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land scrip hereinbefore provided for, shall be invested in stocks of the 

 United States or of the States, or some other safe stocks ; or the same 

 may be invested by the States having no State stocks, in any other 

 manner after the legislatures of such States shall have assented 

 thereto, and engaged that such funds shall yield not less than five 

 per centum upon the amount so invested and that the principal 

 thereof shall forever remain unimpaired: Provided, That the moneys 

 so invested or loaned shall constitute a perpetual fund, the capital of 

 which shall remain forever undiminished (except so far as may be 

 provided in section five of this act), and the interest of which shall 

 be inviolabty appropriated, by each State which may take and claim 

 the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance 

 of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without 

 excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military 

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

 and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the 

 States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and 

 practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits 

 and professions in life." 



Approved March 3, 1883. 



Morrill Act of 1890. 



AN ACT To apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete 

 endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic 

 arts established under the provisions of an act of Congress approved July second, 

 eighteen hundred and sixty-two. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House oj Representatives oj the United 

 States oj America in Congress assembled, That there shall be, and 

 hereby is, annually appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury 

 not otherwise appropriated, arising from the sale of public lands, to be 

 paid as hereinafter provided, to each State and Territory for the more 

 complete endowment and maintenance of colleges for the benefit of 

 agriculture and the mechanic arts now established, or winch may be 

 hereafter established, in accordance mth an act of Congress ap- 

 proved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, the sum of 

 fifteen thousand dollars for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen 

 hundred and ninety, and an annual increase of the amount of such, 

 appropriation thereafter for ten years by an additional sum of one 

 thousand dollars over the preceding year, and the annual amount to 

 be paid thereafter to each State and Territory shall be twenty-five 

 thousand dollars to be applied only to instruction in agriculture, the 

 mechanic arts, the English language and the various branches of 

 mathematical, physical, natural and economic science, with special 

 reference to their applications in the industries of life, and to the 



