Extending the Benefits of the Morrill Acts to the District of Columbia |
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Page 355
... need not even take time now to read it . In brief , the object of the bill is to place the District of Columbia on an equal footing with the States and Territories of the United States in reference to the benefits contem- plated by the ...
... need not even take time now to read it . In brief , the object of the bill is to place the District of Columbia on an equal footing with the States and Territories of the United States in reference to the benefits contem- plated by the ...
Page 359
... needs , what are their wants . The distinguished gentleman who first opened this discussion well referred to the fact of the number of people who are here for years often who are not citizens of the District , who are here of necessity ...
... needs , what are their wants . The distinguished gentleman who first opened this discussion well referred to the fact of the number of people who are here for years often who are not citizens of the District , who are here of necessity ...
Page 361
... need it ? As I have stated in a brief paper which I have sent to members of the committee , there are two classes of students here . They are just the same in quality of mind , but we speak of them as different classes because the first ...
... need it ? As I have stated in a brief paper which I have sent to members of the committee , there are two classes of students here . They are just the same in quality of mind , but we speak of them as different classes because the first ...
Page 365
... needs a college of agriculture , in the technical sense of the word , there was no one to suggest , when the bill was drawn donating lands to the several States and Terri- tories , that the District of Columbia should be included . Mr ...
... needs a college of agriculture , in the technical sense of the word , there was no one to suggest , when the bill was drawn donating lands to the several States and Terri- tories , that the District of Columbia should be included . Mr ...
Page 367
... need for the education of their children it only makes it that much easier to get and keep the services of the very best class of men . I venture the assertion that , taken in proportion to the population here , there are more bright ...
... need for the education of their children it only makes it that much easier to get and keep the services of the very best class of men . I venture the assertion that , taken in proportion to the population here , there are more bright ...
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act of Congress agricultural colleges agriculture and mechanic amendment America in Congress appropriation Baptist benefits bill board of trustees BOUTELL Brown University certificate charter citizens college of agriculture Columbian College Columbian University committee Congress approved Cornell corporation day of June denominational District of Columbia Doctor HARLAN Doctor James Doctor NEEDHAM Doctor THOMPSON dollars eighteen hundred elected endowment entitled established fact February ninth Federal further enacted George Wash George Washington Uni George Washington University Georgetown University give Government hereby Howard University hundred and twenty-one Illinois Illinois State University insti interest Interior land grant legislative assembly legislature mechanic arts Morrill Act Morrill fund nonsectarian Ohio present president private institution public lands purpose question recorder of deeds Secretary sectarian sess statement teach Territory thereof tion to-day Treasury trustees and overseers tutions U. S. Stat United versity
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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...