...exceeding ten per ceiilnm upon tho amount received by any Slalo under I ho provisions of Ibis act, may bo expended for the purchase of lands for sites or experimental farms, whenever authorized by tho respective legislatures of said Stales. Second. No portion of said fund, nor tho interest thereon,...

...the State to which it, belongs, so that the capital of the fund shall remain forever undiminishcd ; and the annual interest shall be regularly applied...Act, except that a sum, not exceeding ten per centum ujxm the amount received by any State under the provisions of this Act, may be expended for the purchase...

...already under its control buildings suited to the purpose. And although the law of Congress provides that " a sum not exceeding ten per centum upon the...amount received by any State, under the provisions of the act, may be expended for the purchase of lands, for sites or experimental farms, whenever authorized...

...sum not exceeding ten per centum upon the amount received by any State, under the provisions of the act, may be expended for the purchase of lands, for...experimental farms, whenever authorized by the respective Legislature of said State," it is not desirable that the original fund should be at all diminished....

...the State for lands for sites or experimental farms, and that the annual interest of the fund was to be regularly applied without diminution to the purposes mentioned in the fourth section of the act, to- wit : The " support and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall...

...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...the purposes mentioned in the fourth section of this aet, except that a sum not exceeding ten per centum upon the amount received by any State under the...

...erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings." Ten per cent of the fund might, however, be expended " for the purchase of lands for sites or experimental farms." "The Federal Government,'' says Dr. Blackmar, in his History of Federal and State Aid to Higher Education,...

...the State to which it belongs, so that the capital of tlio fund shall remain forever u ndi mi imbed; and the annual interest shall be regularly applied...fourth section of this act, except that a sum, not oxceeeding ten per centum upon the amount received by any State under the provisions of tins act, may...

...sum not exceeding ten per cent, on the amount received by any «täte under the act may be applied to the purchase of lands for sites or experimental farms, whenever authorized by the legislature. The general object and character of Шн colleges to be established is briefly stated...

...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...except that a sum, not exceeding ten per centum upon tho amount received by any state under the provisions of this act, may be expended for the purchase...