A similar provision, relating to the sale of a card index of agricultural literature prepared by the Office of Experiment Stations, is set forth on p. 253, post, under " Office of Experiment Stations."

ACT MARCH 4, 1911, c. 238. (36 Stat. 1235.)

Details of employees from and to Library and bureaus and offices of the department.

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That hereafter employees of the Library may be temporarily detailed by the Secretary of Agriculture for library service in the bureaus and offices of the department, and employees of the bureaus and offices of the department engaged in library work may also be temporarily detailed to the Library.

Act March 4, 1911, c. 238, 36 Stat. 1261.

This is a proviso annexed to the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1912, cited above.

ACT AUGUST 10, 1912, c. 284. (37 Stat. 269.)

SALARIES, LIBRARY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: One librarian, two thousand dollars; one clerk, class three; one clerk, class two; two clerks, class one, one of whom shall be a translator; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; five clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; two cataloguers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three cataloguers, at one thousand dollars each; one messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; three messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; one charwoman, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars. GENERAL EXPENSES, LIBRARY: For books of reference, technical and scientific books, papers and periodicals, and for expenses incurred in completing imperfect series; for the employment of additional assistants in the city of Washington and elsewhere; for official traveling expenses, and for library fixtures, library cards, supplies, and other material, fifteen thousand five hundred dollars.

Total for Library, forty-one thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.

Act August 10, 1912, c. 284, 37 Stat. 296.

These are provisions of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1913, cited above.

OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS.

ACT JULY 2, 1862, c. 130. An act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts. (12 Stat. 503.)

Public lands granted to States for agricultural colleges; mineral lands excepted. 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.

Act July 2, 1862, c. 130, s. 1, 12 Stat. 503.

Apportionment of lands granted, and selection thereof from lands for sale; land scrip in lieu of deficiency in apportionment; location of lands for which scrip may be issued.

SEC. 2. 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 State 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.

Act July 2, 1862, c. 130, s. 2, 12 Stat. 503.

Expenses of management, etc., of lands selected, to be paid by States.

SEC. 3. 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 the 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 diminution whatever to the purposes hereinafter mentioned.

Act July 2, 1862, c. 130, s. 3, 12 Stat. 504.

Investment of proceeds of sale of land scrip; moneys so invested a perpetual fund for endowment, etc., of colleges for teaching branches relating to agriculture and mechanic arts, etc.

SEC. 4. That all moneys derived from the sale of lands aforesaid by the States to which the lands are apportioned, and from the sales of land-scrip hereinbefore provided for, shall be invested in stocks of the United States, or of the States, or some other safe stocks; or the same may be invested by the States having no State stocks, in any other manner after the legislatures of such States shall have assented thereto, and engaged that such funds shall yield not less than five per centum upon the amount so invested 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 five 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.

Act July 2, 1862, c. 130, s. 4, 12 Stat. 504, as amended by act March 3, 1883, c. 102, 22 Stat. 484, entitled "An act to amend an act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts."

An annual appropriation of $15,000 from moneys arising from sales of public lands, for the more complete endowment and maintenance of agricultural colleges, is made, with a further annual increase for ten years, by act August 30, 1890, c. 841, set forth on p. 241, post; and an annual appropriation for the same purposes in addition to the sums named in that act, is made, with a further annual increase for five years, the annual sum to be paid thereafter to be $50,000, by provisions of act March 4, 1907, c. 2907, set forth on p. 244, post.

Conditions of grant of land and land scrip.

SEC. 5. That the grant of land and land scrip 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:

Diminution of fund to be restored by State; interest to be applied to purposes mentioned in section 4.

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 ten 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.

Fund not to be used for buildings.

Second. No portion of said fund, nor the interest thereon, shall be applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretence whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings.

Limitation on time for claiming benefit of provisions of act; payment by State to United States of amounts received for lands previously sold.

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 described 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. Annual report of progress, etc., of colleges.

Fourth. An annual report shall be made regarding the progress of each college, recording any improvements and experiments made, with their cost 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.

Compatation of price of lands selected from those double minimum price.

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 proportionally diminished.

States in rebellion not to have benefit of act.

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.

Limitation on time for acceptance of benefits of act.

Seventh. No State shall be entitled to the benefits of this act unless it shall express its acceptance thereof by its legislature within two years from the date of its approval by the President.

Act July 2, 1862, c. 130, s. 5, 12 Stat. 504.

The time in which States may comply with the provisions of this act, as provided in paragraph seventh of this section, is extended so that the acceptance of the benefits of the act may be expressed within three years from the passage of the act, and the time in which colleges required by the act may be established, as provided in paragraph third of this section, is extended to five years from the date of filing such acceptance, by act July 23, 1866, c. 209, set forth below.

Land scrip not subject to location until after July 1, 1863.

SEC. 6. That land scrip issued under the provisions of this act shall not be subject to location until after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

Act July 2, 1862, c. 130, s. 6, 12 Stat. 505.

Fees of land officers.

SEC. 7. That the land officers shall receive the same fees for locating land scrip issued under the provisions of this act as is now allowed for the focation of military bounty land warrants under existing laws: Provided, their maximum compensation shall not be thereby increased.

Act July 2, 1862, c. 130, s. 7, 12 Stat. 505. Governors of States to report annually to Congress.

SEC. 8. 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.

Act July 2, 1862, c. 130, s. 7, 12 Stat. 505.

ACT JULY 23, 1866, c. 209. An act to amend the fifth section of an act entitled "An act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," approved July 2, 1862, so as to extend the time within which the provisions of said act shall be accepted and such colleges established. (14 Stat. 208.) Limitation of time extended for acceptance of benefits of act July 2, 1862, and for establishing agricultural colleges provided for therein.

That the time in which the several States may comply with the provisions of the act of July two, eighteen hundred and sixty-two,

entitled "An act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," is hereby extended so that the acceptance of the benefits of the said act may be expressed within three years from the passage of this act, and the colleges required by the said act may be provided within five years from the date of the filing of such acceptance with the commissioner of the general land office: 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 two, 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: Provided further, That any State which has heretofore expressed its acceptance of the act herein referred to shall have the period of five years within which to provide at least one college, as described in the fourth section of said act, after the time for providing said college, according to the act of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, shall have expired.

Act July 23, 1866, c. 209, 14 Stat. 208.

Act July 2, 1862, c. 130, s. 5, amended by this act, is set forth above.

ACT AUGUST 30, 1890, c. 841.

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. (26 Stat. 417.)

Increased appropriation, out of moneys arising from sales of public lands, for agricultural colleges.

That there shall be, and hereby is, annually appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, arising from the sales of public lands, to be paid as hereinafter provided, to each State and Territory for the more complete endowment and maintenance of colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts now established, or which may be hereafter established, in accordance with an act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and an annual increase of the amount of such appropriation thereafter for ten years by an additional sum of one thousand dollars over the preceding year, and the annual amount to be paid thereafter to each State and Territory shall be twenty-five 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 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 com

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