Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862. 



AN ACT Donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may 

 proAdde colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic art,s. 



Be it enacted hy 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 

 pubUc land, to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to 

 30,000 acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress to which 

 the States are respectively entitled by the apportionment under the 

 census of 1860: Provided, That no mineral lands shall be selected or 

 purchased under the provisions of this act. 



Sec. 2. And he it further enacted, 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 

 wherever there are public lands in a State, subject to sale at private 

 entr}- at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, the quantity to 

 which said State shall be entitled shall be selected from such lands, 

 witliin the limits of such State; and the Secretary of the Interior is 

 hereb}^ directed to issue to each of the States, in wliich there is not the 

 quantity of pubhc lands subject to sale at private entrv^, 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 distributive share; said scrip to be sold by said 

 States, and the proceeds thereof applied to the uses and purposes 

 prescribed in tliis act, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever: 

 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, an 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. And he it further enacted. That all the expenses of manage- 

 ment, superintendence and taxes from date pf_ selection of said lands, 

 previous to their sales, and all expenses incurred in the management 

 and disbursement of moneys wliich may be received therefrom, shall 



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