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 bo 

 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 proceeda 

 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 assijjnees 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 proi-ided 

 further, 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. 



Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all the expenses of management, superin- 

 tendence, and taxes from date of selection of said lands, j)reviou3 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 the 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 

 mentioned. 



Sec. 4 (original). And be it farther enacted, That all moneys derived from the sale 

 of the lands aforesaid by the States to which the lands are apportioned, and from 

 the sales of land scrip hereinbefo/e provided for, shall be invested in stocks of the 

 United States or of the States, or some other safe stocks, yielding not less than five 

 per centum upon the par value of said stocks; and that the moneys so invested 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 maintenance 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. 



Sec. 4 (as amended Mar. 3, 1883). That all moneys derived from the sale of lands 

 aforesaid by the States to which 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 legislatures of such States shall 

 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 forever 

 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 maintenance of at legist one college where the 

 leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studios, and 

 including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agricul- 

 ture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legi.slatures of the States may re- 

 spectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the 

 industrial clas.ses in the several pursuits and iJrofe.sMions in life. 



Sec. 5. And be it further .iuaclal,. Thixi the grant of land and land scrip hereby 

 authorized shall bo made on the follmviiijr-''inliiioas, to which, as well as to the pro- 



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