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588 History University of Illinois 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. APPROVED, July 23, 1866. LAWS OP ILLINOIS AN ACT accepting the donation of Public Lands from Congress, approved July 2d, 1862. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the act passed by the Congress of the United States, donating public lands to the several states and territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, approved July 2, 1862, be and the provisions therein contained, accepted by this state. 2. Be it further enacted, That the Secretary of this state inform the Secretary of the Interior, at Washington, that the State of Illinois, through their Legislature, has accepted the donation in said act. APPROVED, February 14, 1863. (Sess. L., 111., 1863, p. 64.) LOCATION OF THE UNIVERSITY AN ACT in relation to the location of the Industrial University. WHEREAS, Each portion of the state is alike interested in the proper location of said University, and it is desirable to

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