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THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES

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THE LEGISLATURE OF CONNECTICUT

PERTAINING TO THE

NATIONAL GRANT OF PUBLIC LANDS

FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION.

NEW HAVEN:

PRINTED FOR THE SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL

1867.

CONTENTS.

1. The Act of Congress making the appropriation, - - - 3

2. The Act of the Connecticut Legislature conferring the

proceeds of the grant upon the sheffield scientific
School of Yale College, 6

3. The Act of the Connecticut Legislature prescribing the

MODE IN WHICH StATB StUDENTS SHALL BE RECEIVED, - - 7

4. Portion of an Act of Congress permitting Army Officers

TO GIVE instruction IN MILITARY SciENCE, - - - v. - 8

J \ Lihtary.

"AN ACT donating Public Lands to the several ^tn^es aud-Ter-
rritories which may provide Colleges for the benefit of Agri-
culture and the Mechanic Arts." (Passed in the Second Session
of the 37th Congress, and approved July 2, 1862.)

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled^ Tliat there
be granted to the several States, for the purposes hereinafter men-
tioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each State,
a quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for each Senator and
Representative in Congress to which the States are respectively
entitled by the apportionment under the census of eighteen hun-
dred and sixty : Provided^ That no mineral lands shall be selected
or purchased under the provisions of this act.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That the land aforesaid, after
being surveyed, shall be apportioned to the several States in sec-
tions or subdivisions of sections, not less than one quarter of a sec-
tion ; and whenever there are public lands in a State subject to
sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre,
the quantity to which said State shall 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-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 this
act, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever: Provided ^TXidX
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 lauds
of the United States subject to sale at private entry at one dollar
and twenty-fi\^ cents, or less, per 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 be it further enacted, 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 disbursement of the moneys which may be re-
ceived therefrom, shall be paid by the States to which they may
belong, out of the treasury of said States, so that the entire pro-
ceeds of the sale of said lands shall be applied without any di-
minution Avhatever to the purposes hereinafter mentioned.

Sec. 4. A7id be it further enacted, 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 hereinbe-
fore 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 pei-petual fund, the capital
of which shall remain for ever 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 man-
ner 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.

Sbc. 5. And be it further enacted. That the grant of land and
land scrip hereby authorized shall be made on the following con-
ditions, to which, as well as to the provisions hereinbefore con-
tained, 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 contingency, be diminished or lost, it shall be re-
placed by the State to which it belongs, so that the capital of the
fund shall remain forever undiminished ; and the annual interest
shall be regularly applied without diminution to the purposes
mentioned in the fourth section of this 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 pur-
chase of lands for sites or experimental farms, whenever author-
ized by the respective Legislatures of said States.

Second. No portion of said fund, nor the interest thereon, shall
be applied, 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 fourth section of this
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 that 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, includ-
ing State industrial and economical statistics, as may be supposed
useful ; one copy of which shall be transmitted by mail free, by
each, to all other colleges which may be endowed under the provis-
ions 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 rail-
road grants, they shall be computed to the States at the maxi-
mum price, and the number of acres proportionally diminished.

Sixth. No State while in a condition of rebellion or insurrec-
tion against the Government of the United States shall be enti-
tled to the benefit of this act.

Seventh, Xo 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 apj)roval by the President,

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That land scrip issued un-
der the provisions of this act shall not be subject to location until
after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-three.

Sec. 7. And be it further eivactcd. That the land officei-s shall
receive the same fees for locating land scrip issued under the pro-
visions of this act as is now allowed for the location of military
bounty land warrants under existing laws : Provided^ Their max-
imum compen^tion shall not be thereby increased.

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, 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.

11.

" AN ACT appropriating to the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale
College, the proceeds of lands assigned to the State by Act of
Congress approved July 2, 1 862." (Passed by the General As-
sembly of Connecticut, May Session, 1863, and approved June
24, 1863.) ,

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in

General Assembly convened:

Sec. 1. "Whenever the Secretary of the Interior shall have is*
sued to this State, the land scrip due to this State, under the act
of Congress, entitled "An Act donating Public Lands to the seve-
ral States and Territories which may provide Colleges for the
benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts," it shall become
the duty of the Commissioner of the School Fund to take charge
of said scrip, and, as agent of this State, to sell the same so soon
as in his judgment he can prudently do so, upon terms to be pre-
viously approved by the Governor, and in the name and behalf
of this State, to convey and transfer the same in any suitable
manner to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, and to invest the
avails thereof in the manner specially prescribed by said act of
Congress.

