Report of the Committee of the General AssemblyLane S. Hart, state printer, 1883 - 381 pages |
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... reference , these acts are given in full in the appendix to this report , but the sections most strictly pertinent to this investigation are here quoted , as follows : 1. Act of Congress , approved July 2 , 1862 : " SECTION 4. And be it ...
... reference , these acts are given in full in the appendix to this report , but the sections most strictly pertinent to this investigation are here quoted , as follows : 1. Act of Congress , approved July 2 , 1862 : " SECTION 4. And be it ...
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... reference to their practical application in the various industries of life . When the institution was first opened to students , a considerable amount of manual labor was required of all . This system was abandoned after a trial of ...
... reference to their practical application in the various industries of life . When the institution was first opened to students , a considerable amount of manual labor was required of all . This system was abandoned after a trial of ...
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... reference to the State College , were read , and , on motion , the committee took a recess to view the college building , class - rooms , water- works , experimental farm , and out - buildings , & c . Upon reconvening , the committee ...
... reference to the State College , were read , and , on motion , the committee took a recess to view the college building , class - rooms , water- works , experimental farm , and out - buildings , & c . Upon reconvening , the committee ...
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... reference to that paper that you have . Q. The Legislative Journal ? A. That is distributed throughout the State . It is published in that , I mean the Legislative Record , which is distributed throughout the State . By Mr. Alexander ...
... reference to that paper that you have . Q. The Legislative Journal ? A. That is distributed throughout the State . It is published in that , I mean the Legislative Record , which is distributed throughout the State . By Mr. Alexander ...
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... reference to the year from the first of January . The number of students that are now in attendance is eighty . The post - office address I cannot give you , neither can I give the occupations of their parents . Q. The number of ...
... reference to the year from the first of January . The number of students that are now in attendance is eighty . The post - office address I cannot give you , neither can I give the occupations of their parents . Q. The number of ...
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Page 5 - 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...
Page 25 - 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.
Page 80 - 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...
Page 24 - 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...
Page 25 - ... 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 proportionally diminished.
Page 25 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be granted to the several States, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, 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 hundred and sixty: Provided, That no mineral lands shall be...
Page 24 - 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 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 hereinafter mentioned.
Page 24 - 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...
Page 25 - 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 [7 USCS §§ 301 et seq.], and also one copy to the Secretary of the Interior.
Page 25 - States to which scrip shall bo 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.