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ated, l»y each State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endow- 

 ment, siipj)ort, and niaintenaiice of at least one college where the leading object s^hall 

 be, without excluding other Kcientilic 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 respectfully pre- 

 scribe, in order to jjromote the liberal and ])ractical education of the industrial 

 classes in the several i)ursuits and ])rofessions in life. 



Sec. 5. That the grant of land and land scrip hereby authorized shall be made on 

 the following conditions, to which, as well as to tne provisions hereinbefore contained, 

 the previous assent of the sevt'ral 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 contingency, be dimin- 

 ished or lost, it shall be replaced by the State to which it belongs, so that the capital 

 of the fund shall remain forever imdiniinished; and the annual interest shall be regu- 

 larly applied without diniiiuitiou to the purposes mentione<l in the fourth section of 

 this act, excent 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 legis- 

 latures 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 repsur of any building or Iniildings. 



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 ])e 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 shall 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 tlie 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 acres proportionately diminished. 



Sixth. No State while in a condition of reV)ellion or insurrection against the Gov- 

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



Seventh. No State shall l)e entitled to the benefits of this act unless it shall express 

 its acceptance thereof by its legislature within two years from the date of its approval 

 by the President. 



Sec. 6. That land scrip issued under the provisions of this act shall not be subject 

 to location until after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and 

 sixty-three. 



Sec. 7. That the land r)fficers shall receive the same fees for locating land scrip 

 issued under the provisions of this act as is nt)W allow^'d for the location of military 

 bounty land warrants under existing laws: Provided, Their maximum compensation 

 shall not be thereby increased. 



Sec. 8. That the governors of the several States to which scrip shall be is.sued 

 under this act shall In- reiiuired to report annually to Congress all sales made of such 

 scrip until the whole shall be disposed of, the amount received for the same, and 

 what appropriation has ]>een made of the proceeds. 



Approved, July 2, 1862. 