Sec. 2. Said Commissioner shall semi-annually pay over the in-
terest of the Fund which may result from the sale of said scrip,
to the President and Fellows of Yale College in New Haven, for
the special purposes aad upon the special conditions hei'einafter
set forth.

Sec. 3. Said Corporation shall devote said interest wholly and
exclusively to the maintenance, in that department of Yale Col-
lege known as the " Sheffield Scientific School," of such courses of
instruction as (including the courses of instruction already insti-
tuted itt said school,) shall carry out the intent of said act of
Congress in the manner specially prescribed by the fourth section
of said Act.

Sec. 4. Said Corporation shall furnish gratuitous education
in said courses of instruction to pupils who shall be annually
Hominated to be pupils of said school, in such manner as the
General Assembly shall prescribe. The number of pupils to be
so received gratuitously into said school shall be, in each year,
such a number as would expend a sum equal to one-half of the

said interest for the same year in paying for their instruction in
said school if they were required to pay for it at the regular rates
charged to other pupils of said school for the same year. Said
pupils so nominated and received shall be citizens of this State,
and shall be admitted into said school upon the same terms and
subject to the same rules and discipline which shall apply to all
other pupils of said school, with the single exception that they
shall not be required to pay anything for their instruction.

Sec. 5. Said Corporation shall annually make and distribute the
reports required by the fourth paragraph of section fifth of said
act of Congress.

Skc. 6. No portion of said interest shall be paid over to said
Corporation until said Corporation shall contract with this State,
by its contract in writing, in such form as the Governor shall ap-
prove, to fulfill and perform all the duties and obligations im-
posed upon it by this Act.

Sec. 7. The Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, the three senior
Senators, and the Secretary of the State Board of Education, shall
constitute a Board of Visitors, whose duty it shall be to visit said
school in each year, and report annually thereon to the General
Assembly.

III.

" AN ACT relating to the Sheffield Scientific School." (Passed
by the General Assembly, May Session, 1864, and approved
July 6, 1864.)

Be it enacted by the SencUe and House of Representatives^ in
General Assembly convened:

Sec. 1. The visitors of the Sheffield Scientific School designa-
ted by the Act approved June 24, 1863, and entitled "An Act ap-
propriating the Scrip for public lands granted to this State under
the Act of Congress approved July 2, 1862," to wit, the Govern-
or, the Lieutenant Governor, the three senior Senators, and the
Secretary of the State Board of Education, shall constitute, to-
gether with the Secretary of the Sheffield Scientific School, an
appointing board, who shall select from such candidates as shall
offer themselves, those who shall be entitled to receive the gra-
tuitous instruction in said school, which has been provided for by
the State in said act.

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Sec. 2. In case there are more applications for the bounty of
the State than there are vacancies to be filled on the part of the
State, said board shall give the preference to such young men as
are fitting themselves for agriculture and mechanical or manufac-
turing occupations in life, who are or shall become orphans
through the death of a parent in the naval or military service of
the United States ; next to them to such as are most in need
of pecuniary assistance ; and furthermore, they shall provide
that the appointments shall be distributed, as far as practicable,
among the several counties of the State, in proportion to their
population.

Sec. 3. The Secretary of said school shall also be the Secretary
of said appointing board, and shall keep a record of their trans-
actions ; and he shall furthermore, at least one month before the
close of each academic year in said school, caused to be published
in at least one newspaper in every county of this state in which
a newspaper may then be published, an advertisement specifying
the number of pupils who by virtue of said act are entitled to be
admitted into said school for gratuitous instruction during the en-
suing academic year, and designating the time and manner in
which applications may be made to said appointing board for ad-
mission to said school.

IV.

Part of an act of Congress approved July 28, 1866, providing
that oflSicers of the army may be attached to colleges.

§ 26. And be it further enacted^ That for the purpose of pro-
moting knowledge of military science among the young men of
the United States, the President may, upon the application of an
established College or University within the United States, with
sufficient capacity to educate at one time not less than one hund-
red and fifty male students, detail an officer of the army to act as
president, superintendent, or professor of such college or univer-
sity: that the number of officers so detailed shall not exceed
twenty at any time, and shall be appointed through the United
States as nearly as practicable according to population, and shall
be governed by general rules to be prescribed from time to time
by the President.

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