Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-08-05
GPuBItc-NO. 1881

AN ACT donating lands to the several States and
Territories which may provide colleges for
the benefit of agriculture aud the mechanic
arts.
Be il enacted By The Senate ard House Of Repre-
sentatiUes Of the United States Of America in Con-
gress assembled, That there be granted to tue
several States, for the purposes hereinafter
mentioned, an amount of public land, to be ap-
portioned to each State a quantity equal to thir-
ty thousand acres for each senator and represen-
tative in Congress to which the Stntes are re-
spectiyely entitled by the apportionment under
the census of eighteen hundred and sixty; Pro-
Vided, That no mineral lands shall be selected or
purchased under the provisions of this act.
Sec 2. And be IL further endcted, That the
land aforesaid, after being surveyed, shall be
apportioned to the several States in sections or
subdivisions of sections, not less than one quar-
ter of q section; and whenever there are public
lands in State subject to sale at private entry
ut one dollar aud twenty-five cents per acre, the
quantity to which said State shall be entitled
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 at
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
in acres tor the deficiency OF its distrlbuuve
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 Territory of the United States, but
their assignees may thus locate said land scrip
upon any of the unapproprinted lands of the
United States subject to sale at private entry
~ a. Ill as,l fuo mr.
acre And provided further, That not more than
one million acres shall be located by such as
signees in any one of the States: And pfoDided
frtler That no such location shall be made be-
fore one year from the passage of this act.
Sec. g. And be il further enacted, That oil
the expenses of management, superintendent,
and taxes from date of selection of said lands,
previous to their sales, and all expenses incur
red in the management and disbursement of the
moneys which may be received therefrOm, shall
be paid by the States to which they may belong
out of the treasury of said States, so that the
entire proceeds OF the sale Of said lands shall hc
applied without any dmiuution whatever to the
purposes hereinafter mentioned.
Sec. 4. l4nd be 10 further enacted, That all
moneys derived from the sale of the lands afore-
said by the States to which the lands are ap-
portioned, and from the sales Of land scrip
hereinbefore provided for, shall be invested in
stocks of the United States, or OF the States, or
some other sRfe stocks, yielding not less than
five per centum upon the par value OF said
stocks and that the moneys so invested shall
constitute perpetual fund, the capital OF which
shall remain forever undiminishcd, Except 80
far as may be provided in section fifth of this
act and The interest of which shall be inviola-
bly appropriated, by each State which may
take and claim the benefit of this act, to the en-
dowment, support, and maintenance of at least
one college, where the leading object shall be,
without excluding other scientific and classical
studies aud including military tactics, to teach
such branches of learning as are related to
agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such man
ner as the legislatures of the States may re-
spectively prescribe, in order 10 promote the
liberal and practical education Of the industrial
classes in the several pursuits and professions
in life. A.,
grant of land and land scrip hereby authorized
Shall be made on the following conditions, to
, which. as well as to the provisions herenbefore
contained the previous assent Of the several
States shall be signifed by legislative acts:
| First Ii any portion of the fund invested. as
, proyided by the foregoing section, or any por'
1 tion of the interest thereon, shall, by any ac'
} ton or contingency, be diminished or lost il
shall be replaced by the State to which it be
longs, so that the capital Of the fund shall re-
main forever undiminished; and the annual in
terest shall be regularly applied without diml
r mutton TO the purposes mentioned in the fourtl
section of this act, except that q sum, not ex-
= ceeding ten per centum upon the amount re
ceiyed by any State under the provisions Of thi
J, act, may be expended for the purchase of land
il for sites or experimental farms, whenever au
# thorized by the respective Legislatures OF sal
e States.
&c Second. No portion of said fund.- nor tn