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584 History University of Illinois DOCUMENT NUMBER 26 Federal and Stato Laws Concerning tho University of Illinois THE LAND GRANT ACT OF 1862. AN ACT donating public land to the several states and territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That there be granted to the several states, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned^ an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each state, in quantity equal to 30,000 acres for each senator and representative in congress to which the states are respectively entitled by the apportionment under the census of 1860: Provided, That no mineral lands shall be selected or purchased under the provisions of this act. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the land aforesaid, after being surveyed, shall be apportioned to the several states in sections or sub-divisions 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 lands subject to sale at private entry, at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, to which said state shall 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 states, 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 I p a n y other state, or of any territories 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
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