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directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, 

 preservation, or repair of any building or buildings. 



Third. Any state which may take and claim the benefit of the provisions 

 of this act shall provide, within five years, at least not less than one college, 

 as described in the iburth section of tliis act, or the grant to such state shall 

 cease; and said state shall be bound to pay the United States the amount 

 received of any lands previously sold, and tliat the title to purchasers under 

 the state- shall be valid. 



Fourth, An annual report shall be made regarding the progress of each 

 college, recording any improvements and experiments made, with their cost 

 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 propor- 

 tionately diminished. 



Sixth. No state vfhile 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 by its legislature within two years from the date 

 of its approval by the President. 



Sec. 6. That land scrip issued under the provisions of this act shall not be 

 subject to location until after the fi^rst day of January, one thousand eight 

 hundred and sixty-three. 



Sec. 7. That the land ofl&cers 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, Their maxi- 

 mum compensation shall not be thereby increased. 



Sec. 8. 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. 



THE SECOND MORRILL ACT. ENDOWMENT OF AGRICUL- 

 TURAL COLLEGES. 



[Morrill law, August 30, 1890.] 



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

 ment 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, hij ihe Senate and Ilon.te of Represenfatlveft of the United States 

 of America in Co)i;/rrss as.scnibU'd , That there shall be and hereby is, annually 

 appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 

 arising from the sales of public lands, to be paid as hereinafter provided, to 

 each state and territory ft)r the more complete endowment and maintenance of 

 colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts now established, or 

 which may be hereafter established, in accordance with an act of Congress 

 approved July second, eighteen liundred 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 sura 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 agri- 

 culture, the mechanic arts, the English language, and the various branches of 



