Conditions of 

 this grant. 



Assent of State. 



Diminution of 

 funds to be 

 made up by 

 States. 



Annual interest 

 to be applied 

 regularly. 



No portion to 

 be applied to 



buildings. 



Any State 

 claiming the 

 benefits of this 

 act to provide a 

 college within 

 five years. 



Annual report 

 of college. 



States in rebel- 

 lion not to have 

 benefit of this 

 act. 



excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including mitt- 

 tary tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to 

 agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legis- 

 latures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to pro- 

 mote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes 

 in the several pursuits and professions in life. 



SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the grant of land 

 and land scrip hereby authorized shall be made on the following 

 conditions, to which, as well as to the provisions hereinbefore 

 contained, the previous assent of the several States shall be signi- 

 fied by legislative acts : 



FIRST. If any portion of the fund invested, as provided by 

 the foregoing section, or any portion of the interest thereon, shall, 

 by any action or contingency, be diminished or lost, it shall be 

 replaced by the State to which it belongs, so that the capital of the 

 fund shall remain forever undiminished ; and the annual interest 

 shall be regularly applied without diminution to the purposes 

 named in the fourth section of this act, except that a sum not 

 exceeding ten per centum upon the amount received by any State 

 under the provisions of this act, may be expended for the purchase 

 of lands for sites or experimental farms, whenever authorized by 

 the respective legislatures of said States. 



SECOND. No portion of said fund, nor the interest thereon, 

 shall be applied, directly or indirectly, iinder any pretence what- 

 ever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of an\ 

 building or buildings. 



THIRD. Any State which may take and claim the benefit of 

 the provisions of this act shall provide within five years, at least 

 not less than one college, as described in the fourth section of this 

 act, or the grant to such State shall cease ; and said State shall be 

 bound to pay the United States the amount received of any lands 

 previously sold, and that the title to purchasers under the State 

 shall be valid. 



FOURTH. An annual report is to be made regarding the 

 progress of each college, recording any improvements and 

 experiments made, with their cost and results, and such other 

 matters, including State industrial and economical statistics, as 

 may be supposed useful ; one copy of which shall be transmitted 

 by mail free, by each, fo all the other colleges which may be 

 endowed under the provisions of this act, and also one copy to 

 the Secretary of the Interior. 



SIXTH. No State while in a condition of rebellion or insur- 

 rection against the government of the United States shall be 

 entitled to the benefit of this act. 



Approved July 2, 1862. 



