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448 35TH History University of Illinois CONGRESS, ) 1st Session. \ SENATE. MEMORIAL OP THE j MIS. DOC. ] No. 46. LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WISCONSIN, PRAYING A grant of land for the purpose of establishing an Agricultural College. FEBRUARY 17, 1859.—Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS FOR A GRANT OF LAND FOR AN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. To the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled: Memorial of the legislature of the State of Wisconsin represents : That we are eminently an agricultural State, and feeling deeply the want of a fountain head, whose duty it shall be to collect and distribute information upon the subject of agriculture, and the mechanic arts connected therewith, thus drawing to a common centre the results of individual skill and observation, and from whose teaching shall be diffused a knowledge of the science and arts thus acquired; and further, that the subject is one well worthy of the most profound consideration: Therefore, your memorialists respectfully ask that an adequate amount of public lands be donated to this State by Congress for the purpose of establishing an Agricultural College, under such regulations as may be hereafter prescribed. The governor of this State is hereby requested to transmit a copy of this memorial to each of our senators and representatives in Congress. WM. P. LYON, Speaker of the Assembly. E. D. CAMPBELL, Lieutenant Governor and President of the Senate. Approved February 11,1859. ALEX. W. RANDALL.
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