The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-05-12


1 tuition fees and direct TAXATION
>. educate our chlliren not a sin
D will giving us legacy to aid in ed
= cationa! pursuits; not foot Of Ia
e as yet which we by law apply for Ii
purpose; not a single donation,
} cept temporary expedients. that /
come to my knowledge which
, law can apply to this purpose.
these to US are blanks. To US il
eduoste your own children yourselv
or resort ID direct taxation. VT
shall We. what ought we to do ?
The acts of Congress are numero
where lands have been granted a.
other means devoted to aid in ed
eating the youth. 1 will notice on
a few:
OHIO.
The act of 1903, 2 Statutes
Large, 225. granted to the State
Ohio one thirty-sixth part of the lar
OF that state, being, as l have got
reason TO believe, net less than soc
coo acres. By the same act p
cent on the sales Of other lands, aft
deduc.ing expenses, was also grants
to aid in making roads in that stat
These, unitsdly, were about on
eighteenth of the land OF the Unite
States in that state. Before this dat
other lands, equal to about two town
ships, seventy-two square miles, ha
been granted for higher schools.
MICHIGAN.
The act OF June Esd, 1886, st
Statutes ct Large, SO, the same pro
portions of land in Michigan wa
granted for the same purpose, tW
townships, equal to seventy-twc
square miles, having before beer
granted for a university.
ILLINOIS.
By the act OF April 1S!b, 1878,
Statutes at Large, $50, like proper
ton of the land OF the United States
in that state was granted for the
same purpose, two townships, equal
10 seventy-two square miles, having
before been granted for a seminary O
learning.
ALABAMA.
By the act of April 20, 1918,
st Large, 467, one-thirty-sixth
part of the land Of the United States
in TIE state OF Alabama was appro-
priated 10 educational purposes, and
one township for the support Of a
seminary OF learning; AID by the act
of March =, 1879, i'd. 49l, another
was granted to the use OF q
seminary and 5 per cent. on the sale
Of lands to the use of roads, canals
and improve ment Of the navigations
Of the rivers.
ARKANSAS.
By the act OF March 9, 1927, 1
at Large 2S5. two townships
+ land. equal to seventy.tRo square
nll,s, was granted to that state for
he use of q seminary of learning,
mad by the act OF June 23d, 1886, 9th
statutes at Large, IS, one tbirty-sixth
part OF the land of the United States
n that state was granted for the use
If schools. and 3 per cent OF the
money arising from sales Of land in
hat state. after deducting the ex-
lenses of sale, was reserved for max
ne roads and canals within that state.
TENNESSEE.
The state of Tennessee was erected
nat OF that portion OF country ceded
o the United States by North Caro-
lns, by which cessicn there
we're certain lands reserved for
be use of the future state.
10 carry the grant into execution by
tennessee and by Congress an act
vas passed settling The boundaries of
and owned by Congress and by that
tate. Tnis act is found in the Statutes
t Large, vol 2, page 3S1; By it the
tate of Tennessee was to appropriate
10000 acres OF land to the use of
wo colleges, one in east and one in
rest Tennessee, and 100000 sores for
be use Of academies, one in each
ounty, and the stste vas TO appro-
'riate GAO acres in each six miles
qusre Tor the use Of schools in that
tate. This, you see is one thirty
lxth part OF the land, and 100000
ores in excess CT that amount. This
ct Ras passed April Is, 1906.
You see, Dir. Editor, | have nov
elected from six states, three north
nd three south of the River Ohio.
'hese show the general, lot the
pecial proceedings of Congress in
citation 10 schools in the states.
subsequently Congress adopted a
egulalisn by which, when the public
ands were surveyed by the United
itates in q territory, sections IS and
Is in each township, equal TO one.
Eighteenth of the land, shoald be re-
erved for the use Of schools. Our
rganic law, section 10, is an instance
Nth which, however, We cannot
vail ourselves until We became a
tate.
Nor is this all. From the time in
was gained until about
$50, e period o! g little less than
ilty years, the United States was in
ebt on account of the revolutionary
gar, and the Indian wars and the
var OF 1912, which necessarily took
il the money they could Justly com
1snd About this year, 1880, these
ebts we're paid, and a surplus fund
oon accumulated in the United
itates treasury. This fund amounted
o about 100000. An act of
congress passed authorizing thiu
Dnd, with the exception Of 5,000,-
100, 10 be deposited with the states
O be returned under certain condi-
ions. See Statutes at Large, vol. 5.
,sge 50. This deposit was to be in
to their respective repre-
in Congress.
This fund would yield handsome
.nnusl interest to 81 n slate. rang
ng from 100000 10 $40 600.
This fund come of the = states
perhaps sll-I DO not under
tsnd the minulis--gss So invested as
0 use the interest annually .or tie
.ounf1t of aohot