the Commissioner is of the opinion that such award is not in the best interests of the United States.

(20 U.S.C. 581) Enacted Sept. 2, 1958, P.L. 85-864, Title X, sec. 1001, 72 Stat. 1602; amended Oct. 16, 1962, P.L. 87-835, 76 Stat. 1070.

ADVISORY COMMITTEES

SEC. 1002. (a) The Commissioner, with the approval of the Secretary, may appoint an advisory committee, or advisory committees, to advise and consult with him with respect to the administration of the provisions of this Act for which he is responsible. Any such committee shall have twelve members as follows:

(1) Four members who are recognized scholars in any of the following fields: engineering, mathematics, or science;

(2) Four members who are recognized scholars in any of the fields of the humanities; and

(3) Four members from such fields of endeavor as the Commissioner deems appropriate.

Members of an advisory committee appointed under this section, while attending conferences or meetings of the committee, shall be entitled to receive compensation at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary, but not exceeding $50 per diem, and while away from their homes or regular places of business they may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by law for persons in the Government service employed intermittently.

(20 U.S.C. 582) Enacted Sept. 2, 1958, P.L. 85-864, Title X, sec. 1002, 72 Stat. 1602.

EXEMPTION FROM CONFLICT-OF-INTEREST LAWS OF MEMBERS OF

ADVISORY COMMITTEES OR INFORMATION COUNCIL

SEC. 1003. (a) Any member of an advisory committee or information council appointed under this Act is hereby exempted with respect to such appointment, from the operation of sections 281, 283, 284, and 1914 of title 18 of the United States Code, and section 190 of the Revised Statutes (5 U.S.C. 99), except as otherwise specified in subsection (b) of this section.

(b) The exemption granted by subsection (a) shall not extend(1) to the receipt or payment of salary in connection with the appointee's Government service from any source other than the private employer of the appointee at the time of his appointment,

or

(2) during the period of such appointment, and the further period of two years after the termination thereof, to the prosecution or participation in the prosecution, by any person so appointed, of any claim against the Government involving any matter concerning which the appointee had any responsibility arising out of his appointment during the period of such appointment. (20 U.S.C. 583) Enacted Sept. 2, 1958, P.L. 85-864, Title X, sec. 1003, 72 Stat. 1603.

METHOD OF PAYMENT

SEC. 1006. Payments under this Act to any individual or to any State or Federal agency, institution of higher education, or any other organization, pursuant to a grant, loan, or contract, may be made in installments, and in advance or by way of reimbursements, and, in the case of grants or loans, with necessary adjustments on account of overpayments or underpayments.

(20 U.S.C. 586) Enacted Sept. 2, 1958, P.L. 85-864, Title X, sec. 1006, 72 Stat. 1604.

Land-Grant Colleges

First Morrill Act

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 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.

(7 U.S.C. 301) Enacted July 2, 1862, ch. 130, sec. 1, 12 Stat. 503. 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 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 dollar and 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 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 twenty-five 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.

(7 U.S.C. 302) Enacted July 2, 1862, ch. 130, sec. 2, 12 Stat. 503.

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 diminuation whatever, to the purposes hereinafter mentioned.

SEC. 4. That all moneys derived from the sale of lands aforesaid by the States to which lands are apportioned and from the sales of land scrip hereinbefore provided for shall be invested in bonds of the United States or of the States or some other safe bonds; or the same may be invested by the States having no State bonds in any manner after the legislatures of such States shall have assented thereto and engaged that such funds shall yield a fair and reasonable rate of return, to be fixed by the State legislatures, and that the principal thereof shall forever remain unimpaired: Provided, That the moneys so invested or loaned shall constitute a perpetual fund, the capital of which shall remain forever undiminished (except so far as may be provided in section 5 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.

(7 U.S.C. 304) Enacted July 2, 1862, ch. 130, sec. 4, 12 Stat. 504; amended Mar. 3, 1883, ch. 102, 22 Stat. 484; amended Apr. 13, 1926, P.L. 113, 69th Cong., 44 Stat. 247.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the grant of land and land script 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 diminution to the purposes mentioned in the fourth section of this act, except that a sum, not exceeding 10 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 whatsoever, 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 proportionately 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 three years from July 23, 1866: Provided, That when any Territory shall become a State and be admitted into the Union such new State shall be entitled to the benefits of the said act of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, by expressing the acceptance therein required within three years from the date of its admission into the Union, and providing the college or colleges within five years after such acceptance, as prescribed in this act.

(7 U.S.C. 305) Enacted July 2, 1862, ch. 130, sec. 5, 12 Stat. 504; amended Mar. 3, 1873, ch. 231, sec. 3, 17 Stat. 559.

SEC. 6. ***

(7 U.S.C. 306)

Enacted July 2, 1862, ch. 130, sec. 6, 12 Stat. 505; repealed Dec. 16, 1930, P.L. 547, 71st Cong., sec. 1, 46 Stat. 1028.

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 their maximum compensation shall not be thereby increased.

(7 U.S.C. 307) Enacted July 2, 1862, ch. 130, sec. 7, 12 Stat. 505.

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.

(7 U.S.C. 308) Enacted July 2, 1862, ch. 130, sec. 8, 12 Stat. 505.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY

FIRST MORRILL ACT

37th Congress*-S. 298: Reported, p. 496, May 16, 1862; amended and passed Senate, p. 628, June 10, 1862. Passed House, p. 880, June 17, 1862. Approved, p. 743, July 2, 1862.

*Asterisks refer to page numbers in House and Senate Journals.

Amendments (amends First Morrill)

38th Congress*-S. 12: Passed Senate, p. 118, Jan. 2, 1864. House reported, p. 428, Mar. 25, 1864. Passed House, p. 504, Mar. 25, 1864.

39th Congress*-H.R. 50: House reported, p. 161, Jan. 18, 1866; second report, with amendment, p. 441, Mar. 21, 1866; third report, with amendment, p. 538, Apr. 10, 1866; fourth report, with amendment, p. 542, Apr. 11, 1866. Amended and passed, p. 543, Apr. 11, 1866. Senate reported, p. 626, July 7, 1866. Amended and passed, p. 636, July 11, 1866. House concurred with Senate amendment, p. 1044, July 18, 1866. Approved, p. 1088, July 23, 1866.

42d Congress*-S. 964: Senate report, p. 541, April 12, 1872. Passed Senate, p. 636, Apr. 30, 1872. House reported without amending, Jan. 16, 1873. Passed House, p. 182, Jan. 16, 1873. Approved, p. 182, Mar. 3, 1872.

47th Congress*-S. 1829: Senate reported, p. 879, June 27, 1882. Amended and passed Senate, p. 879, June 27, 1882. Passed House, p. 539, Mar. 2, 1883. Approved, p. 655, Mar. 3, 1883.

Second Morrill Act

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 appropriated, to be paid as hereinafter provided, to each State and Territory for the more complete endowment and maintenance of agricultural colleges now established, or which may hereafter be established, in accordance with the act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and the act of Congress approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, the sum of five thousand dollars, in addition to the sums named in said act for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, and an annual increase of the amount of such appropriation thereafter for four years by an additional sum of five thousand dollars over the preceding year, and the annual sum to be paid thereafter to each State and Territory shall be fifty 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 said colleges may use a portion of this money for providing courses for the special preparation of instructors for teaching the elements of agriculture and the mechanic arts: 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 sixty-two, and also in which an educational institution of like character has been established, or may be hereafter established, and is on August 30, 1890 aided by such State from its revenue, for the education of colored students in agriculture and the mechanic arts, however named

*Asterisks refer to page numbers in House and Senate Journals.