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 LAWS RELATING TO THE COLLEGE. 191 



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

 States shall be signified by legishitive acts: 



First. If any portion of the fund invested, as provided by the foregoing 

 section, or any portion of the interest thereon, sliall, by any action or contin- 

 gency, be diminisiied or lost, it shall be re|)laced by tlie State to which ifc 

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

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

 purposes mentioned in the foui'th 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; 



Third. Any State which may take and claim the benefit of the provisions of 

 this act shall provide, within five years, at least not le-^s than one college, as 

 prescribed 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 ; 



Fourtlt,. An annual report shall be made regarding the progress of each col- 

 lege, recording any improvements and experinients made, witli their cost and 

 results, and such other matters, including State industrial and economical statis- 

 tics, as may be supposed useful ; one copy of which shall be ti'ansmitted by mail 

 free, by each, to all the other colleges which may be endowed under the pro- 

 visions of this act, and also one copy to the Secretary of tlie 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 pro- 

 portionally 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 shall 

 express its acceptance thereof by its Legislature within two years from the 

 date of its approval by the President. 



Sec. 6. And he it further enacted, That land scrip issued under the pro- 

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

 January, 1^63. 



Sec. 7. And he it ficrther enacted, That land officers shall receive the same 

 fees for locating land scrip issued under the provisions of this act as is now 

 allowed for the location of military bounty land warrants under existing laws: 

 Provided, That maximum compensation shall not be thereby increased. 



Sec. 8. And be it farther enacted, That the Governors of the several States 

 to which scrip shall be issued under this act shall be required to report annu- 

 ally 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 been made 

 of the proceeds. 

 l^ Approved July, 1861. 



^;' [Note. — The time for accepting the provisions of this act was subsequently 

 extended and provisions made for new States.] 



