act donating public lands to the several States and Territoriee which may ]ir<>vide 

 colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," is hereby extend'.-d so 

 that the acceptance of the benefits of the 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 five years from the date of the filing of such acceptance with the Commis- 

 sioner of the General Land Office: Provided, That when any Territory shall l^ecome a 

 State and be admitted into the Union such new States t^hall be entitled to the bene- 

 fits of the said act of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. by expressing the 

 acceptance therein 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: Provided further. That any State which has heretofore 

 expressed its acceptance of the act herein referred to shall have the i)eri<Ki of five 

 years witliin which to i)rovide at least one college, as de8cri})ed in the fourth section 

 of said act , after the time for i)roviding said college, according to the act of July second, 

 eighteen hundred and sixty-two, shall have expired. 

 Approved, July 23, 1866 (14 Stat. L., 208). 



ACT OF 1890 FOR THE FURTHER ENDOWMENT OF AGRICULTURAL 



COLLEGES. 



[Second Morrill Act.] 



AN ACT To apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and sup- 

 port of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts established under the provisioDS 

 of an act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sLxty-two. 



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

 in Conffress assembled, That there shall be, and hereby is, annually appropriated, out 

 of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, arising from the sales of 

 public lands, to be paid as hereinafter provided, to each State and Territorj- for the 

 more complete endowment and maintenance of colleges for the benefit of agriculture 

 and the mechanic arts now established, or which may be hereafter established, in 

 accordance with an act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty- 

 two, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen 

 hundred and ninety, and an annual increase of the amount of such appropriation 

 thereafter for ten years by an additional sum of one thousand dollars over the pre- 

 ceding year, and the annual amount to be paid thereafter to each State and Terri- 

 tory shall be twenty-five thousand dollars, to be applied only to instniction in agri- 

 culture, the mechanic arts, the English language and the various branches of mathe- 

 matical, physical, natural, and economic science, with special reference to their 

 applications in the industries of life and to the fivcilities for such instruction: Pro- 

 vided, That no money shall be paid out under this act to any State or Territory for 

 the support and maintenance of a college where a distinction of race or color is made 

 in the admission of students, but the establishment and maintenance of such colleges' 

 separately for white and colored students shall bo held to be a compliance with the 

 provisions of this act if the funds received in such State or Territor>' bo 0(iuitably 

 divided as hereinafter set forth: Provided, That in any State in which there has been 

 one college established in pursuance of the act of July second, eighteen hundred and 

 sixty-two, and also in which an educational institution of like chan\cter has been 

 established, or may bo hereafter established, and is now aided by such State fromita 

 own revenue, for the education of colored students in agriculture and the mechanic 

 arts, however named or styled, or whether or not it has received money heretofore 

 under the act to which this act is an amendment, the legislature of suc-h State may 

 propose and report to the Secretary of the Interior a ju.st and ecjuitahle division of 

 the fund to be received under this act, between one college for white students and 

 one institution for colored students, established as aforesaid, which shall bo divided 



