Letters in the hands of the committee, show that he has, to say the least, encouraged attacks in newspapers of the same character as his own articles. One letter is of such a character that the person addressed, would have been discouraged by it from bringing his son here, had it not been fortunately corrected by another letter from a friend of the Institution counteracting the impression conveyed by him.

The committee find that in his effort to injure the Regent, who in some way has become obnoxious to him, he has, through the mail and otherwise, given gratuitous circulation to a defamatory pamphlet published in Michigan, a production not worth the attention of the Board, further than to excite regret that one of its members should become its endorser and give it circulation.

Your committee is satisfied from statements made, in corroboration of which proof is offered, that Mr. Dunlap has been and yet remains hostile to the Regent, and seeks his removal from his present position, and made untiring efforts to embarass him, and to bring the action and measures of the Board to discredit and failure, in order to secure a change of men and measures suitable to his personal views. Whether so intended by him or not, the conduct of Mr. Dunlap has been such as might under other circumstances have brought serious embarrassments upon the Institution-thus sought to be wounded in the house of its friends.

Your committee however, do not acknowledge that the Institution has received serious harm from this source, being too deeply planted in the confidence and sympathy of a people who cannot long be deceived, and under the care of a Regent and Board of Trustees who do not yet appear to have failed in duty or been found unworthy their trust.

As the Regent has been the most persistently assailed, the committee deem it but just to say that they find nothing in the history of his official relation to us that impairs in any particular, that high degree of confidence which induced the Board to call him to his present duty. Having ourselves laid out his work and instructed him how to do it, it is our duty as just and honorable men to sustain him, and remove from his path as far as we can every annoyance.

Your committee, especially with the work of this inauguration day so well done, feel doubly assured that no efforts of unfriendly persons, even when members of its Board of Trustees can work no substantial harm. The delinquency complained of in this case can be safely treated with generous forbearance, not only in deferent to the peculiarities of temper and obliquity of judgment, which in some form affects even good men, but to that other assurance, that a little time, a wise caution, and sufficient patience will heal all wounds thus inflicted.

The Committee beg leave to add here, that the good people of Champaign ought to be relieved from the importation already finding lodgment in many minds throughout the State, that they in any manner share or approve the attacks complained of. Their munificence on former occasions and their magnificent welcome today, demand this grateful service at our hands.

Your Committee in conclusion propose the following resolutions:

Resolved, that this Board of Trustees have undiminished confidence in the integrity, ability and fitness of the Regent, and pledge him a firm support in the performance of his duties.

Resolved, that the course of study, and measures of administration adopted shall receive a fair and honest trial, subject to such modification and change as experience and due deliberation may require.

Resolved, that public criticism and full investigation of the acts of this Board is invited, and that this Board will at all times give respectful consideration to measures proposed in a proper manner by its members in any matter seeming to require its action.

Resolved, that this Board regard with disapprobation the conduct of M. L. Dunlap, Esq., a member as stated in the paper submitted to this Committee, and in the foregoing report, and consider the practices complained of a departure from the courtesy of official intercourse, a dereliction of duty, offensive to the Board, injurious to the community, and not proper in one holding a seat as a member of the Board.

Resolved, that his Excellency, the Governor of this State, be furnished with a copy of the record made in this case.

M. BRAYMAN

J. S. JOHNSON

A. BLACKBURR
J. O. CUNNINGHAM

EMORY COBB

DOCUMENT NUMBER 26

Federal and State Laws

Concerning the University of Illinois

THE LAND GRANT ACT OF 1862.

AN ACT donating public land to the several states and territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts.

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, in quantity equal to 30,000 acres for each senator and representative in congress to which the states are respectively entitled by the apportionment under the census of 1860: 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 sections or sub-divisions of sections not less than one-quarter of a section; 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 lands subject to sale at private entry, at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, to which said state shall 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, That 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 territories of the United 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. 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 locations 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 received therefrom, shall be paid to the states to which they may belong, out of the treasury of said states, so that the entire proceeds of the sale of the said lands shall be applied, without any diminution whatever, to the purposes hereinafter mentioned.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all moneys derived from the sale of 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 5 per cent upon the par value of said stocks; and that the money so invested shall constitute a perpetual fund, the capital of which shall remain forever undiminished (except so far as may be provided in section five 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 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 several pursuits and professions in life.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the grant of land and scrip hereby authorized, shall be made on the following conditions, to which, as well as to the provisions hereinbefore contained, the previous assent of the several states shall be signified by legislative acts: