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Sixth No State, while in a condition of rebellion or insurrection 

 against the government of the United States, shall be entitled to 

 the benefits 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 the approval by the President. 



6. And be it further enacted, That land scrip issued under the 

 provision of this act, shall not be subject to location until after the 

 first day of January, 1863. 



7. And be it further enacted, That land officers shall receive the 

 same fee for locating land scrip issued under the provisions of this 

 act, as is now allowed for the location of military bounty laud war 

 rants under existing laws. Provided, Their maximum compensation 

 shall not be thereby increased. 



8. And be it further enacted, That the Governors of the several 

 States to which scrip shall be issued under this act, shall be required 

 to report annually 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. 



Approved July 2, 1862. 



THE AMENDMENT TO THIS ACT. 



AN ACT to amend the fifth section of an act entitled &quot; An act do 

 nating public lands to the several States and Territories which may 

 provide Colleges for the benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic 

 Arts,&quot; approved July two, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, so as 

 to extend the time within which the provisions of said act shall be 

 accepted and such colleges established. 



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

 States of America, in Congress assembled, That the time in which the 

 several States may comply with the provisions of the act of July 

 two, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled &quot;An act donating 

 public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide 

 colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts,&quot; is 

 hereby extended so that the acceptance of the benefits of said act 

 may be expressed within three years from the passage of this act, 

 and the colleges required by the said act may be provided within. 

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