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"AN ACT donating Public Lands to the sovera\ $t:it"<- and Ter- 

 rritories which may provide Colleges for the benefit of Agri- 

 culture and the Mechanic Arts." (Passed in the Second Session 

 of the 37th Congress, and approved July 2, 1862.) 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 

 the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there 

 be granted to the several States, for the purposes hereinafter men- 

 tioned, 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 censns of eighteen hun- 

 dred and sixty: Provided, That no mineral lands shall be selected 

 or purchased under the provisions of this act. 



SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the land aforesaid, after 

 being surveyed, shall be apportioned to the several States in sec- 

 tions or subdivisions of sections, not less than one quarter of a sec- 

 tion ; 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 quantity 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 

 proceeds thereof applied to the uses and purposes prescribed in this 

 act, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever: 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 State, 

 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: And provil"! fm-thfr, 

 That not more than one million acres shall be located by such 

 assignees in any one of the States : And provided further, That 

 no such location shall be made before one year from the passage 

 of this act. 



