The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1880-01-06
Education of the colored Race.
IN TIE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES,
DECEMBER i6, 1873


Mr.. Bruce asked and by unanimous consent
obtained leave to bring in the following
bill which was read twice and referred 4
the Committee on Education and Labor
\ bill to provide for the investment OF
certain unclaimed pay and bounty moneys
now in the Treasury of the United States
and to facilitate and encourage the educa-
| ton of the colored race in the several States
and Territories.
WHEREAS. Five hundred and ten thous
and dollars, originally appropriated for the
pay aud bounties of colored soldiers, has
remained unclaimed more than seven years,
from failure to discover claimants therefor,
and has been recently covered back into
the Treasury of the United States and
WHEREAS, 1t is equitable that the classes
from whose services this fund has accrued
should receive the benefit thereof and
WHEREAS, Justice and expedlency de
mand that these moneys shall be distributed
SO as to reach the largest number of the
necessitous classes and meet the wants OF
said classes for elementary as well as higher
instruction and
WHEREAS, The institutions hereinafter
named are located with reference to the
convenience OF the general masses of the
colored population, and furnish not only
large facilities to meet popular educational
wants, but give reasonable guarantee, IN
their management and success, of perman-
eney; therefore,
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House Of
Representatives. of the United States Of Ameri-
ca in Congress assembled, That an amount
equal To the sum of said unclaimed pay and
bounty funds now in the Treasury, to-wit
Five hundred and ten thousand dollars, be
set apart for the education of colored
youths, and that the Secretary of the
Treasury be, and he hereby is, empowered
and directed to purchase United States
registered four per centum bonds to this
amount, and that said bonds shall be held
in trust for the educational uses of colored
youth, and that the interest thereof alone
shall be, as it accrues, paid over by said
Secretary of the Treasury as hereinafter
provided.
SEC. .. That the interest annually &C
cruing from the aforementioned registered
United States bonds shall be equally dis
tributed among the several institutions
named in this act and that the Secretary
of the Treasury is hereby required and
directed to pay, out of this interest as it may
be collected, quarterly, one equal part to
the respective treasurers of the Boards
of Trustees of said institutions following, TO-
wit: State Normal School for Coored
Students, Pine Bluff, Arkansas; Lincoln
Normal University, Marion, Alabama;
Goodman Institute, Jacksonville, Florida
Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia;
Haven Normal School, Waynesboro, Geor-
gia; Straight University, New Orleans,
Louisiana; Shaw University, Holly
Springs Mississippi Tougaloo University,
and Normal School, Tougaloo, Mississippi
Baltimore Normal School for colored pupils,
Baltimore, Maryland; Lincoln Normal
Institute, Jefferson, Missouri; Biddle Uni
versity, Charlottesville, North Carolina;
Shaw University, Raleigh, North Carolina;
Avery Normal Institute, Charleston, South
Carolina; Fairfield Normal Institute,
Winnsboro, South Carolina; Fiske Univer-
sity, Nashville, Tennessee; Freedman's
Normal Institute, Maysville, Tennessee /;
Richmond Normal School, Richmond, Vir-
ginia; Hampton Normal and Agricultural
Institute, Hampton, Virginia; Berea Col
lege, Berea, Kentucky; Wiley University,
Marshall, Texas, and Howard University,
Washington, District of Columbia.
SEC. 8. That the funds thus distributed
shall be appropriated by the Trustees Of the
several institutions for the specific and ex-
elusive purpose of paying the Professors
and instructors thereof that competent
and efficient corps of teachers may be per-
manently secured for said institutions
And if from any cause said institutions
should be abandoned, or diverted in their
administration from the purposes contem-
plated in this Act, the Secretary of the
Treasury shall distribute the fund other
wise designated for said abandoned institu'
tons, in equal proportions, among the
schools that Shall remain in force and oper-
alton.