Nelson Amendment further endowing Land-Grant Colleges. Administration of Federal Funds for Experiment Stations. Co-operation of the Department of Agriculture and the Stations. Rulings of the United States Department of Agriculture.. Appropriations for Extension Work, 1925-1926. Allotment of Funds to the States.. FEDERAL LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS, AND RULINGS LAND-GRANT COLLEGES ACT OF 1862 DONATING LANDS FOR COLLEGES OF [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 eighteen hundred and sixty: Provided, That no mineral lands shall be selected or purchased under the provisions of this act. 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 whenever 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 the 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 use or 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, per 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. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all the expenses of management, superintendence, and taxes from date of selection of said lands, NOTE. For the Federal legislation, regulations, and rulings affecting land-grant colleges, dependence has been placed on the United States Department of Agriculture Circular 251, revised in April, 1925. Pertinent material only has been quoted, and changes have been made where necessary to bring it up to date, or to make it conform to the plan of this compilation.-ED. (7) |