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Provided, That no mineral lands shall be selected or purchased under the 

 provisions of this act. 



Sec. 2. 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 whenever there are public lamds in a state subject to 

 sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-live cents per acre, the quantity 

 to which said state siiall be entitled shall be selected from such lands within 

 the limits of such state, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to 

 issue to each of the states in which there is not the quantity of public lands 

 subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-tive 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 this 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, per acre: 

 And p7'ovlded further , That not more than one million acres shall be located by 

 such assignees in any one of the states: And provided ftirther^ That no such 

 location shall be made before one year from the passage of this act. 



Sec. 3. That all the expenses of management, superintendence, and taxes 

 from date of selection of said lands, previous to their sales, and all expenses 

 incurred in the management and disliursement of the moneys which may be 

 received therefrom, shall be paid by the states to which they may belong, out 

 of the treasury of said states, so that the entire proceeds of the sale of said 

 lands shall be applied without any diminution whatever to the purposes here- 

 inafter mentioned. 



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

 states to which the lands are apportioned, and from the sales of land "scrip 

 hereinbefore provided for, shall be invested in stocks of the United States, or 

 of the states, or some other safe stocks, yielding not less than five per centum 

 upon the par value of said stocks; and that the moneys so invested shall 

 constitute a perpetual fund, the capital of which shall remain forever 

 undiminished (except so far as may be provided in section fifth of this act), 

 and the interest of which shall be inviolably 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. 



Sec. 5. That the grant of land and land scrip hereby authorized shall be 

 made on the following conditions, to which, as well as to the provisions here- 

 inbefore contained the previous assent of the several states shall be signified by 

 legislative acts: 



First. If any portion of the fund invested, as provided by the foregoing 

 section, or any portion of the interest thereon, shall, by any action or con- 

 tingency, be diminished or lost, it shall ])e replaced by the state to which it 

 belongs, so that the capital of the fund shall remain forever undiminished; 

 and the annual interest shall bo regularly applied without diminution to the 

 purposes mentioned in the fourth section of tliis act, except that a sum, not 

 exceeding ten per centum upon the amount received by any state under the 

 provisions of this act, may be expended for the purchase of lands for sites or 

 experimental farms, whenever authorized by the respective legislatures of said 

 states. 



Second. No portion of said fund, nor the interest thereon, shall be applied, 



