

ACTS OF CONGRESS 333 



AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. SEC. 589 



belongs, so that the capital of the fund shall remain forever undlminished ; and 

 the annual interest shall be regularly applied without diminution to the 

 purposes mentioned in the fourth section of this act, except that a sum, not 

 exceeding ten per centum upon the amount received by any state under the 

 provisions of this act, may be expended for the purchase of lands for sites 

 or experimental farms, whenever authorized by the respective Legislatures of said 

 states. 



Second. No portion of said fund, nor the interest thereon, shall be applied, 

 directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, 

 preservation, or repair of any building or buildings. 



Third. Any state which may take and claim the benefit of the provisions 

 of this act shall provide, within five years, at least not less than one college, 

 as described in the fourth section of this act, or the grant to such state shall 

 cease ; and said state shall be bound to pay the United States the amount received 

 of any lands previously sold, and that the title to purchasers under the state 

 shall be valid. 



Fourth. An annual report shall be made regarding the progress of each 

 college, recording any improvements and experiments made, with their cost and 

 results, and such other matters, including state industrial and economical 

 statistics, as may be supposed useful ; one copy of which shall be transmitted 

 by mail free, by each, to all the other colleges which may be endowed under 

 the provisions of this act, and also one copy to the Secretary of the Interior. 



Fifth. When lands shall be selected from those which have been raised 

 to double the minimum price, in consequence of railroad grants, they shall be 

 computed to the states at the maximum price, and the number of acres propor- 

 tionally diminished. 



Sixth. No state while in a condition of rebellion or insurrection against the 

 government of the United States shall be entitled to the benefit 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 its approval by the president." (Act July 2, '62 ; 12 Stat. L., p. 504, sec. 

 5; 2 Fed. Stat. Ann., p. 851. Amended by next section.) 



"That when any territory shall become a state and shall be admitted to the 

 Union, such new state shall be entitled to the benefits hereof by expressing, 

 the acceptance herein required within three years from the date of its admission 

 into the Union, and providing the college or colleges within five years after 

 such acceptance, as prescribed in this act." (Act July 23, '66 ; 14 Stat. L., p. 

 208; 2 Fed. Stat. Ann., p. 852.) 



A further endowment for agricultural colleges is made by Chap. 841 of 

 26 Stat. L., p. 417, approved Aug. 30, 1890 (2 Fed. Stat. Ann., p. 854 et seq.; 

 3 Comp. Stat., p. 3214 et seq.) as amended by. act of Mar. 4, '07, (34 Stat. L., 

 p. 1281; '09 Supp. Fed. Stat. Ann., p. 122; '11 Supp. Comp. Stat., p. 1386), 

 appropriating from the moneys received from the sale of public lands of the 

 United States the sum of $50,000.00 annually to be paid to each of the states 

 accepting the terms of the act of '62 above set out in this note. This con- 

 stitutes what is known as the "Morrill Fund" in the State Treasury. 



For the support of agricultural experiment stations in connection with such 

 colleges, the act of Mar. 2, '87 (24 Stat. L., p. 440; 1 Fed. Stat. Ann., p. 9 ; 3 

 Comp. Stat., p. 3218), provides for the annual appropriation from the proceeds 

 of the sales of public lands of the sum of $15,000.00 for each of the states accept- 

 ing the terms of the act. This constitutes what is known as the "Hatch Fund" 

 in the State Treasury. This was augmented by graduated annual appropriations 

 from the general funds by act of Mar. 16, '06 (34 Stat. L., p. 63 ; '09 Supp. 

 Fed. Stat. Ann., p. 3; '11 Supp. Comp. Stat., p. 1383), which have been paid into 

 the State Treasury and constitute what is known as the "Adams Fund." 



Although the grant of land by the foregoing section of the Enabling Act 

 Is in lieu of the grant made by the act of July 2, 1862, providing for the 

 establishment of agricultural colleges, the terms of said act, and of the act 



