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monwealth in the Back Bay shall be paid into the treasury, to be 

 held, invested, and applied, in accordance with the provisions of the 

 resolves of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, chap- 

 ter seventy, and the moiety of such avails, which, by the provisions of 

 said chapter, inures immediately to the use of the Commonwealth, 

 and which, by the ninety-sixth chapter of the statutes of the year one 

 thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, is styled the " Bay Lands 

 Fund," shall be held, invested, and appropriated as follows, that is to 

 say : 1. The whole of such moiety, until the sum of three hundred 

 thousand dollars shall have been so disposed of, shall be employed for 

 the redemption of the scrip of the Commonwealth issued in the year 

 one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in accordance with the pro- 

 visions of the third section of chapter two hundred and thirty-five, of 

 the acts of that year. 2. After such sum of three hundred thousand 

 dollars shall have been received into the treasury, one half of the 

 avails of the sales of such moiety shall, as fast as received, be added 

 to the Massachusetts School' Fund, for the purpose of increasing the 

 principal sum thereof. 3. The remaining avails of such moiety shall, 

 after being received into the treasury, be distributed upon the first 

 day of August in each year among the institutions hereinafter named, 

 in the proportions following, that is to say : — First. Twenty per 

 centum of the avails of such moiety shall be paid to such persons as 

 may at the present session of the legislature be incorporated as the 

 " Trustees of the Museum of Comparative Zoology " ; such payments, 

 not to exceed in the aggregate the sum of one hundred thousand dol- 

 lars. Second. Twelve per centum of the avails of such moiety shall 

 be paid to the treasurer of the Trustees of Tufts College, upon the 

 order of the Trustees ; such payments not to exceed in the aggregate 

 the sum of fifty thousand dollars. Third. Six per centum of the avails 

 of such moiety shall be paid to the treasurer of the corporation of 

 Williams College, upon the order of said corporation ; such payments 

 not to exceed in the aggregate the sum of twenty-five thousand dol- 

 lars. Fourth. Six per centum of the avails of such moiety shall be 

 paid to the treasurer of the corporation of Amherst College, upon 

 the order of the corporation \ such payments not to exceed in the 

 aggregate the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars. Fifth. Six per 

 centum of the avails of such moiety shall be paid to the treasurer of 



