denomination shall be capable of being elected trustees; nor shall any person, either as president, professor, tutor, or pupil be refused admittance into said college or denied any of the privileges, immunities, or advantages thereof for or on account of his sentiments in matters of religion," be, and the same is hereby, reenacted and shall be hereafter in full force as a part of said charter. SEC. 3. That power is hereby given to the board of trustees of said university to change the name of said university at any regular meeting by a vote of not less than two-thirds of the total number of members of the board, as prescribed by the charter, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of Education. That upon said action being taken a certificate, under the seal of the university, stating the name adopted and the date when the name shall go into effect not less than thirty days nor more than six months from the date of its adoption, together with the fact that said name has been adopted as herein prescribed, shall be filed in the office of the recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia, and thereupon, upon the date specified for the name to go into effect, the university shall be known and designated by the name adopted, and by said new name the said university shall be vested with and convey its real estate, hold, control, and administer endowments and gifts of money and property heretofore and hereafter made for the maintenance of its educational work and do and perform all acts which it now has the power to do under its said charter. Such change of name shall not in any other way change, affect, or modify in any degree the rights, privileges, obligations, and powers of the said university under the charter of February ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, and the amendatory acts thereto. SEC. 4. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. (U. S. Stat. L., vol. 33, pt. 1, pp. 7, 8; 58th Cong., 2d sess., ch. 7.) Approved, January 23, 1904. CERTIFICATE OF CHANGE OF NAME OF THE COLUMBIAN UNIVERSITY TO THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY." DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, City of Washington: The Columbian University, in accordance with the act of Congress approved January 23, 1904, does hereby certify that, at the regular meeting of its board of trustees duly held on the eighth day of June, 1904, at which meeting there were present more than two-thirds of the total number of members of the board, it was unanimously resolved that, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of Education, prescribed by said act of Congress, the name of this university be changed to that of The George Washington University, the same to go into effect on the first day of September, A. D. 1904. And it is hereby further certified, that on the twentieth day of June, A. D. 1904, the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of Education duly approved in writing said change of name, which said written approval is hereto attached and made a part hereof. In testimony whereof, said Columbian University has given this its certificate under its corporate seal, at the city of Washington, D. C., on the twenty-first day of June, A. D. 1904. Attest: JOHN B. LARNER, Secretary. (Corporate seal.) CHARLES W. NEEDHAM, President. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Pursuant to section 882 of the Revised Statutes, I hereby certify that the annexed paper is a true copy of the original as it appears upon the files of the department. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and caused the seal of the Department of the Interior to be affixed, the day and year first above written. (Seal of the Department of the Interior.) E. A. HITCHCOCK, Secretary of the Interior. W. B. A. Whereas by act of Congress approved January 23, 1904, the Columbian University was authorized to change its name, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of Education; And whereas it has been made satisfactorily to appear to us that at the regular meeting of the board of trustees of said university held on the eighth day of June, A. D. 1904, at which meeting there were present more than twothirds of the total number of members of said board, it was unanimously resolved to change the name of said university to that of The George Washington University, the same to go into effect on the first day of September, A. D. 1904 : Now therefore this is to witness that, pursuant to said act of Congress, we do hereby, this twentieth day of June, A. D. 1904, approve said change of name. E. A. HITCHCOCK, (Seal of the Department of the Interior.) Secretary of the Interior. Commissioner of Education. OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF DEEDS, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. This is to certify that the foregoing is a true and verified copy of the certificate of change of name of the Columbian University to The George Washington University, and of the whole of said certificate of change of name, as filed in this office the 22d day of June, 1904, and recorded in Liber No. 16, folio 95 'et seq., one of the incorporation records of the District of Columbia. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of this office this 11th day of February, A. D. 1910. R. W. DUTTON, Deputy Recorder of Deeds, D. C. (Seal of the recorder of deeds, District of Columbia.) AN ACT Supplemental to the act of February ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, incorporating the Columbian College in the District of Columbia, and the acts amendatory thereof. