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Petitions to Congress

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Senate Journal, 1st and 2d Sess. 34th Congress, 1855-56. Jan. 28, 1856, p. 72. Mr. Trumbull presented a memorial of a committee appointed by the Illinois State Educational Convention, praying a donation of land to each State in the Union for the endowment of an Industrial University in each State; which was referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Journal of the Senate, May 22,1858, p. 504. On motion by Mr. Stuart, Ordered, That the Committee on Public Lands be discharged from the further consideration of the following: Resolutions of the legislature of New Jersey, in favor of a donation of public lands to that State, in common with other States, for establishing agricultural colleges; a memorial of the legislature of Minnesota, praying a donation of land for the establishment of an agricultural college in that State; a resolution of the legislature of Qalifornia, in favor of a donation of lands to the States and Territories for agricultural colleges therein; a memorial of the legislature of Iowa, praying a donation of land for the purpose of establishing scientific agricultural schools in that State; resolutions of the legislature of Michigan, in favor of a donation of land for the endowment of the Michigan agricultural college; a memorial of the Michigan State Agricultural Society, praying that a grant of land may be made for the endowment of the agricultural college of that State, and similar institutions in every State in the Union; resolutions passed at the annual meeting of the Oneida County Agricultural Society of New York, in favor of the endowment and maintenance of a college in each State and Territory of the United States to teach such branches of learning as relate to agriculture and the mechanic arts; a memorial of members of the Board of Education of the State of Michigan, and of the faculty of the agricultural college of that State, praying a donation of land for the agricultural college; a petition of the New York State Agricultural College for an appropriation of public lands for an agricultural college in each State of the Union; a petition of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, praying that a donation of land may be made to each of the States for the establishment of agricultural colleges | a memorial of the regents of the University of Michigan,