to accessibility and adaptability of climate and soil; provided, that the same shall not be united or connected with any other institution of learning in this State. § 28. The said Board shall purchase or receive donations of land for a College farm, and cause to be erected thereon such buildings as they may deem necessary; provided, that any contract for building shall be let to the lowest bidder, after reasonable notice; and provided further, that the farm shall not be of less than one hundred and sixty acres of land. $29 All interest accruing from the sale of one hundred and fifty thousand acres of land granted to this State by Act of Congress, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and the interest that has accrued and may accrue from the sale of the seventy-two sections of land donated to the State for a seminary of learning, and all moneys arising from the sale of the ten sections granted to this State for the use of public buildings, together with all interest that has accrued or may accrue thereon, shall be subject to the order of the State Board of Directors. §30. The College shall not in any manner whatever be connected with or controlled by any sectarian denomination. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE SELECTION OF LANDS DONATED TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA BY ACT OF CONGRESS APPROVED JULY 2, 1862. (Approved April 2, 1866.) SECTION 1. The Governor of this State, the President of the State Agricultural Society, and the Surveyor General, shall constitute a Board to be known as the Agricultural College Land Board, and said Board shall have the control and management of the selection of all the lands granted to this State by Act of Congress, approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, providing for the endowment of Colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, and of all lands that may hereafter be granted for that purpose. Said Board shall appoint one or more suitable Commissioners, whose duty it shall be to select unoccupied, unappropriated and surveyed public lands, and locate as soon as practicable the quantity of land donated to this State by the Act of Congress aforesaid, and to make return of the lands so located, to the Register of the State Land Office of the State of California, properly designated and described, and to notify the Registers of the United States District Land Offices for the districts in which the selection and location is made, of such selection as fast as the land is so selected. 2. The Register of the State Land Office, shall, as fast as such selections are made and returned to him, forward to the Secretary of the Interior of the United States, full and complete descriptions of all such lands, and obtain the necessary title to the State of California for the same. §3. The Agricultural Land Board shall certify, from time to time to the Board of Examiners of this State, the amounts required to pay expenses of selecting, locating and making returns of said lands, and the Comptroller of State shall draw his warrant upon the Treasurer for the amount certified to be due by the Board of Examiners, and the Treasurer shall pay the same out of any seven. money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. They shall also report to the Board of Directors of the Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College, on or before the first day of October, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixtyAs soon as practicable after this act shall have gone into effect, said Board shall apply to the Commissioners of the General Land Office for an order directing the Registers of the several district land offices in this State to withdraw from market, and so mark on their Plates any of the lands of the United States subject to sale at private entry that may be selected by authority of this Board, whenever the Register shall have been notified of such selections. All certificates, contracts, or other papers emanating from said Board, shall be signed by the Chairman and Secretary of said Board. CONNECTICUT. AN ACT APPROPRIATING TO THE SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL OF YALE COLLEGE, THE PROCEEDS OF LANDS ASSIGNED TO THE STATE BY ACT OF CONGRESS APPROVED JULY 2, 1862. (Approved June 24, 1863.) SEO. 1. Whenever the Secretary of the Interior shall have issued to this State, the land scrip due to this State, under the act of Congress, entitled "An Act donating Public Lands to the several States and Territories which may provide Colleges for the benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts," it shall become the duty of the Commissioner of the School Fund to take charge of said scrip, and, as agent of this State, to sell the same, so soon as in his judgment he can prudently do so, upon terms to be previously approved by the Governor, and in the name and behalf of this State, to convey and transfer the same in any suitable manner to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, and to invest the avails thereof in the manner specially prescribed by said act of Congress. § 2. Said Commissioner shall semi-annually pay over the interest of the Fund which may result from the sale of said scrip, to the President and Fellows of Yale College in New Haven, for the special purposes and upon the special conditions hereinafter set forth. §3. Said Corporation shall devote said interest wholly and exclusively to the maintenance, in that department of Yale College known as the "Sheffield Scientific School," of such courses of instruction as (including the courses of instruction already instituted in said school,) shall carry out the intent of said act of Congress in the manner specially prescribed by the fourth section of said Act. § 4. Said Corporation shall furnish gratuitous education in said courses of instruction to pupils who shall be annually nominated to be pupils of said school, in such manner as the General Assembly shall prescribe. The number of pupils to be so received gratuitously