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Petitions to Congress 455 I Ferris Forman, secretary of state of the State of California do hereby certify that the annexed is a true and correct copy of concurrent resolution relative to a college, now on file in my office. Witness my hand and the great seal of State at office in Sacramento, California, the 16th day of April, A. D. 1858. [L. S.] FERRIS FORMAN, Secretary of State. CONGRESS, ) 1st Session. \ HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES t MIS. DOC. j No. 99. 35TH ENDOWMENT OF AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES. RESOLUTIONS OP THE STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK, FOR The distribution of a portion of the public lands to the States and Territories, for the benefit of agricultural colleges therein. MARCH 16, 1858.—Referred to the Committee on Public Lands. AGRICULTURAL ROOMS. Albany, February 10, 1858. ANNUAL MEETING. The following preamble and resolutions were presented, and unanimously adopted: On motion of Mr. E. C. DIBBLE, seconded by L. F. ALLEN, Whereas the public lands of the United States are the common property of the whole Union, and in their distribution should be applied for the general good of the whole; and as it has been the established policy of the government to set apart a portion of
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