Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-06-19

money. OF course this committee
had very clear conception of pccu-
MARY worth of educational advantages,
and in the minds of Its members they
measured accurately, the advantages
which the State had received, is now
receiving and will hereafter receive,
and found they were not commensurate
with the amount of money heretofore
appropriated. But having failed to
give the public this standard we are
unable to 90 over their calculations
and thus detect any possible mathe-
matical error which they have com
mitted. Seeing however an error in
one their factors, to-wit, the amount
of money appropriated, We have Il
right to conclude that their whole cal
culation is necessarily erroneous. The
committee states that the College is
l'''iNllR lllt lhA'iNNt VI Sfo'tO''i
the proceeds of the sale of land scrip,
in addition to some 100000 appro-
priatcd by the State Legislature, and
in addition the trustees hold the bonds
of the State bearing six per cent. in
tcrcst for 100000. This makes an
aggregate of 81 $4,000. Every mem
Der of the committee knew this state
mcnt was absolutely false, or such
member was n born idiot The Col
lcge is receiving the interest on the
100000 bond last mentioned, and no
more. This bond includes the pro-
cccds of the sale Of the land scrip and
all State appropriations except those
made originally towards the construc-
ton of the building, and one of $50.
900 made in 1873 to pay n mortgage,
placed on the College property in 1866
by virtue of an act of the Legislature.
No part of which last appropriation
had been paid when this committee
made its report.
Your committee find the evidence
discloscs the further fact, that the
deeds for all the freehold belonging
TO the said Pennsylvania State College,
the experimental farms, are
held by the aforesaid trustees not in
trust for the Commonwealth but for
the aforesaid trustees and their success
sors." This is another statement n
barren of truth as the committee was
of common sense. All Of the title
deeds for the College property were at
the College when the committee was
there. They might have examined
them if they had desired to DO so, but
they did not. These deeds are all re-
corded in the counties where the pro-
pcriy is situated and the records might
have been examined by these Solou=.
had they known enough to have look
ed for them. If they had read any
of these deeds or the records of them,
one member of the committee proba-
bly,, (for he is reputcd to be a fair law
YER, would have seen that the title Is
cot held 10y the trustees in trust for
themselves or anybody else. The title
for all the real estate was made direct.
ly to the corporation, aud is not held
by anybody in trust for it, or for its
trustees. The original deed from Gen
James Irwin for the four hundred
acres of land in Centre county was
made to the Farmers High School
of Pennsylvania" which was then the
name Of the corporation. The cor
poraie name having been changed to
the " Agricultural College of Pennsyl-
vania," the deeds for the eastern and
western experimental farms were made
to it. How the title was held, should
have been known to one member of
the committee at lcast--Senator Thos.
St. Clair--for, rs President of the In
diana County Agricultural Society, he
purchased at slOO per acre a portion
of the western experimental farm
which this report denounces as but a
third rate farm and received n deed
therefor, not from the aforesaid
trustees" but from the Pennsylvania
State College, executed under its cor
porate seal.
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