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

 ])ring from home the feelings and interests of their own districts; and they will 

 mingle them here with thos;i 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. 

 W.VSHIXGTON, 2. jth January, 1S06. 



APPENDIX D. 



THE MORRILL ACT.t 



AN ACT (loiu'itiiiK Public T.ands to the several States iuul Territories which may provide ColIeKes 

 for the Benefit of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. 



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

 Aiuerica in Congress assei/it>ted, That there 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 thirty thou.sand acres for each senator and representative 

 in Congress to which the States are respectively entitled b}- the apportionment inider 

 the cen.sus of eighteen hundred and sixt\' : Provided, That no mineral lands shall be 

 selected or purcha.sed under the provisions of this act. 



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

 shall be apportioned to the several vStates in .sections or .subdivisions of .sections, not 

 less than one-qtiarter 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 

 qttantity 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 

 l)roceeds thereof applied to the u.ses and purposes prescribed in this act, and for no 

 other use or purpose what.soever : 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 vState, 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 : 

 ^1 nd provided , further , That not more than one million acres .shall be located by such 

 assignees in any one of the States: ^Ind provided, further. That no such location 

 shall be made before one year from the passage (jf this act. 



SiiC. 3. And he it further 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, otit 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 purpo.ses hereinafter mentioned. 



Si'X". 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 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 luidiminished, 

 (except so far as may be provided in .section fifth of this act,) and the interest of 



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

 Vermont, and aj^proved by Tresident Ivincoln, July 2, 1862. 



