Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-09-09
fpUnLIc-No. 1881

An ACT donating lands to the several
States and Territories which may provide
colleges for the benefit of agriculture and
the mechanic arts.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That
there be granted to the several States, for
the purposes hereinafter mentioned, an
amount of public land, to be apportioned
to each State quantity equal to thirty
thousand acres for each senator and repre-
sentative in Congress to which the States
are respectively entitled by the appOr-
tionment under the census of eighteen
hundred and sixty: Provided, That no
mineral lands shall be selected or pur
chased under the provisions of this act.
Sec. 2. Aud be itfurther enacted, That
the land aforesaid, after being surveyed,
shall be apportioned to the several States
in sections or subdivision of sections, not
less than one quarter of section; and
whenever there are public lands in u
State subject to sale at private entry at
one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre,
the quantity TO which said State shall be
selected from such lands within the limits
Of such State, and the Secretary of the
Interior is hereby directed to issue to each
of the States in which there is not the
quantity of public lands subject to sale at
private entry Mt one dollar and twenty
five cents per acre, to which said State
may be entitled under the provisions of
this act, land scrip to the amount inacres
for the deficiency of its distributive share;
said scrip to be sold by said States and
the proceeds thereof applied to the uses
and purposes prescribed in this act, and
for no other use or purpose whatsoever !:
Provided, That in no case shall any State
to which land scrip may thus be issued
be allowed to locate the same within the
limits of any other State, or of any Terri
tory Of the United states, but their assig-
nees may thus locate said land scrip upon
any of the unappropriRted lands of the
| United Stotes subject to sale at private
entry ut one dollar and twenty-five cents
or less per acre: And provided further,
That not more than one million acres shall
be located by such assignees IN any one Of
the States: Aud provided further, That
nosuch location shall be made before one
year from the passage Of this act
Sec. 3. Aud be it further enacted, That
all the expenses of management, superin-
tendence, and taxes from date of selection
of said lands, previous to their sales, and
NIL expenses incurred IN the management
aud disbursement of the moneys which
may be received therefrom, shall be paid
the States to which they may beloug out of
the treasury of said States, so that the en-
tire proceeds of the sale of SRillauds shall
be applied without any diminutiOn what
ever to the purposes hereinafter mentiou-
ed
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That
all moneys derived from the sale of the
lands aforesaid by the States to which the
lands are apportioned, and from the sales
of land scrip hereinbetore provided for,
shall be invested in stocks of the United
States, or of the States, or some other safe
stocks, yielding not less than fVe per-cen-
tum upon the par value of said stocks; and
that the moneys SO invested shalt consti-
tute a perpetual fund, the capital of which
shall remain forever undiminished, Except
so far as may be provided In section fifth
of this act, and the interest Of which shall
be inyiolably appropriated, by each State
which may take aud claim the benefit OF
this act, to the endowment, support, and
maintenance of at least one college, where
the leading object shall be, without exclu-
ding other scientific and classical studies,
and including military tactics, TO teach
such branches of learning as are related to
agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such
manner as the legislatures of the States
may respectively prescribe, in order to pro-
mote the liberal and practical education Of
the industrial classes in the several pur-
suits and professions in life.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted that
the grant of land and scrip hereby authors
zed shall be made on the following condi-
tons, TO which, as WelI as to the provisions
hereinbefore contained, the previous assent
of the several States shall be stguihed by
Legislative acts
First If any portion Of the fund invest
ed, as provided by the foregoing section, or
any portion Of the interest thereon, shall,
by any section or -c0ntfhge be idimins
ished, or lost II shall be replaced BY the
State to which 1t belongs 30 that the cap