

GENERAL UNITED STATES ACT 



IN RELATION TO 



AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES. 



(United States Statutes, Vol. 12, Chap. 130, P. 503). 



An Act donating Public Lands to the several States and Territories 

 which may provide Colleges for the benefit of Agriculture and 

 the Mechanic Arts. 



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 purpose hereinafter 

 mentioned, 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 respec- 

 tively entitled by the apportionment under the census of eighteen 

 hundred 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 

 sections or subdivisions of sections, not less than one quarter of a 

 section ; * * * said scrip to be sold by said States and the 

 proceeds thereof applied to the uses and purposes prescribed in 

 this act, and for 110 other use or purpose whatsoever: * * * 



SEC. 4. And be it further 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 hereinbefore 

 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 pro- 

 vided in section fifth in 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 



611 to each 



Howappor- 



Scrip may be 



lands to be in- 

 JStttea perpet" 



to support one 



cultuf e and^"" 

 mechanic arts. 