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the George Washington University shall have, and is hereby given, power to increase the number of its trustees from time to time, by a two-thirds vote of the whole number of the trustees at the time such vote is taken, to a number not exceeding forty-five. In case of the increase of the number of trustees a certificate, stating the number of the board and the time when it shall go into effect and that the action so taken was by a two-thirds vote as required by this act, shall be filed with the recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia, and upon and after the date named the board shall consist of the number of trustees stated in such certifi'cate, and said board may also appoint a board or boards of visitors for any department or departments of educational work carried on by the university, such boards of visitors to be advisory only. SEC. 2. That by and with the consent of said university, colleges may be organized hereunder for the purpose of carrying on, in connection with the university, special lines of educational work in the arts, sciences, and liberal and technical knowledge, such colleges to be educationally a part of the system of the university, but upon independent financial foundations, and to this end any five or more persons desirous of associating themselves for the purpose of establishing a college hereunder, may make, sign, and acknowledge before any officer authorized to take acknowledgment of deeds in the District of Columbia, and with the assent of the university in writing, file in the office of the recorder of deeds of the said District a certificate in writing, in which shall be stated: First, the intention to organize a corporation under this act and the assent of the university thereto; second, the name or title by which the college shall be known in law; third, the names of the trustees constituting the first board, and such trustees may be divided into three classes, the term of office of one class expiring annually; fourth, the manner of nominating and electing successors to said trustees; fifth, the branch or branches of literature, arts, science, liberal or technical knowledge proposed to be taught; sixth, that the highest officer of said college shall be a dean, the dean and members of the faculty to be members of the educational councils of the university in accordance with the rules governing the university; seventh, that all degrees shall be bestowed by the university; eighth, that in all financial and legal responsibility the college shall be an independent organization. Upon filing such certificate the trustees named therein and their successors shall be a body politic, incorporated by the name and style stated in the certificate, and by that name and style shall have perpetual succession in association with the university, with power in the college to sue and be sued; plead and be impleaded; to acqure, hold, and convey property in all legal ways; to receive by gift, devise, or otherwise, and hold, control, and administer endowments and gifts of money and property thereafter made to it for the maintenance of its educational work; to have and use a common seal, and to alter and change the same at pleasure; to make and alter from time to time such by-laws, not inconsistent with the Constitution of the United States or the laws in force in said District or the laws of the university regulating the conduct of educational work, as may be deemed necessary for the govern ment of the college, but said college shall not confer academic or honorary degrees; such college shall hold the property of the institution and all moneys and property conveyed to it by purchase, gife, conveyance, will, devise, or bequest solely for the purposes of the educational work specified in said certificate; the trustees of such college shall faithfully apply all funds collected or received and the proceeds thereof belonging to the institution, according to their best judgment, in purchasing lands and erecting buildings, supporting necessary officers, instructors, and servants, and procuring all equipment, educational and otherwise, necessary to carry on the work of the college. SEC. 3. That said university may enter into affiliated agreements with any institutions of learning outside of the District of Columbia, for the purpose of giving to students of such institutions the educational facilities of said university and the departments of the Government in the city of Washington which are by law open to students, upon such terms as are mutually agreed upon by the said university and the affiliated institutions. (U. S. Stat. L., vol. 33, pt. 1, pp. 1036, 1037; 58th Cong., 3d sess., ch. 1467.) Approved, March 3, 1905. AN ACT Donating public lands 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, a 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 subdivisions of sections, not less than one-quarter of a section; and wherever 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 public lands subject to sale at private entry, at one dollarand twenty-five cents per acre, to which said State may 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 Territory 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 twentyfive cents, or less, an 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 location 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 moneys which may be received therefrom, shall be paid by the States to which they may belong, out of the treasury of said States, so that the entire proceeds of the sale of 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 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; and 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, 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 land 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: First, If any portion of the fund invested, as provided by the foregoing section, or any portion of the interest thereon, shall, by any action or contingency, be diminished or lost, it shall be replaced by the State to which it belongs, so that the capital of the fund shall remain forever undiminished; and the annual interest shall be regularly applied without diminutior to the purposes mentioned in the fourth section of this Act, except that a sum, not exceeding ten per centum upon the amount received by any State under the provisions of this Act, may be expended for the purchase of lands for sites or experimental farms, whenever authorized by the respective legislatures of said States; Second, 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; Third, Any State which may take and claim the benefit of the provisions of this Act shall provide, within five years, at least not less than one college, as prescribed in the fourth section of this Act, or the grant to such State shall cease; and said State shall be bound to pay the United