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Gov. Andrew. — Perhaps I may be permitted to recall to the 

 memory of gentlemen, one important consideration, which -lies 

 at the bottom of everything which has been said about the 

 establishment of an Agricultural College, and that is, that no 

 fund whatever has been provided by the legislature of Massa- 

 chusetts, nor by any of the people, in addition to the 300,000 

 acres of land scrip, with the exception of the $75,000 which it 

 was provided by the Act of the legislature, incorporating the 

 Agricultural College should be raised by subscription, for the 

 purpose of erecting the buildings. The Act of Congress donat- 

 ing the public lands, in the proportion of 30,000 acres to each 

 member of Congress, senator and representative, for this pur- 

 pose, provided that no part of the proceeds of the sale thereof, 

 should be used for the purpose of erecting buildings, but one- 

 tenth part of the amount donated to each State might be used 

 for the purchase of land. Before anything could be done, 

 therefore, some provision had to be made for the procurement 

 of buildings. The only provision made by the legislature for 

 this purpose was the one requiring that the sum of $75,000 

 should be raised by subscription or private donations. That 

 $75,000 could be procured only by making it for the interest of 

 the people of a given town or neighborhood to subscribe towards 

 the establisliment of the institution in their own vicinity, it 

 being supposed to be advantageous to have it in the neighbor- 

 hood of any given people who should subscribe the money 

 necessary for the buildings. There were three or four neigh- 

 borhoods, therefore, as Mr. Flint has already remarked, who 

 proffered the requisite sum of $75,000. Now, after the pro- 

 curement of the land, and the erection of the buildings — so far 

 as $75,000 will go towards their erection — there is no fund 

 save the land scrip, three-tenths of which" have been given to 

 the Institute of Technology, as the proper proportion belonging 

 to the mechanics and manufacturers, who have an interest in 

 the fund. After taking out, therefore, the one-tenth for the 

 procurement of land, and giving three-tenths to the Institute of 

 Technology, in aid of the cultivation of the sciences and arts 

 in connection with the study of mechanics and practical manu- 

 facture, there remains six-tenths of the 360,000 acres as the 

 only fund of the Agricultural College. 



