II. 



" AN ACT appropriating to the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale 

 College, the proceeds of lands assigned to the State by Act of 

 Congress approved July 2, 1 862." (Passed by the General As- 

 sembly of Connecticut, May Session, 1863, and approved June 

 24, 1863.) 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in 



General Assembly convened: 



SEC. 1. Whenever the Secretary of the Interior shall have is- 

 sued to this State, the land scrip due to this State, under the act 

 of Congress, entitled "An Act donating Public Lands to the seve- 

 ral States and Territories which may provide Colleges for the 

 benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts," it shall become 

 the duty of the Commissioner of the School Fund to take charge 

 of said scrip, and, as agent of this State, to sell the same so soon 

 as in his judgment he can prudently do so, upon terms to be pre- 

 viously approved by the Governor, and in the name and behalf 

 of this State, to convey and transfer the same in any suitable 

 manner to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, and to invest the 

 avails thereof in the manner specially prescribed by said act of 

 Congress. 



SEC. 2. Said Commissioner shall semi-annually pay over the in- 

 terest of the Fund which may result from the sale of said scrip, 

 to the President and Fellows of Yale College in New Haven, for 

 the special purposes and upon the special conditions hereinafter 

 set forth. 



SEC. 3. Said Corporation shall devote said interest wholly and 

 exclusively to the maintenance, in that department of Yale Col- 

 lege known as the " Sheffield Scientific School," of such courses of 

 instruction as (including the courses of instruction already insti- 

 tuted ia said school,) shall carry out the intent of said act of 

 Congress in the manner specially prescribed by the fourth section 

 of said Act. 



SEC. 4. Said Corporation shall furnish gratuitous education 

 in said coursevS of instruction to pupils who shall be annually 

 Hominated to be pupils of said school, in such manner as the 

 General Assembly shall prescribe. The number of pupils to be 

 so received gratuitously into said school shall be, in each year, 

 such a number &s would expend a sum equal to one-half of the 



