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... McClintic ( chair- man ) presiding . Mr. MCCLINTIC . Gentlemen of the committee , a subcommittee has been appointed by Congressman Ferris , chairman of the Public Lands Committee , to hold this public hearing , which is for the pur ...
... McClintic ( chair- man ) presiding . Mr. MCCLINTIC . Gentlemen of the committee , a subcommittee has been appointed by Congressman Ferris , chairman of the Public Lands Committee , to hold this public hearing , which is for the pur ...
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... MCCLINTIC , DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR , House of Representatives , Washington , D. C. Washington , February 29 , 1916 . DEAR MR . MCCLINTIC : The department is in receipt of your letter of the 25th instant , asking that action be ...
... MCCLINTIC , DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR , House of Representatives , Washington , D. C. Washington , February 29 , 1916 . DEAR MR . MCCLINTIC : The department is in receipt of your letter of the 25th instant , asking that action be ...
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... MCCLINTIC , DICK T. MORGAN , On behalf of the State of Oklahoma . Also a copy of the opinion rendered by the Secretary of the In- terior , with letter . ( Said opinion and letter follow :) DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR , Washington , April ...
... MCCLINTIC , DICK T. MORGAN , On behalf of the State of Oklahoma . Also a copy of the opinion rendered by the Secretary of the In- terior , with letter . ( Said opinion and letter follow :) DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR , Washington , April ...
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... MCCLINTIC , M. C. On the same day I received a reply stating that the number of acres were correct , and I shall be pleased to insert the same in the record . ( Said telegram follows :) JIM MCCLINTIC , Member of Congress , GUTHRIE ...
... MCCLINTIC , M. C. On the same day I received a reply stating that the number of acres were correct , and I shall be pleased to insert the same in the record . ( Said telegram follows :) JIM MCCLINTIC , Member of Congress , GUTHRIE ...
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... MCCLINTIC . Yes ; practically all . I desire to place in the record a list of the States that have been admitted to the Union since the passage of the acts of 1862 and 1866 , which will show , with the exception of one State , that all ...
... MCCLINTIC . Yes ; practically all . I desire to place in the record a list of the States that have been admitted to the Union since the passage of the acts of 1862 and 1866 , which will show , with the exception of one State , that all ...
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12 Stat accepted the grant acres of land acres per capita act donating public act of July acts of Congress admission agricultural and mechanical amended Arizona Assistant Secretary benefit of agriculture bill capita of school census of 1860 Colorado committee common schools congressional representation donating public lands eastern half eighteen hundred enabling act February 22 FERRIS filed Five Civilized Tribes given Government grant of land HASTINGS hereby honorable Commissioner honorable First Assistant hundred and sixty-six hundred and sixty-two Indian Territory Interior internal improvement grant July 23 July second July twenty-third June 16 Land Office lands in lieu matter mechanic arts mechanical college purposes Mexico Morrill Act Nebraska nonmineral land nontaxable number of acres old Oklahoma provide colleges public-school purposes question received the benefits reference Representative in Congress scrip sections 16 Senator and Representative South Dakota subcommittee swamp and overflowed Teehee TILLMAN TIMBERLAKE Union subsequent Utah West Virginia
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Page 14 - Dakota, to which 120,000 acres are granted, for the use and support of agricultural colleges in said states, as provided in the acts of congress making donations of lands for such purpose.
Page 8 - States provided for in this act shall not be entitled to any further or other grants of land for any purpose than as expressly provided in this act. And the lands granted by this section shall be held, appropriated, and disposed of exclusively for the purposes herein mentioned, in such manner as the legislatures of the respective States may severally provide.
Page 20 - ... 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 selected or purchased under the provisions of this act.
Page 12 - 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...
Page 12 - ... that the moneys so invested shall constitute a perpetual fund, the capital of which shall remain forever undiminished (except so far as may be provided in section fifth 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...
Page 12 - 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 44 - An Act to provide for the further development of agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several States receiving the benefits of the Act entitled '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 32 - That in lieu of the grant of land for purposes of internal improvement made to new states by the eighth section of the act of September...
Page 12 - 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 20 - Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, it is not my purpose to argue this at length at this time.