1862, July 2 - 12 Stat. 503, Act Donating Public Land For Colleges

Abstract

An act donating Public Lands to provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and mechanic arts, an amount to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to thirty-thousand acres for each senator and representative in under the census of 1860. No mineral lands were to be selected or purchase under this act. Moneys from sales of land to be invested, to constitute a perpetual fund, interest to be applied to support one college for agriculture and the mechanic arts. Set forth the conditions under which the grant of land and land scrip could be made.https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/hornbeck_usa_2_d/1012/thumbnail.jp