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§ 6. The rights and privileges given in the last two sections, are granted subject to these further conditions following, namely: All buildings whatsoever, which may be erected by either of the herein named institutions upon any portion of said second square, shall be designed and completed, the grounds surrounding said buildings enclosed, laid out and ornamented, and the said buildings and grounds kept and maintained in a manner satisfactory to the governor and council; and in case either of the said institutions shall, after due notice given, neglect to comply with the requirements of this section, or fail to use its portion of said square, or at any time appropriate said portion, or any part thereof, to any purpose or use foreign to its legitimate objects, then the right of said delinquent institution to the use, occupation or control of its portion of said square shall cease, and the commonwealth, by its proper officers and agents, shall have the right forthwith to enter and take possession of the portion of land so forfeited.

§ 7. The above named societies shall not cover with their buildings more than one-third of the area granted to them respectively. [Sections 8, 9 and 10 repealed.]

AN ACT IN ADDITION TO THE ACT OF APRIL 10, 1861.

(Approved April 27, 1863.)

SECTION 1. When the Massachusetts Institute of Technology shall have been duly organized, located and established, in conformity with the provisions of chapter one hundred and eighty-three of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and chapter one hundred and forty-two of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and as is hereinafter provided, there shall be appropriated and paid to its treasurer, each year, on the warrant of the governor, for its endowment, support and maintenance, one-third part of the annual interest or income which may be received from the fund created under and by virtue of the one hundred and thirtieth chapter of the acts of the thirtyseventh congress, at the second session thereof, approved July second, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and the laws of this Commonwealth, accepting the provisions thereof and relating to the same.

§ 2. Said Institute of Technology, in addition to the objects set forth in its acts of incorporation,-to wit, instituting and maintaining a society of arts, a museum of arts, and a school for industrial science, and aiding the advancement, development and practical application of science in connection with arts, agriculture, manufactures and commerce,-shall provide for instruction in military tactics; and in consideration of this grant, the governor, the chief justice of the supreme judicial court, and the secretary of the board of education, shall be each a member, ex officio, of the government of the Institute.

§ 3. Should the said corporation, at any time, cease or fail to maintain an Institute, as and for the purposes provided in its act of incorporation, and in the foregoing section, the aid granted to it by the first section of this act shall be withheld, and not paid to it. The Institute shall furnish to the governor and council a copy of the annual reports of its operations.

§4. This act shall be void, unless the said Institute of Technology shall accept the same, and give due notice thereof, to the secretary of the Commonwealth, on or before the first day of July next.

MICHIGAN.

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE SELECTION, CARE AND DISPOSITION OF THE LANDS DONATED TO THE STATE OF MICHIGAN BY ACT OF CONGRESS, APPROVED JULY 2, 1862, FOR THE ENDOWMENT OF COLLEGES FOR THE BENEFIT OF AGRICULTURE AND THE MECHANIC ARTS.

(Approved March 18, 1863.)

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact: That the governor, auditor general, secretary of state, attorney general, state treasurer, and commissioner of the state land office, shall constitute a board, to be known as the agricultural land grant board, and said board shall have the control and management of the selection, the care and disposal of the lands granted to this State by act of Congress, approved July 2, 1862, providing for the endowment of colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts. Said board shall appoint one or more suitable commissioners, whose duty it shall be to select and locate, as soon as practicable, the quantity of land donated to this State by the act of Congress aforesaid, and to make return of the lands so located to the commissioners of the State land office of Michigan, properly designated and described, and to notify the registers of the United States district land offices for the districts in which the selection and location is made, of such selection, as fast as the land is so selected.

§ 2. The commissioner of the State land office shall, as fast as such selections are made and returned to him, forward to the Secretary of the Interior of the United States, full and complete descriptions of all such lands, and obtain the necessary title to the State of Michigan for the same.

§ 3. The said land shall be sold for not less than two dollars and fifty cents per acre, one-fourth to be paid at the time of purchase, and the balance at the option of the purchaser, said balance to bear interest at the rate of seven per cent. per annum, payable annually into the State treasury, in accordance with and subject to the conditions of forfeiture, as provided by law for the payment of interest on contracts for money due on the purchase of primary school lands; and the sales of such lands shall be conducted in accordance with such rules and regulations as shall be prescribed by the said land grant board.

§ 4. The proceeds of the sale of said land shall be applied and used according to the conditions of the act of Congress granting the same to the State.

§ 5. Whenever said lands, or any part of them, shall have been selected, certified to the commissioner of the State land office, withdrawn from the market, and so marked on the plats, and certified by the register of any United States land office for the proper district, by the authority of the commissioner of the general land office of the United States, the commissioner of the State land office may, by direction of the said land grant board, sell said lands in quantities of not less than any legal subdivision, according to the original survey; and on such sale being made, the commissioner of the State land office ball issue his certificate of sale in the usual form, setting forth the quantity and

description of the land sold. the price per acre, the amount paid at the time of purchase, the balance due, with the annual rate of interest, and the time the interest is payable, as is required by law for the payment of interest on contracts for the purchase of primary school lands, and that the purchaser will be entitled to a patent from this State on payment in full of the principal and interest, together with all taxes assessed on such lands.

