Year: 1866

and claim the benefit of this act, to the en-
dowment, support, and maintenance of at
least one college where the leading object
shall be, without excluding other scientific
and classical studies, and including military
tactics, to teach such branches of learning as
are related to agriculture and the mechanic
arts, in such manner as the legislatures of
the States may respectively prescribe, in or
der to promote the liberal and practical edu-
cation of the industrial classes in the several
pursuits and professions in life.


Sec. B. And be it further enacted, That
the grant of land and land scrip hereby au-
thorized shall be made on the following con-
ditions, to which, as we'll as to provisions
hereiubefore contained, the previous assent
of the several States shall be signifed by the
legislative acts:


First. If any portion of the fund invested,
as provided by the foregoing section, or any
portion of the interest thereon, shall, by any
action or contingency, be dimished or lost,
it shall be replaced by the State to which it
belongs, so that the capital of the fund shall
remain forever undimished; and the annual
interest shall be regularly applied without
diminution to the purposes mentioned in the
fourth section OF this act, except that sum
and exceeding ten per centum upon the
amount received by any State under the pro-
visions of this act, may be expended for the
purchase of lands for sites or experimental
farms, whenever authorized by the respective
legislatures of said States.


Second. No portion of said fund. nor the
interest thereon, shall be applied directly or
indirectly, under any pretence whatever, to
the purchase erection. preservation, or repair
of any building or buildings.


Third. Any State which may take and
claim the benefit of the provisions of this act
shall provide, within five years, at least not
less than one college, as described in The
fourth section of this act, or the grant to such
State shall cease; and said State shall be
bound to pay the United Stares the amount
received of any lands previously sold, and
that the title to purchaser under the State
shall be valid.


Fourt. An annual report shall be made
regarding the progress of each college, re-
cordiug any Improvements and experiments
made, with their cost and resolts, and such
other matters, including State industrial and
economical statistics, as may be supposed
useful; one copy of which shall be transmit
ted by mail free, by each, to all the other
colleges which may be endowed under the
provisions of this act, and also one copy to
| the Secretary of the Interior.


| Fifth. When lands shall be selected from
those which have been raised to double the
minimum price, in consequence of railroad
grants, they shall be computed to the State
at the maximum price, and the number of
acress proportionally diminished.


Sixth. No State while in condition of re-
bellion or insurrection against the govern
ment of the United States shall be entitled
to the benefit of this act.


Seventh. No State shall be entitled to the
benefit of this act unless it shall express It's
acceptance thereof by its Legislature within
two years from the date of its approval by
the President


Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That
land scrip issued under the provisions of this
act shall not be subject to location until af-
ter the first day of January, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty three.


Sec. z. And be it further enacted, That
the land officers shall receive the same fees
for locating land scrip issued under the pro-
visions of this act as it now allowed for the
location of military bounty land warrants un
der existing laws; Provided, their maxi
mum compensation shall not be thereby in
creased.


Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, Thai
the Governors of the several States to which
scrip shall be issued under this act shall be
required to report annually to Congress al
sales made of such scrip until the whole shall
be disposed of, the amount received for the
same, and what appropriation has been
made of the proceeds.


| Approved, July 2, 1862.