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Fourth. An annual report sliall be made regarding the progress of 

 eacli. college, recording any improvements and experiments made, 

 witli tli,eir costs and results, and such other matters, including State 

 industrial and economical statistics, as may be supposed useful; one 

 copy of which shall be transmitted by mail free, by each, to all the 

 other colleges which may be endowed under the provisions of this 

 act, and also one copy to the Secretary of the Interior; 



Fifth. When lands shall be selected from those which have been 

 raised to double the minimum price in consequence of railroad grants, 

 they shall be computed to the States at the maximum price, and the 

 number of acres proportionally diminished; 



Sixth. No State, wlxile in a condition of rebellion or insurrection 

 against the government of the United States, shall be entitled to the 

 benefit of this act; 



Seventh. No State shall be entitled to the benefits of this act unless 

 it shall express its acceptance thereof b}" its Legislature witliin two 

 years from the date of its approval by the President. 



Sec. 6. And he it further enacted, That land scrip issued under the 

 provisions of this act shall not be subject to location until after the 

 first day of Januar}", 1863. 



Sec. 7. Anxi he it further enacted, That land officers shall receive the 

 same fees for locating land scrip issued under the provisions of this 

 act as is now allowed for the location of military bounty land warrants 

 under existing laws: Provided, That maximum compensation shall 

 not be thereby increased. 



Sec. 8. And he it further enacted, That the Governors of the several 

 States to which scrip shall be issued under this act shall be required 

 to report annually to Congress all sales made of such scrip until the 

 whole shall be disposed of, the amount received for the same, and 

 what appropriation has been made of the proceeds. 



Approved, July 2, 1862. 



Act of 1883, Amending Section 4 of the Act of 1862. 



AN ACT To amend an act donating public lauds to the several States and Territories 

 which may proA'ide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts. 



Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 

 States of America in Congress assemhled. That the fourth section of 

 the act donating public lands to the several States and Territories 

 which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the 

 mechanic arts, approved tTuly second, eighteen hundred and sixty- 

 two, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: 



''Sec. 4. That all moneys derived from the sale of lands aforesaid 

 by the States to which lands are apportioned, and from the sales of 



