Annual Report of the Commissioner of the Land Office of the State of MichiganState Printers., 1916 - Public lands |
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acres of land acres of Tax act of Congress acts amendatory thereto actual settlers Agricultural College lands ASSET LANDS ASYLUM LAND Auditor Benjamin D CARTON cents per acre City and Village class of land counties the number dollars per acre drawing interest ending December 31 entitled AN ACT Forest Reserves forfeited bids fund Hazelton held under part-paid including December 31 INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT LANDS Iosco land office lands in Forest Lansing Legislature March 20 minimum price moneys received months ending December number of acres Oscoda part-paid certificates payment Penalty Porter Kibbie Primary School lands proceeds Public Acts Public Domain Commission public lands quantity of land received on account Roscommon sales plat books Salt Spring lands sections of land Session Laws seven per cent SEVENTY-THIRD AND FINAL six months ending Sold for Cash Sold for Scrip swamp lands Tax Homestead lands township or fractional tracts University lands unpaid principal Village lots whole number
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Page 18 - 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 17 - 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 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.
Page 18 - ... 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.
Page 18 - ... 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 legislature of the state may provide, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life.
Page 10 - ... for each township or fractional township, containing a greater quantity of land than three-quarters of an entire township, one section; for a fractional township containing a greater quantity of land than one-half, and not more than three-quarters of a township, three-quarters of a section; for a fractional township, containing a greater quantity of land than one-quarter, and not more than one-half of a township, one-half section...
Page 17 - 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 9 - And be it further enacted, That the following propositions be, and the same are hereby offered to the convention of the eastern state of the said territory, when formed, for their free acceptance or rejection, which, if accepted by the convention, shall be obligatory upon the United States.
Page 18 - ... 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 9 - Provided, That the five foregoing propositions herein offered are on the condition that the legislature of the said State, by virtue of the powers conferred upon it by the convention which framed the constitution of the said State, shall provide by an ordinance irrevocable without the consent of the United States, that the said State shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil within the same by the United States, nor with any regulations congress may find necessary for securing the...
Page 18 - 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...