States the amount received of any lands previously sold, and that the title to purchasers under the State shall be valid; Fourth, An annual report shall be made regarding the progress of each college, recording any improvements and experiments made, with their costs and results, and such other matters, including state industrial and economical statistics, as may be supposed useful; one copy of which shall be transmitted by mail free, by each, to all the other colleges which may be endowed under the provisions of this Act, and also one copy to the Secretary of the Interior; Fifth, When lands shall be selected from those which have been raised to double the minimum price in consequence of railroad grants, they shall be computed to the States at the maximum price, and the number of acres proportionally diminished; Sixth, No State, while in a condition of rebellion or insurrection against the Government of the United States, shall be entitled to the benefit of this Act; Seventh, No State shall be entitled to the benefits of this Act unless it shall express its acceptance thereof by its legislature within two years from the date of its approval by the President. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That land scrip issued under the provisions of this Act shall not be subject to location until after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-three. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That land officers shall receive the same fees for locating land scrip issued under the provisions of this Act as is now allowed for the location of military bounty land warrants under existing laws: Provided, That maximum compensation shall not be thereby increased. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the governors of the several States to which scrip shall be issued under this Act shall be required to report annually to Congress all sales made of such scrip until the whole shall be disposed of, the amount received for the same, and what appropriation has been made of the proceeds. Approved, July 2, 1862. [Public-No. 249.] AN ACT To apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts established under the provisions of an act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be, and hereby is, annually appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro priated, arising from the sales of public lands, to be paid as hereinafter provided, "to each State and Territory for the more complete endowment and maintenance of colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts now established, or which may be hereafter established, in accordance with an act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," the sum of fifteen thousand dollars for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and an annual increase of the amount of such appropriation thereafter for ten years by an additional sum of one thousand dollars over the preceding year, and the annual amount to be paid thereafter to each State and Territory shall be twenty-five thousand dollars to be applied only to instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English language and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural and economic science, with special reference to their applications in the industries of life, and to the facilities for such instruction: Provided, That no money shall be paid out under this act to any State or Territory for the support and maintenance of a college where a distinction of race or color is made in the admission of students, but the establishment and maintenance of such colleges separately for white and colored students shall be held to be a compliance with the provisions of this act if the funds received in such State or Territory be equitably divided as hereinafter set forth: Provided, That in any State in which there has been one college established in pursuance of the act of July second, eighteen hundred and sixtytwo, and also in which an educational institution of like character has been established, or may be hereafter established, and is now aided by such State from its own revenue, for the education of colored students in agriculture and the mechanic arts, however named or styled, or whether or not it has received money heretofore under the act to which this act is an amendment, the legislature of such State may propose and report to the Secretary of the Interior a just and equitable division of the fund to be received under this act between one college for white students and one institution for colored students established as aforesaid, which shall be divided into two parts and paid accordingly, and thereupon such institution for colored students shall be entitled to the benefits of this act and subject to its provisions, as much as it would have been if it had been included under the act of eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and the fulfillment of the foregoing provisions shall be taken as a compliance with the provision in reference to separate colleges for white and colored students. 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 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, and such treasurers shall be required to report to the Secretary of Agriculture and to the Secretary of the Interior, on or before the first day of September of each year, a detailed statement of the amount so received and of its disbursement. The grants of moneys authorized by this act are made subject to the legislative assent of the several States and Territories to the purpose of said grants: Provided, That payments of such installments of the appropriation herein made as shall become due to any State before the adjournment of the regular session of legislature meeting next after the passage of this act shall be made upon the assent of the governor thereof, duly certified to the Secretary of the Treasury. SEC. 3. That if any portion of the moneys received by the designated officer of the State or Territory for the further and more complete endowment, support, and maintenance of colleges, or of institutions for colored students, as provided in this act, shall, by any action or contingency, be diminished or lost, or be misapplied, it shall be replaced by the State or Territory to which it |