Year: 1866

An Act donating Poblic-Lands to the several


States and Territories which may provide


Colleges for the benefit of Agriculture and


the Mechanic Arts.


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of The United States of Anne
rica in Congress assembled, That there be
granted to the several States, for the purpo-
ses hereinafter mentioned. an amount of pub
lie land, to be apportioned to each State a
quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for
each senator and representative in Congress
to which the States are respectively entitled
by the apportionment under the census of
eighteen hundred and sixty: That no mine
raj lands shall be selected or purchased under
the provisions of this act.


Sec g. And be it further enacted, That
the land aforesaid, after being surveyed,
shall be apportioned to the several States in
sections or subdivisions of sections, not less
than one quarter of II section and whenever
there are public lands in State subject to
sale at private entry at one dollar and twen-
ty-tive 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
OOllaT twenty CcuIS per acre, 10
which said State may be entitled under the
provisions of the act, land scrip to the amount
in acres for the deficiency of its distributive
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: Provi-
ded, 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


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ed States, but their assignees may thus To-
cate said land scrip upon any of the unap-
propriated lands of the United States sub
ject to sale at private entry at one dollar and
twenty-five cents, or less per acre: And pro-
vided, further, That not more than one mil
lion acres shall be located by such assignees
in any one of the State: And provided, fur
ther, That no such location shall be made
before one year from the passage of this
act.


Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That
all the expenses of management, superinten-
dence and taxes from date of selection of
said lands, previous to their sales, and all
expenses incurred in the management and
disbursement of the moneys which may be
received therefrom, shall be paid by the
State to which rhey may belong, out of the
treasury of said States, so that the entire
proceeds of the sale of said lands shall be ap-
pIed WlGnou6 any uIminutlou Whatever
to the purposes hereinafter mentioned.


Sec. L. And be it further enacted, That
all moneys derived from the sale of the lands
aforesaid by the States to which the lands
are apportioned, and from the sales of land
scrip hereinbefore provided for, shall be IL
vested in stocks of the United States, or OF
the State, or some other safe stocks, yield
ing not less than five per centum upon the
par value of said stocks and that the mo.
neys so invested shall constitute perpetual
fund, the capital of which shall remain for.
ever. undiminished, Except SO far assmay
be provided in section fifth of this actl and
the interest of which eshalr be invlolably ap
propriated, by each State which may take