MASSACHUSETTS. 



ACT ACCEPTING LAND GRANT. 



(1863. Chap. 16G). 



An Act to Provide for the Reception of a Grant of Congress, and to 

 Create a Fund for the Promotion of Education in Agriculture 

 and the Mechanic Arts. 



Commonwealth 

 accepts grant 

 of U. S. 



Governor to 

 give notice 

 thereof. 



To receive land 

 scrip when 

 issued. 



To appoint com- 

 missioner to lo- 

 cate scrip. 



Moneys receiv- 

 ed for scrip to 

 be paid treasur- 

 er, and invested 

 in fund for 

 appropriations. 



Be it enacted, etc., as follows : 



SEC. i. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts hereby ac- 

 cepts a grant offered to it by the United States, as set forth and 

 defined in an act of congress entitled "An act donating public 

 lands to the several states and territories which may provide col- 

 leges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," said 

 act being chapter one hundred and thirty of the Statutes of the 

 United States passed at the second session of the thirty-seventh 

 congress, and approved by the President, July second, in the year 

 eighteen hundred and sixty-two, upon the terms and conditions 

 contained and set forth in said act of congress ; and the governor 

 of the Commonwealth is hereby authorized and instructed to give 

 due notice thereof to the government of the United States. 



SEC. 2. The governor is hereby authorized and instructed to 

 receive, by himself or his order, from the Secretary of the Interior, 

 or any other person authorized to issue the same, all the land 

 scrip to which this Commonwealth may be entitled by the pro- 

 visions of the before-mentioned act of congress. 



SEC. 3. The governor, with the advice and consent of the 

 council, is hereby authorized and instructed to appoint a commis- 

 sioner, whose duty it shall be to locate, without unnecessary delay, 

 all the land scrip which may come into the possession of the 

 Commonwealth by virtue of this act, and to sell the same from 

 time to time, on such terms as the governor and council may 

 determine. * * * 



SEC. 4. All moneys received by virtue of this act, for the 

 sale of land script, shall be immediately deposited with the treas- 

 urer of the Commonwealth, who shall invest and hold the same in 

 accordance with the fourth section of the afore-mentioned act of 

 congress. The moneys so invested shall constitute a perpetual 

 fund, to be entitled the " Fund for the promotion of education in 

 agriculture and the mechanic arts," which shall be appropriated 

 and used in such manner as the legislature shall prescribe and in 

 accordance with the said act of congress. 



Approved April 18, 1863. 



