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 The Joint Special Committee consisted of the following members : 



SENATORS. 



Erastus O. Haven, Middlesex, William D. Swan, Norfolk, 



George D wight, Hampden. 



RE PRESENTATIV ES . 



A. A. Ranney, Boston, Charles Nowell, Boston, 



Stephen H. Williams, Roxbury, Thomas White, Randolph, 

 J. L. S. Thompson, Lancaster, Samuel Smith, Jr., Granby, 

 P. Francis Wells, Cambridge. 



This committee acted also under the following resolve : 

 RESOLVE AUTHORIZING CERTAIN EXPENDITURES BY THE COMMITTEE ON 

 AN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 



Resolved, That the joint special committee to whom was referred 

 so much of the governor's address as relates to an agricultural col- 

 lege, the society of natural history and the institute of technology, 

 have authority to invite conference with parties interested, or who 

 may impart valuable information, and also may visit any localities 

 or institutions, and incur other needful expenditures to an amount 

 not exceeding three hundred dollars. Approved February 17, 1863. 



Chap. 10(i. 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. 

 lie it enacted, etc., as follows: 



SECTION 1. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts hereby accepts the grant offered to 

 it by the United States, as set forth and defined in the act of congress entitled " An Act 

 donating public lands to the several states and territories which may provide colleges 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-sev 

 enth 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 con- 

 gress ; and the governor of the Commonwealth is hereby authorized and instructed to give 

 due notice thereof, to the government of the United States. 



SECTION* 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 provisions 

 of the before-mentioned act of congress. 



SECTION 3. The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, is hereby author- 

 ized and instructed to appoint a commissioner, whose duty it shall be to locate, without 

 unnecessary delay, all the land scrip which may come into the possession of the Common- 

 wealth by virtue of this act, ami to sell the same from time to time, on such tei'ms as the 

 governor and council shall determine. Said commissioner shall give a bond, with suffic- 

 ient sureties, in the penal sum of fifty thousand dollars, to be approved by the governor 

 and council, that he will faithfully perform the duties of his office, and shall render full 

 and accurate returns to them, at the end of every six months, or oftener if required ,to do 

 so by them, of his proceedings under this act. The compensation of said commissioner 

 shall be lixed by the governor and council, and shall be paid out of the treasury of the 

 Commonwealth, and the governor is hereby authorized to draw his warrants therefor. 



SECTION* 4. All moneys received by virtue of this act, for the sale of land scrip, shall 

 be immediately deposited with the treasurer of the Commonwealth, who shall invest and 

 hold the same in accordance with the fourth section of the afore-mentioned act of con- 

 gress. 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 ap- 

 propriated and used in such manner as the legislature shall prescribe, and in accordance 

 with the said act of congress. 

 SECTION .">. This act shall take effect upon its passage. 



Approved April 18, 1863. 



