ACTS OF CONGRESS 

 SEC. 589 ENABLING ACT. 



SEC. 589. GRANT FOR AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 



Ninety thousand acres of land, to be located and selected as pro- 

 vided in section 583 of this code, are hereby granted to each of said 

 states * * * for the use and support of agricultural colleges, in 

 said states, as provided in the act of Congress making donations of lands 

 for such purposes. (Act Feb. 22, '89; 25 Stat. L., p. 681, sec 16; 6 

 Fed. Stat. Ann., p. 476.) 



Management of this grant : sec. 436 et seq., ante. 



NOTE : The general act referred to is Chap. 130, 12 Stat. L., p. 503. approved 

 July 2, 1862, which, under the provision of the next section, does not extend to 

 the State of Washington. At the time of the organization of this state its 

 representation in Congress consisted of two senators and one representative ; 

 hence the grant made by the above section is equivalent to and in lieu of the 

 grant made to other states by sec. 1 of the general act, the material parts of which 

 act are set out below : 



"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 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." (Act July 2, '62 ; 12 

 Stat. L., p. 503, sec. 1 ; 2 Fed. Stat. Ann., p. 850.) 



"That all the expenses of management, superintendence, 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 tha 

 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 men- 

 tioned." (Idem, sec. 3.) 



"That all moneys derived from the sale of 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 ; or the same may be invested by the states having 

 no state stocks, in any other manner after the Legislature of such states shail 

 have assented thereto, and engaged that such funds shall yield not less than five 

 per centum upon the amount so invested and that the principal thereof shall for- 

 ever remain unimpaired : Provided, That the moneys so invested or loaned 

 shall constitute a perpetual fund, the capital of which shall remain forever 

 undiminished (except so far as may be provided in section five of this act), and 

 the interest of which shall be inviolably appropriated, by each state which may 

 take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support and main- 

 tenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be without excluding 

 other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such 

 branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in 

 such manner as the Legislatures of the states may respectively prescribe, in 

 order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in 

 the several pursuits and professions in life." (Idem, sec. 4 ; Amended, Act Mar. 

 3, '83; 22 Stat. L., p. 484; 2 Fed. Stat. Ann., p. 851.) 



"That the grant of land and land scrip hereby authorized shall be made 

 on the following conditions, to which, as well as to the provisions hereinbefore 

 contained, the previous assent of the several states shall be signified by 

 legislative acts : 



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

 section, or any portion of the interest thereon, shall, by any action or con- 

 tingency, be diminished or lost, it shall be replaced by the state to which it 



