FEDERAL LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS, AND RULINGS AFFECTING 

 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES AND EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



FEDERAL LEGISLATION. 



Act of 1862 Donating Lands for Agricultural Colleges. 



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 purposes 

 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 Con- 

 gress to which the States are respectively 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. 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; and whenever there are public lands in a State subject to sale at private 

 entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, the quantity to which said State 

 shall be entitled shall be selected from such lands within the 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 be entitled under the 

 provisions of this act land scrip to the amount in acres for the deficiency of its dis- 

 tributive share; said scrip to be sold by said States and the proceeds thereof applied 

 to the uses and purposes prescribed in this act and for no other use or purpose what- 

 soever: 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 assignees 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 provided 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. That all the expenses of management, superintendence, and taxes from 

 date of selection of said lands, previous 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. 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 provided 

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