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... fund . There are officials of the Dis- trict here who are able to speak for themselves . I want now to speak for those whom we all represent and who have the largest interest in this bill and the work that will follow after it , and so ...
... fund . There are officials of the Dis- trict here who are able to speak for themselves . I want now to speak for those whom we all represent and who have the largest interest in this bill and the work that will follow after it , and so ...
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... States . The States take care of their own people immedi- ately with their money and for their local purposes . Here is a fund and property belonging to the United States . How shall EXTENDING MORRILL ACTS TO DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA . 359.
... States . The States take care of their own people immedi- ately with their money and for their local purposes . Here is a fund and property belonging to the United States . How shall EXTENDING MORRILL ACTS TO DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA . 359.
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... fund shall be distributed by the George Washington University . That is simply because it is the only institution in the District of Columbia that is now giving instruction in agriculture and mechanic arts . The president of the ...
... fund shall be distributed by the George Washington University . That is simply because it is the only institution in the District of Columbia that is now giving instruction in agriculture and mechanic arts . The president of the ...
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... funds . That work , therefore , was put in . We established the college . The CHAIRMAN . At about what time ? Doctor NEEDHAM . Three years ago . Four years ago the ordinance was passed , and we started the work and have carried it on as ...
... funds . That work , therefore , was put in . We established the college . The CHAIRMAN . At about what time ? Doctor NEEDHAM . Three years ago . Four years ago the ordinance was passed , and we started the work and have carried it on as ...
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... fund . We have to maintain that ourselves . This appropria- tion will just about pay for the technical courses and for the courses in the sciences which are provided for in the act expressly . If these gentlemen can know that this work ...
... fund . We have to maintain that ourselves . This appropria- tion will just about pay for the technical courses and for the courses in the sciences which are provided for in the act expressly . If these gentlemen can know that this work ...
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Page 417 - 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...
Page 417 - 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...
Page 418 - 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...
Page 413 - Secretary of State of the United States, have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the Department of State to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this ninth day of August, AD 1882, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventh.
Page 417 - ... 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.
Page 417 - July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety...
Page 418 - ... therefor shall be reported to the President and the amount involved shall be kept separate in the Treasury until the close of the next Congress...
Page 417 - That there shall be, and hereby is, annually appropriated} out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 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...
Page 417 - 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...
Page 408 - That no mineral lands shall be selected or purchased under the provisions of this act. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the...