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shall in no case exceed the amount received by the State, as principal, inter- 

 est, and taxes on the lands described in the particular sale so canceled: Pro- 

 vided further, That all settlers on lands so canceled, shall also have a valid 

 claim against the State for all actual improvements; 



Resolved, That this joint resolution shall be in full force and effect from 

 and after its passage. 



SWAMP LANDS. 



§ 5406 (1858, No. 31 Sec. 10). All of the swamp lands granted to Mich- 

 igan by act of Congress, approved September 38, 1850, and situate in the 

 township of liansing and Meridian, in the county of Ingham, and in the town- 

 ships of Dewitt and Bath, county of Clinton, except such as have been occu- 

 pied by persons entitled to pre-emption under this act at least thirty days next 

 previous to the passage of this act, shall be reserved from sale by said commis- 

 sioner, and possession of the same shall be immediately delivered over to the 

 agricultural college for its use, and for the purposes of drainage and reclama- 

 tion, in accordance with the provisions of the act of Congress donating the 

 same to the State. 



LAWS OF CONGRESS. 



By an act approved July 2d, 1863, Congress granted to the several States an 

 amount of public land equal to 30,000 acres for each Senator and Representa- 

 tive, to which the States were respectively entitled by the apportionment under 

 the census of 1860, for the endowment, 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 order to promote 

 the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pur- 

 suits and professions of life. 



Under this grant, owing to certain regulations regarding estimation of frac- 

 tional sections, Michigan received 335,673.37 acres. 



The conditions of this grant are as follows : 



Sec. 5. And ie it further enacted. That the grant of land and land scrip 

 hereby authorized shall be made on the following conditions, to which as well 

 as to the provisions hereinbefore contained, the previous assent of the several 

 States shall be signified by 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 contin- 

 gency, be diminished or lost, it shall be replaced by the State to which it 

 belongs, so that the capital of the fund shall remain forever undiminished; 

 and the annual interest shall be regularly applied without diminution to the 

 purposes mentioned in the fourth 'section of this act, except that a sum, not 

 exceeding ten per centum upon the amount received by any State under the 

 provisions 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 pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, 

 preservation or repair, of any building or buildings ; 



