the public lands for the purposes of education, and believing that no disposition of the lands can be made which will more completely promote the prosperity of our whole country, than by the appropriation of portions of the same for the establishment of a system of agricultural colleges in the several States and Territories and in the District of Columbia, for the education of the industrial classes: Therefore,

Resolved, That the Senate and House of Representatives be requested to grant, during the present session of Congress, to the several States and Territories and to the District of Columbia, a sufficient quantity of the public lands to endow and maintain agricultural colleges in each State and Territory and in the District of Columbia; and that we approve of the main features of the bill introduced into Congress by the Honorable Mr. Morrill, as well calculated to carry out the objects contemplated.

Resolved, That the secretary be directed to furnish each member of the Senate and House of Representatives with a copy of the above resolution.

In pursuance of the resolution above adopted, I forward you the preceding preamble and resolutions, respectfully asking your attention to the same.

Very respectfully, yours,

B. P. JOHNSON,

HON. JOHN COCHRANE.

Corresponding Secretary.

The appropriating of a portion of the public domain for school purposes.

MARCH 15, 1858.-Referred to the Committee on Public Lands.

PIERCE VALLEY, February 19, 1858.

SIR: Your attention is respectfully asked to the following preamble and resolution passed unanimously by the board of directors of the Kentucky State Agricultural Society, at a meeting held in the city of Frankfort, on the 10th to the 13th instant:

"Whereas a bill has been introduced into the Congress of the United States appropriating a portion of the natural domain for the endowment of a school, in each State of the Union, for the education of farmers and mechanics: Therefore, as the sense of this board

"Resolved, That the Kentucky State Agricultural Society, and the farmers and mechanics of Kentucky, do most cordially approve of said measure, so far as it is known to them, without distinction of party as to national politics, and that our senators and representatives in Congress are requested to use all reasonable and honorable efforts to promote its passage.'

Respectfully, yours, &c.,

W. D. GALLAGHER,

Secretary Kentucky State Agricultural Society.

DOCUMENT NUMBER 10

SEMINARY CONTRACT.

Original manuscript at the University of Illinois.

This agreement made and entered into this 2nd day of July 1860, by and between Jonathan C. Stoughton of Freport Ills. John E. Babcock of Aurora Ills and George Harvey of Fort Edward Washington County New York of the first part And Joseph W. Sim Jr William Park William H. Romine Carter F. Columbia John H. Thomas and James S. Wright of the County of Champaign and State of Illinois of the Second part

Witnesseth that Whereas the parties of the first part are the owners in fee of the lands hereinafter designated situated in Champaign County Illinois towit:

Beginning at the South East Corner of Section Seven (7) Township No. nineteen 19 North, of Range No. Nine (9) East, thence North ten (10) Chains, Thence North Seventy Six (76) degrees West Twenty (20) Chains and Sixty links (60) more or less to a point fifteen (15) chains North, of the South West Corner of the South East quarter of

The South East quarter of said Section Seven (7) Thence South fifteen (15) chains to the South West Corner of the South East quarter of Said Section Seven (7) Thence East on Section line to the place of beginning. Also all that piece or parcel of land towit: beginning at a point one hundred and Sixty two (162) links South of the South East Corner of the North West qr of the South East qr of Said section Seven (7) Thence North Sixty three (63) degrees West Twenty two chains and forty two (42) links more or less to the Center line North and South of Said section Seven (7) Thence South on said line to the South West Corner of the South East qr of said section Seven (7) Thence East on section line to the South East Corner of the South West qr of the South East qr of said section Seven (7) thence North to the place of beginning. Containing 8313 acres of land more or less Also the South West qr of the NE qr And the South half of lot No. One (1) of the North West qr of Section No. Seven (7) Town Nineteen (19) North Range Nine (9) East

Also all of Wright and Romine's addition to Urbana according to the recorded Plot as recorded in Book "R" of Deeds on page 314, in the Recorders office of Champaign County Illinois said plot containing Forty Six and forty eight hundredth (46 48/100) acres including Streets and Alleys said streets and alleys having been heretofore released to the public by said Wright and Romine in said Plot, excepting so much of said plot as is contained in Block "A" lying south of Church Street in said Plot.

And at the instance and request of the parties of the Second part and for and in Consideration of the premises and undertaking of the parties of the second part as hereinafter mentioned, have been induced to plot and lay off all of said land into town lots except eight acres thereof, and to build and construct upon said eight acres suitable buildings for a Seminary of Learning, for the use and benefit of the parties of the second part and such others as may be entitled thereto as hereinafter provided-The parties of the first part for themselves and for their heirs hereby covenant and agree to and with the parties of the second part their heirs and assigns that in the compliance by the parties of the second part of the covenants hereinafter mentioned on their part to be done and performed they the parties of the first part will within a reasonable time thereafter lay off and Plot all said land except eight (8) acres of the south west qr of the South East quarter of Section Seven (7) Township Nineteen (19) ninth Range Nine (9) East into Town Lots four rods by Eight rods each in dimension, so far as the grounds will admit with suitable Streets and Alleys, corresponding with and making connections with the Streets and Alleys of Champaign City on the East side of the Ills Cent R.R. That they will between the first day of August 1860 and the 15th day of November 1862 upon a plot or piece of the said south west qr of the South East qr Section Seven (7) Township Nineteen (19) North Range Nine (9) East embracing Eight (8) Acres, construct, build and finish for use a Seminary building with substantial Stone foundation and brick walls of equal size capacity and of the general form and model of the Clark Seminary at Aurora, Ill. provided Clark Seminary were built of brick to be constructed built and finished with good and fit materials and in a workmanlike manner

That any modification, change or addition to said building shall be made on the order and instruction of the building Committee (Such change shall be made before said building is commenced) hereinafter provided for. Provided said modification change or addition shall not make the whole cost of said building Addition, etc. more than the value of the said Clark Seminary if built of brick and at the present time. That said Town lots when laid off and plotted and said Seminary when completed with the said plat of Eight (8) acres upon which said Seminary shall be constructed, shall be made a general Seminary stock or fund, each town lot representing stock at the average value of Two Hundred dollars per lot, one share of said stock being one hundred dollars

And the parties of the second part for themselves and their heirs hereby covenant to and with the parties of the first part that they will on or before the first day of August 1860 obtain and deliver to the party of the first part and to and for their use a valid legal subscription list of stock to the satisfaction and acceptance of a majority of three persons one to be selected by the parties of the first part, one by the parties of the second part and an umpire to be selected by the two referees aforesaid, to the amount of forty thousand dollars

And it is further mutually agreed by the parties that the said several subscribers on paying on or before the 1st February 1861 fifteen per cent on the amount of their respective subscriptions, and making and delivering to the parties of the first part three (3) promisory notes for the residue, due in equal annual payments with six per cent interest per annum from the first of Feby, 1861. The parties of the first part will permit said subscriber a stockholder to select a town lot or lots not at that time disposed of, to the amount of his said subscription at the average price aforesaid and will execute to said stockholder his heirs or Assigns a penal bond conditioned to convey by deed in fee the said lot or lots to said subscriber or his heirs or assigns, on the payment of said promissory notes. That the said Stockholders shall and may select from their number hereafter a building committee who are hereby authorized and empowered to superintend said building in its construction and to make any change modi