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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 States the amount 

 received of any lands previously sold, and that the title to purchasers under 

 the state shall be valid. 



Fourth. An annual report shall be made regarding the progress of each 

 college, recording any improvements and experiments made, with their cost 

 and results, and such other matters, including state industrial and economical 

 statistics, as may be supposed useful ; one copy of which sliall be transmitted 

 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 states at the maximum price, and the number of acres 

 proportionally diminished. 



Sixth. No state, while in a condition of rebellion or insurrection against 

 the government of the United States, shall be entitled to the benefit of this act. 



Seventh. No state shall be entitled to the benefits of this act, unless it 

 Bhall express its acceptance thereof by its legislature within two years from 

 the date of its approval by the President. 



Sect. 6. And be it further enacted, That land scrip issued under the pro- 

 visions of this act shall not be subject to location until after the first day of 

 January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. 



Sect. 7. And be it further enacted, That the land officers shall receive 

 the same fees for locating land scrip issued under the provisions of this act, as 

 are now allowed for the location of military bounty land warrants under exist- 

 ing laws : Provided, Their maximum compensation shall not be thereby 

 increased. 



Sect. 8. And be it further enacted. That the governors of the several 

 states to which scrip shall be issued under this act, shall be required to report 

 annually to congress all sales made of such scrip, until the whole shall be dis- 

 posed of, the amount received for the same, and what appropriation has been 

 made of the proceeds. 



[Approved July 2, 1862.] 



Legislators of Maine ! Farmers of Maine ! What say you ? 

 Here is a liberal oifer. More than two hundred thousand acres of 

 public land, on condition that you will take it and make good use 

 of it. 



Do we need such a college ? Most certainly we do. What is 

 the surest guarantee of material prosperity ? Intelligent labor. 

 Without this there is only a blind following of routine, an unrea- 

 soning pursuit of old ways because others have trodden the same 

 path — a condition like that of the ignorant peasantry of Europe — 

 a mill-horse round of drudgery from one year's end to another. 

 Nothing speeds the plow or fattens the crops like brains, and the 

 more they are cultivated before application to the land the better.' 



A marked feature of the present age is the growing desire for 

 scientific knowledge — to know why one practice is better than 



