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AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE SALE OF LAND SCRIP, AND THE LOCATION, AND ORGANIZATION OF A COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND THE MECHANIC ARTS.

(Passed April 18th, 1865)

SECTION 1. The auditor, treasurer, and secretary of state are hereby authorized and directed on or before May 1st, 1865, to advertise in such form as they may deem proper, for proposals for the purchase of the land scrip received from the United States, for the establishment of an agricultural college or colleges in the State of Ohio. Such advertisement shall authorize proposals to be received by the auditor, treasurer, and secretary of state, and by the auditor and treasurer in each and every county of the state. The term of said notice shall not be for less than ninety days from the date thereof. No proposition shall be received for less than one hundred and ninety acres, nor for a rate of less than eighty cents per acre.

§ 2. If offers should not be received for the whole of said scrip, acceptable to said auditor, treasurer, and secretary of state, the said officers are authorized and directed to again advertise in like manner, for the proposals for the portion remaining unsold. The term of said notice shall be sixty days from date, and be otherwise governed by the regulations hereinbefore provided.

3. Upon the acceptance of proposals and payment thereon, the party entitled thereto shall receive from said officers the amount of scrip purchased, with a certificate that he has duly purchased and paid for the same; and on presentation of the same to the governor, he shall execute the necessary transfer of the scrip, in accordance with the regulations provided by the several land offices therefor.

§ 4. The auditor and treasurer of each county in the state shall finally receive for such service as they may perform under this act, in accordance with their instructions from the auditor, treasurer, and secretary of state a sum equal to five per centum on all money received and paid over by them upon the first three hundred and twenty acres of scrip sold, three per cent. on all money so received and paid over for the next three hundred and twenty acres sold, and one per cent. on all receipts for sales after six hundred and fifty acres have been sold; and it is hereby made the duty of the auditor and treasurer of each county in the state to perform such services as may be required of them by the auditor, treasurer, and secretary of state, under this act; and the aforesaid county officers shall be paid by the auditor of state, out of the money hereinafter appropriated for such purpose.

§ 5. Said auditor, treasurer, and secretary of state, on or before the first day of December next, shall make to the governor a full and explicit report of their proceedings under this act; which report the governor shall communicate to the general assembly at its next session.

§ 6. All money received from the sale of land scrip shall be paid into the (194)

state treasury, and shall be appropriated and used by the commissioners of the sinking fund for the reduction and payment of the other public debt of the

state.

7. Upon the amount of money so received for the sale of scrip appropriated for and to be used in the reduction of the other public debt of the state as aforesaid, there shall be allowed, and paid semi-annually on the first days of July and January in each year, interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum; which shall be appropriated as provided in the act of congress approved July 2d, 1862, "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;" and for the prompt and regular payment of said interest, the preservation and appropriation of said fund, and the strict observance and fulfillment of the act of congress before referred to, the faith of the state is hereby irrevocably pledged.

8. The commissioners of the sinking fund are hereby authorized and empowered, as fast as the sinking fund will enable them to do so, to reduce the debt called the “agricultural fund," by the purchase of stocks of the United States or of this state, yielding not less than six per centum, upon the par value of said stocks, which stocks, when so purchased, shall be transferred to the "State of Ohio, in trust for the agricultural college," and shall be deposited with the treasurer of state, and when so purchased, transferred and deposited, shall, to the extent of the amount paid for such stocks, reduce the debt hereby created and denominated "the agricultural fund."

§ 9. There shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, five commissioners, no two of whom shall be residents of the same congressional district; two of whom shall be selected so as to re present the agricultural, and two representing the mechanical and manufacturing interests of the state, who shall be required to take and endorse upon their certificates of appointments an oath or affirmation to honestly and faithfully perform the duties imposed upon them by this act; one of said commissioners snail be selected with reference to his military knowledge.

10. Said commissioners, after full examination, shall report to the gov ernor by the first of December next, their opinion as to the place for locating said college or colleges; and in forming such opinion, said commissioners shall consider the accessibility of such location to all parts of the state, by the ordinary means of travel, the inducements which may be offered by any locality in the way of donations of land, buildings, money, or other valuable property, for said college or colleges, the practicability of procuring at reasonable expense the necessary quantity of land adapted to the use of an experimental farm, with such other considerations as should have influence in the selection of such location. Said commissioners shall also consider and report any propositions which are now, or may, within six months, be made, with the inducements offered for the establishment of more than one such college or colleges. ý 11. Said commissioners shall prepare and submit a detailed report for the organization of said college or colleges, and the necessary buildings therefor. It shall embrace the proper control and management of the property, the necessary structures, implements and stock of the farm; the branches and their respective divisions of learning to be taught; the course of studies to be pur.

sued, and their terms and extent; the professorships required to be established; the character and extent of experimental husbandry upon the farm; the propriety and feasibility of connecting experimental studies in the mechanie arts; the probable expenditures for these respective purposes, and the probable annual expenses of conducting said institution, with such other matters as they may deem important or valuable as connected therewith.

§ 12. Said commissioners shall report to the governor by the first day of December next, their said plan of organization, with a full report of their proceedings under the requirements of this act, which the governor shall communicate to the general assembly at its next session.

§ 13. Said commissioners shall receive no compensation for their services, but may be allowed their necessary expenses in the discharge of their official duties.

14. For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act, the sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated from any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE OHIO AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE.

(Approved April 5th, 1866.)

SECTION 1. The governor of Ohio, ex-officio, the president of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, ex-officio, and five other persons, so chosen as to represent all the industrial classes of the state, to be appointed by the governor, with the consent of the Senate, are hereby constituted a board of trustees, whose duty it shall be to receive proposals and report to the next session of this general assembly, such proposals as may have been received, and their opinion as to the place for locating an agricultural and mechanical college for the State of Ohio, in accordance with an act of congress, approved July 2d, 1862, entitled "An Act donating public lands, &c."

§ 2. Said trustees are hereby authorized to receive proposals for donations of land, building and money in trust for the state of Ohio, for the location and establishment of a college as contemplated by the act of congress referred to in the first section of this act.

§ 3. The trustees shall receive no per diem, but shall have all their nec essary expenses paid while actually in the service of the State.

§ 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage, and the governor shall immediately thereafter notify said persons of their appointment, and designate a day for their meeting in the city of Columbus, for the organization of said board.

PENNSYLVANIA.

AN ACT TO ACCEPT THE GRANT OF PUBLIC LANDS, BY THE UNITED STATES, TO THE SEVERAL STATES FOR THE ENDOWMENT OF AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES.

(Approved April 1st, 1863.)

WHEREAS, By an act of congress, passed the second day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a grant of land was made to the several states and territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, equal to thirty thousand acres for each senator and representative in congress to which the states are respectively entitled, by the appointment under the census of one thousand eight hundred and sixty, which act of congress requires that the several states, in order to entitle them to the benefit of said grant, should, within two years from the date of said act, express their acceptance of the same:

And whereas, The legislature of Pennsylvania has already shown its high regard for the agricultural interest of the state, by the establishment of the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania, and by making liberal appropriations thereto : therefore, Be it enacted, &c.

SECTION 1. That the act of the congress of the United States, passed July 2d, 1862, entitled "An Act donating public land &c.," be and the same is hereby accepted by the State of Pennsylvania, with all its provisions and conditions, and the faith of the state is hereby pledged to carry the same into effect.

§ 2. The surveyor general of the State of Pennsylvania is hereby authorized and required to do every act and thing necessary to entitle this state to its distributive share of land scrip, under the provisions of the said act of congress, and when the said land scrip is received by him, to dispose of the same, under such regulations as the board of commissioners hereafter appointed by this act shall prescribe.

§ 3. The governor, auditor general, and the surveyor general, are hereby constituted a board of commissioners, with full power and authority to make all needful rules and regulations respecting the manner in which the surveyor general aforesaid shall dispose of the said land scrip, the investment of the proceeds thereof in the state stocks of this state, and apply interest arising therefrom as herein directed, and in general to do all and every act or acts, necessary to carry into full effect the said act of congress: Provided, that no investment shall be made in any other stocks than of the United States, or of this commonwealth.

§ 4. Until otherwise directed by the legislature of Pennsylvania, the annual interest accruing from any investment of the funds acquired under the said act of congress, is hereby appropriated, and the said commissioners are directed to pay the same to the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania, for the endowment, support and maintenance, of the said institution, which college is now in full and

successful operation, and where the leading object is, 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.

§ 5. Said Agricultural College of Pennsylvania shall, on the first day of February of each year, make report to the legislature of the receipts and expenditures of said institution, for the preceding year.

A SUPPLEMENT to the act to accept the grant of public lands, by the United States, to the several states, for the endowment of Agricultural Colleges, passed April 1st, 1863.

(Approved April 11, 1866.)

SECTION 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the third section of the act entitled "An Act to accept the grant of public lands, by the United States, to the several states, for the endowment of Agricultural Colleges," passed April 1st, 1863, shall be so construed as to authorize the governor, auditor general, and surveyor general, as commissioners, in the performance of duties devolved upon them by the said act, to direct the payment of expenses of disposing of the said land scrip, out of the money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That no more than one-third of the distributive shares of the said land scrip, donated to this state, shall be sold under the provisions of this act.

§ 2. The board of trustees of the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania, be and they are hereby authorized to borrow a sum of money, not exceeding eighty thousand dollars, at a rate of interest not exceeding seven per cent., and taxes with which to pay and consolidate all the debts of the institution, and to secure the same by a mortgage upon the property thereof.

NOTE..

The Agricultural College of Pennsylvania was opened in Centre county, six miles from Belle Fonte, February 16, 1859, under the name of "the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania," which name was exchanged for the present de signation in 1862. Its history and present organization and prospects will be given in Part II.