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... Stat . L. , 440 ) , the constitutional author- ity for its various activities being Article I , Section 8 , which empowers Congress to provide for the " general welfare of the United States . " Contributing to the " general welfare ...
... Stat . L. , 440 ) , the constitutional author- ity for its various activities being Article I , Section 8 , which empowers Congress to provide for the " general welfare of the United States . " Contributing to the " general welfare ...
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... Stat . L. , 503 ) . The Morrill Act of 1862 made it possible for each state to acquire institutions which would involve some of the features which George Washington desired to include in his proposed national university and national ...
... Stat . L. , 503 ) . The Morrill Act of 1862 made it possible for each state to acquire institutions which would involve some of the features which George Washington desired to include in his proposed national university and national ...
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... Stat . L. , 374 ) , " to set apart and dispose of certain public lands for the encouragement of the cultivation of the vine and olive , " which empowered the Secretary of the Treasury to allot certain lands in the Mississippi territory ...
... Stat . L. , 374 ) , " to set apart and dispose of certain public lands for the encouragement of the cultivation of the vine and olive , " which empowered the Secretary of the Treasury to allot certain lands in the Mississippi territory ...
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... Stat . L. , 354 ) , which appropriated one thousand dollars " to be expended by the Commissioner of Patents in the collection of agricultural statistics and for other agricultural purposes . " While the collection of agricultural ...
... Stat . L. , 354 ) , which appropriated one thousand dollars " to be expended by the Commissioner of Patents in the collection of agricultural statistics and for other agricultural purposes . " While the collection of agricultural ...
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... Stat . L. , 440 ) , " to establish agricultural experi- ment stations in connection with the colleges established in the several States " under the provisions of the act of July 2 , 1862 . This act provided for the first national system ...
... Stat . L. , 440 ) , " to establish agricultural experi- ment stations in connection with the colleges established in the several States " under the provisions of the act of July 2 , 1862 . This act provided for the first national system ...
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Page 146 - 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...
Page 147 - That in order to aid in acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects connected with agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and experiment respecting the principles and applications of agricultural science...
Page 31 - There shall be at the seat of government a Department of Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 147 - An act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 149 - That the grants of moneys authorized by this Act are made subject to the legislative assent of the several States and Territories to the purposes of said grants...
Page 158 - ... be sent to each newspaper in the States or Territories in which they are respectively located, and to such individuals actually engaged in farming as may request the same and as far as the means of the station will permit. Such bulletins or reports and the annual reports of said stations shall be transmitted in the mails of the United States free of charge for postage, under such regulations as the Postmaster General may from time to time prescribe.
Page 146 - 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.
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Page 152 - States, to the State or Territorial treasurer, or to such other officer as shall be designated by the laws of such State or Territory to receive the same, who shall upon the order of the trustees of the college or the institution for colored students, immediately pay over said sums to the treasurers of the respective colleges or other institutions entitled to receive the same...
Page 157 - SEC. 2. That the sums hereby appropriated to the States and Territories for the further endowment and support of colleges shall be annually paid on or before the thirty-first day of July of each year, by the Secretary of the Treasury, upon the warrant of the Secretary of the Interior, out of the Treasury of the United States, { to the State or Territorial Treasurer, or to such officer as shall be designated by the laws of such State or Territory to receive the same, who shall, upon...