The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-09-03

.iaE OBJECT shall be- without excluding other seen-
eiEeRnd classical studies, and including military
tactics TO teach such branches of learning as arc
related TO agriculture and the mechanic arts in
such manner the legislatures of tn States may
respectively prescribe in order 10 promote the lib
eral and practical education of the Industrial
In the several pursuits and professions in life.
SIC. 3. AHd be further enacted, That the grant Of
land and land scrip hereby authorized shall be
made the following conditions, TO which, as well
to the provisions hereinbefore contained, the
previous assent of the several States shall be sgn-
fed by legislative acts:
First. Ifany portion of the fund invested as pro
yded by the foregoing section, or any portion of
the interest thereon snail. by any action or con-
tingency be dimin shed or lost it shall be replaced
BY the State 70 which it belongs so that the capi-
tai OF the fund shall remain forever undmnshed;
and the annual interest shall be regularly applied
without diminution to the purposes mentioned in
the fourth section of this act except that sum
not exceeding ten per centum upon the amount re-
ccived by any State under the provisions of this act
may be expended for the purchase of lands for sites
OF experimental farms, whenever authorized by the
respective legislatures of said States.
Second. No portion of said fund, the inter-
est thereon shall be applied directly indirectly,
under any pretenee whatever, TO the purchase,
erect ion, preservation OF pair of any building or
| buildings.
Third Any State which may take and claim the
benefit of the provisions of this act shall provide
within ne years, at least less than college,
described in the fourth section OF this act the
grant to such State shall cease and said State shall
| be bound to pay the United States the amount re-
! ceived of any lands previously Sold and that the
title to purchasers under the State shall be valid.
! Fourth. An Annual report shall be made
| garding the progress of each college, recording
any improvements and experiments made, with
their cost and results, and such other matters in
! Guiding State industrial and economical statistics
as may be supposed useful; copy of which shall
be transmitted by mail free by each to all the 9TH
| er colleges which may be endowed under the pro-
visions of this act and also copy to the Secre-
tary of the Interior.
Fifth. When lands shall be selected from those
which have been raised double the minimum
price, in consequence of railroad grants, they shall
be computed to the States at the maximum price,
and the number of acres proportionally dmin-
ished
Sixth. No State while in q condition of rebellion
or instruction against the Government of the
United States shall be entitled TO the benefit of this
act.
seventh No State shall be entitled to the bene-
FITS Of this act unless ii shall express its acceptance
thereof by its Legislature within two years from the
date of its approval by the President
SEC. 6. ARd be Il further enacted That land scrip
issued under the provisions of this act shall not be
subject to location until after the first day of Jan
uarysone thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
SIC. 7. Ind be IL FURTHER enacted, That the land
officers shall receive the same fees for locating land
scrip ISSUED under the provisions of this act, is
now allowed for the location Of military bounty
land warrants under existing laws Prorided Their
maximum compensation shall not be thereby in
| creased.
Secs Ind be Il further enacted, That the Cover
nors of the several States TO which scrip shall be
issued under this act shall be required to report
annually To Congress all sales made of such scrip
until the whole shall be disposed of, the amount
ceived for the same, and what appropriation ha:
been made Of the proceeds.
I Approved, July .. 1862