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youth, combined with the cautions that experience will have taught. They will 

 bring from home the feelings and interests of their own districts; and they will 

 mingle them here with tliosj of the nation. From such men the Institution may 

 perceive the good it may have done; and from them it will learn what new openings 

 may be found in the different states, for the extension of its benefits. 

 Washington, 2-///1 Jaitiiary, 1S06. 



APPENDIX D. 



THE MORRILL ACT.i 



AN ACT don.itinpf Public I.amls to the several Slates and Territories which may provide Colleges 

 for the Benefit of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. 



Be it enacted by tlie Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of 

 America in Congress assembled. That there be grairted to the several States, for the 

 purposes hereinafter mentioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each 

 State a quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for each senator and representative 

 in Congress to which the States are respectively entitled by the apportionment under 

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

 selected or purchased under the provisions of this act. 



Sec 2. And be it furtJier enacted, That the land 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, the 

 quantity to which said State shall 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 niay thus be Lssued 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, per acre : 

 And provided, furt/ier. That not more than one million acres shall be located by such 

 assignees in any one of the States : And provided, furtlier. That no such location 

 shall lie made Ijefore one 5'ear from the passage of this act. 



Sec. 3. And be itfurtJicr enacted. That all the expenses of management, superin- 

 tendence, 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 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 whatever to the purposes hereinafter mentioned. 



Sec. 4. And be it furtlier enacted. That all moneys derived from the sale of the 

 lands aforesaid by the vStates 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 



' Introduced in the House of Representatives by the Hon. Justin S. Morrill, of 

 Vermont, and approved by President Lincoln, July 2, 1S62. 



