Second—No portion of said fund, nor the interest thereon, shall be applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, preser vation or repair of any building or buildings.
Third—Any State which may take and claim the benefit or the provisions of this act, shall provide, within five years. at least not less than one college, as prescribed in the fourth section of this act, or the grant to such State shall cease; and said State shall he hound to pay the United States the amount received of any lands previously sold, and that the title to purchasers ender the State sha.I be valid.
Fourth—An annual report shall be made regarding the progress of each college, recording any improvements and experiments made, with their cost and results, and such other matters, including Slate industrial and economical statistics, ss may be supposed useful ; one copy of which shall be transmitted by mail free, by each, to all the other colleges which may be endowed under the provisions of this act, and also one copy to the Secretary of the Interior.
Fifth—Wit. n lends shall be selected fi om those which have been raised to double the minimum price in con sequence of railroad grants. they shall be computed to the States at the maximum price, and the number of acres proportionally diminished.
Sixth—No State, while in a condition of rebellion or insurrection against the government of the United States, shall be entitled to the benefits or this act.
Seventh ' No State shall be entitled to the benefits of this set, unless it shall express its acceptance th. mot' by its legislature within two yearn from the date of the ap proval by the President.
§ 6. And he it further enacted, Thnt 19nd scrip issued under the provision of this act, shall not be subject to location until after the first day of January, 1863.
§ 7. And be it further enacted, That land officers shall receive the some fee for lee sting land scrip issued under the pr visions of this act, as is now allowed for the location of military bounty land warr.ints• under existing laws: Prodded, Their maximum compensation shall not be thereby increased.
§ 8. And be it further enacted, Tbat the Governors of the several States to which scrip shall be issued under this act, shall be required to report annually to Cmgress all sales made of such scrip until the whole shall be die posed of, the amount received for the same, and what appropriation has been made of the proceeds.
Approved July 2, 1862.
An act to amend the fifth section of an act entitled " Au act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," approved July two, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, so as to extend the time within which the provisions of said act shall be accepted and such colleges established, was also passed as follows: Be it enacted by the and House of Renksen tatives of the United States of Ameril a, in Congress assembled That the time in which the several States may comply with the provisions of the act of July two, eight een hundred and sixty-two, entitled "An act donatmg public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," is hereby extended so that the acceptance of the benefits of said act may be expressed within three years from the passage of this act, and the colleges required by the said act may he provided within five years from the date of the filing of such acceptance with the com missioner 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 saifi set 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.