190 STATE BOAED OF AGllICULTURE, 



States of America, in Congress assemlUd, That thevo be granted to the several 

 States, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, an amount of public land, to 

 be apportioned to each State, a quantity equal to 30,000 acres for each Sen- 

 ator and Ivcpresentative in Congress to wliich the States are respectively 

 entitled by the apportionment under the census of 18G0 : Provided, That 

 no mineral lands shall be selected or purchased under the [)rovisionsof this act. 



Sec. 2. And he it further enacted, That the land aforesaid, after being sur- 

 veyed, shall be apportioned to tlie several States in sections or subdivisions of 

 sections, not less than one-quarter of a section ; and wherever there are 

 public lands in a State, subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and 

 tvventy-i3ve cents per acre, the quantity 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, to which said State may be 

 entitled under the provisions of this act, land scrip to the amount in acres for 

 the deficiency of its distributive share; said scrip to be sold by said States, 

 and the proceeds thereof applied to the uses and purposes prescribed in this 

 act, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever: Provided, That in no case 

 shall any State to which land scrip may thus be issued, be allowed to locate 

 the same within 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 unappropriated lands of the United States subject to sale at private 

 entry, at one dollar and twenty-five cents, or less, an acre : And provided 

 further, That not more than one million acres shall be located by such 

 assignees in anyone of the States: And 2}rovided further, That no such 

 location shall be made before one year from the passage of this act. 



Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, 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 disbursen)ent of 

 the moneys which may be received therefrom, shall be paid by the States to 

 which they may belong, out of the Treasury of said States, so that the entire 

 proceeds of the sale of said lands shall be applied, without any diminution what- 

 ever, to the purposes hereinafter mentioned. 



Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, 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, yield- 

 ing 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 Sec- 

 tion fifth of this act, and the interest of which shall be inviolably appropri- 

 ated, by each State, which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to 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 Legisla- 

 tures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal 

 and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and 

 professions in life. 



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

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



