Litchfield enquirer., 1863-07-30
Princeton, N. J., June 3Oth.
PUBLIC A,
PASSED MAY SESSION, 1863.

CHAPTER N.
 An act appropriating the Scrip for Public Lands granted to this State under the Act of Congress, approved July 2. 1862.
 Be tt enacted 6y the Senate and House of Representatives., in General Assembly conDened. Sec. l, Whenever the Secretary of the In- terior shall have issued to this State the land scrip due to this State. under the act of Con- gross entitled Ian act donating Public Lands to the several States and Territories which may provide Colleges for the benefit of Agri- culture and the Mechanic Arts," it shall be- come the duty of the commissioner of the school fund to take charge of said scrip, and as ageut of this State to sell the same so soon as in his judgment he can prudensly do so, up- on terms to be previously approved by the Governor, and in the name and behalf ot this State to convey and transfer the same, in any suitable manner, to tho purchaser9r purchasers thereof, and to invest the avais thereof in the manner specially prescribed by said act of Congress.
 Sec 2. Said commissioner shall semi-annu- ally pay oyer the interest of the fund which may result from the sale of said scrip to the president and fellows of Yale College in New Haven, for the special purposes and upon the special conditions hereinafter set forth.
 
 | interest wholly and exclusively to the mainte- nance. in that department of Yale College known as the Sheffield Scientific School" of such courses of instruction as (including the courses of instruction already instituted in said school,) shall carry out the intent of said act of Congress, in the manner especially pres cribed by the fourth section of said act. | Sec. 4. Said corporation shall furnish gratu- itous education in said courses of instruction, to pupils who shall be annually nominated to be pupils of said school in such manner as the General Assembly shall prescribe. The rum- Der of pupils to be so received gratuitously in- to said school, shall be, in each year, such 2 number as would expend sum equal to one. half of the said interest for the same year in paying for their instruction in said school for the same year. Said pupils so nominated and received shall be citizens of this State, and shall be admitted into said school upon the same terms and subject to the same rules and disciplines which shall apply to all other pupils of said school, with the single exception tha they shall not be required to pay anything fol their instruction.
 Sec. 5. Said corporation shall ann9all make and distribute the reports required D! rur ruurpir Purusrapir-v -vf svotinn fifth of salt act of Congress.
 Sec. $. No portion of said interest shall b. paid over to said corporation, until said corpo ration shall contract with this State, by it contract in writing, in such form as the Cover nor shall approve, to fulfil and perform all the duties and obligations imposed upon it by thi act
 Sec. '. The Governor, Lieutenant Governor the three senior Senators, and the Superinten dent of Common Schools, shall constitute hoard of visitors whose duty it shall be to wis it said school in each year, and report annuall to the General Assembly.
 Approved, June 24th, 1863.