of the Treasury
OF SAID States, so that the entire proceeds of the sale
! OF said lands shall be applied without any elimination
Whatever, to the purposes hereinafter mentioned.
SEC. AndGe Il further enacted, That all moneys
derived from the sale OF the lands aforesaid by the
states or Territories, to which the lands npror
TONED, and from the sales of land scrip hereinafter
provided for shall be invested in stocks Of the United
States, or Of the States, other safe stocks
yielding not less than five per centum upon the par
value of said stocks and that the moneys invested
shall constitute perpetual fluid, the atal ofwhich
shall remain forever unfinished except faras may
be provided in section fifth of this act and the inter
est Of which shall be nviolably appropriated sy each
State or Territory, which may take and clam the
benefit Of this act, to the ehdownei Z, support and,
maintenance ofnt least one college, where The lead
ing object shall be, without excluding other scient fc
or classical studies, 10 teach such branches Of learn
ing as are related TO agriculture and the mechanic
arts, in such manner the Legislatures OF the States
and Territories may respectively prescribe, in order
to promote the liberal and practical education Of tue