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SEC. 6. And be it further emu ted, That land scrip issued under the provision of this act, shall not be subject to location until alter the first day of January, 186.1. SKC. 7. And be it further enaeted. That land olVicers shall receive the same fees for locating land scrip issued under the provisions <»t this act, as is now allowed for the location of military bounty land warrants under existing laws: Provided, their maximum compensation shall not be thereby increased. SKC. 8. And be it further enaeted, That the (Jovernors of the several States to which scrip shall be issued under this act shall l>e 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. (United States Statutes at Large 1861-1 AK). 37th Congress, pp. 50J 505. Chapter CXXX.) Approved July 2, 1862. 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 two, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, so as to extend the time within which the provisions of said act shall be accepted and such colleges established. He it enaeted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the I'nitcd States of America, in Congress assembled, 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 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. (U. S. Stat, at L, 1865-67, pp. 208-09)

ORGANIZATION, LOCATION, AND MAINTENANCE: OF THK ILLINOIS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY

A N ACT TO PROVIDE POI THE ORGANIZATION AND MAINTENANCE or THE ILLINOIS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY

S E C 1 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented m the General Assembly, That it shall he the duty of the Governor of the State within ten <lay§ from the passag of this set. to appoint five Trustees, resident in each Of the judicial grand divisions of this Stale, who, t o o t h e r with om additional Trustee, resident in each of the Congressional districts of this State, to IKappointed in like manner, with their alSociates and successors, shall IK a hody orporati and politic, to he styled "The Hoard of Trustees of the Illinois Indus trial University;" and hy that name and style '•hall has* perpetual succession, have power to contract and he contracted with, to sm ami W sued, to plead and he impleaded, to acquire, hold and come; teal and personal property; to have