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FLORIDA. 



Florida State Agricultural CoUe{/c. — The legislature of this State iucor- 

 porated the Florida State Agricultural College February 17, 1872. By 

 thje act of iucorporation, a board of directors was appointed Avho are 

 authorized to receive the land-scrip to which the State is entitled under 

 the act of Congress approved July 2, 1882, and to sell the same when 

 they shall think most conducive to the interest of the college. Ten per cent, 

 of the proceeds of the sales may be used for the purchase of an experi- 

 mental farm, containing not less than 100 acres, and the remainder shall 

 be invested in stocks of the United States, or of some of tbe States of 

 the Union, bearing an annual interest of not less than per cent, on 

 their par value, which is to be appropriated to the maintenance of 

 the college. They have, also, authority to locate the college, and to 

 erect such buildings as they may think necessary for its use, and to 

 elect the faculty and fix their salaries. Each county is entitled to send 

 annually, or as often as vacancies may occur, one student for each mem- 

 ber of IJbie assembly from that county. The students are to be selected 

 by the boards of i)ublic instruction of the several counties, from the 

 most advanced pupils in the common and higher schools who may pre- 

 sent themselves as candidates. 



The college has not yet been located, nor has the land-scrip been re- 

 ceived from the National Go\iprnment. An effort has been made to 

 obtain it, but in consequence of the indebtedness of the State to the 

 Indian trust-fund, which is committed to the care of the Secretary of 

 the Interior, it has been withheld. An act, however, has been passed 

 by Congress, approved December i;>, 1872, by which the Secretary is 

 authorized to issue it, and it will be delivered as soon as the necessary 

 aiTangements can be made. Hon. Charles Beecher, superintendent of 

 public instruction for that State, is president of the board of directors. 



GEORGIA. 



University of Georgia — Georgia State College of Agriculture and the 

 Mechanic Arts, at Athens, Bev. A. A. Lipscomb, J). B., chancellor. — The 

 land-scrip granted by Congress to this State under the act of July 2, 

 1862, was sold by the governor, January, 1872, for 8243,000, agreeably 

 to an act of the general assembly ol* the State approved December 12, 

 1866, by which he was authorized to receive and sell tlie land-scrii^, to 

 invest the proceeds, and to direct the establishment and organization 

 of an industrial college, such as was contemplated by the act of Con- 

 gress bestowing the national endowment. Fifty thousand dollars of 

 this sum were paid down, and the remainder is to be paid within eigh- 

 teen months from the time of the sale, or in July, 1873. The law refer- 

 red to above requires that the money, as soon as paid in, snail be in- 

 vested in bonds of the State of Georgia, as a perpetual fund, bearing 7 

 per cent, interest, which is to be ai)propriated to the support of the col- 

 lege. A change, however, has since been made in the disposition of 

 the proceeds of the land-scrip, by which a part of the income is to be 

 given for the support of the " North Georgia Agricultural College.'' 

 The $50,000 already paid have been invested by the governor as directed, 

 and the remainder will be as soon as it is received. The trustees oi 

 the University of Georgia, acting under the authority of the governor, 

 established tlie "Georgia Stiite College of Agriculture and the Mechanic 

 Arts,'' March 30, 1872, as a department of that university, and it was 

 organized and went into operation on the 1st day of May following. 

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