§ 6. Certificates of purchase issued pursuant to the provisions of law shall entitle the purchaser to the possession of the lands therein described, and shall be sufficient evidence of title to enable the purchaser, his heirs or assigns, to maintain actions of trespass for injuries done to the same, or ejectment, or any other proper action or proceeding to recover possession thereof, unless such certificate shall have become void by forfeiture; and all certificates of purchase in force may be recorded in the same manner as deeds of conveyance are authorized to be recorded.

§ 7. The governor of this State shall sign and cause to be issued, patents for said lands, as soon as practicable after payment is made in full of principal, interest, and all the taxes, as aforesaid.

§ 8. It shall be the duty of said land grant board, from time to time, as money is received from the sales of said lands, to cause the same to be invested in stocks of the United States, of this State, or some other safe stocks, yielding not less than five per cent. annually upon the par value of such stocks, and to keep the same invested, to constitute a perpetual fund the capital of which shall remain forever undiminished; and the annual interest shall be regularly applied, under the direction of the State board of agriculture, to the endowment, support and maintenance of the State Agricultural 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 order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life.

§ 9. The said land grant board shall, on finding that there is not in this State a sufficient amount of land belonging to the United States, subject to private entry, to make up the full amount of the land granted by said act of Congress, notify the commissioner of the United States land office of the fact, and obtain, as soon as practicable, from the proper authority, permission to select an amount sufficient to make up such deficiency from United States land in other states or territories of the United States, and shall send one or more commissioners into such states or territories to select the same, under such rules and regulations as said board may prescribe.

§ 10. The agricultural land grant board shall certify, from time to time, to the auditor general, the amount required to pay expenses of selecting and locating, and making returns of said lands, and the auditor general shall draw his warrant upon the State treasurer for the amounts thus certified, and the State treasurer shall pay the same out of the general fund. Said land grant board may make such rules and regulations in relation to the time and manner of selecting and locating the lands, making the returns, and keeping the accounts of expenses, as they may deem necessary and proper. All contracts and certificates of said board shall be signed by the chairman, and countersigned by the secretary of the agricultural land grant board.

§ 11. In the sale of lands, the principal value of which consists in the timber, the commissioner of the State land office shall require the payment of the entire amount of purchase money at the time of purchase, or such portion of the same, above one-fourth, as he may deem for the best interest of the State.

NOTE.

The State Agricultural College referred to in the above act was established by the legislature of the State of Michigan, February 12, 1855, by authorizing the president and executive committee of the State Agricultural Society to select a site for such an institution within ten miles of Lansing. The site selected embraced 676 acres of heavily timbered land. Buildings were erected and im. provements made at an expense of $100,000, and students were received May 13, 1857. In 1860, the institution was placed under the direction of a State board of agriculture. In 1863, the legislature directed that military tactics and military engineering should be added to the studies; and in accepting and appropriating the avails of the United States land grant of 1862 to this college, necessarily accepts the condition of the grant, by including the mechanic arts, "and the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life.",

MINNESOTA.

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

General Statutes-Revision of 1866- Chapter XXXV.

SECTION 1. There shall be established an Agricultural College on so much of section sixteen, in township one hundred and fifteen, range twenty-eight, as may be purchased by the State, and on all lands adjacent, that have been or may be donated, not less than four hundred and eighty acres, under the name and title of "The Agricultural College of Minnesota."

§ 2. The design of said institution is to afford thorough instruction in agriculture and the sciences connected therewith, and for that purpose the institu tion shall combine physical with intellectual education, and shall be a high seminary of learning, in which the graduates of both sexes of the common schools can commence, pursue and finish a course of study terminating in thorough theoretic and practical instruction in those sciences and arts which bear directly upon agriculture and kindred industrial pursuits.

§ 3. The course of instruction shall embrace the English language and literature, mathematics, civil engineering, agricultural chemistry, animal and vegetable anatomy, physiology, the veterinary art, entomology, geology, political, rural and household economy, horticulture, moral philosophy, history, bookkeeping, and especially the application of science and the mechanic arts to practical agriculture.

§ 4. A full course of study shall embrace not less than four years. The agricultural college board may institute a partial course for students who do not desire to receive the full course. They may also adopt such courses of lectures as they deem best.

§ 5. The board shall determine the time of commencing and the length of the scholastic term or terms for each year, and the number of hours, which shall not be less than two nor more than four daily, and which may be different at different seasons of the year, that shall be devoted by each student to labor; and shall make such rules in regard to the payment of tuition as they deem most conducive to the interests of the institution, until appropriations for its support are sufficient without the payment of tuition.

§ 6. A board is hereby constituted and established which shall be known as "The Agricultural College Board," consisting of the governor, the secretary of State, and the president of the State Agricultural Society, who shall be ex officio members of the board; and four members to be elected by the legislature as follows: one member of said board to be elected annually for the term of four years. Any vacancy may be filled by a majority of the members of the board, and a majority shall be a quorum for the transaction of business. Each member, shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe the oath required by law. When the said board shall decide the number of students that may be accommodated, and receive instruction at such agricultural college,

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