FEDERAL LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS. AND RULINGS AFFECT- 

 ING AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES AND EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



FEDERAL. LEGISLATION. 



Act ok 18(52 Donatixi; Lanjjs for Achu tltitkai. Colleges. 



AN A('T (loiiatiug public lands to the several States and Territorie.s which may proviile colleges for 



the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts. 



Be it enacted b;/ the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America 

 in Congress asseuibled, That there be granted to the several States, for the i)urj)ose8 

 hereinafter mentioned, an ainonnt of ]>nl)Hc" land, to l)e apportioned to each State a 

 quantity equal to thirty tiiousand acres for each Senator and l\ei)resentative in Con- 

 gress to which the States are respectively entitled by the apportionment mider the 

 census of eighteen lumdred and sixty: Provided, That no mineral lands shall be 

 selected or purchased under the ])rovisions of this act. 



Sec. 2. That the laud aforesaid, after being surveyed, shall be apportioned to the 

 several States in sections or subdivisions of sections, not less than one-quarter of a 

 section; and whenever there are public lands in a State subject to sale at private 

 entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, tiie cpiantity to which said State 

 sliall 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 

 dollar and twenty-five cents per acre t<^ which said State may be entitled under the 

 provisions of this act land scrip to the amount in acres for the deficiency of its dis- 

 tributive share; said scrip to be sold by said States and the proceeds thereof applied 

 to the uses and purposes ])rescribed in this act and for no other use or purpose what- 

 soever: Provided, That in no case shall any State to wliich land scrip may thus be 

 issued be allowed to locate the same witliin the limits of any other State or of any 

 Territory of the United States, but their assignees may thus locate said land scrip 

 upon any of the imapproj)riated lands of tlie United States subject to sale at private 

 entry at one dollar and twenty-live cents, or less, per acre: And, providt'd fiirtJier, 

 That not more than one million acres shall be located by such assignees in any one 

 of the States: And provided further, That no such location shall be made before one 

 year from the passage of this act. 



Sec. 3. That all the expenses of management, superintendence, 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 States to which thej' may belong, out of the treasury of said 

 States, BO that the entire proceeds of the sale of said lands shall be ajuilied without 

 any diminution whatever to the purposes hereinafter mentioned. 



Sec. 4. 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 invested in stocks of the United States, or of the States, or 

 some other safe stocks, yielding not less than five per centum upon the par value of 

 said stocks; and that the moneys so invested shall constitute a perpetual fund, the 

 capital of which shall remain forever undiminished (except so far as may be provided 

 in section fifth of this act), and the interest of which shall be inviolably appro pri- 

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