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the corporation of the Wesleyan Academy in Wilbraham, upon the 

 order of the corporation ; such payments not to exceed in the aggre- 

 gate the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars. 



Section 2. No payment as aforesaid shall be made to either of the 

 before-named institutions unless before the time for each payment 

 it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the governor and 

 council that there has been secured by subscription in aid of such 

 institution, in cash or bonds of unquestionable security, an amount 

 equal to the amount then to be paid to such institution according to 

 the terms of this act ; nor to either of the institutions hereinafter 

 named, unless there shall have been established in such institutions 

 the number of free scholarships set against their respective names, 

 that is to say : In Williams College, three free scholarships ; in Tufts 

 College, three free scholarships; in Amherst College, three free 

 scholarships. The aforesaid free scholarships shall be under the con- 

 trol of the Board of Education, and may be filled and managed in such 

 mode as now is, or may hereafter be provided by law, for the regula- 

 tion of all free scholarships established by the Commonwealth. 



Section 3. All the avails of the moiety of the sales of the public 

 lands which, by the provisions of the seventieth chapter of the resolves 

 of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, inure imme- 

 diately to the use of the Commonwealth, and the distribution of which 

 is not otherwise provided for in this act, shall be added to the prin- 

 cipal of the Massachusetts School Fund. 



Section 4. The sum of one hundred thousand dollars shall be 

 reserved, by the Commissioners of the Back Bay, out of the moiety of 

 the avails of the sales of lands, which, by the resolves of the year one 

 thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, chapter seventy, may be drawn 

 upon for the purposes of improvement, as set forth in said chapter ; 

 and the same shall be invested as a fund, the income whereof shall be 

 appropriated to the support of the roads and bridges, which the Com- 

 monwealth has become bound to support by its contracts in regard to 

 said Back Bay ; and if, before the first payment shall be made to any 

 institution of learning agreeably to this act, it shall be made to appear 

 to the satisfaction of the governor and council that such amount 

 cannot be spared from the moiety of the avails of such lands, subject 

 to be drawn upon in favor of said commissioners, then the same may 