into said school shall be, in each year, such a number as would expend a sum equal to one-half of the said interest for the same year in paying for their instruction in said school if they were required to pay for it at the regular rates charged to other pupils of said school for the same year. Said pupils so nominated and received shall be citizens of this State, and shall be admitted into said school upon the same terms and subject to the same rules and discipline which shall apply to all other pupils of said school, with the single exception that they shall not be required to pay anything for their instruction. § 5. Said Corporation shall annually make and distribute the reports required by the fourth paragraph of section fifth of said act of Congress. § 6. No portion of said interest shall be paid over to said Corporation until said corporation shall contract with this State, by its contract in writing, in such form as the Governor shall approve, to fulfill and perform all the duties and obligations imposed upon it by this Act. § 7. The Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, the three senior Senators, and the Secretary of the State Board of Education, shall constitute a Board of Visitors, whose duty it shall be to visit said school in each year, and report annually thereon to the General Assembly. AN ACT RELATING TO THE SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL. SEC. 1. The visitors of the Sheffield Scientific School designated by the Act approved June 24, 1863, and entitled "An Act appropriating the Scrip of public lands granted to this State under an Act of Congress approved July 2, 1862,” to wit: the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, the three senior Senators, and the Secretary of the State Board of Education, shall constitute, together with the Secretary of the Sheffield Scientific School, an appointing board, who shall select from such candidates as shall offer themselves, those who shall be entitled to receive the gratuitous instruction in said school, which has been provided for by the State in said Act. § 2. In case there are more applications for the bounty of the State than there are vacancies to be filled on the part of the State, said Board shall give the preference to such young men as are fitting themselves for agriculture and mechanical and manufacturing occupations in life, who are or shall become orphans through the death of a parent in the naval or military service of the United States; next to them to such as are most in need of pecuniary assistance; and furthermore, they shall provide that the appointments shall be distributed, as far as practicable, among the several counties of the State, in proportion to their population. § 3. The Secretary of said school shall also be the Secretary of said appointing board, and shall keep a record of their transactions; and he shall furthermore, at least one month before the close of each academic year in said school, cause to be published in at least one newspaper in every county of this State in which a newspaper may then be published, an advertisement specifying the number of pupils who by virtue of said act are entitled to be admitted into said school for gratuitous instruction during the ensuing academic year, and designating the time and manner in which applications may be made to said appointing board for admission to said school. DELAWARE. AN ACT ESTABLISHING A COLLEGE FOR AGRICUltural and MecHANIC ARTS IN THIS STATE. (Approved March 14, 1867.) Whereas, the legislature of this State, by a recent act accepted the provisions of an act of congress approved July 2, 1862, entitled, "An act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts;" and whereas, the said act of congress renders it the duty of the State to provide the buildings, grounds and appliances necessary to carry out the objects of said act; and whereas, the board of trustees of Delaware College have proposed to convey to the State of Delaware a joint and equal interest in the grounds, buildings, libraries, apparatus and vested funds of said college proper, upon the condition that the State shall vest the income to be derived from the sale of the said lands in a board of trustees, not more than one-half of whom shall be the representatives of the State, and the remainder the representatives of the present board, for the purpose of establishing at Newark, in connection with said college, an institution which shall meet the requirements of the act of congress, and extend to the people of our State the benefits of its provisions; therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: SECTION 1. That the proposition of the board of trustees of Delaware College be and the same is hereby accepted, and that Delaware College is adopted and established as the institution to be provided by the State of Delaware, in accordance with the provisions of the act of congress approved July 2, 1862, entitled, "An act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts." § 2. That the State treasurer, in conjunction with the governor of the State and the president of the board of trustees of Delaware College, is hereby authorized and required to sell and assign, upon such terms and conditions as they may deem best for the interests of the State of Delaware, the whole or any part of the scrip or land warrants issued or to be issued to the State by virtue of said act of congress. § 3. That the proceeds of the sale.or sales aforesaid shall be invested by the said treasurer in interest bearing bonds of this State, or of the United States, at his discretion, the principal of which bonds shall forever be held sacred for the purposes contemplated in the act of congress aforesaid, and shall not be transferable except by a special act of the legislature. § 4. That the State treasurer may perform and discharge any of the acts, trusts or duties authorized, directed or conferred herein, by any agent or agents by him selected and appointed by and with the consent and advice of the gov |